The Moon gate is an invitation to move into a sacred or contemplative space.  Especially a moon gate that frames a garden which invites the guest to leave the busy, stressful outside world and segue into something calmer and more contemplative.  It is perpetually open to everyone - not a selective  doorway. The Moon gate often requires the guest to duck down a little or physically and purposefully step over the threshold into the garden.   In Asia, they are a metaphor for a spiritual opening, leaving all else behind and entering an inner space.  This double life a Moon gate offers reminds us to find a way to disconnect from time to time and journey inside to find the answers our heart has been wanting  to know.

Death, loss, depression, anger, sadness, isolation,
revenge, Injustice .

How do you feel when you read those words? Do they touch places that bubble up old sadness and pain?   Do you wish you hadn't even started reading?     

Try the next set of words...

Happy faces, ice cream cones, butterflies, soft warm puppies, the comics, clowns, funny movies.  How are you feeling now?  Now that you have read all those words and formed a picture in your mind of all those lovely imagines?  Read them again - how do you feel? Are you smiling?  Getting in your car to buy ice cream?  Common, admit it.  You are smiling.
There is power in positive thinking! You are not a victim of your feelings, you create your feelings. If you need to, you can change your feelings - change your thoughts. 
         *  *  *  Never Forget:  Feelings follow Thoughts! *  *  * 

I waited at the doctor's office for over two hours the other day and was happy that was all!  What was I thinking?  I still keep trying to win the lottery, but if I had to pick money over time - I would pick time.  As one approaches any of those "special ages"....30, 40, 60 , 80...heck any of them, we are more acutely aware that the clock is ticking.  My first grandchild, sweet and beautiful and funny is now twenty-two and has his own apartment. Where did that time go?  Each of us bellyaches about how time is flying, but think about this...who is wasting that precious time against our will?  If we allow a service provider to waste our time because they are so important, we are doing a disservice to ourselves.  I'm just saying....I (we) have to quit complaining and let people know that we are on the slippery side of the slope and we won't be disrespected.  I know that if my doctor had the President of the United States waiting in his lobby....wait, of course the President wouldn't have to wait.  His time is important and so is he.  Sure, things happen and we all get behind, but I know when I have an appointment for anything I am always 15-20 minutes early so I don't inconvenience the person I am meeting.  Who are you waiting for?  Why? What cha going to do about it? It was my intention to blog once a week about a special word.  I got behind. I couldn't find the time.  Next time. :)