Prayer

Dear God (Your Higher Power)

Please let us feel Your love.  Please let us feel Your presence.  Please help us to be and do better.  Guide us to our best and most loving path to stop the chaos that our world is experiencing.  

Help those that are hurting to feel love.  Help those that are love to keep their hearts open and continue to send out love.  Help those that are in the middle of chaos to have the ability to step back and/or out and connect to their own loving grace. 

I believe there are so many more humans with loving hearts than not.  I believe we all know and suffer some kind of hardship(s).   

May you teach us, show us and empower us to create, live and offer the best of what is available to us to carry on from this moment forward in the most beautiful and fulfilling of ways.  

Teach those that are hurting to reach out for help.  Teach those that are hurting to not continue the hurt but to find easier and more loving ways to deal with and process the hurt.  To turn it from pain to lessons and betterment.   

Let us be one in togetherness to stop the fighting, the pain, the horrific and the terror as much as possible.   

Let us not live in fear.  Let us live from love.  Let us learn to do no harm.  

Teach us to create peace and harmony. Teach us to let it deep within each of us so that we may build it and share it and pass it forward.  

May we let there be peace on Earth and let it begin from within.  

May You show us to be able to feel our own peace within.   May You enter our hearts and let us know, feel and be the saving grace that we are learning is greatly needed today; everywhere, and throughout the things we are experiencing and in this journey that we call life. 

And so it is. 

Amen

May we learn honor and to be honorable.   May we open to the best of ourselves and each other.

 

Picture by Jess          

Help From Our Friends

I have a wonderful woman who I took the Life Coaching Training sessions with and we have stayed in touched with each other ever since.

She recently offered to 'work' on me - 'distance healing' - just because she felt urged to do so.  I happily accepted and wanted to offer the same to her as I am still working on receiving love and care easily.  It still feels a bit strange for me to take without giving.

I believe that it all balances out in the end in the exact form and way it is meant to.  I still need to learn to get out of my own way on this one and let people give me and help me just because.

I feel honored and blessed for her; her love; her gifts; and her care.  How lucky and blessed I am.

She has decided that a week worth's of healing feels right and I'm jumping up and down with joy on the inside.  I have even told myself that there is a person that will want to support my healing just because and this is what I wait for.  She is here now!

I am open to receive and be dis-ease free.  I am open to send her all that I can and support her in being her own best self.

How beautiful and loving is this part of life.  I love it.  It is what I breathe for...

May you be open to a balance of giving and receiving. 

May you know that as good as it makes you feel, to give - take, so that you may still be giving a gift of receiving from others and it helps balance out divine connection with each other.  Allow another the gift of giving.  Receive.

Namaste.  Live wild and open your heart.  Let your soul shine out.  Cherish the power of giving and receiving.

Unusual

I have been a bit tired and eating a bit more lately.

I feel I am eating so I don't fall asleep and/or to keep myself awake.

I am feeling a bit more angry and frustrated in moments as well.

I feel challenged to let in peace and I can't seem to find 'easy' easily.  Ha.

Being uncomfortable from overeating can make me angry as well.   Not getting enough sleep can make me irritable.

Is it human to go against what we know is good for us...  Me thinks yes, at times, it is exactly this... being human.

How wonderful it would be to know that my belly is full and to stop eating.  How wonderful it would be to know that my body and mind are tired and sleep.  How wonderful would it be to say yes when I want to and no when it brings me into the healthiest of myself...

We are all doing the best that we can.  Where we are right now is, perhaps, exactly where we are supposed to be.  Being challenged with what our challenges are is the exact lesson that arrives in perfect timing; perfect play.

Life is cycles, a circle, a challenge and a chance to create what is inside of us out.  It is the journey of our life that we are here to experience.  Is it best not to judge; only to experience.  Is it in the experience that we create our destination and 'feel' our way.

We can start over any moment.  We can do different within every breath.  We can choose awareness.  We can choose not to know or see certain things.  We can choose love and honesty.  We can choose hate and dishonesty.  We can choose any variation of any feeling at any time.  And, we do...

May you choose to be aware and to take your best step forward from exactly where you are.

May you be easy on yourself when you don't.  May you let love lead and when you don't, may you know that you can  try again; start over.  Sometimes there are no re-do's and we must still go forward.  Sometimes in the re-do, we do better.

May you meet yourself where your life is at.  May you be open to creating the thinking that will think you right into the life that is your destiny.  May you know this is your destiny because it feels so; you are good at it; it supports our world; and it comes from the depth of your soul--your inner knowing.  Your destiny just feels right; feels true; lets you feel the most like you.

Perhaps, if what you are doing does not float your boat - take one step (baby step or not) in the direction of what feels more like you.

I will say no to overeating.  I will say yes to resting and sleep.  I will do me again and again and again no matter how many times it takes to get me to the path that is available to only me.

In my unusualness I find my uniqueness.  In my uniqueness, I find my super power.  In my super power, I find my purpose.  In my purpose, I find my destiny.

And, really when these words are all written and done, what matters most is that I connect to my breath through love, honor, respect, trust and believing that I am right where I am supposed to be and everything is okay.

Being human doesn't mean that we are happy and content all the time.  Being an 'enlightened' human doesn't mean that everything is easy.

Living the truth of what is and bringing the truth of who we are together is the way, just maybe, of creating the best paths forward for successful and generous experiences.

May you let the version of yourself carry on that connects to what is peace and what is ease.  Loving our own selves is the way.  When we love our own self, perhaps, all we can share is love...

Uh Oh

I find it difficult to make a phone call this morning.  A phone call to just order food delivery.

I feel myself shaking, resisting, nervous and anxious.  I am very uncomfortable.

My hands are purple.

I gently force myself to breathe.  I notice numbness sensation in my face and my fingers.  Tingly sensations in my arms and my toes.  The tip of my nose feels swollen.  My eyes see differently as my cheeks and forehead seem swollen.

Where does this uncomfortableness come from...  Why does this fear show up...  Why do I notice such things...  Who am I with this...  Who am I without this...

I am still love.   I am always me.  I gratefully breathe open and through.

"I open myself to life flowing through me and for me."

I breathe.   I let my shoulders relax.  I put my feet flat on the floor.  I feel the chair underneath me supporting me.  I am.

Sometimes there is such a war within myself.  Knowing and being in discomfort.  Knowing and being in love.  Knowing and just being...

We all have things in our lives, that perhaps, we would change...  But would we..  What challenge would we choose if we truly are supposed to be challenged in this human form; if we do need to experience challenge(s).

There is not a different challenge that I know of that I would choose.  I know I can work in, through and beyond the challenge of 'scleroderma'.  I have been doing it for 40 plus years.

What if we don't have to be challenged in this human form.  What if, as these things come up for us, we accept them, feel them, acknowledge them and walk forward through them...

Is this choosing acceptance in what is... allowing what we feel and loving through with [what may be the strongest thing we can create] gentle strength.

I am not in the throes of fun.  I am not in the throes of ease.  I am in the throes of what my life is showing up as in this moment.

So, I made the call and food is on the way...  Whoop...!

Whatever 'battle' shows up for you today - if one does -

May you bring your true and loving self into it with gentle strength.  May you be your own best friend.

I believe in the process of life.  We are all survivors and we all thrive.  We all achieve.  We all fail.  We all breathe.  May we all just be who and what we are; from the most loving place available to us in each moment and situation.

Naturally

With earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, tornados, etc., it is not easy to find and/or access comfort. 

Inside me feels shaken up, stirred and jumbled.

I hear myself saying 'be here now'.  I hear myself saying 'as I take this breath, I am okay'.

I know to ask myself what is my goal in this moment and focus on just this.

I know to surrender.  I know to let go.  I know to send out love instead of worry.

While I have many (what I call) 'tools', I am still shaken, stirred and jumbled more often than I wish to be.

Are we all being challenged as a whole more than ever; as 'one' more than ever...  Is what happening over there becoming more affective over here then in the past...

I feel more and find myself more relatable to the world as a whole.  In this, we will find strength.  And, for now, we may be experiencing more tumultuous-ness as we learn to live in this new world that is being created.

I did get set in my ways and knew ease in daily patterns.

New daily patterns are being observed and created with the ability of most of us being able to see and know about each other more than ever before.  We are being forced to learn new ways of adapting, living and living through.  There are cameras everywhere.  What is seen is often captured.

The information at hand is staggering.  It can overwhelm.  It can also unite.

May you leave your heart open and send out love as much as possible and as often as possible.

The door to the heart swings both ways.  May you send love in.  May you send love out.

May we let love lead the way.  May we let love show us the way.  May we let love create the way.

As each of us grow into our own inner peace and we unite from this place, may we accomplish the most and best out of life and each other.

I wish you love.

May you be really easy on yourself the more hard on yourself that you are.

As we allow for ease, peace, understanding, openness, truth and love, we allow creation of a better day.

Namaste.

#unbreakable

That One Person

I hope it is true for you that we all have (at least) that one person who just gets us.  Who knows us.  Who we consider to be a lifeline to our truest of selves for.  Who just lets us be...

I just talked to this person.  I know such gratitude that I can speak my scariest and most embarrassing thoughts to and I am still okay.  I am still loved.  I am more me than ever.

A lifeline that connects my heart to my world and opens me up to acceptance and simple understanding.

May you have your own lifeline; whatever that looks, sounds, or feels like to you.  A lifeline that connects your heart to your world of acceptance and simple understanding.  

Conversation energizes me.  Truth makes me stronger.  Vulnerability makes me bigger.  Love grounds me.

I can easily say that a part of me doesn't like what I see myself doing.  What I see myself doing is nothing.  Going nowhere.  Goal-less in my actions.

However, I am reaching deep within.  Sitting with stillness.  Just what if this is way more productive than what it looks like...  Just what if there is way more going on here than my eyes and my human brain can tell...

It is hard for me to admit that this is what I need, want and am just now.  There is no desire within me that is strong enough to change me in the here and now.

And, talking with this one person - I connect to the part of me that lets me be okay.  Lets it be okay.  Allows me to embrace and believe in divine timing and that I am exactly where I am supposed to be.

How do I know this....

Is it as simple an answer as 'because this is where I am at'...

Just what if you are exactly where you belong because it is exactly where you are at...  Just what if you decide that this is enough for you to believe, know and live just now... just as you are... you are enough...

We can know great turmoil as there are overwhelming amounts of information and stories to process what they mean to us and how we live in and through everything that comes our way.  It is huge stuff going on.  It is gigantic how quickly and deeply we are being asked to learn anew.

All I can think just now is

May you let your light shine...  Let it be exactly what it is...  Let you be exactly what you are...

As you bring your true self to the forefront, your truest and best paths will emerge.

What comes next doesn't matter as much as what is now...

May you open up to what is now and just allow it and you to breathe...

Stop the war within... Just breathe.

Change

Ch Ch Ch Changes...

Change is in my life.  Change is in your life.  Change is inside of us.  Change is outside of us.

Change is always happening.

It is not so much the change as it is how we react to the change that creates something somewhere between inner calm to chaos to outer calm to chaos.

Every day 'change' shows itself to us.  We feel change.  We know change.  We experience change. Things change.  We are change.  We change.

Sometimes it feels like a happy surprise; a break; a relief; a gift.

Sometimes it feels like a problem; an issue; an unhappy incident; a challenge.

Our initial reaction just may be from habit; from not processing information fully; from the actual change differing from what we would like to have happen.

If we STOP, acknowledge, process it and realize our initial reaction - and, if we do not like our initial reaction - we can change it.  We are this powerful.

May we learn to react in a way that gives us our best of self.  May we learn to react that gives us the gift of harmony and peace.  May we choose to react that allows for calm even if  'it' feels chaotic.

May you realize, that perhaps, it is in your reactions that create the full on experience of each moment.

This is good news/bad news, perhaps.

Good news is that it is in our control in how we react to change.  Bad news is that it is in our control in how we react to change.  It is up to us how we want to react.  Do we want to stay calm...  Do we want to 'fly off the handle'...  Do we want to live in anger, disharmony and fear...  Do we want to live in peace, love and trust...

How we experience life cannot happen without our permission.  We choose.  We permit.  We allow the ongoing reaction(s).  

May you choose the best of yourself even in the face of challenge, chaos and/or unwanted change.

May you react to life as the person you want to be and the way of life you want to experience. 

Remember that you are the only person you will ever spend your entire life with.  May you give yourself the most pleasant of experiences possible as often as possible.

May you let your mind, body, heart and soul work together from your deepest innate knowing into the craziest unknown places you find yourself.