Tag: god

Categories
Spiritual Observations of Gratitude

I’m Just Sayin- Notes from Beth #72 You Can Make Alterations, but You Can’t Re-Design Our Original Divine Identity. 

We nurture, we guide, we protect,
but we cannot re-design ourselves or anyone else.

This thought has been rolling around in my head for some time as I observe not only children but the adults that I observe as we engage in each other’s lives.  It is not in our best interest to try to re-design what in its original creation, is perfection.  We are created in and by the “mindset” of “Great Spirit”, who is the master of intelligence, artistry, and spiritual wisdom.  We were given all the attributes we need to navigate on our “Divine Life’s Journey”, and we were designed to know that we “are enough”!  We were not designed to have to spend our lifetime trying to make ourselves someone that we are not. Refection and introspection are important undertakings for us to do in our human condition, in order for us to evolve into the fullness of who we are.  I believe to the core of my being that we come here knowing who we are and that our “work” in our physical being is to tap into our “Spiritual” being to work through the challenges of “this world”. 

We are not required to try to change ourselves to meet the expectations or made-up standards of society.  We are who we need to be as part of the humongous fabric of humanity. The “call” is not to change who we are, the “call” is to grow more beautifully into who we are. Look inside to find your truth, not outside at the physical attributes that house your soul.  Your true “self” resides in your “Spirit” and is waiting and wanting, for us to be in alignment with what “Great Spirit” has endowed us to be.   Trust me when I say that trying to be someone that we are not, and putting our energy into re-writing the script of our“Divine Identity and our “Divine Life’s Journey” does not work in the long run.  What a great relief it should be for us to know that we can chose to be our “authentic divine amazing selves” and that we don’t have to try to be who we are not.  It is a waste of our time and energy to delve into things that distract us from going through life as “Great Spirit” designed us to be. 

Be happy for who you are and who you have the potential of becoming.  It’s all there!  Remember how you felt about yourself as a very young child? The essence of our “divine identity” can be called upon if we just reach back and let that knowledge resurge within the “us” of today and tomorrow.

Categories
Spiritual Observations of Gratitude

Sunday Morning Prayers #43. A Mother’s Prayer                     

We hold our children in our arms and in our hearts always.

Dearest Great Spirit,

We are so blessed to have mothers and the purpose and role they play in the design of our humanity! Please endow them with the loving nature, strength, patience, wisdom, grace, discernment, selflessness, nurturing nature, advocacy skill, and communication skills they will need to mother their children! Protect our mother’s and give them the care they need to enrich and sustain their lives!  Let them know you are always within them, beside them, and have gone before them to prepare them for the challenges they will undoubtfully face as a “mother”! 

“Great Spirit”, protect them as they give so much of their life and spiritual energy to their children! Motherhood is a life time commitment and without your support, there is no way we as mothers can navigate this world and keep our children safe and healthy! It’s like mother’s have to have a field force of protection that we cover our children with so when they are not with us physically, we are with them spiritually! This connection with our children is divined! When we step into the position of “Mother”, something clicks within us that is an innate element of our design.  The potential is within us, but that too must be nurtured and protected.
So “Great Spirit”, hear our prayer and incline thy hear to us and grant us thy love, peace, and joy today on Mother’s Day!

Categories
Spiritual Observations of Gratitude

Sunday Morning Prayers-#38. Peace Must Abide in Each of Us If there is to Peace on Earth!

The earth deserves more from us!
Like the creation of humanity, it was gifted to us to
provide us with all the resources to sustain our lives. 
It thrives in peace and implodes when abused and taken advantage of.

Dear “Great Spirit”,

How do we begin to ask for grace and mercy for losing our way and our promise to live life in our “divine identity”?  We have forgotten about the beauty and intelligence that you gifted us with to love one another and to be guardians of this magnificent planet!  Welding up in so many of us is the urgency to find peace and share that “peace that surpassed all understanding” with one another.  The peace that so many of us a desire to live our lives with and through. 

We need that sense of peace to navigate all the uncertainties that life can present us with.  We need that peace to protect our minds, bodies and spirits from disease and pain.  We need that peace to parent our children so that they too can live a healthy and rewarding life.  We need that peace to vibrate across this planet so that people come to a realization, that they are “their brothers and sisters’ keepers”!  We need that peace to “call in righteousness and justice to dissuade people from the temptation of warring against each other.  We need that peace so that our creative gifts can flourish and enhance the beauty and integrity of what it is to be human. We need that peace to awaken within each being their authentic soul’s expression that will bring us back to thee ‘Great Spirit”.  We need your peace “Great Spirit” that peace that is innate to having a relationship with you.  You are the Alpha and the Omega of our existence, and without the tenderness and purity of that relationship, we will never experience that “peace” -that missing piece-we are seeking!

Ashe!  Ashe!  Ashe!  Amen!

Categories
Spiritual Observations of Gratitude

I’m Just Sayin- Notes from Beth #70 The World Needs Us as Women to Step Up to the Plate and Fulfill Our Purpose!

If we awaken to our purpose others will follow!

We must stand in our “Divine Power” and be all that we as women were called to be.

We must teach our girls to value, respect, love themselves, and remember that they too have been called with their own unique purpose to fulfill what is of core value to the sustainability of humanity. We must work with our sons as well to impart to them who they must be and what they must do to make this a better world.  The message is engrained in their DNA, it must just be awakened. Each of us as women are a puzzle piece that completes “Great Spirit’s” plan for humanity and this planet. We must Stand UP! Speak UP! And Show UP!

We as women have forgotten who “Great Spirit” ordained us to be!  We are the nurturers!  We are the peace makers!  We are the creators of problem solving! We birth humanity.  WE were expected to be in partnership with men and are the balance that would have manifested the world God created in the first place! We were tricked into believing we were in second place and a mere after thought in God’s imagination and creativity.  “Great Spirit” endowed us to be more than we are in this world!  When women are awakened from the nightmare that was contrived to make us lose sight of who we were ordained to be- then the world will change! 

We won’t have:

War/hunger/homelessness/generational poverty/racism-in fact all the “isms” will be dismantled/ no more climate change to destroy the planet and send humanity into extinction/ Children will be a priority to care for, respected, and cherished.  The list is too long to enumerate now but know this- God is still talking and God is awakening women to be who they were intended to be. God is still igniting the spiritual energy within women to stand up, Speak up and to Show up, to save all that God created.  We need each other to fulfill God’s real agenda.  It starts with us awakening from our slumber and emerge from the lost memory of our true divine identity and get to WORK!!!

First, we must attend to ourselves and make sure we are physically, emotionally, and spiritually strong and prepared for this era of “Spiritual Warfare”!  I see mankind disrespecting, disregarding, and taunting “Great Spirit! I feel like if Christ was walking this earth right now, he would be on the battlefield with those people and principalities that are saying and doing things in His name that would cause Him to go into a rage like he did outside the temple with the money changers.

This is the “CALL”!  Wake up women! Take seriously that you have a divine purpose! Become your true identity no matter what the circumstances of what you are living now, you are needed to come “Into Yourself”!  You are the missing piece to the puzzle of love’s pure light, redemption, grace, mercy, compassion, and intelligence founded on discernment.  It will amaze you when you wake up and realize this vibration is resonating across the world.  We will fulfill our divine purpose. 

Categories
TINY TIPS 4 MOMS AND DADS

Tiny Tips for Moms and Dads #65 What are the Important Character Traits that We Want to Support Our Children Developing in their “Divine Identity”?

There are so many teaching moments if we are in the
present and engaged with our children.

I wrote a blog this week entitled “Whose Footsteps are Worthy of You Following on Your

Divine Life’s Journey?  It was a reflection on the principles that I strive to demonstrate or execute in my life. As for me I have found that the principles that Christ called us to emulate resonate with me.  These simple elements in His character are what I strive to demonstrate in my own life, and they are the principles by which I raised my child, engage with my family, friends, or strangers I encounter on my path.  I demonstrated these elements in my “purpose” career when I taught teachers to teach children and when I work in advocacy for children and parents.  The principles are simple and straight forward. 

So many times, I have people who ask me to address the current condition of how our children are interacting in the world with negative behavior that sometimes evolves into violent acts of crime and destruction.  They ask me why the children now seem to have no respect for anyone or anything.  I am giving that concern some real inner conversation and deliberation.  I see what they are referring to and I know where some of the anger and pain is coming from.  I hear my mother saying to me since childhood, “Start out the way you want to end up”!

 We as parents and caregivers lay the foundation for how our children will respond to the world and ultimately how the world will respond to them if they don’t have the social emotional development and the social graces to navigate this unforgiving world.  It is true when it is said that with children-“all eyes are on us” their parents and caregivers.  They have so many expectations for who we are to them, the family they represent, their community, and most importantly to who they are authentically to and for ourselves.  They pick up on all the nuisances of who we are and what our human limitations are.  As children, they don’t get the full picture, but they do begin to imitate what they see us do and what they hear us say.  Actually, at times it can be like looking on a mirror and that can be frightening but the reveal can be our saving grace. Every parent has to decide what character “tools” they want their child to have to honor and respect themselves and others on their “divine journey”.  These are the elements that I have tried to demonstrate that resonate with my soul expression:

  1. Compassionate
  2. In service to humanity-Selflessness
  3. Loving Unconditionally
  4. Forgiving
  5. Gentleness
  6. Patience
  7. Humble
  8. Agent of Peace
  9. Honest and Trustworthy
  10. Dependable
  11. Grateful
  12. Generous
  13. Thoughtfulness
  14. Reverence
  15. Discernment- Wisdom

Categories
Spiritual Observations of Gratitude

Sunday Morning Prayers-#31 The Mind and Heart of Discernment that Protects Our Soul’s Expression!

Always tune into the still quiet voice that resides in your soul!
It will never fail you if you stay in tune with your gift of discernment.        

“Great Spirit”,

Bless us on our divine life’s journey as we try to navigate this world and our ever-evolving life style that usually requires us to surrender all to thee!  We are compelled to rely on our gift of discernment.  We have to be cognizant of our actions and the actions and engagements we have with others.  We need to be sensitive and aware of what is and is not good for our best interest so that we make the right decisions, engage with people that enhance and enrich our life experiences in contrast to people that would have us do things that are not in alignment with our divine identity and divine purpose.  We have a responsibility to look at situations, people and environments, and assess what is appropriate for our well-being.  There are situations and people that can alter the divine plan or path of our life. 

We need to be discerning and love and respect ourselves enough that we make good choices.  The operative words and actions to remember are discernment and choices.  We are gifted discernment, and we mature into our ability to make choices for ourselves.  We have a choice in our choices.  “Great Spirit”, support us in tapping into our ability to use our discernment.  Support us in listening to your still quiet voice that speaks to our soul.  Call us into the quietness of your presence so that we have the time and space to listen and obey. Incline thine ear to us and grant us thy peace!  Ashe! Ashe! Ashe!

Categories
Spiritual Observations of Gratitude

Sunday Morning Prayers-#29 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Beauty of “Great Spirits” Creations!

Thank you, “Great Spirit”, for the beauty of this earth and all it provides for the substance and stainability of humanity!
This is the majesty of the God I serve!

“Great Spirit”,

From the heavens above you adorn the sky with the beauty of your infinite artistry.  We are so blessed to have not only the physical vision to see what you created on our behalf, but instilling in us the spiritual gratitude that you endowed us with to appreciate this gift.  I realize in our human condition that we more than often are so over stimulated and overwhelmed, that we forget to take stock of what is “right before our eyes! We are truthfully blessed when we take the time to just look up toward the sky, walk beside a running creek, take a walk on the sands of the beach, or stand on top of a hilltop and gaze at the masterpiece of nature that lays its canvas all around you.

“Great Spirit”, our prayer today is to rekindle within us, the desire, the time and the space to listen to that still small voice within us that tells us to take the time to be present in our lives so that we can benefit from all that you have provided for us! Ashe!  Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

P.S. This picture was taken from my balcony! How blessed could I be to have had this moment in God’s presence?

Categories
Spiritual Observations of Gratitude

Not Just A Sunday Morning Prayer, but A Prayer for the Principles, Practices and Purpose of the Life of Jesus Christ!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The time is coming again, when we as a humanity have the opportunity to reset the essence of our lives to encompass those principles, practices, and our own individual divine purpose , that will alter the trajectory of this world from what it is to what “Great Spirit” intended it to be.

“Great Spirit”,

I am so excited.  I know you probably are the only one that understands how absolutely wonderful this season of life is.  I know you have made the ultimate sacrifice for us-your children- and we can’t thank you enough.  The concept that after thousands of years, the relevance of His life is still important to so many people, says volumes of how amazing You are in our lives and in this world. I think why I get so excited is because I see this as an opportunity to reconnect with and highlight the qualities of His character and the values and principles that He sought to share with us that would not only guide, enrich, and sustain our lives, but would ultimately reunite the sanctity of our humanity. 

He taught Grace.

He taught Unconditional Love.

He taught Compassion. 

He taught Justice. 

He taught Peace.

He taught Forgiveness.

He taught caring for each other as we would want others to care for us.

 If we but give ourselves permission to embrace these principles, practices, and values, we can as a collective and as an individual, change the vibration from what it is to where it should be.  The more we make an effort to bring these elements into fruition, the higher the planetary vibration, and consequently we will shift the consciousness of humanity and “the world will be a better place for you and me”!  That’s all “Great Spirit” wants for us and from us. This is the “rebirth”! This is the significance of this night!

I pray each of you have blessed holidays and that each of us pray for these principles to be manifested all over the world.  We can make a difference!

Thank You “Great Spirit” for the gift of this life!

Ashe! Ashe! Ashe! Amen!