4. Day 6: Breath Takes A Holiday
My family recently travelled to Ashland, OR and to Crater Lake National Park. This was a brief but chock-a-block full two days which included: lunch in Shasta City, photo op & tee shirt purchases in Weed, CA (how could you not stop and get a picture of that sign?), Klamath River, Oregon boarder celebration (my step mother’s 50th State on her bucket list of all fifty states! Woo hoo!!!), tea & cookies at hotel, dinner at Larks, a brilliant all female production of Two Gentlemen of Verona (at Ashland’s famous Shakespeare Festival), running into an old friend of my...
Read More4. Day 5: Full Disclosure
I keep being shown over and over again just how much I HANG ON to everything; thoughts, habits, clothes, email, paperwork etc. Letting go sounds easy, like how hard would it be to let go of one thing each day? I am telling you this now. It makes me feel vulnerable, unprepared, lackadaisical, and like I am cheating somehow. It also feels really good. Yikes! How can these two groups of feeling integrate? I guess this is what my month of extending love to letting go is all about. I want to explain briefly how I do this blog. I have several friends who read and are a tad confused. For...
Read More4. Day 4: Not Even Fourth Nature
I have to admit that letting go is not second (or third or fourth) nature to me. I feel like there is a tense energy that wants to ball up like a fist in me; it wants to strike out and see things it wants to be different and fix/change them. I feel this fist in my head and gut. So it is a good thing I am practicing extending love to my fear of letting go. I need to let go I just don’t know how. I extend awareness to this thought. Somehow just (!) being aware of this tight fist of hanging on to wanting things to be different allows me to be with it a few moments. In those few...
Read More4. Day 3: Letting Go Is A Gift
When I am in a hurry, or tired or just plain curious. I will ask Holy Spirit a question and then just flip open a sacred text or favorite spiritual tome to see if a perspective or deepening opens up in me. (To be honest this works even when I use the comics because the power is in the asking and the noticing.) I asked Holy Spirit to share what the letting go energy was and how I can use/see it and this passage in NTI leapt out at me: “Look upon your gift and rejoice. It is an expression given by you. Its’ purpose is your own joy. Accept it is joy and it is joy that you shall...
Read More4. Day 2: Room Assignments, Longmire & Shoes
I can’t seem to feel the letting-go energy without adding a final “d”–to feel letting God. I know I have been afraid to let go but right now as I feel into the the letting-go(d) I am relieved, delighted and exhilarated. Up until recently I know that I had to hang on tight: to what I know to be true, for safety and for certainty (a bird in hand). I just walked out in full forward motion to the back porch with tea and journal in hand and my tow caught the edge of the footrest and I nearly want a** over teacup. The blockage stopped and redirected this powerful...
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