Your life isn’t behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day. Seize it! – Steve Maraboli
Listen to Frank Sinatra sing The Best Is Yet to Come http://youtu.be/TOyeyOEmFtE
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Sometimes you just need someone to storm heaven for you
Sometimes you just need someone to hoarse whisper it for you —
“Father of the Tired & Broken-Hearted…
oh, hear our prayer….
Give Your Child the wisdom to know it this week:
Hiding when you’re hurting won’t heal you and growing isolated can just let infection grow.
Give Your Child the love to live it:
The secret way to heal a broken heart is to let love leak out like an ocean through all the cracks.
When you’re most wounded by words, run to the only Word that always brings healing.
And may all the trials be but a trail,
all the stones on the way be but grace stairs to God.
In the name of Jesus —
who broke His heart to heal ours…”
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– Ann Voskamp (edited) read full post at aholyexperience.com
Listen to Natasha Bedingfield sing Unwritten http://youtu.be/TtGY4G7II6s
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Listen to Plumb sing Exhale http://youtu.be/dOgUjSW4agg
Jairus begged him repeatedly, My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.” So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him…. Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched my clothes?”…. The woman came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. … While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader’s house to say, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?”…. He took her hand, and she got up….
—from Mark 5.2143
Jesus, interrupted, follows.
Interrupted again, he stops.
The clock ticking,
sirens still blaring, lights flashing,
he stops and listens.
His pause, it seems, is deadly.
But it isn’t, is it?
Who does not feel the devil
turning within you, chanting,
There is not enough time?
Who does not fear the story,
told from behind a dark curtain,
You don’t have the power?
Of course you don’t.
It’s not yours.
Time does not belong; it flows.
Power does not sit; it flows.
You don’t have to dip into
your little purse of time and energy:
you let infinite grace flow through you.
Healing happens without your effort;
you are only present.
It is not your time, not your energy, but God’s.
You enter the river, and it flows through you.
When you are present in this moment
you will be present in the next.
And thus it is, when you are present in this life
you are present in the next.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
http://www.unfoldinglight.net
Listen to Christy Nockles sing Grace Flows Down http://youtu.be/lBPNdTowJuc
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Listen to Mumford and Sons sing I Will Wait for You http://youtu.be/R5HO-X_fR7o
And it begins to happen and nothing could be truer than what Pascal said: “Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.”
The darkness ebbs.
The shadows dim –
and all the trees and all the thankful, they ignite, seeing and believing the true colours of now. – Ann Voskamp
How can we be so blinded
by what we say we want
that we fail to see what we have
Closing our hands
Closing our hearts
Closing our eyes to what we already have
It’s tattooed all over the world
Engraved into our hands
Sculpted, within us as our heart.
Ringing as a clear bell,
the soul within us sounds continually.
We refuse to see.
We become angry,
because it’s not about us.
God does not obey our wishes,
Fails to bow to our immature and selfish demands
Live up to our ego-centric standards.
We aim so low, puffed up in pride,
Camouflaged by our speaking lies of our love
Love by our standards is always a rip-off,
built on selfishness.
Built on, I want.
Our words, sounding brass
Our tongues, full of venom
Our arms
Our words, are as empty as our love
Words can be weapons
used in machine gun fashion
to kill those in our line of fire,
usually those we live with,
claim to love most,
bleed the loudest red.
Joy is different than fleeting laughter.
Peace only comes through recognition of our place and repentance,
Opening closed fists.
Softening hard hearts.
Seeing with new vision.
Cleaning the green off the leaves
to become
our true colors of holy.
Our true songs of glory.
Our words finally carry real truth.
Thankful awareness changes
everything,
Only death can bring in next years harvest.
We are all connected.
We are all in season.
AL
Listen to the Beatles sing Love is All You Need http://youtu.be/ydfH7iuLR0I
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12 steps to fulfillment
Posted by Paulo Coelho
When Joseph Campbell, today’s most famous scholar of mythology (and author of the excellent “The Power of Myth”) created the expression “follow your blessing,” he was reflecting an idea that seems to be very appropriate right now. In “The Alchemist,” this same idea is called “Personal Legend.”
Alan Cohen, a therapist who lives in Hawaii, is also working on this theme. He says that in his lectures he asks those who are dissatisfied with their work and seventy-five percent of the audience raise their hands. Cohen has created a system of twelve steps to help people to rediscover their “blessing” (he is a follower of Campbell):
1] Tell yourself the truth: draw two columns on a sheet of paper and in the left column write down what you would love to do. Then write down on the other side everything you’re doing without any enthusiasm. Write as if nobody were ever going to read what is there, don’t censure or judge your answers.
2] Start slowly, but start: call your travel agent, look for something that fits your budget; go and see the movie that you’ve been putting off; buy the book that you’ve been wanting to buy. Be generous to yourself and you’ll see that even these small steps will make you feel more alive.
3] Stop slowly, but stop: some things use up all your energy. Do you really need to go that committee meeting? Do you need to help those who do not want to be helped? Does your boss have the right to demand that in addition to your work you have to go to all the same parties that he goes to? When you stop doing what you’re not interested in doing, you’ll realize that you were making more demands of yourself than others were really asking.
4] Discover your small talents: what do your friends tell you that you do well? What do you do with relish, even if it’s not perfectly well done? These small talents are hidden messages of your large occult talents.
5] Begin to choose: if something gives you pleasure, don’t hesitate. If you’re in doubt, close your eyes, imagine that you’ve made decision A and see all that it will bring you. Now do the same with decision B. The decision that makes you feel more connected to life is the right one – even if it’s not the easiest to make.
6] Don’t base your decisions on financial gain: the gain will come if you really do it with enthusiasm. The same vase, made by a potter who loves what he does and by a man who hates his job, has a soul. It will be quickly sold (in the first case) or will stay on the shelves (in the second case).
7] Follow your intuition: the most interesting work is the one where you allow yourself to be creative. Einstein said: “I did not reach my understanding of the Universe using just mathematics.” Descartes, the father of logic, developed his method based on a dream he had.
8] Don’t be afraid to change your mind: if you put a decision aside and this bothers you, think again about what you chose. Don’t struggle against what gives you pleasure.
9] Learn how to rest: one day a week without thinking about work lets the subconscious help you, and many problems (but not all) are solved without any help from reason.
10] Let things show you a happier path: if you are struggling too much for something, without any results appearing, be more flexible and follow the paths that life offers. This does not mean giving up the struggle, growing lazy or leaving things in the hands of others – it means understanding that work with love brings us strength, never despair.
11] Read the signs: this is an individual language joined to intuition that appears at the right moments. Even if the signs point in the opposite direction from what you planned, follow them. Sometimes you can go wrong, but this is the best way to learn this new language.
12] Finally, take risks! the men who have changed the world set out on their paths through an act of faith. Believe in the force of your dreams. God is fair, He wouldn’t put in your heart a desire that couldn’t come true.
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Listen to Eva Cassidy sing Over the Rainbow http://youtu.be/AGaVQN-en2A
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listen to Kate Earl sing Nobody http://youtu.be/imIxwxpd04E
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When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see. – John O’Donohue
Listen to Jason Mraz sing I’m Yours http://youtu.be/wIFh9hYongk
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When you send forth your spirit, we are created
—Psalm 104.30
Holy One,
breath of the big bang,
idea of creation,
you who make spring come forth,
who make life out of nothing,
breathe yourself into me.
Create me.
you are the flame,
I am your light.
You are the nerve,
I am your muscle.
You are the Word,
I am the story.
You are the song,
I am the singing.
I am one with you
and one with all Creation.
One Spirit,
one flesh, many forms.
In your Spirit
I am we.
Holy One, live in me;
I am your body.
I remember,
and I live.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
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my words my world my earth my sky
you are them all
my notes my music my score my song
you are them all
my heart my soul my mind my life
you are them all
my blood my breath my skin my bones
you are them all
everything I am everything I hope to be
you are them all
AL
Listen to Amos Lee sing Learned A Lot http://youtu.be/wgzFPP-Fa8o
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[God] seems to delight in using the unexpected, the least likely, or the weakest link to turn our lives upside down and inside out . . . and fulfill the plan he has had in mind since the beginning of time.
~ Thelma Well
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