Besides, stumbling is wonderful. I do it a dozen times a day at the very least and there is nothing more effective for renewing my resolve to “raise the vibration of the world”. They say that happiness is quite effective too. That’s not my field of expertise yet but I’m determinded to join forces there with you.

So you stumbled, So what, you are still the loving Gloria, You ARE NOT JUDGED,only by yourself, but never be to hard on yourself. GOD would not like that. LOVE LIGHT and have Fun Jack

There’s the bittersweet sadness that is really a pleasure, if you know what I mean. The songs you speak of do that.

And then there’s the sadness that borders on grief, like thinking of orphan children.

I’d much rather be sad than angry. Much much rather.

I’m afraid I flipped my lid today. Probably fodder for a blog entry, but I’m not proud of it. After the fact, I remembered that God has said He would rather we be quiet than to say one word that does not raise the vibration of the world.

That’s something I forget today that I wish I had remembered.

“I think I’m gonna be sad
I think it’s today, yeah
The boy that’s driving me mad is going away

“He’s got a ticket to ride
He’s got a ticket to ride
He’s got a ticket to ride
And he don’t care”

Karen was a beautiful woman and an extraordinary singer, died young of anorexia, in effect starved herself to death.

And while I’m writing this Sam Cooke comes up with his Sad Mood:

“I’m in a sad mood tonight, oh I’m in a sad mood
I’m in a sad mood tonight
Oh my baby done gone away & left me
My baby done gone, yeah
My baby done gone away & left me
My baby done gone”

Sam died tragically young too. It isn’t like I have nothing but sad songs on my computer, in fact I had never really paid much attention to those two songs before. Sometimes things just seem sadder than the usual ups and downs, and this colors how we see and hear what’s around us. There’s a lot to be sad over in this world if we stop and look.

Jesus once stood on a hill outside Jerusalem with tears running down his cheeks because he saw its people devastated and its buildings razed to the ground thru willful stubbornness and stupidity. We seem to be working up to the same thing worldwide for the same reasons.

Today’s Heavenletter is called What Miracles Would You Like? and starts out, “I have a series of happy events ready to hand out to you.” It gets better from there.

A rational mind might say, “Now which is it? Worldwide collapse of civilization or heaven on earth? You can’t have both.” I’m thinking that maybe both are going to be happening at the same time and how we experience the time ahead is simply a matter of which ticket to ride we choose to take.

This sounds great on paper but I find it the hardest task I’m still trying to learn before I leave the planet. Choose to be happy. Four simple words. Cut it down to two: Choose happiness. Too many syllables. Choose joy. Remember that song, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”? Why is this so difficult to do?

In a way it’s like this is the whole point to life on earth. It probably helps if you don’t watch sad movies or listen to sad songs, but there is sadness everywhere you look from the Olympic hopeful who messes up in front of three billion people to the little fawn who didn’t make it across the road before the truck hit it.

Somehow in a world with too many refugee camps and too many orphaned children it is possible to stand in the sunshine and smile like a dandelion growing up thru a crack in the pavement. I believe this and sometimes on my better days I actually remember to do it.