LOVE WORKS DAILY 02/01/07 - Feeling Like Tigger
Hello Friends! I hope today finds you happy and well
and filled with the infinity that is love and the
capacity to give and receive it freely today!
INSPIRATIONAL MOMENT:
(Great Thoughts By History's Inspired Thinking Men and Women)
"Whenever a Very Bouncy Animal arrives
in the forest and you are told he has
just come, the thing you should ask is:
"When is he going?"
-Tigger
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
(Brand New and Classic Love Works Essays 2001-2007)
I often feel like Tigger. You know, that bouncing bouncing
fun fun fun fun fun creature from the stories of Winnie The
Pooh.
And you know the most wonderful things about Tigger's?
I'm the only one!
Well, I might be bouncing bouncing sometimes...
and I've even been known to do the fun fun fun fun fun thing
from time to time.
But one of the least wonderful thing for me about
feeling like a Tigger...
Is feeling like I'm the only one!
Not wonderful, but actually sad.
I know I am not the only one.....
But that "feeling" of COMPLETE uniqueness can make a person
feel alone and isolated and even lonely. Even when others
are around. Even when you are surrounded by people
who care about and love you.
How did I get to feeling like a Tigger?
As many of you know, almost 20 years ago I had a NDE, or
Near Death Experience. I cut into 220V electrical cord with
both hands on wet towel holding a chef's knife cutting a large
block of cheese at a restaurant. When I got through the cheese
block I continued down into a power cord that was powering
a large kitchen appliance and could not let go of the knife.
For a few seconds, minutes, hours, years...it was hard to
tell...everything stopped.
And then it all came back.
I have told this story in depth in another LOVE WORKS, so I
won't repeat it again in detail. But ever since that
fateful day...I have been different.
Over what seemed to be an eternity, I experienced the death
process and was given a glimpse into the mysteries of the
universe.
And safe to say, it was incredible. NO...incredible is
too tiny a word. It was beyond words.
And then I came back.
With still SOME of the memories...but lacking most of
the details...but now an almost COMPLETELY different person.
I had touched what most would call God..and came back to talk about
it.
That brings me to my Tigger analogy.
Because I'm different now...I often feel like I am
alone. Not just because I am seperated from the experience.
And no longer possess the knowledge and wisdom and peace
that was afforded me in my brush with the afterlife.
But because others around me...here on Earth again...rarely
relate to me. Or..if they do...only relate on the most
superficial level.
I feel compelled to share what I 'saw" with others.
To impart the wisdom..and awe...of a bigger truth.
But when I say it with words from my own mouth, I either sound
like:
1. An idiot.
2. A know-it-all
3. A Lunatic.
Usually, the latter two.
Most acknowledge that I am smart and articulate and educated,
so I must be making some level of sense.....
But who do I think I am....God?
I have nice opinions, yes, but how can you state them as
fact?
Well, because I've been there...I've experienced it...and
the voice told me so....
Aaaaaaaah....now we are getting somewhere....
You hear a voice, do you...? Very interesting Tim, lie
down on my couch and lets talk about it.
I have a pill here that will make that voice go away.
NO.....
I don't HEAR VOICES...when I was dead...I heard a voice
talking to me....
That's nice...just sit down while I remove the sharp objects.
You get the point though, right?
If I'm not sounding like a numbskull...I'm sounding like
jerk...OR I sound like I will start foaming at
the mouth at any time.
Now, don't get me wrong...it's not like this happens every
day. Mostly because I have learned to TONE DOWN my interactions
with others and keep things "light".
Most of the time, I keep my deepest (and most controversial)
revelations to myself.
I spend my days without the cape...disguised as a mild mannered
reporter.
I spend my days talking and writing in a way that MOST people
can relate to...about things that most people can relate to.
Some things are universal. Love..as we have, of course, discusses
many times is one of those things...one of the binding
fabrics of the universe.....
So I talk about that.
But I spend a certain amount of time THINKING about things
larger than us all. About things awesome and terrible...
Things that I cannot write about and make any real sense to others
about.
Am I a fool?
Am I have a pompus Omniscient?
Am I two fruits short of a Loop?
I think it gets very blurry sometimes.
I have thought maybe some of all of them from time to time.
But this thing happened to me for a reason.
It was a gift...that sometimes eels like a curse.
And even if the electricity just short circuited my
brain....and it wasn't a vision from the ethers.....
Why is my head filled with such wonderous thoughts...
instead of horrible, broken ones.
I believe I was made a Tigger for a reason.
And even if I am the only one...and even if people will
say '"Whenever a Very Bouncy Animal arrives
in the forest and you are told he has
just come, the thing you should ask is:
"When is he going?"
I have a purpose for not dying that day. And
a reason for being different.
I am not alone, and I know it...but doesn't it feel that
way sometimes....No one else feels the way you do...
No one else is like you....
Very true for all of us.
And I think that feeling is supposed to be.
If only to help us remember...that we are all
the same as well!
And we should all be there for each other.
From one Tigger to another....we may be unique...
but we do have family.
We are all family!
Love to you!
Love In Thought! Love In Word! Love In Action!
Love To You Today!
"May we endeavor today to increase our understanding and appreciation of
what others have given and contributed to us. And develop constant,
mindful consideration of how our thoughts and actions will BENIFICIALLY
CONTRIBUTE to others"
The best to you today in discovering the answers to life's difficult
questions!
A Final Thought:
Love is always the right thing to do. Even if it isn't the easiest
thing to do.
May we have compassion for the struggles of others, wisdom to
acknowledge our own, and courage to address them both every day.
Respectfully,
Tim
This is a daily newsletter of LOVE WORKS DAILY:
A collective of individuals of different beliefs and
backgrounds, dedicated to a better world by living LOVE in thought,
word and action. Compassion. Wisdom. Courage.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Peace be with you.
(c)2007 T.Thomas Henry
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