A Rainy Weekend
It's going to be rainy here all weekend. I can't work in the garden. I can't take a walk in the park. I can't sit outside and enjoy the sun. So what can I do for spiritual growth?
- I can read a good spiritual book. Or even a so- spiritual book like all those "Soup for the —— Soul" books.
- I can pray and meditate.
- I can do cleansing rituals.
- I can send healing thoughts to a sick friend.
- I can send thoughts of love, joy, tolerance and forgiveness out to the whole world. It does help and it is needed.
- I can study the teachings of a great spiritual teacher.
- I can study myself, write down my thoughts, take time to consider what areas I need to work on to become the person God wants me to be.
And if I'm not alone, I can:
- Help my spouse or children develop their spiritual side and teach them to be loving and tolerant of all people.
- Help my pets become more loving and tolerant by showing love and tolerance to them.
- Sending thoughts of healing and growth to my pets, house plants, and even the trees and little critters in my back yard.
Maybe a rainy weekend isn't so bad after all.
Posted by Reverend Harold Boulette at 10/17/2009 4:11 AM 
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Hi Harold,
I just joined an Edgar Cayce study group this past Monday. Our homework for this week, beginning 10/12 through 10/18 was to share love, watch for signs of it everywhere, and reflect how this affects ourself and others.
I came home that first evening from the group, October 12, to find your lovely post about The Magic of Love. What a synchronicity! I've also been affected positively by several others of your posts this week having to do with love. You seem to be reflecting on it from all angles.
Interesting to be sure, because I am also writing my master's thesis on sycnchronicity, the process of journaling synchronicities as they occur, and how they affect an idividual's life. What I'm finding is that these seemingly acausal, but highly meaningful, little guideposts can be fleeting and forgotten if we don't notice and journal them as they occur.
What I'm also finding in the study is that there are clusters of meaning around a particular theme at different times in the collective consciousness. When this meaning is on the verge of penetrating our personal consciousness, events like noticing something happening in the outside world that exactly coincides with what is going on inside of you with no s apparent cause or connection seem to occur with frequency. I think that we are then advanced on our evolutionary path by seeing the bigger picture.
In my mind, it is this joining of the personal with the transpersonal that is the great moving force of humankind.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts on love, I've found them inspiring and will share them with my group this Monday.
Jenna
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Hello Jenna.
Yes synchronicity is a fascinating subject. I have wrote about it a few times and it happens to me often. I frequently find myself humming a song I haven't heard in years, and then hear it on the radio a few minutes later, or think about an actor or actress I haven't seen on TV for a few years and wonder what happened to them only to see a commercial later for a new show staring that actor.
Just a few weeks ago, I picked up my phone to call my sister, which I only do a few times a year, and she was already on the line dialing me.
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Oh, and one more thing, Harold...one of the main reasons I decided to comment on this particular post of yours this week is that you mention the Soup for the Souls books...The day after the Edgar Cayce group, I was at the libary, and a book fell out off the shelf as I reached for another book...it was Jack Canfield's book "Chicken Soup from the Soul of Hawaii," so I checked it out. One of the first passages I read was, in part, "In Hawai'i we greet friends, loved ones and stragers with aloha, which means with love."
I am grateful for all the loving gifts of the universe!
Jenna
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