Being Thankful

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 I’ve been feeling particularly thankful the past week or so.  I survived two brushes with death and now that I’m getting up in years I’m thankful every single day.  I’m thankful to be alive these days.  I know it might seem rather psychotic to believe in Divine Intervention, but it is coming and I believe rather soon.  I know some of you won’t believe this, but my life has been spared to see it happen and instead of thinking about the end, I’m thinking about the New Beginning.

It’s happening right before our very eyes.  I’m thankful to live so long to see it happen.  I wish I could state more adequately and eloquently how I feel, but being thankful is the best I can do.  I’m thankful to live to see the transition take place.  It is not the end as many would have us believe.  It is the end of the old and the beginning of the new.  But it’s not man made.  It is what I see God and the heavens doing.  The world is being set up for the New.  

St. Augustine often wrote about having a foot in heaven, but my whole being is heaven oriented.  I have zero fear of death and dying.  I’ve learned there is nothing to fear.  My Spirit Guides have taught me well.  Jesus taught us there are mansions in heaven and if it weren’t so He would have said so.  I don’t know about mansions or streets paved with gold, but I do know that if we knew what heaven was like we’d fall all over ourselves to get there.  

Earth has pain and sorrow, but there are no tears in heaven.  But apart from these things this is all I know.  And if it weren’t so I would not be alive to tell you.  Death would have won, but God wanted me to live to share what I know.  Human Life matters most.  We live to love and not hate.  We live for Peace and not war.  

I live to tell you these things.  This blog would not exist had I died.  And this is what I am doing as I smoke my Peterson Sherlock Holmes with Dark Cherry Cavendish and simply relax about life and living.  This morning it is my Stone Street coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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