Basically we share 100% of our DNA with the Homo Sapiens (our subspecies) of 25,000 years ago. Yet our knowledge has doubled in the last 50 years. Are we more intelligent than our ancestors of 25,000 years ago? No, what we are, where we are is due to all those humans who have gone before us.

So today take some time and celebrate the dead, not just your own family but all human beings going back to at least 2,000,000 years ago. Thank the Creator that you are a human being. Statistically we are quite rare. If there was a lottery and you could have been born as any living being on Earth, there is more than a billion to one chance against being born as a human. After all you could have been a cockroach, spider, ant even an HIV virus.

So today remember the dead and remember that one day you’ll be dead and here is the point about today and Feeling Good: you owe it to the future to be the best you can be.

You are one of those giants of the past to the people of the future …

Think about yourself as that giant and Feel Good.

… the Divinity within me salutes the Divinity within you …

rjsilverfox

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,

“Oh excuse me please” was my reply.

He said, “Please excuse me too;

I wasn’t watching for you.”

We were very polite, this stranger and I.

We went on our way saying good-bye.

But at home a difference is told,

How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,

My son stood beside me very still.

As I turned, I nearly knocked him down.

“Move out of the way,” I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken.

I didn’t realize how harshly I’d spoken.

While I lay awake in bed,

The Creator’s still small voice came to me and said,

“While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use,

But the children you love, you seem to abuse.

Go and look on the kitchen floor,

You’ll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers he brought for you.

He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.

He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,

and you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes.”

By this time, I felt very small,

and now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed;

“Wake up, little one, wake up,” I said. ”

Are these the flowers you picked for me?”

He smiled, “I found ‘em, out by the tree.

I picked ‘em because they’re pretty like you.

I knew you’d like ‘em, especially the blue.”

I said, “Son, I’m very sorry for the way I acted today;

I shouldn’t have yelled at you that way.”

He said, “Oh, Mom, that’s okay. I love you anyway.”

I said, “Son, I love you too,

and I do like the flowers, especially the blue.”

Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for would easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don’t you think?

So what is behind the story?

Do you know what the word FAMILY means?

Feel Good by loving your family …

… the Divinity within me salutes the Divinity within you …

rjsilverfox