3. Day 24: No Room At The Gym
I am beginning to realize that guilt feels bad because it is a contraction rather than an expansion. It is the contraction or constricting that feels bad, not the fact that guilt is the truth about me (which it isn’t). I had a wonderful guilt opportunity the other day when having tea with a friend. We were at Bella Bru, me sipping green tea, my friend sipping Diet Coke when our conversation got around to “We really should take a yoga class together!” We both have memberships at 24 Hr Fitness which is next door so we decided to go over and see when the yoga classes that...
Read More3. Day 4: Innocence Awareness Training
I have been guided to undergo “Innocence Awareness Training” as a way of extending love to guilt and experiencing the daily truth of my innocence. Me: How can I experience my innocence daily? HS: Dearest One, Let us begin innocence awareness training this very day. Innocence does not flee from charges of guilt; there is no truth in them. Innocence does does not flee. Innocence remains fully present. Innocence is it’s own protection, power and truth. Me: But what if I choose to do something here that gets me into trouble? HS: Dear One, if you choose to get into...
Read More3. Day 3: Guilt Leads Me To Innocence
This blog and project of extending love to fear is coming with all kinds of bonuses. My favorite is that quotes, experiences, and “random” thoughts keep running right into my open arms. Hey, may it is because my arms are open? Today, let’s begin with a yummy quote written over 25 years ago that is saying the same thing about extending qualities of love that I found in the classic “I Come As a Brother” by Bartholomew: “To any extent WHATSOEVER that you practice any of the empowering truths such as love, humor, vision, acceptance, courage,...
Read More3. Day 2: Guilt, Another Way to Experience Innocence
Can I be totally honest with you? I think the Holy Spirit has chosen the wrong fear this time. Guilt is like the Mother of all fears and all I feel in this moment is that 30 days is just not going to put a dent in this fear. Maybe this IS the problem. I think I can “deal with guilt”; move it, change it, get rid of it. Good grief. I am right back where I started thinking I need to change guilt to suit my purposes. Or maybe I can. Change guilt to suit my purposes. Isn’t that what a different perspective is? What is guilt really? For me it is feeling that I have...
Read More3. Day 1: Vulcan Mind-Meld
Today we begin a new month of extending love to an epic fear. Holy Spirit did it again with a 4:17am wake up call. (I must be my most open at 4am.) I almost don’t want to say out loud what the next fear is. As far as I can remember it has affected me my whole life. It has both propelled me and stopped me from speaking my own heart and mind for the sake of others (apparently and obviously more important others) and left me frying in my own juices, like a steak on the grill. For me this fear has the physical effect of self-electrocution. I never really looked at this as a fear,...
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