Unseen Company

When the hard times of our lives make it hard to have hope, it helps to think we are not alone. Not only to think there are others who are in similar situations around the planet, but also people who have had their own lifetimes of troubles to live through, and beings who perhaps understand the often long, hard process of growing up strong in mind and spirit.

I don't trust any church or organization of good will like I once would have. It seems to me that too many of them focus on the life to come, and leave the present life to those who care about it just as much as the next life. Of course, another thing I've struggled with due to religious influences, is whether or not to believe in a next life, especially one in some form of spirit body that I already exist within, and can use whenever my physical body seems to fail me.

To be honest, even though I have lost a lot of respect for religious institutions and in many ways their teaching programs, I still find myself openly willing to confess that I believe Christ lived, died, and rose again. I'm not certain the written story is the full account, or the absolute truth, but I firmly believe there is a certain amount of truth behind most myths. Some are easier to believe than others though.

Despite my faith in Christ, I do not agree with a number of creeds which distinguish christians from others. In fact, more often than not, I would probably find myself on the side of the others. But I don't think anyone should have to take sides in any place for any reason. Humankind should have only one side to ally with, our side. If there are gods, goddesses, angels or aliens out there, then I hope they take our side as well, as we forge the future that our children will have to live in.

Which brings me to the point. Our children will have to live in a future we are currently designing and planning, from big governments planning big changes or little changes, to individual people making their own little plans. From non profit organizations trying to feed everyone, to church groups trying to save every soul that wanders the Earth in flesh and blood.
What I want for our children is for all of these groups and individuals to work for a better tomorrow. One that is more like the 'heaven' we dream about whisking off to when the rest of the world turns into a collection of mushroom clouds. I personally think that is the goal of those beings and spirits who help us in our daily lives. One by one, time after time, they do things to change us for the better, and that in turn slowly builds a better future.
I want people to be able to live without many of the cares and concerns I have, unless it becomes absolutely necessary that they get a spiritual 'slap in the face' to wake them up from self-involved daydreams about what would make their lives better. I also want everyone on earth to become more closely in tune with the Divine Presence that exists within each of us, and that permeates the universe all around us. I think that would be for the best.

One of the most important lessons I think we can take from the life of Christ is this: Each person is the Temple of God, not that building built by men. We should honor and cherish one another as one would honor and cherish another holy temple to the same God. As we grow more used to seeing God within each other, perhaps it will get easier to see God hiding in the trees, the fields of grass, the clouds in the sky (including that one that looks like a rabbit). I say let's do it, and if not for one another, then for our children. Life will still be full of pain, suffering, and death, but at least we can work together against it, as a single human body, perhaps even the Body of Christ.

Redeeming the Night

Shadows and darkness have been tainted to the human mind for centuries now. It is an unfortunate misunderstanding or deliberate attempt to cut the universe down into managable parts. One of my favorite ideals expressed through the wonderful work of J.R.R. Tolkien is the redemption of the night. Once the abode and retreat of evil things, when filled with the glory and presence of sacred and holy beings, even the night and shadows can be a place of comfort and peace if not of joy as well. I know for a fact that there is one moment every day when I enjoy the embrace of darkness, of shadows. When I lay down to sleep, nothing helps me fall asleep faster than laying down to see almost nothing at all, then slowly, it all fades away. Sometimes I play, trying to hold my eyes open as long as I dare, and the dark shadows always had a way of seeming to grow, to spread out as they swallowed everything in the room. Now I think this 'trick of the eye' happens as my eyelids slowly close up while I try to hold them open without even a blink to keep me from witnessing the growing darkness.

Is it too far a stretch to think of goodness, of hope hidden within the darkness all about our lives? I do not think so. I think it has been said before that there is evil that presents itself as 'an angel of light'. Is it too much to think that if evil can dress in white robes, that perhaps good beings can hide in the multitudes of shadows? That the dark spaces between the lights of the heavens could be filled with an overabundance of joy, and hope?

Perhaps there is places where darkness and light are full of good, and places where darkness and light are full of evil. Maybe, just maybe, our world, or universe as we call it, could be hovering somewhere in between. Like the thick blanket falling over me as I lay down to sleep, I will find hope in the darkness, just as much as I find hope in the stars and the moon at night, and the sun that rises in the day.

Another benefit to the darkness, another blessing bestowed by the Architect of this manifestation of life, and this is only theoretical, is the sight beyond the physical world. When we can not see with our physical eyes, I believe it is often easier to see with our spiritual eyes. In a similar fashion, silence could be considered darkness to the ears. When there is nothing for the physical ears to hear, we can listen with our spiritual ears more easily.

Of course, the simplest illustration to the blessings of the night, of darkness and shadow, is perhaps that even the most horrible bad day will come to an end, and we will have a chance to rest in the night, before another day dawns.

Belief

I believe the world is getting better. It is far from perfect, but also far from absolute ruin. I believe we can make so many little miracles happen with our own faith, that God and all the angels of the heavens and earth will not have to intervene because of a horrible extreme emergency. I believe deep deep down, everybody wants to believe these things too. Once we start to believe anything else, we allow ourselves to glimpse horror after horror as evil multiplied by evil, and we fall under the idea that any high tide in evil is only the beginning of an exponential curve that will only end with mass destruction on social, economic, environmental, spiritual and physical levels.

I believe that is a spirit of fear that others too often bear, and try to share that burden with us. I believe it is time to take a high road of faith. I believe it is time to believe in God, His Angels, and ourselves as instruments of miracles, instruments of glory, instruments of love. I believe it is time to say that the dawn is ever before us, this sunrise will last for an eternity. I believe we should look at that sunrise, seemingly frozen in our minds as a future event, and realize that it is coming, and everything is being flooded with a brilliant light full of life, love, and hope. I believe it is time for humankind to lay down our heavy burden of fear and hatred, and embrace Eternal Hope, with a smile.

Not just another statistic

This time, I will say a little bit more about myself than I plan to in the blogs I write. More often, you should get a better glimpse of my train of thought, and thereby discover mystery by mystery more about my beliefs, ideas, and why I am becoming a constant source of eternal hope.

For now though, let me tell you about a sometimes pretty lonely guy. Alright, I am married, I do live with my wife's parents. How could I possibly be lonely? Because one of my best friends is a machine. Pick one, the computer, or the X-Box. Either way, I actually do try to spend an hour or so a day playing some game which pits my wits against the cold hard logic of a computer, who is programmed to cheat (sometimes). But a computer can get downright predictable sometimes. Especially when you learn where everything is and what works best against this thing or that. Eventually you start daydreaming and exploring alternative ways to entertain yourself when you no longer feel excited to fight forever and ever against the same old computer A.I.

Don't get me wrong, I want to play against other humans. I have tried to talk my wife into it several times. It doesn't seem to be working. I can't afford any kind of fast internet connection, and I have already found out my slow internet connection (and sometimes antiquated equipment) is not competitive to other people online. Unfortunately, most of the people I meet locally do not play the games I am addicted to either. So I am left playing alone, and wondering how many times I will die by the virtual hands of the computer before I manage to get the flag from his base to mine.

Which is precisely why I took upon myself the nickname Statistic. I decided it sounded better than Target, which is already taken by a big company too. Besides, even though a statistic isn't usually the 'winner' of a game, I can still be a better statistic than someone else.

The name Statistic also bears to me a solemn reminder that my life is slowing fading, moment by moment I am closer to joining those who have already kept the legacy of one of the greatest statistics known to man, ten out of ten people die. I firmly believe that death is like a gateway, an interdimensional gateway that we pass through, in spirit. The body has to be left behind. One day it will be all over, for this sack of meat. But I'll go on. Maybe, I will get to come back to Earth again too. After years of planning, thinking, growing, I will decide to play this "game of Life" again, and I'll do what I do when I die over and over in my favorite video games. I'll press the Start button again.

Until then, this game isn't over, and I'm out to make this Statistic absolutely Legendary. If I can do it, so can you. Chances are, you are Legendary to somebody else. That is what this blog is all about really. You are Legendary to someone else. There is somebody in your life who is Legendary. If we could realize how much we encourage others by just being ourselves and playing the game, never giving up; if we could glimpse how Legendary we can be to others, then maybe we'd all be able to ride through life on rivers of Eternal Hope.

Golden Fuzion Coins

The Golden Fuzion Coins were a small project I started, essentially, to tap into my 'spiritual abundance' and realize just how 'rich' I really am, I decided to 'create money'. I spent several days designing a coin to perfectly express just how rich I really am, just how blessed. On these coins I expressed my deepest beliefs, or at least, the most basic beliefs I currently hold strongly to. Even then I had to make the wording almost cryptic. Still, I realized these coins could be inspirational to others, showing them the value the universe, God, and the rest of us put into them existing alongside the rest of us. While alive, we interact within many different perspectives of what is meaningful, and why. But I think there is a more fundamentally basic perspective, the 'eternal hope' perspective. In this perspective, we are all very valuable, as an active part of the universe our value is nearly incalculable. If only we all agreed on that! Every person, every creature, has so much more value than we often willingly give them.
But we can change, can't we? Well, that is debatable. Some say yes, some say no. I think that perhaps there is some truth to both. Some things, within us, or beyond us, we can change, and some things we can not change. Personally, the things about myself that others would think I should change, don't change often because my personal desire to change them is too wishy-washy. One day I may hate myself because I did this. The next day I may simply love being myself, and I willingly forgive anything I may have done recently, especially because part of me remembers that little 'evil' in a fond light. But there are things about me that have changed, and for one month or so, those around me almost couldn't stand me and my 'changed' beliefs. When I decided my 'faith' was doing more damage than good, I changed my beliefs, to something more, basic.
So some things can change, some can not, perhaps. Still, I will describe the Golden Fuzion Coins I created, and allow you to change or not change your perspective on the value all of creation places on each of us at birth, if not before.

Side One: A dull golden-yellow colored disk with a spray of brighter yellow and white to give it an almost 'burning sun' like look. Over this basic background is a purple/blue spiral spray that illustrates universal energy of which we are all a part. Somewhere around the center is the Statistic Angel Egg image, the cloudy image of an egg, with smoky wing-like protrusions, and a halo. Along the outer edge of the coin is the value, 1,000,000,000,000,000. That is roughly a thousand trillion units ( I personally think 'dollars'). Along the edge, starting after the value, is the phrase, "Believe it's always spiritually abundant." The idea is that this is our value to the universe, and it is always willing to give us a dividend or something based on this value, we just have to believe it, and ask for it, and look for it. Unfortunately, most of us may have trouble translating this spiritual currency into U.S. Currency. But let's deal with that later.

Side Two: The same background, all the way up to the spiral. Instead of the Angel Egg, I have the 'plump smile'. Imagine one of those Buddha statues where he is smiling almost like a little, chubby baby. The eyes fade into what looks like two frowns, but they are the eyes smiling 'from ear to ear'. The mouth is a smile, that fades into the chubby dimples on each side of the face. The impression is supposed to be sheer joy, a fountain of happiness. Along the outer edge is the words, "Love Laugh Learn Live Always" and the phrase, "You Are Worth It!" That is the basic idea of the Golden Fuzion Coin.

Now for the story. I had intended to print these out on cardstock paper, two sided color. But the images of each coin, never alligned. The first side was a few millimeters off from the second side. I feared I could not even cut them out. I actually only printed one sheet, then hesistated between throwing it away, and keeping it as a reminder that these paper coin ideas of mine don't translate well into print. But then my wife was cleaning out the car, and found my sheet of Golden Fuzion Coins. She liked them, like I had, but decided she would cut them out. She cut out one side, then flipped the paper over, and cut out the closest image of the second side. Then she glued the two sides together. I realized that this had been possible the whole time, but I had never considered it. My own faith in the value of these coins had been shaken when they didn't 'turn out as expected'. Because of that, I almost ended up throwing out a sheet of Golden Fuzion Coins, which, is spiritually estimated at around at least 27 thousand trillion dollars. But I helped her cut them out, and now, I have a handful of Golden Fuzion Coins to pass out to a few people, and maybe help them see how valuable they are to the rest of us. I can print more, cut them out, glue them together, and send them to people, but it'll cost 'real' money. Since I can't take one to the bank and 'deposit' it, I just have to work to earn 'real' money, or someone has to send it to me with a note "hey I want as many Golden Fuzion Coins as possible". Well, if you want to see one, or buy a sheet's worth, e-mail me.

Update: As you can see above, I have made this post fresh with the inclusion of the Golden Fuzion Coins back and front sides. Now everyone can view them online before deciding to order their own or as many as they can afford to give away to friends, family, and strangers. I'll go ahead and say it here, you'll probably see this image again throughout internet advertising sites as I advertise my Golden Fuzion Coins. (:

Shining Stars

Here is a song, based on a short quote I thought of while making a nice background for my computer. The background turned out great, but I thought the quote could use a little elaboration, so I made it into a song.

I was there, when it all began.

I watched as the sun set.

I stood beside you, and fought.

Among the moons we watched the sun cough and die.

I was there, in deepest shadows.

I watched the moons leave.

I stood beside you, and fought.

Among the clouds we watched the moons shatter.

I am here, in a night without end.

I stare up into a universe of lights.

I stand beside you, and we'll fight.

For the billions of stars that are left.

Don't you see, don't you see them shine?

They shine brighter, brighter than ever before.
They shine for you, they shine for me,

They shine down upon this lone planet,

and sing still a song of hope.

Won't you see, won't you see us shine?

Let's shine brighter, brighter than ever before.
Let's shine for you, let's shine for me,

Let's shine down upon this lone planet,

and sing still a song of hope.

Somewhere a star is born.

Somewhere moons are caught.

The death of all we knew,

is just the start of something new.
Let's start over, let's start something new.

Let's shine for you, let's shine for me,

let's shine down upon this lone planet,

and sing now a song of hope.

That's the song. I think it tells the story well enough. Beings, fighting for life, and light, fought through the heartbreak of losing their sun, then the moons (I think in their lands, the moons still glowed at night magically after the sun died). Even after they lost those symbols of light and life that were the brightest in their sky, and indeed, the source of their 'day', they choose to keep fighting against the odds to save the rest of the stars in the sky above. I think it is a great and noble sense of what we should all dare to live like. Let's shine, and sing a song of hope.

Never Give Up

Life is like a war. We fight, and fight, and fight, with all we have and sometimes anything we pick up from the bodies of our comrades who have already fallen. Unlike the other wars on Earth though, this one begins when we are born, and ends when we die. We live through campaign after campaign, mission after mission, battle after battle. Still the war goes on. Many of us will fight for decades, some for centuries. A few will fight for a few years, then kill themselves in despair. I wish no one considered that an option. Throughout this battle, we get to enjoy countless moments of joy, peace, love, and otherwise momentary euphoria. My hope is that those of you who read this will be encouraged, to fight until the very end. To spend every last minute you will have fighting, and enjoying this fight. Get the most out of it that you can. Learn every move, every tactic, and of course, everything it will teach you about yourself. Never Give Up. Lose a battle. Lose a mission. Lose a campaign. But don't give up. Every loss will teach us more than a thousand victories ever could. Never Give Up, and win as much as you possibly can before it is over. After this battle ends with our death, we take every lesson and experience with us. These are our spoils. Enjoy them now, and forever.