by Bill Byrne | Feb 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s definitely wintertime lately, and has moved us from outdoor jobs to inside. We’re doing a lot of fixing up on our lodging, housing, and cabins….new updates to furniture, painting, curtains, and getting ready for the next “season”. Seasons are part of what life is all about, and I really like the phrase “to everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven”. That’s a very peaceful feeling set of words, because we can feel a bit of the eternity and oneness that it conveys. The cycle, the return to the seed and re-growth, is what nature is all about. On the ranch it is always evident when we move back enough to see the complete cycle. The seed is planted, the newborn arrives, through growth it matures, and replants its own likeness to begin again. There is a peacefulness and harmony in that cycle, as it conveys the oneness of us all.
by Bill Byrne | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of our wintertime projects is fixing up a better “intensive grazing system,” for our cows. Basically this means trying to fence in smaller areas for our cows to eat in, which utilizes our grass more efficiently. To do so we will be building about 2 miles of fence, in addition to the approximately 25 miles that we already have (and try to maintain). That’s a lot of fence, and much of it runs through woods and rocky areas, which makes it hard to get to and check for repairs. We also have well over one hundred gates to keep in working order. I used to try and keep all of this ‘material’ stuff in a complete state of readiness at all times, but I finally realized that I was spending a lot of time and concern for no real reason, since the cows were in only one area of fenced ground at any one time. We’ve now learned to just check and repair the area we’re going to use next…which is another lesson in ‘line by line’, step by step, work on what is before you today, and work on your future ‘todays’ when they arrive. Living in the present moment does not mean doing nothing, as our purpose for being here is to show our ‘ideal’ in the physical. Living in the present moment is our acceptance of where we are right now, our first step toward the peace and harmony that are God’s promise.
by Bill Byrne | Jan 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
January…..the middle of a month of colder weather ( I hate to use the word “winter”) always brings with it time to reflect, review, and renew our ideas and direction. This was and still is a time when those working with the physical rhythms of nature fix their equipment, check their seeds and supplies, and make sure all is ready for the coming season. It’s also a great time for exercising and refining the “mental”, which is the consideration of our ideal, that statement or set of thoughts that we try to live our lives by. All of us have an “ideal”, which is the “seed” of our behavior, the direction by which we exhibit and live our physical lives. It’s important to us as people to be aware of our ideal, and to refine it as we ourselves change. We are the only creatures that God has given this ability to, and we develop and grow our awareness of our “ideal” daily thru our meditations and prayers. May we all take time to go inside, to listen to the “still small voice” that helps us to guide our physical lives, our growth toward being seeds, children, of the energy that is God.
by wyattcreative | Dec 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Creation
Imagination
Visualization to bring it into the physical.
God is creation, and as we are His children-creation is our birthright. But creation can only exist in harmony with His flow of energy. Pray for, meditate, discern His flow-then create!
All of His flow is “others”. May we create, not for self, not at the expense [taking away from] of others, but creating for other people, creating something that gives to other people God’s flow of energy.
As all great spiritual leaders state, there is no lack of abundance for all if we live in harmony with God. Do not worry about the physical….look at the birds of the air. Quit growing negativity by giving it any energy. Give and use and grow positive energy in all you do. Use our God given imagination, visualize life as we would love it to be, not as we might fear it to be. Be harmonious and peaceful by visualizing those forces, by giving that energy to others. Its quite simple, we just make it hard.
by wyattcreative | Dec 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Our four year old grandson and his mother still live with us at home, and as many such families these days, the parents are divorced and the child goes back and forth between parents. His question for his mother was “why do I have to go back today?”, which he repeated over and over to his mom, who did not have a suitable answer for him. I of course felt sad, thinking to myself that its a shame that a child has to feel such feelings, and as he gets older he’ll at least have some control and not have to ask that question….but…..I’m older and I ask the same question daily. Why do things, why does life, have to be different from the way I want it to be? Of course the answer doesn’t have to do with age, or money, or power, or wisdom. The answer is acceptance, God’s will,…. faith. It’s a simple realization that “I can’t have what I want until I want what I have.”
by wyattcreative | Dec 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Thoughts on the “thoughts” page
No ideas are new. They all exist. But they are rediscovered by us, and as such can give us direction, and help for where we are at, right now, in our development toward the energy, the yearning inside of us that is God. None of these thoughts or ideas are “mine”, they have come from many different people and sources in my studies and readings. (see a partial listing at the end of these entries) They are a part of searching for and finding, of thinking about and meditating on, of combining and trying to apply in the physical life… and applying our ideal daily in the physical is why we are here. Christ made this abundantly clear as his whole life was an example of living his beliefs, of planting seeds of the fruits of the Spirit.
As for myself, I’m very “long” on the knowledge part of God, and very “short” on the doing part of God. I’m working on “Lord, I believe – help my unbelief”, on moving from knowledge, thru faith, to wisdom. To those of you who may feel the same way, may you receive a good thought from these pages that might help you move closer to the peace and harmony that is God’s gift for us. (and may all you “right brain” people forgive all the “left brain” needs for logic and “making sense” contained here in)
Lastly, may we all remember in our hearts that we each hear, see, and search for God in our own way. All paths are ultimately the same path, but many are the branches, the paths, that lead to the “one” path, the one Creative Force that is God.
