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Turning the Table and & Law of Knees

 

 

I remember when I began to realize the reality of our constantly created karma. It was at night in a small KY town.  We ( being some high school  friends and I) were heading back toward the roads from the college gardens; going home after sneaking out for a midnight tennis match on the dark college courts.

Diane was talking as we jogged along and telling us all about her knees.  Yes, it’s the strange things that tend to stick out in our minds.

She said,

“I once used to make fun of Sandra’s knees because they were so ugly. One day I fell and hurt my knees so much that I could hardly walk for a week. They were banged up and I have big scars now. I think if you make fun of someone, even in your head, something happens to you to make you feel empathy toward them. Life gets you back!”

We were all listening intently to Diane about 'walking a mile in another's shoes' etc. because she was our Queen Bee. The gorgeous, fearless leader who got ALL the best looking guys, the girl who won every popularity contest hands down, our cheerleader role model whose body and hair we all secretly envied.

I’m sure that long before this I knew this spiritual truth of the ‘law of knees’, but hearing her talk about this topic in such a matter of fact way while referring to social rules and such, it stands out as one of my primary high school memories.

So she told us about her knees and how her intensions to hurt Sandra’s feelings about HER ugly knees had attracted this tragic karma.

***We jogged along under the light of the starry sky silently pondering the magnitude of her experience.***

If looking at someone in a ‘bad light’ brought that same ‘bad light’ back to me, then I really ought to watch my thoughts! In other words, thinking someone ugly thinks ME ugly! Ouch!

Our high school egos munched away at the scary truth of karma.

It was scary because we spent a tremendous amount of time comparing ourselves to others. Suddenly it was announced how a stray negative thought toward a person could bite us in the butt!

I began to think of all the validations in my life regarding ‘Law of Knees’ realizing the simple truth of this altered my future choices and ultimately the course of my life.

On a much grander and more complicated adult scale we weave our tangled webs and reap what we sew.

Outcomes may take weeks, months or even years to shine through.

Be careful when cheating on a spouse, bragging to a poor person about your great wealth, dating a married person, or when telling someone that “THIS could NEVER happen to ME”.

 

Make sure dear soul, that what you are choosing to do now is something you can live with if suddenly 'Law of Knees' reared up to show it's balancing karmic head in your life!

 

Light,

Fawn

Published Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:27 PM by Ms Claritynow
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# re: Turning the Table and & Law of Knees @ Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:13 PM

okay here comes a book :) After my sister divorced years ago she seemed to go from man to man which my family and I found truly disgusting and disgraceful. She like myself has 4 children, I remember critcizing her several times to family and friends saying when does she have time to be lonely? Why doesn't she just focas on raising her kids and putting them first. Why isn't her relationship with the Lord enough? She's being totally selfish. Then I divorced unexpectedly 4 yrs ago and while I am very diffrent from in that I am very picky and have not had a real boyfriend or felt that anyone I had dated was "worthy" of being around my children I soon found out how painfully lonely being a single mother is and how even though I loved god nad my children very much and enjoyed talking and spending time with them this was no substitute for having someone to put his arms around you and call you during the day just to see how your day is going and we won't talk about how much I missed sex on a regular basis,and that having children actually made me want a man/partner in my life to share and help in this experience even more than is I when I was single and childless. Suddenly I was feeling my sisters pain and the intense lonelyness that must have been driving her to behave that way. Even though we both reacted to feeling this way and acted out in different ways I felt horrible for judging her when I as a married woman at the time and couldn't possible know what she was going through. I had to call her a couple of years ago and while I didn't feel she needed to hear all the things I had said I admitted to her that I had judged her and her situation unfairly and asked for forgiveness. Since my divorced I have heard of many in my small town and family who have harshly judged me and spoken badly about me when the truly don't even know the situation or what I have gone/going through. I know I have to forgive them but at the same time I have to shake my head and think whoooo that they don't know what they may be bringing upon themselves and honestly I don't believe most of them could go through what I have gone through and still be here mentally and physically. But this is a constant reminder to me of why it's best obey God when he says Judge Not and to do unto others as I want done unto me.

liberty2010

# re: Turning the Table and & Law of Knees @ Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:20 PM

Awesome!! Thanks for taking the time to share this here.

Fawn

Ms Claritynow

# re: Turning the Table and & Law of Knees @ Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:34 AM

Absolutely wonderful blog. I know that this is so true in life and I have witnessed this over and over.  I have been aggressive and angry in my career and it has come back to haunt me many times.  Now I look gently on a situation and hope I am not judged to harshly when it is my turn to explain my actions.

Rosie

Rosalea

# re: Turning the Table and & Law of Knees @ Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:53 AM

I was a big "winner of arguments." I burned a lot of bridges. I hurt a lot of people including myself. I'm strictly win-win now. But I got plenty of scares on these old knees. :) And yes, Fawn does write a GREAT blog!! I finally bookmarked it so I wouldn't miss it.

Lollie

# re: Turning the Table and & Law of Knees @ Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:40 PM

 Thanks, I really love to write this blog!

Ms Claritynow

# re: Turning the Table and & Law of Knees @ Friday, June 29, 2007 6:33 AM

Ahhh...yes, I could write many. Thanks Fawn for bringing this to light! I guess I really never though about it until now. This can be paralelled with "what goes around comes around!" I harshly judged a fellow co-worker about 3-4 years ago. She was always taking FMLA due to her son. Her son was a difficult 14/16 yr old that constantly was being kicked out of school, skipping school, and into drugs and alcohol. I just couldn't understand why she couldn't get a handle on the situation and how could it be that bad, so the empathy was not there on my part. I would say to others I just don't understand, she has a significant other to help her. Furthermore I would say thank God I have two great kids considering I have raised them siglely most of their lives. Little did I know that all would come crashing down on me 2 years ago. My son who is now almost 17 was forced out of the HS when he was 15, he gets in trouble and gets suspended occassionally, likes to smoke pot and have caught him drinking. He has destroyed a bedroom door becuz he is mad at me for enforcing the rules/boundries etc. I have had him in counseling twice and currently...so keep my fingers crossed. My daughter, on the other hand, is in college, has a job, lives away from home. You just never know. So yes, be careful what you think and speak!

Laura

# re: Turning the Table and & Law of Knees @ Friday, June 29, 2007 7:00 AM

SOOOOOOOO true! I can relate to this subject. Thank you for sharing.

Fawn

Ms Claritynow

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