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May 11, 2003
        There is a list of work that you want to do before you are through on Earth--or there is not? Who will strive longer, harder, and more frequently to improve this life of the two groups? Which group do you belong to?
       Now, with a minute to spare, what do you do to breathe air into your lungs and distribute it better than you ever did? Is that not a worthy change you can make at any stage along the line? Why do you not do it? You believe that God will take you when it is time, but you do not really believe that. You whine and cry when God takes those whom you love most and leaves behind others whom you do not care anything about then. Why not adopt a theory and stick to it now?
       If you believe in God and believe that you do not need any plan to live grandly, then let God provide you with everything from this time forward. Stop praying and asking for more. If you believe that God needs you to develop a plan that is in God's mind and you are a part of that art, then
explore your world more and live through every experience and think about it as a lesson in being-whatever.
       Today, develop a thought all the way through and it always ends up back with you.
Ruth Lee, Scribe

May 10, 2003
        Thinking about your own problems solves some, but actually doing something and then coming back to review what you thought might do it really solves it. You need time to develop a thought and let it travel all the way through your spine and back to your brain so that it encourages all of your thought processes to become involved. To react immediately, seemingly without thought, takes time to develop if it is to be of any great use to you usually. For this reason, children should be coached on how to expect the best, but have the patience to win.
       You have the best way of living inside your mind and it is all about you and the time it takes to make it come through and become you, but so many are not patient enough to use all that they have got. You can change. You can move what you have. You can do it, but it all takes patience and willingness to postpone what is going to work in a timely way rather than what seems to be the quickest, easiest way. Mastering a plan is what comes first. After that it is just the manifestation of a dream.
Ruth Lee, Scribe

May 9, 2003
       There is no way to drop out of the race, so hold up your head and walk tall and ask for no one to give you any break at all--or fall into making up lies and alibis about why you are not able to keep up with everyone else. You cannot afford to just stop anymore. If you worked daily at whatever
makes a living for you and your family, too, you will get ahead by the time you are 80 if you do not fall into one of the pits or break. You will find that money pits mine the path of life and everyone has the means to fall into one or more of them.
       What pit has you in it or was able to lure you to mess yourself with it for a time? Gambling away all your pay? Drinking to excess and not being able to remember what day you had to be at work again? Sitting and doing nothing with your time? Working your tongue out talking rough about those who would otherwise have hired you and helped you to succeed in time? What was it that got you lost or lost your dollars as you walked? Think of those who have amassed much and they all started out small. Every one of them had less than you have now.
       When you whine or complain, remember, others remember. You might later regret that you said you were unable to do much, or had no education because you chose not to go, or that you rejected what your family taught to go your own way at home every day or so, or you are not willing to work as hard as many others and take the risk in the event that it will pay off big someday. You know what you are able to do, so do it today. Get into the race. Move every brain cell you have and take advantage of whatever edge God created inside your mind and gave you to use over time.
Ruth Lee, Scribe

May 8, 2003

         There is a view of the world that you need to keep in your heart…God Created the Earth. Keep that ever present as you use it and do not deny it ever.

        Once you find that you are not the Lord of all you survey, will you begin to change your mind about taking all that you find and using it immediately for whatever you alone think it can be sold for more? Will you change the domain and keep it as if in a picture frame without consideration to the lack of rain or to the fact that it always rains? Will you be able to resist the fashion and the business of keeping up with the proverbial Jounces? Probably not, but you can at least begin to teach the young that it was not wise to cut up every thing in sight and to deliberately remove everything that reminds you of the past-over and over again until nothing lasts that is a part of your heart?
        Today, save one remnant of your future. Do not use up one single tulip or put it away to be seen by no one else but you. Instead, paint it in crayon or water color or whatever and see if it reminds you always of what you did this one solitary day.
Ruth Lee, Scribe


May 7, 2003

        There is nothing you are going to say that will take away the desire to be in charge if that is what is uppermost in your heart. You will talk and talk and try to even lie, but it will come out and you might as well admit it from the start. Admit what you are. Be that person and star.
       When you try to dilute you and make you more like the average or the mean, you lose something in-between the changes. You cannot just exist? You came arranged to have a say and to be able to compete for whatever you need, but not to move others to give up everything they have so you can have it all. That is the selfish mind and not the intellect or the belief system that is at work then.
       So, why do some want so much and others willingly give it to them? You have to analyze the political system and sense when it is in danger or doing too little for you and asking for too much from you in ways that are hidden from sight. You may say you do not pay that much in taxes today and find you have far less money than ever before and your income is threatened over and over again. That is extremely taxing on you as an individual and negligent when it comes to maintaining an infrastructure that you all need.

       Support those who actually do work. Give them a hand. Help them to get ahead, but not to lose their minds over time and begin the same vicious cycle over again.
Ruth Lee, Scribe


May 6, 2003
        There is never enough time for chores if you find them a total bore and you have not been taught how to pick up after yourself and not think about it at all then. You have to be taught most things or you will learn only what appears to be the lesson and not what it actually means.
       To select a pattern and seek out those that can work with it and never clash takes lots of action and laughter. If you always greet every day with a sneer, less than your best, or any other negative reaction, you cannot know love. You will only grow into thinking of your self and what you do best and who you might use. That defies all attempts by others to love you for the best that you are.
       Instead of being able to bed any man or woman you meet, try instead to see if you can greet them and see inside them and love them for what they are. Instead of hating them, think about what they are. Instead of going so far as to say you are better by far, go inside their minds and seek out God and admire what you see and find.
      Now, as you adapt to a new week of work and a new belief that is going to work, you can begin to move your mind to mend. Yes, the mind rips and finds tears are not good. You may believe that crying about your problems clears your mind, but it upsets everyone else who might otherwise want to help. Do not cry unless you have done everything else that you alone can do to make the situation better today.
      That is the lesson. Do not boast, obviously, or we will come after you and make you see the error of that, but that is what comes when you hide what you are and think others will listen. We know you do not listen, so do not bother to even think about following that route.
Ruth Lee, Scribe

May 5, 2003
       Take your life and look at it under a microscope and you are either happy as you are or discontent and wish to be as others are. You are then going to stop your own power and begin to become someone who is not able to do all that is within you and will fail as a clone of whomever it is you envy or are jealous of then.
       Jealousy is not the private reserve of women, but most men learn early that to be so jealous of another man as to hurt themselves is not going to work. Why would women continue to be jealous of others because they have been born with a different face or body type? Why would anyone be jealous of a woman because she chooses to live in a way that is not healthy and is given no way of returning to perfect health just because for a day or two in her life she had it made. Every woman has her day, but some fritter it away and others use it over and over and never develop another way. What to say?
      Tell all to love the way they are and not to be so afraid as to be jealous of another. Fear begets what you call envy and jealousy, but it is a definite way to end all friendships and to end in death, so do not let it into you or keep it around at all now. Jealous fits are bound to end your line to God
before its time.
Ruth Lee, Scribe

May 4, 2003
        Thinking of your own life as a masterpiece is not enough. You have to want to be able to master life and to pass it and be able to ascend to a greater being when it is ended. You cannot if you are not at all concerned about what you do all day or who you watch when at play or what satisfies your needs.
     You may think that having friends who are lesser than you are is nice because you can always feel so much better than them, but it is not going to end that way. They will rise ever so slightly from your being superior to them, but what will they give you to help you rise then? Nothing much and
probably will take you down a bit instead.
     What you cannot afford to do any more is sit and cry and mope and poke others about what you think is wrong with your life. You have only one life to live at a time, so make the most of it and if you must, pretend it is better than it is. In time, you become what you think you are. So, be wise, advertise that you are smart, witty, charming, decent, able to do much and very soon your mind will try to oblige and others will believe your 'lies'.
Ruth Lee, Scribe


May 3, 2003
        Think about your life and your work and you will see that they either coincide or you are tired all the time. If you are cheerful, happy, content, and believe in others as much as yourself, you are ready to find God in all that is created around you. If not? You will pick apart everyone and everything that bothers you then. You cannot find love in others. Love exists within you or it does not exist then. You cannot expect sex to make up for your loss of faith in what you set out to do yourself, but some can become so addicted to the sense that they are in charge and can wield power  over others with sex that they become asexual in time, too. You cannot ignore the flowers anymore. Think of them and the power of romance that they weave into every evening event and you will see that flowers are disappearing every hour and yet another bower opens up and represents all of them.
      Do your best. Flower and then let another take your place and represent the race. Do not try to outlive or out do others, but support them when it is their time to do what you also did in your prime. Time is what you have to make up in your mind, but be more secure. Be assured and assume that you will be able to leave as a group when your time is through--if you all work as a tribe must do to survive.
       Today, look into your mind and select a time when you can best connect to God and live in your heart. You do not have time to let life take away every day and put nothing back into You.
Ruth Lee, Scribe


May 2, 2003

        Think of all the work you have done for others and then divide it in half and do that over and over again until you get to what you believe they have done for you and you will see how quickly you forget good deeds and begin to expect them. You cannot be elected to a position of power without lots of friends and you cannot afford enemies in any endeavor if you wish to get ahead, but many today actually go out of their way to make enemies-over and over again. Why?
       What ego trip must an individual be on to assume that just because someone is not exactly like them that they are not as equal? What ego trip must you be on to assume you are better than others just because you went to college or your mother and father had more than others? You have to see that is never taken into consideration when you are entered into the book of time.

       There you are guided to do things that will open your mind and help you to develop whatever you need to be more spiritual than you are when you enter this world. This world is a kind of ego state in which the mind is asked to help guide you and help you to succeed without getting in the way, but today most minds are over extended and doing too much talking and not enough listening to find the right path home.
       Today, as you sit and watch the world around you, go into your spine and analyze what you have collected there over time. Try to see that it is not going to be a world power or a global war that destroys you or your family over time, but your minds. Now, with that in your mind, try to analyze why you do not do what is best, too, then take a rest.
Ruth Lee, Scribe


May 1, 2003

    Think of all the worldly individuals who populate your space and you will find the most sophisticated and powerful ones do not run over others. They  are not so much sitting and waiting, but demanding and expecting respect which will in time be directed to them. It happens that way. When the young and foolish and drunk among you finish running at the mouth and doing whatever they want, the rest present then can do business and work through whatever needs to be done. This is no different from ancient times and is significantly present in modern days, but not usually noticed as much as we are calling your attention to it now.

        If you want to become rich and famous and have it all in the proverbial sense, you must never lose your wits. That means that most who get off to the wrong start or get too much when they begin to do their work are ruined by it. The effect of too much is to make the individual languish and not pursue enough what they might otherwise want to do.
       If you were able to write a novel and it was an immediate success, what  lesson would you learn from it? Nothing that would help your art. You would, in fact, think you were the reason you were able to do it. You would not bother to increase your production or increase your abilities or strive to please the public that reads your work. Instead, your ego would become so  increasingly eager for stimulation that you might even forget why you think so highly of yourself now.
       So, today, to keep the world sane, keep your mind in line. Do not overestimate you and what you do. Think through what you contribute to your own peace of mind and to the peace of this world. What are you actually doing for others now? Why? Once you have a firm grip on your own reality, then sit and let it go. Sift through what you know, not what you want to be when you are able to change the way you live today.
Ruth Lee, Scribe


April 30, 2003
        There is never a way to avoid excess and abuse if that is what you are bent on doing and you intend to do. How do people get to the point that they become so perverted that they thwart everyone who raised them and produce violence or offenses that have no excuse for committing them?
        Try spoiling a good child just once and see how long before the child wants more. Watch to see the face contort and the screams set in when you begin to try to please or appease one who would have been strong and good if not for your desire to please them instead of use good sense in contributing to their growth patterns then.
       Today, eliminate anything that makes another dependent, resentful, or demanding and you will have triumphed and helped someone live well.
Ruth Lee, Scribe

April 29, 2003

        Think of your work as an extension of your birth. You have come to this plane and place and time in order to learn-what? What did it ordain when you came into the world and saw whomever would then guide you through cleverness and pride into what you now do? Did you heed them or did you exert your own personality on them and become something different from what was planned?

       If you have been the one guiding those who raised you, you know that you have come full circle and have not much more to learn, but if they still are guiding you and you are much over the age of 28, you probably are not independent and able to make your own way. Why would you place this mind in jeopardy by not assuming responsibility?

       When you deny you are an adult and seek to stay as young as you possibly can, you deny the adult time to develop and achieve all the greatness it wants and needs to be free of family and generations of people who came before you. Today, look at those who stray away from what they came to be and see disinterested parents and people who are not willing to take care of anyone who needs them now. You have to wonder what you will do with them if they become dependent upon those around them.

       What do you intend? Do you think the State should work and solve the problems of families because they cannot? What do you want?
Ruth Lee, Scribe


April 28, 2003

         Twice in your life, at the very least, you will be given a prize and the price will not be high. But, if you refuse to capitalize on the prizes or to use your gifts, they can wither and die. Will you then be resupplied? That is probably not the way to adjust to such a life. Instead, ask what you should do when the day comes when you can suddenly do whatever you want to do.

       Ask what you will need then. Ask for help along the path. Do not forget that God is in your heart and able to help, but only when asked, for this is this life's task-to find the answers and find them fast. What if you go through life without ever finding a single friend or mentor or anyone who would help you then? It would mean that you have not cut out a path that requires others to help. If you had, you would have found mentors provided all the way along the path. God provides when you need someone by your side, otherwise, you walk alone or you shun those who would help you.

Ruth Lee, Scribe


 


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