Gratitude

I haven't thought about this in a while.  It feels like it has almost become a cliche to use the word 'gratitiude.'  It suffers from being an overused platitude, and the word might feel a bit contrived at times.  Still, today I am thinking about how uplifting it is to bring awareness to the good that is present in my life.  It's easy to get bogged down with all of the noise and distraction of our current world.  And yet, recently I have been taking a moment to stop and focus on the things that bring me joy in every hour of the day.  With this pause I have noticed a response of warm gratitude inside that has bubbled up very naturally and freely.  Yay!  Such a great feeling!  Putting my energies into this awareness has felt like it sparked some creative positivity that I was sorely needing.  These feelings of joy and thankfulness have been feeding my soul at a stretch of time when I have felt my soul energy being drained.  Joy and gratitude can be my superpowers through these challenging days of change

"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.  Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become one with the Sun of Love, and love will shine through you its all-healing joy.  The path of gratitude is not for children; it is the path of tender heroes, of the heroes of tenderness who, whatever happens, keep burning on the altar of their hearts the flame of adoration."

                           --Jelaluddin Rumi 

All is Well

These times are changing quickly.  I am transitioning out of a long stretch of having agreed to surrender to the energies of waiting and not quite being fully aligned (inside and outside).  I am feeling refreshed to say that I am having some new experiences that are lifting me up after some confusion and even suppression of my life force energy.  Such good changes and movement!  Things are moving as they should--naturally and organically.

Through all of this my true self has known that I am being held in the loving embrace of Infinite Wisdom.  My soul has known that all is well and that all I need is provided.  This will continue to be true as I walk my path.

"When peace like a river

Attends my way

When sorrows like sea billows roll

Whatever my lot, You have taught me to say

It is well, it is well

With my soul."

            --Horatio Spafford, 1873

  

Being and Receiving

Through attending to my Being changes have come.  They have come gradually over time, little by little.  I have been aware of receiving better and better things as time has passed.  During this week the theme of receiving has been strong.  Receiving by Being, and especially receiving in the moment.  This is the freshest and most potent version of receiving I have experienced in my life.  We are meant to have abundance and all that we desire.  My recent personal experience of that has been wonderful and rich.

"The Universe does not require you to stress for good things."

               --Alan Cohen  

    

A New Day

This is the phrase that I have been hearing for several days now.  As I make art, as I journal, and in the quiet of the mornings.  What-has-been is over and done, never to be experienced again in that way.  Whatever is coming is being created in each day, and the accumulation of these days becomes the future.

We have a clean slate.  A bright day ahead for each of us to express the wonderful qualities that make us individual creations in the Universe.  Every moment is a gift for us to receive fully and to embrace with our whole hearts. These moments make every day new. 

"The art of living consists in being completely sensitive to each moment, and regarding it as utterly new and unique."

                         --Alan Watts