25 Things to Be Grateful For

1. My daughter made a wonderful dinner.

2. My son helped with clean-up.

3. They took out the trashes.

4. My husband and the kids picked up stuff at the store.

5. I can lovingly give myself all the time I need to heal. I am a slave to no one in that regard.

6. The sun is shining.

7. I talked to a good friend today.

8. My cold/allergy symptoms are improving.

9. I did some creative work with colors and writings that helped me express my emotions and thoughts.

10. I see a light by which if I am able to lay a foundation for myself in what God is giving me, I will have a more peace-filled, spiritually authentic way of living, thinking, processing, being, and doing.

11. I see how some of the things I long to do in service may come out of the richness of this foundation and be done, not as avoidance of the issues in my life, but as fulfillment of a love because I am moving into the strength of peace already.

12. Even at my weakest states I can choose the things of life and living.

13. I have food in my house. I can shop online and pick up other necessities.

14. I can take every thought captive, even the ones that I have gotten used to thinking of as being helpful — the “pre-planner and fixer thoughts,” and place them lovingly behind the doors of God’s workings.

15. I can recognize at an earlier point when these types of thoughts are coming my way, and can start the process earlier.

16. I see this as a process of healthy detachment practice that I can experience with real-life situations without being unkind or uncaring.

17. I have lovely bracelet and necklace reminders from one of my beautiful friends that reminds me of her deep love and care for me.

18. I get to do what I love, which is to share music.

19. I get to be paid for the gift of this wonderful, Universal love-language sharing.

20. I can and do forgive myself for not having worked through my frustrations with others sooner.

21. Even as I forgive myself, I try to work toward a more all-encompassing way of loving.

22. I am thankful for the nice breeze coming in through the front door.

23. I am grateful for the sounds of the wood-chime and the distant train whistle.

24. I’m happy about the way I felt so sleepy after dinner and was able to nap.

25. Thank you, God, for pen and plenty of paper.

The +10 Mortal Combat Pelvic Girdle

To take wing

I must detach from this leaf

I will never feel the wind in my hair

if I don’t lift off

(And it has been a Miracle)

The big-girl panties —

Forget that

I am wearing the +10 Mortal Combat Pelvic Girdle

There is nothing else that God needs to do

to prove to me that

I AM LOVED!

And now that I know

I completely release All into God’s hands

and away from my focus

I embrace the middle way

The true authentic Loved Ones

are waiting in the wings to be unleashed

in Love

into my Life

I take and accept my Wholeness

Finally

The Bigger steps will be directed

by God in perfect timing

Only Trust and Love

When the World’s Upside Down

 

Where do you go

when the world’s upside down

when your very best friends

look upon you and frown

Who do you seek

when the going gets blue

who can you trust

who will always be true

Jesus is Who

He’s the one that makes new

He’ll never desert you

Sitting righteous in pew

He’ll always love hue

though your virtues are few

He’ll be your glory

when your shine becomes goo

He’ll battle old Saul

for the right for your soul

It’s Jesus who loves you

so roll, baby, roll.

Prodigals

The Weak are those

who do not tow the party line

but step across it

one foot at a time

to get to know the evil other

so as to meet within themselves

their own evil which is worse

than that of their brother

For we are the chiefest of sinners, we might say

and so very loved, while feeling so depraved

He set us on a hilltop

and, perhaps,

He honors the trying resilient

more than complacent safety that stays and says

we’re undoubtedly your best;

It’s most obvious,

Oh Father,

as we’ve understood you in the past

It’s not You, Father, who have changed

into a more Christ-like behavior

It’s our understanding that we can grow in our weakness

Or stay eating the meat

of a static experience;

that from before the epiphany of your truest, loveliest light,

in this ephemeral life,

gave us eyes to seek expansive meaning

within your illuminating

merciful insight

Wait

Words can never break the spirit;

When God wills,

Wisdom teaches intelligence

How to wait

My Coat of Many Colors

I had a vision of the butterflies again today.

There was spooky action at a distance.

They flew in a little cluster of golden flecks of energy that was simultaneously in my heart. The further away they flew, the more the flecks permeated my body, as if beamed in cellularly.

I watched them flitter across the states, to the east, on a map; the flecks of light on my body multiplied. Off the planet — more light. They traveled at light-speed by now — I was brilliant!

When they reached beyond the furthest limits, my body filled with light which emanated out instantly, bathing all things, and lighting their way.

Do You Love?

The

consciousness

you have is what

you take with you when

you go — Better do more

than say magic words and

perform praise-worthy actions.

Is your heart (spirit) overriding your Ego (flesh)?

Do you want to reach heaven (Kingdom of God Living)

 here hard enough to do the spiritual practice that brings growth?

Do you care for yourself richly while denying needy desires?

Do you realize that this may be your last

day here to show love to others?

Do you love a peaceful moment?

Will you share

the animation of your

passion for Life?

Do you

Love?

Love and the Double-edged Sword

Love

Love is where it starts

where it proceeds to

and where it continues.

Love is the infinite expression

like a number line.

Love those who are that part of the body

even if they don’t like or recognize you as a part;

to reject them is to reject a part of the body to which you belong.

You love anyway because I told you to!

You don’t have to agree or disagree

You are just there to listen.

You have always been called a peacemaker.

Don’t be angry that you aren’t more like the finger or the hands;

You aren’t the mouthpiece of God.

Be grateful.

The mouth of the Lord contains the double-edged sword

Woe unto those who without humility believe they have the proper authority to wield it.

Into the hands of the Living Soil

It is a loving thing to fall into the fertility of the Living Soil and remember that flower has drawn all minerals and life into its being.

The Gift

 

Love

ingrained beneath my leather skin

inside my soft heart-pillow,

and I’m two and forty-nine and seventy-three

in this one formidable body.

No yearning for constant reminders

of who I might be;

I’m over the moon for lack of extremes.

Dear friend,

We’ll last forever.