We Are From The Future - Next Stage: Revolution of Love
I don't wonder as much as I'm challenged by some to reconsider my viewpoints, that perhaps I take things too far spiritually, and that my viewpoints are not realistic enough for the world we 'live' in. I understand the confusion. They think 'we' live in different neighborhoods, different worlds and different mindsets. I get it. There are plenty of 'differences' that create an illusion of separation, but I've never subscribed to that philosophy. I've always had a deep sense and knowing that everything is connected, and that there has to be balance in this very chaotic world. How else could humanity, nature, animals, and all living things have peace, love and harmony? These things are basic universal rights for all beings in existence, not just a choice few. When things are out of balance, the chaos takes over as in our world today. We're seeing that chaos mushrooming and reverberating through the whole system, all over the world. The earth has never inhabited this many people, or this much money, or this much power, or this much corruption. It's reaching epic proportions and it's becoming obviously more unstable.
For me, I stand firm, firm on the side of truth, peace, immense love, balance, kindness, humility, harmony, hugs, genuine smiling from happiness. . . where do you stand?
The time has long come for unity and common sense. I pray as more things are revealed, more people will let go of fear and find their truthful voices, stand up and speak out with love, compassion and courage. We can face the lying giants together, and we can renew our own minds if we've been playing the game too long, or if we've given into the illusion. We're quite capable of anything once we find our passion, and life and living are just two primary things we should be very passionate about right about now.
Do not let anyone steal your life, your love, your peace, or your joy.
The revolution is upon us.
Be the love. Be the peace. Be the change. Be the light.
Relationships can be tricky. Navigating the right words and emotions sometimes is a bit of a pain in the ass. Get it wrong and someones going to be 'mad' at you. Get it right and the rewards are love, devotion, respect and happiness.
I find myself saying 'I work hard' at relationships a lot. I often think long and hard about what people say to me, as well as what I say to them, but oftentimes I have felt misunderstood.
Interesting that I never really feel misunderstood in business. Business, especially really good business, has it's parameters and business people learn to navigate within them. It's pretty simple really and I really love it. I get a tremendous amount of respect from my customers because I give them a tremendous amount of respect. I give them exactly what they call me for and the 'relationships' are happy ones. Of course occasionally a customer will call with a complaint and I leap to the challenge to win them back over. I have a very successful turnover rate thus far and as I type these words, I am looking forward to the opportunity to do it all over again tomorrow.
However, there is an emptiness associated with this 'misunderstood' feeling and I am learning to disassociate and disconnect from the expectations that come with feelings. It's not that important that I feel misunderstood. What's important is that I lead with love always and patch up and spackle any cracks or feelings that would steal that love. Forgiveness for feeling offended and love for the broken heart. I've had a broken heart most of my life because of one relationship or another. The time has come to change the outcome, the expectation, and the feelings.
As I look back over my relationships, I realize that I had a deep need for love (as most of us do) but perhaps mine was a little more intense due to my earliest definitions of love and devotion. My experience coming from a broken family left my expectations in turmoil. I navigated relationships poorly constantly coming from a place of deep need. I lived that way for most of life perhaps up until most recently. These past few years have brought many bad habits to light for me and my inner most being rises to the surface as being the most important relationship that I have ever needed to learn to navigate. Getting to know oneself is the most important relationship because once you truly know yourself, you can give to others in a way that is selfless, needless but filled with love, respect, devotion and happiness. That's all I've ever wanted in my relationships ultimately but having that want can lead to disappointment. I now realize that loving yourself, nurturing yourself, understanding why you do what you do, letting go of past hurts, forgiving others, all of these things lead to a better you and a better you in a relationship.
A clean slate, an open heart and boundaries are something I rarely started with in the past but it's how I wake up every morning now. I embrace the newness of day and opportunity and although yesterday may have been a bear for one reason or another, the new day presents a chance to breathe differently, pray more effectively, release more expectations and dream cleaner visions for myself and others. When you come from a place of hurt or brokenness, your expectations are cloudy, never fulfilled and disappointment is the order of the day. When you release all of that and embrace openness you realize that even if the other person never even notices you, you do not have to buckle under unmet expectations, you notice yourself. You love and nurture yourself and more importantly, you set boundaries. You adjust the flow of qi in your life in a sense. If you focus on energy that is negative or of a really low vibration - like anger, or sadness, that energy will be more prevalent. The opposite of that is also true and so much more beneficial.
Every toxic word or deed that has ever been said or done to you that has hurt you deeply, you can release. You can create a space where pain used to reside. You can change that energy to something healing instead of something draining and capable of creating sickness. Every toxic word that you have ever said or deed you have ever done, you can forgive yourself for and if you need to, apologize for. Humility is salve to a multitude of wounds. Forgiveness is the bandage and love is the result all within the boundaries that you set in your relationships.
Why boundaries?
Because everyone is on a different part of the journey. Not everyone understands that expectations lead to disappointments. Not everyone understands that love is the higher law. Not everyone will embrace your thoughts and emotions as good, as accurate or in some dire relationships, necessary. Those are the ones you need to really set boundaries with. Love your neighbor, your family, your friends, but don't yoke up to them if they have a habit of invading your space in a way that is toxic. Plain and simple. Change the way you respond and you will get a different result.
Of course, most of this wouldn't even be an issue if people were more honest with themselves and if they were more interested in the pursuit of mind, body, spirit-evolution. Some people are more on a journey than others. Unfortunately, we all have people around us that are not even aware that transcendence is a reality and something to be searched for. For some, they've carved out a hollow that allows only a very small amount of light to illuminate. These relationships rarely evolve, perhaps too much auto-pilot role playing. Honesty and humility however, can bring all of these bad habits to light and relationships can evolve because people can evolve.
I am living proof that you can change and you can overcome just about anything. Love yourself first and the energy that flows from you will be illuminating.
Happy New Year!! 2011, can you believe it? I can't. Seems like yesterday we were gonna 'party like it's 1999' hahhaa! Where did the time go?
Sorry I haven't blogged in forever. I've been going through life's struggles and trials, coming out the other end refined and purified. I will get into details, but just not yet. Let's just say that when two become one, and then perhaps they become two again, it is a very painful and awful process...yet beautiful somehow.
I have a lot to say about that, but as I said, today is not that day. Today I want to lift you up. I want you to feel the expression of love that I feel when I hear my favorite song at the moment...I just had to share it with you. I've been going through so much lately and somehow, God always manages to lift my Spirits...I hope it will lift yours.
by Mercy Me
May God richly bless us all this year, in our comings and goings, in our hellos and goodbyes, in our blessings and struggles. God loves us and wants to inhabit our praise and wants to help us in our daily living. Lift your eyes unto the Lord, surely this is where your help comes from. God be praised.
May all your dreams come true in 2011 and remember, "you're beautiful".
Here I sit trying to decide just how much of my inner pearl I want to share with you. Life, it seems, has thrown me another curve ball to deal with, this one having to do with more emotion than one person should have to handle.
Interesting since working with energy has so much to do with emotion. As soon as I became involved with Reiki, unresolved emotions from my past, fears and concerns about my future and the present unsettled moment kept coming into focus. The time to clean house had come whether I welcomed it or not. This was a good thing, though at the time, quite gut wrenching.
I dealt with all of it, so I thought.
The lessons I should've learned from some past similar experiences have come around full circle. Truly, what goes around comes around. Even if you try your hardest, sometimes somethings are coming for you and they're going to hit you squarely so take them when they come so as to avoid repeat fire.
I've taken this one squarely.
I'm still standing and I'm emotionally wounded, but I'm beginning to heal and move forward. It may look like I'm standing still, but if you look closely you will see that progress is being made.
What is the elephant in the room you ask? Well, I really don't want to get into specifics, but I will say that trust is something that I value, that and truth now more than ever.
I feel that I am a very trustworthy person. I have been known to say that I am a safe bet. Why? Because I know the value of the truth. It's priceless. When no one else will speak the truth - when the whole world has convinced itself that to lie is better than honesty - I will be there saying 'hell no'. I can't help it. I'm not even known to sugar coat. Personally, I think I've gotten better at it - telling the truth that is.
Perhaps when I was younger I needed to express 'my' truth - even at the expense of other people's feelings. I've since learned to be more sensitive than that. I was young and learning. Now, I'm seasoned and have had enough of life's experiences to know that the truth can set you free and really hurt - so be gentle with it - but, speak it at all costs.
Which brings me to trust.
One of my favorite things to tell my cat Cricket, a.k.a. Crispy Whispy, is that she is 'safe, loved and protected'. I tell her that because she clearly has anxiety at times from some kitten hood trauma she had experienced before I rescued her. I've had to convince her for the past ten years that she's safe. She's loved. She's protected. She's starting to trust me I think after all these years, but she still has a lot of anxiety. I've had to build a relationship of trust with her. I work really hard at it. My heart breaks for her since it's such a deep rooted emotion for her not to trust.
I can so relate to that. I've had my share of disappointments as it pertains to my relationships. I had to learn to trust again. Which I did. Until now. Again.
Now, I'm going inside where there's stillness, and quiet and clarity and remembering what Jesus said about humanity and that He knew what was in 'us'. I think He was speaking of the fact that sometimes people will let you down and take your trust and make you regret giving it away. Let's be clear. It is a risk - trusting. Where I come from anyway.
It is a risk but one that I am willing to take. I believe in myself and in the core values that make me who I am. I believe in faith, in trust, in truth, in love.
My eyes, however, are wide open. I've seen enough in my humble life to know that not everyone has your best interest at heart. Sometimes, you have to figure things out for yourself. Protect yourself. Make sure that you are loved, safe and protected, by yourself! I trust me. I am a sure and safe bet. I will not let me down.
Truth. Simplicity. Love and Service to all sentient beings.
This is the message that has come to me through the Bhagavad Gita. God, it seems, has many roads leading to him/her. God, and the great cosmic consciousness has purposed it this way.
The Bhagavad Gita was brought to my attention years ago by a star that shined on this planet for a very short time. Her name was Dina Certrulo and while she was here, she and I were friends and she taught me about things along the lines of divinity, spirituality, the Tao and Hinduism. She was probably the only person that I ever came in contact with that shared with me in this way. If it weren't for Dina, I wouldn't be leaning in this direction. Because of her safe and valued opinion I am forging ahead. She was wise beyond her years and generous with her knowledge. I would only hope to be as kind.
I have been hungry for these things forever and they very rarely fall on deaf ears with me. I'm always paying acute attention. I am aware. I am present. I am being. I am in the now.
This is revealing. It is liberating. It is cosmic.
Not just in theory. The very nature of spirituality is to take you from yourself, your 'so-called' circumstances and illuminate the magnificence in and of your life.
This year has been a year of karmic cleansing for me. The beginning of 09 was all about my throat chakra and how I was not living my authentic truth. I allowed someone to bully me. I am 46 human years young and I allowed myself to be bullied.
It was not empowering like when I was younger and had more control over the situation. This time, as karma came around, I was not prepared, caught off guard and holding my tongue in the name of 'doing the right thing' or 'taking the higher road'. I suppose for some, peace works like that, but for me communication is the key. Without saying the words "hey, that hurts" the hurt can never heal. On the contrary, the hurt festers until it becomes something entirely different, something much worse. No. Nip it in the bud. That's my new mantra on speaking the truth and living your authentic truth. Look people right in the face and with as much love as you can muster, tell them exactly what you think. Do not be spiteful, judgemental, cruel or sarcastic. Just speak the truth.
"That hurt."
or
"Please do not treat me that way, it makes me feel badly and it is very hurtful."
"If you knew how much I loved you, you could never treat me this way".
Choose your own words, but speak them, out loud, in love, into the ether, into the cosmos, outside of yourself so that God and the Universe can hear you and know that you've worked through your karma and can speak on your own behalf in truth, simplicity, love and service to all sentient beings.
Then I broke my arm. My heart was broken.
What does my arm have to do with my heart?
Well, I was on my way, so I thought, doing Reiki, helping people, giving lectures and .... then ... I had the cast and you know the rest. I was incapacitated up until very recently. It took the rest of 2009 and shoved it right into a plaster disaster. Not to make light of it, but why not. That was then and look at me now, typing close to 90 wpm and doing my hair and taking care of business and giving my biggest lecture of the year at MSU.
Bones heal way quicker than hearts.
My wrist still hurts but when it hurts I do not fall to my knees weeping.
I do not become incapacitated and depressed.
It is just healing and now I know what a healing bone feels like.
In retrospect, I also know what a healing heart feels like.
It's just about the same thing.
It's when we become attached to the outcome...we become attached to the reciprocity of love and when we don't get it...what then? The bones hurt? The bones break? The heart hurts? The heart breaks? I've learned it is better to not be attached to the outcome of love, or bones. To the outcome of life or death. A broken heart should never happen, even though you love with all that you are. Love with no expectation of getting anything in return and then ... when you do not receive love ... you will not be dis-appointed.
I just went to Shop rite and checked out at the express lane because I only had a few items. A beautiful, young, African-American male was working the register. I asked him "How are you? They're not getting the best of you are they?" and he just smiled. I said "I never let them get the best of me" and I looked straight at him. He returned my glance smiling and contemplating.
What I was referring to was the negativity, the monotony, the hatred, the sarcasm, the ill-will, all the negativity that there is in the world that would keep us from living our authentic truths, our authentic lives, the best us that we are in the world and in the cosmos ... no, they will never get the best of me in that way. I will love them though and I will love you despite all of those obstacles and I can only pray that all at once they would fall by the wayside and make way for truth, simplicity, love and service to all sentient beings.
He checked me out and handed me my bags and said looking right at me "I will never forget what you said". I replied "Good. It's important to remember" and I left the both of us smiling.
No, my throat and my heart chakras are healthy now, spining brilliantly on their axis, shining, like the planets, the universe and the cosmos and the karma has been worked through. I will speak my authentic truth, I will lead with my heart with no expectations or reservations. I will live my life in Truth, Simplicity, Love and service to all sentient beings (and firstly, to myself - this I have learned).
Next stop, Babaji.
OM Namah Shivaya.
I bow to whatever good is happening and to whomever is doing it.
Friday I became a Reiki Master and while that title states that I am a 'Master' now, I still have a lot to learn. I consider myself a student of life and if that's true, you're never done learning.
My experience with my teacher was one of peace and instruction and very positive energy. She told me that I may experience a detoxing as with any of the attunements. After the first two attunements, Reiki I and II, I did experience a lot of emotional issues that surfaced, or resurfaced. Things that I thought I had dealt with came back to the forefront of my mind in a big way. I also had some physical manifestations that led to some major surgery.
It forced my hand somewhat in that I don't believe I truly dealt with some major issues in my life. We have a tendency to push things down and to try and forget them or 'get over it' like I've been told to do many times, but that doesn't work.
Pushing emotional issues or trauma 'down' only brings it back in another way. Stress will manifest itself in your body. Perhaps in a way that is most uncomfortable. Stress can manifest in anger, in mistrust of others, in illness, in self medicating, in overall malaise and a 'putting up a front' sort of personality. Alot of people are like that. They have two sides to them. They put on a smile when they really want to wring someones neck. So they act out in many different ways - but they never face their problems head on.
I was like that for a long time and it did not make me happy or healthy.
I'm not exactly sure what to expect after this Reiki Master attunement but I can tell you this much. I am not who I used to be. What I Am To BeI am still becoming.
I embrace change and I embrace the cleansing process. In an effort to help others, I must first help myself. So, that being said, it's my time to shine. Regardless of the aftermath. No one's life is more important than mine. I have a right to be my authentic self, to live my authentic life and to speak MY truth.
And, I have a funny feeling that MY TRUTH is going to help a lot of people.
Regardless of your spiritual beliefs and background, Reiki can help you overcome trauma, past hurts and offenses, drug abuse, you name it. It can help you to heal and to live a better life.
So far, I have three lectures scheduled for the next couple of months;
The National Guild of Hypnotists - Northern New Jersey Chapter - March 11, 2009;
Montclair State University Peace Conference - March 30, 2009; and
Bergen Community College - Women in Religion - April 29, 2009.
How's that for manifesting some major change? I couldn't be more humble or proud at the same time.
My topics will cover overcoming trauma, past offenses and hurts, healing, and of course how Reiki helps with all of that.
If you have a speaking opportunity that you would like me to consider, please reach out and let me know.
I'm realizing more and more that the path that I am on is the right one. I've been on the wrong one in the past more often than not - so the clarity that I have now cannot be denied.
Illness manifesting in our bodies due to past trauma is something that I'm coming to terms with in a big way in my life. It seems that as soon as I accepted this reality, opportunity began to present itself to me.
"So, you want to help people huh"? says my mind.
"Yes, I really do". says my heart and spirit.
Well, be careful what you ask for.
There are so many people in pain all around us if we would only take the time to speak with them. You need only to look into the eyes of a person to see it.
I met someone over the weekend that fits that description to a T. His name is Joe and he is in some serious pain. We went to his restaurant in Elizabeth and while we were sharing a meal with some friends he came out from the back where the food is prepared. He had a beautiful smile - but the smile didn't come very easily. He was cordial and pleasant - but just don't scratch the surface.
Now, keep in mind, I've never met this man in my life.
Underneath his forced smile is a man in a tremendous amount of pain. My heart instantly went into an empathic overdrive mode as I could see it - no, I could feel it.
He came over to our table and made some small talk. He said something about his mind always racing. He said something about crying. My husband agreed with him and said "yeah, I cry too - but not in front of my wife". We laughed because I knew what my husband was talking about but not what Joe was talking about. I knew there was something so much deeper going on. I reached into my spiritual bag of medicine and I asked him if he ever meditated and he said no. How about prayer? Meh, not so much. We made some more small talk and he left the table to go tend to his restaurant.
After some time, I went over to where Joe was standing and starting to speak with him some more. Now, this is where it gets personal - but how can we help each other unless we are willing to go out on a limb? I said before I could feel his pain. I mean, I wanted to cry to release some of the pressure but that would only help me - not him. I was praying in my spirit the whole time I was speaking with him asking God to show me...
I asked Joe plainly....."are you suicidal"?
I asked him this because I know what that looks like and feels like. I've been there. I knew he was - but I didn't know if he was willing to release any of the pressure that was building up inside of him.
Well, he just about jumped out of his skin. He looked at me in amazement. He grabbed his head with both hands "How do you know that"? he asked me.
I just know Joe. I've been there. Thank God I'm no longer there - but that neighborhood looks awfully familiar and scary.
He went on to say that he purchased a hand gun three months ago and that he was planning on killing himself.
He said it wouldn't be long now.
I pleaded with him and offered him my friendship and prayers. I gave him my telephone number and told him to call me anytime. I told him he didn't have to do that and that maybe, just maybe, things could get better.
I began to tell him a little bit more about myself and about how I used to feel the way he feels. I told him it can get better.
I'm not sure if he believed me.
It was time to leave the restaurant so, I took his number and we left. I spoke to my husband about what I had just learned. He said he could also see that Joe was in pain.
It was so obvious to us.
Suffice to say, I've already prayed for and sent Reiki to Joe. I've called him this morning and thank God he answered the phone. I have to call him back in a short while. I'm going to try and reach him on a more spiritual level but until he deals with whatever is bothering him - healthwise, he's in critical condition.
He is just one of many of us right now that are trying to cope with the reality that is our lives. We sometimes have to look at the unpleasant in order to find peace.
That's the way it's worked for me anyway - or should I say - is still working for me. I've been down that road and lived on that street in that neighborhood for a long time. It wasn't until I opened my mouth and spoke some really hard truths that the moving van showed up and took me to a much better place.
So, you want to help people huh?
Yes, yes, I really do.
DEBORAH KING, J.D., author of Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You (Hay House 2009), is a health & wellness expert, attorney, national keynote speaker, frequent TV and radio commentator, a regular blogger for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today, and a “healer to the stars.” She also hosts her own radio show, "Truth Heals with Deborah King." As a young attorney and hotel developer, Deborah suffered from a host of emotional and medical problems, culminating with cancer in her twenties. Her amazing recovery led her to leave the corporate arena for the alternative medical field, where she mastered ancient and modern healing systems and ultimately developed a powerful energy healing technique of her own. She is trained to address both the mind and the body’s health and disease processes. Deborah makes frequent appearances on national news and entertainment programs, and is known for her insightful and entertaining commentary on the news of the day.
Deborah says, "I learned about the mind body connection when I was working on healing the cancer that woke me up in my twenties. It was only when I faced the truth of the childhood sexual abuse that I experienced that I understood why the emotional pain we’ve buried in our bodies must be released."
While several wars are being fought simultaenously all over this world in the name of peace or religion or both, today a major, modern miracle happened.
U.S. Airways Airbus Flight No. 1549 enroute from LaGuardia Airport in N.Y. to Charlotte/N.C. landed safely in the middle of the frigid, current filled Hudson River. All 153 passengers and crew basically walked away unharmed. The geese that seem to have caused it, were obviously not so lucky.
Also today, Newton/N.J.'s town council ended their tradition of starting their meetings by reciting the Lord's prayer because Doug Radigan, a self proclaimed avowed athiest, told the council it was offensive to him. He requested a secular replacement.
The town council had no other choice since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the religious prayers recited at government functions are in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".
I say all of that to ask this...do you think anyone on that plane recited the Lord's prayer as it was plunging down into the river?
Do you think if they did, that God may have been listening?
I wonder what Radigan would've said if he was on that same plane.
He'll never know - not today anyway.
Miracles happen.
God lives, loves and guess what else?
While there is still breath in my lungs, blood in my fingertips, war in the world and freedom of speech in America I will pray/post/promote prayer, the Lord's prayer, and my Most High God in general - because I STILL can unlike a lot of people on this planet who cannot.
I am a warrior make no mistake - just try me.
God be praised . . .
"Our Father, who art in heaven, holy be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil".
For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever.
I've always danced to the beat of my own drum. I've always been slightly different than the rest of my friends. I have a tendency to be deep and go deeper still. Not everyone appreciates this and that's okay.
I don't appreciate shallowness so I guess we're even or at least balanced. What's the lyric from the band Jars of Clay (one of my favs)?
"Blessed are the shallow for depth they'll never find".
I search for depth. I search for meaning. I search for truth. I seek righteousness. I seek love. I seek to understand and to be patient. I mostly seek God and I must say, I've never been disappointed for He has met me more than half way.
But I understand why some don't dare search for deeper meaning. It gets sticky. It's not easy. It's not easy to look directly at yourself, scars and all. It's awful sometimes. We can be so human. We fall. We crawl. We scrape. We hide.
Again, quoting Jars of Clay
"If I were not so weak, if I were not so cold, if I were
not so scared of being broken growing old, I would be . . . frail".
Wow. That's so deep and awesome. Think about that. All the things we want to be in this lifetime - we can be all of them - yet we're still frail.
Perhaps that's the blessed message of love. You are frail. You cannot live this life without the Holy Intercession of God. Well, you can try, but depth you'll never find.
All knowing God still puts breath in your lungs every morning. He puts love in your heart and intellect in your brains and strength in your bodies for many reasons. Mostly His own.
Go deeper if you want to find the real purpose in your life. While there is still time and breath in your lungs, go deeper still.
Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A day to reflect on the life and journey of one gifted, courageous and outspoken man. Dr. King did for his generation what only he could do. He spoke the truth to the masses and removed most of the clay and dirt that plugged the eyes and ears of the people. Some didn't listen.
HEBREWS 4 12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
The truth is a double-edged sword and pierces the hearts of men. So some retaliated against the truth and Dr. King's life was taken from him.
President John F. Kennedy was also a truth speaker during Dr. King's time. He supported Dr. King. His life was taken from him too.
You can assasinate a man, but you cannot assasinate the truth. The truth lives on.
I wonder if the people of this day and age are really paying attention. Do they get that racism still exists for just about everybody today? Somebody hates something about somebody somewhere, every day. That's so dangerously powerful and yes, love is a mighty warrior but wisdom and knowledge are also effectively mighty. Where's the wisdom in hatred? Where's the wisdom in racism? Haven't enough souls been assasinated for this cause? When does life become important again? When does truth become important again? How many more righteous men have to sacrifice their lives before we get it?
I get it Dr. King and Mr. President, I get it. And, thank you.
