Hopefully this will just flow, like many of the 2010 ACIM Commentaries just flowed out. I do like this weekly schedule a lot though (as there are many things to manage in a full life)… and I like to have time for several re-edits and pre-publishing polishes… besides having the sense that when done the points are 'well said', there is just the fact that as soon as I start writing for the next weeks journal, my whole life is, from that point on, INSIDE the writing. That being inside the writing, which is really being inside a conversation with God about life… that is my personal payoff/reward for writing, yes?
This week though, my life has been inside of external preparation realities, and as a result, to keep my word about delivering a 'worth reading' journal each Sunday morning, I am at this Thursday evening moment in a fast food taco/burrito chain somewhere out in the middle of the Mojave Desert creating my offering. Because I JUST found out that this little town is the LAST internet/cell connection… before I head up a tiny paved road leading me out into the desert several score miles to a remote hot springs 'resort/campground', where I will be spending the weekend in a 'Dances of Universal Peace' communion that is being held there.
I first committed to this event a month ago, after hesitating for a couple before that. But the call remained, and I expect I will have a report next week about the actual event and what I gained from going. But so far, just like any goal, to do this has required a lot of accomplishments. Like getting transportation together. I haven't started mining all the life that I have been living through since my regular writing fizzled… haven't needed to… a lot has been on our collective plates to be with of late, yes? So there was lots to write about.
But it will make much more sense to you if I do mention that I and my friend Christopher did an adventure last summer in my big diesel truck art-show mobile studio… and to have local wheels, I towed my beloved Sidekick 4x4. That is, until I had a momentary attention lapse, and failed to instruct Chris about how it must be put back into neutral before towing. Yeah, it was painful to realize that lapse had just destroyed my Sidekick's engine andtransmission…painful enough to be a lesson I doubt I will need to repeat. So the Sidekick went to wrecked car heaven. Anyway, since then (July) the issue of moving my body from place to place has been 'creative'. Bicycle? Yep. Put a little motor on the bicycle? Yep. Realize soon enough that now I need to be a small engine mechanic? Yep. Errrr… start borrowing my Mom's car…? Sure tried not to, but yep… (Funny thing about that though…. that opened up a sweet new space between me and Mom… like she felt like she had sometime to give me, offer me, and I started to also experience a new appreciation of her generosity).
As the weather started cooling down, I finally realized that my visions of going totally green with bike power were not going to fit my life, and that I needed to manifest wheels. After researching the list of most economical fuel misers still available, I found I was most interested in finding an older Geo Metro (which are supposed to get about 50 mpg). I searched Craigs list locally, then Palm Springs, then Phoenix, and finally found one reasonable priced in Tucson. I liked the way the guy selling it and I related, especially when after he was clear I could do most of my own mechanics, he dropped the price even more… to $600. I figured from what he said was wrong I'd be investing at least that much more into it, which he agree with. Put another add in the local craigslist ride wanted listing, and received an offer to take me over to Tucson from an old vet with an appointment at the VA hospital there…thank you God (and the ride was 'sating' too). Bought the car, fell in love with it, and then blew the head gasket on the drive home. Ahhhhh…. chop wood, carry water. So my eventual upgrade plans became immediate upgrade realities. More miracles kept rolling in though. Turns out that the Geo Metro is kind of a cult car… like the old VW beetle. And online there are all these amazing do-it-yourselfer people sharing info about their cars and how to take care of them. So I entered that world for several weeks, rolling up my sleeves and getting greasy, but recognizing this was just another art form. Long story short… this trip to this Peace Dances is my first trip on the new rebuilding work I did. And I still just love the car…. which I have (like I did on the Sidekick) removed the passenger seat and the back seat so that I could build in a bed/cargo platform. Tonight might be my first sleep in her. We'll see, might do a tent at the campground.
Anyway, the point is, love is everywhere, and in all forms. Like all the gurus have said, there is nowhere that God/Good is not. As ACIM reiterates, when miracles don't happen, something has gone wrong. Well, that's how I'm here writing btw, another miracle. There was a faint little line on the map that looked like a much more direct shot to Tacopa then the round about way by bigger roads… so I cell phoned to ask the guy there at the resort "Hey, is that road a decent shortcut?", and he said, "Yeah, it all paved." So off across the desert I confidently shot…. till the pavement ended in about 10 miles at a fork that everything in me said 'OH OH, no no'. Didn't expect cell service, but grace provided it. :-). THEN, we find out that he hadn't really been able to hear me so good back when I'd first called, and he answered a question I hadn't even asked, and I'd taken his answer as gospel. (Read whatever you want into that one…). So then I remember finally to ask… you DO have internet, yes? OH NO, not here! That's how lucky you people are… you want this enough to cause the universe to make sure it gets done even if I have to sit in a taco joint trying to block out rock n' roll to get it written. Yea! How great is that?!!!!
And, as it just made it through an editorial read… please accept this as my humble offering to you 'other myselves' for this week, ok? And please forgive the no painting. More next week, I promise.
Love you all,
Namaste,
David
FYI: If you would like to share this Journal as a webpage, at the very top of the email where it says:
"Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser." etc.
…. well, the word 'browser' is a clickable hyperlink that will open this email as a webpage…
which you can then copy and paste anywhere (like to share it on Facebook, or elsewhere).
ALSO: If you would like to share the link to the SUBSCRIBE page, here is the clickable or paste-able code:
No comments:
Post a Comment