Dancing With God

“What does it take for your soul to dance with God? An eager spirit, a flexible heart and a willingness to let God take the lead in the dance!”
~Greg Barrette

Affirmation: I am poised and balanced in the healing light of God.

Meditation: Dear God,
There is a quiet place within me where I can find a sense of perfect equilibrium.There, in the silence, Your presence can flow through my life with perfect peace and poise. This divine center is my healing light, my harmonizing inner radiance, my balance point. There, I dance with You.

Thank You, dear God, for the dance I am experiencing within! Amen

Simple Things

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

~Leo Buscaglia

Awakening

Great Spirit

I am vibrantly alive, alert and awake to my true Essence, and I allow the Divine Mind that lives within me to guide my way.
May the Love which overcomes all differences, which heals all wounds,which puts to flight all our fears,which reconciles all who are separated.

Be in us and among us, now and always.

Amen

Ancient Sculpture

Nothing to say, just to enjoy

Perspective

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought." ~Albert Szent-Gyorgi

I see the world from a new perspective.

Dear God,

Teach us to see life through inner vision. Silently, we open our hearts to Your presence.
Peace, like a quiet fog, covers our world.

Thank You for the freshness of this moment. Amen

Direction

I met this guy (C.H. - 8/22/80) and we hit it off right away. I feel a strong connection to him but i am also wondering. I had a dream lat night that we went on our second date and he went to teh bathroom and never came back?!

Usually dreams try to tell you something and sometimes they can just be because you are thinking too much. I don't want to waste my time and loose out on someone else.

Love,

It's almost time!!!

I arrived in New York City a little over two years ago, to get my Masters' Degree and teach inner-city students as part of the NYC Teaching Fellows. My teaching commitment is now over, my degree is in hand, and I'm getting ready to move back to the West Coast.

I'm excited, but more nervous about this move than about any other that I've made -- and I've made a LOT of moves in my 50+ years.

So even though we (the kitties and I) won't be leaving until the 31st, I'd appreciate everyone's good thoughts and prayers for a safe journey (3,000 miles on our own) -- as well as, perhaps, some encouraging psychic nudges to FINISH PACKING !!! (LOL)

dream

hi Rose,
I had odd dream on Friday night,the dream started I was sitting on coffee shop,a girl about the age of 8 walks up to me. She was local girl tan complexion,long black hair,brown eyes, and she said " you will have 2 daughters not one you think you will. " I looked at her and said are you talking about?" she repeated "you will have 2 daughters."I said "ok" Later I was at museum,she was there. i was looking at jade pieces,she told me that I had past life in china. She and her twin were opera singers. She said I was wife of government official. She describe he house in which my family and I lived. As she described it I saw it in my head. She described the furniture, and wall designs,it was amazing. it had indoor plumbingshe said my husband was smart man who was absent minded. It was Chinese man when I looked at him(rs's face was place) I knew we had past live togetherShe started to cry saying she missed her twin. We saw this duplicate necklaces in the museum,she said that was her and her sister's. Whenever she sees that necklace ,she misses her twin.She told me,that is why I like Chinese stuff. I woke up before I asked her,who she was.
who was she?

Practicing the Presence of God

"Although I am planning and doing things in the world, it is only to please (God).
I test myself: even when I am working I whisper wiothin, "Where are You, Lord?" and the whole world changes. There is nothing but a great Light, and I am a little bubble in that Ocean of Light. Such is the joy of existence in God."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Reverence

"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive."

~Albert Schweitzer


Affirmation: I revere the Love that makes us one.

Candle Lighting Protest

Aloha Boardies

Those of you who have joined me on my site for the last eight years know that I have kept the flow non-political. This however, is something I needed to share with you.

http://www.candle4tibet.org/en/

love,
Rose

Integrity

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affirmation:My faith and beliefs are the heart of my actions.

Meditation:

Dear God,

It is easy to talk about love and justice, mercy and peace. Help me live the truths I speak of. May my actions always reflect Your presence within me. And so it is. Amen

Love...

I spend too much time on the internet! But this sight is so much fun. It takes your web address and creates a word cloud. Rose, this is this blog in a word cloud. You can even print them out for inspiration!

Really neat...(click picture to make big!)

Love-
Kathi

Inner Peace

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level." ~Eckhart Tolle

Confident

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." ~Marie Curie

I am confident that life is rigged in my favor.

“But what in this world is perfect?”

Found this poem by Mary Oliver and wanted to share...

"Every year
the lilies
are so perfect
I can hardly believe

their lapped light crowding
the black,
mid-summer ponds.
Nobody could count all of them --

the muskrats swimming
among the pads and the grasses
can reach out
their muscular arms and touch

only so many, they are that
rife and wild.
But what in this world
is perfect?

I bend closer and see
how this one is clearly lopsided --
and that one wears an orange blight --
and this one is a glossy cheek

half nibbled away --
and that one is a slumped purse
full of its own
unstoppable decay.

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled --
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing --
that the Light is everything -- that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do."

Choices

I choose to focus my time and attention on Love alone.

Dear God,

Thank You for an interesting and blessed day.
Thank You for the opportunity to look at everything in a new way.
Guided by Your Spirit, I choose to dwell on the beauty and love all around me.
Thank You for life in all its simple wonder.

May all the Earth rest peacefully in You. Amen

The Power of Surrender

“The quickest way to access all of your true potential and actually experience it, instead of just hearing or reading about it, is the power of surrender. Surrender is probably not the most attractive or appealing word to most people. In fact, surrender is usually equated with giving up, losing, and defeat. But the opposite is true: you will never gain true power until you relinquish all human control and tap into your Divine potential within.”
~Greg Barrette

With my whole being, I let go and I totally trust in God.