Beautifully designed, this tiny and lightweight Smith & Wesson .380 pocket pistol can still kill any bad guy. It may not throw him up against a wall (as in some Hollywood cowboy movies) like a .44 magnum, but the bastard who attacks me will finally die from this pistol. This is an amazing little device. In my last life, btw, I carried a .22, also “puny,” not a “cannon,” but it WILL kill someone who needs killing. And so it too is beautiful. It takes out the trash.
December 18
Today would be a wonderful day to look for, see and appreciate the little things of beauty and light that inhabit your world. Too often, the spectacular nature of things eclipses the small, seemingly ordinary, quotidian-yet-still-extraordinary objects and beings that are all around you.
To open to their exquisite natures will be easier today and will be a great gift to yourself.
There are probably people in your circle who elicit little or no response. They do their jobs or live in their houses down the street or drive by each day en route to some unknown destination. Today, take a deeper look to find out what lies beneath the unremarkable exterior. You will probably be delighted with what you discover.
As you look around outside, you are likely to notice the magnificence of nature, the more statuesque trees, the elegant course of a stream, the red-tailed hawk or the stag.
Today, allow yourself to focus on the scrub, the dry grasses, the little no-account plants that actually take up so much space, water and sunlight. See
what you can see beneath the exterior of an ordinary brown sparrow.
And look at the stones, too. Not the shiny ones, not the ones of unusual hue or shape, but rather the little pebbles or rocks that abound wherever you are. Pick some up, feel for their vibrations, look for the ways in which they are unique and special. Open yourself to learning about this.
Margi became quite a rock collector in her final year of this incarnation, and she also collected Canadian goose feathers; a smooth, sun-bleached white stick on the beach; and three pine cones…. seeing beauty in many things. Cancer has the silver lining that you might just appreciate the nice things of life more than ever before.
Maybe there are objects lying around your home or office, things that are just there but create no particular appreciation. Perhaps they are utilitarian, maybe of little use at all. Take a second look.
Finally, you may want to examine the things in yourself that you often find tedious and ordinary. What do you see there? Is there something you have failed to appreciate? Something you wish to alter?
What, after all, is the nature of your being as a human in physical form with a life to conduct in this still material world?
All in all, we urge you to open your awareness outward and downward, to increase what you are conscious of, and to sharpen and deepen how you see what you see. It is an exercise, but one which will likely help you see the kind of brilliance and support that is all around you. It ties into our suggestion yesterday that you cultivate gratitude, and like that practice, this one has the capacity to heighten your vibration and to increase your ability to function effectively.
If you are unable or choose not to do this, we encourage you to send a few minutes today in contemplation of any group you know of that is often unseen. They could be groups of people who are not seen for any number of reasons: perhaps because of age, ethnicity, kind of work, appearance, or disability.
Or it could be animals or plants or ideas.
It will be of much benefit both to you and to them.
Thank you for undertaking this exploration today, no matter how extensive or brief it might be. Whenever and wherever you are working to push out the boundaries of your own awareness, you are expanding the energy of your planet, and right now, this is a very good and needed thing.
Love and Blessings.
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