Viva Sea World
I took my two daughters, Sofia and Olivia, and my niece, Celine, to Sea World yesterday. We were watching a wonderful show called Viva, when something hit me hard.
Here is a description from the Sea World website:
The White Whale and Dolphin Stadium comes alive with the revolutionary "Viva!" show. This colorful production features professional high divers, aerialists and synchronized swimmers performing with the acrobats of the sea, Pacific white-sided dolphins and beautiful beluga whales, all against a dramatic backdrop of water screens, waterfalls and fountains. It's the first of its kind at any SeaWorld Adventure Park.
Now, I am a feeler. I can feel everything around me but have trouble articulating it. I'll try to do my best. I can feel the energy/love put into a song, book, performance, garden, movie, etc. Their performance at the show was full of love. I do not mean that the performance itself was lovie dovie. What I mean is that I could feel the many hours of work that went into the show. More importantly, I felt the love behind the work. Most work is done without love. Have you ever paid for work like landscaping, home improvements or car repair and felt dissatisfied? The work may have been done like it was supposed to, but there was no love behind it. We've all felt that sort of thing at one time or another.
So I was sitting there, enjoying the love radiating from the show, with three little girls and I was overwhelmed. Tears ran down my face.
We try so hard to have our Father's love. We just try so hard to get back into Heaven. We come closest at performances like Viva. We come close when we take our loved ones somewhere for a good time. We come close when we sing and dance. When we make love. We just want to get back into Heaven so bad. It was a big Forgiveness lesson for me. I am forgiving myself and my brothers for this world we've created. For choosing with ego instead of the Holy Spirit.
The lesson for that day really helped me:
Lesson 74 - There is no will but God's.
I am at peace.
Nothing can disturb me. My will is God's.
My will and God's are one.
God wills peace for His Son.
Comments
This is really quite lovely
This is really quite lovely writing and I find it interesting that you could have those feelings in a crowd. I never have those feelings in a crowd in fact I always feel quite the opposite; disconnected and alone.
When people I know become parents it seems that the majority become frightened and suddenly turn to the God of the Old Testament, the one who is angry, jealous and intolerant. I think it is out of fear of the enormous responsibility they have taken on.....it is rare that I see them open up and embrace a kind, loving,and forgiving God who embraces all.
I have been quite busy with worldly things lately but because my job is one where I travel a lot I get to spend a lot of time in nature which is the only place I feel part of something and it is so perfect that it hurts. It doesn't matter if it is the desert, forest, beach, lake, river or mountains it is perfect and then I go into the city and I think it is so wrong and imperfect and ugly and almost every city and town is the same....ugly strip malls with the same Radio Shack, Subway, nail/tanning/hair place etc...built for and with survival instincts instead of loving intention. It seems that our towns and cities are just mindless with no intention or consideration with its surrounding perfect nature that is God.
Not sure where I am going with this or the point that I am trying to make but what you wrote above makes me wonder if I need to see things differently when I am in the city. I wonder that when I am doing my own job it lacks any feeling of love....
Anyway you wrote a very affecting piece that really brought tears to my eyes and gave me much to contemplate.
Thank you. That's the best
Thank you. That's the best compliment we could receive.
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