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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!

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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. 

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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

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Sunday Morning Prayers-#32                    We have Got to Believe that “God is Still in Charge” and Our Faith and Trust in You Shall See Us Through!

We have to put our faith into action,
 so that we provide the world our children need.

“Great Spirit”,

It is by our faith and trust in thee “Great Spirit”, that we shall not only overcome the tides and twisted and turns of this life’s experiences, but by living a life in faith and in trust in thee, we will be able to live our lives in “the present so that we are living in the Presence”!  We are in a position to make a conscious decision to surrender our expectations, anxieties, frustrations, and  apprehensions, to our “Faith” based life practice.  It is a “practice” because in our human design, we are challenged with trying to be in control of all areas of our life and the situations that impact our life. 

It is difficult to surrender control and trust in anyone but ourselves “Great Spirit”, but that is where we make our biggest mistake!  There is no way we can control when, how, and why, things come into our lives that challenge the strength and tenacity of our faith and trust in thee.  We have to allow you to intercede and trust that with You, “all things are possible”.  Faith and trust in your love and devotion to us, gives us the fortitude to lean in and on our relationship with you. Walk with us “Great Spirit”!  Talk to us “Great Spirit”! Make yourself known to our “Spirit” so that we feel the power of your love in us, and for us!  The faith and trust we have in “Great Spirit” is our shield of amour and protection! Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

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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!

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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?

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Sunday Morning Prayers-#28 Love Begets Love-Why then do we ignore the power it holds to sustain our humanity?

Children have the key to the unlimited unconditional art of expressing “Love”.  It is an amazing gift to behold.

“Great Spirit”,

Open our hearts and our minds so that we might be remember how to love with the same grace, compassion, and non-judgment as children do.  Help us to come to an understanding that all there really is that can restore our humanity, is “LOVE”.  Children bathe themselves in love and are not afraid to shower the people they have an affection for and trust in, with love.  They give it freely and each child has their own unique way of showing how they love someone.  The constant in their expression of loving someone is that they are fearless in actually saying”, “I love you”!  I love it “Great Spirit” how even the youngest of children are able to express love and affection.  I love it when I hear my youngest little niece- Aouluna say, ”I love you”! 

“Great Spirit”, help us as adults to find a way to reach back to our authentic selves and love one another and support our children in this world to hold on to their gift of “loving” and receiving “love”!  Let us remember that “love begets love” and that it can be contagious! The truth is –“that all there really is- is LOVE”.  

Ashe!  Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

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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!