Time Is A Circle

Time is a circle. The end is the beginning.

Day by day, a year comes and goes.

Today's end is the beginning of the rest of our lives.

We take with us what we have learned today.

We are the same and not the same.

As long as we are alive, we will continue to wrestle with questions, seek answers, and solve problems.

Let's be gentle with ourselves and others, choosing to respond with non-judging love and acceptance instead of unrealistic demands of perfection.

We have found a blueprint for recovery.

Our preoccupation with not enough and too much has led us to a spiritual solution.

Each day brings us new opportunities to express our development - a more patient response to a traffic jam, the ability to empathize with a child's embarrassment, the acceptance of a disappointment.

Today is another day to learn how to be serene, to nurture body and spirit so that we may function as an integrated totality. We will continue to learn and grow toward recovery.

I will begin and end today by listening to my inner voice.

 

Inner Harvest by Elisabeth L.

Elder's Meditation -- The Center Of A Circle

Every human being gathers information from the center of a circle.
If we are not careful, we soon think we are the center of all things.
Therefore, it is easy to become self centered.
Once we become self centered we start to think we are above all things and therefore superior.
But we are really only one part of a great whole.
The universe is all connected.
Each part is here to do something special and according to its design.
We are here to honor and respect the job of each part.
We are neither above nor below anything.
We need not be ruler over anything, we need only to live in honor and harmony with the system.

My Creator, help me to view and conduct

myself in a manner of respect,

dignity and honor to all creation.

Let me see You in all things.

THe Cycle Of Life

The Creator designed all life to happen in a circle.
For example, the cycle of life for the human being is Baby, Youth, Adult, Elder, then we die.
The trees and the leaves happen in a circle; the leaves bud, then the leaves mature, next the leaves change color and at last they fall off the tree to return to the Mother Earth.
The birds bear their young, raise their young, then they die.
The salmon are born, swim to the ocean, live their lives, swim back to the spawning grounds, then die.
All aspects of the Life Cycle should be honored.

Creator, today, let me enjoy today.