We're on a Mission

[Manuel Tavares]

We're on a Mission
By Steve Beckow
+https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/05/were-on-mission.html

One thing that’s said about war is that it’s mostly waiting. And then there’s a battle.

And the battle decides … well, not everything … but you can be sure that whatever comes next will be preceded by more waiting.

Now we’re down to weekly and daily bulletins on the Reval or the Announcements and still we wait.

The impact on out-of-town relationships is severe. I don’t want to be caught in another town when the Internet goes down and transportation is not running. On and on the impacts go; by now, we know the story.

What it’s driving up in me is every sense of entitlement I have. All the years of being a pampered consumer, a self-righteous voter, a proud citizen of an assumed-peaceful country, educated, this, that, and the other.

Instead of getting that it’s incumbent on me – it’s my part – to ensure that I’m ready to go when the signal comes, to see that I’ve prepared for it to the best of my ability, I’m grousing and groaning.

How’s it working for you? I hear Kathleen say. Yah, not.

And here’s where the reparenting comes in. No one’s going to change the script for me but me. Mommy and Daddy aren’t here any more. Big brother isn’t even here any more. I have to take myself in hand.

The mind is infinitely capable of doing that. The Self is even more capable. I’m not going to be non-dualistic about it because I’m a servant, a karma yogi, who does his work in the physical world, not a hermit monk, in splendid isolation.+++https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/05/were-on-mission.html