Speaker 1: Ernie is a blue Crown conyer. For over thirty years,
he's overlooked his forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.
Every day Ernie sits in his very beautiful home, overlooking
the trees, the nearby lake, and every bit of the wildlife.
Strolling through such an amazing piece of land. Ernie and
I share the same vision. It's this forest. We both
look into the trees and study the earth below. There's
something very spiritual here. The lyrics to Ernie's Forest. We
both receive an amazing amount of energy. I put all
of that trust and all my skills into what that
student is teaching me. Ernie. Remember these aren't my words.
These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest, chapter number four
hundred three, December seventeenth, twenty twenty three. They call it
a Nor'eastern weather system, a huge wind and water maker
that starts in the rolling hills of the South and
pushes its strength all the way up into New York
and beyond. The trees in my forest have no leaves
to protect their limbs. They usually so low paced. Stream
is over the top, full and moving like more of
a mountain river. Very little light beneath a huge gray cloud.
The trees almost look sad. I feel sad. The deer
and the other animals are nowhere to be seen. How
to use what feels like dread and doubt and turn
it into a positive Well the answer is step forward
with a productive mind. Get your mind on success, get
your season of living in the past completely off your path.
Be grateful of the rainstorms because as of late, every
shape a climate can bring changes things. All living things
need water to feed their roots. It's time to start
celebrating what nature is trying to share. Water, energy, food,
not just for the human being, but for all living things.
How many times in your day do you put your
mood in a place that is uncomfortable because it's not
going your way. You don't have that big ball of sunsheh,
You're not getting to play the games that you want
to do. You didn't get to take this vacation, you
had to take that one instead. We let these little
things get in the way of being positive, and sometimes
we like to fake up our positive I call it
the candy coded plastic bathroom mere smile. Getting into that
moment has to be a shift in your heart. I
know we all can't have perfectly happy days every single day,
but we can work on having this much more happiness
when everything does feel like dread and doubt. Winning is
a choice. You can choose to lose all you want,
but we have more fun when we're winning, right, But
it's a choice. You make, that choice to show up
and win your game. I'm Eryl. These are not my words.
These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forrest