It Is So Simple And Yet You Find It So Hard - A Discourse by M.N. Hopkins

It is so simple and yet you find it so hard.  Break out from this prison of your own making and feel the the freedom that is all around you and within you.  Be not afraid.  No harm will come to you.

Grace is a gift to be shared with those who willingly wish this gift to be bestowed upon them.  We think of Grace as a Beautiful Being that seeks to share her wealth with others.  It is in Grace that all sins are healed and all wrong doings forgiven.

For, it is in Grace that miracles occur and continue to occur within your realm of dark and light.  For without Grace, would the human race have come to a halt countless centuries ago.  For without Grace, we would surely have a hell on Earth.

Grace takes the children in her loving arms and continues to reassure them that they will be loved and cared for one day, not just by Her, but by all others.

The gift of Grace to Mankind is a gift of love given freely and accepted freely.  For can terms be given when a mother holds her dear child in her arms and grazes upon him or her with kindness and with love and a hopeful optimism that one day this child will grow into a mature human being with the ability to create and substain a good and fulfilling life for himself or herself and others. 

For deep within the human consciousness there is still a hope that shines divine.  A hope in a better and brighter future not just for their own children, but for all children.

Now the children are neglected and suffer so the sorrows of others.  For many have forgotten the need to love and care for others in a kind and gentle way.  This goes agains't all common sense or good sense and this attitude has been growing in your societies.

We can see a future when this attitude is no more and people have a genuine and loving concern not just for the children, but for all others.  That will be a happy time and a time of deliverance from the sickness of today to the vibrant health of those of tomorrow.

Grace is for all, yet all do not recognize or receive this gift.  It is in Grace that all sins are healed.  Yes, this is true, but it is the person who wishes that this gift be bestowed upon him or her to make the effort and pray as a child with a quiet confidence that there is such a gift and this gift will be received.  For Grace is given freely when the person opens oneself in freedom to receive this gift of gifts.

For,  it comes from a higher source and penetrates and permeates the darkness that is within a man or a woman.  Once open to Grace, then there is a freedom from fear and a freedom to love both oneself and all others.  For when one's fear disappears, then there is no fear of others and what they may or may not do to you.  Without this fear, only that Self which is truly you remains and nutures and loves the false one that you call, ego.

Once one comes to one's rightful place as a ruler of one's life, then one begins to see oneself and others in a different way.  No longer as competitors, but now as co-operators.  For life truly is a co-operative effort by all involved in this game of humanity.  One no longer sees the other as a threat, but now as a working partner whose job it is to build a better world for all Mankind.

God offers this gift of Grace to Man, but few will accept it and be transformed from one of dark determination to one of light-hearted freedom from fear.  For, it is truly fear that is the great deceiver and destroyer of all that is good not only within oneself, but in all of Mankind.

 It is fear that chains one to the past and imprisons one's thoughts and emotions. 

When Grace comes, all fear desolves and the door to one's personal prison opens and the individual has a choice of the freedom to walk out into a world of unlimited possibilities or to stay within their prison of limited thinking and begin the expression of that which fears not the ego or the ego's of others.

For,  in love is there no fear and in a state of no fear, is there freedom to love.  To love one's self as a child and to love others as one would love oneself.

In freedom, one severs the chains that bind one to sickness, sorrow, and pain and one re-engages the connection to one's Soul, which connects one to God.  This begins the flow of these life giving and health giving thoughts and emotions--Love, kindness, and a peace that brings a comfort not only to yourself, but to all you come in contact with who are open to this possibility of living one's life from a place of freedom from fear and one's own self or ego created imaginary fears.

So we say to all who will listen.  Seek Grace and fear no more and be reborn into a world of love and light-hearted determination. 

 © M.N. Hopkins

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The Invocation Of The Heart by Tarra Light

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The Invocation of the Heart

Let the Lamp of Love be lit
In the sacred Temple of the Heart.
May all live in the Heart.
May all know the Truth.

May the Spirit of Forgiveness
Heal the hearts that are hardened.
Let the Light of Truth
Enlighten the dark caverns of the mind.

Let the Spirit of Peace
Heal the hearts of the nations.
May humanity learn
From the mistakes of the past.

Let the Light of Liberty free from bondage
The prisoners of false beliefs.
May the Law of Love prevail
And Justice rule the Land.

May all people be free. May all serve the Light.

May the Love of God
Awaken the human heart.
May the Light prevail on Earth.
Let the power of love
Vanquish evil and ignorance.

May all live in the Heart. May all know the Truth.

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A Prayer For Peace On Earth by Tarra Light

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Nahko and Medicine for the People - Love Letters To God

Published on May 17, 2016

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Nahko and Medicine for the People is a music collective fronted by Nahko Bear. They have a new record this year, called "Hoka". We met the guys some time ago - this is "Love Letters To God".

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Lyrics

[Chorus]

Love letters to God

Wonder if she reads them, or if they get lost

In the stars, the stars, in the stars

So many parts to a heavy heart

If there’s no beginning, then where would you start?

Start, start, where would you start?

[Verse 1]

Give, Always give what you can
Even if your allies draw lines in the sand

And dig, always dig a little deeper

Sometimes it’s hard to be my brother’s keeper

Love. So you let love in

Baby I am home in the wake of your skin, and it’s crazy

How we wear our ceremonies
Always be open to your path and your journey

Yes, she cradles my loneliness
A home in a forest nest

Universal test, feel the weight of my love put your hand on my chest

And rest

In the cradle of my arms

The battle that we face is a place where our scars come from

And to pick up that gun

My love we are destined to teach these ones to be brave

And never run away

Courage is birthed from the womb on the first light of day

Yeah, the day you were born you came out perfect never meant to be torn

In silence, never been so loud in the violence

Never been so proud of a people

When we’re fighting for a change, not afraid to lose it all despite all the rage

We are animals

And we cannot be caged

Provoke us to fight

So we burn a little sage and write poetry

Wiser than the enemy will ever be

The minority

And authority

Are you here to protect or arrest me?

I can’t tolerate the hate, and we’re losing sleep

Can’t breathe because they’re choking out a war in me
Immorality

[Chorus]

Love letters to God

Wonder if she reads them or if they get lost

In the stars, the stars, in the stars

So many parts to a heavy heart

If there’s no beginning, then where would you start?

Start, start, where would you start?

[Verse 2]

Human souls, so we carve them to a story Totem poles

Because we’re always searching for a certain goal
A pattern of physics, a role

Don’t believe all you’re told

And open

Open up your fist
A misconception, you can fight like this

In praise. With the power of prayer

If God’s on our side we can take the stairs

To the heavens

Flipping through my chapter seven

I live with the snakes in the great deception

No court, in this country for men
Who steal from their mother on paper with pen

And we’re tripping

Down a red dirt road

And we’re asking

Is this the way we should go?

Kissing, soft top feet of my goddess

We walk the earth, baby yeah we got this

Focus, and it’s redirected

Grateful, and I’m resurrected

Stubborn, But I know the way

You’re the skin of my drum
To your rhythm I will sway

Take my hand

I won’t lead you astray

We will not go gently into the darkest of days

Grandma’s here, and she says persevere

Take a walk in her mocks sees a trail of tears

And our fears, are the same as they ever were beers[?]

Numb the pain of our holocaust years

Always mobbing and motion

Maybe, baby be an island over an ocean

Your arches, how they bend and contract in my Conscious
Never slipped through the grip of my thesis
And my theory is I shine in your presence
A deliverance

[Chorus]

Love letters to God

Wonder if she reads them or if they get lost

In the stars, the stars, in the stars

So many parts to a heavy heart

If there’s no beginning, then where would you start?

Start, start, where would you start?

The Rise of Tart Cherry As A Medicinal Food by Linda Woolven & Ted Snider

The Rise of Tart Cherry As A Medicinal Food

by Linda Woolven & Ted Snider

Green Med Info.         18 May 2016

Tart Cherries are one of nature's unsung healing agents, able to help the body recover naturally from a myriad of different ailments. 

A Cherry on Top? The Rise of Tart Cherry       

Though proverbially, the cherry has always been on top, medicinally, it has always laboured near the bottom. While bilberry was accumulating studies on eye health, hawthorn berries were accumulating studies on heart health, cranberries were achieving fame for urinary tract health and blueberries were resolving high blood pressure and staking a claim to the antioxidant crown, cherries were seen as simply pleasurable, placing the entire weight of their health claim on a single half century old study showing that they could prevent attacks of gout [1].

In the past half dozen years, though, all that has changed, and the humble cherry is moving up the herbal hit list. Maybe there really is a cherry on top.

Gout

The first early gout study took sixty-two years to be replicated. A modern study of 633 gout sufferers found that eating cherries reduced the risk of having a gout attack by 35% and that supplementing a cherry extract reduced the risk by an even more impressive 45% [2]. After waiting over half a century, the next study took only one year to follow. This study gave gout sufferers a cherry juice concentrate (1tbsp=45-60 cherries) while they continued to take their medication. In the first part of the study, more than 50% of the cherry group were attack free at 60 days and could cut back on their meds. In the second, attacks were reduced by 50% in half the people taking cherry juice for four months or longer [3].

Insomnia

Soon it would be discovered that cherries could do more than prevent attacks of gout. In truly surprising research, cherries, it turned out, treated insomnia. The first evidence came from a double-blind study of fifteen healthy, elderly people with insomnia. Their average age was 71.6 years. For two weeks, they drank either two 8 ounce servings of Montmorency tart cherry juice and apple juice or a similar looking placebo drink. Though at the end of the study, the people still had insomnia, those who drank the cherry juice had moderately improved sleep. 

They experienced significant improvement on the Insomnia Severity Index, on how long it took them to fall asleep, on how often they woke up and on total sleeping time [4].

A second study found out how tart cherries treated insomnia. This double-blind study gave twenty healthy men and women 30mL of tart Montmorency cherry juice concentrate in 200mL of water twice a day for seven days. The dose was equivalent to approximately 90-100 tart cherries. Compared to a placebo fruit drink, the tart cherry juice significantly increased melatonin by about 16%. Cherries, it turned out, were improving sleep because they were a natural source of the sleep hormone melatonin. Compared to a placebo, the cherry group significantly increased the time spent in bed, had a significant 34 minutes more sleep per night and a significant 5-6% increase in the time in bed spent sleeping. The people on the cherry juice also spent significantly less time napping [5]. An earlier study had also found that Jerte Valley cherries increased melatonin and improved sleep [6].

Later, a fourth study would also find that, compared to placebo, a cherry product improved sleep efficiency, time taken to fall asleep, number of awakenings and total sleep time and that it increased melatonin [7].

Surprisingly, then, in a novel use of cherries, there is evidence that they improve sleep because they are a natural source of melatonin.

Exercise

In the same year the studies began to appear on insomnia, studies began to appear that demonstrated benefits for cherries for exercise. According to double-blind research on 54 healthy runners, when 355 mL of tart cherry juice was taken twice a day for seven days prior to a long distance run and again on the day of the race, the runners had significantly smaller increases in muscle pain than runners given a placebo cherry drink [8].

Subsequent studies would show that cherries improved the free radical damage and inflammation that resulted from exercise. In the first, twenty recreational marathon runners drank either cherry juice or a placebo for five days prior to a race and continued drinking it until two days after the race. Strength recovery was significantly faster in the cherry group. Furthermore, inflammation was significantly reduced and total antioxidant status was significantly greater in the cherry group [9]. A subsequent double-blind study would give either 30 mL Montmorency cherry concentrate (equivalent to about 90- 110 whole cherries) or a placebo in 100mL water twice a day for a week to sixteen healthy male cyclists. Blood samples were taken after the cyclists completed high intensity exercise. Markers of free radical damage and inflammation were again significantly better in the cherry group [10].

Although exercise is good for every aspect of health, prolonged exercise can suppress immunity. Because of this immune suppression, prolonged exercise is associated with increased respiratory infections. So, researchers tried giving twenty recreational marathon runners either tart Montmorency cherry juice or a placebo, starting five days before they ran their marathon and continuing until two days after they were finished. The dose of cherry juice was 236mL of fresh-pressed Montmorency tart cherry combined with apple (equal to 50-60 cherries) twice a day; the placebo was the same amount of a sugar-free fruit flavoured drink that looked like cherry juice. As in the earlier studies, the cherry juice significantly reduced inflammation after the race. C-reactive protein, a marker for inflammation, increased significantly less in the cherry juice group. 

Importantly in this study, both the number and the severity of upper respiratory tract symptoms (URTS) were significantly worse in the placebo group. Only the placebo group suffered more URTS after the race: while 50% of the runners who took the placebo had URTS at 24 and 48 hours after the race, not one of the runners who drank the cherry juice did [11].

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