LITE and Fluffy (originated at pastordamon.com/blog 8-15-15)

[Patrick Friar]

I like lite and fluffy! I like to choose lite and fluffy often as I can. That's likely why I listen to Ron Ross in the mornings on my Xm radio on the Pulse to his self described show as ...well ,' lite and fluffy!'  (Truth be told, I want to meet him, be interviewed by him, and help him host the top 15 countdown...ha!) I digress.  I think I do 'lite and fluffy' because I prefer balance, in my life. How much of life is generally heavy and rigid?! I mean responsibilities are certainly there, geez they are everywhere! They persist on us. They pound as ocean waves consistently strike against the shore- relentlessly and unceasingly! Their demand is urgent! So I find myself gravitating towards 'lite and fluffy' moments when I can get them and certainly when I neeeeeed them. (Think of it as surfing those waves, that pound the shore of our lives, whenever we can do so...or something like that...)  We all have our definition of what lite and fluffy translates as and so the actual important part here is giving yourself permission... readily....for lite and fluffy.......................YUP!
So here goes.  Long, long, ago in another time and space, when the ideals for religion were just getting started (before rules were added that subtracted persons from benefitting from religion's pure intent) there was a philosophy...a saying. And it was pretty simple. I am going to paraphrase now but the story goes  something like this. 'When the gatekeeper stood at the gate and asked the Great Divine,  "What are the questions I should ask of the persons requesting admission into Heaven or the Afterlife?" The Divine being responded in a (loud booming voice!?) (nah)... (ahemmmm) The Divine being answered in a soothing and gentle way saying "Two questions only." The gatekeeper on the edge of her seat now responded, "And those questions?!" The Divine answered, " First, ask them, did you have a good time (in your life as a mortal).." A wee bit perplexed but none the less perservering and anticipatory the gatekeeper quipped, "And the second??" . After a slight pause came the utterance out of light..."Did you help others... to have a good time?" "Those are the only two requirements for admission, to this everlasting realm."  Boom.
Go  ye therefore, and do likewise...