faith – Page 11 – In My Everyday Life

Remembering my Mother

“If there ever comes a day where we can’t be

together, keep me in your heart,

I’ll stay there forever.”

Winnie the Pooh

My beautiful darling mother passed eleven years ago today.

She was a holocaust survivor; she was the only survivor out of her entire family. She knew about love and pain and suffering and horrors. She survived the gas chambers of Auschwitz, and she somehow escaped her sentence to be killed 3 times.

She was the strongest woman and the most courageous woman I will ever know.

She knew about forgiveness and even after all that she suffered, all that she stood witness to and all that she saw, all that she lost in her life – even after her heart was torn out of her, she somehow still believed, still had faith, still went on and built a life.

She loved to laugh, she loved jokes, she was humble, she always made the best of what she had, and she loved her children unconditionally. She gave my brother and me all that she had within her to give.

She had the strength to go on after my father passed and still take care of two small children, while being all alone in this world. She had no one to rely on, no one to ask a question, no one to trust. And somehow she trusted and somehow she still worked hard and we had a home, thanks to her.

When she was in her senior years and I would ask her how will I survive without her? She always said that her spirit will always be with me.

Well my darling mother, I feel your spirit with me everyday.

I honor you, I am grateful to you, and I love you with all my heart.

Blessings

December 13, 2015December 13, 2015

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Burst of Inspiration

I nourish myself with love today

Look for love in your day

Give yourself loving thoughts and loving words

Draw a heart and place it on your fridge

Find one thing to love about yourself today

Write the word LOVE on a sticky note and place it on your bathroom mirror, on the door so you can see it on your way out, the dashboard in your car, on your computer, on your fridge, place it on your night stand next to your bed

Make one healthy food choice today

Give yourself a hug

Buy yourself a small present

Take a moment and have a hot cup of tea and just sit and reflect on your wonderful self

Remember you are divine

Dance in your living room for no reason

Laugh

Sing

Wash your body with love

Buy yourself flowers for no reason

Smile at a stranger

When you love yourself you are automatically giving out loving energy into the universe

How are you loving yourself today? Love to hear from you.

Blessings

November 14, 2015November 14, 2015

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Burst of Inspiration

Savoring a Moment

I’m taking a class with Vivienne McMaster, Be Your Own Beloved. It’s about “seeing ourselves with kindness through our cameras.”

This is only the first week into this class and I feel already like I’ve opened myself up to a whole new place within myself of creativity and exploration of parts of me that I haven’t touched.

Today’s assignment is about savoring a moment and exploring the feelings that we experience in that moment.

For me that moment is when I’m in my sacred alone. When I am in the quiet of the morning hours and I feel myself, I feel my body, I feel my higher self, I feel the energy that is in me and around me. I love these times the most, they don’t happen so clearly every day, but when they do, ahhh they are the most precious to me.

What moments do you savor? What moments make you feel most at peace and connected?

Blessings

November 8, 2015November 8, 2015

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What’s Next in 2016

October is when I start to explore my sacred journey. It’s when I start thinking of what has come together for me this year? What do I want to let go of, what do I want more of. What am I doing to make changes, to open and allow in the new.

At the beginning of this year I decided that I want more community, spiritual partnerships, mystical experiences, peace, harmony…

I wanted what Mary Oliver wrote –

Pay attention

Be astonished

Tell about it

I think I did some of this.

I have moved myself out of fear and into the unknown with trust and faith in the Universe. And glorious miracles have happened.

I have paid more attention to compassion, surrender, love; I have opened to the mystery in a greater, richer way than ever before. I have welcomed new astonishments into my life; I have embraced my oracle cards in a new way, and am now feeling a pull to the Tarot.

I have stepped into my power and am lighting the way.

I have been letting the outrageous out.

With all of this my word for this year was ‘courage’ and courage has certainly been my companion. And so has our heavenly Mother Mary supporting me on my journey.

So now is the time to think about what I want to bring into my life in this next year?

Up to now I thought that ‘courage’ was still such a strong energy that it will continue to be one of my words for next year, but today I got the feeling that It may not be so. Maybe courage is kind of done with me. A couple of weeks ago when I asked the Universe for a word that will carry me for next year, immediately before I could even finish that thought the word ‘health’ popped into my mind. And it’s still with me as a strong energy. So ‘health’ is my word. And I’ll see how honoring health in mind, body and spirit will unfold and reveal itself to me in 2016.

Silence – that is being in silence with myself is something that I crave more of, so this will most definitely carry over to next year. I am now on day 10 of a promise I made to myself of not turning on my computer before I spend time in silence every morning. I spend time journal writing every day and I just sit quietly with myself immersed in my own thoughts. There is always plenty of time to be involved with the outside.

Showing up for me – for what I want, for what honors me, for what nourishes me, is a goal I have set for myself for this next year. Being in my power means all of this.

Some of the words that I will carry with me

Believe

Trust

Surrender

Wonder

Listen

Nourish

Ask

Give

Love

Yes

Miracles

Pray

Gratitude

Of course I’m not complete yet and have more to think of and prepare for my luscious next year, but this is a beginning.

I am open and I allow the Universe to unfold its treasures through me.

And so it is.

How are you honoring yourself? What have you accomplished this year? What do you want for yourself for next year, for 2016?

Blessings

October 30, 2015November 1, 2015

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Miracles in the Everyday

I’m so blown away by the magic of this universe. I finally created a FB page that is dedicated and connected to my blog and I wanted to write something special for my first posting, but couldn’t think of anything. So I let go of trying to do it, and let the universe guide me and I couldn’t have picked anything better.

Today I knew I had to have Mother Mary open this journey and as I was shuffling the deck the most perfect oracle card jumped out. This card never came to me before.

“Our Lady of Manifest Miracles”

“We may think of miracles as special, out-of-the-ordinary occurrences, yet Mother Mary teaches us that the miraculous is meant to happen every day…”

Can you get any more perfect than this???

Yes, miracles happen in the everyday ordinary days. Not just in the extraordinary. Not just to those special few deserving ones. No, my beautiful friends, we can each find the miracles in our everyday, if we have the courage to look for them.

It takes courage to find miracles when we’re afraid to open up, to be vulnerable, to forgive, to give a smile, to let yourself love, to let go of stuff that no longer serves your highest good – But here is where the miracles are.

It takes courage to step into your power. To say I’m special, I’m important. I deserve. I am worthy. I’m following my dreams no matter what. I love me – But here is where the miracles are.

It takes courage to find the miracles in the ordinary everyday, when life gets tough, when your health is failing. When on those days when it seems like nothing is going your way. When you feel alone. When it seems that all that life is doing is throwing you curve balls – But here is where the miracles are.

And you can find the miracles in the courage it takes to write from your heart and still publish after those doubts and accusations and the not good enoughs kick in.

Yes, it is in the everyday occurrences that miracles manifest, can you see them? Share your miracles, love to hear them.

Thank you Divine Loving Mother.

Many Blessings

The oracle card is from the Mother Mary Oracle by Alana Fairchild and artwork Shiloh Sophia McCloud

October 24, 2015November 1, 2015

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Nuggets of Wisdom

Often we busy ourselves with things that have to , need to, must get done – putting ourselves on the back burner. We think later I’ll make the time, but that later never comes.

Here is your Nugget of Wisdom for this weekend –

Take a few moments this weekend and embrace your inner goddess.