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11. Day 23: Loving Thy Neighbor
I have come across the very accepted idea relating to success that in order to maintain and nurture positive thinking look closely at who you associate with because this affects your own positive thinking. While this is, indeed, true, that you can be and are affected by negativity in your midst I must add my own experience with this. While I completely agree that you can be and are influenced by those around you including the popular idea “You are the five people you spend the most time with” in my experience the biggest...
read more11. Day 22: Editing As Spiritual Practice
I discovered during my new poetry class that I no longer fear the judgment of the editing process. I still feel tentative in my editing however and would like to know more about this process and how to go about it without being mired in self doubt and overthink. Is this possible or does the process just allow more to come up for healing? HS: Precious One, “Come along with me, the best is yet to be.” These words from your own sundial are your reminder that you are just beginning in your quest to know your heart fully. It is a...
read more11. Day 21: The Ecstasy Of Ekphrasis
Since learning to extend love to my fear of success has to include the opportunity for success (and failure), I signed up for a poetry class at the Crocker Art Museum. Poetry is very near and dear to my heart because this was the first way I was conscious of my heart voice and the Holy Spirit speaking to me. It was so unusual to find my self writing poetry it really grabbed my attention. Since those early days I find myself drawn to expressing through poetry the thoughts, feelings and revelations I can’t otherwise capture. Up until...
read more11. Day 20: In Order To Form A More Perfect Union
I was really struck by a new definition of success in yesterday’s daily reading from Tama Kieves wonderful new book “A Year Without Fear” (of course I love this book;): “You don’t regret the past. You regret the present. You regret the past only when you’re not wildly in love with all you’re right now and all you are experiencing in this time. Change the moment before you, and you change how you feel about everything. You can’t be in the wrong life…..if you’re in the right...
read more11. Day 19: Is My Spiritual Practice Enough?
“Successful people exude self-confidence, ask for what they want and say what they don’t want. They think anything is possible, take risks and celebrate their success. They save a portion of their income, and share a portion with others. These things don’t cost money, just intention.”—The Success Principles by Jack Canfield p.93 Ok, sure. If you do and are all these things you will be successful. My questions is this: is success in the material/physical world possible with “just” extending glove...
read more11. Day 18: To Know Thyself In All Your Grace
I am about to take a totally new step for me. I have the opportunity to attend a spiritual writing conference in Chicago next month. It includes one of my favorite writers and is produced by a favorite publisher, Hay House. They are sweetening the deal with an amazing opportunity for writers aspiring to be published (I have just discovered this about myself in this month of looking at success. EEK!! I realized I actually do want to publish my work in the form of a book or three). In addition to learning how to submit work for...
read more11. Day 17: Why Is Working HARD Always A Success Principle?
I will let you in on a little secret. You simply can’t hang out with the idea of success, even if fear is present, without kind of wanting to experience some version of success. This may explain why I uncharacteristically set a timer for one hour and told myself “you can clean the drawers under the washer and drier for one hour; just go for it!” Because I am really noticing exactly what spurs me on to success or what holds me back this month I have become aware of something again and again. One of the things that holds me...
read more11. Day 16: Extending Love To Worry
The other day I just woke up ready to cry. My saddened, sodden pile of thoughts left me feeling damp, cold, heavy and unforgiving. It took me a while to realize this feeling/thought cluster was worry. Our prolonged trip and time of rest had nearly all but wiped worry from my radar; enough so as I didn’t recognize the feeling at first. Now recognized, I saw the thoughts wanted to drag years of past responses and memories as the demonstration as to why worry was not only needed but the obvious best option. I thought to myself,...
read more11. Day 15: A Mighty Peace
I read today these known words in a book I randomly picked up off my bookshelf: “If thou canst but believe; all things are possible to him who believes.” It is the crux of opening up to success of any kind. And it bloody annoys me. It stirs up in me anger, hurt and shame because I again wonder, “Why and how could I have forgotten who and what I am?” This is what is being forgiven in my extending love to the fear of success. This deep angry, annoyed, entitled shame. Shame, not that I allowed the forgetting, but...
read more11. Day 14: The Deepest Depth
Dearest Ones, Love is invincible. Love cannot be broken. Love cannot be separated. Love cannot be made not Whole, only seen this way through closed eyes and tight heart. Love is all you need. Love is all you have. Love is the truth you seek. There are infinite ways to know and experience love. Join with the love that you are and you will take your invincibility everywhere you go. Join with the love you are that you may see yourself in and through Love’s eyes. You are already perfect, whole, delighted joy, peace and eternal comfort. This...
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