THE BIG BAD WOLF

HOUSE OF STRENGTH

The house of strength has a solid foundation,

rooted deeply in divine liberation,

it has the sense to resist temptation,

feeding the soul from Godly inspiration.

The greatest beauty can tempt and entice,

everybody knows behind it is vice,

the fruits of immorality make us lost,

destroying family at a very high cost.

The big bad wolf may not blow the house down,

but comes behind the beauty dressed as a clown,

he brings children laughter as their souls he is after,

dressed all innocent playing the matyr. ©

Monica Maartens.

FLYING HIGH, HITTING STRAIGHT

VIRTUES AND VALUES

How soon do we start learning virtues and values......probably from the womb... From the time our brains start recording all things around us. What is the value of virtues ? The most important is probably that it keeps us above the dirt and degradations of life. It keeps us on the paths of light where dirt and dishonesty cannot be covered up and hidden and therefore we remain free in life. We don't become caught in the nets of the powers of darkness, ending up with many regrets and sorrows. It is a terrible thing to be found in a position where we are expected to do wrong to cover up an indiscretion or mistake we have made. All that is needed is just once and once we fall into that trap we are bombarded over and over and over in a never ending onslaught of bribery, blackmail and corruption dragging us deep into the gutters of life.......and this is not an easy place from which to escape....there is a very high price....our name, our honour, our respect, including our self respect, possibly our job, even marriage....it is a pit of hell to fall into and far too little stress is placed upon this in our early education. We need to learn from very, very young not to hide things, not to have fear to expose our fears, not to be afraid to ask questions, to freely show our emotions and that is why love as a discipline is the wise choice to make....we go back to the cot or pram....crying to no response.....there is no help....no one comes when we cry...we wait and wait and a minute for a scared baby is like a day....it's very, very long to wait. Already here we learn a lesson on mistrust, doubt, insecurity......rather frightening.... The main purpose of virtues, morals, etc is to keep us free....out of the gutters and dirt and it by no means makes us prudes or boring....it simply keeps our wings free to fly, there are few things more frustrating than being controlled by someone else and being totally helpless to do anything about it....unless we revert to crime, which makes us even worse than them.....we can't dance with evil and not become evil.....©

Tomorrow we will do a little breakdown on virtues and see how easy it actually is to live by them......

FLY WITH THE EAGLES.....

VIRTUES AND VALUES

Virtues and values are laid on a platter,

we partake of the first and avoid the latter,

what joy we can find in loves delight,

as we reap the fruits of our daily plight.

Respect and honour is a blessing bestowed,

equally amongst the young and the old,

truth and honesty will always suffice,

filling our coffers with all things nice.

Morals and ethics make us strong,

keeping us clear from all things wrong,

our homes are built with powerful assets,

polished and shined into many facets. ©

Monica Maartens.

LOVE - ELIXIR OF GROWTH

HOW DOES LOVE AFFECT OUR GROWTH....

Blessed are children who arrive in a home of love. Our spirits, emotions, souls and minds drink deeply from the nectar of God. It seems to be the major energy force that encourages healthy growth on all levels. Where there is an abundance of love, children grow in leaps and bounds in all areas, not only physically, but emotionally and mentally. Sickness and disease doesn't seem to bother them too much and when they do fall ill, they recover very rapidly. It fills us with vitality and a tremendous will to live and explore with a deep excitement for life in general. It is hard to bring down a man of love, they seem to have a supernatural power to overcome and remain standing through enormous storms in life. When a house is built on the foundation of love it is as solid as a rock, and not the type of rock that cracks with heat and cold. There is a relaxed openness and trust and an incredibly strong invisible bond between family members that lies and deceit from outside cannot disrupt. There are many disciplines in life, but none as powerful and correct as love. When used as a training tool all learning becomes an exciting joyful experience which promotes fast learning. There is no fear in this discipline and therefore children are extremely eager to perform, learn and please....they love to be loved, don't we all... there is no fear to ask questions, try out new things, experiment, and play around bringing much deeper development to a child. The gentleness and kindness inspires as to be pleasing and to do the best we can. Love is an enormously powerful growing medium because it allows us to soar. It is considerate and respectful and allows each to grow in their own time and own space. No strict discipline or punishment is ever needed where love is used, as it patiently and gently explains all things until the child understands it. Most "naughtiness" comes from confusion, misunderstandings and impatience, not naughtiness at all....when children are continuously occupied with interesting, exciting things and they receive the necessary attention, time and love, what is naughtiness ???? Ignorant adults that are tired, scared and irritated ???? I think so !!! So terribly sad....a child is a full time occupation until they start there schooling, hopefully as late as possible, allow them to be children as long as you can......©

Tomorrow we start seeing how virtues and values start falling into place.........

ELIXIR OF YOUTH...LOVE SWEET LOVE

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

Love is a beautiful fountain of youth,

bubbling forth its treasures of truth,

deep in our souls lays a lake of serenity,

continually fed by the light of divinity.

It forms a river thay reaches our heart,

living waters opening each days start,

our cups runneth over with joy and laughter,

rich in blessings for here ever after.

It's health to our bones and sight to our eyes,

filling us with vigour to reach for the skies,

a gift from God as bestowed upon man,

makes us complete as only love can. ©

Monica Maartens.

LOVE AND ITS FRUITS

A BASIC BREAKDOWN OF LOVE..... This is not the human kind of "love", which is actually desire and lust, here we speak of real love, the kind that comes from the soul and not from the flesh. This love is a Godly attribute and is the very core of all existence. Our spirit, soul and heart, and mind are all emotion encased in the vessel of flesh.....and this emotion is deeply influenced by good vibrations and bad vibrations.....the good vibrations are love and it brings harmony to our entire inner being making us amiable, agreeable and pleasant. We are going to glance at what can be taught, what comes through our soul directly from our God connection and the results and fruit....

As babies we start learning from the way we are held, touched and treated. When we are gentle with our children, they are generally gentle. When we hold them close for the first few months we build a powerful bond. When they become a little older we show them through actions how to play gently with their toys and pets, if there are pets, so they see, they hear by our voice how we speak softly, and they feel by the way we touch them. Soon we teach them consideration that each has a turn to be fed, bathed, played with, etc. Endurance is taught when they learn to eat with a spoon, it is over and over until they get the mouth, same with crawling and walking, it is over and over as we help them get along. They learn from us our patience, hopefully.....we learn to share, toys, food, hugs and kisses, we learn to co-exist, to be civil to each other....all the things we see and feel and absorb mentally is what we learn about love....smiling and laughing, affection, etc...we can add much more to the list, but we get the general drift. All these qualities we are learning have an impact on our nature and character....call it fruits if you wish, it results in certain behaviours patterns. Fruits of love is gentleness, kindness, joy, happiness, laughter, relaxed and calm, peaceful, carefree, easy to be with and to handle, playful, open, fearless, excited, adventurous, healthy. Thus kind of child is an absolute pleasure, because there is no crying, no tantrums, no upsets...just a joyful little being coming into their own. Where there is anger children cringe away, the noise and fighting, and shouting and tenseness make them afraid, they know something is wrong and it makes them nervous and tense resulting in bad digestion, bad sleeping leading to unhealthy growth, tiredness, irritability, tantrums and drama, which no one needs. 

When children are very loving in a pure way, it scares potential intruders because thay cannot break through that kind of purity....it is too bright and repells them. This is interesting....we make our children wary of strangers...to keep away from them.....this leads to fear....the child fears the stranger and fear is the door the intruder uses.. .when he sees he can use fear in a child he finds a grip on the child, so we should not teach a child fear, but let them develop the pure love that they carry, what they should be taught is no one is allowed to look or touch where it is inappropriate.....and guess where it starts ......yes.....with nappy changes....the child must see and know from very young that this is private and NOT FOR PUBLIC VIEWING....they pick it up from the nappy changes. So please, think what you are doing......think what you are planting into the child's brain....think..... We should avoid teaching our children fear...it is our duty to ensure that our child is safe at all times and take the necessary precautions wherever we keep the child, that no strangers can get to them, until they are old enough to understand and fend for themselves, but not to teach them fear....because they start fearing all sorts of things, possibly even us and that is no good...

We will see hiw this affects that growth of a child.   The loved child versus the unloved child....same environment, same food, only love being the difference...... ©

DRINK DEEP THE NECTAR OF LOVE

WATER OF LIFE

Drinking deeply from the water of life,

love is the nectar of Godly delight,

bubbling through us with jubilation,

filling us with divine inspiration.

Through the eyes of love the world is bright,

guiding our feet on the passages of light,

we shimmer and shine with great vitality,

experiencing life in all its totality.

Love and laughter makes a house a home,

uniting all under a golden dome,

it is the crown of any family,

the very core of all humanity. ©

Monica Maartens.

MASSIVE POWER OF LOVE

LOVE WEAVING AND ENTWINING ALL TOGETHER.....

Throughout childhood our main teachers are Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer until we become aware of mirrors, the opposite sex, glamour and beauty and want to start impressing, normally only in our teens when the next four join the party....Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. More about that a bit later, we aren't through with childhood yet. All these behind the scenes "teachers or masters" work, or should be working within the framework of Godly teaching, guiding our paths with truth, virtues and values in each sector of our growth as is appropriate to our age and development. This is individual according to each child. As I see it, the milky way is our childhood years and there are teachers, beside the schools, and society's that select out of the milky way those they want in their society at an older age. After this the society of Venus selects the girls and Mars collects the boys they have chosen. These society's exist upon the earth as clubs, etc and without anyone's knowledge the children are subtly guided into what they want them to become.....we are already groomed from very young. They are in a way isolated and through parents and teachers are tested and trained by these masters. They operate through the people around the children. The unchosen ones remain in the milky way and eventually land up in the meteor belt where they have to fight and battle and sell themselves to obtain a place, otherwise they simple remain one of the masses. Simply my observation, but when we look deeply into it, it makes perfect sense. Besides all this going on, the most important and first major attribute to establish within a child is love.....real, genuine love. 

LOVE is a mighty tree with very deep roots and many, many branches. The roots reach right through our souls into our core, which is the center of our excistence, our umbilical cord to our creator, an unbreakable bond that will always be there even we become lost in the maze of life. It is, when we are older, that hole in our soul, that emptiness which nothing can fill....that is our special space for a relationship with God, nothing can fill that space because nothing can get there, only God can, it is the home of love, our God connection, our emotional center. From here the entire tree is watered with love and truth. The trunk represents our physical body, our earth or DNA, the flesh part which we consider to be our Taurus, the vessel which carries the rest of us. The branches of the tree represent the spirit as they branch out into all directions exploring all the paths and ways of life, which is the fire in us, the Aries, and if not chained will develop into many abilities and talents as we test and try all sorts of different things. It has no natural fear and is very willing and eager to venture into anything and everything, remember it is spirit, it knows no bounds, as long as the body can keep up, it will go. The leaves are the kitchen of the tree and through photosynthesis convert the minerals, etc into food for the tree, like the mind...our Gemini or air, filtering through the brain all the knowledge recorded, finding the meaning and understanding behind it, taking what is useful and casting the rubble out. This is a major job, because the eyes and ears collect an enormous amount of useless garbage that has no place or use in our lives. Added to this is the soul, heart and emotions...probably the greatest force of them all ...when we feel down in the dumps, nothing wants to play...the spirit is dampened, the mind has lost interest, and we have no motivation, sad emotions are terribly heavy and weigh all of us down. And this is where love plays such a major part. When we are loved we know it, we feel it, it fills our entire being and nothing is impossible, we are ready and able to reach the impossible with no fear....it completes us, makes us a whole unit. This is our deep waters department...we can fly on the wings of eagles, or we can sink into the deepest, darkest, dungeons of despair that shuts down all systems. Love is the true water of life, vitality and growth. This love, which is all embracing is a gift from God, it is a very special type of love that can see through any obstacles and when nurtured and cherished becomes our very life force. This is the Cancer that can bring serenity, calm waters and beautiful sunshine, or it can rage with devastating storms of terrible destruction...when these deep waters are disturbed it drains all our energy like a monstrous black hole and the energy of everyone around them. It sucks all the joy out of life in the entire area. 

Now love is partly taught through actions in a mental capacity which leads to fruits. But before it can grasp any of this we need to open the sluice gates through our souls to the portals of Gods love, the origin from where it springs forth.......

Tomorrow we will take a peep into the breakdown........©

LOVE SWEET LOVE

BEAUTY OF LOVE

An everlasting river of love always flows,

from deep within our soul it glows,

bubbling up like fresh mountain springs,

filling us with all the joy it brings.

Sending ripples through our hearts,

with the gentle compassion it imparts,

laughter and fun is everywhere,

as the gurgles from our bellies tear.

What incredible beauty loves beholds,

as the treasures from our soul unfolds,

fills our senses with gusto and passion ,

lifts us onto the wings of elation. ©

Monica Maartens.

BACK TO ZODIAC CHECKLIST

ALL LEVELS OF GROWTH....

Lets do a checklist on how we are doing. 

The will, or spirit, our Aries side in us is developing fine as we venture into all our surroundings with vigour and curiosity, being very insistent on what we want to explore. If not held back by too many rules and regulations it should be doing just fine. As this part of us has nothing to do with body and DNA, but all about the inner person, it grows at its own pace with a little guidance.

The flesh or body in Taurus grows in leaps and bounds with the nutrition and food appropriate for our age. We are weighed and measured, injected and vaccinated, our respiration and heart beat is checked, our vision and hearing is evaluated, our brains are recording the information and all flesh things are running smoothly and growth is quite normal 

The mind and comprehension in Gemini is very much alive and questioning everything. As the brain records all what is seen and heard, the mind now checks it as it reasons and tries to understand and make sense of it all. This activity belongs to the unseen inner person - the spiritual side of us. The fleshy brain is like the hardware that only records exactly as it is received, the mind is like the program that finds the meaning and purpose behind it as it is not always literal but symbolic, so the mind and intelligence is linked to brain but is not the brain, is has note to do with the spirit than the flesh.
Now we come to the emotional side of us, our Cancer, which is for most part of our life badly neglected. Everything our flesh feels, our emotions feel too. When, in the case of a baby, our nappy is wet or soiled, it causes discomfort which results in irritation, confusion and left unchecked, anger and frustration. When left regularly and too long it causes nappy rash with stinging, burning pain all the time resulting in restlessness and continuous crying, even when dry. When we are hot, cold, hungry or hurting, it all affects our feelings and emotions. We have no emotional education, no one teaches us how to cope with our emotions, it is pretty much swept aside... We have to correct the outer circumstances to ease the restlessness and inner turmoil. We hug and comfort the child, give reassurance, love and time. Speak in gentle soft words and tones to restore our balance. When we rant and rage, scream and shout, it aggravates the situation and doesn't help anyone, a child cannot help how they feel, as a matter if fact neither can an adult, we can just hide it better. When we ignore these feelings and leave a baby or child in their cot or room to cry it out, it is the worst thing we can do, because these unresolved emotions make themselves a home in a deep dark dungeon of emotional turmoil and stores each and every event which later in life dwill become serious issues. And an injured heart has a memory like an elephant....it never forgets and rarely forgives until it finds understanding. Only then can it release those feelings of neglect and misuse. The still waters run deep and may become become very revengeful once they are old enough and strong enough. These traumas in young life will use the grown up body with the child-like emotion....so the mind goes back to the child emotional state and the now adult body takes the revenge. 
Baby or small child is checked for clean, dry nappies, they've been fed, their temperature is normal and if nothing physical can be found wrong, it is presumed the child is being naughty and promptly punished. They can't talk yet to say they are hurting inside, emotionally, or they are scared alone....and for this they are punished...HOW IGNORANT....... They may have heard and noise and are afraid, or the need to be turned....how lo gdoes a baby lay in their pram or cot each day.....they need to be turned regularly if they are not in a bib on your chest, where they should be......or the clothing maybe too tight, or they are just lonely and need to be close. By the time the can speak, they are already hiding in their dark dungeons, due to fear of punishment.....and then there is always a gap, a mistrust, and this is very, very deep because it started so young. IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA TO IGNORE EMOTIONS - IT IS THE GREATER PART OF WHO WE ARE, WE ARE BASICALLY EMOTIONS CONTAINED IN A VESSEL OF FLESH. So from this we can see we are ONE part flesh - the seen and THREE parts spirit - the unseen. So the unseen should receive three times the amount of attention that the seen part receives..... And who does this....do we spend as much time beautifying our hearts and emotions, minds and thoughts, as we do our bodies and faces ????? WHY NOY ??? ©