Good morning October

The rains are here. The cold winds begin to blow. I’m thankful for the roof, fireplace and furnace. I got out the winter comforter last night and slept soundly.  The night before my toes had been cold.  Little things count.  These changes of Weather that Carne Fraudsters have given a pseudoscience name and called Climate Change are making a few people very rich while the rest of us carry on. Carbon is the element of life. They’re taxing it and calling it pollutants. The schools really were better in my day. We learned basic biology and science rather than being left to be filled by political charlatans.  When will Al Gore be arrested?

They are forever talking of ‘redistribution of wealth’ but never of the wealth of cronies in the crony world of crony socialism and crony capitalism.  Runny dogs the lots of them.  I’m uncertain what the day will bring. 

I like that I have somewhere to go. There are fine people I’m going to be joining. As Buddhism says I’m doing ‘right livelihood.’  And what would I do if I didn’t work today, go for coffee, go to a meeting, walk the dogs, just more of what I did on the weekend.  And why is the weekend so enjoyable , because of the order and discipline and control of work days by comparison to the freedom and chaos of the weekend.  So what would weather be without it’s mood swings.  There is no ‘new’ global warming, just a longer cycle like we’ve had before.  

As I once wrote, when the leadership build underground and insist that coastal cities move inward, I’ll take these lying hustlers seriously but for now I recognize a money making scam. This is todays , Emperor has new clothes and let me sell you some swamp land in Florida.  

I did talk to a retired friend and enjoyed their ‘lighter load’, more time to get things done, less days of work and less hours and slower pace. I was envious of their sense of time. They felt we who worked were really harried and that the city was hollow and hasty while their life in the country was more healthy and human.  I’ve done both and frankly am not yet ready to go to pasture but it sure does sound great.  The city is lively and I’m now wondering what cultural events I should see. I am looking at the Opera and Early Music Society and Vancouver Symphony and thinking can I afford that, do I have the time, will I want to go.  There’s Massey Hall and it’s whole range of offerings I just saw.  

In the country I remember the sunsets and sun rises were more spectacular and I loved talking to the chickens and cows. I’d love to be sailing along a coast with fair winds and following seas too but God has me here.  I’m supposed to be focussing on the present , being on call to God for his next option of service.

I’m trying to follow Jesus as faithfully as I can. Not a particularly good Christian. Mediocre really. I’ve considered the billions and the accomplishments of others and I’m no longer deluded into thinking I’m special, except as a child of God.  I’m good enough, okay but will continue to reach for the impossible star.

Please God let me know you today. Holy Spirit Come.  Let me be of maximum service but show me the way and let me do my best without getting lost in the factory sense of the city.  Thank you God for all your blessings. Thank you most for Gilbert, George, family and friends and those I can be of help to today.  Thank you Jesus.