I’ve developed an obsession with learning about people and the towns — or areas of the country — where they live. A man named Peter Santenello travels all around the world and interviews people — no, he talks to people, listening and asking questions, while they describe their surroundings and the people who live there. Due to the nature of YouTube, this video watching has led me to many other interesting programs along the same line of thought. Currently, a documentary called Our Towns is playing on my television. I’m learning how towns are built, how they progress, or how they fade away. And sometimes the ghost towns come back. This is truly a fascinating progression, with various reasons, but one thing seems to be constant: one person, or a group of people, are determined to rebuild. People who are willing to participate are essential. Isn’t this true in every phase of life? Perhaps that is why we gather together in tribes of various sorts. Maybe it’s necessary to move forward. Where two or more are gathered …
“Motives and acts are not rightly valued before they are understood. It is well to wait till those whom you would benefit are ready for the blessing, for Science is working changes in personal character as well as in the material universe.”
—Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 238:1-5
“Complexity is not of God. How could it be, when all He knows is one? He knows of one creation, one reality, one truth and but one Son. Nothing conflicts with oneness. How, then, could there be complexity in Him? What is there to decide? For it is conflict that makes choice possible. The truth is simple; it is one, without an opposite. And how could strife enter in its simple presence, and bring complexity where oneness is? The truth makes no decisions, for there is nothing to decide between. And only if there were could choosing be a necessary step in the advance toward oneness. What is everything leaves room for nothing else. Yet is this magnitude beyond the scope of this curriculum. Nor is it necessary we dwell on anything that cannot be immediately grasped.”
—A Course in Miracles T-26.III.1:1-14
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