More about Love

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 Ask my wife, I can get irritated.  But someone said to me that I don’t get angry.  I avoid anger as much as I can.  It’s not subconscious, but I consciously avoid anger.  Irritation is about as far as I will go.  I’ve had enough anger in me to last several lifetimes.  Probably the same is true of irritation.  God and I have a lot of talks when I get irritated about life.  

I think that is one reason I like to be alone a lot and limit my social interactions.  It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard.  The sound is irritating.  But I’ve learned irritation is okay but anger isn’t.  And it’s been this way for the past 32 years.  I CAN get angry.  It’s not that I can’t.  But anger for me solves nothing.  I make my thoughts known and move on.  

Some people seethe in anger.  It’s just not there for me.  I work hard at keeping anger subdued.  It’s the same with hatred.  It’s not in me to hate.  But in today’s world anger and hatred is everywhere it seems.  It’s the same with depression.  I have dealt with a lot of that too.  For me these are negative emotions I try to avoid.  I have my worries, but fear is another emotion I try to avoid.  

I really don’t have much to fear.  So I don’t fear.  I’ll either find solutions to problems or the problems just will get resolved.  This is my thinking.  It takes a lot of faith to live as I do.  But I can’t teach these things except be an example.  It’s the best I can do.  In my thinking I represent my angels in all I do and I try my very best to represent them.  

I would say forgiveness in all things is key.  And those I’ve forgiven don’t even need to know.  I know and that is all that matters.  This has been my thinking about life in regard to all things.  This means love is always most important.  I work at that the most.  And with love there is no room for anger and hatred.  I’ll get irritated and simply move on.  

This is in part why I smoke a pipe.  It cuts down on my irritations.  I relax with a pipe mostly and simply stay out of the way trying to be less irritating to others, or at least this is what I think.  Today is Monday and I am smoking my Peterson Irish Harp pipe with some Quiet Nights.  My coffee this morning is from the Blue Bottle coffee company.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen

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