… I had one just like this

This strand is like what I’d braided into the tail of my hair in California in 1996. I arrived back in Florida in time for Christmas Eve service at Unity of Melbourne.  It was packed, standing room only.  My friend Doug Cobb and I stood in the almost back row. When I got home, I found someone had cut my tail off.  In today’s mail, I received it back,  returned anonymously with a note. “You don’t know me. I cut your hair at church one night years ago. I wanted a momento. You write about clear up your past karma so here is your braid. I am sorry.”  Bless them for the courage to return it to me!  I don’t care who you are or why you did it, you are forgiven and I love you.

Earlier today a friend told me they’d be in town this week and I hastily invited them to stay overnight. Almost immediately I began to feel trapped even though it’d be only one day, and I know them and we get along well. I called back an hour later and they were fine with the cancellation. Sometimes I just like being alone when I have the time to myself: I have so many topics awaiting thought time, I like the silence when I can nab it. That’s what’s great about Facebook. I can read friends’ posts and keep up with them, in the silence. I am glad to have understanding friends. Even if I commit to something, as soon as it begins to feel not right, I cut the cord so I don’t leave the other party hanging.  That’s how friends stay friends for a lifetime.

Being slow this morning really paid off for me in putting me at the right place at the right time. I’m not a recreational sleeper. I get my Zs, then I’m up and ready to go within 20 minutes. This morning I just could not get going.  I was going to deliver the May Horizons early and swing back by about noon to take a galpal to pick up her car.  As it was, she called me just as I was ‘waking’ up.  Perfect timing.  I’d take her in, then deliver the mag on the way back.  Except by the time I dropped her off, I felt really sleepy again, so I headed home.  I stopped at Publix although I knew Walmart would have my items cheaper.  I figured my guidance system knew what I wanted was on sale or something, so I went in.  No, nothing I wanted was on sale. I got into line behind a guy who’s talking with the cashier about child raising.  Knowing zero about the topic, I jump right into their conversation.  He and I continue talking as we walk out to our cars, the same white Prius, parked side by side.  We talk about cars, then he mentions a business he just began and I asked if he had a website. He did not.  I offered my website creation services and he hired me to build his website and one for his son.  He wrote me a check on the spot.  Had I not felt so sleepy, I would not have been in the perfect line at the perfect time to receive the good the Universe wanted to hand to me. Thank you.  Once again, I accept your generosity.

I admit my life is a series of routines and rituals.  It’s not due to superstition, it’s just that over the years I’ve developed daily practices that help keep me centered and set the tone for my day.  Each day I wake up early and do my morning puja: I fill a glass of water and set on the altar as an offering, as prasad, to drink afterwards.  I light a candle and incense, I say a series of prayers as I stretch into my morning yoga. Doing this creates the mindspace for me to settle into meditation time. I know meditation is done once I feel I’ve settled into the Presence and made contact.  On some days, I don’t feel I’ve made contact.  I just sit, breathe and release thoughts for my sitting time anyway.  I’m always connected.  Whether I feel it or not depends on my focus.   I drink the glass of water, taking the prayers into my body. As I enter my office, I light a candle and say a prayer for the clients, callers and advertisers, sending a blessing for their success.  Using incense, I smudge the office doorways, the phones, the computer, the in box, the out box and the mailtray. I pray that whatever comes in and goes out is blessed by Spirit, uplifted and healed. Including me After work, I stretch into yoga to unkink. I prepare my evening meal with Love, as though I was preparing it for the Beloved. I eat it with a prayer of gratitude. Later, I’ll do an evening review: I sit quietly either before the meditation altar or at the firepit and in my mind I go over my day. Is there anything I’d like to amp up via creative visualization and vibe with for a few moments?  I do that.  Is there anything to forgive?  I do that.  If there was anything I’d have done differently, I take note of that.  I end with a prayer of gratitude for another day of life on this wonderful planet.  That’s how I invite Spirit into my life each day.

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Domino isn’t sure if she should be flattered or wary as her new boyfriend proposed on their one month anniversary.  It’s new love, she wants happiness, but is also careful who she involves with her kids.  Infatuated as they are right now, she knows he has a wife and child he left a year ago.  He has much unfinished business with them — emotional, legal, financial — before they even talk divorce.  His daughter and wife read about his romance on his Facebook page and asked him to please cool it while they are still married. He doesn’t seem to care they found it hurtful.  Domino doesn’t know the truth of his past, so she doesn’t judge. He left his last 3 relationships (after leaving wife) not on good terms. She’s not sure who or what to believe. All she knows is what she feels.  She feels led to follow her heart, and believe him. I told her the fact they have such chemistry and rapport is the Universe’s way of letting them know they have karmic work. They will be together as long as they are in vibrational resonance. As in dancing, let the stronger one lead.   Continue reading →

I stopped in at Jason’s Produce today and bought 4 lemons and 2 giant red peppers.  I got caught in the rain coming out of the store and let it sprinkle down on me for a few moments, then home to make chicken fajitas for lunch.  My newest staple is sauteed onions and peppers, sometimes mushrooms, today with grilled chicken, piled into a warmed corn tortilla with a dab of salsa and sometimes a slice of smoked provolone flavored soy cheese.  This morning, Rev. Sue’s lesson today mirrored two blog posts I’d made just before leaving for church.  No surprise.  I live in synchronicity!

If your inner voice treats you more like an enemy than a friend, STOP LISTENING, says  Judy Belmont.  My friend Cat Wendell of Ocala Ghost Walks says, “Try to listen to whose voice it is, might find it is someone from the past like a parent figure in an old program. Tell them to be quiet and take over.” Good advice!  I thought, “That’s it.  The old software gets to running when we go on auto pilot, unless we’ve trained ourself to stay conscious of what we think.  Stop laughing. It’s possible although it’s not always easy.  The path of least resistance is to continue to think an old, outdated thought that has been running so long that it’s on autopilot.  If it’s no longer true for you (ask yourself) or if it’s not hopeful and optimistic, reformat your system and upgrade to new software. You do that via discovering what you like to do and focusing on it via creative visualization. You discover what you like to do via observance around you. You contemplate those thoughts during your meditation time. Twenty eight days in a row and you’ll have evidence it is working in your life. Is it time to upgrade your thoughts in any area to new software? I can always use  an upgrade.

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The love feeling is our awareness of our connection to God. Who we choose to focus our love on will change, but it still represents the Love of the Divine. We are attracted to those who give us attention, for they stoke that fire for the Beloved within us. We are born into this Earth with pre-planned purpose, for things we want to do and those we want to work things out with. These are the ones who catch our attention.  Whoever is in your experience, for good or for bad, is part of your soul group and you all chose to incarnate at this time for that reason. A friend asked how did I feel about an ex writing love songs to his ex when we met and singing with a new gf the songs he wrote when we were together.  Understand this and you will understand much: WHO never matters in the long run. That the LOVE is flowing is the point. Keep your attention focused on what brings up that loving feeling inside you. Let all else fall away. Make peace with your past. Ease in to the flow. That’s how we follow our bliss and stay focused on our happiness. That’s how we can find joy in the moment, no matter what has come before. And when we believe it, we will see it.  Continue reading →

A reading this morning with Domino  mirrored something I’d experienced earlier this year.  She had a friendship with someone, which turned ugly when the limit of his expansion reached a place he’d never gotten to before.  Nothing could be the same after that, and he didn’t know how to handle it.  Now they’re not speaking. There’s no right or wrong, there’s no higher or lower, there is no enlightened or asleep, there are only levels of understanding. When someone gets their shakti shaken up, they will go through cycles of aftershocks that appear as personality changes, as the psyche wrestles with what its always been told and what it now knows firsthand to be true. It can take days or decades. No matter who, if it’s not pleasant to be around them, get elsewhere or you’re dragging everyone down. She wasn’t happy with what I told her but she doesn’t pay me to make her happy.  She pays me to help her connect with inner guidance and expand her perception of the world around her, and her place in that world. She also pays me for accurate predictions of what she can expect. She’s been a quarterly client for 15 years and she knows she can trust what I say to her will come to be.   As hard as it is for her to cut the cord while he figures his own self out, she has to cut the cord,  for everyone’s sake.  They can always mend it later if they want.  I told her, “Don’t be so impatient.  Don’t take score so soon. Get on with your life, set some new goals, don’t look back.  You’ll either talk again or not, either way, it’s the right happening.” We can’t make people “get it,” especially if they think they already get it.  I thought I knew everything at 40.  At 60, I know I am just beginning to get it.  People are where they are.  If you try to adjust them too quickly, you shock their system.  Then the two of you are no longer in vibrational resonance.  When the two of them come back into vibrational resonance again, if they do, that is when they will reconnect. And if they never do, they will instead connect with those with whom they ARE in vibrational harmony.  Either way, everyone wins.

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