Some Insight, Some Prayer!

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Good day All! Grab a cuppa and a favorite spot to sit and relax as I share some insights and prayers! Today I want to speak a little bit about connections, connections we have, we want to have, and we are forgetting about. But first off what is connection? Well in the dictionary it is expressed as
a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else.

“the connections between social attitudes and productivity” ·
• the action of linking one thing with another.
“connection to the Internet”
• the placing of parts of an electric circuit in contact so that a current may flow.

With that said let’s think about how we connect with each other today. Well that is not a hard answer to find, we connect with each other mainly with technology, through our phones and social media. Because of this we have lost most of our human connections. Hold on a minute some will say, I talk with people every day. But do we really?

Speaking through a text or a post o social media is not hearing a voice, it does not have tone or inflection…it has lost that part of human connection. When I was growing up every parent in the neighborhood knew every child, and every child knew every parent. We would run to our friends’ home and we would yell out their name over and over until they came out to play. We could feel safe about entering our friends’ home to play games, share things like hobbies or go outside and play tag or curb ball.

As adults we would meet up at a favorite restaurant to enjoy a meal or theatre to see a movie where we would laugh and talk about what was going on in our lives. We connected in a human way, with empathy and compassion, with understanding and acceptance that it was okay to have highs and lows as we walk through life.

Today people have forgotten how to connect and communicate in human ways. We hide behind the safety of our computer screens whether they are on our phones or actual computer screens. We have been given a feeling of anonymity that empowers us to be hateful, spiteful and extremely angry. We do not allow others to speak their opinions without attacking and telling them they are wrong. In essence we have created the perfect storm and it escalates as violence, yup whether we like it or not, that is what humankind has created.

So is this fixable? Can we fix it? Well it is of my opinion that we can indeed fix it, but we need to start by making time not only for ourselves and our own personal growth … but for the world’s positive growth. We need to step up to the plate and learn to stop telling everyone what to do and start doing things ourselves. We need to spend more time with each other and not always talk in the same space using our phones as a way to communicate through texting… especially if we are in the same house or building. Don’t tell me you don’t do it because everyone does it.

A few years back I was visiting a friend and she actually texted me from the other room. I got up and said are you kidding me, why didn’t you just walk over to talk with me? Seriously are we all getting that lazy that we won’t even talk with the person standing next to us? Are we all that scary? I don’t think so, but I do think that Life itself has gotten that scary. Fear seeps through everything as social media and the news continually pounds us all with negatives.

Well enlightenment ya’ll… it’s time to unplug from it all every now and then. Sit and get to know yourselves again. Who we truly are, and then reach out to someone you love and unplug with them. Remind each other who you both are, and so on and so on… bring love, compassion and empathy back into your worlds. Reconnect with what it is to be Human again.

Connections, everything that is…is somehow at some point connected. And often many of us take that for granted. I know I have ni the past. And when I come to realize that I am …I slow down and stop to stand still for a moment and think about how connected everything in life is.

Elementals… Water-Air- Earth-Fire one can’t exist without the other…all powerful in their own right, and all part of us in some rhyme or reason.
connections… I would say that defines a big part of us as Humans, whether we accept it or not…we are all very connected.

Now when we look at being connected, we have to think also how we interact with everything in our world. We have Air…we breathe air… air is life for many things here. Wouldn’t be here if we couldn’t breathe the air. Yet stop and think how different our air smells between a city…and a country spot. We have all been there; we have all heard the remark of wow… the air smells so fresh. The smell of fresh grass in a meadow, water running in a River, Birds that sing their cries in the trees,,, all carried to us through the air…it sustains life.

Earth is what we walk on…run on… drive on…work on… it grows our food, it changes and grows, evolves with us. Through all our changes …good or bad. the earth keeps up right along with us. Many times we are destructive of her, yet I wonder if we took a moment or two to remember who She is…if we would do some of the things we do to her? Yet she continues to sustain life. Water makes up the majority of our bodies as humans. It is the liquid that descends from the clouds as rain, forms streams, lakes, and seas, and is a major constituent of all living matter . It also sustains life… We need to remember even after we forget, to honor these elementals as Sacred…for without them we would not be. Because of them we are all connected.

Today I ask you to join me in prayer; I ask for Joyce Coleman, Peter, Keith and Family, Hawk, Christy, Tina, Sarah and Family, Riana and Ian… and all those that need balance and healing.

I call to the sacred winds…to carry my words
To the Grandmothers and Grandfathers of the North, the south, the east, the west, Above …below and within…
I call to the sacred winds to carry my words to the Winged ones…the Four Leggeds…the Plant People…the Crystal Keepers, the Thunder Beings, the Angelic Realm…Mother Mary and Magdalene…my Brother Christ and all the nations that love us.

I thank you for all the many blessings that you have shared with us today and beyond and I ask that you hear our prayers whether spoken our held silently within our hearts.
Today I ask that you hear our prayers as we stand humbly before you, small and human.
Help us to remember we are all but a tiny part of a great universe, that we are all connected as one…
Bring us the strength we need to walk our paths without ego or judgment…

Allow our hearts to hear what our ears are missing
Teach us how to allow forgiveness for others and ourselves
Fill our being with the unconditional love that you so freely offer all.
I call that we be reminded we are all no better than or less than one another.
Guide us through our days, to help us with our humanness…that we learn to reconnect with others in a gentle and positive way. Offering smiles when they are needed without thought, shoulders or ears to help ease another…and words that will uplift or soothe.

Keep our children safe and strong in this troubled world… I ask that on this day and days to come…guidance is shared with us all to help as we walk our paths. Help open our eyes so we are able to learn and see the right way of things, teach us to respect all life no matter how small, open our ears and minds so we may understand things that are being taught in a good and gentle manner…open our hearts so that when the harshness of the world falls at our feet, we are all able to cope and handle it with compassion and understanding.

I ask that today and all days ahead, that we honor all connections as Sacred. That we share respect with all that is, no matter if we are aware of the impact of those connections or not. That we are guided to care for these elementals, by replenishing, replanting, using only what is needed. And remembering that they are each sacred gifts that we depend on for life itself. They connect us all to each other. That we are all connected to each other and no matter what we do or say affects each and every person, creature and thing on this planet. So Learn to be kinder, gentler and connect on a more positive level. It will bring us all back to that human that lies deep within our souls.

I thank all those who have walked with us and answer our calls…this day and in days to come…and honor you …AHO

So my wish to you all today is that you look around you and learn to connect with ourselves and each other in more positive human ways. That we plant seeds of awareness to others as gentle reminders of what a great gift we have been given and share in. And that through that our connections with each other, that awareness becomes stronger. That we care for all life in a gentle and giving way, returning and continuing the cycle of giving and replenishing.

May your day be bright and filled with faith. For it is way past time we remember we are all related.
Blessings to You All
~ bear