My World, My Voice

The story of Adam and Eve can be looked at as a literal happening or a touching story, in either event it's message is designed to remind us why we are here. Adam and Eve had everything they could ever want in the Garden of Eden. The problem that they faced was that in having everything, they experienced nothing. For how special is the most perfect thing if you have it at all times. If you were able to drive down the street every day of your life and always have a green light, after a few days or weeks, having green lights all the time would not feel special, it would feel ordinary. In that example you have the perfect ride to your destination, but you can't appreciate it as the perfect ride in the absence of an imperfect ride. Without an occasional red light, you cannot fully appreciate all the green lights. This is what the Garden of Eden represents. It is everything we always wanted but without the experience of not having it, there is no way to fully appreciate it. T

I love art and the act of creating. Be it a song, a sculpture, a painting, a photograph or simply a unique presentation of spaghetti.... it is the act of creation, of making something new and personal that draws me to art and those who create it. Today I created this new header for my blog. I began with a predefined blog template thanks to Todd Dominey and I'm slowly tweaking it and making it my own. A day will come when it does not at all resemble what it started as and that will be a very special day for me personally because it will become something that is all mine. A representation of myself to the world at that moment. The photograph used in my new header is a photo I personally shot while visiting the domes in Milwaukee. I really love the origninal photo. So much that I feature it on my deviant art account. But to take something that I have captured and add to it to create a presence and a personality for my blog... that is creation at it's finest. I am pleased w

Let me say that again. You cannot have what you want, but you may experience whatever you have. Our experiences in the world are created by thought, word and deed. What I mean is that what you think about something, what you write about something and what you do about something creates your ultimate experience of that thing. This all begins with your very first thought. That thought that starts with "I". I want I have I am I must It is this first thought that begins the creation of your experience. Once you have a thought, the universe goes to work to bring the events and circumstances necessary to give you that experience. So when you say you want wealth... that is EXACTLY what you get. You get the experience of "WANTING wealth". Therefore you cannot have what you want, you can only have the experience of wanting it. To look at the second half of that statement, one's response might be, "doh!" Of course you can experience whatever you have!

Valentine's Day is a day we think of our loved ones. We often buy them gifts, send them cards, take them out to dinner. It is a day of celebration for the strongest, most heart-felt emotion a being can experience or share. Today I have decided to share a slightly different, but much more fulfilling outlook on what love is. This is quoted directly out of one of my favorite books, "Conversations With God" by Neale Donald Walsch. All human actions are motivated at their deeepest level by one of two emotions - fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions - only two words in the language of the soul. These are the opposite ends of the great polarity which God created when He produced the universe, and your world, as you know it today. These are the two points - the Alpha and the Omega - which allow the system you call "relativity" to be. Without these two points, without these two ideas about things, no other idea could exist. Every human thought, and eve

Matt... this is especially for you. I'm the sort of person that would rather find a natural cure for something over a chemical one whenever possible. This remedy is the thing that probably more than anything planted that mindset into me. When I was 13, one particular day I had a pounding headache but there was nothing in the medicine cabinet. So I sat in the bathroom trying to find another way to get rid of my headache and ease the suffering. What I came up with was a remedy that has served me for more than 22 years now. Since that day I've only taken medicine for a headache one time. All other headaches I've experienced in my life have been knocked out with my remedy which I'm about to share with you. The most important element for success using this process is a firm belief that it will work. If you don't truly believe in your mind that it's going to work then it never will. However I have taught this remedy to many of my friends and everyone who has

I read my friend Jason's Blog post a bit ago about his mother and her passing from that dreaded thing called cancer. It reminded me of last year and my own mother's fight against cancer and it also made me think about death. The first time I was introduced to the concept of death I was a very small child. About 6 years old. Someone my parents and I knew passed away, though I have no recollection who that was any more. I do remember vividly asking my mother why all the people were sad. She kneeled down beside me and explained that our friend had passed away and that the people were sad because they would not be able to see this person again or talk to them until they went to heaven. This made me sad and start to cry and my mother told me that it was okay to be sad, but I could also be happy because our friend was no longer suffering. They had moved on to be with God and they were in heaven now experiencing all the best things. I thought about the words my mother had spoken

Life is your opportunity to create the best version of your self and then experience what you have created in relation to others. Every choice you make (or don't make) shapes who you are in relation to the rest of the world. That is the act of creation and our purpose in life. We live each day so that we can create who we are in relation to the rest of the world. Relationships are our way of experiencing our creations. We can only give meaning to the choices we have made by having others to compare them to. Relationships with others allow us to hold our choices up against choice combinations others have assembled and let us see how we like the person we have created in comparasin to that. How can we use this information to improve our lives? Simply look at your choices each day and chooose the ones that are the the highest or most loving. Take care of yourself, love yourself and be the best version of you that you can. When you succeed in doing this, you will find that your

When I was about 12 years old I decided it was time to make up my own mind about the existance of a supreme being or not. The conversation in my head went something like this: Choices : Yes there is a God. No there isn't a God. Possible Scenarios : God exists but he has no preference of one religion over another. God exists and there is one right religion. God does not exist and nothing matters. Further look at each possible scenario : If God exists but he has no preference over religions then I'm safe as long as I pick one and follow it to the best of my ability. And Whoopie! I could get into heaven! If God exists and there is only one right religion then I have about a one in 20 (that's all the religious groups I could think of at the time) chance of picking the right one and being saved. If I picked well, I'll see those shining pearly gates and if I picked wrong I'll at least be warm. If God does not exist, then life and death are all that is and I don't have

I'm 5 yrs old and my brother is about to be born. I'm staying at my aunt and uncle's house that I hardly know at this point in my life (because my mother had to go to a hospital that could handle my brother's preemy birth and other complications). When I go home with mom, dad and baby bro, I have this vivid memory of sitting in a restaurant around a round table with my aunt and uncle, my mom and dad and another person I don't know. I have a chicken sandwich and some potato chips on my plate and I'm happily eating them. My uncle spots a potato chip on my plate that has a green spot and he says to me, "Trish don't eat that potato chip with the green in it. It's actually a spoiled piece of potato that didn't get cut out." "Okay," I say, "Thanks for the tip." Now I've had this memory firmly planted in my mind from that day on. I've told my mom, my dad, and my brother countless times over the years that the green on t

This is a truth in the absolute. One cannot know and experience a state of peace unless there is an opposite of peace to compare it to. Peace does not mean anything without war, it cannot. One of my friends often asks me what I want and my reply is always, "Peace, love and happiness." The other day he told me that I cannot have peace unless I'm willing to declare war on all humankind and force them to come together against a greater evil than themselves. At first this idea upset me. How can one think that the only way to peace is through an act of war. Upon further thought I decided that, in the realm of the absolute, he is 100% correct. People cannot know of peace, desire peace, choose peace unless they witness it's opposite and give it context. Therefore we must have war if there is ever going to be peace. Here is where my beliefs change direction though. In this world, we have witnessed war. We know how war brings suffering and loss, pain and despair to th

Love is all there is.