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I’m Just Sayin- Notes from Beth #75 I Believe in Grace and Mercy, but I have My Limits When People Start to Defame the Character of “Christ”-This is ‘Blasphemy”!

Bring us back to our right minds “Great Spirit”!

Blasphemy, in a religious sense, refers to the great disrespect shown to God or to something holy, or to something said or done that shows this kind of disrespect: heresy refers a belief or opinion that does not agree with the official belief or opinion of a particular religion- credit -Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

To begin with, Jesus Christ was brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor by the authorities in Roman Judea for execution on charges of blasphemy for being called “the King of the Jews”.  Pontius Pilate had the authority to have Jesus put to death.  I think Pontius Pilate instinctually knew that Jesus was “special in the human experience” and did not want to crucify Jesus, so he handed the decision back to the people who were mesmerized by those that were threatened by the spiritual power that Jesus was endowed with. Pontius Piolet gave the angry crowds of people a choice of either saving a thief or Jesus, and as we know historically the crowd told him to save the thief.  Be clear, Jesus cannot be put in the same category as a “convicted felon “!  In fact, no one should claim to be in the same spiritual category as Jesus!  It absolutely blows my mind to hear people like Marjorie Green liken Christ as a felon to Trump.  This goes beyond my ability to be patient, bestow grace or mercy.  This is a direct afront to not only “Christ”, but to “Great Spirit”.  The life and significance of Jesus goes way beyond the confines of a religious confine!  Christ was and is part of the great plan of “Great Spirit” to bring peace not discord, love not hate, compassion not arrogance, wisdom not insolence, discernment not for us to be obtuse of purblind. 

I am not at all happy with the way we are engaging in this country, and across the world.  We have in our human condition allowed ourselves to be swept up into lies, deceit, judgment, conditional love, void of compassion, greed, selfishness, cons, and the worst of all allowing the sacredness of “Great Spirit’s” gift to humanity- Jesus Christ to be once again hit with blasphemy and inuendoes of being an element of criminal character. We need to call people out when they do this because if don’t, then we have abandoned our responsibility for the sanctity of our faith and belief in the purpose of Christ life.  We will have proved ourselves ungrateful and unworthy of the sacrifices He made to make this world what “Great Spirit” intended.  It is not about being Christian or any other institutional system of religion.  It is about the principles that Christ stood for that would make us a space to be the best possible version of our own “divine identity”. 

This madness has to stop!  We can’t keep allowing this misinformation and degradation of all that we know that sustains humanity to demise to complete destruction!  Speak Up people! I don’t profess to be a theologian, but I know that they have no idea who they are dealing with.  This is not about the God of the New Testament, this is about the God of the Old Testament, and that is a wholly different experience. Talk about judgment! From what I have read and understand, God of the Old Testament does not play!  If I did not speak out about my convictions then I too would be complicit to this blasphemy on the character and divinity of Christ’s life and “work” to be a servant in the service of humanity.

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Sunday Morning Prayers #47 The Authentic Life Lived as Your Authentic Self.

It is amazing how authentic children are!
When and how do we lose our ability as adults to be authentically who we are?

Dear Great Spirit,

I don’t know how you handle us losing or forgetting who you designed us to be as authentic divine beings.  Our authentic divine being is so structured to allow us to navigate life and our life experiences with such tenacity of honesty, integrity, passion, compassion, love, and beauty that we bless the lives of those we not only hold dear, but everyone we encounter and engage with.  We are meant to be walking, talking, vibrations of love, peace and understanding of what we need and what others need to feel loved, honored, respected, and worthy.  We are all worthy of receiving the best of what life has in store for us. 

We are born through your love “Great Spirit”, and you created us equally.  Not one of us is more “worthy” of what is beautiful and wonderful that the gift of life holds for each of us.  We don’t have to assume an identity that does not fit us.  We don’t have to act outside the fabric of our true identity to take on worldly elements that causes pain and discomfort to others. This negative behavior causes us to leave the light of our spiritual connection we thee.  This sacred connection with thee is the core of who we are. 

Making others wrong, small, and feeling unworthy, does not in any way elevate our soul’s development.  Resorting to telling untruths on other people to make ourselves right or to justify trying to manipulate circumstances in our favor or to benefit us in anyway is damaging to the sanctity of our soul.  This is not who you created us to be “Great Spirit”, and we are so desperately, those of us that are cultivating this eternal vibrational connection to you, are seeking to have and sustain. 

We want to live as our authentic divine selves.  We want to be loving, kind, honest, and gentle to others.  We want to stay fixed in your Holy light of protection and grace.  We are not perfect!  You did not design us to be perfect because you wanted to see us grow in light and love.  Please walk with us and talk with us along this life’s journey so that we might stay the course and fulfill our purpose and enrich the beauty and majesty of our soul.  We know in our heart of hearts that what we sow so shall we reap. Keep us close “Great Spirit”! Keep us close! 

Ashe!  Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

P.S. I know it seems that there is a thread of consciousness around the importance of our “Divine Identities” in all my different categories of blogs, but “Great Spirit” keeps calling my attention to this topic so I think there is a universal message for a “Call to Action” on our part at this time in consideration to the state of our world affairs and who we are showing up as in our human condition.

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Sunday Morning Prayers #46 Our Soul’s Journey.

The Destination of Our Souls is Scripted in Our “Divine Contract” that is Manifested On Our Divine Journey.

Dear “Great Spirit”,

Today’s prayer is dedicated to all of us that have experienced the “transition” of a “loved one”. I want to share this prayer on behalf of all my family and friends that have had and are currently dealing with the healing process, which is an individual and personal process.  I want to share what I know from my beliefs and experiences in life to be true to this process of healing.  First, we must realize that our life in the flesh is an alignment of our earthly being and our spiritual being.  We come on our divine journey with a spiritual “Life Contract”. 

This “Divine Life’s Contract” is designed for us in conjunction with “Great Spirit”.  Each contract is unique to what our “soul is yearning for and what our soul needs in order to grow and evolve”.  There are carefully outlined lessons to work through that will enhance the fabric and texture of our “soul’s illumination and spiritual evolution.  The other element of the “Divine Life’s Contract”, is our “Divine Identity”, which is who we are and how we operate in this world.  It is the element that aligns our life’s lessons with the major element in our reason to be here in the flesh- “Our Divine Purpose”.   This “Divine Life’s Contract” has an expiration date, that only “Great Spirit” knows.  This expiration date is set for this earthly plane experience but there is no expiration date for the soul.  The conciliation gift we have for the “transition of our loved ones” is the knowing, faith, and belief, that our soul’s journey never ends but are eternally ever present in the lives of those that have loved us here on earth and in heaven.  It is absolutely amazing what the “soul energy” can accomplish in our lives when we are open and receptive of the love and care of their “spirit”. 

I have had first-hand experience of the loving ancestral souls supporting me from afar.  Once I realized that we are more than our physicality, and that the major essence of our being is our soul’s expression, I found the peace I needed to accept their transition and relate to them more fully and boundlessly.  There is healing in the peace that surpasses all understanding!  There is joy in the morning!  There will always be an eternal bond with our loved ones from the earthly plane to the ethers of the “spirit plane” some call heaven.

So, my prayer today “Great Spirit” is that you will heal our hearts and guide us in our process of understanding that each of us have lessons to learn to expand our soul’s expression, that we have a “divine identity, and that our soul has a purpose that is unique to who we are to “You”- “Great Spirit”.  Let not our hearts be heavy laden with unending sorrow, but find joy, peace, and unconditional, unlimited love from the souls of our angels that have taken flight. 

Ashe!  Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

Today I hold in prayer: Those souls that have transitioned within the last 1-2 weeks

The family of Patricia M. Caputo’s family especially her loving daughter Anne Caputo-Pearl

The family of Richard-Ricky Wyatt- whose loving and gentle family has been special to our family.

The family of Marian Lois Shields Robinson- The mother of Michelle Obama

The family of our neighbor Elan and Kim for the transition of Elan’s mother

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Sunday Morning Prayers #45 I Know In My Spirit That “Great Spirit” is Alive and Well! 

Mine eyes have seen the wonders of “Great Spirit’s” existence.

“Dear Great Spirit”,

I just have to thank you for all you have provided us, and for all you do to intercede on our behalf in this world and on our “Divine Life’s Journey”.  I know that there is a lot of talk and conversation that has taken place throughout the existence of “humanity”, about your existence and purpose in our lives, but I stand as a witness from my soul’s existence that you “Great Spirit” are real, not only on this earthly plane, but more importantly, on the “Spiritual Plane”, that has no beginning and no end.  You are available and accessible to all that seek the truth of who you are and have a yearning to rekindle an eternal relationship with you. 

I realize that from the conception of your creating and designing each of our souls, you poured yourself into us, and that as we grow from childhood into adulthood, we sometimes lose sight of you, or loose that umbilical connection.  Things in life that we experience or don’t have an opportunity to experience can impact the tie that binds us to you, and it can result in severing the connection, or blinding us to even remembering there was and is a connection.  It is a loss that can re-direct the course of our life’s journey. 

I have known of your presence and relationship in my life since childhood.  It was not something someone told me about or that a religious institution or doctrine taught me.  It was a knowingness in my “spirit”, and it is a “spirit” to “Spirit” connection.  You have filled me with a relationship clothed in “pure unconditional love”.  You have guided me in learning on how to be still and listen to your voice of wisdom and discernment.  You are constantly reminding me that I have the strength to rely on my faith and trust in you and that you would never abandon me when I need you, even if what I am challenged with could seem insignificant to others.  You don’t judge me, you counsel me.  You allow me to make my own choices trusting that because I am in relationship with you, I will see my choices as “life lessons” not “mistakes in my life”.  You have taught me that I am enough on this earthly plane, because I am more than what people can see or surmise me to be. To know me is to see the “God Spirit” within me. 

I celebrate every day that I awaken to the sound of your voice as you whisper in my ear, “It’s a New Day filled with new beginnings.  I can go thru my day with ease and grace, free from other people’s expectations or demands, because you have advised me, that I will only get done what you intended for me to do”.  You are the goal post for my life.  My prayer today is that others have an opportunity to seek you out and reconnect with you – “spirit to Spirit”.  It’s an amazing life journey with you as Capitan of my ship.

Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

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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.

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Sunday Morning Prayers-#40 Listen to Your Heart it is the Keeper of your Intuitive Knowing It’s Our “Soul’s Space” Where “Great Spirit” Checks in on Us!

Sometimes we have to retreat to check in with our heart and see if we are following our intuition and discernment in making healthy decisions that could impact our well-being.

Dear “Great Spirit”,

We are so grateful for your intersession in our life.  We realize that we are so over engaged in just trying to live life and navigate our daily challenges that we sometimes forget to check in with you and allow ourselves the time to even check in with ourselves.  We have the gift of intuition that so many times we forget to access and for some of us we even ignore it or choose not to even acknowledge that it exists within us.  We know that you were very intentional in our design and that you endowed us with everything we needed to live a whole and amazing life.  We know that every part of our divine design has a specific purpose to support both our physicality and spiritually.  Perhaps the most delicate and important part of our being is our heart.  It holds the key to the breath of our life.  It holds the essence of our memories and is responsive to everything that touches us physically and emotionally. 

The beauty of our hearts “Great Spirit” is that you designed it to be resilient and forgiving.  Our hearts can be loving and kind, or depending on what we experience, our hearts can be cold and unkind.  In our heart of hearts, we really do not want to stay in a condition of pain that drives us to be other than who we were intended to be.  Proverbs 4:23 1, Speaks to us to “Keep thy heart with all diligence: For out of it are the issues of life”.

This is why we need for you to check in with us “Great Spirit” and we know that when we operate from our “heart space”, which houses our “Sacred Soul Space”, that You are ever Present to support us. We must come to an understanding that when we ourselves are present before thee, we are in the company of the Presence.  We must trust the intuition of our heart and safeguard it from allowing anything or anyone to have a negative impact or influence on what we know to be “Truth”.  Our mantra for the well-being of our heart and soul is that “we don’t have to let our hearts be heavy laden”!

And So, It Is! Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

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Sunday Morning Prayers-#39 Can We Just Get Over Living Our Lives Solely in the Physical World While Our Real Identity Resides in The Spiritual World?

The experience of the Solar Eclipse this week really touched my heart and soul.  It was validation for me of the power and omnipotence of “Great Spirit”.  For me it was “how could anyone on the face of this earth or universe doubt the Presence of God”. It gave my faith a boost to know that “with God all things are possible”, and that ultimately our destiny is not in the hands of ‘mankind’.  For me that was like the old spirituals say,
 “Ain’t That Good News”!

Dearest “Great Spirit”,

We stand before you struggling to make sense of how we are operating in our life.  We feel and see the impact of not following your lead and choosing to live our lives totally on and in this physical world.  We have forgotten that there is another plane that we can evolve to that will anchor us in a balance between the world of the physical and the world of the “Spirit”.  How do we evolve or just come to the realization that if we operate in and on just this physical plane void of evolving spiritually, we will continue to live in a world of chaos, war, greed, racism-all the isms, and struggle for political power to dictate how we live our lives?  If we don’t rid ourselves of just seeing the physical dimension of another person, and sometimes a whole ethnicity of other people, we will succumb to falling into the disarray that is being created by those who are not awaken or even chose to be awakened  to the possibilities of what humanity has the potential of being.

“Great Spirit”, we were divinely designed and created to be both physical in the flesh and spirit in the essence of our divine identity, which connects us to you!  We need to understand that this world of the flesh- these bodies that hold our “spirit”, are not eternal.  We must care for them to support our existence on this plane, but our “spirit” calls for far more work and care so that it evolves and supports our “eternal spirit”.  We have a responsibility to acknowledge how we are living our lives, and intentionally take out the time and interest to evaluate who we are being, and how we are living.  We talk about a work-life balance which is important for us to be diligent in doing, but more important and critical now, and that which lays the foundation for everything in our life, is to have a balance between our physicality and our spirituality.

Lead us, guide us, “Great Spirit”, because we need your loving support in helping us to stay on task with making sure we life the fullness of the life your dreamed and created for each of us.  Your intention for us was to be “In this world, not of this world”, and we need your “call to action” to awaken us from losing sight of the “big life you divined for us”.

Ashe!  Ashe! Ashe! Amen!

P.S. Thanks to whom ever got this magnificent picture!!

A friend of mine posted this and I felt like it depicted all my feelings in this blog. We are indeed “the work of His hands and heart”!
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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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Sunday Morning Prayers-#33 Our Dreams and Wishes are Embedded in Our “Wailua”- “Personal Spirit” that We Were Created with from the Heavenly Realm.

The joy that radiates from Celio’s “Spirit” reflects the essence of his soul expression. He is endowed with the dreams and wishes for his life that “Great Spirit” has gifted him with.

Dear “Great Spirit”,

We are so blessed to have children in our midst, to remind us of what each of us possess from the time of our birth- “dreams and wishes for our life gifted by thee”. You know what we need to manifest in our life to complete the desires of your heart for our lives. We know that each of us have been created with our own personal spirit-“Wailua”, that holds these dreams and aspirations for the beauty and fulfillment of our life’s purpose. Our “Wailua” is the protector and nurture of these dreams and precious wishes. Children are so uninhibited and authentic in expressing these treasures than we are as adults. “Great Spirit”, today I ask you to ignite in us again not only the recognition that we possess these dreams and wishes for our life, but to stir up our “Wailua” so that we are energized to manifest them into reality.

We understand that we must cultivate an environment where we take the time and energy to act on our dreams and wishes because these elements of our being play a vital part in our “divine identity” and our relationship with thee.  We continue to need your support and guidance in fulfilling our divine purpose and these gifts must come to fruition.  Surround us with people in our life that will encourage us and support us.  Help us to see these dreams in our children so that we can be of not only support to them but to safeguard their dreams and wishes from being tapered with or nullified by a world that is either jealous or indifferent to who they are as children and what they possess to enrich and enhance humanity.  Thank you, “Great Spirit”, for all you do for us and for all you have endowed us with.  We are blessed!  Ashe!  Ashe! Amen!

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This post was divined by our family movie night when we watched the Disney movie “Wish”.  It hit me so hard how important the desires of our heart and soul are and from whence they come. Our dreams, wishes, and aspirations for our life are our divine birthright!