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Sunday Morning Prayers-# 63. We are Being Called to Gather Our Families Together for Healing, Understanding, Compassion, and Unconditional Love.  We are More Than a “Family”, We are a “Legacy Tribe”, in Relationship With One Another From One Lifetime to Another.

We are one amazing lineage that travels from one lifetime experience to the next.  This relationship is not by chance but by “Great Spirit’s” “Divine Design”!  We are blessed!

Dear “Great Spirit”,

I don’t know the why, but I do know that this prayer today came up in my spirit.  I know by now that when this happens, it is your voice, “Great Spirit”, that is moving within me.  I hear the pain and disappointment in your voice as you survey the conditions of our family life.  I understand the frustration in the vibration of your spirit, when you see the devastation and death you see that some families are experiencing that are beyond their control.  Families are trying to navigate the chaos and destruction of this spiritual warfare that is plaguing our world.  Families are dealing with being displaced from their homes, families, and communities that should be able to support one another.  Families are dealing with trying to navigate loss of income and jobs that have sent them into a state of homelessness.  Children are struggling with trying to find ways to be happy, healthy, and whole in this world that has forgotten that they should be a priority to humanity.  These conditions have angered and disappointed “Great Spirit”. 

We have been given so many gifts as human beings that we should really should not be in this position.  However, the greatest concern is that those families that are not experiencing this level of devastation, are still not functioning as “Great Spirit” had envisioned for us. Those of us that are fortunate enough to have an intact families have to commit to working intentionally and purposefully to protect and nurture our relationships with each other.  We have to remember that communication is key to us having healthy, loving, and respectful relationships. 

We have to be in tune with what the important elements to this family relationship require.  We have to be willing to love each other unconditionally void of judgment and “already knowing kind of hearing that keeps us from really listening to each other”.  We have to be open and receptive to each other knowing that each person in our family has different personalities and different emotional needs.  We cannot allow our egos and pride, give way to resolving any differences and misunderstandings we have, stop us from letting our love for each other override any impasse that threatens the texture of the fabric of our family relationship.

 In other words, we are living in grace, mercy, and gratefulness and when you we are fortunate to be in a loving family, “To those that much have been given, much is expected”.  I am not saying that these “loving families” don’t have challenges, because they do, but it is worth the effort to invest in each other.  Grounding ourselves in these “Family Tribes” we have been gifted with, makes our life experience special and unique because no two families have the same “Divine Master Plan” because they are designed, created, and given their purpose differently.  Hold on to your family with all its imperfections and flaws because no matter what, “each family member carries a piece of you in their lineage”.

Ashé!   Ashé!!   Ashé!!!   Amen!!!!

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Mama said, “Stop Complaining and Just Do Something Constructive”! Day 48 -ADC 24. Kamala is Feeding Us Joy and Hope Because that is the Texture of her Soul Expression.

We need Joy!  We need hope!

We need “Joy” and “Hope” in our lives so that we can navigate the chaos and confusion of this world that we are being challenged with.  It gives us a reason to pursue our dreams and aspirations.  It gives us the willingness to strive for what is the multitude of possible potentials for our life experience.  It is the food that our soul yearns for.  It keeps us in balance and in harmony with not just ourselves but with the people that we choose and don’t choose to engage with.  It supports our ability to look beyond what is present and to know that there is always going to be a “tomorrow”, and that within a twinkling of an eye things can be resolved.  We believe with the support of what is positive, joy filled, and hopeful, that we are resilient and can overcome the most profound experiences in our life that could have thrown us into despair.  We see the light at the end of the tunnel because we come to the realization that we do have control of what we allow to take our consciousness captive.  We are more powerful as awakened individuals and a collective consciousness of  joy and hope. 

Unfortunately, not all of us are in this state of consciousness and have given their power to define their life experiences to others.  As I see it, these are people who think that their circumstances of life is caused by external forces and people, who are blamed to be accountable for the condition of their life.  Our political opponent that is seeking the Presidency, knows how to feed their insecurities, lack of self-esteem, and their non-productive “isms”, that they use to fill the voids in their life. 

So, they are fed-

Fear

Inadequacy

Self-Hatred clothed in a misconception of being superior

Despair

Hopelessness

Judgement as a tool to avoid accountability

Manipulation of what is truthful, so they do not think things through with critical thinking skills.

Falsely making them believe that they will dine at that table of thieves, liars, and felons.  They will never grace that table to share in the feast of abundance that was bought off their desire to be in the mix with the “reality show host”.   They are being used until they no longer need them as a staircase to power.

I actually feel a sense of fear for them because when they waken from the mystique of this “Mega Sideshow”, they will have lost so much.  It is an abusive relationship, but they are not yet aware of how dangerous this alignment with this “cult”, will cost them. 

We have to stand in our “Joy” and “Hope”, because they are going to need refuge from this devasting catastrophe! 

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Breaking News!! It’s A New Day!!! October 7th, 2024 – Day 53- Try a Little Tenderness!

The “Boys” show us what Just a little tenderness looks like.
 

How sweet it is to be loved and cared for with “just a little tenderness”.  The thread of “Tenderness”, that makes us as human beings so in touch with our authentic selves, seems to have disappeared from the fabric of our lives that we are tending to.  You even see it in the animal kingdom as you watch some species tend to their young with a sort of ethereal connection.  We have that ability to be tender with each other if we are first loving and tender to ourselves.  We have to experience the act of tenderness to actually know what it feels like on the receiving end and what it does for us on a psychological, physiological and spiritual level. 

To be tender and loving in your nature of your being, does not mean you are weak or insincere, on the contrary it takes great courage and a strong sense of confidence and awareness of yourself to be able to be vulnerable and open to what sometimes might be rejection of the attention.  So many of us are not accustomed to being treated with tenderness and compassion.  It is not a given in this world right now that people will show tenderness and kindness to each other.  However, that does not mean we are not capable of giving and receiving the acts of tenderness.  Tenderness is wrapped in unconditional love. 

Tenderness is wrapped in being sensitive and aware of your needs and the needs of others.  When we were children being tender and caring, was more natural and is given without forethought or conditions.  It is only as their experiences tell them to refrain from being authentically themselves that this ability of tenderness and kindness can diminished.  Oh!!!! If only we could keep those amazing elements of our Divine Identity” in our state of childhood into adulthood, our soul expression would be what it was ordained to be in the first place.  

Always live your full life daily and intentionally!  Always be in touch with your “Divine Identity” for you will see the world differently and respond to it in a way that brings you joy and peace.

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Breaking News!! It’s A New Day!!!  September 24th, 2024- Day 42 Happiest of Daughter’s Day

Today is a day that “Great Spirit” has ordained for your life and soul expression.

You hold them in your arms when they are little
It is one relationship that is worth the investment!

Daily Mantra:

There is nothing you do not have the potential of accomplishing and manifesting that are the true desires of your heart.  We are each entitled to live a full, joy filled, and purposeful life.  Take hold of who your “divine identity” is, and your “divine life’s destiny plan and journey and will bless you and the world will be blessed.

Chat for the day: 

I woke up this morning to find out it was “Happy Daughter’s Day”, and it caused me to just sit in a smile for a while as I reflected on my life’s journey with my daughter Nicole Angel!  It is amazing to have the gift of sharing your life with the love and respect of a daughter.  I think it means different things for Moms and Dads because there is a special kind of connection between Moms and daughters that I can’t really explain.  I don’t know if it is because we as women can identify with the unique elements of being a woman.  We have shared experiences with our daughters at different stages of our life. When we bond with each other in this special relationship, I cannot express how beautiful and fulfilling it can be.  They say that the cells of our children that we birth stay in our blood till eternity.  Can you imagine how deep that relationship has the potential of being.  I treasure my relationship with my daughter and feel so blessed to have been given the gift to be her vessel to enter this earthly plain. 

Dads have their own special connection to their daughters.  Innately, most fathers feel like they are their daughter’s protectors.  They are the ones who take it upon themselves to make sure they are cared for in terms of their security not just physically but financially.  Fathers can have the advantage of reading and identifying with the other males which can give them an advantage in protecting, nurturing and guiding their daughters in learning how to be discerning in their own relationships. 

So today as we celebrate the gift of having our daughters, let’s do something special for them like:

Text them a love note

Write them a love note and send it to them- I still have love notes from my mother

Send them candy or flowers

Cook them their favorite meal

Do whatever is your special little something between the two of you

I know that my sisters feel the same way about their daughters as well.  I can see the imprint we have had on each of them.  I can see how this is an eternal relationship is real from our own family life experiences.  I count my Niki as my greatest life blessing!

The principle to live by that will support our destiny path is -opening our hearts to love

My “New Day Intentions” to nourish, enhance, and care for my: Spirit-Body-Mind

Spiritual Development:

  • Today I am setting an intention to evolve spiritually by engaging in an experience, event or circumstance that will enhance my “soul development”.  I will:

    Physical Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to have an opportunity to care for myself in my physical body. I will:

    Mind-Cognitive Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to nourish and enhance the insight and knowledge that my mind needs to be healthy, happy, and whole.  I will:

    My intention today is to have a day of:

    These are the intentions that I manifested today that brought me:

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    Breaking News!! It’s A New Day!!!  September 19th, 2024- Day 37

    Today is a day that “Great Spirit” has ordained for your life and soul expression.

    Our “Soul Light” is not impacted by the physical world if we commit to the understanding that our “light” is eternal and even in the presences of clouds and the darkness of night, our “Light” shines through.

    Daily Mantra:

    There is nothing you do not have the potential of accomplishing and manifesting that are the true desires of your heart.  We are each entitled to live a full, joy filled, and purposeful life.  Take hold of who your “divine identity” is, and your “divine life’s destiny plan and journey and will bless you and the world will be blessed.

    Chat for the day: 

    We all have a “divine light” that resides in our soul expression that is meant to be shared with the world.  We come to this reality with that light, and it is eternal.  It is the essence of our soul and the connection to “Great Spirit” so that no matter what we think or experience in life, that connection is never fully severed.  It can have shadows that overcast its brilliance at times, but it is never fully extinguished.  We have to care for ourselves in ways that are not simply our physiology, but we have a responsibility to care for our soul and the light that sustains its “purpose” and our “divine identity”.  We cannot live the fullness of our life if we disconnect from that “Light”. 

    The beauty of our “Soul Light” comes through our smile, our gentility, our compassion, our kindness, and the joy we share with others.  It is the rays of this “Soul Light”, that have a vibration that can when shared, bring light where there was darkness.  Shine your light my friends. Let it radiate every day and everywhere. Don’t hide it and don’t let anyone cast shadows on your “Soul Light” and deter you from living your “best life”.  It’s a birthright!

    The principle to live by that will support our destiny path is- shine the light from within

    My “New Day Intentions” to nourish, enhance, and care for my: Spirit-Body-Mind

    Spiritual Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to evolve spiritually by engaging in an experience, event or circumstance that will enhance my “soul development”.  I will:

    Physical Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to have an opportunity to care for myself in my physical body. I will:

    Mind-Cognitive Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to nourish and enhance the insight and knowledge that my mind needs to be healthy, happy, and whole.  I will:

    My intention today is to have a day of:

    These are the intentions that I manifested today that brought me:

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    Breaking News!! It’s A New Day!!!  September 10th, 2024- Day 29

    Today is a day that “Great Spirit” has ordained for your life and soul expression.

    There is light forth coming at the dawn of our lives as “Truth” frees our souls!

    Daily Mantra:

    There is nothing you do not have the potential of accomplishing and manifesting that are the true desires of your heart.  We are each entitled to live a full, joy filled, and purposeful life.  Take hold of who your “divine identity” is, and your “divine life’s destiny plan and journey and will bless you and the world will be blessed.

    Chat for the day:  Let the Light of your soul shine so that “Truth prevails”!

    I am announcing that I am proclaiming this to be “Stand in your Truth Day”!  This is a day that calls each of us to use our common sense that is rooted in our discernment and intuition, to think critically and clearly!  We must reach back into the depth of our souls and bring forth the “God-Great Spirit” energy that sustains our life and speak the truth!  We must search for the “Truth”.  We must evaluate what is said to “Be the truth”, and we must not subject ourselves to anyone’s lies that will taint the beauty and divinity of our soul expression.  We must walk in “Truth”.  We must speak only the “Truth”, and we must always call out those among us that are waging war, chaos, confusion, and manipulation, in order to turn “Truth” into “lies”.  We cannot sustain and protect our own divinity if we succumb to things that would destroy and deplete the beauty of our “divine identity”.

    We were so carefully designed and created for a higher vibrational expression that was and is birth in the “Truth of who we are.  Never stand for someone deceiving you or depriving you to live your life outside of the value and purpose of “Truth”.  “Stand up and call out what is and is not “Truthful”!  Speak up and share “Your Truth” that reflects the honesty and forthrightness of your life, in all your engagements and actions.  Show up in places of darkness and let the light of “Truth” prevail so that what is “Truth reflecting “Great Spirit”, permeates the darkness and frees the souls of those that were engulfed in the pain and distortion of lies!  Let your light so shine that the world knows who you were and what you did to share your light and heal the world.

    The principle to live by that will support our destiny path is: Truth-

    My “New Day Intentions” to nourish, enhance, and care for my: Spirit-Body-Mind

    Spiritual Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to evolve spiritually by engaging in an experience, event or circumstance that will enhance my “soul development”.  I will:

    Physical Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to have an opportunity to care for myself in my physical body. I will:

    Mind-Cognitive Development:

    • Today I am setting an intention to nourish and enhance the insight and knowledge that my mind needs to be healthy, happy, and whole.  I will:

    My intention today is to have a day of:

    These are the intentions that I manifested today that brought me:

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    Tiny Tips for Moms and Dads #75 The Gift of Parenthood.

    Our children are the greatest and most precious gift that we can be endowed with!

    “It is important that our children value their heritage on which they stand, so that they have a grounding cord on which to build their future. 

    My Mother said;

    “To know where you are going in life, first understand where you have come from. 

    You are standing on the shoulders of your elders”.

    I am going to run a series for a couple of weeks that align with my book, “Embracing the Gift of Parenthood, How to Create a Loving Relationship with your Children.”

    I will take each section of the book and use the journal that will be published next year so set up the content and context of the book to give you an opportunity to use the blogs to get a head start.   I will start by sharing the poem that is the foundation on the book and its mission.

    My hope is that you will take your time and answer the questions that are posed and collect them in a personal journal.

    Realize

    I realize I’ve been given the gift to be your parent and as your parent I realize this is a life time commitment.

    I realize this means I have the responsibility to be your lifetime earthly ‘Spirit Guide”.

    I realize you are a gift given to me great intention and you and I are connected by design.

    I realize you are expecting me to take my responsibility seriously and understand I cannot be your friend and “Spirit Guide” at the same time.

    I realize you are expecting me to love you, guide you, support you, and discipline you, with consistency and continuity.  I realize I must follow through with what I proclaim to be truth, justice, integrity and genuine love for you, so you will ultimately develop your own sense a conscious and values.

    I realize I must be very intentional in spending time with you, praying with you, playing with you, laughing with you, crying with you, listening to you, and problem solving with you.

    I realize I have a responsibility to provide for you- to make sure you have all the resources and experiences you need to be a whole, healthy, happy and confident human being.

    I realize you are not me and I am not you and as your “Spirit Guide” I have a responsibility to observe you and discover who you are and what “Great Spirit” has ordained you to contribute to society so I can support you on your journey to “Greatness”.

    I realize you came here knowing who you are and what you must do and if I honor and respect you and if I demand that others do the same, you will blossom into your full expression of beauty and this world will be a better place because of you.

    I realize I have a responsibility to be all I can be so you will know I expect you to do the same.

    I realize our love for each other will last beyond this life time and the next and what we build with each other today will last forever. 

    I realize you are my gift and I am yours.

    Elizabeth M. Evans

    June 2006

    QUESTION to PONDER:

    What are the feelings that come to you when you read the poem?

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    Sunday Morning Prayers #50 Our Behavior as Adults is Putting the Lives of Our Children at Risk.

    We have so much to lose if we don’t take seriously what our world of violence and dysfunctional behavior is costing our children!

    Dear Great Spirit,

    It took me a little time to write this prayer to you because the events of this past weekend highlighted for me just how violent and void of consciousness and moral fiber our society has degenerated to.  We take none of our individual and collective actions seriously enough to “Call each other out or to check our own behavior”.  We have become reactionary bold belligerent with each other whether we know them personally or not.  No one is exempt from receiving the rath and attack from someone who obviously is living in their “pain body”. We need your spirit of peace.  We need your spirit of compassion.  We need your spirit of compromise and understanding.  We need your spirit of mercy and forgiveness.  We need your spirit of discernment and a willingness to refrain from judgment. We need to learn patience and a willingness to trust that you “Great Spirit” will intercede in the madness that has engulfed our world, because you care!  We have to find a more humane, gentle, and loving way to relate to each other.  We have to think about how our actions, words, and attitudes impact other people. 

    Words hurt! We have to hold ourselves to a higher level if we are going to change the direction this world is going in.  Great Spirit we need for you to soften our hearts, open our minds, and direct our behavior so that we are our divine identities in our life, in our work, in our relationships, and when we are challenged by the trials and tribulations of life.  Great Spirit hear our prayers and feel the urgency in our souls for peace, joy, love, and a world that is balanced so that our children live their best life.

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    Sunday Morning Prayers #49 If it is true that all there really is -is Love-and that only through being able to love one another, can the elements of “Love” which are respect, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness, are we able to sustain humanity and manifest the world we want to live in.

    Children intuitive in their natural self, are kind, compassionate, and don’t hold on to things that are not “nice” to them because they are “pure love”.

    “Great Spirit”,

    We know if we are honest with ourselves that you created us in love to love and be love. We know that all that moves and sustains the planet and humanity is “love”. It is amazing how complicated we make our relationships with each other and how we struggle to contain our egos so that we can allow ourselves to love first you “Great Spirit”, then ourselves, our family, friends, and then to be able to embrace our connection to humanity. We have difficulty relinquishing our sense of control so that many times we strike out in defense and consequently, we come at people from a pain body instead of love. When we do this “Great Spirit”, we are not acting from a place of love, but from a place of fear.

    We pray “Great Spirit” that you will guide us to a practice of releasing the “Rackets” that hold us back from being the light of love, respectfulness, kindness, compassion, and the ability to forgive ourselves and to be able to forgive others. We want to be all you designed us to be because if we are we can be as a collective the vibration that will uplift the world so that your vision and dream for us and this planet will come to fruition.

    We thank you “Great Spirit”, for loving us so unconditionally and eternally.

    Ashe!  Ashe! Ashe!  Amen!

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    I’m Just Sayin- Notes from Beth #77. Matter What the Circumstances are and What the Texture of Our Relationship is With Our Mothers, They Will Always be Part of Who We are.

    Niki knows that we are eternally connected.
    It is a bond that connects us from one lifetime to the next.

    I was always under the impression that the sacred connection between mother and child was somehow the umbilical cord and to some degree it is, but it is not the only element of our being that bounds our souls to our mothers.  There is a phenomenon know as “Fetal Maternal Chimerism”, which is the deep and eternal bond between mother and baby.  This phenomenon is when the baby’s cells live in the mother’s bloodstream for years after their birth and in the mother’s brain for the mother’s entire life.  We are as human beings so very complicated and intricate in our design.  This is the most amazing thing I have learned in forever.  This should be something that is well known in our society!  This should be something that is revered and celebrated. 

    As a mother it explains a lot to me about the connection I have with my daughter.  I think the knowledge of this, and the acknowledgement of this phenomenon is something that can give children and their parents a great sense joy, security, and the ability to meet all the challenges of parenthood because no matter what happens in the mother-child relationship, there is a connection is always embedded physically and spiritually in the mother’s conscious being.  I think this is probably why we as mothers have the gift of intuition.  When we as mothers engage with our children, we share a sense of this intuitive gift with our children’s fathers as well. It is interesting that both parents have their own unique relationship and connection with their children.