“This morning, with her, having coffee.” – Johnny Cash, when asked for his description of paradise.

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

18 September

Success in any human endeavor seems to be measured with finely tuned accuracy to a rather easily stated law: what you think, that you get. Sometimes, it is true, there are temporary aberrations in the ebb and flow of life. Sometimes the success is greater or lesser than the thinking, but sooner or later they must parallel, for life is one. Whether the yardstick is emblazoned for all to see, as in a highly visible bank balance, or lost in the labyrinth of marital inter-flowings, the outcome is to the attitude as effect is to cause. Consequently your thinking and mine is meant to be balanced and full. I want for me and those around me that all good cups run over with all good things. And we will marvel at the beauty, balance, purpose, and abundance of our God. We will, gradually, come to marvel that Paradise – surprise! surprise! - is Here And Now. The conscious and the subconscious are meshing together harmoniously, like the music of the spheres.

We are awake to the dream.