Believe You Can !

So many times in our lives we are faced with
challenges and obstacles which line our paths
but with the right attitude, determination, a pre-set
plan of action, and the power of belief you can
find strategies to succeed.

Believe you can ! A can do attitude of " Finding a
way or making one".
Now I'm not saying it's always fast or easy but it's
possible!

Over 3 years ago, I joined the ranks of amputees
in this great nation and have been told by health
professionals my walking days are done!
That it was a pipe dream, an illusion of my mind.

But I am the captain of my ship , I refuse to accept
their limited point of view. Don't submissively accept
another person's opinion no matter who they think
they are but find your own way, make your own path
as there is so much information available to us all today.

Today I was able to stand for a short time but I'm on
my way towards the taste of success once again joining
the land of the walkers. A disability is only a disability
if you let it control you and not you master it!

So rise up making your voice be heard and find your
way or path to achieving what you desire.
See you soon in the world of the walkers!

The Reality of Illusion

We get so rapped up in our lives each day, our
wants, our needs, our desires , our beliefs that
we can tell ourselves whatever we want to further
our  desires whether it's reality or an illusion we've
created because we can't face our reality.

I am no different, the past 5 years has been a living
hell for me. First I lost my beautiful wife too young!
Then about a year later, part of my left leg and my
ability to walk. and almost my life!

Then for the past 3 plus years, I've been fighting back
to regain my health and the ignorance of the medical
establishment.

But I decided in my hospital  bed, that I was the captain
of this ship and I was not going to go down. That I was going
to find "the way" to regaining my health, ability to walk,
a new beautiful loving partner, and a bigger and better career!

So  I've been going full steam ahead, focused on my objectives,
believing  that I could start to rebuild my life on schedule.
But then one day, a beautiful little bird came into my world
and without knowing it lifted my spirit further but then made me
realize that I was being dishonest with myself creating an illusion 
that everything was on target when it wasn't.

In many ways, my life is moving in the right direction and my 
therapists and nurses fully expect me to recover in 2013 but
in some areas, in my life, I'm  living in a world of illusion needing
to remove the pain not of losing my lower left leg but the
masterpiece that honored me in 1990 to share all of herself with me.

In my desire to move on, I've created in my mind a beautiful illusion
that I was ready to start to heal that wound in my heart and soul
to find a new miss wonderful beautiful, intelligent, talented, and
caring and she is out there but I would be dishonest and illusional
to her and to me to think that I'm ready now to share all of me with
her.

So I want to thank that beautiful little bird for helping me come back
to reality and have the patience for events to develop for  like my
masterpiece beauty if she spoke would whisper their names.

                                                                                               

A New Perspective

Now I want you to humor me as I ask you to open
your mind and perspective as I lay out some ideas.

I have studied the works of Dr. Edward de Bono  and
Dr. Roger van Oech, who write about developing the skills
of thinking.   Dr. van Oech discusses in his book
A Wack on the Side of  the Head  that many
times there is more than one right answer but we need to be
open minded and have the burning desire to look. Or as the
bible states," Seek and you shall find."

 For centuries, various ideas and perspectives have been passed
down  as the "truth" of the way things are because certain
individuals or organizations have decreed so!   As we've been
told not to think for ourselves or explore different alternatives.
But now with the internet, a wealth of information is at everyone's
finger tips which makes it, for the first time in human history,
possible to explore different ideas, perspectives, and view points
and decide what we as thinking intelligent primates believe.

But then we should be able to be respectful of others points
of view even when we disagree, working toward mutual
understanding and solutions. Congress are you paying attention!

We've been told that religion and science can't work together!
But it's not true!  Science can validate certain religious beliefs
by shining new light on it. We need to open our ears and to hear
the cries of the universe and the carpenter whose knowledge has
been ignored for too long!

For example, you may refer to the source of everything as God but
I prefer Universal Intelligence yet we're talking about the same idea
just using different labels.  If we can't see that what hope is there for
us as a species!

More Projections

It 's interesting to whom ever you listen to today about last
nights debate between Biden and Ryan that each side
projects from their own preexisting perspective.

Speaking from one's perspective is fine but making this exercise
between us and them instead of we is a big reason we're in the
mess we're in as a nation. It's been  a dilemma Yeshua faced
2000 years ago and it continues to rear its ugly head.

What does it take for men and women to realize we are all
connected and one and should treat each other with love,
kindness, and respect working together to build this great
nation instead of tearing it down for the benefit of the few.

I believe two of my heroes Jefferson and Lincoln who were
trying to build a more perfect union for everyone would be
dismayed at the current situation.  Lincoln, a republican,
said," of the people, for the people, by the people shall
not perish from the earth." And he was not referring to
corporations! 

What has made our country great is that we have focused on
building a nation that benefits everyone not just the elite.
That is why our forefathers came here in the first place!
It eminates from the  writings of Jefferson and
Payne two of our greatest American philosophers.

I don't know how we can steer the course away from
national decline if we can't follow the message from
a simple carpenter some 2000 years ago." Love others
as I have loved you."

It's time for us as a nation, a peoples, to truly listen to
the humble carpenter and start working towards a
national goal, an American goal and rebuild this
magnificant nation to the ideal of great men like
Jefferson, Lincoln, and Payne.

Labels and Projections

Over the past three years, I 've been seeking answers to try
and understand my wife Patty's passing over and about
the afterlife.  In my journey, I've read many materials
including numerous gospels in addition to the 4 in the
bible. 

Many people blindly accept dogma without question
because they are told to do so.  I do not, as I have an open
and curious mind that thinks for itself.

In my studies, I read the Gospel of Thomas where Yeshua
(Jesus) says," Let him who seeks continue seeking till he
finds. When he finds he shall become troubled.
When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and
 he will rule over all."

I took for the last 3 plus years the challenge Yeshua made
and all that he said was true .  I view him as my mentor and
have been learning to view the world through the eyes of Yeshua
just as he predicted.

I've come to realize listening to numerous bible scholars and
astrophysists that things aren't as we 've been told .
Now this might be difficult for some of you to believe but we
as humans have a thing for labelling and projection.
We get all caught up in placing labels on people, God, things
etc. defining these things through our own projections to suit
our needs.

The bible says ," God is spirit." We know from astrophysics that
spirit is energy which is immortal. We also know from science
that the mind and the brain are separate. We are all connected to
the source which we call God which is a label. I prefer Universal
Intellience myself.

As scholars, including Tillich and Campbell,  have stated that this
label of God is a universal mystery, the ultimate ground of our very
being, that is connected to everything and everyone.

With all the problems in our country and world, we finally need to
take the blinders off  to finally realize we are all spiritual beings from the
same source and that the bible is a beauiful book that's been rewritten
throughout history and that we don't have any orginial copies and that it is
written in to use my term" spirital metaphor."  Yeshua believed it was the
spiritual and not the physical that was important.

The only way I can see how we can heal ourselves is to open our eyes,
hearts, and mind to finally realize the truth and finally truly hear the
words that Yeshua spoke some 2,000 years ago.

For then he said," The kingdom of God is here on earth but men do
not see it!"  And as such do not act accordingly.

The Drive Within

Why is it that some people succeed on a massive level or over
 come unbeliveable odds. It's because they have something inside
 them that challenges them, that  makes them go for the goal
and helps them to focus on what they want to achieve.

Through the last 5 years, I've been given many challenges
which I could have given into to a life of quite desperation
and defeat.  But , like Frost wrote,"  I have taken the road less
travelled by, and that will make all the difference."

I decided 3 years ago, when I was in the hospital that I
wasn't gonna give up no matter what anyone said.
That I was, if neccessary , find my own path, make
my own way! 

Now I have teamed up with some wonderful health
professionals who are giving me the therapies and the
strategies I need to get to the promised land of good
health and walking!

I heard if you can believe it then you can achieve it!
Or as Winston Churchill stated," Never give up!
Never give up! Never, never give up!"

I won't Winston caused I may be down but I will
never be out! I'm on my way to a new life!

Thoughts on Meeting The Opposite Sex

Five years ago, I lost the most important person in
my life, my beautiful wife Patricia. Then I became
very sick myself and almost died in the hospital.
But I recovered continuing to grow stronger every day
and starting to socialize meeting some new people
online especially women.  I hadn't try to meet women
since 1988 when I met my lovely wife. Plus I feel the
dating scene has changed. I'm coming to the dating scene
from a different prospective now being a formerly married
man instead of just being single.

I've realized that there are two steps in getting to know
women. The first step I call the surface step which deals
with physical attraction. From that step we hopefully move
to step 2 which I call the depth step.  Here is where you start to
explore the other person their feelings, beliefs, interests, respect
for them to see if you anything in common. As time passes, a
common bond and truly caring may grow where you're starting
to view the world as one for the benefit of each other.

I'm continuing to heal with the help of my health team and expect
to be back to my new life in the months to come.
I've been fortunate to chat online with some beautiful women that
I've met.  Too often people equate the idea of beauty being
physical . My late wife was physically beautiful
but over time I learned more importantly that her inner beauty
was greater. It is true also of the ladies I've met. To find a
woman with physical and inner beauty is a true gift that I don't
know if many men appreciate.

I hope as I continue to heal and grow that I will find that special
someone again. For I know that I don't want to spend the rest of
my life alone.