COURTESY CORNER: Just sayin'...

You Know... we all eventually go back to dust but why not push our chairs in at Mother Earth's table, help with the dishes & give our heartfelt thanks by leaving her home just a little bit better than when we got here...<3

WORD ART CORNER: Words Matter, Just Sayin'... by N.D.RODRIGUEZ 03.01.16

Words Matter, Just Sayin'... by N.D. Rodriguez 03.01.16

All this fussin' & cussin' & fightin' & fear… words matter.
Thoughts matter into matter.
Negative feelings inflame into thoughts into matter, destruction.
Multiplied by thousands, magnified into our environ; carelessly.
Radical weather screaming, destroyin’... 
As so within, so with-out?!?...just sayin'.
What human mental power…
going sadly awry, human/spirit/nature origins forgotten;
Connectedness callin’ us home.
But stomppin, tantrum children; selfish attachments destruction vs. hopeful connected solutions. Choice. Just sayin… - Ndr

THANK YOU LEONARDO DiCAPRIO FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP...

THANK YOU LEONARDO DiCAPRIO!!! for your courage to use your voice & actions for the good of our Home & Her inhabitants! These award shows won't matter much if we don't have a live-able planet. I am hopeful we can & will rise to this call. A few billion years old vs. our little blip of time here... Her power vs. us...we are really no match for Her either way. Now She's letting us know this every day. Better to work with Her than carelessly fight Her. I just love Mother Earth so & pledge to do my bigger part today & forward...Oh & P.S. Congratulations!!! You soo deserved your Oscar! http://leonardodicaprio.org/

EMOTIONS ARE LIKE A HORSE...

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Emotions are like a horse, we must guide them to ride them. Otherwise we end up on our arse in the dust. Be one w/your pony - ndr

TEAM WONDER OR TEAM GIVE UP... Our Efforts Matter

Being here on earth in these human bodies is about taking responsibility for our individual unique gifts/talents - Big or small - (something Divine we must be blessed with...it seems to me).
#1. Putting them to good use. #2. often helping us cope w/the hardships & challenges of life. #3 even just appreciating the simple things in life.

BUT we cannot escape the undeniable rule of Physics (Ultimate Knowledge from where?!?...) that for every positive force in nature there is an equal negative opposite force at that same time, somewhere, for some reason. That no doubt challenges many of us everyday & can cause us to say "why make the effort? What is this all for?!? ... even I don't always know that answer. But this I do know...NEVER GIVING UP! 

The Wonder never surrenders. The Good is always there as is the Bad. But our Choice everyday is what matters...The Effort Matters. TEAM WONDER or TEAM GIVE UP.....

The wonder & mysteries of the Universe works thru all of us, whether believed or not... whether an Ultimate Force or not... something astoundingly remarkable & brilliant is going on...in all of us & nature. Just Awe...whether used for good or for bad...the choice is ours.

"Un Gigante de Jesús En Mi Ventana" por N.D. Rodriguez (de un verdadero sueño)

 "Un Gigante de Jesús En Mi Ventana" por N.D. Rodriguez (de un verdadero sueño)
 cuento los derechos de autor 12.12.15

Sueños, realidad se convierten en su oído,
Este uno no es diferente, aunque no hay drama;
O volando en el aire a través de árboles;
O pisando los océanos profundos mientras que hipopótamos
y jirafas divertirse junto a una ballena grises más cerca de la orilla.

Sólo una mezcla de surrealismo normal y sutil en una tarde perezosa extrañamente iluminada.
Fuente de luz de algún lugar, sin penetración de la sol
Permanente dentro de la mitad de mi vieja habitación,
nuestro hogar en forma de Donnawood Way familiar.
2 habitaciones piso dormitorio de la sociedad dominante y de la hermana;
un recurrente paisaje... sueño se abre allí.

 Todavía recuerdo este sueño hace 12 años,
donde otros han disuelto en el tiempo, ésta aún persiste.
Encontrarme en el cuerpo, no observar, evaluar mi viejo simple familiar Plaza habitación segura... Sólo allí de pie, mirando por mi ventana familiar.
Un desconocido árbol menos alineada principal calle, varias cuadras de largo.
Consejos de un pequeño pueblo en la distancia, no hay antes;
sin embargo, algo familiar, un sentido de comodidad estando presente.

Cuando de la nada, aparece una figura en la distancia,
pesados por el centro de la calle principal, hacia nuestra casa familiar, no de miedo pero seguro.
Poco a poco cada vez más cerca... y más grande... más grande ¡
Tratando de hacer que esto podría ser... Y más cerca él consiguió, con un cabeza gigante.
Y su altura... tan alto como la casa de 2 pisos; era El, cabeza tan ancho como mi ventana...
Que se inclina suavemente giantly lentamente para dar un vistazo en...
Un poco descarado brillo en sus ojos enormes y en la curva de su boca... no hay manera!!!
Manera de! Un gigante... Jesús ¡! Ven a verme...!?!?!

La maravilla aturdida eclipsó cualquier miedo...
Asombrado, con los ojos abiertos, boca abierta,
sin palabras poco a poco que se trata de registrar...
Evaluar en silencio unos a otros...
Teniendo en su cabeza gigante, ojos conocer hermoso buenos y suave sonrisa...
Busca en mi alma y todas mis pruebas presente, respetuosamente cuidado de no asustar me...
pero nunca un momento de miedo, sólo creciente maravilla y qué, ¿por qué él llegó... a mí ¿?

Este comparte momento... que hasta finales de 2002 Yo realmente no había dado mucho pensamiento... Pero aún así, tenía un mensaje para dar me...sin palabras. Su pensamiento puro llegó dentro de mi... "Todo va a estar bien". Como un suave abrazo espiritual a mi alma. Tomando cuanto podía entender en aquel entonces... El sueño terminó como comenzó... desde el plano seguro en blanco despejado entre sueño y vigilia.

Y silencio en mí allí quedó, todo este tiempo...
Registro no es realmente lo que me dieron... hasta ahora.
Recordando cada ahora y después... Pero este eco recurrente de otro mensaje,
en mi corazón, cada vez la constante más fuerte... Yo soy tu hermano. No estás solo.
Eres amor y amado ". Como una oración diaria caliente...

Hasta este año, nunca compartieron este sueño profundo con nadie... Aún no puedo decir por qué.
Tal vez mi voz y mi corazón no eran todavía fuertes bastante juntos poner en palabras...
no ser un definido "nacido de nuevo cristiano". Pero todavía su pensamiento puro cura algo en mí;
Yo soy su hermana. Su simple mensaje... Lo sé ahora... no sólo significó para mí...
Somos todos sus hermanas y hermanos, si esto resuena en su camino.

Y tal vez un mensaje oportuno... es necesario ahora más que nunca, a través de la Femenina Divina.
A partir Evangelios de Mary Magdalene, Valora la sabiduría espiritual femenina como iguales, mucho antes de que otros pudieran encontrar el coraje y el amor para hacerlo...
Refleja nuestro valor... llevándome de nuevo a mi fuente de amor Divino Universal Infinito...
Donde todos son Bienvenidos a residir, prosperar y recarga de nuestro propio libre albedrío y a hacer el bien con ella. Dejando que tu puro amor sanador, de fuente divina... un amor, puedo ahora decir... sana como ningún otro.

Extendiendo este regalo amoroso para ti estas fiestas agradecido y más allá.
Muy verdaderamente & humildemente tuyo,
Norma (capellán en discernir el proceso)

A GIANT JESUS At My Window by ND Rodriguez (a true dream share)

"A GIANT JESUS At My Window" by ND Rodriguez
(Spiritual Lift Corner - for those so inclined)
Short-story copyrights 12/12/15 (creative grammar rules bent bit)

Dreams, turn reality on its ear,
This one no different, though no drama;
Or flying in mid-air through trees;
Or treading oceans deep while Giraffes & Hippos
frolic next to Grey Whales nearer to shore.

Just a mix of normal & subtle surrealism
on a oddly lit lazy afternoon.
No Sun insight but light source from somewhere,
Standing inside the middle of my old room,
our family home on Donnawood Way.
2nd floor bedroom tween parent’s & sister’s rooms;
a reoccurring landscape…dream opens there.

Still remembering this dream 12 years now,
where others have dissolved into time, this one still lingers.
Finding myself in body, not observing, assessing quietly,
my old simple familiar safe square room…
Just standing there, looking out my familiar window.
Onto an unfamiliar tree-less lined Main Street, several blocks long.
Hints of a small town in the distance, not there before;
yet something familiar, a sense of comfort still present.

When out of nowhere, a figure appears in the distance,
lumbering down the center of this Main Street,
toward our family home, not scared but unsure.
Slowly getting closer…and larger...larger?!?!!
Trying to make out who might this be…
And the closer He got, all I took in was His head.
And His height… as tall as our 2 story house;
it was Him, head as wide as my window…
Gently giantly slowly leaning to peek in…
A little cheeky sparkle in His huge eyes
and at the curve of His mouth…noooo way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way!

A Giant...Jesus?!?!!!!!!!
Come to see…me!?!?!
The stunned wonder eclipsed any fear...

Astonished, wide-eyed, mouth-open, speechless
gradually registering who this is…
Silently assessing each other…
Taking in His giant head, kind beautiful knowing eyes & gentle smile…
Respectfully looking into my soul & all my present trials,
sure not to spook me…but never a moment’s fear,
just growing wonder and what, why did He come…to me?!???

This shared moment…that up until end of 2002
I hadn’t ever really given You much thought…
But still, He had a message to give me...w/no words.
His pure thought arrived inside me…
“Everything is going to be alright”.

Like a gentle spiritual hug to my soul.
Taking it in as much as I could understand back then…
The dream was over as it started...
from the uncluttered blank safe plane between sleep & waking.

And quietly in myself there it stayed, all this time…
Not really registering what I’d been given…until now.
Recalling it every now and then...
But this reoccurring echo of another message, in my heart now,
getting steadily stronger...

“I am your Brother. You are not alone. You are love and loved”.
Like a daily warm prayer...

Up until this year, never shared this profound dream
with anyone…I can’t even say why.
Maybe my voice and heart were not yet strong enough together
to put into words... not even being a defined "born again Christian".
But still His pure thought heals something in me; I am His sister.
His simple message... I know now…not just meant for me…
We are all His Sisters & Brothers, if this resonates on one's path.

And maybe a timely message…
needed now more than ever, through the Divine Feminine.
As from Mary Magdalene’s Gospels,
You valued the Feminine spiritual wisdom as equals,
long before others could find the courage & love to do so...
Mirroring our value…leading me back to my Infinite Universal Divine Love source…
Where All are welcome to reside, thrive & recharge
of our own free will and to do good with it.
Letting your pure healing Love in, from Divine Source…
a Love, I can now say…heals like no other.

Extending this Loving Gift to you this Grateful Holiday Season and beyond.
Very Truly & Humbly yours,
Norma (Chaplain in discerning process)
and Life Long Faithful Spiritual Student