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Music. If you listen in the green pastures there is a lot of music and song.

Every kind of bird has its own tune to sing. The spring-peeper frogs sing loudly together on a warm spring morning. Baby calves, goats, sheep, chicks all sing their own song because they are happy, or hungry or glad to run and play. Even the streams and waterways have a song.

We humans have a song to sing also. In our green-pastures of mind what songs do you hear playing? Tune in to the frequency of thanksgiving and happiness.

What I really hope is you won’t give up your song of peace, joy and happiness, no matter how you feel. Actually you can make yourself feel better by keeping a happy song in your heart all the time. If when, you get really quiet, there is no song playing inside, you might need to reconnect with your music. I had an aunt who was always humming quietly, no matter what she was doing, throughout her day whenever I got close to her, I could hear her humming. She was always at peace and I wanted to be just like her.

Some of us might be whistlers. My father and brothers, (even myself included) loved to whistle tunes throughout our day working inside and out. Many make music with guitars, pianos, drums, string instruments and brass.

Keep your music going. Don’t let other people quench your song. A merry heart will do you and others good. Joy is your strength and often it comes through your own song.

Can you hear the music now playing in your green-pasture? Turn it up and enjoy your day!

Green Pastures

Peace, contentment, non-hurried pace, calmness, sunshine, wide-open spaces with trees surrounding green grasses…birds singing…

That’s what green pastures mean to me.

Green pastures is not only a real place, but I believe it is to be a place of mind. We are to have green pastures of mind.

It’s springtime right now. Let’s practice springtime in the mind. Wake up each and every day with feelings of green pastures in our mind. Cultivate green grasses of peace and contentment in your mind every morning. Remember and think of good things you have or are working on. Think of walking in the green pastures of calmness as you go about your morning. Find one routine that brings you happiness to repeat every morning, something you look forward to.

We don’t have to wake up in the thistle-patch or thorn tree of mind. We can choose to wake up and lie down in the green-pasture mind.

Oh there’s a lot of commotion going on in other dry and barren pasture lands, bugs, vultures, discontent, but I, we, can choose the green pasturelands to dwell in, dwell in peace, dwell in hope, dwell in contentment, dwell at a slower pace where we can hear the birds sing and notice the flowers.

It really is that simple. We can choose.

Choose with me to dwell in green-pastures of mind starting now.