On Forgiveness Of Snakes

from the: Lalo The Snake Catcher Stories
"Apprentices" 
Chapter III: In Service :Note  from Lalo to apprentice snake catchers on Forgiveness of Snakes
by LL ~ 2008


"Forgiveness of a Snake is essential in this business if you are going to be a master snake catcher. However, do not mistake the idea of forgiveness for a magic wand that will keep you safe. Forgiveness is an act of compassion, not a prophylactic, when it comes to most snakes.

When you forgive a snake for having bitten and made you ill
Do not then fall asleep in it's presence.
You will be bitten again
Unless you stay awake.

Do not be lulled by the flute and the smoke
and begin to rock back and forth to the tune.
Stand in your shoes,
ready to catch it and put it back in it's bag
with Love."

tbc

After All Was Said and Done

"After all," Lalo said shaking her head in a determined fashion, "what can you do with such a monster as that? He is too destructive, even here. He revels in doing wrong and destroying others lives. It makes him happy to see them suffer. Other people's suffering is like air to him."

"Yes." Owl agreed"there is nothing left but to end his days here. No one can help that one, not even God. He's had his chances; you gave him too many, and look at how he has repaid you. He killed and ate your best friend, created chaos in your household, stole your money and nearly sucked your energy dry. I would have killed him a long time ago if I were in charge of him. You were too generous with him my dear."

King Snake lounged in his house, which was really his prison as he listened to them. In his overconfidence he thought he still had a chance to go on as he always had. "Hah!. She always tries "one more time" with me no matter how bad I've been. She never gives up on a soul no matter how awful they are. She won't let me go." He hissed to himself with a smug smile on his lips. He slithered onto his big rock and curled up into a coil. Closing his closed his eyes to nap in the warm afternoon sunlight streaming through the glass roof of his domain, feeling safe and secure in these thoughts.  

"I'm afraid that is the case this time Owl, he has played his last mean trick, there is not one iota of anything real in him, there never was. You've been right all along. It was all a game to him, he is not worth wasting any more time and energy on. His schemes have caused too much destruction. There's nothing left to do, but to put an end to it."

~ from the final chapter of  "King Snake" , from the Lalo the Snake Catcher Stories, written by LL.

"There Once Was A King"

"Once upon a time there was a king." When we were children there was no need to know who the king in the fairy story was. It didn't matter whether he was called Shiladitya or Shaliban, whether he lived at Kashi or Kanauj. The thing that made a seven-year-old boy's heart go thump, thump with delight was this one sovereign truth, this reality of all realities: "Once there was a king."

~ Rabindranath Tagore

"Suffer the little children to come unto me." ~ Jesus Christ

Glasswing Butterflies

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"After death and the interlife comes rebirth. Here they are reborn. The story continues..."

Be at Peace

Be Loving

BE Love

BE

Ostrich

a conversation between King Snake and Lalo
from Lalo the Snake Catcher

"S: Lalo
L: Yes?
S: Is it true that ostriches bury their heads in the ground when they are afraid?
L: No, Snake, it is not. When an ostrich suspects danger is near it drops to the ground and stretches it neck straight out on it. From there it watches the perceived danger very intently and when it thinks the danger is too close, it runs away with great speed.

S: Hmmm… I wonder what an ostrich tastes like.
L: Probably like chicken my dear."

~LaloBean

"Pick a fear and run straight at it." ~ Steve Pavlina

Be at Peace, Be Still, BE