12. Day 16: This Glorious Process
I am nearing the end of my Twelvemonth. I began posting April 1, 2014; April Fool’s Day just seemed the perfect place to begin. I know I have many projects, writing and otherwise that will come forth in the coming months. I know I will continue posting but as yet do not have an idea of exactly how much or what it will look like. It is like looking at a very soft focus photograph, I can see the shapes and colors but not the details. I asked Holy Spirit what I needed to know at this time as I move toward completion of this particular phase of the Twelvemonth of Self Love project....
Read More12. Day 15: This Quiet Knows Me
I had a dear friend say to me the other day, “I am relentlessly happy. All the time now.” It was such a significant departure from the majority of her years dwelling (not living) in the pseudo safety of feeling nothing. It has been a long and revealing process, this unmasking of her true nature of happiness. For so long she didn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t feel happiness. Couldn’t recognize or trust it. That is until she did; trust and recognize and claim the deep well of happiness that was always with her but that she had forgotten. Her laughter bubbles...
Read More12. Day 14: Easy As Pi
I couldn’t not comment on today’s date of 3-14-15, the biggest Pi Day (in USA) of them all. And how perfect to remind myself (and you) that Love is just as easy. Delicious or mathematical as is needed. Or let’s just say that yesterday’s pickle is today’s relish. My blocked sensibilities melted away in light of the warmth and welcome of Holy Spirit’s Voice. I realized two very important things about my writing and my poetry. One, is that I can write ekphrastic poetry given time and permission from within. The second, more important thing I learned...
Read More12. Day 13: An Ekphrastic Pickle
I am in a pickle. Or rather I feel like a pickle (tart, juicy, but with pursed lips). This is the month I have chosen to extend love (and light and noticing) to my Feeling(s). For the past few years I have been experiencing (and writing about) God/God’s Love/the Universe in everything. I am inspired by the smallest camellia petal piled on the ground like so much fuchsia snow to the unexpected delight in our new shiny black garbage bin just delivered by the County. Why then, am I having no feelings for the art which is the subject of my poetry class at the Crocker? What is blocking...
Read More12. Day 12: The Wanting
My friend Beth Misner spoke at a Women of Faith Breakfast I held several years ago and said about her often frenetically paced life, “I decided that I am not busy but that I have a full life with a meaningful schedule”. That thought really stuck with me and on a deeper level has been working from within me to produce the miraculous change of a similar feeling. I am not at the mercy of my schedule or even my desires. I have learned (through continuing daily practice) that my life and schedule are not something happening to me but are a direct response to my connection to my...
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