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7. Day 25: Happy Birthday Beloved One
A birthday message for my beloved from my heart of hearts…… Precious One, Know that you are the power of my heart. You are the way I walk in the world. You are the one I turn to when it is time to act. Your willingess to love in action has made you most useful in spreading the gospel of Love. Dear One you are the apple of my eye. In you is the ever flowing river of life. It is your birth-rite, treasure and joyful secret. This new year is but another brief moment in eternity. Years and decades and minutes and seconds are...
read more7. Day 24: The Reveal
I have noticed that honesty does not usually work alone. There is an expression of quiet, sometimes nearly imperceptible, when we go within and let honesty reveal itself. Honesty reveals what is already present. Why am I so afraid to have what is already present revealed? I mean, if it is already present, what more can happen if I just notice this? Am I afraid more will be asked of me that I do not have to give? Honesty IS what I have to give. If I can allow myself this gift my days and nights and everything in between are enriched with...
read more7. Day 23: The Wedding Practice
Earlier this month I explored 100 Ways To Be Aware Of Honesty with Holy Spirit. I keep returning to this list for inspiration, guidance, and to see how far my awareness has come in just a few weeks. What jumps out at me today is how it was a revelation that I could encourage, allow and welcome honesty in others by being honest with myself. I didn’t realize my own hesitation to be honest with myself actually sends the message that honesty is not entirely welcome. It was with a big gulp that I decided that honesty was, indeed, a two...
read more7. Day 22: WE Are Worth Celebrating
I am loving how Holy Spirit is speaking to my heart with these lists of “100 Reasons Why”. I was simply writing a card to go into a goodie bag to give my daughter and her fiance` (I love saying this;) to take on a cross country trip they were making. The list just spilled out my delight, my tender love and the joy I shared in their beginning adventure. I love how honest the Holy Spirit is here. 100 Reasons Why A Drive Across Country IS The Perfect Way To Celebrate Our Engagement We are in love with one another...
read more7. Day 21: Honesty & Silence Can Work Together
The thing about honesty that was always a stumbling block was that I always thought honesty had to tell or say out loud it’s truth for it to be counted as honesty. You would think this would have been a blessing to someone who is so keen on talking and conversation but it felt just the opposite. I am discovering that honesty can be completely expressed by silence, quiet and the word not spoken. I got to experience this recently in a completely delightful way. (I have noticed, btw, that the more I face, accept, am willing to look at...
read more7. Day 20: A Squirrel Peed On My Head
I was reading an old journal recently and came across this quote I had noted from my then newly hired Life Coach: “Honesty is transformative.” I remember thinking at the time that it bloody well would need to be magic to be worth the risk. I was in that phase of life that I now come to think of Boot Camp. You are just slogging through with one thing after another piled on your plate to the point that even a platter isn’t enough and you are dragging around a little red wagon with the mish-mash of your days spilling out all...
read more7. Day 19: 100 Reasons Why Panic Is My Friend
Yesterday I shared my experience of a recent assessment that left me inundated with nervousness that felt a lot like panic. I determined that this energy was surely a gift if I could only see it that way. My lists of 100 Reasons Why have become a great tool for me to hear the Holy Spirit within me when I am really stumped. “100 Reasons Why Nervous Energy (aka Panic) Is My Friend” There is nothing wrong with nervous energy Energy is energy All forms of energy are forms of love Love loves me I am Love I can learn to love in...
read more7. Day 18: Peer Tour Review
My fear of honesty was really brought to the front burner this week. I am a docent at the Crocker Art Museum. I love being a docent. I love getting to hang out at an art museum as if it were my own. I love the mini performance that giving a tour is. I LOVE my fellow docents and the staff at the museum. I was led as if by the hand of Jesus to this opportunity. Yet when it came time for the Peer Tour Review I felt so nervous I was sure I was going to pass out, throw up or flee to the nearest bar. Know that this is truly the gentlest of...
read more7. Day 17: Wisdom Is Not Knowing
I get a lot of epiphanies in the bath. The quiet, the water, and the cleansing must make me feel like church. This morning this thought floated out on the steam: “Wisdom is not knowing more, it is just that you stop running from what you don’t know.” I must have been the only teenager who longed to be 45 (oldest I could imagine at the time). At 45, I was certain I would know all I needed to know, then I could proceed happily and live a safe and comfortable life. Well, 45 came and went and I was no wiser. Now that 55...
read more7. Day 16: An Honest Quiet
As I am consciously extending love to my fear of honesty by practicing real honesty I have to say that there is a whole bunch of stuff that tries to pass as honesty that really isn’t. Here are just some of the things that kind of sound like honesty but under further scrutiny is just something standing in the way of my awareness of true honesty. Things That Try To Pass As Honesty: opinions, tiredness (really that old thing?), silence, suggestions, “You be honest first, then I’ll be honest.”, using my...
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