“Experience is the child of thought,
and thought is the child of action.”
― Benjamin Disraeli
Every moment in life is an experience. Sometimes however we let them pass by, we become sidetracked and derailed by a much more daunting thing. What ever that thing is we miss the experience and what we could of learned.
The other thought is only after the result do we see the experience and the lesson learned.But somehow we should find a better way to pay attention. To review the steps and actions we take.
I believe I truly believe that we all want much of the same things.
We all want to be loved, to share love.
We all want to be accepted and to share acceptance.
We hunger for peace and would most importantly do anything for everyone just to 'get along' and 'put a side' those petty differences.
We would do just about anything.
If we could stop hunger, we would.
If we could stop hate, we would.
But experience tells me that we have to start with ourselves.
We have to accept others despite our differences.
We have to love each other despite the apathy that this world can breed.
Experience is what we create each and every second of the day.
So with all that experience of wanting all of the same things, you have ask why can't we just pull it all together?
With all the resources that are plentiful, why can't we just share and help each other.
Why do we have homelessness? Why do we have world hunger when we have so much food to share and to waste?
Why indeed.
So I write this during the month of Thanksgiving, when the turkeys are being frozen away. While tickets are being bought to fly back home. While the table menu is being set up may as you read this.
That is experience telling me this.
Experience we all have it. We just need to put the puzzle together with out losing any of the pieces.
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Some events to think about on this day
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
1955 – After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1962 – In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
1966 – The River Arno flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
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A recipe to share with those you love :
Source: Jamie Oliver Foundation (www.jamieoliver.com)
A prayer for today....
God help me to pay attention to my steps, to my words.
Help me and guide me with the experience that I create everyday from my actions.
Give me eyes and ears to listen better.
Give me patience to speak less.
Guide me through my steps and help me to become a better keeper of myself and those around me.
I love and praise I share your name - - Amen
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