Ain't no mountain high enough

4 APRIL
Give up complicating
things. Instead of
making mountains
out of molehills, be
on the lookout for
ways to simplify.

Little mole hill hill hill

To me you are a mountain mighty and strong

Insurmountable I can not over come you

Little mole hill hill hill

I try to see you as small

But over you I still stumble 

Little mole hill hill hill

Others say its ok ok ok

I hear, you fucked up but, WE will fix it

Little mole hill hill hill

I need back my power

On you I could step and obliterate

Little mole hill hill hill

From you I will learn

I will step over you and bypass you

Little mole hill hill hill

On my way to mountains

That you have thought me to conquer

Little mole hill hill hill

You have given me practice

You have made me stronger

Little mole hill hill hill

From the shadow of the mountain watch

You have given me strength to ascend any mountain

Do we just sit and wait at the cross???

 

Heaven on earth, heaven on earth

The kingdom of heaven is at hand

Create create create

Heaven on earth

Jesus, Yeshua, Easa , Messiah, Christ

Prince of Peace, Wonderful Counselor, Lord of Love

 Christ like, Christian

Peace, Wonder, Counsel, LOVE

Red and yellow black and white 

Fear not, unto you a child, is born, for ALL  people

Gay, Straight, Christian , Transgendered, Jew, Atheist, Islamic 

Love thy Neighbor as thy self, Rhkama

I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly!

Life is a gift. Live it!!

Do you wait at the cross...

Or live the examples of the life and teachings??

Bombs Away!!!

 

 

2 APRIL
In honor of Easter,
when life and beauty
spring forth from death
and decay, take your
flower bombs and go
out to resurrect the
ugly places with
beauty! Try not to
get arrested.

Sometimes through lives struggles, its hard to see the beauty. But the beauty is always there. The other day when I was having one of my most stressful days I went outside to THIS............

It made my heart swell up with love from God/dess. She knows when we need that little extra hug in a way only he can give. Maybe a blooming tree is not the same as comforting arms around you but, when God/dess knows one of your favorite colors and you walk outside to a sight like the above, how can you not have renewed hope?

As many of you know, the time since my surgery has been a roller coaster and many of you have been there for me and I can't thank you enough. Between my family, my friends, and my readers, plus better success at work and healthier ears, life has been on an upswing. Thank you!!!

Sometimes spring can be difficult for me because I give it such high expectations. This year I have decided to emotionally sit back and enjoy. Today I went on my first run/walk which to me is a form of meditation. I had a great conversation with God/dess and felt I was truly able to open my soul to listen in return. 

How do you each see renewed hope in spring? Does seeing the lillies poke through the dead leaves help? The ducks starting to pair up and perhaps even sit on a  nest? The birds singing everywhere? (Yes this year, I actually get to enjoy those bird songs with you). How about the fresh feeling after a spring rain? The crickets and frogs chattering away in the evening? Or maybe just sitting outside in the spring air with a loved one? 

Ok ok ok......according to the challenge we are supposed to be talking about spreading spring and easter ourselves. Even though we are in TN, the air is a little chilly, but Jamie and I have our flower bomb ingredients at the ready and within the next week.......Bombs Away!!!!!!        

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On a personal note a friend of mine I have made through this blog is going through a really rough time because her husband is seriously ill. She is struggling to come to grips with this, the patience while waiting on test results, and the logistics of a special needs child all at the same time. Please keep her and her family in your prayers, meditations and thought.

Oragami is HARD!!!

1 APRIL
Palm Sunday: Fold
your palm fronds into
a cross. You can learn
how to do it on
YouTube (“Making
a Palm Cross”).

Some of my fondest youth memories are of making palm crosses on the Saturday night before Palm Sunday. Our youth group use to get together and make hundreds of these (ok maybe not hundreds but  A LOT) . We made plenty for a them for the folks coming to church and or Sunday school on Palm Sunday. We got to stand with the ushers and hand then out of a basket for each parishioner to wear.

This was a "normal" activity for my church youth group. Our leaders took a festival, holiday or event and made it real to us. We would learn the bible story of the event, get a short lesson on what it meant to us "today" and then have a project to go with it.

The project was always for others. Maybe it was just for the other folk in our church or maybe it was a social justice lesson. Jesus and the two fish and five loaves of bread lead to helping feed the hungry. Maybe we were not preforming miracles like Yeshua BUT , we did learn about sharing, just like the young  boy giving up his lunch. 

So often today it seems like many people are putting God/dess and Yeshua, or many other spiritual prophets into the closet. By this I mean we go to church, temple or which ever spiritual place we go, for an hour or two a week, and then it is a over.

Did we earn a lesson? Did we take it home? I remember each year that cross stayed on my cork board til the next year. Once at a soup kitchen we ran into a class mate, so my brother and I started packing bigger lunches and inviting the boy to sit with us at lunch to share. Not only did he get food, but we made a new friend that ended up being one of our best.

If God/dess was  packed back in the closet when "church" was done, would we have learned anything?  Does memorizing the bible really tell you WWJD? People, especially around the south like to knock the fact that I learned the IDEAS of the bible but did not memorize them word for word. Does the old testament teach you to be a better person or just scare you? If it is scary is that why God/dess is shoved to the back of the closet? Shouldn't the lesson of must religions, which I believe is LOVE make us want to walk side by side with Him/Her. AND each other, because the Divine is with in each of us!

Jamie and I are making the crosses for our "diary" of the year tree!!!

ano meẖeyeykheym - אנו מחייכים

31 MARCH

Give up frowning.

You might be scaring

little children and

dogs.

This cracked me up since I groom dogs and its true!!!When you frown you give off bad vibes. If you smile (not forced please) the vibes are much better!!!!! Bad vibes scare dogs!!!

Today early we sang Carpenter songs at work, none of us can sing but it was FUN, and the dogs chilled AND I worked through one of the hardest dogs I've ever had.

Are you a frowner???

Do you chase people off by the look on your face??? With out knowing it we convey a feeling of negativity even if its just concentration.  Frowning is contagious!!! Do you spread it to all you meet??

Are you a smiler?

Smiling is even more contagious. Especially if you manage a happy dance!!! Yes, I know many of us  with autism on here have trouble with eye contact, but just look at some one and smile and then,  they are going to smile at some one else.


So if your a frowner  try hard....really hard to turn it up side down. if you see some one with out one...give them one of yours. If you are having trouble smiling  sing a favorite song in your head....think of a good joke

We have been talking of heaven on earth.....what better way to spread a little heaven than a little smile!! So smile baby smile!!

we will smile!! ano meẖeyeykheym - אנו מחייכים

Just Try!!!

30 MARCH
Give up sitting. Get
up, stand up, take the
stairs, walk around the
block, put on music
and dance.

OK!!! I'm a dog groomer with a salon with no stools. I have ummmm a lot of dogs and cats to feed when I get home.. When we are off we hike and walk.... so not sure how to give up sitting.  So I thought and I thought and thought!!!

 

I decided to use this as a metaphor for seats in a church, temple or masque. Going to these can be very important to you spiritual life.   You pray, you sing or chant, you hear inspiring sermons, have fellowship and then what?? Speaking from experience as a person that has worked food service, a lot of it doesn't seem to last past the parking lot.

We need to find projects with meaning. Don't wait on your spiritual leaders. Find projects for you and yours.....remember the  project a few weeks back...try that again....go to the store and buy ten dollars of food for the hungry. Clean out your closets with the winter clothes you haven't touched the last few winters and give them to good causes. Those shorts and summer tanks that will never ever fit again??? off they go!

MY new favorite...the flower bombs? J and I are doing those on Sunday.....maybe we can take a trash bag with us and fill it up with trash and drop it off at the trash can. If you don't feel like doing flower bombs  still take a walk with the trash bag even if just around the corner.

 

Smile, pat a shoulder, give a hug, write a little note,or squeeze a hand. All easy!!!

These are all small but sometimes baby steps is the way to go. Wanna start bigger??? GO FOR IT!!!

Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
If you can
Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
If you can

(Just try)
Take a little time out of your busy day
To give encouragement
To someone who's lost the way
(Just try)
Or would I be talking to a stone
If I asked you
To share a problem that's not your own
We can change things if we start giving
Why don't you

Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
If you can
Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
If you can

(Just try)
If you see an old friend on the street
And he's down
Remember his shoes could fit your feet
(Just try)
Try a little kindness you'll see
It's something that comes very naturally
We can change things if we start giving

Why don't you
Reach out and touch
Why don't you (Why don't you)
Reach out and touch somebody's hand

Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
If you can
Reach out and touch
Somebody's hand
Make this world a better place
If you can

Runick

 

29 MARCH
Give up trying to
change other people.
Leave that to God.
Consider instead
changing yourself
and how you respond.

 

  There are so many ways to take this challenge. I'm also looking at it from the point of view, if you're okay, don't change to fit THEIR mold....but I guess  I have to remember the mold is theirs to have the way they want. IT may not be what we think is fair and just. It may hurt us....and we have every right in the world to speak up for ourselves and others. Some how we need to learn to do it with out passing judgment, with out trying directly to change them...but letting them know who we are.

 

I am Carrie Lynn Humphreys Farris...in no special order I happen to be..autistic, legally deaf, a doggie foster mommy, a groomer, a daughter, a fiance'/GF, a friend, a mentor, epileptic, a writer, a student, a want to soon to be pastor, and educator . Besides my name those are all labels and a small but important part of me. BUT most important I am CARRIE a child of God/dess!!!!!!

 

 “If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

 

 

Gods Word Transation

Matthew 7:1

"Stop judging so that you will not be judged"  

 

 The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.

BILLY GRAHAM, Just As I Am

 Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.”
― Jesse Jackson

 

“Once in a golden hour,
I cast to earth a seed,
And up there grew a flower,
That others called a weed.”
― Alfred Tennyson

 “Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary 

 “Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

 “Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland


So in about ten minutes I found all these quotes about judging. Yet we each face it every day.  Yes some more than others, and some of us are more guilty of judging then others.Why do we cut each other down? To stand to taller? To look good, when more often it makes us look bad?

I think there is a triad of lessons to learn today....1) don't judge its not our job 2) don't listen to those that judge us, and 3)  as the challenge says  change your self not others....learn ways to not take the judgment so harshly (easier said then done) while we try to educate others about ourselves and continue to not to try to change them but allow them to grow.

I've meet an amazing young friend though his mom on face book recently, he too is autistic. When talking to his mom about being upset about being different his mom explained that different is OK, it made him unique.  Still having problems with some words, but no problem with the concept he was like "OK cool I'm runick". When I first heard this story, I was having a rough day of many these last few weeks, and thought "how cute", but then my thought went to well how true....being unique seems to ruin everything and here is a great mash up of words!

Then later during my quite time I looked at the words differently..."runick" turning ruin into unique.   Out of the mouths of babes!!!  I love you little man even though we haven't meet yet!

Now look into those proud eyes and tell me you can judge or want to change this child. Come on...I dare ya!!!


My challenge for the next few days....look at parts of your life you feel are ruins and figure out how to make then "runick".

Shelam and Rhaka