Focus on what you do Have
The Sunday Morning Church of ATTENTION
When you focus on what you don’t have you’ll never have enough.
When you focus on what you do have you will always have plenty.
Quote magnetized on our refrigerator
Life is a great swing and I found myself swinging from a fullness of life of what I can do into an ebbing attitude of what can I do about this pain?
OH WELL, I sigh.
I lead the life of a doer. I create and am glad to say complete projects, goals, aims, as a friend says I am a human doer. I love to build, to garden, golf, walk, and during this recovery period I been sitting, laying and sleeping a lot. I have been on the road doing the real estate seminars I’d limp to the stage, present my lines-still had my enthusiasm and then limp off to the motel and sleep from 4pm till 6am. I am very grateful for David Compton’s help doing the seminars, and Raleen is wonderful as my primary care giver. I had 20 presentations and they weren’t a problem, they are a passion. However walking on to stage was a challenge.
OH WELL, I did it well.
There is a lot of limper’s in the world. Foot, knee, and hips are mechanical and some of my best friends have gotten replacements. I grew up with a father who had a disability; he was missing 3 fingers on his right hand. It was a claw like appendage with thumb and pinkie. The claw was very scary and embarrassing to me as a child. He didn’t let it stop him from working, but it ended his budding golf career, and playing ball with me. He was an Oregon junior golf champion and I sure could use some lessons.
OH WELL, Raleen and I had a great time from the couch watching the Master on TV.
As the pain continued I started feeling less than. It started eroding my self-worth. As I numbed the pain, I also numbed what I do have. Gratitude, appreciation, joy, optimism, persistence, creativity, and perseverance waned. I had major trouble doing more-oh MORONism, when the LESSon was appreciate what I do have.
OH GOOD, the swing is picking up speed into gratitude, optimism, creativity.
I appreciate the opportunity I had to compete in the Toastmaster International speech contest. There were six great speakers. I was honored to compete in improv-1-2 minutes and the 5-7 minute planned speech. My passion to Erase, Eliminate and End hate inspired the crowd, especially the 12 year old boy and nine year old girl who ‘loved it’, but alas I didn’t win but now its time to take it on the road and make good my intent- Erase, Eliminate and End hate in our minds, our speech and from humanity. A new age is dawning, and with it is a world not based on opposites, ‘no love without hate’, but the Effort to be conscious of our creations. The Gospel says, “For what goes into your mouth will not defile you, but that which issues from your mouth it is that which will defile you.”
Namaste, I remember to bow to the light that always resides within each of us.