Three Choices
It is the idea that an action is a choice among all those thousands of actions and the choice is one of three - Yes, No, or my particular home place, I Don't Know . As a child, I was all Yeses. All choices affirmative and all actions taken. Every choice was like my dog's choices - yes! yes! yes! . Then came the years of learning that yes might hurt you. I might get burned. I might lose. I might fail. Those were the fear years. The years of I Don't Know . Or, you could call it the Yes, because I don't know years. The safe yes. The yes that is the best guess to keep the peace, be polite, make others happy. No comes more easily now. No means, Yes you can take up your desire, pick up your own lantern with its glimmer of simple understanding. I sit. I pray. I love. I let go. I yield. I soothe. I soften. I turn in. I look out. I can see the lantern with its soft glow showing the way forward in its fair pool of light.