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AMAZING GRACE

Amazing Grace
By Arnold J. Mungioli

I wake up a Crazy Wretch,
Tortured by all that I haven’t achieved,
Insane with perceived lack…
My Inner Critics reveling at a tea party on my head,
Full ground-length lace tablecloth and tea china, perfectly set.
Finger sandwiches of So Many Varieties
Cucumber and Self-Deprecation
Comparings and Clotted Cream
Watercress with No Self Esteem and a sprinkling of “How Dare You” Salt
I wake up choking on a mouthful of these Tiny Sandwiches
Grateful that it’s only High Tea,
And not their Holiday Grand Buffet.

I am awash in my own UnWorthiness.
Lost
Blind
Fearful
UnBelieving.
Now,
Here,
The Sun Shines in my window,
As if God is looking in, (more…)

Messier Than Usual

Step Forward. It’s Messy!

As folks mostly know, this is Messy March!
Oh, I realize we are nearly a week into April!
And Celebrating Messy March in April… isn’t That Messy!???

Messy March is a Season I celebrate, and it is not literally the 31 Days of March, so much as it is a state of Permission to Make Mistakes, Try Stuff, Take a Risk, and Make a Mess.
I celebrate Messy March every year, and the timing is always So Perfect! It seems to show up just when it’s needed Most!

Not satisfied with where things are?
Take a Risk!
Make a Mess!
Boldly Dare!
Rarely do we risk everything and witness every next step of our Journey going smoothly.
When we brazenly risk, we shake things up!
And the first step of an improvement or a change of course can often be Mess
The Possibility for something new begins at the end of our Comfort Zone!
It’s the stuff we need to do that we don’t know how to do that will lead us to the next phase of our Journey.
And here we are
In the Messy Middle!
In the April of Messy March!
This March has been So Messy that I haven’t even had time to publish this post until Now!
My friend RICK, whom you may have read about in previous Messy March Posts and who was the Inspiration for this Season’s Creation, has been equally swamped and it looks like we shall be celebrating this year’s Messy March sometime later this month!
And we invite You to do the same! (more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 5, 2019 • Permalink

Posted in Holidays & Celebrations, Journey, Seasons

Tagged Acts of Service, Ahh Meditation, Dare, Grateful, Manifest, Messy March, Messy March 2019, Rick Flynn, Take a Risk, Taking care of the Elderly, The Course in Miracles, Wayne Dyer

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on April 5, 2019

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2019/04/05/messier-than-usual/

Listening

A Meme from the Internet

It’s about Listening.

I find myself immersed in News these past few days.
Listening and Reading and Gravitating toward every speculation and interpretation about what is going on in our Country.
I seek Enlightenment.
I do not trust the current ruling Majority of the Senate to bring us that.
It is quite a muddle!
America has some skeletons in its closet.
And I hear lots of bones shaking and banging against the door to get out! (more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on October 1, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in Speaking Out

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on October 1, 2018

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2018/10/01/listening/

Giving Thanks, 2016

Me and MOM at GivingThanks Day, 2014

Has there Ever Been a More Welcome Holiday!?
Has there Ever Been a Better Time?

Pause and Give Thanks!
STOP!
BREATHE…
Let us Take a Moment and Just Be Grateful for What We Have!
Give Thanks to God
Or The Universe
Or Each Other
Or Whatever Divine Force You May Believe In
Or Just to The Air
Or the Sun
Or the Moon!
Just Speak It!
Just say it OUT LOUD,
Even to No One, in particular!
Just say the Words, “Thank You!”
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by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 24, 2016 • Permalink

Posted in Gratitude, Holidays & Celebrations, Kindness

Tagged Bette Midler, Bette Midler Live at Last, Dave Campbell, Grateful, Gratitude, Healing from the Election, How to beThankful, How to Celebrate Thanksgiving, How to deal with your Family at ThanksGiving, John Bucchino, Native Americans, Quick ThanksGiving Desserts, Standing Rock, ThanksGiving, ThanksGiving on a Moment's Notice, ThanksGiving Traditions

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 24, 2016

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2016/11/24/giving-thanks-2016/

Giving Thanks Day

One of the things of which I am Proudest
Is to live in a Nation in which we set aside a Holiday for the sole purpose of
Giving Thanks.

Some say I am naïve,
And the true purpose is FootBall,
the sale of Cranberries,
and the Inventory Clearance Shopping Day — now Week — known as “Black Friday.”
And perhaps those elements have protected and buoyed this Holiday Up
Into the Five Day Weekend that it is for So Many of us
With the Travel Home
And the Celebratory Feast.
Others voice Great Political Objection to an Occasion that marks the obliteration of an Indigenous Culture by White Europeans.

Well, all of these issues may be worthy of discussion.
but that is not the Holiday I choose to Celebrate.

And I do not expect for one minute that any of those things account
for this being the greatest Travel weekend of the year.
There is some Larger Spiritual Aspect at work.

Gratitude.
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by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 26, 2015 • Permalink

Posted in Gratitude, Holidays & Celebrations

Tagged Fun Things to Do on ThanksGiving, Grateful, How to Live Gratefully, Living Gratefully, Purpose of ThanksGiving, ThanksGiving, ThanksGiving 2015, Things to do on ThanksGiving, Top Ten Things to do on ThanksGiving

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on November 26, 2015

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2015/11/26/giving-thanks-day/

Crazy Grateful

Crazy Grateful!
I am Crazy Grateful today!

Ten Months ago, we received some tragic news.
My Partner’s MOM had had a massive heart attack.
She has been in a Vegetative State since then.
Lots of Prayers…
Lots of Hope… (more…)

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by Arnold J. Mungioli on February 7, 2014 • Permalink

Posted in Gratitude, Miracles

Tagged Answered Prayers, Death, Dying, God is Present, Grateful, Gratitude, It comes the way it comes, Love, Lucky, Miracle, Orange, Prayer, Sunset, Support, Vegetative State

Posted by Arnold J. Mungioli on February 7, 2014

https://livethequestionsnow.com/2014/02/07/crazy-grateful/

Cookies

Do You Like to Bake?

I do.
I was doing my Christmas Baking this week (The Season Continues… We are still celebrating around here…), and as I was mixing the dough with my electric handmixer, I thought back to recipes that read, “Beat for 300 strokes.”

It isn’t that long ago cookie dough was mixed with a fork.
Hershey’s was the only cocoa.
And Nestle’s were the only chocolate chips.

And I began to think about the other Miracles in my Kitchen… (more…)

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