Being True

We are co-creating with Divine Essence.  When we participate in creative activities, we are adding to the larger positive Creation energy all around us.  We create anew every day when we live our authentic lives.  We are contributing to positive change in the world just by being who we truly are.  What a fun fest!  We get to jump into the river of this living, breathing, moving, liquid, flowing world.

"I would love to live like a river flows carried by the surprise of its own unfolding."
                                                      --John O'Donohue

Clarity

A diamond is valued for its clarity and brilliance.  Clarity is a valuable gift.  It gives us wisdom; insight; a spark of inspiration.  I am in the midst of such clarity.  That which was unknown to me is now known.  This knowledge ignites a flame in me.  A torch to light my way.  In some ways it is blinding.  But I still hear everything loud and clear.  Everything is new.  Life is Large.

"The clear bead at the center changes everything.

There are no edges to my loving now."

--Jelaluddin Rumi

 

Gratitude

As old leaves are cleared out and spring emerges with a flurry of plant and animal life, I am remembering the abundance of the past year.  I feel grateful for the bounty, gifts, and provisions that came into my life in the midst of uncertain times.  I have been cared for in numerous ways.  My life is rich and full.  Now even the smallest events are exquisite miracles:  a bud opening to become a beautiful blossom or bright green leaf, the colorful call of my local mockingbird, the scent of lily of the valley or lilacs on the breeze, or being present to observe a tiny jumping spider behaving in shy ways.  Unlimited beauty and interaction are ours to be received and enjoyed, coming as abundant gifts that evoke instant gratitude and appreciation.

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."         --Henry David Thoreau   

Believing

Believing calls forward our best selves; our highest good.  Who you think you are is who you are.  It's not just a wishful "think--and that will be who you are."  It comes from a core knowing that this is who you are.  And it's just a matter of believing your way into being yourself, and acting on that belief.  Assistance comes from Divine Source as you find a resonance with All That Is. 

"I will no longer act on the outside in a way that contradicts the truth that I hold deeply on the inside.  I will no longer act as if I were less than the whole person I know myself to be."           --Rosa Parks  

Go Ahead

Go ahead. Grow.  This is the season of the sap running.  Of the sleepy plants and animals waking from dormancy.  Plants green.  Animals resume their active lives.  Movement replaces stillness.  The deep energy of Earth pulses through all of us.

"I'm going to plant a heart in the earth

water it with love from a vein

I'm going to praise it with the push of muscle

and care for it in the sound of all dimensions.

I'm going to leave a heart in the earth

so it may grow and flower

a heart that throbs with longing

that adores everything green

that will be strength and nourishment for birds

that will be the sap of plants and mountains."

                     --Rosario Murillo

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Journeying

As I open to and listen for the path of my life, I am made more clearly aware that this journey is my own.  It can't belong to anyone except me.  This journey is mine to live out in the world, and no one else can fulfill what is mine to fulfill.  This has brought up a stark feeling of aloneness.  I don't feel alone in the sense that no one cares for me.  But alone in the realization and acceptance that I came into this world by myself, as myself; and I will leave this world by myself, as myself.   Divine Source is with me throughout my journey, whether I feel connected or not.  This feels like a humbling and reverent awareness of my own commitment to my life.

"...each of us has to inhabit his or her own soul in order to find out who he or she is and where the intimacy of his or her heart touches the world.  No one else can tell you that; the maps that others have are of no use.  Each life must find its true threshold, that edge where the individual gift fits the outer hunger and where the outer gift fits the inner hunger."                         --John O'Donohue

"The Journey you are on is deep and powerful.  Your roots go far below the surface of your appearances.  Your infancy, childhood, adulthood, and old age are phases in the development of a plant.  The root that produced the plant has produced other plants in the past, and will produce more plants in the future.  That root is your soul.  The plant is your life.  The plant grows, withers, and dies.  The root remains.  ...the root is more than the plant."                             --Gary Zukav

Super Moon

Our brains have internal biological clocks.  Much instinctual behavior is influenced by the changing seasons.  We respond physiologically to day/night schedules, global tides, lunar cycles.  Women in particular feel a physiological connection with lunar cycles and moods.  We have recently been in the middle of several changes to our circadian rhythms.  Today is the day of the vernal equinox, the first day of Spring.  We just changed our time schedules to Daylight Savings Time, which influences our sleep/wake cycles.  And this Super Perigee Moon represents the turning of an even larger cycle:  the moon's orbit around the earth.  The moon at this full stage is closer to the earth than it has been since 1993.  Events like this can put us in touch with our ancient history and primordial life.  All  are reminders of how large Life really is.

"Within the circles of our lives
we dance the circles of the years,
the circles of the seasons
within the circles of the years, 
the cycles of the moon 
within the circles of the seasons,
the circles of our reasons
within the cycles of the moon."
                --Wendell Berry