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It's hard to understand
by Bob Perks

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Hello, my friends!

I am focusing on creating what they call a "new normal."

I can't even explain it, so how can I create it?
Prayer and lots of it! (smile)
Love always and all ways,
Bob and Marianne

"It's about Time"
"A man who dares waste one hour of time has
not discovered the value of life."
Charles Darwin

Perks Pearl of Wisdom
By Bob Perks
"Be willing to understand things that may appear to be
against your way of thinking. You may be suffering
from hardening of the ego."

Today's Message:
"It's hard to understand"
by Bob Perks
It's hard to understand sometimes, but easy enough to
see. I try to make sense of things and fail to comprehend
the magnitude, width and depth of all that is mine.

Still with all of that clearly in front of me, I find myself whining
still, because I don't have this or that.

It wouldn't take much to see those around me lacking
even the stuff that I enjoy and I am nowhere near a
wealthy man by the world's standards. I have a simple
house, a car, food, a wife and family who love me.

I couldn't boast of a yacht, six figure income, tailored suits,
shoes made in Italy, or more bathrooms than bedrooms in my home.

Some of you may think that's not much.

Still others may read that and say, I rent a small apartment
with one bedroom that sleeps six. I can't afford to buy my
child a toy boat to play with and my income is below the
poverty line. As for clothes and shoes I thank God for the
Salvation Army and my church.

That's hard to understand, but easy enough to see.

I wake up in the morning and I can't feel my feet sometimes.
I walk slumped over from muscle pain until I walk long
enough not to feel it.

Some of you may say it's just old age, get used to it.

Others may be thinking that's nothing. I can't walk any more.
My legs don't function at all and I am confined to a wheel chair.
My pain is constant because I can't afford the drugs to make it
all go away. I am crippled and can hardly sit up long enough
to eat.

That's hard to understand, but easy enough to see.

I moan about the fact that I don't see my one son at all
and the other just calls any more. He's too busy to stop by.

Some of you say they have their own life, let them live it.
Be grateful, mine is in his 30's and still living here.

Others might say at least you have two sons. I lost my son
to war and my daughter to cancer. Didn't your oldest survive
his cancer? You ought to be grateful he's alive.

That's hard to understand, but easy enough to see.

I sometimes question God.

Some might say so do I.

Others might add, me, too.

Still He loves all of us, doesn't he? He never gives up on us,
does He? He sees more in us than we do, gives even when
we don't deserve it. He provides. He guides. He lifts us up
when no one else is there to do so. He forgives. He listens.

You can't deny the abundance in your life.
That's God...hard to understand sometimes, but easy
enough to see.

"I wish you enough!"
J
Bob

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"Find something beautiful!"
by Bob Perks

So many words spoken and written
today about tragedy and loss.

For the first time in my life, I am
truly at a loss for words.

Then God gave me these...
"Find something Beautiful."

So there is your challenge on
this day of remembrance of
9/11.

"Find Something Beautiful."

Begin with looking in the mirror,
then inside yourself. By the end
of this day I promise you will be
overwhelmed, not with pain and
sadness, but with all the beautiful
things you discovered.

Love always and all ways,
Bob and Marianne Perks
"I wish you enough!"
J
Bob

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With thanks from Bob Perks with following inspiring words:

A message of Hope...stories from the road on my way to Heaven.
Essays, parables and rare moments of clarity.
By Bob Perks
"I Wish You Enough!" © 2001 Bob Perks
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys
in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."

Thanks for your time to read it!
Iinspiration for a day, faith for a lifetime!
Starting out, starting over...starting now!

My research works, studies and writing are based on what we share here.

Well, I have done full day fasting for more than a year in 1994-95 and then taking some juices and sweets things that were foods though, and also no table salt during day for about a next year 1995-96 to learn things. Those, two years were amazing during 1994-96.

I finished my yoga and meditation that I started in grade 3 before 1980 and that also had conclusions that I wrote. While having feelings of having no weight I consulted a doctor by chance and I was given medicines of depression that was a big mistake the doctor and I made. Its not thus due to medication or otherwise that I have already done and finished in 1996 named as Philselfology.

During these times from 1993-96, I did not take tea either. However, ignoring my yoga and meditation, the doctors did almost all medicine and drug experiment for until at least 2006 leaving me saying they did all according to the symptom I said rather than listening to me. When I gave close to death results, I was given advice to do what seems right to me...

I wrote about AI, Shifting of Earth, Ecology, Solar System, Universe and lot more that was based on my intuitive studies with mediation on the topics and thus what I developed as Art of Research.

By the end of 1996, I have finished all that can give natural arts as alternative to AI, the Artificial Intelligence. However, as after finishing it in 1996 the doctors who tried antidepressant may claim that my results might be from medical advancement. However, the medicine was taken afterwards giving no results but side effects.

Thus, Yoga, Meditation, Fasting, Intuition and Research Go Together.

Please read more from this blog post: http://www.lifemetaphysical.co.cc/2011/08/how-and-...

Thanks for your time reading it.

"Sounds just like you"

By Bob Perks

I've been shopping for Spring for months now.
I usually can't stand seeing the stores switch from
one season to another so early. Like Christmas in
July. Or Valentines Day in December.

Spring, however, is always welcome.

It was while shopping recently that I met two
wonderful people. They were "Spring People," too.

I love wind chimes. In particular the deeper tones.
They seem to resonate well with me. Like the bass
sounds on my stereo. I like to feel the sounds of
music.

It may also be because I have high pitch sound loss
from years of being in a band. When I am cooking
my wife needs to tell me when the timer beeps. I
simply can't hear it.

Such sound loss comes in handy, too. I can pretend
not to hear Marianne when it's convenient.

There was a large display of wind chimes of all shapes
and sizes. I happened upon them as I was looking for
new things to place in our yard this year.

"Well, I think this one is more like Amber and this one
more like Bill," I heard the woman say.

"Well, this one is definitely me," the man replied.

"Are you giving them as gifts?" I asked.

"Oh, no. We are buying them for our yard. We
surround ourselves with wind chimes that remind
us of the people in our lives," the man answered.

I paused for a moment because I just didn't
understand the connection.

"So, every wind chime reminds you of someone?"
I asked.

"Yes. Well, that and life itself," she added.

"Forgive me, but I don't understand."

They looked at each other and collectively took
a deep breath.

"We've explained this many times and most people
think we are just foolish. You see, life is often times
related to music. Like creating a symphony and God
the conductor. When I hear a wind chime the sound
it makes reminds me of someone I know. So, we
buy it and place it somewhere in our yard," he told me.

"When there is a slight wind and we are outside
working in the garden, It's our symphony of life," she
added.

I ran my hands across a few and all together they
sounded like heaven to me or a magical moment
in a movie.

"It must be nice but I can't imagine the neighbors
are too crazy about it in a storm," I said.

"Well, fortunately we have very few neighbors close by,"
he said. "Although Fred down the road told me the
other day he could hear them," he said to the lady.

They laughed. They sounded happy. They sounded
like Spring.

"Now that you have shared that with me I can see
people I know just in this single chime."

I held onto the wooden block in the center of the chime
and then gently let it go.

"Everyone has their own sound. Like in life each of
the chimes gathered here ring separately, some deep
and mature, others high and child-like," I said. "Now
I understand."

"Together," he said as he rang all of them," they are
music.

The deeper ones are longer. The longer you live the
deeper the sound of your music, your experience in
life.

The shorter ones are high pitched and fresh sounding
like a newborn baby's cry.

"This isn't foolish at all," I told them. "I wish I would have
thought of this. It makes perfect sense to me."

They laughed and said, "Uh oh!"

"What?"

"That's how we started. We bought one, heard all the
tonal qualities as people, then we began seeing
people as more complex. We all have our highs and
lows, so the overall sound began to represent each
person in our lives."

"Well, I have neighbors very close by. I'm not sure they
want an orchestra in my yard. The next time I'm here
with my wife, we will decide together which one to buy.
It will represent everyone in our lives. I can't wait to
hear the sound they make," I said.

I thanked them and they moved on.

I stayed there and listened for my friends.

May the sound of the wind be music to your ears.
"I wish you enough!"
J
Bob

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