by Digger Barr
https://gaiasgardens.guru/
I have a confession to make.
I have not been watching the Olympic games held in France.
As a former athlete and a coach of many years this may be a great sacrilege.
I wish the best to the teams and individuals who are giving their very best towards this event.
I am not disengaging as a form of protest against the evil monikers attached to the games, although that would be a worthy protest.
I am simply engaged with my own sort of Olympic sized event that is keeping me extremely occupied.
Let’s call it the Spiritual Olympics.
As the Olympics so eloquently named, representing the Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient world, its reference has come to equate with larger than life displays of grandness.
Take the Olympic mountains located on the Olympic peninsula of the western most part of Washington state USA.
These mountains reach to the sky and are vast in width and depth. They are an awe-inspiring formidable presence surrounded by a sea level environment.
I include the reference to the tall impressive mountains because they stand with a presence of grandeur and are an immovable force.
Large ambitious endeavors in life can be compared as being Olympic or Olympian in perspective.
And so we are all Olympians, on planet, at this time.
It is our task upon the planet at this time to engage with a larger than life ambitious endeavor that many of us are only just now realizing.
It isn’t a task that has a distinctive starting line or a stopwatch to time our progress.
Unlike the structure of sporting events this game is being played with many blinders in place and those that know are being guided by faith.
Even those with the inside track of faith are still challenged daily with staying the course and enduring the perceived setbacks.
Much as the athletes do, we need to work hard to achieve the very best that we can.
They, as we, do so with practice. Practice and practice and more practice. This is called training.
Everyday, every moment is geared toward a goal and that goal is to be your very best in one moment in time.
It doesn’t mean you have to be the best. It doesn’t mean you have to beat everyone else. It doesn’t mean you have to win anything.
Training only means you have to get out there and put forth the effort to better yourself.
This is hard work. This takes fortitude and determination. This is what it means to be strong. This what it means to say no to the negative thoughts and energies that try to tear us down.
This is the practice and training that we all have signed on to endure. And we are doing it.
This is the Spiritual Olympics.
And if I can speculate here, there will be gold in it for everyone.
Definitely not a bad choice to have silver either.
Not a follower of mainstream media, I happened upon a newspaper at a friend’s house.
I saw that they are still doing the competitive divisive medal count listing for most G7 countries.
How many gold, silver and bronze are won seems to be the bragging rights that stroke the media world.
I can get on board with collecting metals. The metals I speak about are the financial resources that back our world’s monetary systems.
How much gold or silver one can obtain may not be anyone else’s business.
I mean one could brag about how much gold they have but that would open them up to being targeted by those looking to relieve them of that bounty..
But, I do find it quite interesting that the metals market is on the move during the same time as Medals are being counted on the front page.
The timing is curious because then we have Black Monday.
As the global stock markets fell so did the price of metals drop to a new recent low.
What this said to me is, there is still time to jump into the market before the game is over. Hmm, did I say that? Before the GAMES are over is what I meant,.. wink, wink.
Wouldn’t it be fun if the paper reported how much gold actually backs the dollar, yuan or zim notes. I guess they are hidden within inflation rates and other such measures.
I know the market is a rigged game but it feels like there has been a shift in who is playing the game master.
I see the Hunger Games at work here. The episode ‘Catching Fire’ introduced a new gamemaster, Plutarch Heavensbee, who created the “Quarter Quell”.
This put him into the control room and shifted the odds slowly in Katniss Everdeen’s favor. Plutarch couldn’t be overt about his game changing scenario or the whole thing would be lost.
He stayed at the helm covertly as long as he could before throwing the gate wide open.
By this action the games played a part in bringing down the whole dystopian world under President Coriolanus Snow.
I am not comparing the Olympics to the hunger games. Unlike the ancient times and the movies, we let our fallen live.
But I will say the larger than life games have interesting correlations.
Keeping the focus on the spiritual journey is not a smooth and easy task. There will be dip and dives into the detritus.
And if we can keep our wits about us, we can use our position of knowledge to better ourselves along the way.
Not competitively but in an improvement of life that will eventually be available for all.
There is nothing wrong with taking advantage of a bit of clarity when the fog is so dense. That is the window for greater movement.
Each day is another day to practice how to live better than the day before.
We learn as we go, but actually learning ‘how to be’ takes training.
Here we are, sticking the landing! Not easy to do. Yet we are and showing others how to too.
Congratulations to the Gold of Simone Biles. I did catch her floor routine online.
That gal can really stick her landings. Amazing.
Let’s do it like that!
Digger24