***ThanksGiving is when you can feel a KINSHIP with all things.***
Author: Elaine Neihardt Smith
Tag Archives: life
***ART Of LIVING***
The depth of each major hurdle in life does FEED the SOUL and anything less would be shallow.
I am so grateful for the DEPTH and BREADTH of living which breeds in GREATER GIVING.
***BIRTH***
We give ‘birth’ to LIFE and we give ‘birth’ to DEATH.
Although with or without our permission,
It’s still a natural phenomenon.
*ROBIN WILLIAMS* Sent *Dream Message*
Twilight time (2:am) on August 15th 2014, Robin Williams dramatically interrupted my dream sleep. He was hovering over a public arena of people directly facing me and dramatically saying:
“STOP THE WARS, it doesn’t matter who you are!!! Take this to the ‘Pope’ – to the ‘Presidents’ – to the world!”
This message was repeated until I abruptly woke up and sat at the edge of my bed. Suddenly a dark gray shadow floated from the end of my bed past me and out into the living room and then vanished.
Trying to get myself reoriented I waited there thinking it was my husband who had left the room and would be coming right back. I turned to look and my husband was still fast asleep on his side of the bed.
The feeling was so powerful that I had to share it with the rest of the world. I do believe Robin came through with this urgent plea because we now know how much he cared and was sensitive to other human beings.
*PURPOSE*
Ever stand real still next to a bubbling ‘stream’ or lean against a ‘tree’?
You can sense a definite ‘purpose’ there because everything in ‘nature’ has a plan and you can almost feel it at work.
The same for a ‘human being’ if they would only be still inside long enough to ‘listen’ for it.
Seems that the ‘‘first half’ of life is ‘blown’ spending a fortune we don’t even have. The ‘second half’ is ‘saving’ a lost than found treasure, the most valuable of all.
If you’ve done alot of living……you cease being an authority.
Author: Elaine Neihardt Smith www.motionOsis.com
‘ONE AT A TIME’
One at a time we go……while remembering life’s dying embers.
Did the seeds that we planted…become the deeds ever haunted.
How the light did shine over darkened discomfort…as we hurdled over the good and the bad.
Glimpses of faces and far away places…became the filler of where we’ve been.
Time seems merely an illusion…a day, a month, then years in the passing…leaving only seconds left to realize that we were once there.
Where to now as darkness hovers toward another unknown…awaiting to be born unto a new light bearing the known.
Author: Elaine Neihardt Smith www.motionOsis.com
*GIFTED ARTISTS*
How is it that the ‘tormented soul’ of a GIFTED ARTIST fails to see the value of its ‘mark’ in living the course of any lifetime.
I play to a GREATER STAGE rather than to one performance.
Where is the ‘loyalty’ to the ‘greater audience’ other than the audience of a single lifetime.
There is SIGNIFICANCE in everything which makes a ‘wondrous journey’ out of every lifetime.
Author/Elaine Neihardt Smith www.motionOsis.com
*TRAVELERS Thru TIME*
We’re all ‘travelers’ through time. Seeking and searching we must. So ‘young’ in years are we, wondering what seems to be. Yet ‘old’ are we in centuries, knowing what must be.
Many times we witness familiarities, traveling over the ‘ancient paths’ of time. Yet a ‘newness’ found each time we’ve grown that extra inch.
With each passing day, more to learn about the ‘measurement’ of self. How fascinating, how exciting, the ‘mystery’ which lies before us in solving ‘ourselves.’
But in these journeys always remember, ‘we have learned much……yet we have learned little.’
Just think, the ‘shaping and forming’ that someday fills this mold, is like the ‘rough stone’ rolling over the hills of time, until it arrives a ‘polished one.’
GROWTH like a ‘rose’ from ‘seed to bloom’ is complete which is ‘everlasting’ which is ETERNAL.
Author/Elaine Neihardt Smith www.motionOsis.com
*SPECTATOR Or PARTICIPATOR*
Is there any greater moment to witness in life then to feel within one’s self, the light of GROWTH?
Throughout time we go plodding along in a routine of staleness, seemingly not to progress in any particular direction. Then suddenly born from those ‘few extra steps taken’ there is covered a milestone along our course.
Obviously enough it is advertised all around us, if we only care to ‘see or hear’ it.
In the ANIMAL KINGDOM is there anything displayed more ‘spirited’ as a ‘horse race.’ Each time their noses touch that starting gate, they know to ‘give’ their all around that track. Each time as though it were the last, brand new in ‘courage and stamina,’ excited with another chance to try, for this moment ‘marks’ the road of ‘life’ ahead.
In the PLANT KINGDOM has anything displayed more ‘faithfulness’ in showing up every time regardless of the weather. I’ve seen a small ‘tree sprout buds’ of greenery before my very eyes during the middle of a late ‘snow storm,’ because it was April and time for Spring.
All the LIVING THINGS have a job to do and busy themselves ‘doing’ it, fulfilling their ‘purpose.’
NOTICE those HUMAN BEINGS who stand idly by, scratching their heads in wonderment of the endless successes of others, without realizing that they are ‘spending and squandering’ their own time as the wealthy spend their money.
HOW often does a ‘human cry’ out from ‘wishful thinking’ if they could only ‘turn back’ the wheels of time. An outright confession of their own guilt in wasting time.
THINK about the ‘brave souls’ struggling for their lives in hospitals or the driving forging living spirit throughout the fierce battle field of ‘war’ or international ‘sports.’
WHY never before such importance until those moments……that FIGHT to WIN!!!
Just try to imagine; taking into consideration the brief moments of our existence; that if all efforts and enthusiasm were found to be important and practiced each day, adding to this ‘alertness and awareness’ of the world and those around us, what fantastic ‘transformation’ of our lives could occur.
The FIRST STEP starts with your ‘mind’ and the altering of ‘attitudes.’ Vital in importance is to discover what ‘mental food’ you are feeding yourself that might come under the dangerous label of ‘mental poisoning.’
Take a second LOOK around, what more living ‘proof’ is needed to convince you.
There are so many things to cover, roads to travel through ‘life’s journey.’ Life is full and all around you, bursting forth with ‘invitation’ awaiting your ‘participation.’ What tragedy befalls those who travel life’s paths harboring indifference as their companion.
ONE CAN and must SEE the ‘beauty’ in things. Put forth their ‘efforts’ to fulfill their meaning and rightful ‘purpose.’
Author/Elaine Neihardt Smith www.motionOsis.com
*LIFE Is For The LIVING*
What a wonderful thing called LIFE that comes but ONCE in the form of your own lifetime.
The wonders of LIVING are thriving all around you and what great pity if they be ignored.
A ‘city’ becomes a ‘robot’ because of its independence of one another. The ‘country’ has a ‘heart’ that reaches out and touches all its dwellings as if they were under one roof.
To be in contact with NATURE brings more of ourselves to the surface which otherwise would be isolated or smothered.
The simple ‘basic things’ are still the ‘surviving things’ that must be expressed or starvation sets in creating the need and desire for substitutes.
Living POSITIVELY demands increased alertness and awareness in the ‘preparations of things.’ To strive towards any goal and stumble or fall, is a far difference to careless blundering which paves the way down a negative path.
This ‘world’ is an INVESTMENT which adds or subtracts to our own ends.
The FINE ART of LIVING requires our own CONTRIBUTION of SELF in its entirety.
Author/Elaine Neihardt Smith www.motionOsis.com