It has been a long time since I have written down the things I am grateful for, so here it is my Thankful list for the moment............
I am thankful for God........He has taught me forgiveness, grace and surrender.
I am thankful for my kids....they have taught me patience, compassion and surrender.
I am thankful for my husband....he has taught me Independence, strength and surrender.
I am thankful for Yoga.....it has taught me balance, wisdom and surrender.
I am thankful for Dance....it has taught me freedom, flexibility and surrender.
I am thankful for my family...they have taught me perseverance, hope and surrender.
I am thankful for God.........He has taught me forgiveness, grace and surrender.
I thank God first and last as without him there would be nothing else to be grateful for.
God, Jesus, Brahma, Yahweh, OM, it is not so important exactly who or what, for the entity exists omnipresent. I believe God takes the shape of many forms in our life through, nature, people, material abundance, even getting as close enough as touching, talking and teaching us in very close proximity through family, friends (Angels) with messages and support.
The 3 T's? Touching, Talking, Teaching............when I was in school it was the 3 R's
Reading (which I get and love to do)
Writing (that doesn't even start with R?)
Arithmetic (again, where's the logic in that?)
I didn't know how to spell it, so, so much for learning writing. It is my understanding that I am not the first nor will I be the last to not understanding how these 3 things came together to be the 3R's but, I do understand their concept in the basis of learning.
There was a time when it was said that girls didn't do as well in Math as boys. This may have been true, and if so, once again it would have been the order of the universe that made it so.
There may have been a time when women didn't need to know math, we were not in charge of things that required such thought processes to be utilized. We were the caregivers; taking care of babies, children, the food, the house and the community. Those responsibilities requiring such knowledge fell upon another.
Now, this doesn't mean that just because I have written this, that it is fact at all, this is just my perception of a certain moment in time. I realize this theory or my assumption may be incomplete in any given moment within that time. A woman who lost her husband, a woman who was what would have been called a Spinster (an independent woman), these women surely must have been able to understand math to have been involved in their day to day finances and to have understood the complexities of such goings on? No?
So.....where is all this going? I had to ask myself.........?
'our' perception is defined by our personal life experiences and does not necessarily make them......... a definate....... thus everything then becomes infinate possibility, allowing us to step outside real numbers and math theory........to open and expand our perceptions, concepts and visions of what we believe Thankfulness, God, this life and the universe to be............
I have been truly blessed (through pleasant and not so pleasant experiences) many times over........learning once again that I have more things to be thankful for......
The 3 T's......touch, talking and teaching......they have given me life, love and laughter
and in this moment, 3 more things I am grateful for.
'What the eyes see is knowledge.
What the heart knows is Certainty.'
Dhun'nun, 9th century Egyptian mystic.
Namaste
Link: 'Don't give up' yogajournal daily insight October 10/2008
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