“War is easy compared to life.”
Where one lives in position to the universe is beyond our knowing. Living on the earth we know neither if we are on the top or bottom of the little ball that orbits the sun. Depending where we are on the ball, we may experience life differently from someone elsewhere. Where we are should not change our purpose. My relationship to the Divine mystery takes my imagination from the edges of the universe to the smallest atoms put together within my own body and all things in between.

As my curiosity to know and understand life in all dimensions, and the fact as an animal with legs, ears, eyes etc. I search and wonder. Life in all its complexity is filled with joy, struggle, ecstasy, delight, sorrow. Sharing life with all life around me, I am part of an interwoven web, that for what I do, say, and act affects the whole. Holding such consciousness is for me why life is not easy. Death can bring relief from the struggle, but God the creator has set before us both life and death.

I will try to choose life for all, taking time to “figure – life out” as the alternative of dying which in itself may be easier. Our great work of life is to live fully. If we choose not to do the “great work” to nurture life, do we honour those who choose death and make it easier for a path of war? Do those who choose war actually make life easier for all? May your journey be in peace, love, hope and joy.

The human spirit lives by creating new ways to live. May you live fully today, so when you die others will know that you have truly lived. Being in awe of Creation, I will sit and sense the holy in all that is around me on this Earth Day of reflection.

Are we living the sacred myths

Pondering here in the hills; are we living the sacred myths. Why did President Obama decide to ride into Afghanistan as a messiah of peace on "palm sunday" as in the christian story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on his counter protest to the Romans and elite "taliban and rulers of what we want believe as the oppressors"?
In Canada the RCMP used the Easter long weekend to apologize to the mother of the innocent man killed by taser at the Vancouver Airport. Is this an example of the Roman soldier at the foot of the cross proclaiming they had killed an innocent man?
The unveiling events in Russia and Poland - have connections of which story of the Polish people will be allowed to be told. When someone comes along and trys to restate or reframe the actual story - the result often is termed 'tragic irony' and somewhere the truth is lost or changed for either the powerful or the underdog.
The one truth that I encountered this weekend was the statement "war is a lot simpler than life!" Are we only taking the easy way out of our "existential pain" by continuing a societal suicide?
As the holy fool I see strangely in the darkness. May we find ways to live in peace which is harder and lonelier but the right work of all.

Please Mr. Tally Man - get a proper count

I'm currently transforming my justice anger into constructive criticism. In Alberta where the public health care system is being privatized and insurancitized by the Alberta Health Services Board.
A woman currently on a long term disability - is undergoing breast cancer treatment which developed while on disability for another condition. After suffering anaphalactic shock from the chemo drugs given at the cancer hospital, she was prescribed an antidote drug to help prevent the occurance at her next treatment. O yes - is she on a "medical plan" which will have to cover it as it is not consider cancer treatment. The new drug is 2800.00 per injection of 1 cc. and is required before the cancer treatment drug is administered every three weeks. The doctor who ordered the prescription laughed out loud when told the patient was on disability from an Insurance Company. He did not hear the dilemna when she told him her monthly income is limited 2000 and she lives alone grieving the death of her husband to cancer in February.
When you drive 300 km round trip for every treatment - plus several other medications to pay for including morphine etc combined with living costs mortgage 450 month the cost is one of choice. Do you continue the treatment because you can not afford the necessary drug costs of the "health Care Treatment" and to choose to live and eat. Having a sense of safety and not having to sell all you own used to be why we developed a single payer health care plan. Maintaining a spirit to live takes as much energy as the body needs to heal itself.
So the question becomes - is our precious health care system healing or killing us slowly? Or is it our collective inability to address the real issues - and to name what is happening. Why is there so much cancer in humans lives today? Or do the numbers not add up? Please Mr Tally Man - i've carried alot more coal and bananas than your giving me credit for!

Hope from exile to the promised land

From the work of Rene Gerard - I have found a perspective that names the violence of our culture. The culture is enfused with sacred versus profane violence. When we walk closely with each other, we will discover stories of amazing hope. One day everyone will know justice and not be frozen out to life as it can be.

I invite you to the following website to hear Eve Ensler's story of a better tommorrow!

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/64

May one day - we will name and discuss what we most truly fear!

brother

bruce

Finding our way in a strange land

The attitudes of people are changing all over the world. Hope is beginning to persevere beyond the lamentation of the mass media, who continue to remind us of the catastrophe the very rich are suffering. I would suggest suffering is an oxymoron for the very rich. Perhaps their suffering is based on the shame they feel for the poorest of the poor who know nothing but suffering.
People are beginning to find creative ways to make new models of community work in many places. Giving up the need to be independent individualists, the world community will evolve in new directions for peace, respect and dignity for all who dwell with us here on earth.