Out in the dark with Buster my dog at 5am. This was the picture/no flash.

Dark but you can see trees against the sky!

Well my brother and sisters, its boxing day and we have a few days until the new year. I shall start practicing my new years resolution. Though I shant be divulging it, as its between me and God. Saying that I expect the fruits shall be seen by others.

    THE PROTECTION OF CHRIST

                 Christ as a light

           Illumine and guide me

    Christ as a shield overshadow and cover me!

        Christ be under me! Christ be over me!

                Christ be beside me,

              On left hand and right!

   Christ before me, behind me, about me!

   Christ, this day, be within and without me!

                  St Patrick

Oh yes, a bit more about the picture I took. I was reflecting at the time how we ought to be careful of our steps when walking in the dark.  Lest we fall into a hole, or trip over an obsticle. How about though we keep in mind to be on guard also in the daylight, for the unseen traps sent us by the enemy of all that is good. These obsticles and pitfalls will often be discuised as something good!

Have a good day my brothers and sisters. Especially my love goes out to the one special lady, whom only God knows when, where and if we will get to meet. He is teaching me to trust and be patient.

God bless you all. Your brother Peter,   aka watchman Kimble

  

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Tomorrow is Christmas day and my birthday and Happy Christmass to you all.

Good day to you, my brothers and sisters. May blessings be showered upon you at this wonderful time

  My favourite saint at the moment is St Feofil. the Fool for Christ.
 He wore a slipper on one foot and a boot on the other. Look him up if you would like to know more. Anyway, following is one of his short writings which is good for aspiring Christian mystics as well as others on a spiritual path.

If you are praised, be silent. If you are scolded, be silent. If you incur losses be silent, If you are saitiated, be silent. If you are hungry, also be silent. And do not be afraid that there will be no fruit when all dies down; there will be! Not everything will die down. Energy will appear; and what energy.
             St Feofil. the Fool for Christ.

Hmmm, I shall leave you now with my musing on the question I came up with some time ago and have tried out differant answers. Its a bit of a Christian Zen question.

Whats the answer to the question that doesnt exist?

ans: LOVE
Love was present before the universe as God is Love. Love is the true answer to all things.


I leave you now to walk into town and buy my sons a few little presents.

Merry Christmass to you all and a prosperous new you.
Your brother in Christ, Peter.    

Fish on Friday

#Good day brothers and sisters. I like the picture below, which was taken within minutes of the one below. Firstly as the trees are almost deviod of leaves. Only a few dead ones hanging on for goodness knows why.

Like the picture yesterday its almost as if its been shot in black and white. It hasn't. The other thing that I wanted to share was the way the branches of these trees bent all over the place and yet also appeared to be trying to touch each other. So now we have the bleak mid winter. A time for some - including me - to be stiller and reflect on the past year and look forward to the coming one.

The picture above, I took this morning of the Buster by an evergreen bush that has grown bent. It has grown, like this for some reason beyond my ken. Not groan. Though who knows.

The fish on friday bit.

From Entering The Castle by Caroline Myss

Here is a healing prayer for you:
  I am in need of healing and I release the way of my healing path into your care. I know that I am graced by a miracle because all who ask for your intervention are received. I am grateful for my healing. I believe in the grace of miracles. I know all can be healed and that all of life is your creation and in your care. My jov is to trust and to follow the guidance of my self within the text of each day. In this way , I serve a lifestyle of miracles. Where healing is needed, let that grace flow abundantly and let me serve that and let me be served by that. As the mystic Julian of Norwich wrote, "All will be and all will be well and all manner of things will be well."

You Are a Container for God in This World
Whenever societies have cycled through crises, mystics have arisen to address them. Like hidden angels of the divine, the emerge in eviry walk of life. Today, mystics without monasteries are wives and mothers, husbands and fathers, teachers and lawers, bankers and docters, soldiers and policemen, therapists and writers, social workes and salespeople. They are everywhere.

  Mystics salvage the good of one culture and carry those treasures into the birth of the next. Mystics are not silent containers of God, make no mistake. Many are the loudest noisemakers. They wrestle with the great questions of life and death. They remind a people and a society of its principles and its vision. They inspire others through their example of living in accordance with their souls` direction, through their intensity and clear sightedness. Mystics recognize the signs that a society`s soul is starving and has gone unconscious.
  Mystics have the courage to see through common fears. They see beyoud calls for destruction and violence as means for solving problems. They see the contradictions in others` statements-for instance, that war creates peace.
  The one great difference between Teresa`s (Teresa of Avila) time and ours is that God`s new mystics are everywhere. And the new mystic should rightly be called a mystical activist.
  Yet the journey itself has not changed. There is no shortcut to God. Centuries may have passed since Teresa wrote her masterpiece, but her genius, wisdom, and guidance are as valuable today as in the sixteenth century.     
                                    To be continued..............
I must go and pick my boys up now and do some shopping for presents.  May the love of God be with you and shine through you to bless all. Your bro Peter  

I am a being in the universal church of Love. Here are three favourite trees.

Good day to you. May peace and love surround you, imbue you and flow out to all others. I took this photo about half an hour ago, when I went over the park with Buster. I am becoming interested in shape and tone more than colour, when it comes to some images. Also,because the trinity is special to me, as are a lot of things, I was struck by the three trees so close together. Its as if three isnt a crowd for them. Apart from Christianity, three is imprtant for many faiths. Remember I said that I, amongst others had wondered if the three wise men were Zoroastrians? Well Zoroastrians traditionally pray three times a day. Some wear a kusti, which is a cord knotted three times to remind them of the maxim, `Good words, Good thoughts, Good deeds.` Their name for God is Ahura Mazda. My name for God is John. Yep like him, I can also inject a bit of humour into life.

    My child, a radical change is made in your life when you focus, clearly, upon one principal aim... to run through all your personal ambitionsm all your relationships. The aim which will integrate your personality is a simple one: that in some way you will extend My Kingdom of love, even in situations which seem to contain formidable barriers against this happening.

Begin by deliberately bringing this aim to Me, for my blessing - even if you have made promises of this kind previously. I will have your aim before Me! I will honour that aim - not only on accasions when you yourself remember it, but when you are temporarily distracted from remembering it.

Each encouter with another person is under the influence of My Kingdom - to push back, a little further, those forces which darken this world. Thank Me each day that you are used to establish My rule of love.

                                               Fix your mind on God`s Kingdom       
                                                  and his justice above all else. 
                                                         (Matthew 6.33)

Back to this physical world now. I take out some clothes from the washing machine and put them on the line. Do some housework, then go down town and buy some food. This afternoon I will be going and having 1 1/2 hours with Kate my forensic art theraphist.

I have no idea what you are doing. Okay, I know as you are reading this then I hope you will give me a good thought and a SMILE. If you can pray for more peace in this world, perhaps focusing on world leaders whos power doesnt appear to be focused with loving intentions. Pray their hearts are opened to the universal energy of giving love out. Blessings be upon you all. Your brother Peter.

Peace, love and joy to all who visit my blog today

Good day to you. I had help to put the above video on the blog. The only way it was possible was by reducing the size of the file. So this took the number of pixels right down. So the smaller the screen on which you look at it, then the more clearer the image will be. Also you may have to turn the volume of your speakers right up. The computer chap that showed me how to do this and is going to send me notes on how I could do it on my own; said I would be better off posting any films on youtube and putting a link on the blog.

                                                           WARNING
   ALL SUFFERING IS CAUSED BY DESIRE. DO NOT FEED
   THE CRAVING FOR THE EGO
Protect yourself with mantra; om mani padme hum
om is the same thing as Christ. The real om is the sound of creation. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the word was God.

 Kleem Krisnia Govindia Gopijia Balibia Swaha
The above mantra will envoke Christ to defend yourself from the demons of greed, envy, hate etc.

I am just sharing this as they are working for me and may be of use to you. The intrinsic path of all great faiths is to deny yourself and follow a higher path, or way. In Christianity, Jesus said `I am the way, the life and the truth`. Or words to that effect.

I must leave you now, as one of my sons wishes to use this device. I am sure the Buster would enjoy me taking him over the park now. So peace and soham to you all.  Your brother Peter    

LOVE thats too big to get in one picture

Buster is running about over LOVE

Good day my brothers and sisters. Both those of you in Christ and those yet to how great is His LOVE. Yesterday I went and wrote the word LOVE in letters too big to get in one picture. To illustrate this, there is the blurred image of Buster running down the E.

Doing this `Peace` of art helped me to realize that LOVE can be so great that we can only experience a small portion. Just think that thats why it says in The Bible, ` the love of God which passes all understanding.`

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ON LOYALTY TO CHRIST

Be loyal to Christ by your love for the blessed Sacrament. Faith taught Thomas to behold in the Sacred Host Him who said, "This is My Body!" It was, therefore, his greatest delight and duty to attend the holy Sacrifice daily, to serve the priests of Christ, his greatest delight and duty to attend the holy Sacrifice daily, to serve the priests of Christ, and to recieve Christ in Holy communion, can this also be said of us?

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The following is by Ernest Holmes

The law of life operates upon the images of your thought. If your thought is restricted and unhappy, you will be causing It to create restricting and unhappy circumstances. Only a two inch stream of water can flow out of a two inch pipe. A gallon measure will hold but four quarts. This would be true even though you dipped your measure into the ocean. You are not limiting the ocean nor causing it to be evil because you dip up four quarts instead of a barrel. The ocean has no desire to limit you. In a personal sense, it can only give you what you take, for your taking is its givingness in the form of your taking. This is one of the greatest lessons of life. "It is done unto you as you believe."

The law of life is like a mirror. It reflects back to you the images of your thoughts in exactly the way you think them. ( this reminds me of the little mantra I came up with to sometimes go over either in my mind or out loud; " I`m healthy wealthy wise, I am love encarnate") You cannot say that It is little or that It gives you but a small portion of Itself when you own thought patterns are limiting this gift. Life has already delivered everything It has to you. But your personal experience even that which it has given must, of a necessity, be limited to that which you take.

It is then, of greatest value to learn how to receive more abundantly. Just as one studying the piano patiently goes over his lessons until finally his action becomes automatic, so in using the Life Principle you must be patient with yourself. You must learn to strike the right chord. The right chord is always one of harmony.

Learn to receive more by daily practicing

the presence of Abundance.

Learn to use the Law of Life in a more ex-

pansive manner by daily practicing belief

in it.

At first this may sound strange because proberbly you will say, "I already believe in it." Remember, your belief in It is perhaps somewhat limited by your experience. And so -

You are practicing a greater expectation.

You are believing in more and accepting,

more.

You are opening every channel of your mind

to a larger influx.

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Peace and goodwill to you my brothers and sisters. Please pass it on.

Peter and Buster are off to save the day. ttfn

Welcome my brothers and sisters. A special welcome to our three kindred spirits from Botswana.

My brothers and sisters of Light. It is ten past four in the morning. I do hope that this is a good day for us all. Of course I pray this also. Faith, hope and charity. The greatest of these is charity. Is charity just giving with out any thoughts of receiving thanks or acknowledgement of ones giving. Isn't it also being able to accept from others, or the universe without false modesty and yet always being thankful. I am thankful that my eleven year old, Joshua is asleep on a mattress on the floor of the bedroom with Buster our German Shepard beside him. I pray for Gods angels to protect my sons from the evil that can come via other people. Those of you who read this and are also followers of the loving God of all creation, know that I pray for the angels to watch over you and your loved ones.

Be still and know, I Am God.

A Buddhist monk once told a Christian Abbot. `The silence will teach you everything`. and this parallels a story of the desert fathers: `A certain brother came to the abbot Moses seeking word from him. And the old man said to him: "Go and sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything." This ability to sit still, in silence, with nothing else except the silence really does frighten many people, and rightly so. Anthony of Egypt explains why: The one who sits in solitude and quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking and seeing; yet against one thing shall he continually battle: that is, his own heart.`

When they spent time in solitude and in silence people inevitably have to wrestle with their own demons. Indeed, that very phrase to `wrestle with their own demons` is derived from the fathers and mothers of the desert tradition. They speak quite literally of the forces of evil that will tempt the solitary monk or nun away from their solitude, away from the silence and away from their prayers. It is easy to mock the personification of those forces as `devils`, but anybody who has seriously pursued a life of silence and prayer know that those forces are powerfully real, whether personified or not. Throughout our journey to become enlightened beings we should constantly be aware and on guard against the dark realities that can surface once silence and prayer are pursued wholeheartedly. The notion that this silence leads to tranquility is a very modern assumption. The monastic tradition sees any such tranquillity as a short-lived consolation to encourage beginners, which will dissipate once the search for God is pursued with real determination and the demons get to work to prevent and further progress.

This is to jump ahead, however and we must rely not on our own abilities to win the battle. To deny ourselves and say `I know longer live, yet Christ lives in me` and to say `God my heavenly Father, come to my aid and be with me through any and all trials, even to death.` Then we will, with prayer come to the point where these tempory bodies will no longer be of great importance to us. Only loving God constantly and doing his will be in our hearts and minds.

There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you. We are made from star dust. Just reach deep into yourself.