Fuck That

I have a wish. I believe it is a simple one, but it seems to be beyond complexity in reality because in all the years we - human beings- have been around it has not been achieved. My wish is that we can live in harmony and without subjugating others. Is that too hard to ask or achieve?
Is it a D.N.A. thing? a religious thing? a wealth thing? a control thing? a male/female thing? or a lack in human's that cannot be quantified! I do not know, but I can tell you as a woman living in the 21st century, I am so mad and sad that instead of evolving as a race we seem to be heading backwards.
Is it not time that we learn from our errors and mistakes?
May I ask WHY
Why do we have an increase in violence
Why are the innocent still being harmed and abused
Why do woman still have to worry about being raped and exploited
Why do one or two human's make up the rules for millions
Why does religion still act as a control mechanism for so many
Why does wealth belong to so few
Why do we seem to be incapable to create change

Why ,Why and Why

It is with a sadden heart that I watch most news programs because without a doubt most of them have nothing good or positive to report. Death, violence
and poverty are daily recordings. Yesterday was the telling of the 28 children and adults that were murdered in the USA. It is so sad that this is not a rare telling any more. Equally sad was the latest discussions around the right to bear arms in the states. FUCK that is my opinion. Really what FUCKING mentality level is that! I mourn the loss of all this innocent life BUT.. BUT... BUT
I watched on the same day as woman in Egypt are waiting to see if a new law subjugating them even more was going to be supported and men run around with smirks on their faces....FUCK that as well. Really god told you that you where better and beating and abusing your wife and daughters are you right FUCK that too.
I am tired of being told by welfare and charities to give and give while to great degree they the upper staffers enjoy high wages and perks that would feed and cloth millions- Fuck that too
Fuck that politicians and political parties care more about themselves and maintaining there differences than the welfare of the people who voted them in.
Again Fuck that we are in a time where human life mean so little and human trafficking has risen to bringing in as much money as the drug trade does.
I am so angry that I am made to feel so powerless in this age we live in. Where and what can I do to create the changes I would like to see. Believe me I affirm and pray enough I am positive enough I act like I would like to be treated; Sadly I do not feel it is creating the universal change I would like to see. I do believe that we have to be the change we want but we have created a monster out there...the power mongers the wealth at all cost gathers and the leaders of our world who really don't give a flying damn about what really happens. The irony is we vote them in and then we are Fucked because until the next election we are again powerless, and then we are given the choice between the devil and hell once again.
At least at this stage I still have the power in the country I live in to rant and rage and swear, so I am thankful for that, but with the way our world is going how much longer will I have that privilege.
We need change. We need to be equal in every corner of this world. We need to be free and we need to be loving and respectful to both every other person/animal and the earth we live on. Is that to much to ask for or expect. Can we not learn from our pasts and work together for a greater future.
That is my hope and my hope for my children and their children and for everyone else's children as well.
That is my rant and my rage and my right.

Namaste
Debra Rae

Charity Rant

I am bombarded during the Christmas Season with charitable demands, they come via the post and email and there is always the stands in every mall. I have the charities that I always give to and have done for years, these organisations are ones that I have done my research on and feel comfortable that the money I give is actually going to people in need. The issue I have with the Christmas demands is that many only give at this time of year and to me the need is year round. I would much rather know that people are being helped through out the year. There seems to be so many agencies around at Christmas, and to my way of seeing things a lot of families in need are given amble at this time, but are left without much after that. It seems to me that we - and charities- embrace the commercialism of the season, the need for excess. One present, that is not enough the tree has to be loaded. Now if we took all the money donated over the season and then broke it down and gave it over the year to those in need, I really feel it would do so much more good.
I am so concerned about where money to charities goes. My awareness and concerns where raised after Hurricane Katrina, billions of dollars were raised and given to organisations but still money was not made available to those in need. Where did it go, all that money. I found a site that showed the amount of money that was being paid to staff and C.E.O s and to advertising and incentives ect ect ect  and also to my shock I found that just because I donated money to a certain cause the charity did not have to give that money to that cause, they could use it as they wished. My biggest shock was that one of the major agencies at fault was one of the best known. But do not take my word for it, please do your own research.
There is so much need in this world and so many agencies that claim to give it, with all the money being donated yearly really there should not be any poverty. There are a lot of very rich people out there who are rich because of donations. Makes me both sad and extremely mad. My only solution is to be very careful with whom I give my money to. I check and re-check and then I hope that I am making a difference. Unfortunately charities are big business as are most medical fund raising groups. The bigger they get the more money needs to be raised just to keep the infrastructure going. I once read that out of every dollar raised 1 cent went to the cause, now how sad is that.
My bottom line with this rant is please if you donate, check out that your money is mainly going where you think it is; maximize your donation. I know that I did and so when I open my wallet it is doing the good I hoped it would.

Love and Light
Debra Rae

Happy Christmas

What does Christmas mean to you? Is it a time of fun, family and joy or is it a time of expense and dread and you are glad when the season is over and done with? It is sad that the later is the most common response. In my mind it is time to create a change, to take the stress out of season and put the fun back in to it.
My basic rules are : Be OK with simplicity. If you do not like to put up a houseful of decorations and it is left up to you, then don't. If you get complaints then let them know if they wish more they have to do it.
                              : Be OK with only buying for immediate family if that is what you wish to do and set a price limit on it. Budget for your Christmas, it is great to see the bigger box store re-introducing lay-away, so that you do not have to use your credit cards and have time to pay for your gifts.
                              : Be Wise as gifts are brief and it is not things that are remembered down the roads of time, it is the experience. So do not give into emotional blackmail to overspend if you cannot do so or if you do not want to.
                             : Be a Delegator. If it is Christmas at your house and you are expecting a lot of people then ask them to bring a dish with them. In our family the host provides the turkey and everyone else brings the trimmings.
                            : Be Available. Have fun at Christmas again give others a job so that you are not always the one running around- this is family- treat them that way and not like the occasional quest.
                            : Set up holiday memories now that your family will remember for the future. In my home my grown children still like our traditions of opening one gift Christmas Eve, driving around to look at all the lights and having their dad make eggs benedict for Christmas morning.
                             : Remember what the occasion is about, whether you are religious or not celebrate the reason for Christmas which is the birth of Christ and peace on earth and good will to man. Be nice, be charitable and do not give in to the need to over spend.
                               : Have FUN!

Have a wondrous Christmas this year and remember it is about family not money spent or presents under the tree. Free yourself from the need to over extend yourself emotionally and financially and bring back the inner joy of being available to the simplicity of the moments that make this a special day.
Peace on Earth and Good Will to All Men and Women and Children, not only on Christmas Day but for always!

Namaste
Debra Rae

Being Me

I find that there are many blessings to being in your fifties. For me it was the return of my Australian-ism's. After spending almost half my adult life in Canada where I had to modify my outspoken bluntness because it was viewed as rude or offensive and my affectionate nature (love to hug and touch people) which was perceived as being sexual or again offensive; it was a relief to wake up one morning and have the realisation that "Life is to short to be who you are not". I am proudly Australian as well as a Canadian through choice, but I was choosing to be only Canadian because it was the easier of things to do to 'fit in'. How I dislike that term! Do not say this or that do not be this or that. I actually find it funny that most new immigrants are encouraged to keep their heritage in this the country of integrations, but those of us who are white and English speaking are not given that same privilege. Now I know in someway, someone will take that as me being racist. I say to you this is HOW I FOUND IT TO BE, this is my REALITY
and quite frankly I am F***ing tired of being told what and how to say what is on my mind because someone else may be offended. WHAT ABOUT ME! Am I not entitled as it seems everyone else of other origin is to have my heritage and  feelings honored.
When I turned 50, I also re-connected with myself. Spiritual, physically and emotionally. I came to the realisation that I am entitled to be ME. Good, bad or ugly. It is ironic that Canada achieved what my parents could not, the ability to silence me in a lot of ways. No longer and no more is my motto now. I am who I am, whether you like it or not really does not concern me anymore because having my voice and speaking my truth is a really important part of who I am. Allowing myself to be open and affectionate is also who I am. I now do not allow the judgement holders the ability to control me any longer. I am lucky that I now am in the position that I do not need the approval of a employer or any other system to tell me how or who I should be. Amazing the cycle's we can repeat without us realising it. I spent a lot of time us a child fighting for my voice and my nature and then moved to another country and culture that did just that stopped both in such a insidious way that I did not even realise how much it had happened until I went back to Australia after 13 years of being away. I was so polite in comparison to every one else, so worried about offending with a blunt or truthful statement. But at the same time I realised I had lost that sense of freedom and joy of just being honest and being me. Now please, I am not being a downer on Canada, I love this country it is an amazing place. This is about the power of being a new-be  and trying to fit in, by not placing enough importance on being You. My fifties are my rediscovery times, the relief of being me times, the who cares what others thinks time, my get of the pot and be and do times. My realisation that most likely half my life is over, so what am I waiting for, who am I waiting for. Embracing who you are with an open heart and mind is so freeing I have to wonder why I allowed myself to be side tracked away from what my much younger self fought for. Maybe it was so that when I came full circle I would do so with maturity to appreciate those aspects of myself, to not take them for granted and to except it is finally great to be ME.
Take a moment and ask yourself, "Am I being me. Am I holding back and if so why" and if you are please do yourself a favour and release the leash and embrace you. You are a beautiful reflection of the creator, foibles and all.


Just a thought
Love and light
Debra Rae

Gratefulness

G is for generating the energy
R is for being real and allowing false thoughts to be released
A is for your actions that speak louder than words
T is for tenderness as you go forth into your day
E is for your excitement of living life well
F is for faith that adds dimensions
U is for unity of mind/body and soul
L is for love, for yourself and others
N is for being a nurturer of ideas and hope
E is for enjoyment of living a life with joy
S is for Self and understand your role
S is for success and understanding gratitude

Step into your day with gratefulness in your heart and mind and you will find that the little things that use to plague you are no longer present and that joy and laughter and love will be there too guide you more readily. Take a positive step and write or think of all the things that you are grateful for every day; the list needs not to be long but needs to be real.

Namaste
Love and Light
Debra Rae

Positive verses negative messaging

I wish that the general media would broadcast more 'feel good' stories, because I know that there are legions of people in this vast world of ours who are making a difference. I know that as I write, some body out there is offering a helping hand, giving to a charity, working with the many organizations and groups we have or just helping a family member or friend. I choose to believe that given the choice, most people would step up and aide their fellow man.
Now you would not know that from the media reports that supply us information 24/7. All we see is the bad and the ugly, with a occasional celeb story thrown in for relief or the latest Internet craze. It is no wonder many are feeling hopeless and over whelmed, with a sense that this world we live in is on a path to destruction. Wars and domestic upheaval with a dash of economic doom and toss that with a taste of climatic disaster's and what are we left with? a feeling of hopelessness.
I am a cynic in many ways, as it is my belief that we are feed this continual feeding of negativity so that we (the people) either just except it or we feel exhausted and depressed and do nothing to create change. We do not question the sources of this information and then we are happy with a small tidbit of good news given by the governments. Baa, baa. We are becoming sheep, with a hook leading us around; all for our own good of course!
With most of the world being hooked up with technology and information, like we have never seen in the past, what a powerful tool. I would like us the people to use those tools to limit the negative and focus on the positive. Unfortunately most of us focus on the bad or we just switch of and isolate ourselves either physically or mentally.
I believe we need to become our own advocates and limit the amounts of pre-package biased based information we absorb. We need for our own self survival to focus our intentions on a positive belief system; I am not saying put your head in the sand and not be informed. I am saying be selective and know the info source you are tuning into, know who owns them and what their affiliations are, because that effects the info being supplied.
Become focused on self empowerment and lose the sheep mentality.
What we put out, will be our primary focus point, so why choose to focus only on the bad and ugly. The choice is yours, all I ask if that you at least think about it.

Namaste
Debra Rae

Remembrance

Yesterday was Remembrance Day and I shed tears as normal when I watched the stories of young lives lost in service, so that we can have our freedom. It was refreshing to see that the young generation was present in numbers. I sometimes wonder whether the concept of individual freedom is some think thought about today, especially in a country like Canada were only around 60% of the population that can vote actually bother to do so.
  It seems to me that there is a lack of connection  felt, between our armed forces that fight aboard now days and the concept that this is providing us with personal freedom in Canada. Apathy is alive and well! It is not just a fluke that countries like Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand and England have never had battles for freedom against other countries on their own soils. Those who stand tall and proud in the face of tyrants with the blood of their own are sending out a powerful message of Freedom and Hope.
  Today as I view all of those who are fighting aboard and coming back with scars both visible and internal, I do wonder whether they feel that they are fighting for freedom and hope. I do not know the stats for the Canadian Forces that return to private life's and do not find support for their injuries but I believe it is on the high side. I have seen enough reports out of the USA that places as high as 60% of returning soldiers being homeless and unemployed with no resources to help them with any problems from being of service. Shame on those in power that allow this to happen. What message are we sending out their: fight, give your life and sanity but tough.
   I watch the politicians and visible rich and arrogant who stand for these freedoms but only if it lines there own pockets and think to myself :"has it always been this way". Personal rewards to a few at the cost of thousands who die! Is it needed or is it a power play on a Nation level with the young and poor being the pawns. Is this why our men, women and children  have given their life's for?
  I watch the group's out there bandy around many reasons why/not we should send in our forces to other countries and I wonder what are their intentions? Are they really stating opinions with the regard to freedom being at the forefront or do they have their own addenda's?
  My belief is that we need to provide those who are willing to give their life's for us to have the freedom to have choice.  Then we should be less passive and more pro-active in what our government and those in power are allowed to do. Those of us who bask in the freedom provided by the loss of others should do more than give a minute of silence once a year. Whether we lobby for our service men and women or volunteer at a center or Vote; It does not matter the what, it is being engaged and pro-active that does.

 To all that have given of themselves so that I may sit here and write the above, my thanks is not enough But I give it anyway as it is something, and given with respect and honor. I salute you.


Just a thought
Blessings Be
Debra rae
 

Help is this the new world for our kids

I find it unsettling that parents of young children seem to view their offspring as small adults or equals. Have I missed out on that memo? the one that states that your children can participate in adult decision making or better yet make the rules that govern both them and others around them. I mean it is not like young children have underdeveloped brains or emotions and actually need to be taught. I find it incredible that people learn more about raising a pet that they do to raising a child. There seems to be a lacking of any common sense bustling around, it takes more than food and shelter too bringing up a child.
The concept of applying boundaries, having rules and actually being a disciplinarian - heavens above- that means you have to be present constantly in your child's life- now that does not seem to be something many parents at this time seem capable of. Harsh, yes, but that is how I am seeing it. We are in a time where children are being handed pills for ADD and Autism is at the highest level in our history, and behavioural problems are through the roof. I do not believe that parenting issues are the route of all of the problems we are seeing BUT I do believe it is a participant.
I am trained in Early Childhood development and also have been educated as a councillor on top I am a mother and so I do no from experience what I am talking about around bringing up children. It seems that kids are being allowed to self regulate their behaviours and their diets and that boundaries are not present. Parents are busy I get that, I was and so was my husband But you have to make your child a priority. That at times means having and sticking to rules and having expectations that your child will listen and do what you ask of them.

   Now I no you are thinking I am down of parents - you would be wrong- I am down on the system that we are living our lives to. We are forced because of the economy to have to have both parents in the workforce often working more than one job. Food, gas, cars and shelter currently cost more than ever before and most people are considered to be in the working poor or a couple of pay cheques away from the streets. For alot of people family support is either not there or too far away to be of benefit. Child care is marginal in most countries in the fact that it is usually a baby sister who places the child in front of a T.V. or computer or a under paid over worked trained care provider who is tired. Values and discipline are deemed old fashion or abuse. The irony of that is that child porn and sexual abuse is on the rise and parents who care and set boundaries are often judged and ridiculed today as bad parents.
  What I want to know is when did we vote in the government to be the provider of how we bring up our children. Really the schools are a mess. the government is not working properly and the child protective services are a laugh. Now if they the government wanted to tell big business to stop poisoning our children and us by putting who knows what in our foods then great. If they wanted to enforce strong sentencing against those who have put the family of today in a financial nightmare, I am all for it. But I am a dreamer.
  Parents today in alot of ways are blind. They have no idea on how to raise a child because they where never taught, either because of lack of parents or because of the break down in the family unit and the failure of society as a whole to fill the void. Why are their not common sense parenting classes provided free to anyone having a child, why is not the reality of having a baby taught in every class in high school. Why is not free child care provided and good wages given so that parents do not have to work many jobs for the basics needed. Why do we not have loving proactive non judgmental but FIRM rules out there that make sense and allow children the freedom of being a child with no real worries and understanding that rules are their for their safety and that teachers and parents and adults that give respect earn respect back. That it is OK for them-the child-to push the boundaries and rules but no is no for a good reason and their are real consequences to not listening and doing.
  We - society- need to rethink, re look and redo this current system because in most cases it is not working and we are letting a overindulged,under disciplined and selfish generation full of prescribed drugs and behaviours lose- not a great picture but one that we can change if we care to.

Children

I consider myself to be so lucky in many areas of my life; but I am blessed many times over with my kids. They are all adults now and are all leading proactive lives, in great relationships and making a positive statement in their worlds plus they phone their mother because they want to! And I like them as people.
I look back at the time and energy that both my husband and I put into raising our kids and see the rewards for the considerable effort and expense and doing without that was our reality. We where firm believers in being around and there to raise our kids, we both took jobs that did not necessarily reward our bottom line but gave us time with our family. I remember that we where often in the few parents category that drove our kids and other kids to games and we where in the few that where the cheering club section.
That was a choice we made as parents, that if one could not be there the other one would be. I do not believe our kids suffered- so at times they could not have the best of the current shoe or clothing But they never missed out and certainly learnt money is earned and not a magical thing that just appears and sales are our friends. But our house was the meeting ground and feeding ground lol for most of there friends and life was not boring. I am a rule person and have stood my ground and had face to face fights with all my kids, I feel anything worth doing is worth doing well and the energy required to stand my ground has paid off as I see the adults they have become.
Love and hugs and kisses were also standard fare as well and still are. I believe teaching kids that there are non-sexual touches in hugs and kisses is extremely important. My degree was as a MotherCraft Nurse and I learnt and dealt with children from birth to 6 in many settings and have dealt with both failure to thrive through non touch to sexual abused and physical/emotional abused children - all need healing touch and positive role modelling that display this. I stopped teaching pre-school when the government decided that touch of any type was not permitted - and I look at a lot of the current issues society is facing and the school system has to handle and I am not surprised. We have boundaries that we should not have in some areas and no boundaries in areas we should have. In strong language we are fucking up big time. We need to reassess our core beliefs around the family unit and bring back some basic values and stick to them -please- because otherwise we as a society is heading for big trouble.
My thought is if you do not want to have to committee for at least 18 years and put yourself at the back of your life for periods of time and do what is needed to be their for your children, do not have them, or put off having them until they can be a priority. Kids are not a accessory or a narcissistic reflection of you and your partner or a means to a end. We as a society need to grow up and stop our selfish self indulges mentality and place a value on kids and family once again.
   Now to all of those who do and do and try their best in raising their families in harsh conditions all my blessing and thoughts are with you - keep it up and hopefully you will have the time to look back and see your sacrifices are worth it. The continued love and respect of your adult children and the possibilities of grandchildren makes it well worth while.
 I do think that we as a whole society should be there as a helping hand- I just do not know what that should look like in the current environment we live in. But I do know, as my parents and their parents knew, kids are our futures and the worlds future, so we need to do the best job we are capable of to see that they have the love and the tools to be great adults.


Just a thought and a verbal tribute to my great kids Jordana,Jared and Rebekka

Debra Rae

Dream Please

Where are you in your life? Are you doing or being who you thought you would be? or have you set aside your dreams and hopes for a day to day reality that if you stopped to look at fully, you would be amazed that THIS is your life. For most of us we have a general idea of what we want in our life's - this is normally thought about as a teen with big ideas and dreams and within our twenties we spend energy creating that picture; then as time and relationships and family and life happens those dreams are often forgotten or laid aside because of our responsibilities. Very few of us live out our potentials - this is a fact not a judgement.We get caught up in our jobs,families ect and to a degree that is how it should be BUT we need to remember to take time to allow our self to DREAM. To get out of our self imposed ruts and lift ourselves up. We may not have the time or resources to fully realise our dreams BUT we can choose to keep believing in them and to take some portions of them and apply them now.
We also have to keep practicing the idea of dreaming and of believing in ourselves so we can create aspects of that as we age. We need to have things to look forward to as we age, it may not be the dream of  our youth but it will be an aspect of it.
Dream big and then you will never be dissappointed because in reality you will achieve parts or a better version of that dream.
Dreams cost you nothing but not dreaming does, it leads to bitterness and malcontentment. Give yourself permission to create and make your dreams come true.

Just a thought
Debra Rae

LIFE

LIFE TAPPED ME ON THE SHOULDER TODAY
AND ASKED ME IF I WANTED IT TO STAY
NOW AS YOU WOULD THINK THIS SURPRISED ME
WHY YES, I ANSWERED
THEN START LIVING, WAS THE REPLY
I AM. I ARGUED
A CHILLING LAUGH WAS THE RESPONSE
TELL ME, LIFE ASKED ME, WHEN WAS THE LAST
TIME YOU DID ANY THING NEW
ANY THING THAT PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE
ANYTHING THAT CHALLENGED
 CHANGE UP YOUR ROUTINES
AND ALLOWED YOUR GREATNESS TO SHINE
ARE YOU LIVING OR JUST GOING THROUGH
THE PACES WAITING FOR DEATH TO TAP YOU
ON YOUR SHOULDER AND TAKE YOU
I THOUGHT ON WHAT WAS SAID
AND MADE THE REALISATION  THAT TRUTH HAD
BEEN SPOKEN
TEARS WELLED IN MY EYES AT ALL OF THAT LOST
TIME AND WRONG CHOICES
LIFE GAVE A HUFF AND GAVE ME A SHAKE
PITY WILL GET YOU NO WHERE
TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY AND LIVE
HAVE THE LIFE YOU WANT
TAKE A CHANCE ON YOURSELF
AND BE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO
BE FREE OF YOUR OWN CHAINS THAT HOLD
YOU CAPTIVE
BE FREE AND FLY
OR GIVE UP AND DIE
THE CHOICE IS YOURS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN
SO CHOOSE WISELY BECAUSE LIFE WILL NOT
ALWAYS BE THERE TO TAP YOU ON THE SHOULDER
TO GIVE YOU A HEADS UP AND WATCH YOUR BACK
BE THE YOU .....YOU NEED TO BE
BEFORE IT IS TO LATE AND ONLY DEATH AND REGRET
IS ALL THAT IS LEFT!

Victim or Victor

I have always felt that the only difference between playing the victim and being the victor, is your attitude. I believe it is a choice. You can allow the problem/demon/situation or person to continue to have sway over YOUR thoughts/feelings and actions OR you can take control and take actions to become the one who decides when/how or why you do something; in another word you are the victor.
 I have had quiet a few buttons pushed lately either from shows I have watched or from books I have read because the central theme seems to have been - it is ok to be the victim- you will be the hero of the hour. Really? In a celebrity interview the male actor played the role of victim to attempt to make the audience sympathetic of him because he had cheated on and divorced his wife. Now in some regards I believe that he is really comfortable offering that role up because it serves him well, it is his emotional back up to excuse his bad behaviour. Do I believe he really is a victim - no - I would say that when he can not get his own way he brings out this aspect of himself to force others into behaviours that suit him well.
   What in my mind separates his behaviour to other victims is that he is well aware of what he is doing and why and so manipulates others with his actions; taking him into the role of victorizer. I think there are two main areas of the victim; the first are the newbie, who has yet dealt with the why/how or what but has a window of opportunity to deal and cross over into survivor and victor. The second is the "professional victim" the person who does not want to deal or use any tools to become stronger, they find a purpose in holding onto why they are the victim and often manipulate others to feel sorry for them.
   Harsh/judgemental- I will hold my hand up high to both those thoughts. I really,really get tired of the victim game played. Is it not one of our roles in this life to grow and become better and stronger. Are we not taught to forgive and move forward. It is not only individuals who perform the roles of victim and victor, so do countries,religions and organizations.
  If we are to grow and change we have to take of our blinders and look at the real in reality. To create healing we have to stop being the victim and assume our personal control and rise up as our own Phoenix and burn away the layers of illusion and become the strength and victor in our own growth as a person/country and universe.
  Just my thoughts, shared because I do care!


Blessings Be
Debra Rae

The Planet

I see a world beyond the veil, a world very much like the one I now live in. This world shines brightly with a golden light that allows all of it people to think and feel beyond ego, to understand that there is both great happiness and power in standing hand in hand. There are no poor, ill or homeless. Every man,woman and child care for each other as a extended family unit. Foods are grown in large community gardens and healers and doctors work in harmony. There is freedom without pursecution to practice every religion new and old. The young are loved and helping hands abound, the old are reverred as Sages with knowlege for anyone who wants to learn. Teachers and educators hold positions of Higer Power and learning is fun for all.
Joy and laughter can be heard through out the world and peace is just not an idea.
Governments aid and are for the people, respect is mutually enjoyed. The earth is celebrated and cherished and the lakes, sea's and oceans are full of thriving energy and life. Air is fresh and tree's,parks and flowers are everywhere full of bee's and insects busy fulfilling their roles.
There is only one race, one people regardless of skin colour or country of origin they are the people of the planet. Differnces are celebrated without ego being generated. Longevity and health in aging the normal; people living comfortably into their hundreds.
It gives me hope and peace in my heart to believe what I see could be real because then I hold onto the possibility that we can strive and achieve this kind of reality. That we can step out of our own ego's and endless need for power and greed and create a world full of possibities. Full of love not anger or hate.
Today I will do my small part and give out love from my heart to the world I live in, the planet beneath my feet and too the people I share it with.
Love and light

Debra Rae

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I AM IN THE GENTLE BREEZE THAT TOUCHES YOUR FACE I AM IN THE MIST OF THE EARLY MORNING DEW I AM IN THE SUNSHINE AND IN THE RAIN I AM AROUND YOU WHEN YOU ARE HAPPY AND ALSO IN PAIN I SEE EVERYTHING I HEAR EVERYTHING I KNOW EVERYTHING WHEN YOU WEEP I AM THERE WHEN YOU ARE FILLED WITH DESPAIR I AM THERE WHEN JOY AND HAPPINESS IS YOURS I AM THERE YOU ASK WHY AND I ANSWER YOU SEEK AND I SHOW YOU THE WAY YOU HIDE AND I FIND YOU I AM THE GROUND YOU WALK ON AND THE AIR YOU BREATHE I AM THE FLOWERS AND THE TREES, THE ROCKS AND MOUNTAINS ARE ME I AM EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING I AM IN EVERY CELL OF YOUR BODY AND IN EVERY ATOM OF THE UNIVERSE I AM SO EASY TO FIND! TAKE A DEEP BREATHE AND ALLOW YOURSELF TO BELIEVE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STRUGGLE JUST BELIEVE AND FEEL MY LOVE FILL YOU I WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN JUST BELIEVE I HEAR YOU ALWAYS, I LOVE YOU WITHOUT CONDITIONS YOU ARE A PERFECT REFLECTION OF ME SO WITH YOUR TRUST AND BELIEVE I WILL ALWAYS, ALWAYS SURROUND YOU AND GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED FAITH IS NEEDED FOR HOPE TO SURVIVE GRACE IS THE ACTION AND CHARITY IS THE ACT AND GODS LOVE IS THE BASE TO EVERYTHING.

A RAMBLE THROUGH MY BRAIN

I LIE HERE AND THINK WHY ME, WHY DO I HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS NOW I KNOW THAT WE ALL HAVE THE SAME THOUGHTS AT DIFFERENT TIMES IN OUR LIFES DEPENDING ON WHAT WEE ARE GOING THROUGH. I AM NO DIFFERNT THAN ANY ONE ELSE SO I SUPPOSE I SHOULD BE THINKING WHY NOT ME! REALLY I KNOW I AM NOT ALONE IN HAVING TO LIVE WITH CHRONIC PAIN AND I AM NOT ALONE IN MY QUESTIONING THE REASONS OR TO HAVE MOMENTS OF SELF PITY OR FRUSTRATIONS; I THINK THAT BECAUSE I AM A METAPHYSICAL SPIRITUALIST I ALLOW THE FRUSTRATION OF FOLLOWING MY BELIEFS TO SEEK A RESOLUTION WITH LIMITED RESULTS TO WEIGH HEAVILY ON ME. I HAVE THROUGH OUT MY LIFE SO FAR HAD A BATTLE OF SORTS OVER MY UNDERSTANDING AND THE MAIN STREAM MEDICAL SYSTEM, SO MAYBE THIS IS A TIME FOR ME TO FIND THE MIDDLE GROUND AND BE HAPPY WITH THAT. LOGICALLY I KNOW I SHOULD BE USING ALL RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ME BUT THE CONFLICT OCCURS AROUND THE YEARS OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE I HAVE BEEN PRACTICING, MAYBE THIS IS JUST A PAINFUL LESSON TO SEE HOW RESOLVED I AM ON MY CURRENT PATH! APART OF ME BUYS INTO THAT THOUGHT BUT THEN THE OTHER SIDE OF ME BELIEVES THAT I AAM SURROUNDED BY LOVING ENERGIES THAT ARE HERE TO HELP ME; SO HERE I CURRENTLY SIT IN A QUANDRY OF THOUGHTS, PHYSICAL PAIN AND FRUSTRATION BLOCKING MY WAY. I KNOW THE PATHWAY TO MOVING FORWARD IS FINDING EXCEPTANCE IN MY CURRENT SITUATION; TO STOP FIGHTING MY SITUATION AND FIND THE GRACE IN THIS MOMENT IN MY TIME LINE. THAT IS FAR EASIER SAID THAN DONE! SO I WALK THE LINE. FINELY TUNED TO MY EMOTIONAL ENERGY; SOME TIMES FEELING I AM WINNING AND OTHER TIMES FEELING I HAVE NOT GOTTEN ANY WHERE. SO IN THIS CURRENT MOMENT IN TIME I AM EXCEPTING OF WHO I AM AND WHAT I AM GOING THROUGH AND I AM STRUGGLING WITH FINDING THE GRACE IN THAT, MAYBE I WILL HAVE A AWAKENING THAT GIVES ME THE ANSWERS I SEEK. I DO KNOW THAT I AM STRONG AND MAYBE MY PAST JOURNEY HAS AIDED ME IN FINDING THAT STRENGTH SO I WILL CONTINUE THIS CURRENT PHASE IN MY LIFE STILL OPEN TO SEEKING ANSWERS AND OPEN TO THE DIRECTION I NEED TO TRAVEL DOWN AND OPEN TO FINDING THE GRACE TO DO IT WITH. MAYBE THIS WILL ADD TO MY GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF MY ROLE IN MY CURRENT UNIVERSE; NOW THAT WOULD BE NICE. SO I MOVE FORWARD TODAY WITH HOPE IN MY HEART THAT I AM ON THE RIGHT PATHWAY AND IF I AM NOT THAT THAT I SOON WILL BE. BLESSINGS BE DEBRA RAE

Imagination

I don't know where I would be without my imagination. When I write poetry or books or affirmations and meditations I use my imagination.
It helps to transform my normal into a world where any thing is possible. When you read or listen to people who teach,especially self development you have to touch base and use your imagination to help you to develop the tools to get you to where you wish to be. With so much technology and electronic gaming available especially to our youth I worry that the ability to let your imagination free is being limited. At schools now a large section of the pupils are on drugs for ADD and others are on self medications because they have their own issues. We are in a time where we are not encouraged to think or act outside of a narrow margin. It is no wonder that people are using computers and videos to extreme as it is one of there ways to step out of the narrow perimiters that are placed around them. I salute JR Rowling for unleasing a world of magic and imagery for a starving population to take on board and float free with, and we need to encourage our children to keep using their imagination.
Our imaginations allow us to float free and think new ideas and allows us to step free of our own boringness. I think we should have imagination hours in our work place! That we should play games and dress up and have fun. We should allow our writers and poets and the story tellers of our generation space to create and pay them as well as our actors are. We should encourage our youth in schools to live with their differnces and gifts.
Being trapped in a world where we are limited with in our minds is shutting down the vast knowledge that our imaginations allow us access to; and that is placing limitations on what and how we create.
We need to imagine life on other planets and creating peace and harmony on our own planet, we need to set these and millions of other ideas free so that they can be realised.
We need to set our imaginations free.
Your mission if you choose to take up the banner is to encourage your imagination and don't allow others to diminish the power of it.
Viva Imagination
Viva Freedom
Viva Hope

I AM

I SUPPORT MYSELF, AND I AM SUPPORTED
I AM STRONG, LOVING AND PRESENT
I AM COMMITTED TO FREEING MY BODY OF PAIN
I AM OPEN TO UNIVERSAL HEALING OF THE HIGHEST VIBRATION
AND LIGHT
I AM FLEXIBLE TO EXPLORING ALL THOUGHTS AND IDEAS
I TRUST IN MYSELF AND IN MY CONNECTION TO SPIRIT
I AM ONE WITH THE WHOLE AND SECURE IN MY INDIVIDUALITY
I VIBRATE AT AN INCREASINGLY HIGHER VIBRATION
I AM EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IS ME

Commitment

Do you take care of yourself? Do you watch what you eat and try to exercise, drink water, think positive and surrounded yourself with loving and supportive people?
Sounds great does't it and I know that I try to do all of the above and at times I am successful of achieving them at the same; mainly I do one or another. I have come to the conclusion that this is Ok as long as I remain mindful that I am not entering a self-destructive period. I have entered the last few years promising myself that I will not commit to anything that I will not do! Freeing to say the least. I had no idea that every year when I wrote down my goals how dis-abling it was to my inner and outter spirit when I rambled along and failed in my quest/s. Choosing to only commit to something that mattered to me and I was attatched to for the right reasons has empowered me it ways I had not in the past considered. I now celebrate my wins, small that they might be and in the process have rebuilt a level of trust in myself that I had not realised was missing.
By honouring myself I am also re-energizing Mother Earth.
By achieving my goals and increasing my positive energy I am increasing the positive energy around me, above me, below me and the energy of those in contact with me, sending out an increase in positive vibration to the earth. And that is only on a passive level when I add the intention to send out positive energy to the Earth and those who live on it I believe that that vibration level is doubled/tripled or even quadrupled.
Mother Earth is a living entity and at this time in our histroy in need of as much respect and energy and love that we can give her. I believe we are sqeezing the life out of her and if we don't turn our intentions back to bringing her
Balance then we will be leaving behind us Planet who will not survive. I would rather do my upmost to leave my children and grandchildren a place of peace and renewal and healing and positive energy - clean water, oxygen enriched atmosphere seas that thrive and a human race that respects the earth it lives on. Hopefully not a pipe dream.My ongoing concern is that our youth seem to be more and more seperated from the soil beneath their feet by technology or medications that surpress their individuality and are loosing their connection with both the Earth and with Spirit.
My role as a woman in her fifty's is to be a leader and show the way by example to not be afraid to offer a opinion that is not popular and to ask for eyes to be open and the heart to also be open; to celebrate the earth and show how to be respectful for the bounties that we are giving daily.
Love shows the way! BE LOVING TO YOURSELF AND THAT LOVE WILL REVERBERATE AROUND YOU TO EVERYONE AND THING AND THEN WE CAN HEAL THE EARTH!
What is your role!

Just a thought
Blessings Be

Debra Rae