Volume 10, Issue 1 | January 2021 |
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Greetings!
Wow: This issue marks moving into my tenth year of publishing The Computer Spirit e-newsletter! It has changed over the years, starting out with most articles focused on business—website design, software training, and email marketing, but always with a nod to Spirit.
These days I am inspired to write solely about the Unseen, people making a difference, music, Life... I so enjoy writing the e-newsletter and being creative, but more importantly it fills my soul to connect with YOU! Thank you for reading and staying in touch.
I don’t know about you, but over the years I have found my psyche following the diminishing length of daily sunshine, and going into the darkness as the year proceeds from September to December. But then comes January, and it's like the light turns back on and there is hope and freshness and Life. This January is no different and, in fact, the light seems to be shining brighter! For me, it mostly has to do with the new administration, one filled with character, enthusiasm, experience, compassion, reason, and a respect for science.
Often, I have said over the past four years, referring to the U.S. presidency, that my position towards the one occupying the Oval Office was not about politics, not about Republican, Democrat, or another party, but about Character, with a capital "C!" Perhaps now the contrast has awakened others to the crucial importance of character, in our leaders and ourselves. New year, new beginnings... yes, a mental construct, something to wrap one's head around as we go through the days of our life. But January 20, 2021 surely was the start of a new era.
The way this year, this month started—incitement by the 45th president, storming of the U. S. Capitol, and finally a peaceful transfer of power—it seemed providential that this month we acknowledge and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of character, peace, and change.
Dr. King said "peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but… a means by which we arrive at that goal." And in this new year of hope, he reminds us, "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
In celebration of the 2021 U.S. presidential and vice presidential inauguration, you may have heard Jon Bon Jovi sing "Here Comes the Sun" and seen exuberant folks dancing to "Let the Sunshine In." How thoughtful and apropos, so filled with hope and joy.
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"Let the Sunshine In" is part of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)," a medley of two songs written for the 1967 musical Hair. It was recorded as a single by American R&B group The 5th Dimension in 1969; here's their version ("...Sunshine" starts at 2:22).
Indeed, let the sunshine in!
Blessings,
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Inspiration and Contemplation
Updating Spirituality
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When a disciple complained that the Master’s spirituality needed updating, the Master laughed aloud. Then he told the story of a student who said, “Haven’t you any more recent books on anatomy? These are at least ten years old.”
Said the bookseller, “Look, son, there have been no bones added to the human body in the last ten years.”
“Neither,” added the Master, “has there been any additions to human nature in the last ten thousand years.”
- “Awakening: Conversations with the Master” by Anthony de Mello, No.53
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Spirituality
God Knows
Below is an excerpt from "The Gate of the Year," the popular name given to a poem by Minnie Louise Haskins. She wrote it in 1908 and gave it the title "God Knows." In December 1939, Great Britain was at war and King George VI was England’s reigning monarch. As was the custom, the king addressed the nation on a BBC radio broadcast on Christmas Day, and, in the uncertain last days of 1939, the king spoke words of peace to calm his nation, including this poem.
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
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People Making a Difference
Fighting Racism with Possibly the World’s Biggest Bake Sale
Three Washington, D.C. pastry chefs have launched an effort that’s become an international bake sale raising money for nonprofit community groups promoting social justice.
Through Bakers Against Racism, professional chefs and home bakers are making and selling desserts, then donating profits to a group of their choice that supports black people in their community. The project was launched last June after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. Initially, 100 chefs signed up, and then just days later there were more than 1,000 participating chefs!
Thousands of bakers across hundreds of cities on five continents have participated. The group has raised more than $2 million.
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Another fresh new year is here...
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest...
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
Happy New Year!
Blessings and cyber hugs,
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Joyce S. Kaye, MSW
928.301.7292
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e-newsletter designed, developed, written, and published by Joyce S. Kaye |
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You, Me, and Spirit
I was a devout atheist until 30 years ago when I "came to believe" in a Power greater than myself. Thanks to hearing the novel idea (well, at least it was to me!) that one could choose their own concept of God--and name too (Spirit, The Great Mystery, All That Is, etc.)--and the workings of synchronicity, I embarked on a new way of thinking, a new way of living, a new way of being in the world and with others. It impacted all aspects of my life and relationships.
Since that time of commencing my conscious spiritual journey, I have endeavored to remember The Presence in all that is, all whom I meet, and all that I do -- including working with clients in my own business and in the corporate world. I strive to be of service and to nurture the human spirit in all environments.
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