To Find Truth

I don't know your thoughts on matters of the Spirit. I, myself, don't look for an invisible giver of life, and say, "Prove to me, your existence! Prove it right this minute!

I take a different path to find Truth. I watch all of nature. I also watch the rhythm of life: the earth's movement around the sun to bring our seasons, the turning of the planet for day and for night, the rhythm of waves moving forward and falling back, the feeling of seasons within myself, a growing time, and a "holding on time".

I am amazed at the arrival of robins around March 1st, and the arrival of earthworms, as well. (My adult grandson Stephen, as a young child, and Kelly, an older child, for several years, confirmed in early March, the arrival of worms atop the soil.)

Three creations I observe are trees, dandelions in my yard, in abundance, and my rhododendron bush that is outside my front window.

Over the years, I have watched those outdoor lives and their activity. I watch how each life reacts to weather, and to the seasons. So many lives come from a seed that no human person has had to open.

A dandelion beside a barn, may grow three feet high. and in a lawn, a dandelion will flower just above the grass, and between mowings. A dandelion seed landed once in a dish garden that I brought inside.

When the dandelion's season arrived in the outdoors, the new season's arrival woke seeds under ground and the one in my dish garden, too! Dandelions bloomed outdoors and inside my house..

Inner guidance for a time to grow, comes to outdoor life and to us indoor (and outdoor) folk, too. As lives outdoors, we are given thoughts, and ideas or action to take to meet challenge that comes..

I don't know whether dandelions or trees know the joy of seeing sunrise or sunset, or see the jewels of dew on the morning grass (that predict a clear day ahead) .

Nature's children, however, surely know how to flower and that is the expectation for us, as well.

We don't have to ask for thoughts to meet the demands of our day. Thoughts flow to us as freely as water down a hill.

People will often say, "It just dawned on me to do thus and so." The dawning that we all experience is spiritual. Dawning, hope, and joy cannot be made of anything material.

Those experiences of wonder, even amidst storms, bring me peace in my days and into my life.
Marylee Manson Armour
February 15, 2009

Love God's Creations

Love all of God's creatures, the world,and every grain of sand in it. Love
every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov


Posted by Marylee Armour
January 3, 2009

Thinking About Life

Today, I am at peace with everyone I know, and have known. My heart holds malice toward none. Pleasant thoughts live with me.

I have come to realize how much I enjoy the shade of blue, the Creator has chosen for our sunny skies and the white of the dancing clouds.

When the night sky is clear, I ponder about stars. How does each star stay its course? When there is a full moon, my eyes and my energy take notice.

For years, my brother Joe has said, "Rain brings nitrogen to the soil. Maybe if we stood in the rain, we would benefit, too."

"Well dear brother," as you say, "we might be enriched, but golly, we' would also be soaking wet!"

Maybe during the passing months, there are things undone that I might have accomplished. The Creator, in my thought, tells me that "whatever you found to do is enough" "When more needs to be done, I will nudge you to do it." How true.

Now comes a thought, "Write to remember the good in our lives."

I am grateful for so many delights that have come to me, and for life itself. As I think about us all traveling with the earth on its annual trip around the sun to Spring, I am baffled. It seems I am standing still. How amazing it is to travel, and yet seem to stand in one place.

I hope that people, wherever they are, and I will be part of many trips yet to come.
Marylee Manson Armour
December 30, 2008

NIGHT TIME IN THE ADIRONDACKS

Sleep sweet within this Quiet room.
Let its Peace wash away
All the problems of tomorrow
and Fears of Yesterday.

Tall Pines are murmuring, soft and low--
"Wood Music" as you dream--
While at their feet, in rock and moss, --
The trickle of a stream.

From far away, faint Echoes toss
The Hermit Thrush's Lone cry.
Above the placid lakes, the stars
Keep watch as hours drift by.

At midnight mountain air stands still
O'er Forest Silence, deep --
As Heaven leans to kiss the Earth
And lulls the World to sleep.

So, close your eyes and be assured
Tomorrow will be Right.
The Heavenly Father's guarding you --
Sleep sweet! Goodnight! Goodnight!

Marion B. Tubbs

Safe Haven

When we become
fully aware that
God
has created within
our lives a
Spiritual Sense to
guide us,
then we know peace.

Storms can rage
outside of us,
but we are kept snug
by the comforting
arms that we
realize
are about us.

We sense we are
never alone,
and need
not feel lonely.
To know that
Presence is
an assurance
of safe haven,
a feeling
beyond beliefs.

marylee manson armour
12/17/05
some revision 1/1/08

Blue Moon

I want to acknowledge the Blue Moon, before its time has passed. As the second full moon in the month, the moon reigns
tonight as a Blue Moon. Just at this time, we have clouds, but I have looked at the moon in a clear sky for two nights now. The moon seems so serene and beautiful. As I looked at the moon, a sense of peace came over me. I longed then, and now that that same peace would come into the world and bring release from those who suffer. Peace, O peace, come to our world.
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Let There Be Peace

Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be.
With God as our Father, family all are we.
Let me walk with my family
in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me
Let this be the moment now.
With every step I take
Let this be my solemn vow
to take each moment and
live each moment
in perfect harmony
Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me.
Author unknown

On a lighter Note

Singing of the Moon
at Girl Scout camp.

I see the moon and the moon sees me
The moon sees somebody I'd like to see.
God bless the moon and God bless me.
God bless the somebody I'd like to see.

I really think that God above
Created you for me to love.
He picked you out from all the rest,
Because He knew I would love you best.
Author unknown.

Marylee Manson Armour
May 31, 2007

Still, Still With Thee

Still, still with Thee
when purple morning breaketh
When the bird waketh,
and the shadows flee,
Fairer than morning,
lovelier than the daylight
Dawns the sweet consciousness
I am with Thee.

Alone with Thee,
amid the changing shadows,
Solemn the hush of nature,
newly born;
Alone with Thee,
in breathless adoration
In the calm dew
and freshness of the morn

So shall it ever be
in bright morning
When hearts awaking,
see the shadows flee.
O, in that hour,
and fairer than dawning
rises the glorious thought
I am with Thee.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

from the "Christian Science Hymnal"
Sung often, with enjoyment, by
Maryee Manson Armour
January 18,2007

Beauty of Thy peace

O Sabbath rest of Gallilee!
O calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
the silence of eternity
interpreted by Love.

Drop thy still dews of quietness
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls, the strain and stress
and let our ordered lives confess
the beauty of thy peace.
-John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872