{"id":841,"date":"2017-05-11T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifebylarabee.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2022-07-24T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T18:47:55","slug":"i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifebylarabee.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/11\/i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I AM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>I can neither be created nor destroyed,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I exist in my universe,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There is nothing other than I,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I give to take,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I take to give,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I speak; I do not hear,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I hear; I do not speak,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I trust, but cannot be trusted,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I choose, but not always the chosen,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I change my mind often; I will not change my mind,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I create and I destroy,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I see good, I see evil,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The evil I see exists because I am good,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I understand, but am misunderstood,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I am found, I am also lost,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I demonstrate my presence, by all the beauty that surrounds me,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I create the ugliness and pain suffered by creating that beauty,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Evil must exist for there to beauty,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>All good must have evil to be good,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If I take a step in the sand, I leave a footprint,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I have left many footprints in the sand,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I have extreme power to love, but extreme power to hate,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I know all, for I experienced nothingness,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I control the universe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I can neither be created nor destroyed,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I am, I am, I am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Meditation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What is to be said about the beings we call man and women?\u00a0 We are simple but complicated beings. We do great and humane things for the world, yet we also do harmful things. We do not control\u00a0this universe but consider only the time we exist in this physical world.\u00a0 We do not\u00a0think of\u00a0the world we will leave to our children and their children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We all step in the sand and leave many footprints that crush life under our feet.\u00a0 We forget how much of an impact we have on the existence of even the\u00a0smallest organism.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yes, we all\u00a0will make them, but caution should be taken for the footprint may also contain a thorn we will carry on to our children.\u00a0 We are mortal beings. What will you take to your grave to ensure the energy is carried on in a positive result? Life is good, do something to make fewer footprints and make all life even better. 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