I SEE A WORLD IN CHAOS

In reference to my last blog about that data overload has been the added sadness and dismay at the natural disasters around the world. I see the horrible storms and 102,000 dead in Burma, the hundreds dead in an earthquake in China, the war in Iraq, tornadoes in the US, gas and oil crisis, Lebanon, fires in Florida, drought in Africa and Chad and Sudan fight, and the growing financial dominance of the Middle East that is very evident here also in Thailand. It looks at times like a world out of control and going crazy. I am grateful for peace within my own self, soul, and feel very confident about life even in the midst of death, the threat of a deadly disease, and the future of our lives for the next however many years we are given. Enjoy life to the fullest, enjoy the ride, do good to all you can, trust in God, and love, love, love unconditionally all you come in contact with. This is the universal truth that "whatever you sow, do, build, give; you will also reap, gain, and receive hundredfold back to you." How is that for a sermon for the day? These are just random thoughts. I KNOW that I want to continue to do what I have been given to do on this earth, my mission that God gave to me several years ago. Ready for it: "To be the healing presence of God however it is defined to whoever I met at anytime, anyplace, to any person.........." That is exactly why I am on this earth.
I believe in Love as the greatest healing agent in the world. I know of nothing that heals better than unconditional love. Everyone ultimately when all is torn away from them, all the layers of hurt, pain, and cover ups, crave unconditional love, community, belonging, oneness, and hope. Every action, word, thought, no matter how it comes out of the person is the heart's cry, (it's communication) "would you notice me, validate me, and value who I am in my uniqueness, creativeness, and eternal precious magnificence! I say, "sure" Easy, for in the core essence of what you were made of is that very thing. Made in the image of God, breath of God, the eternal creative uniqueness of God, precious, priceless, and can't be destroyed or killed. That is why I say, give me a soul, or let me meet a soul, and I have had the honor and privilege of being enriched by one of the greatest creations that God made, a human soul. Wow. I often wish I could just take the soul out of a body and emotional damaged person and hold that soul in my hands and just love it and soothe it, clean up the body and the mind then put it back in their body for the rest of their life. But I can't do that, we have to do that for ourselves. But , each time I meet a dying patient, family member, or the network of friends of a sick patient as a chaplain, I am each time enriched by the absolute brilliance of uniqueness, individuality, different, yet with various gifts, qualities, perspectives, that make up a better "Whole" picture of human kind and the inexhaustible exquisite richness ever. That is what happens each time I walk into a patients room. Wow. No wonder why I like my job so much. So with this ramblings, these are just thoughts that are floating around in my heart and soul, yet to be sorted, defined, shaped, molded, and brought into the tapestry of what makes up me. This experience has a positive effect, it leads me away from having to have arrogance, dominance, control, manipulation, power, and self justification that makes up our world, but to an acceptance, a letting go, a living in the peaceful places between the neurons and the eternal space between those atoms.