BEAUTIFUL LIVING

Beautiful living;

Life is worth living.

Acknowledge with gratitude

This is my day of loving.

Be yourself; Follow your own heart.

Live all you can now. Live life to it fullest.

Live in the Full Life Process where living

is not limited by goals and achievements.

It matters not what you do in particular as long

as you know who you are and Whose you are.

Come on and celebrate and let your joys be known.

Join in a song of sweet accord and embrace full life.

Enjoy all Creation; The beautiful presence of God. Wow!

TODAY

Today I acknowledge my true self,

accepting myself just as I am now;

Today I welcome this day with a warm

heart and open arms;

Today I greet everyone and everything

with a smile;

Today I let the presence within me bless the

presence within others and the presence

within others bless me;

Today I take time to smell the roses, look at the

sky and listen to the birds sing;

Today I am a new person, doing a new thing,

something beautiful and eternal;

Today the only business on my agenda is

today's business.

Today I am free, happy, and at peace with

God, myself and all creation.

(Taken from the "The Saint Troubadour"

by Uriah J. Fields)

THE LOUDEST SCREAM

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles (Psalm 34.6) There may come a time in a person's life when he has to scream loudly, "Fire! Fire! Fire!"

The screams of desperation are numerous and they can be heard nearly everywhere. They are the voices and fears of pain. The screamer's plea for help, even when from a single person, may seem to be overwhelming to the person who cares.

For it may be the scream of an abandoned child, a soldier being tortured by his enemies, a woman fleeing from a serial killer who is determined to destroy her, a lonely person in a crowd who feels alone, a fear-stricken person sensing imminent danger that may be real or imaginary. These screamers have one thing in common: they are crying out for help - for someone to rescue them.

Sometimes other peope hear their screams and respond humanely; sometimes others ignore them; sometimes their scerams are out of quiet desperation and are too quiet for others to hear. But most of the times their screams are loud and sound as if they are from hysterical people. Yet, "the loudest scream" comes from those who cry out for love, those who can scream in rhythmic cadence often reaching a crescendo pitch that is so high that it goes off the barometer sound chart. What are their lyrics? Two words. They scream, "Love me! Love me! Love me!" That's all they ask, just love me. The loudest sceram is from the soulbroken person who experiences the most excruciating and severest pain of all scramers. Even sometimes when his scerams seem faint to others, they are not; they are always very loud to the screamer whose soul is broken. It is somewhat like unto Jesus crying out in a loud voice while on the cross, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani" - which means, "My God, why have you forsaken me?"

Out of desperation the loudest screamer asks, seemingly demandingly, "Love Me!" He may say, "Love me or I am out of here," and even add, "before I am destructive to others and myself." This may mean that he will commit suicide suddenly or by a somewhat porlonged process that involves the use of drugs overeating or some other life-abusive substances to affect his premature demise.

How tragic it is that "the loudest scream" very often falls on deaf ears or, if heard, be ignored, perhaps by someone who does not have empathy for hurting people, or who is just too proud to help a broken human being. Yet those who refuse to help people in desperation may themselves become screamers and it is because they too never learned to love. There comes a time in the life of a person when he needs help and out of desperation he may scream loudly for someone to help him. The ultimate cure for a screamer is to find someone to love; the ultimate prevention for the person who turns a deaf ear to a screamer and is himself in danger of becoming a screamer is to love himself. Then he will love others even as he loves himself. Love, although mysterious, is efficacious and reality based. It connects the temporal and eternity.

EQUANIMITY

Would you like to know how to master stress, maybe, live a stress -free or near stress-free life?" You need search no further. The answer is presented in this message on "Equanimity" (e-kwe-'nim-et-e.)

So what?" "coolness," at ease," balance," best describes or defines "equanimity." It is the manifestation of equilibrium attained in terms of comprehension of the diverse human emotions such as sad, happy, excited, etc. Equanimity enshrouds a positive attitude and healthy disposition and can be considered to be the emotion "par excellence." In the situation specific equanimity can inactivate some emotions and activate others.It is characterized by composure,evenness of mind under stress and steadiness under strain or pressure. For health's sake no other emotion can compare.

Coolness means that a person is free from agitation or excitement. So what? is both interrogative and declarative. It answers the question, "Does it matter? while simulaneously creating an at ease climate. Equanimity is a present state, the commencement of culmination of an indiviudal's spiritual journey toward liberation and self-actualizaiton. More than any emotion or cluster of emotions, equanimity is a state of being - mind, body and soul - that can be likened to a thermostat rather than a thermometer in that it creates and radiates its own temperature without circumstantial attunement.

Learning these lessons about equanimity pay great dividends: be cool in summer or winter, be calm when the storm is raging as well as when there is a gentle breeze and embrace transcendence. With stress being the number one devourer of man's ability to enjoy life, good health, peace and in some instances full life, as opposed to a premature death, it bears reiterating that equanimity can prevent stress and when it occurs be the antidote that restores balance and aliveness. In livingness and in a word, equanimity, offers to each person the challenge to let this be his modus operandi: "Don't swim: float."

WEB CONTENTS

CONTENTS

1. Flashsplash

2. Home: Welcome

3. About: Beautiful Living, Today, Contents

4. Reading and Singing: Books and Songs

5. Other One: The Saint Troubadour

6. Links

7. Other: Fifty Years After the Montgomery Bus Boycott

8. Email

9. Custom One Two: Meditations from the Heart : 1. Self-Love,

plus 27 other meditations ( poems, articles and commentaries)

10. Custom Two: Rosa Parks - Bus Boycott:

plus 5 other diversified writings by U. J. Fields

CONTENTS

(Please note: the Custom icon at top is Custom One, next is Custom two, etc.)

Custom One: Meditations from the Heart

Twenty-eight Titles Included:

1. Self-Love

2. Loving

3. Take Care of Yourself

4. Follow Your Heart

5. Life is Delectable

6. Who Is Great?

7. Thank You God

8. I Amn Thankful

9. Ask God for Guidance

10. A You and Me Celebration

11. A Birthday Ave For My Sister

12. This Is My America Too

13. Conversation On Sex

14. A Way of Being

15. This is Man

16. My Life Flows on in Endless Song

17. We Are the Chidren of the Universe

18. Positive Thoughts and Good Feelings

19. Each Life Is Free

20. Kindness

21. The Saint Troubadour's Song

22. Who Are You Dedicated Saint Troubadour?

23. I Am in the Dedicated Saint Troubadour Stance

24. Pledge of the Dedicated Saint Troubadour

25. Let the Lover Say "I love You."

26. Meditations: For Bedtime, Dawn, Waking Day

27. The Mutuality Meditation Mantra

28. A Quantum Leap in Spiritual Actualization

Custom Two: Rosa Parks Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Eight other Titles Included:

1. An Ode to My Most Significant Other

2. My Ave to Malathi

3. Four Haiku

4. Gratitude Par Excellence

5. God Is With Us, O Hallelujah

6. Why? 3,834 Taps

7. You Did It, God

8. Good-bye For Now

Custom Three: The Impact of Neo-Immigration On African Americans

Custom Four: African Americans in Jeopardy

Custom Five: Fields Family History

Custom Six: The Black Experience in America

Custom Seven Is Barack Obama Black or White? The Answer My Friend is Barack Obama

Other Three: I Go to Nature Some Call It Et Cetera; I Call It God