http://doninlondon.com May 1 2007 Life HappensMedia news is all about war, the current leaders and their decision making, the state of terrorism and the truth that governments are made up of ordinary people with a bit of knowledge and some might suspect, little wisdom to do the next right thing.People forget the past so easily, the lessons of history as current leaders of countries are ready to make their own history.Blair and his judgments which he suggests will be for he and God to discuss on his entry into heaven. Bush utilises the same God argument. Yet God in the same breath can be the culprit because God apparently made us all.Were we made to make war? I think not. We are all of nature and providence and more than this we have our intelligence. How can the world be so when indeed the only elements which make our world so is us? God, providence and nature has nothing to with war. Mankind wars on itself, bickers and makes every mistake through generations and now it seems over two millennia we know a lot about war and little about peace and harmony.Are we so shallow we cannot learn? Or is it that every generation must re-enact all that has happened before over and over again.I fear we must as we learn through our living and doing. We are not so clever are we? From backyard disputes and to nations and ideology, religion and every part of life, our ego's they drive us to war and famine as much to rich in life experience and spiritual connections.How long will it be? So many generations and still no end to conflict. Hitler died this day in 1945. We have learn nothing from the last world war. And still now we do not see war is constant as mankind blunders and is blind to innate prejudice and a clarion call to the rightness of secular argument and religious dogma. Old wisdoms are only learned through living. Where heaven might provide respite, I doubt it will anything like our poor imaginings. Constant conflicts assured its good we don't all take up arms at once, or there would be no humanity and no human endeavour to chronicle and no way to break our patterns of self destruction. We have more generations to go, some day in a far off and distant future our progeny may read of great changes to the good of good conscience. Till then don't hold your breath.Man made God and god made man, one day we will see the Universe a different way, and recognise we are of little importance to anything but ourselves. Egocentricity defeats reason and science as easily as faith and courage make living a spiritual path in this ever present, present moment, our true connection to Nature and Providence. God is busy elsewhere..April 30 - May 1 2007Be True To Yourself - DonInLondon 'Day in the Life'It's the end of April, and having reflected on many aspects of how April has been, there have been significant steps forward. And significant high points and lows points. In fact when I write it out, the lows are also as important as the highlights. I learn from both.The good of helping others has been to their benefit. Not to mine. Indeed helping very unhappy and ill people is not good at all when it really undermines and pulls me down to places I can access without too much trouble myself. I may know the answers and the process of what I might do, at the same time I know that there are many services out there I utilise for the same reasons. Yet many don't simply because it might get them labelled as this or that.My labels, recovering alcoholic, type 1 diabetic and clinical depression affected. Well if you did not know from looking at me which is often true, you would never realise just what I do have to contend with on a daily basis.Resilience can be very thin and these days burnout on some elements of living to make it appropriate for me to put myself in harms way. As many don't see or I don't often share, well its just not worth it some of the time.What has opened my eyes most in April is how some people are truly in need of help, some people are not very able to deal with reality, and some people are quite deluded. And maybe I am too. Yet deluded can be a safety measure, not one I would recommend. Truth is my actual recommendation as often as one can be, and be aware of many instances we don't express the truth because of others feelings.Where there is likelihood of veils and deceptions for all the right reasons it still makes me shudder.OverallThis month has made me very aware of elaborate falsehoods, deeply hurt people and very sad outcomes where truth is very elusive and reality is denied. I need not delve in those deeps of shady goings on. And if I do, either by accident or by some manipulation, all I need do is move along, accept where things are and overall find safe ground again.SpiritualSome people still have a fascination with mystical goings on when it comes to spiritual development. In my programme rigorous honesty is the actual foundation and not how to make things look like 'spiritual'.I have seen so much in this month now ending I am still processing exactly what has occurred in me. Certainly I am wiser, and certainly I have almost found moments where I lost the plot through others manipulations.Advice to selfWhen losing my way or danger is about, ask a policeman. When others have left me holding nothing but hope that they may survive, as the Samaritans to give me perspective. When invited out, make sure I know what for and why and what type of event it may be. And always make sure of good safe ways out where many fail to understand what is dangerous to someone like me and what is acceptable to keep me on track. I have enough mentors thankfully and enough to make the next few days simple and straightforward and not full of other peoples problems and deceptions.Keep faith with open honest and willing endeavours, let go that which undermines and takes away the truth of life. So many truths I have seen swept away in the struggle just to appear right and acceptable, when honesty would have served far more easily than any of the deceptions I have seen first hand.Be kindYes be kind, find acceptance and forgive, and above all let go. Love is as perennial as the grass... Desiderata works for me!

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