Heartfelt Message to the Reader

Dear Friends,

I finally have a decent number of enlightening feedback, impressions, and comments on the various essays on this blog. I received candid comments on both sides of the spectrum (pro and con). The pro comments gave me much needed encouragement in knowing that someone, somewhere out there, got the light they very much needed in their moment of darkness.

The cons are valuable to me because they give me insight into the various other ways that the words and style of writing are being perceived...perceptions that are potent roadblocks to the correct understanding and appreciation of these writings. Part of the motivation for writing these thoughts down stem from a sense of desperation in not having fully realized my parental desire to impart adequate guidance to my daughters, nieces, and nephews before I pass away. Life is fleeting and tomorrow is not guaranteed to come for us...the next hour is not guaranteed...neither is the next ten minutes. The only thing we do have with certainty is this moment...this very moment.

Yet another part of the motivation is to do my little part in helping alleviate the pain in others who like me wander about this existence with frustration, emotional anguish, desperation, uncertainty, and most painful of all, the absolute feeling of aloneness even in the midst of so many children, friends, relatives, and loved ones. I desperately sought true inner peace in my predominantly disturbed life and I believe that I finally found it and a reliable source for it from which I can always draw from.

Can you blame me for wanting to share this source and the path that led me to this source with all of you who anguish in the same manner as me?

Can you see how important it is for me to tweak and refine my writings, choice of words and manner of articulation to minimize turning people off to the insights I am earnestly trying to share?

If the essays are therefore coming across as preachy and self-righteous, please pardon my poor manner of articulation. If these words are coming across as being written to impress intellectuals rather than written in a manner that common folk can easily understand, please forgive the poor choice of words. At this point, I am just writing down words as fast as they are coming to me. I promise to revise all of these within the next several months to address the comments and feedback I received from those who so generously gave them.

I hope you can get past the imperfections of this early version of the writings and somehow manage to arrive at a correct understanding of the underlying message.

I am far from being a man adequately in control of and capable of overcoming the various forms of my human nature (which we, for the most part, all share in common). However, I am making important little strides and steps toward becoming the better person that I earnestly strive to become. My successes here is where my sense of inner peace comes from as well.

For those of you who know me, I hope that you can manage to look beyond the inadequacies apparent in the example of my own life and relationships (or possibly your assessment of it) and not require perfection in my daily living before you grant any amount of credibility to the content.

Light, love and peace.

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