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”.
# 9- A Thought 4 Friday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day! The Seven Sacred Aspects of Friday Stemming from Love and Harmony!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
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We know Friday to hold 7 sacred aspects that usher Love and Harmony into our lives.
Love in Action
Beauty as Healing
Relationship Repair
Joy
Gentleness
Self-Worth
Connection
Over the last 8 weeks we have touched on these elements or aspects of sacredness of what we can experience through the vibration of Friday. The anchor line that Friday holds for us is that it is a day in which we remember that love is what makes everything else matter. Quoting my sister Lark, she told us as she transitioned that- “If you could see what I see, and know what I know, then you would understand that all there really is -is Love”. Today we are being called by “Great Spirit” to put that “Love in Action” so that we have peace and harmony in our lives.
We are being given the give of freedom from burdens, misunderstandings, fragile egos, misplaced values, lack of self-worth, and a mindset of lack and limitation. “Great Spirit’ had no intention for us to live outside of Love and Compassion. It was the intention of the “Divine” that because we were created by “Love” and that our soul energy is fueled “With Love and By “Love”, that is unnatural for us to come from places of hatred, and low-self-esteem that drives us to live outside of our soul expression with an effort to separate us from that which created us.
It is so much work to be angry and hateful. People who live in these emotions and ideologies, are living their life in their “pain bodies”, and that is a life wasted and a gift returned to “Source”.
We don’t have to live out of “Harmony” with ourselves, other people, and most importantly, out of sync with the “One Source”- “Great Spirit”- “God”. We don’t really have the time or luxury to waste this gift of life wrapped in psychological pain that in turn destroys the beauty of an amazing “Soul”. This is the time we need to concentrate on realigning ourselves with these 7 Sacred Aspects that is being offered us today-Friday- that will pull us into “Love”, “Harmony”, and a “Peace”, that surpasses all understanding. Won’t you step into that sacred space?
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”.
#6 -A Thought 4 Sunday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day! “This Little Light Of Mine, I’m Gonna Let It Shine”!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
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Sunday is the day week where we can allow light to touch what has been wearing heavy in our mind, heart, and soul. This is the “Letting God Gift” that Sunday provides for us. It is an opportunity to stop and reflect on what has been laying heavily in our psyche, impacting our heart, which weighs in on our physicality, and then disrupts the joy and peace that our soul holds that grounds our purpose and identity deserve.
We are light beings and when the woes of the world try to diminish that light, we are in a fight or flight modality of existence. WE were not created to live in constant despair and chaos. We were not meant to live in shadows and let things that like us to feel we are powerless, to inhabit the domains of our life-mind-body-emotions-spirit.
Our essence belongs to only “Our Creator” and “US”. We don’t just survive living and radiating in “Light”- we thrive when we allow “Light” to permeate every aspect of our being. This “Light” is sacred and accessible when we acknowledge that it is who we are and the power it has to bring us back into homeostasis with our divinity.
When we live in that “Light”, when we walk in that “Light”, when we express ourselves through that “Light”, because we think and respond in that “Light”, we are more ourselves and things that try to overcome that “Light” that glows within us, as the elders have said- “WE shall not be moved”!
When I would drop my daughter Niki off for school as a child my parting words for her was always, “Don’t let anyone rain on your parade or cast shadows on your light. Radiate from the inside out, and make this day be a day of joy because you are loved”. Well, you know mothers know, and up to this day, I will text Niki and recite our little phase to make sure she holds steadfast to her light!
So as you reflect on the things that are on your heart, mind, and soul, today, “Let go and let your light which comes from “The Light of the Creator”, so shine within you, that the things that were weighing you down and burdening you, become weightless and insignificant because as is all things in your life you are covered by the “Light” which is always handling things in “Divine right order”!
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”.
#6 -A Thought 4 Friday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day! Loving Wisely and Authentically-
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
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Friday calls us to remember that love is an action, not a sentiment so that we love unconditionally, without judgment and biases that separate us from each other. Oh you know I love this because it is how I was taught from childhood what love is and how to recognize and appreciate when you are loved and when you have the opportunity to demonstrate to someone that you truly love them. You see this is how children love naturally. We somehow through the trials and tribulations of our own lives as adults, get tainted from what we encounter and how we respond to this virtually unloving world.
The beauty of us awakening to the reality that we have the wherewithal to manifest the kind of life for ourselves that will afford us to remember how to rail in some of who we were and who we have the potential of being by sensing how we saw the beauty and grace in the world, before the world saw us, and took us hostage to be not “in the world”, “but of the world”.
WE don’t have to live in that unsacred existence. We can reactivate the tenderness and expansiveness of the qualities of who we were and how we loved as children. We can know joy; we can feel what real love looks like and in return love like we did instinctually. The expressions of loving and genuinely being loved as children, fed our souls and we felt like we were “Super Power Love Agents”. WE loved with our hearts and souls and not with our minds. We identified with those who demonstrated their love for us in ways that strengthened our ability to love in a space of joy.
I am not saying that children love everybody without discernment. For the most part, children have a built-in radar system that kind of forewarns them when a person carries a negative vibration. I have observed this alarm system go off in real time experiences. There are exceptions but for the most part in normal situations they can sense if someone is not a “loving spirit”! The reaction can be visceral. It is a real balancing act for parents because they want their children to hold on to the beauty of their childhood and at the same time, they have to teach them to protect themselves in this upside down-inside out world that they have to navigate.
As adults we too have to balance how we allow ourselves to be open and receptive to loving and being loved. That alarm system is still inside of us and finding ways to be authentic in loving and being loved as an adult, calls for discernment and being receptive when it is demonstrated by right actions coming from a truthfully healthy soul expression so that we can be that in return. Love wisely and receive only love that is wise and honorable in return.
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”.
#5 -A Thought 4 Friday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day! “Beauty and Grace”!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
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Friday calls us to be convicted in our belief that beauty and grace heals what effort exhausts. I can relate to this on so many levels. Yesterday when blogging about gratitude and taking time to name my blessings one by one, the list seemed to never end. Sometimes when I stand outside on my balcony and gaze at the sky, I am overwhelmed at the beauty that is in my eyes view. I cannot even put into words how the feeling that the grace I have been given in my life experiences in conjunction with the beauty that surrounds me not just in nature, but in the spiritual beauty of the people that are the grounding cords of love and support in my life mean to me.
It is the beauty that fills my daughter’s soul expressions of caring for me in gentle thoughtful ways. It is the love between mother and child that no other bond can compare to. It is the steadfast love and gestures of attention and devotion that my siblings bring to my life that I know intuitively are eternal relationships. It is the love expressions of my nieces that are always ready to pitch in to help me whenever they can lend their gifts to support my work and their concern that I am ok. It is the love and laughter of my grand nephews and niece – who I consider to be more like my grandchildren because we are so intimately connected to one another, that keep me young not just at heart, but physically to keep up with the demands of all the things they insist I do. It is the love and admiration that my closest of cousins and friends have given me that throughout my life that has supported my “Work”.
When you can see the beauty and grace in a person’s soul, you have encountered a healing agent that is making a difference in the world. We are so blessed to have inherited this planet, but we are even more blessed when we acknowledge the beauty within each of us and find ways to honor and respect how that beauty and grace affects our lives. We need to be intentional about recognizing that essence in each other, because sometimes that presents an opening for that person to shine their light and grace the world with the beauty of their soul. We are all destained in our original design to be healing agents of love and grace, we just need to step into the wholeness of who we are. Oh, how this world needs us to shine our beauty and share our grace.
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”.
#5 -A Thought 4 Thursday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day! Gratitude!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
Thursday is a day in which we can take stock of the elements in our life that we are grateful for. We actually do take a lot of things for granted. Little things in our life that seem so natural for us to have that we are not conscious that so many other people have a different life experience that finds them in poverty, homeless, addicted to things that have destroyed the quality and vibrance of their lives. We go about our day not empathetically conscious that there are children all over this planet without families to care for them, food and clothing to protect their bodies and sustain their health. How often do we say to ourselves I am so grateful that I don’t have to listen to bombs blasting all around me fearing for my life.
I had a dear friend from Iran who that suffered from PTSD. We became friends as new teachers in a preschool class and co-taught. She was one of the gentlest most loving teachers I ever had the honor of teaching with. The closer our friendship grew, the more she revealed to me the things she had experienced in her own childhood. She was always on guard and hypersensitive about the children we were left to care for. I can’t imagine why in this day and age, children are still experiencing these travesties. We have in this country so much to be grateful for, even as we are being held hostage by a heartless regime.
I am not happy about the state of our country and what is being perpetrated here and across this planet that is causing crimes against humanity, but at the same time I have to pause and be grateful that I have the consciousness and the soul to recognize how blessed I am. I don’t want to take anything for granted. I feel that by living in a state of gratitude it has allowed me the strength to speak out on behalf of those who are not living the life they deserve because of the conditions of a broken humanity. I know this is a little heavy, but I have to write and speak what my soul wants to express.
Today, Thursday, is calling for us to put our gratitude into action. There is something each of us can do today in the fabric of this day to bring to light what we are grateful for and what we want to make our humanity healed and viable. We need to highlight that there is still more beauty, still more possibilities of loving and being loved, still more abundance for all if we but care and share, still more avenues and resources available to fill in the voids and heal the ills that our world is facing. We are not powerless! We are not fragile and impotent! We are not ignorant- we see what we see-we hear what we hear- and we know truth from lies- and evil from good!
Count your blessings and take the time to name them one by one. Show the world what gratitude looks like-feels like – and what living in gratitude reaps not for just yourself but for others. The power of gratitude can move mountains and quiet the angry seas of greed and misuse of fraudulent powers. Each of us have been ordained to be “The Truth and the Light” of the power of Love. Don’t waste it embrace it!
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.
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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”.
#3 -A Thought 4 Tuesday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
Tuesday is a day where we are being called to speak because if we are silent, it would be harmful to us personally or perhaps harmful for others. I know that in some circumstances it is difficult if not dangerous to put ourselves on the line and speak our truth, but sometimes our “Soul” tells us that we don’t have a choice. There are going to be times in our lives when we have serious life-changing decisions to make that might alter the course of our life, or at least it feels like and looks like to us that what we say will be more like a repercussion than a moment of evolvement on our soul’s journey.
The truth is that yes there will be an impact when we speak “Our Truth”, and whether it is a “Truth” in our personal lives, or a “Truth” to support someone else’s life, it is an action that was part of our “Destiny Soul Evolution”. Speaking up or out for takes courage and tenacity. These are elements of our “Divined Design” that are critical to our character and growth. “Great Spirit” does not expect us to “SIT” on what we have been endowed with! “The One Source”, our gracious and omnipotent creator, has poured so much into all of who we are, physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually, that there is nothing in who we are that is lack and limitation.
It is our choosing of who we want to manifest in this life’s journey that differentiates us from one another. Tuesday represents the invitation to be bold in your life and share your authentic amazing understanding of what is right from wrong, just or unjust. Believe me when I say, that once you open up and live in alignment with what your soul is calling you out to do and be in this world, you will never relinquish the power, the beauty, the expression of love, and compassion that occupies your “Soul”. It does not get better than that! It is total liberation!
Ashé! Have a Blessed day walking in your “Truth”!
Go Gently! Breathe Deeply!
Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Sooth. Vol.8 Summer Yoga”
#2 -A Thought 4 Monday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
Monday as a day for “Attunement” and finding a sense of “harmony and transformation” as we move through Monday which sets the pace and quality of our lives. Oh, what a great opportunity this day provides for us. What a great way to start our week. If it is our intention to operate in a space of harmony so that we are in alignment with all that is positive and life giving in our day, we come through the day at peace and not exhausted from having to fight endless battles of discord that are constantly trying to engage us in “foolishness”!
We don’t have time to be distracted or taken out of our joy and peace. We are the light that transforms the dark. We are the transformers that are busy bringing wholeness and a sense of harmony in this world that is upside down and inside out. We are intentional about living a life worth living because we know ultimately, we are not doing this alone. There is more that we can see. There is more that we can hear. There is always more truth and knowledge to seek that supports the beauty and grace of the fabric of our lives.
Take today, this Monday, to set the pace of your week. Have a good day and know that you are being blessed in some way no matter what might come your way.
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.
Go Gently! Breathe Deeply!
Ashé! Have a Blessed Day!
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”.
#2 A Thought 4 Sunday To Carry You Through This Beautiful Day!
Each Day In Your Life is Unique!
Sunday provides a resurrection energy for our daily life experiences. Sunday provides us the opportunity to return to the “Source” from which we were created. This is truly a day we need to intentionally set aside a time and space to return to the “One Source”.
Tying ourselves to a particular religion does not in any way supersede our original connection with “Great Spirit”. That is a “WOMB” connection. That is a “Creation” connection that was in us from before our earthly birth. Nothing ever can really separate us from that from which we were designed, created to be on both the physical and spiritual elements of our being.
Somehow in our infinite wisdom to seek a sense of superiority and separate ourselves from one another, the human manufacturing of religious doctrines has been the tool to follow the imperfections of our intellect and abandon the perfection of our souls. We were designed to be in communion with each other.
“Great Spirit” is constantly calling us back unto itself to resurrect that original design of our total being- mind, body, and spirit. We need time to hear ourselves think. We need time to “Have a Little Talk With The One Source”. We need time to check in with ourselves and reflect and evaluate if we are moving and living within our divine purpose and divine identity, or are we living outside of ourselves and have allowed the world to take possession of our soul.
Take a little time today to resurrect who you really are and how you really want to be and live in this life experience. You are a light that must not be dimmed and dismissed.
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!
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”.
