Namaste Sweetie: HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Tom Daley

Namaste Sweetie,

Happy Phriday!!!

The Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeekend is Here!!

Come on in and get comfy

As we stroll down AOMMD Lane

Thank you all so much for your get well wishes

I feel about the same as I did yesterday

Luckily, the fever has not come back

I hope you enjoyed the Best of AOM

While I was absent

Today is the last post of 2018

As I will be taking time off from blogging until January 2
I want to thank you - all of you

For your love and support

Please bear with me

As I clumsily try to express my thoughts on

THE SEASON!

I am not a big fan of what Christmas has become

It has become massively commercialized

And become more of an

Orgiastic Celebration Worshiping Materialism

We are told "this is the season of giving and love"

But most of those telling us this

Only want to make a profit off our giving

I believe the season of Giving and Love is everyday

While forces in this world say "This IS The Season!"

I say 

Everyday is the Season

To Give, to Love, to Forgive, to Help Others,

To show Compassion, To be Joyful, To be at Peace
To take care of one another

These things we celebrate everyday

~*~

SO

This is the last post of the year

My plan is to resume posting on

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2019

I hope you will be here with me

I wish you a most wonderful holiday season, my Friend

Be Safe, Relax, and Love

I wish you a very Loving Christmas

and

A Happy, Healthy New Year

Let us continue to promote

Peace and Love

and continue to build

The more Beautiful World

Our Hearts know is Possible

Peace and Love,

AOM

~*~

I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer

Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings

Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind

And focus on the here and now

This present moment

Now

Breathe in

Filling your being with peace and love

As you begin each line, breathe out slowly

Breathing these thoughts into the world

Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love

Sending them from your heart

Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings

Breathe in and repeat the process for each line

AOM Meditations: 122217

The Road to Giverny (1885) by Claude Monet

Thanks to a Friend for sending us this beautiful art

~*~

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? 

Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, 

forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, 

care for the ill, love your enemies, 

and do unto others 

as you would have done unto you.”

~Steve Maraboli, 

(Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)

~*~

“How many observe Christ's birthday! 

How few, His precepts!”

~Benjamin Franklin

~*~

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, 

and try to keep it all the year.”

~Charles Dickens

~*~

“My idea of Christmas, 

whether old-fashioned or modern, 

is very simple: 

Loving Others. 

Come to think of it, 

why do we have to wait 

for Christmas to do that?”

~Bob Hope

~*~

“Peace on earth will come to stay, 

When we live Christmas every day.”

~Helen Steiner Rice

~*~

“If you take Christmas to heart and get past the anxieties in arranging for gifts and parties, you will rediscover yourself every year at this time and experience a birth in yourself, just like the one so beautifully described in the Gospel stories. It will be a celebration of both the birth of Jesus and the birth of your soul”

~Thomas Moore

Parting Thought: 122217