Simetimes

 There are times when I feel I don’t do enough for my Angels.  But I realize I need to focus on a few things at a time.  I just don’t sit and smoke a pipe.  I focus.  A pipe helps me do this.  How, you may ask.  My Angels didn’t tell me not to smoke a pipe.  I asked them whether they wanted me to quit pipe smoking.  They told me that it was up to me.

I find smoking a pipe helps keep me focused and relaxed.  Sometimes I have thought maybe I smoke too much.  Maybe I do.  But I am not an evangelist for pipe smoking agreeing with doctors who say any kind of tobacco use is detrimental to one’s health.  But it lowers my blood pressure and takes my mind off the cares of the world.

This world could cause me great stress, but a pipe reduces that stress.  I carry on a centuries old tradition by smoking a pipe.  And I realize too that a pipe for me is a tool for quiet meditation.  So, I try to take very good care of my pipes and treat it more like a hobby than a necessity.  I find it a very relaxing hobby as I not only smoke my pipes but care for them as I do.  It’s how I feel about the people in my life.  

I take good care of everything in my life.  Taking care of things teaches responsibility.  Pipes aren’t just cheap items.  And neither are the people in my life.  Sometimes I think I’m responsible for the Messiah not having come yet.  Pipe ownership can teach us a lot.  And I learn this from my pipes.  If in some way I found my pipe detrimental to my health I’d quit right now.  But for me at least, they are more beneficial than not.

I’m smoking my Nording Number 2 pipe this morning with some Bayou morning.  My coffee this morning is Cameron’s.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen