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Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. Back to the Womb from Whence We Come- Africa The Motherland of Humanity.

Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World.

Listen-Reflect- Receive

Looking to Our Ancestors for the Answers

So, Are The Clouds Sending Messages to Us?

Back to the Womb from Whence We Come-

Africa The Motherland of Humanity.

Part One-

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“Great Spirit, open our eyes to see beyond what is visible, and soften our hearts to receive what cannot be spoken.”

There is no way I could bring this series about the “Cloud Messages” to an end or on put on pause without going back to the beginning of our humanity to understand the relationship between our collective ancestors and their relationship with nature.  I recognize Africa to be the “Womb” of our humanity and that to understand this significance I am feeling with nature-clouds- as being intimately involved in trying to communicate with us, I had to go back to the beginning. 

Many African cosmologies preserved relational awareness that see human beings as not above creation, but as human beings being within it.  I think this is one of the spiritual elements that our modern civilization desperately needs.  The clouds, as are other elements in nature, are trying to get our attention.  I believe this energetic connection is, if for no other reason, that we have a shared humanity through atmospheric connections.

What is so beautiful about many of the African traditions is that there is no separation between nature, Spirit, community, governance, healing, and their cosmology.  They see the sky as being alive.  They see clouds as symbolizing ancestral nearness, divine movement, emotional and spiritual atmosphere, transition between worlds, and preparation for blessings or correction of something that is not in sync with Nature or Spirit.

 We have through our reliance on modern technology disconnected ourselves from our relational connection and understanding of aspects of nature like the cycles, seasons, awareness of the sky, ancestral memory which lent us to have a reciprocal relationship with nature. 

In our African cosmology we saw clouds representing hope, deliverance, divine shelter, mourning, and freedom.  In many oral traditions throughout Africa, storms and skies often mirror human emotional or communal states.  They saw storms before transformation, clouds as carriers of memory, rain as grief and renewal, thunder as awaking, and mist as mystery. Nature was read symbiotically and relationally.

In Part 2 of this conversation, we will research and explore the relationship and connection between the different African cultural beliefs about the wonderment of nature that is interwoven into their belief systems.  I don’t want to take anything for granted because I know in my “Spirit” there is always still more knowledge and understanding of our humanity and the universe to learn and so much of this information is clothed and held in our history.

Remember- “that we are never separate from the sky above us, and “Great Spirit” that resides within us, only invited to notice.”

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

My “Clouds” today from my balcony view. It’s like heaven on earth.  I feel blessed and cared for.         

Ashè “Great Spirit” Ashè!

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

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Sunday Morning Prayers- To Reap the Life We Deserve, We Cannot Just Coast Through Life!

Sunday Morning Prayers- To Reap the Life We Deserve,

We Cannot Just Coast Through Life!

I pray that we live the fullness of our lives and not resort to coasting through our divine life’s journey.

 

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 “Great Spirit”,

 We come to thee asking for your support in helping us stay the course of living the fullness of life that you endowed us with and to not be distracted by the woes and chaos of this uncanny world that seeks to steal our joy and the power to manifest our “best life”. We don’t want to “coast” through life, we want all the beauty, love, grace, mercy, compassion, joy, and peace- a peace that surpasses all understanding that this world could but imagine.  We want to share these precious gifts to bring light and hope to humanity. 

We know what power lies in these gifts and how they can shift the consciousness of all those that have clarity of mind, heart, and soul.  This energetic force of being wholly and intentional about living a full and enriched life is a birthright of every human being.  We must always remember who we are and how you love each of us as your divine creations. 

We know your intention for our life is that we have all that we need as well as the desires of our heart as long as we are supportive of others realizing those dreams and aspirations for their life. We know that with this desire to live the fullness of a good life it requires humility of spirit so that we live our lives from a position of gratitude.  Gratitude impacts all arenas of our life’s journey.

Without a grateful heart we are lost to this world that wants to distract us from our joy and fulfillment.  Open our eyes that we might see the glorious promises you have in store for us!  Open our ears so that we might hear the sweet whispers of love you have for us.  Open our minds so that we use the intelligence you imparted in us to know clearly right from wrong, truth from lies, justice from injustice, and compassion from judgment. 

We have so much potential to manifest a “good life”, a life of purpose and fulfillment.  Hear this prayer of thanksgiving for unselfishly giving us a life that only our imagination can limit.

Ashe!  Ashe! Amen!

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

 **Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Thank You Nicole Añgel Evans for sharing your beautiful photography with us.

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Fallen from Grace, or Embraced by Grace?

Fallen from Grace, or Embraced by Grace?

The condition of the human race-

It Should be about the “Embrace” of Grace!

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Truthfully, we need to answer God’s call for peace and love! The human race has fallen from grace and lost its humanity! If not now, when? Thousands of years! Thousands of opportunities! And still, we do not grow and evolve in our spiritual essence, which is God’s intention for our creation! It is why we come here  from our heavenly existence.

The link between that plane of eternity and our earthly existence is acknowledging what our purpose is and executing the c0created destiny plan.  Somehow, we just can’t seem to express our divinity collectively!  We lose each other and judgment becomes the core of how we relate to each other.  Judgment does not yield healing and without healing there is no transformation and growth. 

I think one of the missing links is our inability to look beyond our cultural rituals and practices for answers on how to heal and sustain the “goodness” and “gifts” that are inherit in our design.  Do we see people from what they demonstrate merely by their physicality, what they expound verbally, or by their outward behavior? 

There is so much more involved in “who” we are!  We need to search for and care for the “soul essence” of each other.  It starts during childhood and must be nurtured throughout our lives.  It is like “catering” to our humanity in each other.  Serving each other daily with love and attention.  Calling each other out when we have missed a step in our gait that does not serve us well. It is engaging with one another, praying for each other, being a safe place for one another.  I guess I say this a lot in my “notes to humanity”,-blogging, but it is a message that is heavy on my heart. 

 I know we can make a difference in each other’s lives, and that by doing so we are planting the seeds for a better world for our children.  I found this picture on Facebook, and it stays with me in my dreams and prayers.  I believe the principles of this ritual holds a key to healing and guiding each other through those events that make us feel that we have “fallen from Grace”. Can we offer the “embrace of Grace”, instead of the stigma of “Falling from Grace”? Think about this please and let’s engage in a conversation!

In certain regions of South Africa, when someone does something wrong, he/she is taken to the center of the village and surrounded by his tribe for two days while they speak of all the good he/she has done. They believe each person is good, yet sometimes we make mistakes, which is really a cry for help. They unite in this ritual to encourage the person to reconnect with his/her true nature. The belief is that unity and affirmation have more power to change behavior than shame and punishment. This is known as “Ubunta”- “humanity towards others”.  Can you imagine parenting with these principles?

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

Ashé! Have a Blessed Day!

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Stay in Touch:          http://heart4kidsadvocacy.org/

 

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There Are No Holy Wars!

There Are No Holy Wars! There is a New Dawn Forth Coming Steeped in Unity of Spirit, Grace, Compassion, and Agape Love for Our Humanity.

There Are No Holy Wars!

There is a New Dawn Forth Coming Steeped in Unity of Spirit, Grace, Compassion, and Agape Love for Our Humanity.

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We have to stand on the promises of “Great Spirit” that goodness resides in the depths of our soul expression.  We were not envisioned and created to be separate from the “One Source that not only created us but intentionally gave us the breath of life from its breath. The killing and hate in our world cannot be justified as a “Holy War” because in the eyes of “Great Spirit”, there are no holy wars.  

There are no wars that justify being holy. What the world is engaged in now is Spiritual warfare! People it is about the evil grounded and expressed by all that seeks to separate us from our true identity and from our Divine Creator- The One Source”- “Great Spirit”-God.  These mutations of these soulless beings that stride to separate us are grounded in-

The actual physical, emotional, and spiritual-Separation from God- “The One Source”- “Great Spirit”-

Ignorance

Greed

Ethnocentrism

Racial supremacy

Poverty

Hunger for food to nourish both body and soul

Disenfranchisement

Mental and emotional illness

Fear of loss of something that is impossible to hold on to anyway!

Righteous indignation

Isolation

Alternative facts and truth

The Me-Myself-and I syndrome that blinds us to the needs of others.

Soulless beings that have forfeited the divine purpose of their earthly existence!

Ideology that we are no longer “our brother’s keeper”

You know in your “Spirit” when something is not of “God”-

You know in your “Spirit” what evil looks like and feels like.

We are being bombarded by that vibration every day, all day long, from every arena that they can infuse themselves into to cause distraction and chaos.

It might seem that the elements that ascribe to this intention of separation are having a field day right now, but as soon as we figure out that ultimately God is in charge and that love, peace, and the gift of life is in it’s self God’s power within us, we will rise up with wings of angels and reclaim this earth and all that God has endowed humanity with and evil will diminish until all there is -is God! Yes- God is love and all there is -is Love!

Wake up in your life and help to usher in that love- 

Speak truth and ethics!

Speak love and respect!

Speak compassion and patience!

Speak it and be it and the vibration that each of us resound will reverberate globally and shift the current that is destroying our planet and deconstructing the divinity of our souls!

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

Ashé! Have a Blessed Day!

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

 

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Stay in Touch:          http://heart4kidsadvocacy.org/

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Women of Compassionate Spirits A Global “Call to Action”! # 13-Renewed The Message Today is-Fearlessly Fearless- Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors

Women of Compassionate Spirits

A Global “Call to Action”! # 13-Renewed

The Message Today is-Fearlessly Fearless-

Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors

The Sacred Space for Transformative Agreements

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 I am quietly yet intentionally observing the rising up of women in all areas of our society.  I don’t think people realize and are aware of what has been happening as women infiltrate the spaces that are usually saved for and run by men.  It amuses me because even though I know it was no small thing for we as women to be able to hold positions of power and influence, it seems from the outside looking in, that it has just happened effortlessly and almost in a rather magical way. 

No big recognition and celebrative acknowledgment, just a lot of behind-the-scenes preparation, strategic planning, and their genius at work.  It is so rewarding and inspiring to witness this mobility and accomplishments of women not just sitting at the “Table” or demolishing the “Sacred Ceiling” but actually positioned in places and spaces that impact our lives on a local, national, and global level.

 They bring that uniqueness of their carefully crafted divine gifts to usher into a situation or challenge a perspective that is more deeply in tune to the laws of the universe, and if they have really done the work that they were ordained to do, they bring in a spiritual essence of compromise, compassion, openness to being an “active listener”, and hopefully an sense of humility -not to be confused with a lack of self-esteem and self-love, but just to the point where it allows others to feel that their contributions are worthy of being considered. 

It is truthfully a balancing act that when done authentically and in earnest, has the potential of healing situations that might otherwise seem hopeless.  I am by no means making a blanket statement that all women fall into this category.  It takes a lot of work to come into the purpose for which you are divined to be.  It starts with an awakening to who you are in the eyes of “Great Spirit” and takes a recommitment to be the “YOU” that you were designed to be and then a willingness to step into the footsteps of your ancestors.

We were meant to be  guided and mentored on this path to bring to light not just the potential of who women can be and what women can do to enhance the nature and behavior of our lost and misdirected  humanity, but we are in fact “answering a ‘Call to Action’, that “Great Spirit” is moving in us to fulfill the original design of how humanity should function.  “Great Spirit” is awakening our memory.

We need each other and we need time and space to support each other.  I am proposing that women all over the world start in their families and communities “Women Sacred Circles” where women that are seeking to be in alignment with “Great Spirit” come together to formulate “Transformative Agreements” that speak to how we can nurture ourselves so that we might nurture and support in each other.

I would like to challenge the women in these sacred circles to commune on issues we are facing in their families, communities, their country, and globally and connect the dots as to how the issues that are plaguing us as individuals and as a collective humanity are challenges that have answers if we but work together in harmony and alignment with not just each other but in alignment and in connection with “Great Spirit” who sees all, hears all, and knows all. 

This is how the healing will begin, and we will evolve  as a humanity that is grounded in being our highest selves.  WE are walking in the footsteps of our ancestors, and we are fearlessly fearless.  We know that we are loved and protected by them.  Move in grace and beauty with the genius of your spirit and what can be accomplished is beyond our imagination.

We know that there is a united energy that is trying to silence us and remove us from positions where we are needed, but as the Negro Spiritual says,

“WE Shall Not Be Moved,  We Shall Not Be Moved,

Just like a tree that’s planted by the waters,

We Shall NoT Be Moved”

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

Ashé! Have a Blessed Day!

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Stay in Touch:          http://heart4kidsadvocacy.org/

 

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Simple Elements on How to Create a Beautiful World!

Eleven Elements That Are the Ingredients to Sustain Our Humanity- According to the Dalai Lama

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📌 Dalai Lama Quotes: On February 25, 2014 I had the pleasure and honor of hearing the Dalai Lama share his wisdom with us on what we need to be in the world. These are my reflections to his wisdom.

Date: February 25, 2014 

Subject: Dalai Lama Quotes

1. Be kind whenever possible.

1a. (Beth Evans adds: This involves practicing being your highest self which is a life long discipline and promotes mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well being.)

2. In the practice of tolerance one’s enemy is the best teacher.

2a. ( I have an aversion to the word tolerance as being a misfit in terms of the divinity of the human design. I think that compassion for those that live in a space that is not their highest expression and puts them at odds with other fellow “human beings” requires us to step away from fear and judgement and respond with compassion and to hold an intention for them that they release their fear and sense of “not being enough” and embrace the fullness of being loved and accepted for who they have the potential of showing up as”. This is the practice of “allowing”.


3. Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries, without them humanity cannot survive.

3a. (Beth Evans adds: Cultivating humanity in ourselves and supporting it in the growth and development of others is really our divine purpose. The tools of love and compassion not only support humanity on a global level, but leads to a happy and enriched life for those that utilize these tools on a daily basis!)


4. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

4a. Beth Evans adds: Peace is a state of mind that wells up inside of us and gives us the ability to live in the present

5. In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

5a.When we carry a positive attitude and identity, we create a positive environment and responses with infinite possibilities for goodness.


6. I am just one human being.

6a. (Beth Evans adds: But imagine that your potential to create beauty, love, joy, peace, justice, compassion, and live a life of integrity is only defined by what you can imagine and commit to manifesting-you could positively impact the world and fulfill your divine purpose!)


7. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

7a. We are born into this world as “goodness”  being the identity of our souls. Our roots grow deep throughout  our lives.


8. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

8a. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them. 


9. If you want others to be happy practice compassion.

9a. You must first be compassionate and gentle with yourself in order to know how to be compassionate and gentle with others.


10. The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.  

10a. (Beth Evans adds: The art of talking or communicating involves listening attentively with an open and receptive mind. The art of communicating successfully is one of the greatest gifts in the human design. Once activated respect, understanding and compromise come into play which promotes resolution and positive relationships.


11. When you practice gratefulness there is a sense of respect toward others.

11a.We must live our lives from a place of gratitude in order to see the blessings we have received.

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression on yet another beautiful sunset of your life’s journey.   May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

Ashé! Have a Blessed Day!

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Thank you Nicole Añgel Evans for providing the beautiful picture for our sunset!

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Sunday Prayers-#118 Our Mantra Prayer for- “Humility”.

Sunday Prayers-#118

Our Mantra Prayer for“Humility”.

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One Divine Creator, One World, One Divine Humanity!

Chapter 51 –from the upcoming book-

Our Mantra Prayers to Quiet the Mind and Inspire the Soul!  

If we but acknowledge the magnitude of what our Creator gave us on this planet, we cannot help but to be humble of “Spirit”!

Our Mantra Prayer for Humility~  

I dream my divine inheritance and in it know who I am. I awaken in humility as more of what “I Am” is revealed in all that I do and all that I say.  Let my actions and words demonstrate a “spirit” of humility that makes me conscious of the presences and importance of others that engage in my life. 

I realize that humility is rooted in gratitude and that in turn my attitude reflects the humility that is seeded in my soul expression.  I understand that when I am humble of spirit, that I am accessible to “Great Spirit” and all the blessings that are infused in my life’s journey.

Our Mantra Prayer for Today:  Humility”

Let the words of my mouth and the actions of my “Soul expression” be given and received from others with humility and gratitude for the blessings engrained in humility.

Ashé! Have a Blessed Day!

Remembering that–We each have our own “destiny purpose” gifted us from birth.

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Thank You Nicole Añgel Evans for sharing the beauty of your photography.

Stay in Touch:          http://heart4kidsadvocacy.org/

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#5 Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. Intuitive Sensitivity-

Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. Intuitive Sensitivity-

Listen-Reflect- Receive

Looking to Our Ancestors for the Answers

Andean & Mesoamerican Sky Watching-

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“Great Spirit, open our eyes to see beyond what is visible, and soften our hearts to receive what cannot be spoken.”

I think it is important at this point to give a little more context to why I feel “Great Spirit” has put this series in my spirit.  I have been feeling the need to reflect on what ancient cultures understood about the living relationship between our humanity, nature, Spirit, the sky, and the Earth.  As I am learning, many Indigenous traditions had an intuition that clouds were about more than just the “weather”.  They understood and saw that clouds were living messengers, carriers of memory, ancestors, omens, blessings or communications between realms. 

This resonates with something deep within my soul as a memory.  There is a reason the Indigenous cultures like for instance the Andean culture, the Inca Empire, the Quechua peoples, Aymara peoples and even earlier cultures like the Chavin and Tiwanaku cultures of South America had a relationship to the clouds.  Clouds were sacred living spirits.  Beyond the practical life necessity of providing rain for their agricultural needs, clouds represented fertility, renewal, divine provision and ancestral presence.  Unlike us today, they believed unusual cloud formations reflected imbalance between humans and nature.   There was a need for harmony which they saw as sacred and reciprocal between people and creation.  I think this is an element that is missing in our lives today.

Looking back at the Mesoamerican cultures like the Maya and Aztec people, they interpreted clouds as being sacred because they carried water from the heavens to Earth.  Clouds were seen as symbols of mercy, warning, blessings, and cosmic balance.  They saw everything as interconnected so that clouds could signal seasonal changes, ceremonial timing, agricultural preparation and spiritual transitions. 

These cultures and traditions saw humanity as part of nature, not separate from it.  These traditions were rooted in the understanding that clouds were relational, spiritual, communicative and alive with meaning to take notice of. 

I think the point today is that we have separated ourselves from the real relationship we should have with nature and “Great Spirit”.  We have become too “Civilized”- please take note that I feel the word civilized is an attribute that is rapidly vanishing from the character of what humanity should hold.  My intention today is to bring to light that we need to help ourselves and our humanity recover its sacred sensitivity again. 

Children still operate and possess those sensitivities of -wonder, observation, intuitive connection, symbolic imagination and an emotional relationship with nature.  We need to protect that sensitivity instead of suppressing it.  We would be much healthier adults, and our world would stand a better chance of sustainability if we valued that gift of sensitivity to the divine messages that are being sent our way. 

Remember- “that we are never separate from the sky above us, only invited to notice.”

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Thank you Nicole Añgel Evans- Photography

Stay in Touch:          http://heart4kidsadvocacy.org/

 

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#4-Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. The Chinese Cultural Perspective – “Auspicious Clouds”-

Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. The Chinese Cultural Perspective -“Auspicious Clouds”-

Listen-Reflect- Receive

Looking to Our Ancestors for the Answers

“Great Spirit, open our eyes to see beyond what is visible, and soften our hearts to receive what cannot be spoken.”

My Cloud Message Today! Balance and Harmony in Life!

Cultural Perspectives of the Significance of “Clouds”.

Chinese Traditions (Symbolic Meanings)

In the Chinese culture, clouds which are referred to as “Auspicious clouds (祥云) are seen as symbols of good fortune and harmony.  The shapes and artistic formations of the clouds are woven into the art and mythology of the Chinese culture.  Certain clouds reflect the balance of heaven and earth and historically are seen as signs of blessings or transitions. 

Once again clouds are seen as connection to the spirit world sending messages to let us know that we are not living life on just this plane of existence.  This relationship with “Clouds” in the Chinese culture validates their understanding that there is more interfacing in our life experiences then what is seen in the visible world. 

I like that reference to the clouds as being “Auspicious”!  The very meaning of the word lends itself for me anyway, as showing support, protection, and guidance.  I find a sense of peace when I gaze at them.  What amazes me more so now than ever is that they are constantly drawing me to look up at the sky and notice not only their configuration, but their unbelievable beauty.  The energy they emit across the sky, seem for them to be effortless and represents the natural order of the universe. 

The very idea that no matter where you are in this vast world of ours, there they are.  They teach us whether we realize it or not, that we too have the freedom to move, to change the direction and position of our life just like them.  It’s a choice!  It’s a gift! Find a cloud that speaks to you today and move into that graceful energy of endless possibilities.

Remember-“May we remember that we are never separate from the sky above us, only invited to notice.”

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Photography by: Nicole Añgel Evans

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#3 Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. There is Reverance in the “Pause”. 

Look to The Skies From Whence Cometh Our Understanding and Connection to the Spiritual World. There is Reverance in the “Pause”. 

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My Cloud’s View Today! 

“Great Spirit, open our eyes to see beyond what is visible, and soften our hearts to receive what cannot be spoken.”

Today I want us to look to at our Indigenous cultures to see how they related to clouds, and in fact still relate to the phenomenon of “Messages from the Clouds”.  Many Indigenous cultures view clouds as a part of the texture of their life and communicating with the “Natural World”.  In so many of Indigenous cultures they have a great sense of reverence for clouds as they see them as representing their ancestors, spirits, and what they see as emotional expressions of the “Earth”- “Mother Nature”. 

I guess what resonates with my diverse cultural heritage in that, like in some Indigenous cultures, if something in nature catches your attention repeatedly, and draws my attention, I feel compelled to pause and listen inwardly.  There is no need to analyze and dissect what I am sensing, I only need to receive what is being offered in the moment of recognition.   This notion of pausing is what has captivated my interest in this area. 

I see this need and ability of integrating the “moments of pausing from the hustle and chaos of life and our need to create sacred time and space for this ritual.  The pause allows us to generate discernment, intuition, emotional regulation, reverence and spiritual awareness. 

When we set aside time or move in a rhythm of “Being Present in our life”, we become aware of all the beauty, majesty, of the messages that surround us.  “Cloud Watching” becomes meditation, prayer, reflection, communion, and remembrance, of what we need to be in caring for our soul expression. 

In many of the Indigenous and ancestral peoples, there is an intention to pause during very specific times and events.  It is not uncommon for the ritual of Sky Consciousness to take place at sunrise and sunset.  These moments of reflection to sit in ritual will also take place during storms, eclipses, first rain and seasonal changes.  The sky in these expressions is what I call “Nature Cultures”- “Cultures in Sync with “Great Spirit”. They see reflected in the sky and the cloud formations timing, transitions, balance, warning, and blessings. 

These ceremonies support them synchronizing themselves with creation -not dominating it.  This distinction reveals so much of why so much of our humanity is at a loss!  Clouds help us to evoke remembrance, humility, wonder, emotional release, and a more in-depth perspective about life. 

“Remember-that we are never separate from the sky above us, only invited to notice.” Perhaps the message here is to Pause, Look, Listen, and Remember you are part of something vast and magnificent.

So, breathe deeply! Close your eyes and visualize something that brings you back into homeostasis with your soul expression.  May today bring you a sense of peace, joy, and moments of feeling loved and validated for who you are and what you are gifting humanity.

**Note: These recordings are based on my blog writings, and all of this comes through Spirit.  The recordings are a reflection of the writings and are not edited because I do not want to alter what is coming to me through “Great Spirit”.  I am not seeking perfection, only serving as a vessel to bring love, peace, and joy, to our humanity.

Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.

Stay in Touch:          http://heart4kidsadvocacy.org/