Re-solve

Hello Everyone!

I love words, but more, I love to find where they came from. The etymology of a word is usually fascinating and reveals the deeper, truer meaning of a word for reconsideration for us in the modern usage.

I am one who had Latin in high school. Back in the day when one could get an excellent education at public schools. Mind you this was in Ohio and Pennsylvania. All in all I had four years of Latin. I only wish I'd had Greek as well. The point to this is that I learned to pull words apart in order to discern their meanings and intuit a deeper meaning or an original meaning.

So I got to thinking about Resolve. It's a new year and we naturally look back over the previous year and make determinations. We liked this; we enjoyed that; we want more of this, and MUCH less of that; and by the contrast of events we choose a new desire and make our New Year's Resolutions. We Resolve. Re-solve.

So I looked for the etymology of the word and found it comes from the Latin: solvere (you're gonna love this) to free! So, re-solve is to be free again!

If you view the word "resolve" from the vantage point of "becoming free again", that meaning informs your interior state. "I'm tangled up in a web that I don't enjoy and I want FREE of it."

How different this is from making a mental declaration to yourself that I will loose 10 pounds or stop drinking or whatever.

It feels different. I feels better. It imparts an understanding of where I am and where I want to go. It gives me a mental picture of unraveling a knot and climbing out of the center of the mess, leaving the knot behind and simply walking on without it.

What do we Re-Solve?
What knot are we entangled within that we no longer enjoy or desire?

The nature of our Godchip is freedom and joy. Where do we dally with our human-mind focus that no longer serves?

Where is it time to course correct, wriggle free and skipity doo dah on down the path TOWARD the joy in more freedom.

We are so free that we can and do build our own prisons; thought prisions. We get stuck in thought patterns that hold us back, down and kill us. They don't feel good, they feel bad. Yet, we keep focusing on and in the same lifeless thought patterns. Fear, lack, disease. Enough!!!

When I get that way, I hear myself say, "Alright. Time for a new re-freshing thought." I get quiet. I breathe. and I break free of that thought pattern and allow my Godchip to inspire me in a new thought.

Let's not spend one second dismantling the thought prison, deliberating on how we got there, why this block, where this bar came from; but rather let's just slip out and breathe fresh, clean free air and create anew.

And don't look back! Remember Lot's wife? She turned to a pillar of salt. There is no point to looking back, there is only now. Are you free? If not; re-solve. Free yourself. When you're free, create anew in joy. Your Godchip is "ising" new, fresh and creative thoughts for you if you but listen.

Thanks for reading!

Kath

Infinite Possibility: Accepting the Beauty of What IS

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLVRQCjh8c&feature=related

Good Day Everyone!

A friend of mine sent me this link today. So before you even read the blog; watch the video. I cried rejoicing in the beauty of it.

If this blog, A New View, attempts to do anything at all, it is to give you a new view of appearances. The worn out cliche of "the glass being half full or half empty" is not a cliche, but a powerful directive for a happy life no matter what the appearances are.

Pollyanna called it the Glad Game. And Mary Poppins - incidentally has taken up residence at the New Amsterdam Theater in New York and is enjoying rave reviews - see this if you can.... (http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=524489&SR=sr2bw210go25667sb3729pi32ai754&gclid=CK_kk7GisJACFSFaagodHl_j8w)

Mary Poppin's view on life has been thought in Western Culture as a nice child's fairy tale. But I think in years to come that Pollyanna and Mary Poppins will be revered as the new "saints".

If you want to become more thoroughly immersed in a "new view" for life; rent the movie "Hook" as well. This should round out your new immersion in the practical and applied spirituality of joy, love and seeing your life, all of life, with new eyes.

It's a new year coming, yes? And you would agree that it's insane to keep doing what you're doing and get a different result, yes? So here it is your homework:
#1: Watch this YouTube video; follow the link and let it fill you up.

#2: Rent the movie Pollyanna, or better still...read the book by Eleanor Hodgman Porter first published in 1913. And it has a sequel!

#3. Rent the movie Mary Poppins or read the stories by P. L. Travers; and if you're lucky enough, go see the play in New York; and

#4: rent the movie "Hook" and/or read the book. (Hook : The Storybook Based on the Movie (Paperback) by Justine Korman).

Children's stories have the luxury of being accepted in their full glory of "fantasy". What's brilliant is that the wisdom in them is undiluted and it's perfectly acceptable for adults to secretly "reach down" and fill up their baskets from children's literature.(Why else do you think the library is committed to keeping what you read confidential?) Whereas when you attempt to find wisdom in adult literature, it's either not accepted there, or it's been so diluted by "rational thought" it would take a miner to find it.

What is the wisdom of children's literature? It's pure and unadulterated (now isn't THAT an interesting word?). It's speaks directly to the unclouded soul and goes straight to your heart - your Godchip - your very own Spirit, by passing your "adulterated" mind. It speaks to Who We Really Are: delight, joy, infinite possibility: LOVE....God, itself, having this marvelous physical adventure.

If "rational thought" and "human mind" had it right, I imagine the world might look a lot different than it does. To get a different result, we have to see with New Eyes and get a New View:

The one we were born with.

Thanks for reading!

Kath