this is my house

Sun 1.21.23

  How does one return from battle to a peaceful life?  Often we hear of soldiers returning home and finding themselves completely unable to acclimatize, to decelerate from the everyday high of constant alert from morning wake-up to last details of day to, yes, inanities.

Winning the battle isn’t half the battle because what you’ve done is put yourself in another paradigm altogether.  The world, as well as you, now expects something different to come forth.  And it does if you allow yourself to invest in this direction.

Take for instance, Higher goal, hmm.  What is my higher goal, good question?  I tried to explain to a psychologist this week how my approach differs from his in counseling people who seek my services.  It's about Higher Goal.  What is your goal in life?  What are you trying to communicate?  What is your ultimate statement?  Human beings have higher goals that transcend the life lived.  The great love of one's life, family, children, career, are what psychologists are interested in and what they will counsel their clients on.  I want to get beyond that.  There is more to the individual than that, there is the one within you, and beyond you, guiding you.  I call this persona the Spirit. 

Spirit is in some way connected to what people call God.  It is both personal to oneself and cosmic.  God, what I call Spirit, is a force that directs all, from the outer planets down to the speck of dust on the dining room table. It is omniscient.  Spirit seeks always to connect us to its energy, its power, so that optimal well-being and purpose are experienced  .Well-being and purpose are not the key to la-la-land.  

In a predatory world, one's purpose is often thwarted.  Ultimately, what a person wants in life is to be it's master, to be able to handle what the Spirit brings effectively, and with grace, to attract what one wants and needs.  

I  connect to Spirit when counseling.  It tells me what's going on with the person seeking my help.  Spirit is also communicating with me about my particular situation.  The person has come with a message for me, which will take me a few days grasp, to understand.  The meeting between the person and I was fated, was meant to happen.  We have something to give to each other.

My favorite song of late is Elton John's House from the album, I Was Made in England: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-8JooTCqmg&ab_channel=RonnieFriend 

House

This is my house

This is where I live

That is the winter

Those are the trees

I can hear them breathe

This is my bed

This is where I sleep

That was the dark

Those are my dreams 

They belong to me

This is my floor

This is where I lie

This is a square room 

That was a bright light

These are not my eyes

What is my soul?

Where is my tired heart?

That is the question

Where is the answer?

Inside my house

And I sit by the window

And I wish I was rain

I want to fall from the sky

I want to get wet all over again

'Cause this is my house

It belongs to me

Inside my head

It's all that's left

This is my house

This is my bed

This is where I sleep

That was the dark

Those are my dreams

They belong to me

This is my house

This is my house

This is my house

Yeah this is my house