What do you want?

WHAT do you want?

What DO you want?
What do YOU want?
What do you WANT?

Perhaps this is the question all mankind has asked throughout history ... a summative query of all conflict and of all purpose.  Relationships begin and end in this question ... even asked on a corporate or national level, the history of mankind has rested on this question and on the word that was emphasized.  From the time an infant cries out without words, this question is being asked.  By the age of kindergarten, we have already mastered the manipulation of others to respond.

... and we spend the rest of our lives essentially asking and responding to this question.  All that we do is the result of our personal answer and response.  It it the driving force behind our actions and our purpose in life.  We will sacrifice personal comfort and purpose in our response.

For this man we met in a pub at 11:15 on a chilly fall morning in Charlestown, Ireland ... it was
"a corner table near the peat fire ... and another pint ... with a straw please, for the escape of my Parkinson's and the forty years I spent in the English Navy trying to escape my upbringing in this little town ... only to return to my roots and spend my days drinking in conversation with strangers about memories of Lynard Skynard and early rock and roll."  

Probably not the best answer.

Peace be with you and may GOD bless you.

Inspiration from Inch Beach

Oh ADONAI !  
   ... as you breathed life into this world and created nature and natural order from chaos ... From nothing ... You set in motion the reminders of your touch ... of your love ... of your constant and continual care for all of your creation.   Your tears of disappointment in man's abandonment of your compassion and avoidance of trust in your natural order have created the brooks that fill the great rivers and empty into the oceans.    and yet you continue still to breathe your Holy Spirit into the hearts of men ... As the winds and oceanic currents incessantly move water and sand to erode the rock bastions we have created and replace them in new deposits that form the spits that reach into the raging waves of humanity and form the breakwaters that give safe harbor to those who are in such great need of your mercy.  Help me today to yield the hard parts of my heart to be reshaped by the ruach of the master potter and to be cleansed in the flow of your compassion to become who you desire me to be ... That the world may know - ADONAI