What’s Your. Day?

 

Raise  Your Glass and Some Intersting  Questions

So Saints Preserve Us it’s St. Patty’s  Day!

…And having some Irish blood flowing through my veins I’ll be taking a sip or two of the water of life later today or earlier today depending upon when you might be reading.  Due to these obligations I’d better get right to the point (which is not the Irish  way).  If you don’t know  some things already it’s time.

St. Patrick died on St. Patick’s day in 460 A.D.  or C.E. As it is now known.  What most folks would swear to is that he was the most Irish person to ever walk the Earth… well not so.  In fact if you have any Irish blood in you then you are more Irish than he.  

Not even Irish?  Bloody not!  Not  even named Patrick.  

This saint was born  in “England” part of the Roman Empire and to Roman parents.  His given name was Maewyn Succat.  

His Irish  experience started as a slave  taken to the Isle when captured by Irish pirates at the age of 16.  After toiling for sometime in several jobs including. That of Shepherd he was able to stow away  on a ship back to England.  It was only at this point he found. The Lord and started to preach the word—and going back to Erin was his purpose  of faith.  

Okay…not Irish, not originally Christian, not Patrick—what else?????

He was known for wearing blue!  

So one might be on the verge of kissing the Blarney  Stone Good-bye…but wait…

Let’s look at this from the Seeking Peace and Joy perspective.  

The actual “Saint Patrick” life is one thing yet he went forth and created a legendary experience to be interpreted by others and now celebrated by millions.  Can we have experiences that we. Or others can learn from and interpret  in different terms than we can imagine now…. I’d bet so?   Can we go into unfamiliar lands and have less than wonderful experiences and then refresh and reframe. In ways designed to help others and well become local hero’s?   Maybe….

In fact, maybe we could start  by imagining  what our “st. —insert you name’s—Day would look like.  Would there be drinking, a parade and a river filled with  some colored liquid?  Would they close the banks even though  you didn’t really discover  any “new world”—how can it be a new sorld if you didn’t leave  the planet?  

The point is…we can have experiences….change as people…have the grace to reconnect with  some people who treated us poorly and find peace and joy and even create it for others and that’s a pot of gold at the end of any rainbow Danny Boy

time to go celebrate!