MG-1 It's all between the ears

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You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one...

So the song begins...

I'm comforted by my lack of a deity to reach out to. Between my ears, deities don't exist. I don't need one for hope. I can hope all on my own. I don't need one for help, it's all up to me. It's not too much of a load to bear. I am the one set of footprints in the sand. 

As Todd Rundgren sings, "Love is the answer." 
The Beatles sing, "Love, love, love, all you need is love."

Maybe your idea of a deity is love. I don't believe we need a deity to give or receive love. To be kind. To help others.

Life happens and in the blink of an eye it can change as significantly as the appearance of a room with the flip of a light switch. In either direction. I've experienced both.

Each day is a decision. My eldest brother once wisely told me, "life is choices and prices. The older you get the fewer the choices and the higher the prices." 

We merely need to make the decision to act or not. To love or not. To help or not. No rewards lying in forever-land. Nothing beyond discovering that every challenge we face affords us the opportunity to respond or not. To rise to the occasion or to shrink away with why me, self pity and shaking a fist at a make believe deity.

I find comfort in being an atheist. 

My wife, the most wonderful human being I've ever known has been diagnosed with Masthenia Gravis. It's incurable and debilitating symptoms fluctuate. We hope for periods of remission.

Life happens. We'll roll with it and our love will find a way to a new normal for us. 

A closer us. 

Something I didn't know was possible.

For all I've been blessed with in my life
There was an emptiness in me
I was imprisoned by the power of gold
With one kind touch you set me free

let the world stop turning

Let the sun stop burning

Let them tell me love is not worth goin' through

If it all falls apart

I will know deep in my heart

The only dream that mattered had come true

In this life I was loved by you.