Fish on Friday. Blessings, peace and Love to all Beings.

Some of todays art and creative writing.

Good day to you, my brothers and sisters.(especially those from Latvia, who after the UK have 2nd country to most visit my site recently. I shall look up Latvia on youtube shortly!  May you today when seeing my art and writing, which has either, as in the art, been painted today, or some writing may be read by me and passed on, or would shared be a better way to express it.

So I spent £60 on having an hour and a half art session with Kate Rothwell. 

This was worth it for work I did on understanding myself as an intrinsic part of all alone.

The art produced through me is a bonus and that is what is being shared with my love, with you.

                                                                         Now.

I mention the money I pay so as to illustrate the importance I put on the benefit not only to myself but to life in general. This is in no way my ego surfacing. Popping up and saying look how important I am. No, it is saying that we all have a collective responsibility to the whole to realize our best potential. For me to have carried on in the past way of ignoring that which I was uncomfortable with may of resulted in spiritual and psychological suicide.
 Why not throw in a possible homicide.
Decide!
Dont be led, nor too well fed.
 The Fed, they get in bed with the Bankers. 
We mustnt ignore, yet neither become too absorbed in that which we see as bad.
Change comes from within.
Change comes with hope.
Also with me from art!

                                                Kick out the negative

                                      With a creative fluster and even a bit of gold lustre.

Do not my brothers and sisters let the powers of this world have you heading in this life the wrong way, which of course they and all their advertising will insist is the only way. Their job, at which they are so proficient is to mislead and deceive. Listen to the following from Carlo Foucald one of the Little Brothers.  (plus my little bits of reworking!)



                     Purification of the Spirit


There is a slogan known all over the world which runs, "If the money spent on slimming treatments and medicines for curing the after-effects of overeating in the well-to-do continents of Europe and America were put together, there would be enough money to give bread to the needy, undernourished peoples of Africa and Asia."
  Which means that greed is one of the besetting sins of man, including intelligent, cultured, refined, and -all to often- religious people.
 On this subject Jesus would say to us, "You have not managed to be faithful in little things. Who will entrust you with great things?" If we have demonstrated such greed at the table of the body, imagine how we would have behaved at the table of spiritual things, if we had felt ourselves attracted by it.
 It is unnecessary to repeat it: we are sick, unbalanced, sensual, evil. And let there be no mistake: `we` means every one of us.
  Jesus, in a true judgement of us summed up, "You who are all evil" (Matt. 7:11).
  And he completed his judgement on the cross, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).
  Evil and insane. This is true of us in little things and in great: we have indigestion from overeating, yet let our neighbour starve, and this spreads over into our prayer and spiritual life.
  It is not any answer to say, but what else can I do when I live in this country the way it is?  
God does not listen to such entreaty; rather, instead of consolation he sends boredom, and instead of light, darkness. Right there halfway along our road, we don`t know whether we are going backwards or forwards.
  The battle has begun and it is serious. We are beginning to discover what we are worth: nothing, or little. At earlier stages we thought we were generous; we now discover that we are egoists. We thought, under the false light of religious aestheticism, that  we knew how to pray; now we find that we no longer know how to say "Father." We were convinced that we were humble, charitable, obedient; now we find that pride has invaded our whole being, down to the deepest roots. Prayer, human relationships, working to spread the Gospel, all these seem thwarted.
  We have our very poor accounts now to render. With the exception of the few privileged souls who understood right from the beginning what the problem really was, and who immediately set out upon the true, rough road of humility and spiritual childhood, the greater part of mankind is called upon to undergo a hard and painful experience.
 `How unreliable these people who refuse to grasp my ways!` (Psalm 94:10)
 This is the time when God has decided to take the man who until now has escaped behind a smokescreen of halfheartedness, and make him put his back to the wall.
  Disaster, boredom, depression, all these but especially the experience of sin make man discover what he really is: a poor, fragile, weak thing; a mixture of pride and wickedness; inconstant, lazy, illogical.
  There is no limit to this misery in man, And God lets him drink the bitter cup to the dregs.
  Even for those who in this situation do not sin because they are helped by grace, there opens up the vision of things as they really are: god, man, sin.
  The soul becomes aware that it is walking on a tightrope. And beneath it can see the hell which it has merited a hundred times, and a hundred times escaped, by God`s mercy.
  There is no sin which it has not committed, or which it does not feel truly capable of committing. But this is not enough.
 Lets pretend is over. One has got as far as knowing one`s ignorance. He stands on the edge of the abyss which separates the creature from the Creator.
 In this painful state, prayer becomes true and strong even though it may be as dry as dust.
  The soul speaks to its God out of its poverty and pain; still more out of its impotence and abjection.
  Words become even fewer and barer. One is reduced to silence. but this is a step forward in prayer! It is limitless, whereas every word has a limit. And spiritual greed?
  Oh, that`s always there! It hides under the ashes, but it is less violent, more prudent.
  God now again intervenes with his consolation, since it would be impossible to live in that state of abandonment. He returns to encourage the soul with the touch of his gentleness. The soul accepts that touch with gratitude. But it has become so timid through the blows it has received that it dare not ask anything more.
  Deep down the soul has understood that it must let itself be carried, that it must abandon itself to its Saviour, that alone it can do nothing, that God can do everything.
  And if it remains still and motionless, as though bound in the faithfulness of God, it will quickly realise that things have changed, and that its progress, though still painful, is in the right direction.
  It is the direction of love! This realisation will come like light after darkness, the midday sun after the dawn.
  What matters is to let God get on with it.


Nuff said my brothers and sisters. My thanks to those who persisted thus far. Those who didnt we should realize have yet some way to make up and give them encouragement and hope.
With thanks, your brother, Peter.