“Shuddup!” is what God would like to say to us sometimes. “Turn off your teevees and your brain’s incessant chattering, and let me get a word in edge-wise.”
Are you shocked? That’s because you haven’t been listening. Sometimes love doesn’t look “nice”, doesn’t look politically correct.
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We often think to have personal space while in a crowd or while visiting another’s home, we need to close to what - and who - is around us, to shrink into ourselves. Quite the opposite is true. Expanding our viewpoint - and our energy field - to include larger, un-thought-of options (taking up our TRUE space) is what will do it. (Otherwise, we’ve only restricted ourselves, our then-warped energy fields affecting those around us, negatively!)
Taking up our full space is expanding into our greater awareness. With this resulting quiet mind, we don’t take up space in a conflicting or uncomfortable way. With this fullness, our space comes with a greater sense of peace, of calmness, of Love. THIS is a blessing to us and to everyone around us. The opposite - closing to what is around us - is a resistance to what IS. And remember, “Resistance is Futile”, anyway!
“Constant change” : seems an oxymoron, but it isn’t.
Not an hour ago, I opened the sliding glass doors to let the gorgeous sunshine - and the mild, fresh air - into the house.
Now hail and overweight snowflakes (I should talk!) are trying to render me housebound.
This is so reflective of LIFE: the constant underlying the changing. We feel this, we feel that; we experience this, we experience that, yet underneath it all is a constancy, a Beingness that is always the same - is literally eternal. It’s still there, under the balmy sunshine, under the oversize flakes. It’s there when I experience it, and it’s still there when I experience separation, stuck in my Ego being stuck on itself!
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When I’m in awkward or painful situations, it is very clear: I don’t know! I then investigate internally, soul-searching.
The higher ground will be when I always remember to investigate before I’m in a bind – listening to the “still, small voice from within”, equally mindful and present, even when everything is going well.
This is exactly the way I work with you; I never fail to listen closely to the Source that connects us all when doing a session. (This is the secret of why I love my work so much!)
It was 1979. We’d lived in the same basement apartment for several months. What was different? Just the small ceremony we’d had upstairs - and the filing of the resulting, official paperwork. We didn’t even invite our parents, just our metaphysical minister and our friends.
That was enough, apparently, to change my character altogether: I had suddenly become my mother! I was standing in the center of the room asking my husband if it was alright to open the window, my voice tentative. I was unsure of my right to even be asking the question.
I, who had traveled alone and unafraid in countries where I didn’t know anyone or speak the language, had instantly morphed into another person.
A funny look from my new husband and my habit of introspection saved me. I learned that day that I’d be wise to withhold judgment regarding roles I’d never tried!
I’ve been asked if I am a channel. My answer is that we all are.
(Just because I do not always put aside my Ego - and don’t you love the way I wanted to capitalize that! - doesn’t mean that I AM my ego!)
What I AM, like you yourself, is not something that appears differently on different days and under different circumstances. What I -and we - are is a part of divinity itself, fair, loving, connected, always wise. This is why we need to listen to our TRUE Self, the Internal Boss, the part that knows our Oneness, that is free, in communion with Truth, with God.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that God or Truth is external; “Be STILL and know that I AM God” means that God speaks in the stillness and Surrender of realizing that you are not who you think you are. I see it when I’m with you, because I know it, though I don’t always remember it when I’m alone…
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