9/17/21: Prompt: What is the vision...

 9/07/21

Prompt from the book Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing by Jeffrey Rediger, MD:

What is the vision I have for my life -- something so inspiring I would sacrifice immediate pleasure to attain it? What will help me to attain that? What might prevent it?  

Today, 9/7/21, I cannot access a vision. 

My symptoms of weakness -- cognitive and physical -- are strong today. 

I feel my greatest vision for my life has been to raise healthy children -- physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, soulfully. 

Most days I feel I've accomplished that.

Occasionally I recall these lyrics from an old Way Productions song....

 

Sometimes 

I forget that I've been given 

My life's dream. 

Peaceful days 

With Jesus Christ alive inside me

Life supreme  

And now

I love the life I'm living  

Where I know that I know 

It's Christ in me

But because I'm no longer a Bible believer (though some days that wobbles), I change some of the words...

Sometimes 

I forget that I've been given 

My life's dream

Peaceful days 

With Breath of Life alive inside me

Life supreme

And now

I love the life I'm living

Where I know that I know 

It's Life in me

That said, what are some of my dreams?

To ride my bike across the USA and ride into the serendipitous encounters that help me realize even bigger the deep connection between us humans and with all of nature...rocks, plants, animals, sky, soil, rivers, oceans, sands, fungi, mycelium, the heavens: stars and clouds and rain and hail and snow and rainbows...interconnectedness. 

I experience that now, on a small scale.

And if I were able to ride my bike all the way across the US, these experiences would still be on a small scale, just more of them. 

Maybe I'd see interconnectedness larger? 

But then, maybe not. 

I do see it biggly now.

And I experience it in my own little world, which is big to me. 

Well that's just one dream, not "some..." 

It was fun to think about...

But I'm still feeling the symptoms I've been having all day...

On this September 7, 2021... 

I want to be a peacemaker...

Recently I've been thinking about the term "likeminded, a term I do not use because of decades in a high-control religious cult which used the term often and in a way to keep followers loyal.

But I think I understand what folks in other genres are communicating when they use it; ie: having the same or similar values, and perhaps some (many?) use it as having the same/similar thoughts, ideas, solutions. 

I've thought about a replacement term for me. Perhaps "like-souled?"

I think our "minds" live through our whole bodies & radiate outward as well. The "mind" consists of thoughts, feelings, emotions,  intuitions, cellular memories, & more.

I ask myself, So Carol, how is "mind" different from "soul?" 

I think part of my answer is origins, a space from which all living beings (& perhaps inanimates too?) originate...a primordial oneness, in a sense. 

But then, What of the Hitlers in the world? Am I really like-souled with them? 

I must confess that, Yes. Somewhere I am.

Hmmm...

What could be some other possible replacement terms for me? Like-pathed or like-planed or like-winged...?

Sojourners together...

And perhaps I can grow beyond the distaste of the word "likeminded" & learn to use it soulfully.

Somehow this ties into the subject of polarization and separation.

I like the term "compassionate curiosity."

I want to be a peacemaker...