Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts

July 23, 2018

Do You Hate Me?


"I'm with you until the end of time."  Matthew 28:20
     
The Flame
by Cheap Trick
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Sometimes the things we mean to communicate and what we actually do are not the same. Our interactions with others may be muddied by our own personal feelings and by prior experiences with any given individual. Then there is the issue of relational 'history,' or the old habits making changes or deviations seem difficult if not impossible. So when we talk to our friends and loved ones, misunderstandings and disappointments are inevitable. Resentments may boil and we often feel sudden flashes of
intense emotion, hatred even.

A good hypothesis here may be that the one feeling the hatred towards another is  projecting his or her feelings or attributes onto that other person, maybe some guilt or over- aggressiveness; however the deepest truth here may be that the hurt and twisted   angry feelings are small when viewed from the lens of self hatred now being projected onto our partners, loved one or friend.

Our impulse, like that of a child
who has just been criticized about a small misdeed by a parent, is to become emotional, upset, angry, to take the superior position. So then we don't have to feel the regard of another, to 'protect' ourselves from feeling anything at all.

 The truth is, you may not be
as horrid as you think; maybe someone did do something upsetting--do you now hate me? I already feel awful disappointing you; rather than getting mad and criticizing me, can you tell me in a more positive way?

January 4, 2013

Let It Rain

Rain Down
by Jaime Cortez 

"Looks like it's gonna rain, rain…" go the lyrics. Firmly rooted in the Gospels, tradition tells us that there are seven gifts of the Spirit. The Spirit is presented firstly as the source of all human love, love enduring. It is the source of unity, oneness of all creation; this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Consciously or unconsciously we are moved in, and by the Spirit. For those who do not consciously sense that Spirit, who think it foolish, may they come to know its inexplicable energy, its synchronicity that defies all other explanation-- it's spiritual, some how, some way. Love is present here.