getting past the crap

Long ago I've learnt by the grace of God to look at others and send
them a loving thought...a spiritual hug as it were. Sometimes we have
days when everyone is bugging us it seems and when I have my open
channel to Christ unblocked I just send them a loving thought. I do
believe that this softens things...maybe not right away..but it does
work. Sometimes picturing this person as a baby with fear or pain
helps your love to get to them. Now I don't mean condescension...that
will never work for no one is better or worse than anyone else in Gods
eyes..but to see us as creatures of God come down to this very tough
earth school which is a remarkable thing in itself and we should be
proud of ourselves for this...to learn... A baby is a wise
soul....full of love and clear as a crystal to be imprinted in this
new life ,,, a baby generally wants to get past the crap and just love
you simply and from the soul. One of the points in the Bible that I do
believe is truth..is that God wants us to come to it as little
children..in that we are to be open and trusting and love...pure love
getting past all the ego onion layers that we build on us as we get
older. Ever see how children can play and get along before they learn
how to distrust? before they learn how to over-identify with the
differences and not the similarities?

I once saw a girl in the supermarket dressed soooooooo provocatively
that it bordered on (to me) the ridiculous. She was wearing
tight....see through and chaps...yes...chaps...My first
reaction..after just looking and thinking she looked provocative...was
to roll my eyes and get irritated. I caught myself..I caught myself in
mid-irritation and started thinking about how much this girl wanted
attention..that it was a self screaming for love and acceptance and
equally fearful that she was going to get other girls picking on
her...I could see that. She simply wanted people to SEE her..to LOVE
her as herself. I looked at her and sidling up I said..."I love your
chaps"..and the smile that came out of that girls face was immaculate
and so beautiful. Probably not what the girl expected from me...not at
all...but it made her feel good and it made me feel good that I
stopped a stupid judgementalness and hypocrisy (heck who doesn't love
good attention?) right in its tracks. I praised Christ for this quick
lesson. We all need to work from a centre of love...tolerance and
compassion and realize when ego (the need to compete and fear of being
worse or better and away from God etc.)raises its ugly head.

Thanks be to the symbolic "son" "sun" (oh blessed light!) in all of
us. Thanks be to Christ.

Bren