“God, we have some kindness on Aisle 8, Kindness on Aisle 8”
There’s so many beautiful uplifting lyrics from songs written by Robert Nestor Marley, aka Bob Marley, that it is always hard to pick a favorite.
There is one passage, though that this video below brings to mind from the song “So Jah Sey”
So Jah seh
“Not one of my seeds
Shall sit in the sidewalk
And beg your bread”
No, they can’t and you know that they won’t
And because we know that the God, Universe, Nature(the REAL GUN) all work magically and mysteriously through other living things, including people, for the most part, it is the people that are going to be responsible to make sure that nobody is sitting on the sidewalk and begging for bread.
For all of us working on pursuing truth and wellness and being active in our own mental health pursuits, it is healthy to talk about some of the things that we experience in our day-to-day lives around poverty, scarcity, and even the interactions and close proximity that we all increasingly seem to have in this country with the unhoused.
A friend was visiting from California as I’ve mentioned a few weeks ago and all admissions. He is mentally active in political discourse and very liberal in his politics. I told him I had no interest in hearing about any of his thoughts on current affairs politically just as I wouldn’t from someone else on the other side of the spectrum and Toomey I see literally no difference in the energy and the thought processes behind individuals that are energetically engaged in today’s political world.
It is so irrational and unhealthy and clearly disconnected from reality that to emotionally and intellectually engage in. It pollutes your organism if you’re not careful.
The term unhoused came up and he as a political liberal found the term unnecessary and didn’t understand it.
I gave my perspective that instead of something that seems more permanent like “homeless” not “currently homeless” but implying a permanent state without saying so.
It is my perspective anyway, that the term “unhoused” implies a more transitional state which would lend itself to more compassion and perhaps more solution-based thinking. In other words, this person isn’t out on the street forever if we’re willing to get involved or support efforts for transitional opportunities, mental health, counseling, drug, and alcohol rehabilitation, etc.
I shared with him I thought was OK even though I don’t hear it being used and I had never had any real thoughts on it previously.
I’m sharing these thoughts with you because it is important to be compassionate and aware of our surroundings and some of the social realities that we all deal with and maneuver through on a day-to-day basis.
There are different approaches, and my approach is increasingly one of very small, quiet, anonymous actions driven by love and compassion.
God is Moonlighting at Publix, look out.
To be honest with you, for me it’s very easy to imagine a life where I continue to make poor decisions or perhaps under the influence of alcohol, I became addicted to some new drug that I tried while just out partying. That would not have been out of the realm of possibility in my 30s and 40s, depending on where I was in the world, who I was with what the environment was and how much alcohol I had consumed.
When I see addicts and the fentanyl zombies and things of that nature, I don’t look at them as being a part or different from me. I look at them as a mirror into what my life might’ve looked like had I not found my faith and like the Cowardly Lion, my Courage.
The combination is what allowed me to save myself from myself.
Small acts of kindness and acknowledgment and eye contact or providing and sharing life tools like toothbrushes and clean socks, dry clothing after reins those are the types of practical things that we can do to help without feeling like we need to do anything heroic.
I have a friend that just drives around with these Health and Hygiene Packs ALL THE TIME:
https://a.co/d/biTjFLQ
Just hands them out and says, “God Loves You” and keeps walking.
I only know about this because I saw them in his backseat and thought he used them for his own business travel or something of that nature.
Then he confessed to being kind and compassionate, that dirty Rascal!! Ha!
One visualization process that I’ve done before in a meditation is to get into a calm state and visualize one of the seemingly sick and addicted people that you might see on a city street.
Picture of the dirty clothing, the matted hair, perhaps mucus or some other fluids from their face and then freeze that image.
Now, let’s take it time backwards… before they tried that hard to before they tried that hard drug while they were under the influence of alcohol probably before they had that first beer in the summertime as a teenager innocently, and before they had that abusive experience as a 12-year-old while volunteering at their local church.
These are the back stories behind every one of those dirty faces, a child that experienced trauma and grew up without getting comfortable or having the ability to process or integrate those experiences.
Those experiences can only be processed and understood from a state of calm, by being present in the moment of now, and connected to your breath, your source of life.
We can only be compassionate, caring, loving in the same moment of now.
This is where we can hatch a plan to do something small like look someone in the eye and ask them how they’re feeling. That might feel like a miracle to the right person on the right day at the right time and it cost you nothing.
Let’s see the children that the unhoused once were when we see them on the street and let’s send healing energy to those same people, knowing that it’s never too late to turn over a new leaf to open your heart and to start healing.
This is why we do what we do at the grateful for organization because we are living our true life with meaning in order to serve others and share the secrets and the blessings that have been shared with us.
We are a community that you were a part of, and we are nothing without you so thank you, from both me and Kevin.
Let’s Friday Shine our attitude of gratitude.
EVERY DAY:
Love
and
Gratitude
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