Month: March 2015

In my early years I had glimpses of God’ love and healing energy. As a child I would see Jesus in my home church and experience expanded consciousness through music. I had no idea that others did not have the same experiences as I did.  I thought it was quite normal. As I grew out of the youthful innocence I still felt the expanded heart and the beauty of song. I didn’t feel out of place but I did begin to understand that life was experienced differently for those friends around me. I was drawn to those who loved poetry and were prone to talking about spiritually deep subjects.  I came alive when those closest to me shared their own personal stories.

Throughout those early years I was captivated by energy I did not understand and I felt a presence within I couldn’t explain.  When things were tough in my family there was an essence which walked with me that I didn’t often see but I almost always felt. I would translate these experiences now to: I love you so.

I seemed to know that I was connected to something more powerful and greater than myself.  I could feel the presence, those angels or beings of light so close at times and the message was always the same…you are loved…you are connected…we are here…do not despair.

Please take a moment today and allow yourself to feel the arms of your angels and spirit beings caress your tired and often defeated spirit.  Take a moment to remember when you were a young innocent child.  Remember the prayers with your parents for a good night’s sleep and remember the essence of your story whispering: I love you so!

This connection is here for you today…the years do not change the message.  The problems and experiences do not erase this truth.  Our only separation comes when we forget.  We must sit in the presence of this spiritual energy that came with us and allow its message to touch and revive us once again…God’s healing essence is always there and as we take a moment to listen we will begin to feel this presence. The message is simply…

I LOVE YOU SO…

Like so many of you reading these posts I, too, have been wronged, and betrayed.  I, too, have suffered through endless expressions of darkness.  I KNOW the path of despair.  My dear friends…drop the burdens of all that has crucified your Being! Drop the crosses now! These crosses only support your thinking, your pain, sorrow and suffering. What the world has done to you will leave an everlasting mark unless, as you awaken, you realize that your crosses are no longer necessary, valued or in any way a part of who you are becoming.

The Ho’oponopono is all about self-release and clearing. It is about becoming fully responsible for your actions or reactions…your response to the injustices of a karmic world. In your awakening you become aware and focused on the Light and on the Love that is unconditional. As you release the crosses you have bared, the freedom to be whole, loved and honored begins to take shape.  We are the only ones who continue to suffer when we live with the burden of our personal cross consciousness.

This season is all about release, forgiveness, and choice about how we wish to move through our new and expanding world. For a moment take a personal inventory of all those personal crosses you have carried for so many years…even those crosses which seem unforgivable. Call on the energy of Divine Love, the spirit of compassion and the unlimited sounds of forgiveness which reside deep within each one of us and allow those crosses to find the light. Allow these crosses to move into the Divine fire of redemption. Seek the inner knowing that you are now releasing all past burdens and betrayals…the unforgivable…into the campfire.   Their power is gone…you have let them all go.  You are no longer a prisoner to these stories. You begin to feel the accomplishment of release as you continue to throw the old stories into the fire which sits before you.  The darkness begins to lift…you are no longer a prisoner to the old and unwanted. Love has taken over. Forgiveness has taking over. New life has taken hold and you can relax in the knowledge that you are now paving a personal path of freedom.

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry…Thank you!

As we begin to realize that we have choices…that we can reconstruct our inner and outer world…there is a renewed sense of hope and thanksgiving with this new found freedom.  There comes a new energy field struggling to break free and in all of its fullness express itself.

We acknowledge this process of breaking free from the old, unwanted and unnecessary construction of thought. In our turning from the vision of the old to the new, the dark to the light, we become aware of an energy which begins to surface from deep within our Sacred Place. We are AWAKENING!

This Lenten series is geared to harness the energy of change and self-awareness.  This series is creating itself through the desire of unconditional love and the establishment of a Divine and unlimited consciousness.  Remember: We are free, we are unlimited. There are no chains to bind us.  We are free we are awakening right now!

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry…Thank you!

Yesterday we spoke of compassion and how and why it is so important to have compassion for ourselves. We understand that in order to have compassion for others we must first have it for ourselves.  We understand that WE ARE ALL ONE and therefore, compassion for one is compassion for another.

With that being said we must now find within ourselves the ability to release personal data about how we think and feel about ourselves. The negative self-talk must be examined and blessed, cleaned and removed from our “energy band waves” of consciousness. Think of consciousness like a radio seeking a station for listening pleasure.  What station do we choose: a self-deprecating one or a mostly positive one… or a station filled with fear and doubt? Where is the station of self-acceptance, beauty, grace, joy and laughter?

In our years of living we have experienced many levels of “stations” in our life. We now have the privilege of learning how to filter through those radio energy bands of consciousness, selecting instead stations on our personal radio created through positive self-awareness and compassion. We make the conscious decision to change the channel when the old stories and tapes begin to play. We practice the Presence of Compassion and systematically reduce our consumption of our old stories, ideas, and thoughts. We choose to eliminate the “thought chains” that bind us and keep us away from expressing our truest and highest good.  We forgive what has passed and instead form a new alliance within our being: we now become our own compassionate friend, claiming forgiveness for what was, standing tall in our new consciousness of love as we continue to walk in this earth life.

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry…Thank you!

 

 

 

We cannot truly have compassion for others until we have compassion for ourselves. It isn’t always understood, this compassion thing. The truth is: everyone represents a part of us.  What we see in others is what we see in ourselves…good and bad. Every day we are sorting and classifying how we feel about everything.  We have deep internal judgments and we have deep understanding.  As we grow in compassion for ourselves it is necessary to clear those old thoughts of punishment or despair, hurt and anger that we have carried with us for so long. If we cannot be kind to ourselves we cannot possibly be kind to others.

WE ARE ALL ONE.  We come from the same Source…the I am presence. In forgiveness there is awakening.  Take time today to listen to your own inner stories.  How much compassion do you have for yourself?  How hostile is your self-talk or how loving are your inner words about your life? How kind are you to who you are and where you are going? Do you resonate with love and forgiveness? This is the day to make amends.  This is the day to remember to be compassionate for your journey and all the lessons you are learning.  This is the time to embrace who you are:  forgiving, erasing and moving forward as you respond with kindness to life’s circumstances.  You are building a new over-view of life, deciding what to keep and what to eliminate.  You are learning to be a compassionate soul in a challenging world. You are learning to fully love and accept who you are!

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry…Thank you!

 

As we grow, releasing religious ideas, worldly programming and family ideas, we might find ourselves in a type of no-man’s land. Our traditional views of comfort, God, protection and the hierarchy of religious icons might seem inappropriate to our unfolding consciousness. It might not feel relatable as the  attachments to old philosophies begin to wane. Our view of God is probably changing and questions arise. Where, after all, is the shelter of an omnipresent Being? Where do we go to feel safe?

With all this movement to our inner world we still remain dedicated to a Higher Power, a higher consciousness which helps us direct our inner story/creation. The beauty of all this is: the clearer we become the more the arms of Grace and Love reach out to surround us with their song. We become bigger, more expanded as we clear and in the clarity we can truly experience the shelter of those love beings, spiritual guides, who are here to help us through this earth life. We break free of the concept of a grand individual sitting on his or her throne and become aligned with the collective…ALL THERE IS…the I AM PRESENCE…the SOURCE.

We now understand and seek the connection to the Divine…an energy presence so strong, so filled with peace and knowing that once we truly have experienced it we begin to take any and all steps to continue this journey, feeling the safety and shelter of this omnipresent love. It is far beyond our imagination and walks with all those spirits and beings who have themselves conquered the fear that walks this earth and reside, instead, in the beauty of the Sacred and Divine I AM.  This is our shelter. This is where we rest.  This is where we live.

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry…Thank you!

Oh my word! This can be a very difficult order…this self-love thing. Self-Love can only happen through appreciation, honesty, positive self-worth and allowing the old stories of pain, sorrow, betrayal etc to be forgiven without blame, shame or guilt.  That is a mouth full!! Self-Love comes through self-acceptance for who and what we are and how we got to this place of being. It is about honoring our journey…ALL OF IT! Wow…can we do this? Are we truly ready to allow the old stories to fall away so that we may be free from all that has gone before?

Now we are getting down to the nitty gritty of our existence and our personal road of recovery.  In order to find that place of freedom we must first understand that we can be “free and unlimited”.  One of the many wonderful songs I sang while attending various Unity churches (a powerful metaphysical movement) was a beautiful but simple song: I am free, I am unlimited.  This is a very positive and powerful song/mantra for you today and although I can’t sing it to you, I can share the words for you to use throughout your day:

I am free, I am unlimited, there are no chains to bind me. I am free I am unlimited right now, right now.  I am free, I am unlimited, there are no chains to bind me.  I am free, I am unlimited right now, right now.

We now can move into the heart place of our being because we are free and unlimited to forgive…to love…to accept…to console… to BE unconditional love.

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry..Thank you!

 

 

I had a friend many years ago who was in such a dark place in her life that when asked to make a gratitude list for her counselor all should could come up with was getting her taxes done. I have been in that place at times in my life.  I don’t think any of you participating in this Lenten series hasn’t, at some point, experienced such a moment in your life. How did we move forward, up and out, of those dark experiences? Each of us could explain what that moment of transformation was, even though at the time it didn’t seem like much.

It was, and still remains, a powerful part of our personal psychology: that moment when we allowed ourselves to “register” with a different, more promising part of ourselves. These types of moments build a strong foundation for the future experiences with the dark and the light of who we are.

Today we are motivated by the choice of gratitude.  We have been clearing and releasing that which no longer serves our highest good.  Now we build on that personal clarity by stepping into the new format of Gratitude.  We are giving thanks and having gratitude for the simplest of things, moments, understanding. We are building the strongest foundation for creating a new life of authorship. We are acknowledging the creative life within…accepting our beautiful responsibility with joy…wrapped in the gracious gift of gratitude.

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry…Thank you!

Today we take a day off from doing affirmations and clearing and spend the day in reflection. We take a moment to reflect on all that we have done so far while participating in this Lenten series. And we give thanks…first to ourselves for having the desire and courage to walk this path at this time in our lives, and secondly for loving ourselves enough, being important enough to become MORE.

We recognize that we need this day of rest to let everything settle in and find its new place within our consciousness.  We recognize that we are strong, infinite, never-ending beings.  We fully accept our path as creator of our earth story. We spend our day in Grace.  We set our thoughts to the “loving channel” and we put our feet up, literally or figuratively, and praise the good within us. There is only space for love and forgiveness now.  There is only room within us to be inspired.  We are inspired by our dedication over the last several weeks and trust the momentum to continue. At last we are giving ourselves permission to live an inspired life!

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry…Thank you!

 

It is finished! In the Christian stories, Jesus, while on the cross, called out: “It is finished”. To me this indicates that whatever sacrifices had to be made are now complete in order for us to be saved from our misguided thoughts and actions . How does this work for us? We can claim the same structure of completion: We Are Finished! We are finished suffering and torturing ourselves with regret and incorrect decisions.  We are finished punishing ourselves through others actions and we are finished blaming the outer world for our inner despair. We are finished floating around the Universe without the spiritual tether line of love. We are finished with our prejudice and incorrect thinking.

We take a moment to visualize a beautiful campfire, perhaps next to our Eywa tree, and enthusiastically throw all our old story books into the fire. We release them with love and forgiveness on all levels: mentally, emotionally, physically, psychologically and spiritually.

We feel our spirit begin to shift…there is this lightness of being emerging within our very being.  We are HOME…we are now working from that place of Light which brings forgiveness, love and renewal. We begin to understand that it doesn’t really matter what happens in our outer world because we are now reconciling with our inner world and we feel the presence of God in its full and complete essence of the Divine. We are now awakening to our own worthiness, our own inner story of beauty, peace and constant healing of the spirit. We recognize that we are the director, the author and actor of our own story. We are now living and connecting, working and experiencing our story through the spirit of our divinely guided world.

I love you…Please forgive me…I am sorry …Thank you!