Thursday, November 10, 2016

This Is NOT the End!

Today is the beginning of a new level of creativity. Muscles are not developed on the couch. Learning to hold a heart of peace is not best fostered in an atmosphere of prosperity and good will.

We have before us one of the Grandest Laboratories of Peace and Harmony and Well Being that our country has even known. Let us each move forward to the edge of the light we have, perfecting the balance of loving kindness and mercy, with a willingness to explore our hearts and create elegant altars of Harmony in the spaces we that find.

We are blessed with energies of contrast that cause us to ask and will require a brilliance of creative thought we have not yet used in this evolution of our being. May we be brave with Divine Guidance and Help. May we move forward with Divine Protection and Illumination. May our Divine Creativity soar to heights not seen before. So Be It. So Be It. So Be It.

(Please share your comments of how this plays out in your space of love. We are enriched by our connected and collective experiences.)

Harmony of the trees for our blessing

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

TODAY I ELECT. . .

-To look for all the best that this day has to offer.
-To speak with compassion and peace on all subjects.
-To regard each, without exception, as her/his Highest and Best Self.
-To bask in the vibrational contentedness of Love.
-To accept the Divine Guidance surrounding us.
-To move forward with the confidence of Divine Help and Protection.
-To stand in the blissful, warm, caressing sunshine of this day.
-To once again hang my clean, wet sheets outside on the line to absorb the radiance of the sun.
-To sleep tonight wrapped in the elegance of the Universe and its Wisdom.

May each of you feel my sharing of these blessings, today and always.  So Be It.
Shimmering in the exquisite rays of Divine Love

Thursday, November 3, 2016

You Can Make the Difference!

One person connected to Divine Source Energy is more powerful in thought than millions who are not--a comforting and empowering awareness when many are feeling despair and hopelessness.

So what does this one aware person do?  Bless all those who are feeling unrest, hate, anger, injustice, doubt, despair, depression, pain, and sadness.

The Meditation on Twin Hearts (from St. Francis of Assisi and expanded by Master Choa Kok Sui) is a magnificent way to channel healing energy to the down-trodden and unfortunate. Below is an abridged version for your use. Read this aloud everyday to play a part in the healing of all people and the healing of unrest in this country or any country.

Thank you for being an exquisite instrument of peace and well being.  As you bless, may you also be blessed a thousand fold.  So Be It. So Be It. So Be It.

Meditation on Twin Hearts
-Invoke for Divine Blessings
            To the Supreme God, Thank you for your Divine Blessings. For guidance, help, protection and illumination. With thanks and in full faith.
            To my spiritual teachers, the holy angels, spiritual helpers and all the Great  Ones, Thank you for your divine blessings. For guidance, help, protection and illumination.  With Thanks and in full faith.

-Activate the Heart Chakra and raise your hands in blessing position.
            To the Supreme God, Make me an instrument of your peace. Feel the peace. Bless the earth
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Feel divine love. Allow yourself to be a channel of divine love and bless the earth with love.
            Where there is injury, pardon. Feel the spirit of reconciliation and bless the earth with understanding, harmony and peace.
            Where there is despair, hope; doubt, faith. Feel the hope and faith and bless the earth and all people with hope and faith.
            Where there is darkness, light; sadness, joy. Allow yourself to be a channel of divine light and joy. Bless the earth and all people with light and joy.

-Activate the crown chakra
            From the center of the heart of God, Let the entire earth be blessed with loving-kindness. Feel it and allow yourself to be a channel of divine love/kindness. share these with the whole earth.
            Let the entire earth be blessed with great joy and happiness. Feel it and share. Visualize people with heavy, difficult problems smiling, their hearts filled with happiness.
            From the center of the heart of God, Let the entire earth be blessed with understanding, harmony and divine peace. Allow yourself to be a channel. Visualize putting down weapons and shaking hands and embracing each other.
            Let the entire earth be blessed with goodwill and the will to do good. Imagine people not only filled with good intentions, but actually carrying out these good intentions.

-Blessings with the Heart and the Crown chakras
            From the center of the heart of God, let the entire earth, every person and being be blessed with divine love and kindness. Feel and share with every person, every being on the whole earth
            Let the entire earth, every person, and every being be blessed with divine sweetness, Divine joy, with warmness, caringness and tenderness. Feel it and share with the whole earth.
            From the center of the heart of God, let the entire earth, every person and every being be blessed with inner healing, inner beauty, divine bliss and divine oneness. Feel it and share it.

-Imagine a brilliant white light or golden light on the crown. Gently and silently chant OM. Meditate on the light and the OM. Continue about 10 minutes. Relax and let go.

-Releasing excess Energy
            Bless the earth with light, loving-kindness, peace and prosperity. Bless countries, people, projects.  Bless Mother Earth: Let Mother Earth be blessed with divine light, love and power. Let Mother Earth be revitalized healed and regenerated. Blessings be to Mother Earth. I am connect and rooted to Mother Earth.


-Give thanks.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Two, Four, Six, Eight

WE certainly do appreciate!
It's finch season at the feeders. Just off my front porch, they come in drifts. Two buffets in a nearby tree are also all a twitter.

Keeping that column full to the top means more food ports are available. To the right, you can see that the top ports are empty already. Topping off the feast is a daily "get to" that tickles me.

What a gift to appreciate these lively flecks of gold!

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Not Soon Enough

A resonating read recommended by a traveling friend.
Alice Steinbach: 1933 - 2012
What is that feeling? Discovering for the first time, but only yesterday, a life-long friend who speaks in words only your soul knows. Her stories of travel opening up a part of ones being that has, all this time, begged for air.

Alice has been my best friend forever, though I met her just last week.

Eager to learn more of her life in the period after this book was written, Things I Get to Do Today found instead that she had slipped away before I knew of her at all, before there was a place in my consciousness to stash the deliciousness of her narrative.

Ever elegant and wise, she left behind several books to soothe me. Now that's a good friend!


Wednesday, August 10, 2016

To Light the Day

Night Light





Besides oozing with damp charm, this little structure provides a welcome and necessary beacon as dark falls. The pathway is steep in several places and takes turns one does not expect.




If your eyes and focus are sharp, you'll see
it tucked in on the right on the floor.







A few days at the Oregon Coast just north of Lincoln City can be a revival for dry skin and dry bones. We soak up the moist pleasure of the sights and smells. These cute "houses" are profoundly good at lighting up the night. We notice them with fond appreciation.






Polyphemus Moth--a Silk Moth found in Oregon from mid-July to August!
Wing span can be 4-6 inches. This one was probably 4".






A closer inspection one morning sent shivers of awe through the group. A Silk Moth--we had definitely found something to light up our day!






Monday, August 1, 2016

Drain Mice*

*WARNING* This blog post very nearly, but not quite, contained graphic photos unsuitable for strong-stomached reading audiences!!

AFTER


Drain Rats are what you tug up out of the shower drain when you finally buckle down to give it a good clean. Be prepared for an ugly, stomach-turning blob of goo that has collected over the last three years or however long you've neglected the job.


Drain Mice are the smaller species of similarly disgusting material, maybe four years in collecting, that have amassed in the drain of your bathroom sink.

My sister and I made a pact to clean our houses separate bathroom sinks a few days ago. She got her's done right away. I left mine to one of the Things I Get to Do Today. With the help of wrenches, boiling water, baking soda, vinegar, rags, brushes, picks and rubber gloves (Oh, please do NOT forget the gloves!) the slimy mouse is gone. The sink drain is clean. The water slips down and out with ease. I conquered the monster. You can, too! I'm sipping ginger ale--my stomach will be recovered by the time you read this