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Happy Birthday Rosie – Sorry There’s Oil on your Feet

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Rosie Denton on the Dauphin Island Bird Sanctuary beacahRosie, my wife, has great energy. She runs barefoot each morning to the beach. She’s braver than I. Returning to the house, this morning, her birthday, we discovered that the soles of her feet were coated with brown oil. Going again to the Dauphin Island Bird Sanctuary beach we verified that oil was washing ashore.

Last post I shared about positive energy. Negative energy must be dealt with too. Oil on our beaches! Oil on our feet! Is this Happy Birthday? It’s also my mother’s birthday who has passed from this life. Torrent rivers of feelings flow through our lives.

In his book, Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hanh shares many ways to transform our negative energy. Here are some thoughts inspired from his book that work. Let’s recognize our feelings and recognize their ultimate source, ourselves. Let’s be real and one with our feelings, “Oil on my feet! Huge oil still coming! It’s my birthday! I am so upset!” Let’s calm our storms, “Breathing, calming myself, not getting overwhelmed, I am grateful for the valuable information my feelings give me.” Let’s call to mind what is encouraging in our lives and call to mind what needs to be fixed. Then, with great strength, let’s embrace our capabilities and do what needs to be done.

Each day is a new day. Each year is a new year. “Happy Birthday, Rosie, let me help you get the oil off your feet!” 

Positive Energy

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Sharing positive energy after Hands Across the Sand on Dauphin Island, photographed June 26, 2010 by Theresa Robinson

Sharing positive energy after Hands Across the Sand on Dauphin Island, photographed June 26, 2010 by Theresa Robinson

Dauphin Island is getting a good wind right now, much more than a breeze, but not a gale – pure, positive, refreshing energy.

A good wind is just one of the many positive energies in life. Atoms spin, waters spin, the Earth spins, and we spin. Dreaming, dancing, sharing, enjoying, forgiving – fully believing in and expressing our beauty – spinning – revolving – revolutionizing – loving without end for the benefit of all. What a wind! What clean, positive, refreshing energy!

Positive energy is all around us, a revolution always in the making, never letting go of us. Francis of Assisi, a great friend of animals and a great believer in positive energy, dedicated himself to this revolution of love with these words:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Let the positive energy in each of us find expression in our own words, voice, and life. Let the wind blow where it will.