Happy Memorial Day to You!
Wherever you are, whatever you do, have a happy Memorial Day. Whether it’s by yourself or with a crowd, with a barbecue or just some miso soup, enjoy the day. Whether you get to work today or go have the day off, enjoy it.
That’s the same wish I have for you for every day. That we all enjoy being alive. In the good of it, in the difficultness of it, alone, together—we are always loved. We must always love each other, too!
Recently, while studying compassion with my meditation group, we remembered the songs “(All We Are Saying,) Give Peace a Chance” and “What the World Needs Now is Love”. My group is knee-deep in trying to bring ancient Buddhist teachings on love and compassion into our lives, and we realized how many people have been trying to do this for decades. These songs are just two examples.
Now, we need love more than ever. We need to each search for forgiveness and compassion inside ourselves—both for ourselves and for others. Because as we try to do what many refer to as “healing the planet” we need to heal ourselves from the inside out first. Then we can exist with each other. We are all just a heartbeat away from death…we share that mortality. We also are related, by blood actually! Distant cousins, maybe, but related none-the-less.
I don’t know why, but I’m all fired up on this today. Light the Memorial Day barbecue of Love!
I’ll provide the lighter fluid.
Peace.
6 months ago