One Step at a Time

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 A long journey begins with the first step.  I’m in no hurry to acquire a lot of followers or friends on Facebook, but will focus on quality.  I said this the other day, but I want to emphasize quality.  I’m thinking that all I do is a product of good thoughts and intentions.  My thoughts matter.  Maybe it seems I am alone a lot smoking my pipe but I AM connected to the Divine.  I don’t need a lot of distractions to break that connection.  My thoughts matter.  My thoughts might not change the world, but they change people who change the world.

I’d rather focus on a few than many.  I have a few.  Jesus began with a few.  I’d rather focus on the few.  If I felt the masses mattered my quality would suffer.  I want my best for a few.  I don’t care if one or two get my best.  The Spirit will add as necessary.  Even if what I do here is for no one but myself it doesn’t matter.  It’s still my best.

This is all the Spirit asks of me.  Give it my best.   I didn’t do that the first time around, but I’ve decided this time I’ll do it right.  The idea now is to think long term.  I think this about most anything I do these days and take everything a day at a time and live in the moment.  Perhaps it is the Buddhist in me that thinks this way, but as I have said my beliefs align more with Buddhism than they do even with Christianity or any other religion or belief system.

With an emphasis on human life and all life in general I find Buddhism fits my beliefs better than anything else.  I don’t concern myself with sin in general, but any sin can cause death.  I do care about drugs and alcohol because those can destroy the self.  My beliefs are simple.  But I claim to have been taught by my Spirit Guides and there is nothing I can change.

As much as I have said many of these things, my thinking has not changed one iota.  My pipe this morning is my Angel pipe I received from my wife for my 70th birthday.  My tobacco this morning is my Special Blend.  And my coffee this morning is Pike’s Place from Starbucks.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you,

Dave

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