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05/06/2004: "Taking our Community back through Personal Responsibility"
I just heard of yet another incident of our crazed preoccupation with our need to have an exterior source to blame. A mother with her daughters went to the neighbor who had 2 domestic wolves to ask if her daughters could photograph them for a school project. The neighbor said they could not go into the yard, as the wolves were not familiar with children but could perhaps photo from outside the fence. They returned later to do so, and finding the neighbor on the phone who asked them to wait, one little girl went to the fence on her own and was bitten by one of the wolves. The mother is pressing charges against the neighbor.
Now, my question is, how will this assist anyone involved in living in their highest joy? I see that our need for safety has infiltrated our belief systems so far to the core that it has replaced our entire society base from freedom to fear .......... 
The illusion is that some exterior source is responsible for keeping us safe. We have given our power to the government to make sure that every person, place and thing is made responsible for our safety instead of simply living the experiences that are presented to us every day, every minute. Why are we so incredibly afraid of having experiences when having experiences is the single most greatest benefit we gain by being in these bodies?
I say, WE CAN CHANGE this exhaustive way of living and have much more juice to create joy in our lives by simply taking our choices back!!! Rejoice in our experiences; comfort each other when they are hard; find more ways to open doors and embrace the human experience of comapssion as they open. See safety as the illusion that it is! The only thing that can keep us "safe", should that be what we are choosing, is our OWN INTERNAL PERCEPTION of what safety is. This is where we can influence our entire world. We have the power, the gift, the natural sense to perceive. We need to exercise that muscle in order to live happy, fullfilled lives.
Perhaps the family would benefit more by going over and embracing the neighbor in their shared grief and cry on the porch together for a while. Wouldn't a group hug feel better than a cold piece of paper, be it a summons, cold cash or an attorney's bill? Even listening to this story, you can make a choice of what energy you embrace in the face of the experience of reading about it and start a change in our suffering world community. I have. I choose the group hug, thank you.
Choosing to feel the fear and hug anyway, Lynn 
