Sunday Prayers-# 31-Our Mantra Prayer for Faith-Voiced
My faith looks up to thee, from whence cometh my faith to live my life in the fullness of what has been provided for me! I am complete and whole in my Divine Design.
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Our Mantra Prayer for Faith-
Thank you, Creator, for the strength and beauty of my Faith in our relationship that has allowed me to live a life void of fear, apprehension, despair, disillusionment, and hopelessness. My faith carries me through life with a vibrational energy that fills my cup. I know that in this world does not support our belief and practice of “faith”, but it is more than critical now that we have our faith to see us through what we are experiencing in this chaotic state of humanity.
Our faith has no boundaries and the more we engage in our life through faith, the stronger we become in our divine identity. Working through our life with an armor of faith there is nothing we can’t face and overcome. Faith is a badge of courage and tenacity. Faith is believing that all things are possible even when things are seemingly over surmountable and out of reach.
Our Mantra Prayer for Today: “Faith”I will hold fast to my “faith” that leads me and guides me along my life’s journey that will ground me and protect me.
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”.
Thank You, Nicóle Añgel Evans for sharing your beautiful photography with us to enhance the essence of what is being channeled.
I’m Just Sayin- #145-Procrastination is the Thief of Precious Time! Voiced
Climb every mountain and forge every stream. Make sure you leave no dream that is in your heart be unrealized.Activate your dreams! My brother Mark has always been an “Activator”! No Dreams Unfulfilled!
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Why do we in our human condition so many times in our lives procrastinate and hesitate about doing things, making life changes and choices, and or speaking our truth about what we think or feel? Is this really the most beneficial and life-giving way to operate? Do we really want to stockpile “would have’s, could have’s and should have’s in the imprint and legacy of our life’s journey? I know many times when challenges confront us to make what seems to be life alternating decisions, we respond from a place of fear instead of faith in our own capacity to step forward and deal with whatever presents itself! We are afraid of making “mistakes”!
Well in my experience there are really no “mistakes”, only opportunities to stretch and grow. I see life like a road map with many different ways to choose from in order to reach our ultimate goal which is the divine meaning and purpose for which we have been sent here to express. Everyone’s road map has been predestined and designed before entering this human form and transplanted to this earthly plain.
We are created and a contract is drafted, that in our Spirit form we have co-created with “The Supreme Spirit”! Personally I bet I was quite jazzed to be in the presence of “The Presence”, and have the opportunity to work on this mind-boggling project of “My Life”! From what I’ve seen in my life as well as what I have observed watching other beings live their life and make the decisions and choices they made, we were given a lot of latitude to do things as we pleased! Well, some of our choices might not have reaped what we had hoped for, it was our decision and then we are given the choice to decide how we take responsibility for those choices!
Life is wild and full of energy and excitement! I think the choice that I have made to help me with these life challenges has for the most part sustained me and afforded me the chance to evaluate the end results of my decisions and taking responsibility for them. There is no regret but there is enlightenment! There is “Oh I see now”!
The choice I have made to sustain me and support me is the lifelong daily devotion to trying to “Live in the “Present” so I am living in the “Presence”. It is when living in relationship with the Divine Presence”, known to some as “God”, that there is no separation! I have a traveling companion that resides as close as every breath I take! Me and my companion are living life in faith! Not in hope but in a peace that surpasses all understanding! Life is a trip, but I’m up to the adventure! Are you?
Don’t procrastinate! Don’t put off for tomorrow the things you can and deserve to experience today! Live each day to the fullest so that at the end of the day you feel a sense of peace, joy, and completeness! This is a beautiful way for our children to learn how to live life! It starts with us!
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”.
Fill My Soul with Love- For In Reality, That’s All There Really Is! Part Two
We have to do better! We have to be better!
The Tapestry of Humanity
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Today I want us to continue this journey of discovering the connectedness of our faith expressions. I want us to uplift more of the faith community’s perspective of prayer, meditation, and the life force energy that sustains our “Soul essence and identity”-“Love”!
Today I want us to get a sense of what Buddhism, Sikhism, Indigenous Spiritual Traditions, African Spiritual Traditions, and the Bahá’i faith gifts our faith-based expressions with. I want us to discover the treads of who we are and to whom we belong to that create this human tapestry.
Buddhism attributes prayer as being expressed as aspirations, blessings, and intentions for all beings. Meditation is the heart of the Buddhist practice. They feel that meditation as an instrument that expresses awareness, compassion, wisdom and inner peace. Love, which is called “Metta”, is an expression of loving-kindness. There is the intention to cultivate unconditional love for -Self-Family-Friends-Strangers-and even enemies.
Sikhism holds a space for prayer as a way of remembering the “One Creator” throughout daily life. It is not something that is separate from us. Meditation is as simple and uncomplicated as the repetition fo God’s name (Naam Simran) which brings in peace and clarity to your soul. Love is seen as the bridge between the soul and God. The Sikh teachings emphasize Service, Equality, Compassion, and Humility.
Indigenous Spiritual Traditions are so different in the ways or rituals that are identified among nations and peoples, and at the same time many share common themes. Prayer in “Indigenous Spirituality” is often woven into everyday life through ceremony, songs, dance, gratitude, and relationship with nature. In reference to the ritual of meditation, is can occur through silence, vision quest, cloud watching,-my favorite daily ritual-listening to water, observing the stars, or sitting with the land. Love is a powerful gift and is expressed as a right relationship with the “Creator”, ancestors, community, Earth, animals, and future generations. How expansive and intentional is that expression of “Love”? Love is understood as belonging and reciprocity.
African Spiritual Traditions which can be found to some degree in the texture and context of the “African American Christian Churches, includes honoring ancestors, community rituals, drumming, song, and direct communication with “Spirit”. Meditation emerges through rhythm, storytelling, ceremony, and creation together. The spirit of Ubuntu is foundational as it teaches “I am because we are “!
The Bahá’i Faith believes that prayer nourishes the soul. The faith teaches that meditation helps people receive divine guidance and wisdom. Love is considered the force that unites humanity as one family. The Bahá’i teachings emphasize that humanity’s spiritual future depends upon learning to love beyond race, nation, religion, and class.
There is more elements in each of these faith communities that unite us than divides us. When we come to these faiths with an open heart, clarity of mind, and an honest soul desire to heal this broken world and the people that inhabit this magnificent planet, we have to acknowledge that across the world’s traditions, we see remarkable patterns of commonality. Prayer opens the heart! Prayer is the language of the heart! Meditation quiets the mind! Meditation is the listening of the “Soul”! Love awakens the “Soul”! Love is the bridge that unites all creation!
It absolutely does not matter if we are kneeling in a church, bowing in a mosque, chanting in a temple, sitting beneath a tree, watches the clouds, listens to the ocean, or sings in ceremony, the intention is often the same because when all is said and done, we are being called to remember who we are, whose we are, and how we are meant to live with one another in love, peace, joy, respect, and compassion.
The longing we feel and express our interconnection to one another. Unconsciously, we have a longing to awaken to love and compassion.
The Longing we have to live in harmony with one another and with Creation. I see our humanity as a great tapestry.
Each culture is a thread.
Each faith is a color.
Each person is a unique expression of the Divine.
If we remove a single thread and the tapestry is diminished.
If we but honor every thread the tapestry will reveal its beauty that is a reflection of the “Creator”- beauty and grace beyond the imagination of human understanding.
The Tapestry of Humanity is created with the following threads:
The Thread of “Love”.
The Thread of “Compassion”.
The Thread of “Faith”.
The Thread of the “Gift of Children”.
The Thread of the “Wisdom and Discernment of the Ancestors”.
The Thread of the sacred space that the “Community” holds for us.
The Thread of the “Majesty and Beauty of the Earth” that supports our life force.
The Thread of “Hope” that sustains us.
The Thread of “Justice” that evolves our soul’s essence.
And lastly-
The Thread of Peace that binds our interconnection to one another.
Ashé! 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.
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”.
Fill My Soul with Love- For In Reality, That’s All There Really Is! Part One
We have to do better! We have to be better!
The Tapestry of Humanity
***For translation of the text of the blog: touch the Blue Globe on the top right-hand corner.
Children deserve a better world than what we are providing them! Why is hate so deeply embedded in our souls? We were not created this way! I remember my sister Lark telling us as she transitioned, that all there really is – is love! She was seeing both sides of the veil! She saw who and what we have the potential of expressing when we decide to “be our highest selves”!
What a magnificent world we could create that would sustain our lives as individuals, as a collective and as a planet! I believe that if we set and practice an intention globally to change the vibration at which are planet is vibrating by, we can move the energy of love and peace to circulate and evolve as a species to where we were intended to be! It can happen if each of us reach out to others and pass this challenge on to pray or meditate daily.
It says in the Bible to “Pray without ceasing”! If in fact being a loving soul encompasses all the ingredients to overcome hatred, lack of compassion, lust for power and greed, racism, lack of self-worth based on lack of self-love and loving others, then perhaps our prayer should be as simple as, “Let love fill my soul”!
I have always been curious about how other faiths relate to the ritual of prayer and meditation, as well as their views on “Love”. From my own personal experience as a follower of Christ, I know that prayer is an intimate conversation with God. It is a moment-by-moment opportunity to engage Soul to “Spirit” without predefined rules or limitations. It is raw, open, and uncensored communication. I see prayer or meditation as being one in the same, because it is a “Time In” with the Holy Spirit! As followers of Christ, I believe that we are called to see “Love” as the highest spiritual virtue.
Being also a person that has lineage in both Christianity (and I say that not in terms of the institution but in reverence to following the Christ Principles) and Judaism, I see how prayer is a practice of aligning oneself with God and remembering that life is a sacred gift. As an extension of that ritual of praying, I see meditation in Judaism where there is an opportunity for contemplation and opening up a deeper awareness of the Divine. Love in Judaism is a calling to express compassion, justice, kindness and repairing or healing the world.
In the Islamic faith prayer is seen as moments of returning to God throughout the day and so they pray 5 daily prayers. That means that they actually stop and go into a sacred space with God throughout their day. Meditation is the practice of remembrance and involves repeating the names and attributes of God to quiet the heart. In terms of the significance of “Love” is the Islamic faith, it sees God as the Source of Mercy. Love is to be demonstrated through mercy, generosity, humility and service.
In the Hinduism faith, prayer has many forms of expression. There is the ritual of chanting, devotion, offerings, or silent communion. In terms of meditation, in Hinduism, one of the central spiritual practices, is helping the soul remember its unity with the “Divine”. Love in Hinduism is known as “Bhakti” which is considered to be devotional love. When you have a devotion to something so sacred in your life, the context and content of your soul expression can be a real power of healing. Many of the Hindu teachings see love as the pathway through which we as a soul reunites with the “Divine”
I want to continue to explore these different expressions of faith that have captured the soul expression or so many in our humanity. I want to understand how they are interconnected and speak to a universal truth that we somehow fail to see and consequently has thrown us into a tailspin of suspicion, resentment, exclusion, ethnocentrism, and hypocrisy of who we really are in relation to each other.
These expressions were not by original intention meant to divide us, they were meant to find ways to connect with the “Creator”, “The One Source”, “Great Spirit”, “God”. The terms that we have come up with to in sacred eternal relationship, are in the scheme of things really irrelevant and distortions of “Truth”! Let’s continue to explore and find the common ground! This is the only way to sustain our “humanity”
Ashé! Amen! Shalom! Ameen! Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti! Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu! Or Om Mani Padme Hum! Sat Naam! “Alláh-u-Abhá! Mitákuye Oyás’in! Amama u anoa! Hotep!
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”.
# 9- A Thought 4 Thursday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day! Gratitude Grounded in Faith! Not an After-Thought!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
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Thursday, if we remember is the day of the Sacred Aspects of Faith and Expansion. This is the day we express gratitude not after our blessings, but before our blessings are manifested in the visible world- this earthly plane. Our lives are expressed living in a sacred space of gratitude as our means of being in the fullness of who we are and how we want to live our life.
It is the partnership with the “Divine”, because it is by our faith in trusting the unknown and the unseen that are able to express our gratitude and receive the expansion of our heart, what we are capable of envisioning for our life, and the creative imagination of what is possible for our life’s journey.
Living our life through this portal of Gratitude and Faith we become more generous of spirit and are authentically sharing our abundance not from a place of obligation, but from a heart space that is clear and compassionate. I don’t know if you can feel the same pull I feel, that the universe is asking us to sept through this portal because within it lies so much of what can heal and support not only our life, but has the potential of awakening this urgency in the minds and souls of our collective humanity.
It is a network of spiritual energy that is looking for the connections that will not only validate the potential of our collective connection but will act as the agent of change and wholeness that we need as individuals and as humanity as a whole. The vibration of this collective spiritual energetic field force is a channel that once turned on, will catabolite the trajectory of this planet and its inhabitants to the vibrational dimensional status that has been waiting for us to evolve to.
Questions:
How do you feel when you are in a state of gratitude?
How do you feel when you see what your faith has manifested?
How do you feel when you have not hesitated to give unconditionally?
How do you feel when you recognize that your heart, mind and soul has expanded after you thought you could not have been more- more loving- more faithful-more giving-more compassionate?
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. I feel you smiling, and that’s a good thing!
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”.
#8 -A Thought 4 Thursday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day! Faith and Soul Expansion!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
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Thursday is a day of where we deal with the sacred aspects of Faith and Expansion.
This is “Big” work for us, especially I the world we are navigating and experiencing today. Where there is such a mirage that there is validity to the ideology that we lack abundance and that we are operating in a universe that is grounded in “Lack and Limitation”, our faith that teaches us that we are here for expansion of our soul expressions, and that we are covered in the abundance of what “Great Spirit”- “The One Source”- “God”, has endowed us with, there is nothing that we cannot overcome, or evolve from. We chose to come into the physical life form for a reason, and we chose to do this challenging feat at this time because our soul was hungry for more growth and more understanding.
When our souls are not expanding, we grow restless and falter in doing what we came to do, not just for our own personal development, but for the enhancement of our collective humanity. WE are not meant to be stagnate energy and sit in complacency. We are meant to move through the script of this “Master Life Plan” that we are engaged in and come through it victoriously.
We are to be demonstrations of the majesty and brilliance of “The Creator’s” artistry that represents the depths of what love is-peace feels like-joy does, and compassion breeds. There was and always will be an intention by our “Creator” to design each of us uniquely and at the same time weave an unbreakable thread that binds the fabric of our humanity.
The sacred aspects of “Faith” and “Expansion” are the tools we have been given not just to support and guide us through our living “Life” but are the sacred elements that make up that thread that binds our collective life experiences as a humanity. Don’t be afraid of your soul’s need to expand and evolve.
Activate the power of your “Faith”- Faith in who you are and what you can manifest. Don’t shy away from the gifts you have been given for fear failing or really being all “God” intended you to be. The universe has set the stage, “The Creator” has supplied the gifts, you just have to step on to that stage and let the world be blessed by what you hold in your soul.
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. It starts with living in a space of gratitude. Gratitude not after we receive our blessings but before.
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”.
