{"id":1002,"date":"2015-01-20T02:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesonline.org\/triciablog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2015-01-20T02:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T02:30:45","slug":"jan-18-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2015\/01\/20\/jan-18-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 1-18-15 The good and the joyful."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.\u201d \u00a0~ Ramakrishna<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Sunday!<\/h2>\n

I just read over the last three weeks of blogs to reflect on my development in accepting both good and bad in life.\u00a0 I think I have made good progress; my lessons have been profound in moving me toward greater and greater acceptance of what is.
\nThere is good to be found in all of the bad.\u00a0 Does that mean there is also bad to be found in the good?
\nI know with that last question that I am using judgmental words \u2013 they just seem to flow well.\u00a0 I am feeling melancholy today so I am asking the question will joy also be less in this awareness of \u2018all is well\u201d?
\nThere have been some good things that have happened this week.\u00a0 I got a promotion.\u00a0 We bought a new car.\u00a0 I do feel proud of myself for accomplishing the promotion \u2013 I\u2019ve done well for myself.\u00a0 But, there have just been these negative thoughts about others I know not being offered promotion.\u00a0 As for the car, it is nice to have the change but there are many negative thoughts about additional expenses and all the good attributes of the old car that are now gone.
\nPerhaps there will be less joy going forward? At least that is my thought when it comes to feeling positive about physical things.\u00a0 Money and objects are just not going to make me feel good \u2013 at least not when I compare them with the feelings of joy that I get from soul awareness-es.
\nJoy is abundant.
\nI just spent a few moments thinking about when I have felt joyful in the last few days.\u00a0 My vibration is lifting as I now think of all the good that I have noticed manifesting in my life and also in the world.\u00a0 The joy comes when I get glimpses of change \u2013 thoughts of \u2018oh, there is a spiritual person\u2019 or \u2018there is a sign of change in the world\u2019.
\nI am joyful when I recognize my family growing and lifting themselves up.\u00a0 There are those who are struggling but I think I understand better now that it is part of their journey and it is needed for them to break through to their true selves.
\nI am joyful when I see the world changing.\u00a0 There are more and more individuals I see on TV and in the news who are living the change.
\nThere are signs everywhere.
\nThe other day at the bar the show \u201cShark Tank\u201d was on the TV – with captions on.\u00a0 It caught my attention as I was eating dinner because a young man came on the TV wearing a very empowering tee shirt.\u00a0 He was on the show with a proposal for selling tee shirts with positive quotes on the shirts.\u00a0 The young man was a business student as well as obviously a positive spiritual person.\u00a0 One of the sharks was negative in giving him a hard time ridiculing him as a business major coming forward with such a poor product idea.\u00a0 After the student left one of the sharks defended the student to the sterner one trying to point out the positive nature of the student would also serve him.\u00a0 I turned to Peter to express my joy in seeing this play out on TV.
\nAt a meeting at work last week one of the women complained about one of our co-workers being negative and that he brings down her karma.\u00a0 I joked that next we will have discrimination laws in the workplace for positive people discriminated against negative.\u00a0 ; )
\nOur language has changed.\u00a0 Society is recognizing the spiritual side within us all.\u00a0 I cannot count how many times I have heard the terms creator and manifestation used in the last few days.
\nThe change is upon us.
\nAnd there is a change in me.\u00a0 I think I am on the threshold of awareness of Oneness.\u00a0 My mind is getting quicker in my exercises of contemplating \u2018the good in the bad\u2019 and \u2018the bad in the good\u2019 and realizing we are all the same, striving for the same things. This, I think, is how to live in compassion.
\nMelancholy was the wrong word \u2013 it is more a steadiness surrounded by peacefulness.
\nJoy is my purpose.
\nNamate\u2019
\n\u201cI refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.\u201d ~Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a><\/em>
\nThank you MLK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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