Author: misticjeanne

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!

 

 

 

 

Enough wandering!  We are now ready to root ourselves into the beauty and the wisdom of the Eywa Tree.  I love visualizations and I am a big fan of the movie Avatar, not for the military story but for the Indigenous story. The Eywa Tree represents the Divine Mother, the Tree of Souls, with all her glorious stories and memories stored into this beautiful divine energy.  This is where the Avatars went to pray, to remember, to celebrate, and to heal.  This is our personal journey for today.  We are going to the Eywa Tree.  We are traveling within our minds to that place where our Sacred Self resides.  We connect to the Eywa Tree to re-discover and connect with the Divine Mother and all that she gives for us in this life.

Trees are representational of the Divine.  They give us so much: the air we breathe, as well as so many foods that we eat. They cover our wonderful earth with the strength of  many years of recording this world’s energy.  The beautiful Red Wood Sequoias in Northern California draw many visitors every year helping those who participate in their beauty to come away refreshed and renewed. We are going to take that one step further because we are going to visualize ourselves becoming this beautiful Tree of Souls, rooting into our deepest spiritual selves, anchoring all the powerful memories of who we truly ARE. So, sit quietly and take a few deep breathes as we allow the Sacredness of the Eywa Tree to be ours. We feel the energy of the tree drawing us in, surrounding us with the Light and Love and Peace that this Eywa Tree possesses. We hear her songs as she sings her memories to us, embracing us. We feel her Peace as she welcomes us.  We feel her support, her knowing, spiritual guidance…perhaps even our own resurrection as we journey into the deepest parts of her loving energy.  We are completely enveloped in her spiritual arms.  The connectedness is beyond any recent memory and we fall into this Spiritual spell with great willingness. We are HOME.  We are ONE.

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

Love is all there is. This is a wonderful statement and a powerful mantra but if we have forgotten who we are, where we come from and what our purpose is for being here…the statement: Love Is All There is, is not an easy knowing. It may seem a distant memory, experiences which seem long ago, age and too many negative happenings moving us away from our inner Truth: We Are Love. Today we are in the practice of REMEMBERING.  We take this day to rest…from forgetfulness, from sadness, from disappointment, from the seeming lack of love. And we move, instead, to a place of the Sacred I AM.  We turn a blind eye to what appears and go directly to the Source of our Creation. We open the doors of the spiritual heart…where the presence of GOD IS and where we can move to in our thinking, our actions and the process of BEING connected to LOVE. In the words of George Harrison, the spiritual Beatle (that was his label in the early years)…we do not love…WE ARE LOVE. Today we are remembering, connecting and activating the truth…We Are Love…Repeat after me: I am love…I am love…I am Love…thank you God…I am Love.

I love you…Please Forgive Me…I am Sorry…Thank You!

*You can see all the posts for this Lenten Series on my website: jeannelove.org

Today I am making the transition from survivor to thriver.  Whether the word Thriver is actually a word or not, I have declared it so for the purpose of this writing. Today we are all stepping into our new powerful story of Thriving…Thriver…Thrive. As we have been diligent in reducing our old dark stories, thoughts and experiences we are now preparing our personal garden for success! This success is not measured in money or by things or by our place in society. This success is designed by our willingness to THRIVE, to allow ourselves the pleasure of spiritual awakening and release. We have been preparing our personal earth garden by releasing all the old, unwanted stories of defeat and victimization.  Hallelujah! Thanks to ALL THAT IS for helping us walk to this point in our earth healing and release.  We can feel our re-birth happening every day. We can feel the Divine Spirit of Love walking with us so closely as we take this Lenten journey.  It is a courageous thing…to finally realize that we are the authors of our own stories of Life.

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

In order to survive the difficulties our lives have contained we develop coping skills.  Some skills are positive but most seem to work against us because they are developed through fear. Today we release all negative coping skills designed through fear. Today we decide what stays and what needs to be released.  We honor these skills as they were once needed but now we release all negative coping structures with new structures of thought, communication, patience and help from trusted friends and professionals. We honor our new life and living with new structures of thinking and right actions. We face old stories of self-help and set them free. We move forward in expressing the need for MORE…more honesty, more positive structure, more elements in our living which feed and nurture our spirit.  We find the Source, the God Center, which helps us to re-design who we are and how we face and meet the challenges of life. We know we are never alone because we have been learning how to listen and hear our Earth Mother’s Divine Song.

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