Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come
'Tis Grace hath brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home

May you Be with Grace

ted's translation of the

Tao Te Ching

The Way

There is ENERGY

This energy is INFINITE

Even though we cannot really conceive of this, it is this way

This energy is made of movement and substance
These are uniform
These make Matter
Without matter, there is no Time

When there is matter
there is time
there is change

Even tho change is constant and uniform

Change brings differentiation

There are concentrations and there are vaccuums
There are expansions and there are contractions
There is slowing down and speeding up
One of these qualities cannot exist without the other

This change, this unfolding, is the way of energy

The Ways this energy manifests itself are with huge areas of nothing
It also shows itself with interstellar gasses and stars and black holes and planets and everything we have on our planet.

The Universe cannot be measured

There are an uncountable number of stars
There are uncountable planets around those stars
A very small percentage of them can support life
These ones that can are also uncountable
There are billions of beings on each planet at any given moment

Within the life of a planet there is an uncountable number of beings

Me, as my unique self, cannot be born again, but there will always be others

Always

and Everywhere.

I can be assured there will always be rebirth.

The delemma of being is not that it will end
It's that it won't end

When we've been here ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing our praise
Than when we've first begun.

The problem is not 'dieing'
The problem is 'not living'

Grace is the way, the unfolding, the Tao
"We are here by the grace of god"
Grace can also be described as the harmonious flowing with the unfolding or

Being with the harmonious flowing of the unfolding.

If i want to BE with grace, i must be balanced.
I can't be out of balance and be graceful, now can i?

If i try to be graceful, i will do something that i can judge as not being graceful

If i remain balanced, all i do will be graceful.
(That was pretty Tao Te Ching-like, wasn't it?)

If i wish to not fight against the unfolding, and, rather, flow with it...

...I accept that it is happening
To always be ready to accept what is happening, I offer acceptance

...I maintain balance
I can remain balanced by not being extreme,
by being patient,
by remaining centered
Balance brings me to Being with Grace
Offering acceptance lets me remain with Grace.
I do not think of being as a constant state, but as an unfolding, like movement in one place.

Are you a human Being or a human Doing?

or possibly a human Dancing?

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Way to go....

Poor Grace, she has no mind.
she was never born, she'll never die
because she is infinite, i can't really conceive of her
and, yet, i love her
precious Grace

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

May you be with Grace

I've gotta go Be