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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
You are reading from the book Today's Gift
There are two kinds of slaves, the prisoners of addiction, and the prisoners of envy.
—Ivan Ilich
No emotion brings us more personal pain or wastes more of our time than envy. When we envy, we are never free from stress, because envy takes no holidays. Shakespeare called envy the green sickness. Envy magnifies molehills into mountains.
Just how foolish envy truly is becomes clear when we think of it as a row of hooks on which to hang grudges. When we envy others, especially our family members, we blind ourselves to the good we could see in all people. We are ignoring life's flowers to gather bouquets of weeds.
When we envy the accomplishments or possessions of another, we will be better off if we look to our own prized possessions, to those things in ourselves that no one else has in exactly the same way.
What riches do I have within and around me?
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What a picture I get when I envisions the green disease, I see swamp water, wallowing in self pity and always stuck in their misery instead of trying to better themselves and excepting where they are in life. One thing I have and for the most part I see it as a gift is an active creativity and a wide vision of what can be and a wide scope of what could be. Some call it an over active imagination, but it can see some great things, they don't always come true it has taken me on some great trips at times. The nice thing is that my God's way is always better.
I have always had a gift for gab. I was told at 14 that I talked with my eyes. Apparently over the years, I learned to talk with my body. I learned over the years, that the body can say a lot, so had to learn to translate the messages being sent to me and be careful about the messages I was sending out. In today, I try to be a channel, a clean clear channel, for my God. His Words, His Message, His Will, not mine be done.