Divine Chaos

"The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly."
—Caroline Myss, *Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness*

This quote leads off Rob Brezny's current weekly e-mail bulletin. It's cool. I haven't read this book, but I DID read Caroline Myss' book "Anatomy of the Spirit." I heard about it on the radio quite a few years ago, then later stumbled upon it in a bookstore. I got it, but couldn't really get into it, couldn't really "get" it, if you will, at the time. So it sat, along with many other books, on one of my shelves. Hopes, intentions, aspirations -- all bound up in words on paper, but not actual present time reality.

Then my neighbors asked me to house-sit, and I noticed they had a taped lecture of Myss speaking about the concepts in the book. I listened to it, and started getting into it. But it still took another year or so to actually get back to the book (which I read during a solo retreat I took two summers ago). I FINALLY really got into it. I just wasn't ready before. My spirit and my mind and my body weren't ready for it earlier. But I was ready to take it in at the right time. Oh yeah baby.

Oh, and back to that Divine Chaos thing? The electricity just went out for a moment. Then came back on. I know, I know, that's not chaos. But it is still weird. Also, I did a google image search for divine chaos, and stumbled upon this cool blog: http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/05/02/celebrity-tarot-divine-chaos/

Blah Haiku

Blah blah blah blah blah
Bleu blah bleu blah blah bleu bleu
Bleu bleu bleu bleu bleu

Dang! Can't Upload Images Haiku

Dang! Cannot upload.
I had cool painting to add.
What's wrong with e-blog?

Sleep-deprivation Haikus

Do you ever want
To just feel fully alive?
I still need more sleep.

I stayed up too late.
Forcing my weary body
To go on and on.

My Morning Bath Haiku

Morning bath is run
Waiting for me and cooling
Leave the computer

Stung Through the Heart by a Stingray

Tragic breaking news. A freak accident - Steve Irwin was killed by a strike to his chest and into his heart by a stingray. How very weird and sad. Died what he loved doing best. RIP, Steve. Play with the animals on the other side.

A real blog, for once.

I was inspired for a few months to blog, starting last year, right after Halloween. I called it Zombie Haiku, and I set up a blog through my earthlink account. What a joke. It wasn't a real blog, because people couldn't comment.

Then I just got too busy and stopped blogging. I do like what I did back there, though. Here is a link if you want to see it someday.
http://home.earthlink.net/~shutcha/

And I really did write a new Haiku every day for a little while, as a practice. But alas, like many of my practices, I fell away. So maybe they're not practices, they're dabbles.

On this, Labor Day (the FAKE sell-out Labor Day) - the US Gommint din't want our Labor Day to be May 1, like the whole rest of the world, because it was too revolutionary and internationalist - anyway, on this, fake Labor Day. I'm still in my jammies and it's 3:32pm.