The seeking peace and joy dictionary O.

 

THE SEEKING PEACE AND JOY DICTIONARY. — — O — —

O is for 

Obstacles

Obstacles....?? See “opportunities

Obvious

Obvious ....adjective

One of the key tools in the  adventure. Of seeking peace and joy is sorting out  the obvious—what seems obvious. To you alone and what seems obvious to many, and yet gets forgotten.   

POLITICAL RANT WARNING!!!)

OKAY WALKWITH ME FOR A MINUTE....FOR  A LONG TIME NOW I’VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT HOW. DIVIDED WE ARE AS A NATION OR AN “AMERICAN. PEOPLE” —

As several of my friends  and relatives might say 

“HORSE SHIT”

Let’s take a stroll down Obvious Avenue. Shall we?

If you’d  like to see a cure for cancer raise your hand.  If you wish chocolate contained  all the vitamins needed for a perfect diet, raise your hand.  If you’d beat the crap out of someone hurting  one of your kids or the kids of someone you love, raise your hand.  If you’d like every. Time you had sex to satisfy everyone  involved completely and with no chance of  unwanted emotional turmoil, raise your hand.  If  you have no hands and you could  have someone  raise a hand for you smile and they just raised their hand.  If you would think it was unfair  if the government picked. 1219  people  every morning to  have an  unwarranted root canal without pain meds, raise your hand.  If you don’t think it would be good idea to televise your next colonoscopy , raise your hand.  If you  would oppose. A requirement to. Wear sandpaperlined glass underwear  every other  Tuesday, raise your hand.  If  you wish you hadn’t said “hand me that tequila (of wait that was just me)... 

You see  we have ignored the obvious here and overestimated. A lot of our  human and cultural differences and it leads to strange definitions of our actual circumstances.  one last example and I’ll move on...

How many of us. Have been standing in line and complained. About how long the line is?  Well Sherlock you are the line just like when you are in traffic and complaining about traffic... you are the traffic!

Obviously to summarize it is worth  looking. At what things we see as obvious and what things are son obvious  that we treat them like a fish treats water.  Seeking peace and joy often means grasping the obvious and. Being thankful you share it with  many people... 

Open

Open....adjective and verb...

Seeking peace and joy  sometimes starts. With being open to  new experiments.  If you are open to new  lessons in new circumstances and even in. Old ones  you may find a cart load of new. “Options” and meanings.  Open with a little  help from a. “-“ can be a pretty powerful  word.  When you come to adopt and you seek something. Inside it helps to see a sign that says open right?   When you  come to a person and ask “what do you think?”  It’s good. To run into someone who shares with and open -minded viewpoint and is open-hearted.   The point is “open indicates that. There is a chance to explore, be invited. In, and  to let someone. Know you are open provides. Both you and them with added. Energy.  You can plug into an open circuit and complete it and make things  happen...but a closed circuit get you pretty much nothing... so try to be an open circuit and  keep an open mind.

Opportunity

Opportunity—-see obstacle 

Also  This is something. You  come upon from time to time, however. Be. Aware that opportunity  often knocks disguised  as hard work.  Opportunity. Is something you can always be looking for either for. An experiment of yours or  an opportunity to add energy to someone else’s creative efforts.  When we look for opportunities to enhance the peace and joy of others we often.get splattered with the collateral  peace and joy that erupts.  One of the key sources of opportunities is “failure.”  So-called failures  provide an opportunity to grow, a chance to reframe  problems in new ways,an invitation to build new teams etc... In short opportunities are sort of like  sand from the beach —your going to. Find them in the strangest. Places  and sometimes you can deal with them now but rest assured that  you will probably b e finding them later too.  

ON—-

Yep it’s time to move on—-

So tomorrow we’ll be  hitting letter letter sweet sixteen