Monthly Menu - August/September, 2005

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"When love and skill come together, expect a masterpiece." – B.J. Palmer

"Doubt is the life behind faith."

This Month's Specials:

 

Inspiration Soup

Build Your World

 Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favourable light at all times, in all circumstances. – Saint Vincent de Paul

     A religious man learned that a prostitute was doing business in his neighbourhood.  He found her house, stood across the street, and watched men enter and leave her home.  Every time he saw a customer walk out, he placed a stone in a little pile, symbolizing the weight and extent of her sins.  Years later, the prostitute died, and soon afterward so did the man.  When the man was shown to his heavenly abode, he was aghast to find but a heap of stones similar to the mound he had built to mark the prostitute’s wrongdoing.  On the other side of the gray pile, he saw a magnificent estate with rolling lawns and colourful gardens, where the prostitute strolled joyfully.  “There must be some mistake!” he railed.  “That woman was a prostitute, and I was a religious man.”

    “There is no mistake,” a voice answered.  “That prostitute hated her job, but it was the only way she knew to make money to support herself and her young daughter.  Every time she was with a client, she inwardly prayed, ‘Dear God, please get me out of this.’  You on the other hand, were fascinated only with her sins.  While she was talking to God, you were talking to rocks.  She got what she prayed for, and so did you.”

     Things are not what they appear to be.  We never really know the motive or consciousness behind someone’s actions.  Any act can be a tool of the ego, or an avenue for the Holy Spirit.  We inherit the world we build with our thoughts.

 

Thoughts on a Half-Shell

The Family Bed

 

     My wife and I have decided to share our bed with our newborn.  He is now 12 weeks and although we feel good about the situation.  Some people don't like that however.  This was also revealed when the famous pediatrician Robert Mendelsohn, MD was debating this issue with a psychiatrist.  The moderator asked them about the "family bed" (everyone sleeping together).  "It's a terrible idea," said the psychiatrist. "I'd never sleep with my children. It fosters dependency, it sends confusing messages about sexuality, it's just plain wrong."  The moderator asked if Dr. Mendelsohn would care to respond.  "I agree with the psychiatrist," said Dr. Mendelsohn. "Psychiatrists should not sleep with their children. But for everyone else, it's just wonderful. It gives infants the warmth and security they seek. It enhances emotional health and it brings the family closer."

 

Calendar

 

Sweet Web Pudding

The Spiritual Cinema Circle - Excellent product & service.  Everyone is jumping on the Circle's bandwagon - Deepak Chopra, the producers of "What the Bleep...", etc. , its an AMAZING service!  A DVD filled with in-spirational content.  Try one month and see what I mean. 

 

After Dinner Reading

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current was what each had learned from birth.  But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom."
The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!"  But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.  And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!"  And the one carried in the current said, "See, I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure!"  But they cried the more, "Savior!" All the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a savior.
 

News & Views

As the kids get ready to go back to school, it's time to set your curriculum for the first quarter.  Find a book about health or healing that strikes your interest.  Try a new activity.  Take a field trip to someplace new.

 

The Cafe of Life will be providing interesting information for expanding your awareness (so your mind can catch up to your nerve system!).  Also remember, in the curriculum of life, physical training is as important as mental training.

 

Questions at the Café

With the recent smoke in air - affecting the entire lower mainland of B.C. - How much is the smoke affecting you?  Does it send you over the edge?  If it does, how come?  If it only takes a little stress to your nerve system to become overwhelmed, what's going on?

 

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