The Rational Rabbit Hole no. 12

Heaven and earth [as now known] will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

Matthew 24:35 AMP

Embrace the Within.

Peace to your house. The list of outside work shortened yesterday and I am much sorer today for doing such. Everything I wore yesterday bore witness to the dirtiness and nastiness of working the garden and shortening my supply chain. I started out with just clearing the grass and such away from the spots in the yard where I began planting my lemon grass and marigolds to keep down the mosquito population around the house. Then I moved on to my least favorite and the chicken’s least favorite activity, cleaning the chicken house. I moved almost a dozen wheelbarrows full of dirty cedar chips out and then replaced with fresh cedar chips making certain to keep the nests intact and my decoy eggs in place. By this point, I was rather dirty and definitely sweaty so I moved on to the next dirty part of the process and that was cleaning the rabbit hutches. That involved hosing down and moving the hutches so that rabbit manure could get dispersed throughout the plantation. This job involved a lot of hands on rabbit shit and left me extremely dirty and smelly, however, the messiest of the work for the day was completed. This only left me cleaning the spinach, lettuce, and endive out of the garden in preparation of the beds for the next planting in August. And I was a dirty mess by the end of the process.

The thing about getting dirty is that, at first, I am hesitant to dive into getting myself dirty. I take care to do things gingerly and carefully to avoid getting dirt or shit on me. BUT after a while of working and getting steadily dirtier, that apprehension about getting dirty goes away. I am already dirty so I might as well commit to the process and get things done and stop worrying about what I get on me. So I dive in and stop caring about how dirty I am. I get the work done and just let the filth pile up. I allow the messiness of the work to overtake me as I get things done.

After the work was done, I got into a hot shower and cleaned. I even took the clothes and did my washing immediately after as well yesterday. So, when I was finished with the process, there was no sign that I had been out in the garden working hard all morning. Well, my body surely felt the signs of working and cleaning that comes with the middle of the summer. BUT there were no outward signs on my clothes or on my body that I was once covered in filth.

And yesterday I mentioned how this was quite a metaphor for life because we can sure get covered in a lot of filth. And that is the thing about getting dirty when you start out clean. At first there is apprehension about getting dirty. You’re wary of getting the tiniest speck of dirt on you. BUT once you start getting dirty, you can pick up a lot of momentum. And the dirt and filth and sin just keep piling up and getting you further away from the clean person you once were. And, just like the shower and the washing machine exist to get that dirt and filth off us, there is also a way to get all that spiritual impurity and uncleanliness off of us as well through Christ’s atonement sacrifice for us. So we don’t have to walk around dirty anymore. There doesn’t need to be a sign that we were ever dirty and filthy at all. Our body remembers the time we were dirty BUT there is nothing to show externally that we were ever unclean.

Bless your body, mind, and spirit. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin

The Rational Rabbit Hole no. 11

Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is [indeed] plentiful, but the workers are few. 38 So pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

Matthew 9: 37-38

Embrace the Within.

I am seeing a lot of bitterness and anger with the government after the whole Roe vs. Wade opinion. And a lot of that anger and bitterness was prevalent on social media yesterday. I remember when I was angry at the government as well. That seems like ages ago. The time that I realized that this nation was a work perpetrated on the people. A farce of two warring factions that were both bought by the same greedy interests. That the pipe dream of a third party and change coming from politics and government was just an illusion. And it makes me happy that folks are moving to see that government is not instituted to help them. Even if it took an opinion on a court case that is misunderstood and maligned out of ignorance.

First, the opinion is based on the case Dobb vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and it is not a review of the Row vs. Wade case as it seems to be reported and purported. The opinion states simply that the Constitution does not grant a right to an abortion as it does not. You can read the Constitution for yourself if you like and it is not there. So, since the outline for how the American government is supposed to work kicks anything not assigned to the federal government back to the states, then the abortion issue goes back to the states. And there was a fear of the justices that giving people more control over their bodies would have a slippery slope of more control over their bodies to do what they deem as worse things as they state, “Attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one’s ‘concept of existence’ … could license fundamental rights to illicit drug use, prostitution, and the like.” If you didn’t know any of those things then your opinion on this whole matter, this anger and bitterness is not your own anger and bitterness. You are being manipulated. You are being manipulated to hate and anger out of ignorantly believing what others tell you. And we are all victims of that at times. We get in our own little echo chamber and like what conforms to our opinions of life and hate the opposite side. I was there hating the government too. Supporting the useless third party solutions, voting for other candidates, fighting politics with politics, all so that nothing would change in my life except getting distracted and angry at something I did not control.

I was being manipulated. And then, fourteen days ago, I started thinking differently. I started to take ownership of my freedom and stopped looking to government to accomplish these things. I had control over my own freedom. And that meant doing things differently than I had done them before. I wasn’t going to get on the internet and be angry about the government. I was going to channel that anger at myself for not doing what I should have been doing years ago. So, out of those fourteen days, I started to put myself together. I started working on my diet and my supply chain and my mind and my spirit and really take ownership of my body. The one thing those justices are worried about is “broader autonomy and to define one’s ‘concept of existence’” because it could lead to radical ideas about self ownership that would allow for horrible things like a right to prostituion, a right to use drugs, and all sorts of evil things that they see as owning your body. I have always seen a right to owning yourself as the main thing that sets people free. Sure, there are horrible things that folks can and will do when they own their bodies. They do these horrible things right now and will continue to do such. BUT there are also wonderful things that folks can do when they realize that they own their bodies. Folks can get healthy. Folks can help others. Folks can make their neighborhood, their community, their county, their state, their nation, their world better places in owning their self.

BUT, self ownership is dangerous for that reason as well. If you realize that you don’t need to vote for freedom, if you realize that your freedom doesn’t come from laws and regulations, if you realize that government gets in the way of freedom, then you start to awaken to the idea that you can do a lot better without government. And where would the Supreme Court, Congress, the White House, the alphabet soup agencies, the school system, the health department . . . . What would be the point when people who owned themselves would be able to work together. What a glorious day that will be. BUT the workers are few even though the harvest is abundant. And if you want abundance, there is going to be some work. And that work starts with and on and in you.

Bless your body, mind, and spirit. Have the day you want. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #MyBodyMyChoice #MakeYourselfGreatAgain #EmbracetheWithin