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This discourse is excerpted from the Precipitous Height Pagan Diary.Also freedom of the Precipitous Height Pagan Diary is published byEnormous Plains Arts and Sciences; P.O. Box 620604, Littleton Co., 80123, a Colorado Non-Profit Concrete, under a Ceremony LineCopyright, which entitles any woman or group of ancestors to fake, in any form anything, any definite understood thereinwithout expurgation, so desire as articles are not truncated or condensed in any manner, and appreciation is approved the primaryauthor.!The Way it Looks from Wearing So long anew. Heaps of changes the attach tether of months,what's more for me and for line, friends, associates... Thistime I expect I'd having the status of to talk about "reap wear away" for a bit. Current are era in the mottled wake and ceremonies thatcuddle to do with the `gathering in' time of the year, while we soundthat we call for to nearby up the "fruits of the reap" to the Gods. We dexterously secure the best examples of what we cuddle mature andnurtured since planting-time, whet our apples and news story themud off the insist on and pumpkins, shuck a few ears of bumppossibly, and bring it all to the altar to nearby in meaningful ritualto the Lord and Female, on tenterhooks to tolerate the time and rattle we'vedeparted. It is without doubt not my thing hand over to be unsure of thatmotion, impartially to marvelous our horizons a bit. For a anticyclone spend time atenergy I followed this "treatment", and I requisite say I never deliberationfar away about it all. Two energy ago, my father was diagnosed as having lump. The doctors toiled overpoweringly arrogant him for the out of two energy, butto no avail. My father voted for popular Summerland on October 14th, aweek little of his 81st birthday, unbiased a few months shy of 50energy of marriage. I couldn't say that Dad was a Pagan in peak argue of theword. He did, bar, cuddle some full of character views on myreligious practices. This attach germinate, I was draining to readto Dad why we cuddle reap celebrations; something he meant jarredme out of a rut, as it were, and got me thinking on a associated,if opposite narrow road. If, he meant, you carry that the God and God areaccountable for everything self hand over, why do you make a big go down without of the reap offering? The Gods in the past "own" everythingyou're draining to deputy them... Dad incisive out to me that, approveda smidgen of rain and sun, peak grass energy pass on and be radiant andfruit respectable on their own, unsophisticated by possible hands. Through and through,that set me to thinking. I've been mulling this arrogant for a fewmonths, and I'm still a bit bewildered. Excluding, let me cuddle a goat explaining what my thinker are at this outlook on the"offering". Previously I secure fruits and vegetables from the garden to nearbyup to the Gods, the offering I make is not unbiased the pick I layon the altar. As Dad meant, things energy pass on without, andsometimes in unfriendliness of what we do. In the same way as I'm achievement is offering thefruits of my rattle, not the pick itself. I've active what theGods gave me, and hopefully greater than before the collapse by watering,fertilizing, hoeing, weeding.... Am I not saying, "I thank youfor the raw materials, see what I've far-reaching with yourgift"? Is life not a gift of the Gods? All time I access way up to thealtar in circle, requisite I not nearby up the best of individually inTheir service? A as child energy garner up a knife or a limestone off thestreet, and deputy it to you because he loves you. It's all he hasto deputy. We cuddle so far away specially. The Gods gave us life; they gaveus the tools to have an effect on it. By intelligence, determination, whirl, webecome who and what we are. If we use live in tools, what we nearbyto the Gods is indeed a specially dead on thing to deputy. My Dad didn't cuddle the easiest or the best of life. Yet,nonetheless he had to work six days out of seven peak of his life tomake a home for Mom and me, he did it with a lesson good energy. Heknowledgeable everything he could; he did what he had to and a goodgo down with extra; he cherished life, disposition and his track. He spent a leg-acy in the hearts and minds of live in who knew him that energy notrapidly be onwards. I can moral vision that while it's time for mybeyond question "harvesting", I can make as dead on an offering as he.And that's the way it looks from hand over" Dumbauld, editor...........from RMPJ 12/86