Easter Sunday
Good morning, Digital Neighbors! Happy Sunday and blessed Easter Friends & Refugees, Early Birds & Later Dayers, Phamily and Misfits, ADD Irregulars and WSN Curators & Contributors! I have been mostly off-line during Lent and I had gotten out of the habit of daily posting on the Report and on Phetasy prior to Lent. I still lurked about but was not very engaged in posting or even liking posts. Most of my focus had been on Padre’s and sharing my thoughts and various posts there. Over these next 49 days between this Sunday and Pentecost I hope to share some thoughts and musings on gratitude and thanksgiving. We will see where the Spirit leads me in my morning rambles but know that I come back to one of my on-line homes at the Report and at Phetasy and I am thankful for the hospitality and leadership of Dave Rubin & Bridget Phetasy.
During 2020 and all of its madness the communities of the Rubin Report and Phetasy became places of connection, community and healthy conversation (sometimes laced with a bit of ranting and fist shaking at the absurdities of the Covid Czars and flunkies) apart from the constant compelling and compliant droning of the Enemedia. Demanding conformity in thought & behavior while preaching “diversity” seems about as hypocritical as one can get. The Cabal is all about hypocrisy and completely blind to it.
I think back over these five years and I am thankful for all the fine souls I met through Locals and its various communities. Some of these people I have had the chance of talking to in real life and meeting. It has been a profound blessing to me. Locals became the home of free speech and common sense. Those two issues go along way towards good conversations and even meaningful disagreement or variances of opinion. The maturity level attracted to Locals is a real blessing. I am not talking about the humor and the memes, but rather about no one losing their SH over disagreements or other emotional implosions that I have seen in other communities in the past. I know these communities are not perfect, but Locals was a vast upgrade from FB and other social sites. If there were people I didn’t care to read I either ignored them or simply blocked them and it was without the drama that became so commonplace on other platforms prior to Locals.
Living in the heart of gratitude means taking nothing for granted. I do my best to remember and practice the giftedness of each day and not forget the blessing and joys that come from that attitude. I am far from succeeding but I do see progress when I let go of my expectations and begin trusting and accepting more of life as it unfolds. It is not easy to work on serenity, I am tempted to spend too much time trying to control things I can’t and too little effort ignoring things I can change. But no matter what, I am blessed and thankful for another opportunity to take a swing at living and loving. Have a great Sunday Digital Neighbors! Know of my prayers, appreciation and love even if I don’t visit as much as I used to and spend too much time tending my home community @ Padre’s.
MORNING LIGHT
Each day the soul decides whether or not
to enter yet one more time into this carousel,
blinks open the body’s eyes to nearly morning light,
lifts the head in glory to God’s vast sky,
climbs the legs out of bed to keep moving
on this journey to understanding the mystery
and beauty of being alive. – Barbara Schmitz
Gratitude Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose for Everyday Thankfulness (p. 33). Andrews McMeel Publishing. Kindle Edition.
