Shannon and I walked into the post office and there was Santa’s Mailbox. I was told by the post lady that all the children that send Santa a letter get a letter back from Santa.
There’s a lot going on right now with the Canada Post. Changes are coming. And it’s important to remember that Canada Post has been there for all of us for generations, my mom actually worked for Canada Post many many years ago. You probably have family or friends or someone you know or have known that works or has worked for the Post Office, my mom passed away many ears ago.
In small rural communities like the one we live in right now the Post office is a centre. Our mail and packages come to our post box at the Post Office and we come to collect them and say hello.
This is Canada, where terrain weather and population density vary extremely, we still help out our neighbour and we work at being good to one another. It’s been snowing here everyday for almost two weeks come Tuesday, we’ve got about three feet of snow.
I grew up in Toronto, cities are different from tiny towns and rural communities but we all rely on Canada Post to bring us our mail. Our rural communities are not an option, we rely on them for our daily food. That’s where it all begins. Fields of grains and vegetables and land for animals to roam and graze create large open spaces with small populations but each and everyone of us are part of Gods plan And each and everyone of us has a purpose And we All need our mail.
My letter to Santa is to please keep delivering our mail and packages to the wonderful Canada Post Office in Teeswater.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANUKKAH, AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS
‘3:30 4:00 AM, DON’T BE AFRAID TO TRY’ 9″ x 12″ acrylic paint on canvas board
3:30 4:00AM, DON’T BE AFRAID TO TRY, PAUSE, TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND GO INSIDE
I read once when elephants are babies they put a chain around their neck and attach them to a very long pole that they then bury into a very deep hole. The baby elephant pulls and pulls on the pole and after about three weeks it gives up and stops pulling and never tries again.
When the elephant is an adult it is chained to a pole that is very short and hardly has any length at all buried into the ground. Were the elephant to try and yank at that pole he would yank it out immediately, but the elephant never tries again and remains attached to a pole for the rest of its life.
I still think of that story, I think I read it when I was in my twenties or thirties. When I read it, it was written in a way as to say that elephants aren’t very smart. And I thought but that’s ridiculous that’s exactly what we do or what happens to us.
When something bad happens to us or we are taught that we must do things a certain way, we get stuck and we can’t seem to change our behaviour or get through something.
We don’t know why we behave a certain way over and over again. Time seems to have buried the why and when we come up against that same thing over and over again in our lives we may say and think things like; that’s impossible or complain about the circumstances or the people involved that their doing this or that, or keeping us stuck and as we get older, or even when we’re younger, just like that sweet baby elephant that was attached to that deeply buried pole for just three short weeks, we can become afraid or tired of trying or of having to learn or upgrade to new things. I’ve tried it doesn’t work. What if I can’t figure it out? I’m not good at this sort of thing. This will never work for me.
I’m a student of Kabbalah and they’ve just recently created a new website, this new website has been given the name of the old website. And the old website has been given a new name.
All of my bookmarked tabs are disappearing, I’ve been worried to create a new password for the new website with the old name. What if it knocks me off of the old website? What if I create a new login and it knocks me off of my subscription. What if it won’t let me create a new login?
All of these fears have kept me from exploring the new website. But last night it knocked me off of a very important page that I go to every morning when I get up and every night just before I go to sleep, and often throughout the day. I couldn’t go there just before bed last night and I went to bed a little sad thinking I’m going to have to figure this out somehow.
I woke up around three thirty four AM with the words: DON’T BE AFRAID TO TRY You see all I have to do is create a new login, if that somehow doesn’t work then I can get in touch with my mentor and she’ll help me get back in too where I need to be. I don’t have to worry that I’m not a computer wizard, although I think we’re all a lot better than we think we are.
I just start and then I’ll figure it out, but by not trying for these last couple of weeks I’ve started to make myself feel helpless and hopeless just like that poor baby elephant and that’s why I think of him sometimes.
But as I’ve been studying Kabbalah I’ve been learning that difficult or things that we’re afraid of or don’t think we can do come up in our lives so that we can Pause and realize that this thing that we perceive as difficult has been placed here so that we can get through it, and it can stop being a problem. It is what Kabbalah calls a soul’s correction. As I pause and go inside to the light within me I am guided and feel peace coming over me. I love the new website, a great compliment to the First.
DON’T BE AFRAID AND TRY. Pause, close your eyes and take a deep breath, go inside.
Madonna Jay Shetty and Eitan Yardeni
I am a student of Kabbalah. This interview with Madonna and Eitan Yardeni on the Jay Shetty Podcast is a great understanding of Kabbalah. Why we need to learn how to go past what we see in the outside world and into the light inside of us. If you don’t have time for the full interview go to where Eitan Yardeni joins the conversation, just past half way through, he is a great teacher of the light. “We are here to receive for the sake of sharing.”
