Category: faith

April Energy – Grace

“You can have the other words – chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.” ~ Mary Oliver

While I was trying to think about the energy of April the word grace popped into my head and honestly I questioned it.  Grace?  I don’t want grace.  What can I do with grace?  I don’t even really know what it means?  What am I supposed to write about grace?

As I started to accept grace (because it wouldn’t go away) and I allowed it to just be, just holding the word in my heart and in my mind, gave me a feeling of calm, of rest, of stepping aside and allowing a force greater than me to take care of me and somehow I knew that in grace all is well.Orchid purple.jpegI don’t fully know what it means, but maybe grace is asking, let go of all the worries and stress and rest in grace, in the calm and in the knowing that you’re being taken care of. That every thing is unfolding in divine timing.  That being stressed does not solve anything.  That holding on to things doesn’t allow growth and movement – that opening up and allowing grace, amazing things will show up. So even though I don’t fully know what grace means right now, nor why it popped into my head and took such a strong hold of me, I do know that as I let go, allow and accept, as I believe more and trust more – grace – will unfold and reveal herself.  Grace.pngI know that there is a power greater than us and trusting that it is always holding, loving and guiding us is maybe a way of being aligned with grace.Blue flower.jpegAs the month of April unfolds so will grace she will unfold and show the power of her miracles, magic and gifts.Orchid purple2.jpegOrchid blue.jpegSo I’ve come to realize so far, that the energy of Grace is here to remind us that we are never alone, that the gifts of the universe are always in front of us, always gracing us, always unfolding for us.  Revealing the indescribable deliciousness of knowing a deeper truth, all we need to do is accept them, believe, trust, and know that we are loved beyond measure and – allow…  Grace!

What are your thoughts about grace?  Come, leave your comment, I’d love to chat.

Blessings

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Your Inner Miracle Maker

Are you saying yes to your life?

Are you stepping into your power?

Are you living your true possibilities?

Your true natural?

Are you living your life as the miracle that it is?

Have you found your Miracle Maker within?

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We each have a Miracle Maker – that inner part of us that is guiding us, and loving us, and offering the fruits of the universe to us

Do you know your Miracle Maker?

Do you have a relationship with Her?

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Your Miracle Maker has always been with you since before you were born

You may dismiss her warnings and think it’s all hogwash

You may wonder why she’s not listening to you and fulfilling your every request, so you may doubt her existence

But, whatever –

Your Miracle Maker is with you

Shining the light inside you

Offering you the gifts that seem way too out there

Seem like impossible to attain

Impossible to believe

Open You up

Listen to your Miracle Maker

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Today I’m sharing with you these words that came to me and out of me in one moment in an ordinary day. You never know when creativity will strike, when your Miracle Maker will summon you and you must obey, you must be still and you must be the instrument through which she can come through. Elizabeth Gilbert writes about this in her book Big Magic. If you let your creative genius go, if you let the moment pass, you will never get it back again.  I know this so well, if you shut down and don’t accept, if you don’t make yourself ready and available, if you are not ready right there in the moment she will leave.

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I’m not sure who or what my Miracle Maker is.  She’s my intuition, my creativity, my higher self, all of these, I don’t know.  But I know she is inside of me, a part of me.  She nudges me, and calls me, and her gifts are many and brilliant and sometimes I’m afraid to show them.  But not today.

Do you know your Miracle Maker?  Leave your thoughts in the comments below, I’d love to chat.

Blessings

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Inspiration Nugget 2

“If the only prayer you ever say

in your entire life is thank you,

it will be enough.”

~ Meister Eckhart

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thank you!

Blessings

Feel free to leave your thoughts, I love to hear from you.  Thank you.

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Inspiration Nugget

Your thoughts create your experiences

which create your feelings

which create your actions

which rule your life!

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Blessings

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All About Listening + Spring

“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” ~ Neltje Blanchan

I wanted to write about trusting your inner knowing.  I tried all week to write it but I just couldn’t find the right words.  I even tried to decide on the pictures to accompany the words, and that was a struggle too.  I couldn’t get the right picture, the right color, it wasn’t coming naturally and smoothly.  In the end I just couldn’t get it and before I knew it, here I am Sunday afternoon and I’m still trying to force write what isn’t coming.

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Isn’t it ironic that while I was trying to write about trusting my inner wisdom, I was actually doing the very opposite.  So instead I let go of forcing and I decided to actually – trust and listen – (LOL) to my inner knowing, and go with what was my original instinct that I had for this week and post some of the gorgeous photos I took while out and about.

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Ahhhhhhhh the colors, the smell, the new freshness of Spring!  What beauty it holds.     What precious gifts!…

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Is this the most luscious pink, or what?

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Trusting in my inner wisdom is not always easy.  Sometimes I’m blinded by that other part of me that lives in the rational realm that always wants to let me know that it knows better and says no, that’s not good enough, or clever enough, and I fall pray to it’s clutches.    I’m working hard at listening to that part of me that knows all, and always has my best interest at heart that is for my highest good and that of all.

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So, welcome Spring –

I hope you found as much joy, loveliness and some peaceful moments while reading, and allowed these photos with their brilliant colors to touch your senses, as I did while writing this post.

“The earth laughs in flowers.” ~ Emmerson

As always, you’re invited to share your thoughts, comments, pictures.  Let’s chat.

Wishing you Spring Blessings.

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Into Magnificence

I am a wonderer in an inner landscape where the magic is constantly revealing itself to me. It’s always more and it never ends. I always seem to get to a place where I stay awhile and than I feel the urge bubbling up inside me, it’s that familiar nudging nagging at me and I begin to yearn again for the deeper more that lies within.  And every time again, I’m like the fool in the Tarot fresh with anticipation.

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Sometimes even though I know it’s time to go deeper, that I’ve outgrown this place, I stay longer. I get stuck and I can’t see where to go.  I can’t find my way out and so I remain there and just move in circles until I finally break through and I find myself at the door on the edge again of a new journey, a new beginning, a new higher level inside this magical land.

Journeys within journeys – every one brings me deeper inside myself and is more glorious, more awesome, more magnificent. With every new journey I reach a higher level of consciousness and I’ve let go of yet another layer of fear, resistance and limitations that I imposed on myself. There are no beginnings and no endings only circles within circles and deeper levels of consciousness that wake me to a higher knowing.

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Today I experienced a shift, I crossed over the threshold into a new journey.

Sometimes you don’t really know that the very thing you’re searching for is not manifesting because you’ve put up a wall of resistance and fear.  You can’t see it, it’s invisible to your eyes and to your senses until that moment that suddenly you find yourself crossed over the threshold and  – WOW!  And you realize there was a wall of resistance and fear that is gone now.  You removed it and you’re inside a new landscape, you’re the Fool filled with anticipation, wonder, and a longing for this new adventure.  You’re ready, willing and eager to uncover the miracles within the mystery.  The magnificence that lies ahead of you.

What about you, have you removed walls of resistance and fear?  Are you entering new levels of magnificence?  Share your thoughts in the comments below, love to chat.

Blessings on your journey

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