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Is This REALLY Urgent?

“We have to talk NOW.” “Can you call me this afternoon, this can’t wait?” “We need a decision right away.” “You’ll miss this window of opportunity if you don’t act now.” “I can’t go any further without your input.” I lay in bed with pneumonia as the phone rings and each caller at the end of the phone has what they consider to be an urgent situation that then is to become my urgency. As my energetic capacity is slight, my ability to assess the true emergent is keen. Not one of the panicked “must do, must have or must act now” was REALLY urgent. I watched the callers acting from this crescendoed peak energy of the now or never. Finding this curious, I have been observing and inquiring into this energy pattern for several months. This is what I’ve come to know: We are trained into this idea of a short window in most part by artificial deadlines imposed by corporate marketing strategies. The idea of urgent is...

Happy New Year!!! With FREE Meditation on Newness

New is a lot more than a marketing gimmick. New is evidence of a transformation. The Bible speaks of being made new as a bi-product of opening and connecting to the Eternal Go(o)d that is always nearer than our breath. Scripture also speaks to the inability to return to the old once one has been transformed. Remember the parable of the wine skin? The new wine won’t fit into an old wineskin? What does this mean to you in your life? And what does it mean to you when John in his Revelation (chapter 21) has revealed to him “I make all things NEW?” You and I are stepping into the new year of 2015. It is a recognized time in our culture where we stop, evaluate, clean up, set some goals and begin again. It is our collective permission to publically claim who we plan to become; what we desire to develop within us. And, we develop through consciously changing our habits and actions in the world. These next thirty...

Meditation Monday: My Life NOW

I am at times called into deep contemplation and prayer for a day. Today is such a day. As I have taken my prayer seat in my prayer chair to begin the process, I have asked my inner guidance for today’s meditation to clear the energy around me and within me that has impeded my ability to know the Allness of God. The meditation that bubbled to the top for the day is repeating the following words of Truth and feeling them in my body: There is One Life and that is the Life of God and it is my life NOW. This contemplation isn’t new to me. I’ve spoken it for decades, but today, the energy of it is vibrant and light and lifts my Soul and cracks my heart wide open. What I know is the Presence is within me. Jesus and all of the great teachers say this, and I have been blessed to know it on occasion, as well. I also know that I...

Meditation Monday: A Self Forgiveness Meditation

It’s Monday again!! This week’s selected meditation practice is (drum roll …) A self forgiveness meditation with Jack Kornfield. Jack Kornfield is a Buddhist Monk who has been a long time teacher of mine through his writings. I have read all of his books and my favorite ALL TIME spiritual book is A Path with Heart. Early in my ministry I facilitated Heart groups where we practiced Kornfield’s work as a group. Forgiveness tends to be a necessary cleansing practice on all spiritual paths. This facilitated meditation invites us to loosen where we are bound up. The spaciousness in me toasts the spaciousness in...

How to Live from Bliss, Thick Beauty, Creativity

Check out to what filmmaker David Lynch has to say about the benefits of meditation and what is in the Field of Pure Consciousness (I would call God). Some quotes from Lynch … “If you have a golf ball size consciousness, you will have a golf ball size understanding.” “Enlightenment is the full potential of all of us human beings.” “A side effect of this Consciousness is that negativity starts to recede.” “It’s money in the bank to get that beautiful consciousness growing … intuition grows … it is a field of Pure Knowingness … it’s like an ocean of solutions.” “The enjoyment of life grows, HUGE!” “People look like friends, not like enemies.” “You can vibrate with this bliss.” I have been a meditator now for ummmm…eighteen years, maybe. The daily practice for me of going beyond the realm of thought, feeling and perception and into the Consciousness of One has ripened my beingness and softened me. Enjoy the video and I’ll meet you in The...