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This is for everyone but especially for those people you may know who are
convinced that they know ever so much more than any adult on the planet. You
may pick up a thing or two yourself.
Have you ever thrown a pebble into a still water pond? Did you notice how far
the ripples spread? What you may not see is how far they spread and exactly
what they move that is floating on the surface, leaves, bugs, grass, anything
growing up through the water.
Let’s think
about what happens when these ripples that you have chosen to cause hit the
shore of the pond. They bounce back and move toward the center of the
disturbance. This reversed movement will again move everything on the waters’
surface.
Lets’ think of the ponds surface as your life and the pebble as the action that
you choose to take in any given situation. The “stuff” in/on the water is now
the people with whom you interact. Ready? Here we go. We will discuss other people’s
pebbles at the end of this.
You get angry about something and decide to leave home (you’ll show them!!!). Of
course, since you’re angry, you don’t plan well and don’t think it through
well. You leave things behind and you don’t (at this time) care where you will
go, what you will do when you get there nor how you will support yourself. All
of this will come to you on the back-ripple side of things. To make your escape
you involve your friends. They mean well but they don’t understand the ripples
ether.
Now, your family finds out and gosh, they are upset!! (ah ha, you got their
attention). They have to find you, so they also involve every one you know. If
that doesn’t work the police get in on things (did you know that there are and
will be charges, many charges filed by the police when you do this?) All manner
of things fall into place, nationwide alerts go out, street cops looking for
you, pictures of you are everywhere, friends (some you will know, some you may
not know) and neighbors will be looking for you. Then you have the bad guys who
are ALWAYS looking for an easy mark and then, I know you won’t see them coming.
As a runaway, cold hungry, no back up, no support (here come those back ripples
I spoke of) you are that easy mark.
As if that wasn’t enough, there are others throwing their pebbles into the
pond. Those actions have their own ripple patterns, and they will interfere
with the ripples of others as well as yours. This can quickly become an oogy
mess. Do you have the picture? The point of this whole thing is to show you
that everything you choose to do will affect everyone around you to some
degree. A lot of those degrees you may not ever be aware of, and some will come
back to smack you in the face. The point of this is, pay attention and keep
your mind with you at all times. OK?
For the more positive and evolved of you out there, this is also the case with
the good actions. Be aware that some of the ripples counteract other ripples
(like people praying for different outcomes to the same situation) and some
enhance them (that is why many praying for a single outcome works so
powerfully). If you know someone that you may be able to help with this please
feel free to pass it on.
Bright Blessings, Chessie
In my own family right now there is an earthquake of ripples in the swamp. I say swamp because everyone has a hand in it and no one is communincating to try to settle them they are only throwing out more pebbles and creating an overflow.
ReplyDeleteOur situation has now, grown outside the family pond to include, the police department (charges of malicious religions intent i.e. witchcraft) and DCFS for the childrens saftey. Where we in our house practice "Be Still and Know" it is very hard for others to understand how we can be so calm in the thick of it. Some of those rage that we don't understand the gravity of the situation and try to force us (through DCFS, the police, and the states attorney) to do things their way because according to them "you simply don't see what you're doing is wrong". Then the same person doing the bulk of the persecution, becomes jelous, at the simple fact that we are happy with out lives and again a pebble gets dropped cause "I don't see how you can be so happy living that way!" on and on she comes at us without seeing that her actions have not only affected us but her own children, their granparents, the cousins, the aunts the uncles, all wish this would just stop and go away or that a common ground could be found. The truth be told... it's a constant case of pebble and constant waves that don't stop.
How then do we handle this? Simple, Be still and know. We know eventually things will calm and the wind will blow and the ripples will stop. We know that if as a family we talk to one another and support one another in our house that will ripple out and aid in the calming of the swamp. Instead of dropping pebbles, we try to pick them up. It is impossible to catch them before they hit, especially when you can't see them being thrown, but like the shore we allow them to bounce off of us but hopefully with less stregth then when they hit.
I will love my children when they need it, love my husband when he needs it, love mySELF when I need it. All I can do I attempt to be mindful of my own actions and hope that the pebbles I drop are those of peace and prosperity.