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Hi, I'm SophyBells ~ your editor for this edition of the Spiritual Newsletter.
The Rev. Scotty McLennan, author of the book Finding Your Religion, compares humanity's innate need for spiritual searching to climbing a mountain. In his view, we are all endeavoring to climb the same figurative mountain in our search for the divine, we just may take different ways to get there. In other words, there is one "God," but many paths. I honor whatever path or paths you have chosen to climb that mountain in your quest for the Sacred.  |
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Losing Time
Here in the United States, we will return to Daylight Savings Time this weekend in most states, while other countries around the world either will begin observing DST within several weeks of our time change as well.This weekend we'll "lose an hour" when we set our clocks forward one hour before we go to bed on Saturday night, and regain that hour later in the year when we "fall back." Of course we don't really lose or gain an hour - it's just a matter of changing a clock to measure something that is, in fact, immeasurable. Because of course time itself can be argued to be relative, and how we relate to time on a personal level changes as we go through our lives, dependent upon our circumstances.
For the young, time tends to go by too slowly or too quickly in relation to what's going on in our lives. Time literally seems to drag if one is waiting for the bell to ring on the last day of school for the summer break. And it flies by in an instant if one is finally spending a long-awaited week at Disney World (for which the waiting FOR the actual trip seemed incalculable before it arrived). As we get older, time tends to spend itself too quickly most of the time. But as with the young, the speed by which our time seems to advance is also affected by circumstance. For instance, I can remember counting the days until we would go to camp on the beach in South Carolina last month. But once we arrived in South Carolina, our time there went by in the blink of an eye.
Having said all of that, the reality of time, whatever it is, is that it DOES pass, and whether or not it seems to be ticking by slowly or moving at the speed of light ~ the moment a second passes it's gone forever and cannot be returned to us - which makes it such a precious commodity. We measure our lives by time, by how many years have passed since this happened, and how many days are left until that happens. And many of us waste that time on regrets about the past and worries about the future, myself included, even though it's obviously foolish to be so consumed with either the past or that future that we miss out entirely on the present. If we waste precious time regretting past events or situations, in particular ones we cannot go back and change or make amends for, or if we spend inordinate amounts of time worrying about things in the future that may not even happen ~ then we miss out on a lot of living.
Of course it's equally foolish to pay no attention to lessons from the past, or be attentive to the requirements and realities of the future. If we don't learn from history, we are told that we are doomed to repeat it, as seems to be played out regularly in world events. And it's silly not to pay attention to or have some practical foresight about our future. We get vaccinations against the possibility of contracting a disease, and if we are able, we start retirement plans to help us be financially viable after we stop working ~ both help us anticipate the reality of future scenarios.
Speaking from my own experience, it seems to me that we can get so caught up in the regrets, guilt and missed opportunities of our past, and/or in the hopes, needs and fears of our future, we miss the wealth of our present. Thus we need to make a decision about our attitude regarding what time owes us or what we owe time, about how time enslaves us or how we can be free of time. Because ultimately, we have the choice between either making time our ally or our enemy, of whether or not to benefit from lessons learned, or to allow ourselves to be bound to mistakes that need no longer define us. In that place of balance, we can live in the present moment with a sense of appreciation and fullness, releasing the ghosts that haunt us in both our past and our future.
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Here is a response to my last newsletter "Spiritual Newsletter (February 5, 2013)" about Water:
From Sheep 
I enjoyed this especially about the water, I know the power that lies in water. Ever chance I get I go to the beach,as much as I can. As you moved on to talk about the different relationship in religion I can attest to many things you stated also. Good info.
Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it.
   
From Mia - craving colour 
Hi Sophy, Once more you've written a thoughtful article. I appreciate your inclusion of various spiritual paths and the shared element of water, even though it may vary in significance for each.
Mia
And I appreciate your kind words. 
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