Watching TV only creates more of the same. We had a solid, thriving economy and then fear set in to all sectors. Just the real estate sector is truly damaged, the rest is all from that great Ego-fanner, FEAR. Fear does not exist in the mind of God. Let this quote from the Course of Miracles put your mind at ease. It can fit into any religion, any philosophy, no matter. It's all an illusion!
"The Thought of God created you. It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant. It belongs to you. By it you live. It is your Source of life, holding you one with it, and everything is one with you because it left you not. The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. Eternity and everlasting life shine in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you."
My sister called me yesterday: "I don't care about material things anymore!" This new attitude rises from her after experiencing a great loss of all of her savings from the stock market crash, all of our mothers savings, and a very expensive real estate investment headed into foreclosure. Like many of us, myself included, we did not expect the breadth and depth of the corporate deceit involved in the massive mortgage fraud. We did not plan for an implosion so complete,
so comprehensive, engendered not only by the Corporate deregulation and subsequent white collar theft on such an all encompassing scale, but by the complicit greed of many small investors, with their get rich quick schemes and phony jacked up "renovation loans" where hundreds of thousands of banks were bilked, many quite KNOWINGLY, of their funds. "What does it matter, we will bundle and sell these worthless loans well before we are caught, because EVERYBODY INVOLVED is making so much money! The Real Estate Agents, The Attorneys, the Straw Buyers, the Investors, and yes, even the little people refinancing their loans with unscrupulous Lenders making "too good to be true but take it and run" refinance loans.
How many of us go to church on Sunday and then go home and do it because "Everybody else is doing it!" How many of us have shut our eyes when our jobs are on the line and our Company is going after the money first, without thought of corporate responsibility or their role in the local economy. How can we go to work and perform unscrupulous acts in the name of "I'll lose my job if I speak up"?
There is a way out, and it is painful, but so necessary. We have to learn to live without borrowed money, the system is set up for us to fail if we fall into that trap. We have to learn to live on what we earn. How many of us really understand finance and the way it is set up? Go on YouTube and type in "Follow the Money" and learn something about what you can do to get yourself out of this sad situation.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING ACCORDING TO PLAN!
I want to talk about forgiveness. It's a tough subject for most people,
and many of us harbor pockets of resentment tucked into little crevices of our cerebellums just because we don't know how to clean house, and we are attached to our anger, mistakenly assuming that the wrong was done TO US, and not BY US.
"Let me tell you what she did to me!" They want to say, or, "Listen to my story about what a ....... he was in our divorce".
I've been meditating on this one for a few years, maybe an entire lifetime, because it has occurred to me that if it is true what the masters say, that life is a mirror to us, and that everything is exactly as it should be, and that we get what we attract, I wanted to know just how things happen the way they happen. But I did not know
how to truly understand my own mirror, nor my own personal, "Petty Tyrants".
Forgiveness is like an orange; it doesn't fall off the tree of its own accord until it is ripe! You can pray about it, recite prayers of forgiveness, but not until you shelter the hurt and the pain at the heart center, and feel it completely inside you, can you release it with love. For me, the formula goes like this: Memory, + Feeling +
Forgiveness + Love = Freedom.
I couldn't love my thief until I understood finally that it was I who called the thief to me, and the thief came. I couldn't forgive my thief until I clearly saw that my desires had attracted exactly what I required to me, and the thief, was only too glad to oblige. Like the Indian said, "She will have to live with what she has done".
Like the Monk said, "Too bad I could not give the thief this beautiful moon".
When I am grateful to my "Petty Tyrant", I am free. Be careful what you ask for, because you will get it every time.
and many of us harbor pockets of resentment tucked into little crevices of our cerebellums just because we don't know how to clean house, and we are attached to our anger, mistakenly assuming that the wrong was done TO US, and not BY US.
"Let me tell you what she did to me!" They want to say, or, "Listen to my story about what a ....... he was in our divorce".
I've been meditating on this one for a few years, maybe an entire lifetime, because it has occurred to me that if it is true what the masters say, that life is a mirror to us, and that everything is exactly as it should be, and that we get what we attract, I wanted to know just how things happen the way they happen. But I did not know
how to truly understand my own mirror, nor my own personal, "Petty Tyrants".
Forgiveness is like an orange; it doesn't fall off the tree of its own accord until it is ripe! You can pray about it, recite prayers of forgiveness, but not until you shelter the hurt and the pain at the heart center, and feel it completely inside you, can you release it with love. For me, the formula goes like this: Memory, + Feeling +
Forgiveness + Love = Freedom.
I couldn't love my thief until I understood finally that it was I who called the thief to me, and the thief came. I couldn't forgive my thief until I clearly saw that my desires had attracted exactly what I required to me, and the thief, was only too glad to oblige. Like the Indian said, "She will have to live with what she has done".
Like the Monk said, "Too bad I could not give the thief this beautiful moon".
When I am grateful to my "Petty Tyrant", I am free. Be careful what you ask for, because you will get it every time.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
GREAT PRAYER FOR SOUL SOOTHING
The following prayer was not written by me, it is anonymous.
The essence of God is within me, embracing me and surrounding me now in this place and at this time. In the flow of God energy and insight, I quietly go within to know my True Self and to commune with the power of the all Good.
I am blessed by the nearness and unconditional love of God. I see the God who is my friend, by my side, abiding with me. I see the God who is my comforter, holding me with tenderness and love. I see the God who is my counselor, communicating with me that I am wise, whole and capable, far beyond my own human understanding. I see the God who is my protector, guiding me in wisdom, showing me the way and surrounding me with powerful insulation from anything that would distract me from my heartfelt desires and dreams.
I sit with any feelings of discomfort, discord, worry, doubt, or fear knowing that these are not here to stay, but they come bearing knowledge and insight. I ask them what gift they have to give me. I bless those feelings. I am non-resistant. I welcome all of my emotions knowing that my feeling nature is how I am ever-connected to the God Presence. As I flow with my feelings, acknowledging and blessing all of them, the good and the so-called "bad," I realize that I am steering my life, choosing a thought that feels better in each moment, and always evolving in my Power and Presence as a Child of God.
God soothes me, adores me, cherishes me, and lifts me up. I feel this even in this moment and feel totally satisfied in exactly where I am. Truly all is well and I am always in my right and perfect place. And so it is. Amen.
The essence of God is within me, embracing me and surrounding me now in this place and at this time. In the flow of God energy and insight, I quietly go within to know my True Self and to commune with the power of the all Good.
I am blessed by the nearness and unconditional love of God. I see the God who is my friend, by my side, abiding with me. I see the God who is my comforter, holding me with tenderness and love. I see the God who is my counselor, communicating with me that I am wise, whole and capable, far beyond my own human understanding. I see the God who is my protector, guiding me in wisdom, showing me the way and surrounding me with powerful insulation from anything that would distract me from my heartfelt desires and dreams.
I sit with any feelings of discomfort, discord, worry, doubt, or fear knowing that these are not here to stay, but they come bearing knowledge and insight. I ask them what gift they have to give me. I bless those feelings. I am non-resistant. I welcome all of my emotions knowing that my feeling nature is how I am ever-connected to the God Presence. As I flow with my feelings, acknowledging and blessing all of them, the good and the so-called "bad," I realize that I am steering my life, choosing a thought that feels better in each moment, and always evolving in my Power and Presence as a Child of God.
God soothes me, adores me, cherishes me, and lifts me up. I feel this even in this moment and feel totally satisfied in exactly where I am. Truly all is well and I am always in my right and perfect place. And so it is. Amen.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
BE HAPPY ANYWAY
It's important to know that we are all in this together! In a book by Greg Braden,
"The Divine Matrix", he tells of a story about an Indian friend who had experienced a theft of a beloved family heirloom--a Buffalo Head. This precious treasure was of enormous significance to the man as evidence of a vanished way of life--it was the first buffalo hunted by his great grandfather as a young boy. When asked what he would do when and if he caught the thief, the man just said, "Nothing! She will have to live with what she has done, it is enough."
As a victim of many thefts in my life, I have had to ask myself what is the significance of so many devastating experiences, in other words, what is the message from the Universe in this great big mallet on the head, over and over again in my life, like a comic character in an old cartoon. "I buy it, then before I get a chance to enjoy it, you steal it!" If life shows us exactly the mirror we have created, if life is perfect, and I believe that it is, then good lord, how in the heck do I get myself out of this repeater game, whatever the game is that keeps repeating itself, over, and over again. Is it theft that happens to you, or is it a broken heart by the same type of person, or bad situations at work, or always being broke, or never getting the deal the easy way?
If we are indeed One Being, and I do believe that we are, manifesting our Divine Expression of the One in all things, then this thief, this selfish boyfriend, this abusive boss, this lost deal, this missing Buffalo Head, is a holographic mirror of another part of ourselves working its way around the Dream Hall, dreaming of separation instead of The One. But I am celebrating, because inside me is a Joy of Divine Beloved that grows stronger every day, and the missing objects just don't seem to distress me when I have this joy inside me growing like an exquisite Moonflower in a rising tide. These days I just sing Hu, the love song to God, or meditate, and I know that this is a dream, and that all is well.
Abraham Hicks says that thought, which thinks itself, becomes manifestation, which thinks another thought, in a constantly expanding universe of creation and expression. We are Creator! In what we think, we are Attractor--so I believe it is important to lay my mind upon the glorious and never upon the flawed.
An old Buddist tale tells of a monk, who, in his cave, discovers that his only possession, his wooden bowl, has been stolen by a thief in the night. He looks down the mountain and then up at the moon, thinking, "Poor thief! Pity I could not also give him this big, beautiful moon in this lovely sky!"
At all times, this world is a glorious, beautiful place, because it is constantly being remade in the image of our thoughts. If we can learn to become Amplifiers of Divine Intent, where the GOD THOUGHT flows directly through us like water through a pipe, just imagine what an exquisite planet this could be!
"The Divine Matrix", he tells of a story about an Indian friend who had experienced a theft of a beloved family heirloom--a Buffalo Head. This precious treasure was of enormous significance to the man as evidence of a vanished way of life--it was the first buffalo hunted by his great grandfather as a young boy. When asked what he would do when and if he caught the thief, the man just said, "Nothing! She will have to live with what she has done, it is enough."
As a victim of many thefts in my life, I have had to ask myself what is the significance of so many devastating experiences, in other words, what is the message from the Universe in this great big mallet on the head, over and over again in my life, like a comic character in an old cartoon. "I buy it, then before I get a chance to enjoy it, you steal it!" If life shows us exactly the mirror we have created, if life is perfect, and I believe that it is, then good lord, how in the heck do I get myself out of this repeater game, whatever the game is that keeps repeating itself, over, and over again. Is it theft that happens to you, or is it a broken heart by the same type of person, or bad situations at work, or always being broke, or never getting the deal the easy way?
If we are indeed One Being, and I do believe that we are, manifesting our Divine Expression of the One in all things, then this thief, this selfish boyfriend, this abusive boss, this lost deal, this missing Buffalo Head, is a holographic mirror of another part of ourselves working its way around the Dream Hall, dreaming of separation instead of The One. But I am celebrating, because inside me is a Joy of Divine Beloved that grows stronger every day, and the missing objects just don't seem to distress me when I have this joy inside me growing like an exquisite Moonflower in a rising tide. These days I just sing Hu, the love song to God, or meditate, and I know that this is a dream, and that all is well.
Abraham Hicks says that thought, which thinks itself, becomes manifestation, which thinks another thought, in a constantly expanding universe of creation and expression. We are Creator! In what we think, we are Attractor--so I believe it is important to lay my mind upon the glorious and never upon the flawed.
An old Buddist tale tells of a monk, who, in his cave, discovers that his only possession, his wooden bowl, has been stolen by a thief in the night. He looks down the mountain and then up at the moon, thinking, "Poor thief! Pity I could not also give him this big, beautiful moon in this lovely sky!"
At all times, this world is a glorious, beautiful place, because it is constantly being remade in the image of our thoughts. If we can learn to become Amplifiers of Divine Intent, where the GOD THOUGHT flows directly through us like water through a pipe, just imagine what an exquisite planet this could be!
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