Daydreams and Visiins

 The Bible says young people have dreams while old people have visions.  Dreams and hopes are more personal while visions of the future involve the larger world.  But I can find myself daydreaming in my meditative state of mind, but if I live there, then it's a psychosis.  So, I'm very careful about daydreams and fantasies.  Daydreams take our minds off the stresses of our day.  

But when I seem to have visions, they are my hopes for the future, but not just for myself, but for all humanity.  I can envision a hope for Peace and Love for all humanity.  But until then, this world causes me stress.  I pay attention to what is going on in the world, but not too much.  I CAN worry, but I avoid too much of it.  This is where my Spirit Guides come in. I do what I do and let them worry about the rest.  

I believe my meditation changes the world, but through people.  So, while I can focus on people, I can see the big picture.  As it is so often said, I might not be out to change the world, but my little corner of it.  However, any change begins with the self.  Hopes and dreams might be more about the self, but maybe the fantasy is about the world we want to live in.  I believe any hopes, dreams, or visions I have are Divinely inspired.  They are simply about thoughts of Love and Peace for the world.  Visions can "see"  into the future.  Some older people can predict outcomes.  Why?  We've seen it before.

Peace and love is my vision of the future to come.  Not that I've seen it before, but that I seem to know.  Meanwhile I stilll have daydreams about myself.  They aren't psychoses, but simply thoughts to break through monotony.  I could say my days are the same, where I sit on the lanai and smoke a pipe.  But I can seem to know where my thoughts will lead me.  Those who are young have lives to live.  But those of us who have had those hopes and dreams for ourselves have more time for visions.  Those of us who are older are the shapers of those with hopes and dreams.  We live because our lives are more stable.  We have more time for visions.   We might not be movers and shakers, but we are  the shapers. 

I can still find myself daydreaming and maybe have thoughts of fantasy, but because of past tendencies I must be careful I don't live there.  I too easily can.  And stress is very disruptive for me.  I have to take life one day at a time.  As we get older we learn to deal with things.  I've had to learn.  And that learning hasn't stopped.  Those of us who are older simply have more patience or seem to have more.  Youth simply has less of it.  It takes time.  We learn as we get older, time is a friend and not an enemy.  Youth says they don't have time.  Youth is learning the best takes time.  It is a lesson the old has learned.  Autobiographies aren't to be written by youth.  It takes a lifetime to write one.   I'm still working on mine.  The best stories told are novels; not often short stories.

I see both good and evil.  I see evil as my mortal enemy.  I'll just leave it at that.  There are those who understand.  My wife does, but sometimes she just needs to talk, and I listen, or try to.  But everyone needs someone to just listen.  Those are my thoughts this morning.  I'm not too old for hopes and dreams, but I'm old enough for visions.  I work on those the most.  I do this while smoking my pipe.  A pipe keeps me relaxed or stress could kill me.  It is my worst enemy.  Today it is my Peterson System pipe  with some Old Professor.  My coffee this morning is a hot black cup of a Nicaraguan coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave