i went outside to commune with the hawks and on the pond was a joyous show of twelve ducks bathing, splashing, preening, making noise, lots of water, like 12 two year olds in a wading pool....chasing each other, spreading their wings to get water in all the right places......such joy. and then, there, to my left, three young bucks along the ridge. gallivanting proudly like two 17 yr old boys and then a younger brother, say ten......antlers just coming up to size.........following behind, taking cues from the leaders.......stop, listen, go......
all things honoring their natural rhythms.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Seasonal
I love fall. It is my favorite time of year, and no doubt what may be the driving force in me living my life in New England. Nature, the natural cycle of the essence of life itself lets us know when.........if we only listen, feel and allow our hearts to interpret.
This past week the bluebirds, starlings and other summer feathered friends are quiet, the crows have been louder, the hawks screeching often and we have a very loud owl who praises night fall. I know this, because my windows are now open.....allowing for my senses to be filled, touched and glorified!
I have friends who are hot weather women. I am not one of them. Living at the ocean is the only way I can love the heat...............i need air flow. I require flow. I need circulation, movement. I have to have it. In all aspects of my life. I must know I am shifting, growing, changing, allowing for flow. Stagnant is my least favorite four letter word.
The Farm lets me know when the season is changing. I don't need a date book or calendar or school year to tell me. The air tells me. The groundhogs weight tells me. The birds tell me.
My yearning for tea rather than coffee tells me. I know fall is in the air when I desire tea. I know summer is upon me when I desire coffee. My own unique rhythms.
We each have our own unique cycles. Our lives are greatly eased when we listen to them and with reverence; choose actions upon the information gathered. When I was a 'young thing' I would have called them red flags.....................now I know it is more than intuition; it is in all-ways the wisdom of the nature of all that i am speaking to me, guiding me, prodding me along this path of my individual journey.
For instance, I have a relative who does not understand why I drink tea in the fall and coffee in the summer - it SHOULD be the other way around.....coffee is too hot for summer......blah, blah, blah. (When I then am in the midst of the full change of the season, grasping for tea one moment and coffee the next...it will put them right over the edge! If they only knew the Laws of Transformation, they would not be unsettled.) Now, if we go thru our lives doing the should dance, that is exactly what it turns to; a chaotic dance.
I have this small gift. I never have to time hard boiled eggs. Ever since I was a kid, I just know when they are done. I don't watch the clock, I do not fret nor think about it; i put them on and then take them off when I think of it. Yellow, perfect, done.
Some people want something outside of themselves to tell them when they are done, or when it is done, or when it is time. You have an inner clock. You have all you need. This nature of things is what YOU are. There is this Divine Nature of Life; the Essence of God which lies within and with out all things. Trust it. Find out how it works, how to use it, apply it and reap the benefits from It; and TRUST it.
Trust your own unique cycles, trust the God within and without, Trust.........now, to go sit outside and commune with that hawk.
This past week the bluebirds, starlings and other summer feathered friends are quiet, the crows have been louder, the hawks screeching often and we have a very loud owl who praises night fall. I know this, because my windows are now open.....allowing for my senses to be filled, touched and glorified!
I have friends who are hot weather women. I am not one of them. Living at the ocean is the only way I can love the heat...............i need air flow. I require flow. I need circulation, movement. I have to have it. In all aspects of my life. I must know I am shifting, growing, changing, allowing for flow. Stagnant is my least favorite four letter word.
The Farm lets me know when the season is changing. I don't need a date book or calendar or school year to tell me. The air tells me. The groundhogs weight tells me. The birds tell me.
My yearning for tea rather than coffee tells me. I know fall is in the air when I desire tea. I know summer is upon me when I desire coffee. My own unique rhythms.
We each have our own unique cycles. Our lives are greatly eased when we listen to them and with reverence; choose actions upon the information gathered. When I was a 'young thing' I would have called them red flags.....................now I know it is more than intuition; it is in all-ways the wisdom of the nature of all that i am speaking to me, guiding me, prodding me along this path of my individual journey.
For instance, I have a relative who does not understand why I drink tea in the fall and coffee in the summer - it SHOULD be the other way around.....coffee is too hot for summer......blah, blah, blah. (When I then am in the midst of the full change of the season, grasping for tea one moment and coffee the next...it will put them right over the edge! If they only knew the Laws of Transformation, they would not be unsettled.) Now, if we go thru our lives doing the should dance, that is exactly what it turns to; a chaotic dance.
I have this small gift. I never have to time hard boiled eggs. Ever since I was a kid, I just know when they are done. I don't watch the clock, I do not fret nor think about it; i put them on and then take them off when I think of it. Yellow, perfect, done.
Some people want something outside of themselves to tell them when they are done, or when it is done, or when it is time. You have an inner clock. You have all you need. This nature of things is what YOU are. There is this Divine Nature of Life; the Essence of God which lies within and with out all things. Trust it. Find out how it works, how to use it, apply it and reap the benefits from It; and TRUST it.
Trust your own unique cycles, trust the God within and without, Trust.........now, to go sit outside and commune with that hawk.
Monday, August 8, 2011
In Our Own Way!
Dear God,
"Please help me stay out of your way. I see how we just get in your way ALL the time. I ask you, help me stay out of your way today - all day, one moment at a time. When I get in your way, I am in my OWN way. It is really wierd that way. I want you so much, I want to see you, feel you, know you - and I HAVE to get out of my way, your way, our way......in order to allow you access!
Please, keep me out of my own way."
Thank you and Amen!
Things we do that keep us in our own way! Or The things we do that prevent us from being aware of our Oneness with God.
1. Worry.
2. Complain.
3. Control situations, or think we are controlling anything!
4. Butt in before we are invited.
5. Judge, ridicule
6. ......and find fault with others.
7. Gossip
8. Be afraid.
9. Be unkind.
10. Say No too often.
11. Look outside ourselves rather than inside ourselves.
12. Say I should, I have to and feel obligated.
13. Come from our heads, not our hearts.
14. Think too much, for too long about anything.
15. Refuse to feel......ignoring our heart centers........the very place that God speaks.
All things are possible with God, but first, you have to get out of your own way.
Love & Blessings, Deborah
Monday, August 1, 2011
Intimate Prayer
Deep in prayer this early morning i feel small. The birds sing loudly and tears roll down my cheeks as i offer myself to God for love - to be love on this day, to never forget myself, to stand in love, to offer love, to know and never forget nothing more than i am a woman in the midst of humanity, praying that any difference i might make, any moment my small self may vibrate - that this may be for good. On my knees, by my bedside, like a child, i continually offer myself to Grace that i be used for good, that in any small way i may support a vision of grace to descend upon the hearts of those few whose lives entwine with mine.
i gaze upon others, in awe and with shame & some coveting - who support grace in the world in linear big ways; famous, commercially successful and other; and then i gaze upon my own calling and the callings of so many souls i know, to support in love others - one heart at a time. And i once again continually offer myself up and in, surrendering in the knowing that the will of God is good, purposeful and knows - that my small, tiny, mostly uknown self may be offering good unto the world.
Thank you God for yet another day to entwine my heart with others and seek, find and bathe in your love. May my small self do some good today, may i may not waste my time here.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Ritual ~ Oneness
This morning I created a ritual honoring the Solstice. Creating ritual, whether with others or yourself alone is a tool for bringing your full mind, body and heart together as One. The way of God moments. My sharing.
~In our lower garden, which is a portal, I placed my very large Rose quartz which has traveled along side me for several years.
Creating a circle around this beautiful stone, I welcomed it back to the earth, to remember its beginnings, to be fed by the longest day of the year, to be released of the old and to be allowing of the new.
Standing the West I thanked the winds- those dancing spaces of air which nudge us, redirect us, push us and carry us. I thanked the Sun, Its strength, fire and heights of Light it shares.
Standing in the North I thanked the Wisdom. I thanked ancestors of mine, this land, the families whom have lived here before me.
Standing in the East I thanked the peace. I thanked my teachers - from parents to children, to husband, to teachers, to clients and students.
Standing in the South I thanked the land, the flowers, the blossoms, every critter, those I see and cannot see. I called upon my power animals - the deer, the great blue heron, the white egret, the hawk and expressed my gratitude for being with me, teaching me and guiding me at all times.
Walking around the circle once more, creating markers in the wet grass, I stood in the heat of the sun, climbing to its highest point of the year and shared my deepest devotions to all who have come before me and celebrated this day in Light, Love & Truth.
Feeling the presence of God moving as me. I stood blessed.
Now, I am off to officiate at a graveside ritual-remembering a life well lived of a grand matriarch, four days shy of her 96th year she left her body on 1-11-11. Ritual. Connections. Oneness.
with my love and gratitude,
Deborah
Friday, May 20, 2011
What Would You Do....?
With all the rain in the Northeast these past few weeks, day dreaming has been a constant past time. I could be self righteous, say I have been using the spiritual gift of imagination, have been visioning, have been manifesting....... and I have, but in all my humanness; I have been day dreaming. I have been experiencing a constant interior philosophical conversation - all going on in my mind and heart non-stop......what would I do?
I do not know any one who does not want to have more money, to win the lottery, to strike it huge in the financial freedom monetary line of manifestations. I am included. But recently it has been different. After you buy your dream home and new cars - then what? After you help out family and friends - then what? I have been quite enticed by the gifts that people like Oprah and Ellen have instituted with their wealth, connections and imagination in order to create platforms for others. Ellen just started her own record label; 11:11. And many of us are aware of the accomplishments of Oprah. My heart has gone to what would I do? What would I create in order for others to benefit?
Seriously. Many of us say we would give money here and there. We would feed, we would clothe, we would tithe, we would give much of it away - but isn't it greater and just as important a gift to create something others can benefit from in order to grow, explore, substantiate, use as a foundation or as I like to see it; a platform from which to jump off from? ..something which lives on beyond our homes, stuff and our life itself? Ellen's record label benefits all. She loves music, talent has a place to express and grow, others reap the joy of the music..... people get to live their dreams, new jobs are created........ I like the idea of buying homes for friends; but what platform could I create? It's a big serious question.
I immediately contemplate our education system in our society, and how to help many to benefit - how to create a platform from which teachers could feel supported. (There is also a certain puppeteer I would like to support and get her in every school across the universe!) I think of holistic health care; how to educate, make available to others on a grand scale opportunities to choose holistic options when their bodies, minds and spirits are in crisis. I think of various boards I have sat on and how if they had the funds, their voices could be more effectual. I vision creations of redefining boards and choosing where to place monies for the arts, for creating, for choices of freedoms. What type of platform in order to benefit the masses? How to teach others to fish, rather than simply giving them the net full of fish?
When we seriously contemplate this, as well as the joy of simply gifting, it begins to create awareness's of bigness. We tend to think small. It takes Oprah's and Ellen's to guide us and example for us the gift of grand.
And of course, it is always about God. This is in all ways about the gifts of teaching and making available opportunities for others to indulge in the non physical aspects of life - to learn individually that there is a non physical greatness awaiting their awareness and when one sees it, feels it and allows the cords of light to infiltrate their minds and then to let their imaginations run wild with the gift of affecting others, creating for the benefit of humankind; well it has the potential to change everything.
What would you do....?
I do not know any one who does not want to have more money, to win the lottery, to strike it huge in the financial freedom monetary line of manifestations. I am included. But recently it has been different. After you buy your dream home and new cars - then what? After you help out family and friends - then what? I have been quite enticed by the gifts that people like Oprah and Ellen have instituted with their wealth, connections and imagination in order to create platforms for others. Ellen just started her own record label; 11:11. And many of us are aware of the accomplishments of Oprah. My heart has gone to what would I do? What would I create in order for others to benefit?
Seriously. Many of us say we would give money here and there. We would feed, we would clothe, we would tithe, we would give much of it away - but isn't it greater and just as important a gift to create something others can benefit from in order to grow, explore, substantiate, use as a foundation or as I like to see it; a platform from which to jump off from? ..something which lives on beyond our homes, stuff and our life itself? Ellen's record label benefits all. She loves music, talent has a place to express and grow, others reap the joy of the music..... people get to live their dreams, new jobs are created........ I like the idea of buying homes for friends; but what platform could I create? It's a big serious question.
I immediately contemplate our education system in our society, and how to help many to benefit - how to create a platform from which teachers could feel supported. (There is also a certain puppeteer I would like to support and get her in every school across the universe!) I think of holistic health care; how to educate, make available to others on a grand scale opportunities to choose holistic options when their bodies, minds and spirits are in crisis. I think of various boards I have sat on and how if they had the funds, their voices could be more effectual. I vision creations of redefining boards and choosing where to place monies for the arts, for creating, for choices of freedoms. What type of platform in order to benefit the masses? How to teach others to fish, rather than simply giving them the net full of fish?
When we seriously contemplate this, as well as the joy of simply gifting, it begins to create awareness's of bigness. We tend to think small. It takes Oprah's and Ellen's to guide us and example for us the gift of grand.
And of course, it is always about God. This is in all ways about the gifts of teaching and making available opportunities for others to indulge in the non physical aspects of life - to learn individually that there is a non physical greatness awaiting their awareness and when one sees it, feels it and allows the cords of light to infiltrate their minds and then to let their imaginations run wild with the gift of affecting others, creating for the benefit of humankind; well it has the potential to change everything.
What would you do....?
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Do We Rejoice?
Of recent world events I am feeling ashamed and sad for many who I know and do not know. The publicity, joy and time the media, in news and entertainment as well as those I see on FB are giving to the joy of the death of another human is at moments more than I can bare. Allowing it to enter my energy field allows for deep contemplation of loving, Oneness and right mindedness.
Although I do not like it, I do believe there can be such lack of knowing God that what we are looking at is ‘evil’. (LIVE back words.) There is no doubt that historically, we have witnessed such deep and dark souls in human form that they violate the gift of life with a vengeance unknown to most that our fear and lack of comprehension of such choices leave us nothing else but to permanently renounce and ‘kill; to take the life breathe from them, in order for a life of living to exist.
As much of a woman of God as I am, as much as I live my life aligned with do no harm – I do see that in this world there will always be polarity. There will always be the dark and light, the extremes of lack and fullness. It is how it is here on this earth plane. In as much as I work with less formidable lack in my ministry and healing practice, there has been occasion to bring out a more aggressive mind set in order to denounce inappropriate behaviors, beliefs and/or energies. I do not like it, but I do understand.
With the above stated, there does exist such darkness and lack of Love that one cannot meet that energy in Love. We must meet that energy where that energy resides.
And after we meet it there, after persons who have taken on the role of killer and killed, after the souls who chose to be in the authoritative space of having to watch another human have the life breathe taken from them, after we know that hundreds have died at the hand of another being, after we believe all that we are told, after we send in highly trained beings to vanquish, (on one level) evil from our lives – should we rejoice?
Although I do not like it, I do believe there can be such lack of knowing God that what we are looking at is ‘evil’. (LIVE back words.) There is no doubt that historically, we have witnessed such deep and dark souls in human form that they violate the gift of life with a vengeance unknown to most that our fear and lack of comprehension of such choices leave us nothing else but to permanently renounce and ‘kill; to take the life breathe from them, in order for a life of living to exist.
As much of a woman of God as I am, as much as I live my life aligned with do no harm – I do see that in this world there will always be polarity. There will always be the dark and light, the extremes of lack and fullness. It is how it is here on this earth plane. In as much as I work with less formidable lack in my ministry and healing practice, there has been occasion to bring out a more aggressive mind set in order to denounce inappropriate behaviors, beliefs and/or energies. I do not like it, but I do understand.
With the above stated, there does exist such darkness and lack of Love that one cannot meet that energy in Love. We must meet that energy where that energy resides.
And after we meet it there, after persons who have taken on the role of killer and killed, after the souls who chose to be in the authoritative space of having to watch another human have the life breathe taken from them, after we know that hundreds have died at the hand of another being, after we believe all that we are told, after we send in highly trained beings to vanquish, (on one level) evil from our lives – should we rejoice?
“Mother, Father, God – the Infinite Universal Presence, the Creator and ALL which is Created – we ask You to dwell among us and through us that those who are unaware of You as their Source are healed and within them the cellular memory of You is made manifest for them to breathe as their pure life force. Our Sacred Oneness is that which You are and as we embody through our minds and allow You to reach deep into our hearts -- we DO renounce all that is lack of God. Our prayers go to each of us – to Your global community, that we may not rejoice in the loss of a life – but that we may continue to stay on a path of righteousness, of seeking You, of love and loving. That we may continue to seek out the loving goodness in all beings and for those who are protecting us - in the physical and non-physical - from that which has not yet been made aware of You –– we pray their safety.”
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