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I just read again my brother Surf's Christmas Eve posting and got so inspired by his treatment of Love, Peace, Joy (LPJ) that i now share his entire piece here and also raise a call for all.
The call is for all to try apply their creativity and create their own lyrics for "A Song on LPJ" that we can share around and popularize for group singing everywhere within our "Sing Out!" festival in 2011. Maybe i am just overwhelmed by what some people might call "naive optimism," asking people to compose at least lyrics or a whole song without offering any grand monetary prize, as in a grand contest. But really i am confident that many talented people in many countries may find the spirit of Love, Peace, Joy strong and compelling enough to try to heed this call.
Ultimately, the prize for each shared attempt may just be the honor of contributing significantly to great efforts for promoting far and wide this very spirit in a new human consciousness emerging in these historic times of human evolution. And I can't help but admit that I actually half-expect to be very pleasantly surprised over a big harvest from this ambitious call by about this time next year!
(To read more information on the "Sing Out our Love, Peace, Joy" 2011, please click here: http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/sing-out-our-lpj-in-2011.html and also this link: http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/spirit-of-baguios-sing-out-1966-folk.html)
Here's that Christmas Eve posting again from Surf, to which a good number of his FB friends responded very positively:Life Is a Season of Love, Peace, Joy
Some time ago, I wrote: We often hear people say, "May God be with you." Or, "May Peace be with you." The loving intent behind these phrases is indisputable. And intent is really everything. Intent is will, the most powerful force in the universe.
Still, the words are inaccurate...and inadvertently plant a disempowering virus that can insidiously corrupt the operating system of one who is unaware. Words have energy...and power. "May God be with you" and "May Peace be with you" subliminally send the hypnotic suggestion that God, Peace, is not yet with you! In Truth, who you really are, in a very real sense, is the "part" of God within your servant manifesting personality vessel. God is in you as your soul, you true Self. So are all...individuations of the divine One Being. Who you really are is a Spirit-Being of Love, Peace and Joy...as you have always been and always will be. Everyone is just in the journey of regaining awareness of the actual reality that God, whose nature is infinite Love, Peace, and Joy, is the innermost reality in one's own heart.
I then propose to remove the virus by saying instead, "God IS in you." This is the essence of "namasté": the divine in me greets the divine in you. There is direct acknowledgment and affirmation of the one Truth within all. Instead of, "May Peace be with you", one can say, "Peace IS with you", or more precisely, "You are Peace."
If this is too direct for the taste of others, I propose instead, "May we fully awaken to God within us." "May we fully awaken to being Peace." Like Love and Joy, Peace is not something to find and to have...but to consciously BE.
I remembered the above piece I wrote as, presently, in this special season of the year, we often hear people say, "May you have love. May you have peace. May you have joy." Again, indisputably, this is all coming from a loving intention...which, indisputably, is what is essential. A loving intention is the most powerful force in the universe.
Still, I wish to clarify that what people are really referring to, as what they wish others to HAVE...are the MANIFESTATIONS of Love, Peace, and Joy. It is essential that people become aware of the difference between the BEING of Love/Peace/Joy from Its manifestations...the Creator from its creation. One is indeed something to have...the other is not a matter of having but a matter of conscious BEING.
These manifestations that one can have are the natural consequence, the effortless result of...the conscious experience of BEING Love/Peace/Joy...of being a conscious Creator. The more one becomes aware of who one really is as a Being of Love/Peace/Joy within one's servant personality vessel, the more one is blessed with receiving the corresponding manifestations. The focus should then be on awakening to, or consciously experiencing, the Being of Love/Peace/Joy within oneself...which is who one really is.
Wisdom is knowing the difference between perception and reality. However it may appear to intellectual perception, in reality, everything that is made manifest in our lives is our own creation. Where there is fear, from the darkness of ignorance of who we really are...we unconsciously create all manner of fragmentation and conflict, pain and suffering. Only from awakening to who we really are as beings of love/peace/joy...can we be conscious Creators...constantly manifesting our creative and unifying nature in the world, as is the divine will.
May we all fully awaken to who we really are: Beings of Love, Peace, Joy...and consciously experience and manifest in our lives: unity, oneness, love, compassion, kindness, peace and joy!
In this special celebration, may you have lots of great gifts, yummy food, singing and laughter, and the constant warm embrace of the presence of loved ones! May you be filled with joyful appreciation and gratitude for the awesome miracle of life all around! Merry Christmas!
And for the birth of 2011...Happy New You! :-)
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