Making today Sacred (February 22nd) …
February 22 – Making Today Sacred: Make today a personal holiday (do some research if necessary) … Inform others about your unique Holy Day and celebrate it with them creatively.
To get started with this task, I figured I’d research the history of February 22nd – to see if anything notorious worth celebrating happened on that day in the past. Not surprisingly (our media tends to focus heavily on the negative), what I found was not really in harmony with the message of selfless Kindness that this calendar is attempting to awaken. As it turns out, on this day:
Florida was purchased from Spain in 1819 …
By now it is hopefully clear that “ownership” & “wealth” are NOT the answer.
the U.S. Republican Party opened its first national meeting in 1856 …
By now it is hopefully clear that politics is NOT the solution.
Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America in 1862 …
By now it is hopefully clear that feuding with enemies is NOT the solution.
the Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in 1872 …
By now it is hopefully clear that legal action is NOT the answer.
Coolidge delivers the first Presidential radio broadcast from the White House in 1924 …
By now it is hopefully clear that listening to the news is NOT the solution.
American aircraft mistakenly bomb four Dutch towns in 1944 …
By now it is hopefully clear that violence is NOT the answer.
the U.S. Hockey team beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympic Games …
By now it is hopefully clear that competition is NOT the answer.
the first sheep is successfully cloned in 1997 …
By now it is hopefully clear that scientific “advances” are NOT the answer.
and a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand today (2011) …
By now it is hopefully clear that focusing on tragedy is NOT the answer.
So what IS the answer?
Well, it will probably be manifested a bit differently for each person, and yet every constructive action engaged by any person must have positivity at its foundation. Every act that actually functions for enhanced Joy & Peace on this planet will have Joy & Peace as its underlying mentality – its basic intention.
Essentially, if we want to do our part to diminish sadness, we must do our part to emit its opposite – Happiness. And this can start by simply celebrating Life today.
You need no specific cause or remembrance … You need no unique theme or reason – simply celebrate the fact that you are alive, and that you are conscious of that Life.
That is enough to serve today.
You can celebrate publicly …
or alone in private.
You can celebrate with a few friends …
or with a whole neighborhood.
You ca make your celebration small …
or extremely large.
It really doesn’t matter how you do it (though the more “radical”, the more powerful). The point is to wake up your True Self by emitting an intense & Joy-full blast of gratitude.
So have fun – Go celebrate yourSelf!
See You when I see you …
… and until then, Be Now!
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