Weekly Readings


   Mar 10, 2010
Butterfly Insights
   by: Joie Lake
   A marvelous lesson appeared for me just now as I was exiting thru the garage.
As I opened the garage door, I startled a large moth, which, upon spreading it's wings, displayed a bright red "tail" hidden by the motley brown wings, more a "butterfly" than a moth.
It flew immediately to its perceived escape, the circle-topped window where it frantically tried to exit thru the invisible wall of closed glass.
I raised the third-car garage door in hopes of aiding it's escape. That caused it to fly higher and higher and become entangled in a spider web. Fearful that it would remain entangled in the web, I selected a long-handled broom to assist him escaping the tangled threads.
At this, he returned to furiously pumping his wings and banging into the glass, which was, in his perspective, the pathway of escape, but remained his cage.
By simply turning his focus to one side, he would have easily exited his prison. Rather, due to his intent on one direction, he remained confined, captive.
How many of us do this in our lives? Sometimes all we need to do is simply look in the other direction to find a new answer and a new path.
   Mar 3, 2010
House of a 1000 Mirrors
   Author Unknown
   Feb 26, 2010
Only One Move
   Author Unknown
   Feb 18, 2010
The Guest House
   by Rumi