2010-07-19 1st Journal, Mayan day 2 Jaguar ♥ TRANSCRIPT: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35840370 ♥ iTunes podcast http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=371766765 ♥ Blip.tv channel http://theresaaharvey.blip.tv/ Intro: Well, this is interesting. My physical body doesn’t feel so terrible this morning, but now it seems my emotional body is acting up. My feelings are upset - who knows why. Go figure. Do you ever get disgusted, sometimes, by all the crap we have to deal with, on this level? I do - not too often, but there are times when I get so tired of it. Like now. Oh well. No sense running away. By the grace of God, at least I fairly well know that one. We all run, at times, but overall it’s not a good strategy. Why? Well, it just puts off what has to be dealt with at some point, anyway. And then, as a result, you’ve been through a bunch of the difficult feelings, but with none of the blessing that is possible from it. You wasted that, to some extent. We don’t, from what I’ve seen, get the blessings that are hidden within pain, without going all the way through it, to the other side. I call that unwrapping the gift. There are often multiple gifts, or gifts without numbering, because they’re so special. It’s changes to us that it brings. It’s like we’re swimming up from some terrible depth, and we just popped our head above water into the fresh air, and got a big lungs-full breath of that - oh, what a relief. But you don’t hit the surface without coming up through what’s there, in those levels of water. It’s crazy to think otherwise. Well, same with running from our pain and discomfort. These are those water levels we have to swim up through. We aren’t even swimming, really, for the urge is so strong to get to the top, to take that deep breath, that we’re carried up and along by the urge itself - the urge to breathe freely - to surface, up above everything below. To not be concerned with that... Distributed by Tubemogul.