Instead of That

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 If indeed we are in the Apocalypse as many suggest, let me say there are bright spots about it.  It's not all gloom and doom.  I have this sense I can't quite explain that not all is lost.  Evil is NOT the victor although it seems like it should be.  I wish I could explain more here, but the thinking that we are somehow at the end of human history just is not true.  What is coming is a foreshadow of hope.  It's about love and Peace which is why I can be so relaxed.

I should be a very wealthy old man, but I'm not.  My Spirituality didn't bring me wealth.  My Spirituality gave me a different kind of wealth.  Old wealthy men can afford most anything their heart desires.  But for me it's different.  My Spirituality isn't measured in dollars and cents.  It's measured mostly by being able to love.  Money can buy anything but it can't buy love.  Only love is a commodity that must be earned and never wasted.

But it's love that triumphs over evil.  It's not about hatred that seems to rule the world these days.  It's about love of family and those close to me.  But hatred seems to be the ruling force in these Last Days before the New Beginning.  The deaths of others should bring tears to my eyes and it has.  But this is why my tears are so powerful.  The dead now know all things.  The living do not understand what the dead already knows.  I can mourn the loss of life from the recent hurricane, but I must remember what I know from my Spirit Guides.

These things must be.  Mourning is just for a bit and then we move on with life.  Maybe I'm sermonizing this morning but if I am I can't just remain silent.  So, yes these are the Last Days, but instead of it being the end I think of it is as the beginning of the New.  It starts with love and Peace and blossoms from there.  I won't suggest evil has come to an end but the Love and Peace has begun.  This just might be my purpose for living.  

The New has begun.  I believe this.  We are at the end of the old and at the beginning of the New.  This is a transition period in spite of all you see and hear.  This morning I am smoking my Boswell pipe with my Carter Hall and my coffee is BKG.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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