It’s particularly exciting around here as Rog and I clean up some sorely needed administrative tasks. Some have been needing attention for a year plus! This all seems a part of simplifying our lives, and we welcome it.
We’re sending The Universe the message that we’re ready to move on to our new life up north, and the Universe has been providing for us so that we can clear the way with ease and grace. Cleaning and clearing up physical matters surely affects what goes on in the spiritual realm and vice versa.
My shoulders feel less burdened, my spirit lighter. I think when we’ve completed the bulk of this stuff this upcoming week, the floodgates will open and our new life will really start taking off. Stay tuned…
In my hidden heart, I know this feeling. Deep inside, the river flows with the peace of the world. This world, this place of love unbridled, is where you and I meet. Alone, but together, silent, but joyful, we share this deep peace as one. Peace dwells within me. Always waiting patiently, knowing that I will return to its embrace.
I let go, I let go, I am peace. I say yes, I say yes, I am peace. I choose love, I choose love, I am peace. In my heart, I know this place. In my heart, I am peace.
Last night I attended the healing service at The Little Chapel (as mentioned in yesterday’s blog). I, in fact, did receive a healing, as everyone always does whether they’re aware of it or not.
Mine wasn’t a physical one, but rather a spiritual and emotional one. The way I know I was healed is that while at the service, I empathized with others’ pain – their pain was my pain, and I cried tears for them. I was so in the Now, so wholeheartedly praying for them. When I’m in that state, I know my heart has been opened wider, that I’m feeling closer to Source and more loving of my brothers and sisters. We are truly One.
Each time my heart opens wider and wider, my capacity to love grows too. It brings me to a stronger feeling of connection to all in this Universe, and this, fills me with gratitude.
I’m leaving soon to attend a healing service at The Little Chapel in Paradise Valley. It’s a monthly gig which I look forward to, not necessarily to receive a healing but at least to have two hours that are solely dedicated to and centered on God’s love.
This time will be more special as I’m meeting a friend’s mom there. I feel it a great service to accompany someone new to the experience, to hopefully make them feel more comfortable with an unknown. And, in this case, to connect more with someone who has basically been a passing acquaintance. This is also the last service until October, another reason I’m glad to be attending it.
I’ll get to sing a little bit, always a delight for me, and a great form of prayer.
On a somewhat emotional day, with not as much time to cultivate my relationship with Spirit as I would have liked, tonight is like a breath of fresh air – you might say, a Godsend!
And, in addition to all of the aforementioned, I might even receive a healing.
Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion, and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.
Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more. Deserve confidence.
Take up arms against malice. Express your gratitude. Decry complacency. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.
A Course in Miracles talks about this world as an illusion, a dream. So do Eastern traditions as well as other sources. When the individual has awakened from the dream, he/she will know true reality.
Like the alarm clock I use to awaken me in the morning, I set my cell phone alarm to awaken me from my meditative practice. This morning, when it went off, a question appeared in my consciousness: Is this the way it’s going to be when I awaken from the dream, i.e., an alarm will sound, and – poof! – I’ll be fully awaken, and Home with God in the Real World?
No, I don’t think that’s the way it works. For me, awakening has been a gradual process although there’ve been some big “Ah-ha’s” along the path.
I look forward to when I arrive Home a fully conscious being. Until then, I’ll put one foot in front of the other, be open to God’s guidance, and seek to realize all the God-like potential that resides inside me.
As we drill down into bankruptcy paperwork, the issue of being able to keep both of our vehicles is on the table.
If we cannot keep both, there are pros and cons for keeping one or the other.
My vehicle is a 2003 Toyota, my 3rd Camry in 13 years, and my first new car purchase. I call ‘her’ Espiritu (or Espirit II). My first one was named Spirit, but when ‘she’ was totaled in Santa Fe in 1999, I thought, “I’ve lost my Spirit” – not a very healthy double entendre. So my cars since then have been christened Espiritu, keeping to the idea that Spirit is with me as I travel. [My current license plate is GUIDEME, another reminder of God.]
So you can see I feel pretty close to my car. It is a symbol of independence, it conveys convenience, it is an asset (she’s all paid off!).
Yes, my car is a thing, an inanimate object even if I talk about it like a person. These days I am placing less importance on material things, and focusing more and more on matters of the spirit. It’s just ‘stuff’. Having, accumulating, and maintaining stuff is a burden. It takes me off track and can contribute to me losing my peace. Still, I can sometimes get caught up in this culture’s game.
And so, my morning prayer this day, as I started feeling anxious about having to possibly give up my Camry was: May we treat our blessings as blessings, and not attachments.
Having reliable, safe, comfortable transportation at my fingertips has been a wonderful blessing. Let me remember it as such and not be attached to it. And, in the same vein, may I remember that God is the Source of all, and the sole attachment that I will truly ever want or need.
Here’s another one from my traveling file collection (mentioned in yesterday’s blog)…
Daily Manifestation
I see my day being an unlimited flowing of unconditional love, appreciation, and joy.
I flow inspiriting life energy through me as I continually choose to fully experience profound well-being and carefreeness.
I feel a strong connection to my higher self and my guiding spirits, who unceasingly rejoice in the choices I make that support my happiness as I look for reasons to feel good.
I remain constant in the belief that everything in my life serves my highest good.
Therefore, I see those people and events in my life that prompt in me disquieting feelings as wonderful gifts that show me the good feeling I want to more strongly focus on creating.
And the good feelings that I create benefit everyone.
Indeed, I know that the greatest gift I can give to those I care about – including myself – is my love, appreciation, and joy.
Today I intend to allow my life . to unfold with increasing grace and ease . to be lavishly filled with love, appreciation, joy, prosperity, health, supportive family and friends . to walk the path of All is Well; All is Perfect.
In packing for our move, I’m finally getting to reread papers that I’ve held onto for years, traveling and just taking up space. My files have moved from Manhattan to Taos, several times around Santa Fe, and now have resided in the Phoenix area for almost six years.
I have much paper, for these came into my life before the computer and Internet were widely used.
It’s time to share these gems… Here’s one that can be found on the Internet.
Psalm 23: Japanese Version by Toki Miyashiro
The Lord is my pacesetter; I shall not rush.
God makes me stop and rest for quiet intervals: God provides me with images of stillness, which restore my serenity.
God leads me in ways of efficiency through calmness of mind, And God’s guidance is peace.
Even though I have a great many things to accomplish each day, I will not fret. For God’s presence is here. God’s timelessness and all-importance will keep me in balance.
God prepares refreshment and renewal in the midst of my activity, by anointing me with oils of tranquility. My cup of joyous energy overflows; surely harmony and effectiveness shall be the fruits of my hours.
For I shall walk in the pace and dwell in God’s house forever.
