Moving on --- onwards & upwards!

This is a picture of the Great Wall of China from the Kamuka Worldwide travel website. Sometimes my life seems like the view in this picture: striving on an upward climb towards a higher place, a place with more spectacular views, a place where I can see more of what lies ahead and a different perspective of where I have already been. I see people who seem to be ahead of me on the path and long for their location or just some information from their viewpoint. I look behind and see others and wonder what they are thinking of where I am. Do they need my help to get where I am? Are they catching up with me and will overtake my progress, getting ahead of me? Am I proceeding faster than they? Can I enjoy the view from where I am? I especially love the fellow traveler alongside while sharing our views and helping each other see things differently, or things we may have missed along the way, or like an old allegory of life, sharing each of our parts of perception to more fully perceive and better understand the truth of the entire reality! The New Year, when time seems to stop for a moment before beginning again, is an opportunity to feel as if I have somehow "finished" a significant segment of my journey, stopping to reflect, celebrate and enjoy, giving me the strength, new resolve, renewed energy and exciting hope for the journey ahead. God bless your journey this new decade with joy and peace, and with fellow travelers at your side along the way that you can share, enjoy and to help you more fully perceive and better understand the paths of your life! Love, Dee

Perceptions of a view

When we look out into our life, what do we see? The beauty that is there? The rain that is falling? Things to be afraid of? Something that might end up being fun? This is a picture I took last Friday. It is set in a beautiful garden, like our creation. It was raining at the time, but not hard and not for long, like most weather conditions here in Miami, Florida. Weather is always changing, like most circumstances in our lives. We just do not know when or to what. Even forecasters are never sure and are often wrong. We were wondering if it was going to rain harder or continue through our visit. After I took this picture, the rain stopped and it got a bit sunny and a little warmer. Is this a real monster? It is really a work of art on display for fun at Fairchild Gardens and it has been considered the most fun by children there, although not the most beautiful, by far. Can we look at our lives like children, eyes wide open to possibilities? Certainly, some things make us unhappy or even afraid, but things are always changing, things are often not what we think they are or result in what we fear, and there are always other things to focus on that we can enjoy and laugh at. Wishing you laughter and joy! Dee

Believing is truly Seeing

They say: "Seeing is believing." Actually, believing helps us to see more clearly. What we see is not always what it appears to us, depending on our viewpoint. In the pictures, one vertical line appears to be longer than the other, but both are the same size. If someone is late for a flight that crashes and kills all passengers, we would call that a blessing for that person. In the moment of seeing the plane take off without us, we might not have that conclusion and be upset enough to make us afraid, sad, angry, or even physically ill. Believing that we had to be on that plane to be happy, prosperous or successful would not be believing in the "truth", a truth we could not have known. But there is a higher power that knows the truth of all things at all times. Believing in that can provide a new view, a perception that we can be open to see in truth that there are other possibilities than what we currently know, see, want or expect. What we believe does effect what we see and how we experience it. What do you believe? Let's talk some more..... , Dee