How Do You Want to Spend Your Days?

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Shafts of sunlight burn through the clouds and touch the Earth. Even the darkest clouds clear away. On those days when things aren’t going well we can know it’s only temporary. And we can know the light is within and always shining.

Sometimes we need the clouds. They tell us something about ourselves, and they give us time to ask ourselves how we want to spend our days. At night they reflect the city lights, turning night into a strange kind of daytime. Awake in the night we reflect on what we want and on what we have. If we can allow gratitude into our hearts the light will begin to burn away the cloudiness.

I sit here and watch the clouds drift by and wish I were more productive this morning. But then I realize even as I drift, I’m learning. And here I am in front of the computer writing these words. Rain or shine we can show up. It’s how we prepare ourselves for more. We build discipline and become good students of life.

Our life is made up of moments like these. Clouds drift, mind drifts, insights come… Each moment shares its secret with us if we are listening. And we listen by showing up for them, which is showing up for ourselves.

Now the sun is shining. The winds of thought blow and the clouds move on.

Build a Life

Sometimes we’re so busy focusing on one aspect of our lives that others begin to wither. Eventually even the part we focused on begins to suffer because of the imbalance.

Months ago the phrase “Build a Life Not an Empire” came to me. At first I thought it was because I saw so many people bent on living the hustle and burning out. But I saw that I too was living out of balance. I may have balked at the hustle, but I was still only focused on one or two aspects of my life.

Some of the imbalance comes from codependent behaviors I developed from childhood and some from current circumstances. When we’re codependent we focus only on others and in an especially unhealthy way. And sometimes current situations leave you feeling as though you have to focus all your energy on one thing.

Balance is everything. As a Priestess of the goddess Ma’at you’d think I’d get this balance and harmony thing. But I am a Priestess of Ma’at because it’s what I need to realize in my life. We are complex beings. We feel whole when we acknowledge all aspects of ourselves and work to integrate them. I’m still learning to live in balance and I understand that balance is not a static state. Integration is an ongoing process of making whole.

Teaching has become a larger part of my process. I hope that you will join me for the workshops I’ve created and continue to create. The main things I’m working on right now are gratitude, forgiveness, connection and solitude, so, of course, I’m teaching about those. I’m also a writer and as I work towards success there, I’ll be facilitating workshops and programs in embodying what I call the 5 Predictors of Success as well some on the creative process itself.

All things naturally move towards balance and harmony if we let them. As we open ourselves to life and trust it we begin to realize we are already whole and holy. There really is nothing we need to do. Our becoming is a given when we can simply be in the mystery of Being Itself.  

Becoming Forever

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There are stories and then there is the story. It’s yours. It takes time to discover it. Too often others tell you what it is. But they can’t know. Only you know.

When you finally find your voice your story will rise up from the depths of your being. Its source is your life. You are constantly creating it. You seldom tell it because you’re afraid. You let others tell you your story. But their version isn’t you, and it is small.

We don’t voice our tale sometimes because it’s so big. When we begin to let it rise, it feels like it could tear us apart. It can’t possibly be who we are. And it’s not. We’re even larger than the story that lives in us. When we begin to voice it, we become pierced by the light of becoming whose source is Life Itself.

But you must pick up that pen, raise your voice, glide that brush, move your body. You must begin to express who you are now. Let your story out and enter the process of ever becoming that started in darkness. Strike the match. Watch the flames rise and rise and rise. Gather yourself and enter your story. Now you are becoming…forever.

Be Here Now and Make the Offering Before You Go

Photo by Charles "Beautyseer" Elliott

The symbol in the center window in the above photo, the v, is called the teaching symbol in the Science of Mind philosophy. It speaks to how Spirit moves down and becomes the form we are and where we live our day to day lives.

The movement is down. Often, spiritual ideas are about us moving up towards Spirit, everyone climbing the mountain on their own path to the Divine. But what if we turned the mountain upside down and followed the path Spirit takes, moving down into life, meeting Spirit right where we are?

Our soul wants to be in the thick of things. We’re here to experience a life of form, to see the Divine within ourselves and others, to feel the Divine move us and to walk on holy ground. The Earth invites us to be here fully. We are Spirit in form and that form blends all the elements of the Earth and the stars.

It is all one, but the prism of Soul the light of Spirit passes through projects forth an array of the possibility of being on every level. We can visit and learn from these many levels of being, but I believe it’s important to fully experience this life of form.

When we go deep within and touch the pain and joy that wells up from our experience on Earth, we’ll know the Divine in a way that is unlike any other. I’m sure all levels of being bring ways of knowing, but we’re here in body. Let us know Spirit here and now. May we allow Spirit to know us and hence itself in the flesh, feel the rush of blood beneath the skin and gather in the bones all that is learned.

The heart’s flame resides within each beat, each pulse a reminder we are here. Spirit is here. Turn your attention to the beat of your heart. Now look at your hands. Let your heart guide them. You are here. Dig deep. Use your hands to do the work and make the offering before you go.

What Do I Need and How May I Serve?

A couple of weeks ago the question above came to me. I’ve begun using it as a spiritual practice every morning and today I started to think about the question itself.

It’s important to ask yourself what it is you need before you begin serving others. Service is based on what we have to give and if we are not meeting our own needs, we can’t meet the needs of others.

To ask how you may serve is opening yourself to the guidance of Spirit. It’s best to not just jump into serving others. Not only is it a good idea to ask the Universe, it’s important to ask those we mean to serve what it is they need.

Sometimes the answer you get may be you don’t need anything at the moment. To be in a place where you feel you already have all you need is a beautiful place. To be that full you begin to serve simply by being.

There may also be times you don’t get an answer to how you may serve. That’s okay. Let it come to you over the day. You may even get the answer that you don’t need to serve today. Sometimes we just need to be.

To serve is to show devotion to this One Life. To regularly ask how you may serve is to daily consecrate your vow to Life. And remember, to honor Life is to honor yourself. That is why you first ask what it is you need. It’s all one. You are an expression of the Divine Energy that is all. You are blessed and a blessing. May your path express the beauty, love and truth of Life Itself.