HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!

I ascend from Fear to Unconditional Love.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie


GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

Heaven is not a condition or a place, but rather an awareness of our Oneness.

--A Course in Miracles
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM





I'm not going to be able to use my computer tomorrow, so this is an early Happy 4th of July post.

“Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but a state of mind -- a reflection of our own personal sense of worth, and respect for our roots. Love of country plays a part, but it's not merely love. Neither is it pride, although pride too is one of the ingredients.

Patriotism is a commitment to what is best inside us all. And it's a recognition of that wondrous common essence in our greater surroundings -- our school, team, city, state, our immediate society -- often ultimately delineated by our ethnic roots and borders... but not always.

Indeed, these border lines are so fluid... And we do not pay allegiance as much as we resonate with a shared spirit.

We all feel an undeniable bond with the land where we were born. And yet, if we leave it for another, we grow to feel a similar bond, often of a more complex nature. Both are forms of patriotism -- the first, involuntary, by birth, the second by choice.

Neither is less worthy than the other.

But one is earned.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration


As we all know, The Fourth of July, or Independence Day, is a federal holiday that celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of the Independence on July 4th, 1776. (What many peope don't know, is that event actually happened on july 2nd, 1776.)

So, what are you guys doing today? Me, I'm making GUMBO this year, and going to a block party.

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.” ― Erma Bombeck

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Now, I want to end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world, a song I can only describe as PURE LOVE.


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Once we are able to accept ourselves just the way we are, everything can start changing from that point forward.
~don Miguel Ruiz