Divine Order is for the seasoned... Life has to kick you around a little and soften you before you do something that crazy. Trusting the unseen? Or that the knucklehead in our way... might be there to help us learn a lesson...or remember the lesson. Life is this practice. Daily word last week said this about Divine order: I declare divine order and know all is well. It is the first and last affirmation for a prayer…My job is to pray and trust that the highest and best good of all concerned is manifesting in an orderly fashion…the answers will come in perfect timing… …like this situation before me. A Higher Perspective
Feed Me Feedback...is a good thing. I know this: The world is designed to trigger what is not yet healed in me. ...So… it COULD BE that feedback is happening here. We are all learning and until we do we are all (sometimes) knuckleheads. That’s pretty humbling...its a human place and a forgiving place. This is from my book. No 30 – Feed me Feedback and like Divine order...it is NOT A BEGINNER RULE… Sound meditation...which inspired this. No. 30 Feed Me Feedback To stay in relationship with what and who disturbs you...or not it could be that the best response to this to let this situation or person go. AND…THEN You become feed me feedback to them…if they are listening…which is not really your business. THANK YOUS
1) My thanks to Mary Oliver for her line from THE SUMMER DAY. – my one wild and precious life… 2) MY thanks to SF unity for the invitation to practice as my highest self. I invite you to do that today. We need your voice. Blessings….on your day. ATTRIBUTIONS: 1) Daily Word – 7.16 & 7.16. 2020 World Peace & Reflect 2) Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self Reliance 3) My book Ch. 30 Feed Me Feedback – a Hospice Chaplain’s Field Guide to Caregiving- Finding Resilience on the Frontlines of Love. 4) Tao de Ching – No. 29 translation Stephen Mitchell
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Kindness isn't simple. It changes worlds. My prayers today are for health and I find myself needing to be kinder to myself. I am not feeling as well and energetic as I would like. A couple of deaths in my life in the last week have complicated a health issue I am having… and has left me feeling permeable…and depleted. So I find myself seeking new answers, and to start again…looking at resources…. Kindness came up for me. Kindness is a resource. I am remembering how energizing it is…how healing it is ….to give it, for sure, but to…(and this is more challenging) to receive it. The sweet small steps that heal...
I spoke a few days ago, about the clarity we get with spiritual vision, i.e. listening for a higher power to gently nudge you (or kick you...) in the right direction. To see beyond appearances…to the ‘assurance of things unseen’ and I asked a question: Can I just choose a better, happier moment on which to focus? Each moment, we are offered a choice. In each moment, I see us being offered a choice. How do we see the knuckle heads – out there? Or the inner knuckle heads? How do we see our own foibles? We can choose to see it all with kindness…. ..Be ground that drinks up the rain… Hebrews 6:7 Resonate at the frequency of Kindness today. Be your own ‘random act of kindness’ Try the Sound Meditation HERE that inspired this write up.
BEST PRACTICE: the ONE thing
THANK YOUS: 1) My thanks to Mary Oliver for her line from THE SUMMER DAY– "my one wild and precious life" 2) MY thanks to SF unity for the invitation to practice as my highest self. I invite you to do that today. We need your voice. Blessings….on your day.
The ONLY Fountain of Youth: other eyes I thought for years that I needed a massive win to feel safe; millions in the bank and I would be okay. I have tried on a better story, the story of the sweet small steps to progress... I ask what is the next adjacent possible? (Letting go of the grandiosity that, hey was my mother's story of safety. which I inherited.) I am happier now seeing with my 'spiritual vision' of faith that it will all work out. There will be enough. Use spiritual vision & celebrate blessings. BEST PRACTICE:
In material ways, attitude is altitude Not spiritual bypass… I am not suggesting we ignore the feedback from our body and our world. But that knowing the world is not perfect, it seems to be perfectly made to trigger in us what is yet to be healed or what is the next step on my journey. "Do we dare to re-remember? To retell and rewrite? Sound meditation helps us get & hold that Higher vision. Get yours here: 30 minutes•••••••••
ATTRIBUTIONS: 1) Daily Word – Clarity – Mon 6th July 2) My book the ending Rule no. 20 …and the most important one…it is the rule my next book will start with.– No. 20- Live Backwards, Remember Better 3) Quote from Marcel Proust – The Captive. If you enjoyed this sound meditation – please Subscribe on Youtube. If you are caregiving, try my monthly email –Taking Care Resilience News signup If you want to attend the live recording session: they are WED thru SUNDAY - link on Unity SF.com Website - THANK YOUS: 1) My thanks to Mary Oliver for her line from THE SUMMER DAY– "my one wild and precious life" 2) MY thanks to SF unity for the invitation to practice as my highest self. I invite you to do that today. We need your voice. Blessings….on your day.
Activate the healing formula for health and peace. This sound meditation is about a TEMPLATE to the creative process … and a FORMULA for healing. How?
The ancients speak of the supremacy of love. When Spirit, whole and complete, looks it looks with the eyes of love. That love is deep at the core of you AND is your most precious resource “In the beginning Love arose, WE ARE BEINGS of LOVE |
| WE ARE BEINGS of LOVE says Rev. Paul John Roach. He reminds us to look at ourselves with the eyes of love, as beings of love…then Love ACTIVATES US. In these times...(in any times) we need that. Love is a superpower which arises to enliven, to energize and to order our lives… | When I feel I've lost my way, |
"Love creates us and sustains us when we remember who and whose we are… shift your mind from fear to love and germinate that in the fruitful soil of our willingness. " – Rev. Paul John Roach
| Stories of Jesus are about showing compassion by demonstration awareness of the needs and feelings of others–friends and strangers alike….(and I would add the shadow parts of ourselves which we reject…) Jesus did not turn away from any social outcasts; he welcomed them in, healed them, and shared meals with them. His compassion fed multitudes…it still does. Those stories can also be about our inner struggles…do you turn away from your shadow social outcasts? Those part of your that need some help? That are experiencing illness? Or do you want to slap them into compliance when they need some extra rest. All your life your body has been waging a campaign of love…and health for you. | "“Ring the bells that still can ring |
| No. 31- One Story – Human beings are powered by stories – a love story There is a war. It is the war we wage each day…Love vs. fear. It's the war of caring for ourselves and our loved ones…and the world. | Ah the wars they will |
“The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.”
–Leonard Cohen
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.”
–Leonard Cohen
Ending Prayer:
May all that you say
and all that you do
be in harmony with thee.
God within me…
God beyond me …
MAKER OF THE TREES.
- Chinook Liturgy,
a Pacific Northwest Native American Tribe
| We all have uncertainty in our pandemic ridden world…in my personal world …where I am employed… things are changing with my several hospices. Oddly they seem to all be changing at the same time. It is triggering me, what I was thinking was diversified risk spread over many sources of income was secure…right? Life is AGAIN asking me to touch my story of fear…Mine is called “not enough” and it seems to be woven into my DNA… but it is not. | “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for And the conviction of things unseen.” “The most important question anyone can ask… says Einstein (probably) the answer will either contract your life in fear or open you up with options: “Is the Universe a friendly place?’” Joyous wager… An inherent believe in the goodness of the unseen is a bet worth placing. – No. 27 |
God is in me not like a raisin is in a bun…God is in me like an ocean is in a wave.
–Eric Butterworth
“Trust the steady, simple thing over the complex, clever thing. Bet on the good in people.” – Seth Godin
“The most important question anyone can ask is ‘Is the Universe a friendly place?’” – Albert Einstein
| 1) Seth Godin – a metaphysical marketer and blogger 2) The bible – Hebrews 11:1 3) Einstein – probably said it… 4) My book Rule no. 27 Joyous Wager. | I Got Kin Plant. So that your own heart. Will grow Love, so God will think, aHHHH, I got kin in that body! … Sing. Because this is a food. Our starving world Needs. Laugh Because that is the purest Sound. – by Hafiz – 13th century Sufi poet |
| EM Claire’s poem talks about stumbles…and grace in the stumbles…i.e.the benefits of a friendly Universe. This is a simple lesson…but deep. It’s not a LESSON for beginners. To hear the lesson in a stumble...or even just to be willing to hear that the seeming failure or illness not about them…i.e. the judgment from them…of the others…from the world. It’s about something deeper inside... me. If we are spiritual beings having a human experience – as Telehard de Chardain says, it means we are whole already…as spiritual beings…but in our humanness we experience disturbances… Illness pain and suffering.. | The Best Dancers “Maybe God keeps me here like this To stumble a little. If I were to suddenly just turn into light, Blinding even myself To the most precious and necessary illusions Then what hand could hold my own? Where would rest a weary head? What good use for warm hearts: For hot tears? Why eyes to see? Why arms to open? Which lovefamily to fall into? Oh, only the best dancers know What grace Every stumble Contains." – EM CLAIRE |
| I Got Kin by Hafiz Plant. So that your own heart. Will grow Love, so God will think, aHHHH, I got kin in that body! I should start inviting that soul over for coffee and rolls.” Sing. Because this is a food. Our starving world. Needs. Laugh Because that is the purest Sound. | WHAT IS your AFFIRMATION on your stumbles for love today? What do you affirm for your one wild and precious life today? What’s in the way of kinship with yourself? |
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