7. Day 7: Happy Birthday To Me!
You know the coolest thing about birthdays? They are a great way to take an honesty break and really notice your life. I can acknowledge where I am and what I am doing. I can notice what I love (or don’t love) in my life. I love birthdays (of course;) for many reasons but one of the best things is that past/present/future game we get to play. For instance, for my 18th birthday my brother was in the hospital with nearly fatal appendicitis. My parents and I (mostly my parents as I was still in school) did not leave his side. My Dad took me aside and gave me his credit card and...
Read More7. Day 6: 100 Ways To Know Honesty
I am loving all that honesty has to give. Since I have noticed I am fearful of honesty in many ways I wanted to know how I can be with/ practice/ encourage honesty in myself. So I asked Holy Spirit for ways I can come to know honesty as a quality of love. After this list, I really do want to know honesty. In all things. This honesty, I can trust, allow and welcome. 100 Ways To Know Honesty As A Quality Of Love Listen Don’t interrupt Trust the moment Notice my heart beat Extend trust to being honest Practice to taking time to answer Remember I always have everything I need...
Read More7. Day 5: Honesty Is Instantly Grounding
This blog is calling my bluff. Or rather my heart is. I was truly called to begin this daily blogging practice of extending love to my epic fears and writing about my experience. I have, obviously, been practicing a great deal of honesty all along these past months by virtue of the fact if you write every day it is hard to avoid honesty. But I still fear honesty in certain situations. Honesty is a very simple way to “BE HERE NOW”. We can get very fancy and write blogs and books about Being Here Now but honesty does it for us. If we are willing. One of the ways my blog...
Read More7. Day 4: What Is My Blog About Anyway?
My daughter asked me recently what my blog was about. I faltered a bit because I thought she was reading it, therefore already knew. There I was caught in the headlights of a moment that called for honesty because I instantly was feeling less-than (no fault of my daughter who really only knows how to be honest). I was a bit annoyed that it wasn’t obvious to her. Because of my commitment to honesty I had to ask myself, firstly, why was I annoyed with her not knowing? Why did it matter to me? Did her not knowing what my blog was about reflect on me in some way? Am I not being clear...
Read More7. Day 3: Honesty Is An Alarm Clock
Of course my pension for people pleasing will not disappear overnight, nor will my desire to practice honesty on all levels appear magically. I found these quotes at the perfect time in this month of extending love to the fear of honesty. This first one seems to be a direct path to honesty with regard to people pleasing. Rather than people pleasing, heart pleasing is the way out of pain and fear. What can I do to let those around me sense their innocence, purity and beauty? Pleasing someone in order that they not be un-happy is not the same thing as seeing their true nature of...
Read More7. Day 2: People Pleasing & Honesty: Can They Live Together?
Holy Spirit, I step with some trepidation into the light with honesty. For some reason my looking for and at honesty in myself has highlighted my great skill in people pleasing, rather than honesty. Could you clarify honesty and this second cousin of pleasing others. It feels false, or at least, not the whole story. HS: Precious One, There is nothing wrong with pleasing yourself or another. It is often great joy to give that very thing another is desiring. Where pleasing disconnects is when pleasing becomes the goal and end. Allow the energy of pleasing to meet and welcome the great...
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