Journal September 23 2009 Wednesday

Gratitude and Ponderings



This photo was taken on St. Simons Island Labor Day weekend.

Today I went to Orange Beach, Alabama.






This is a one of my friend Claudia Giannini's creations.

It hangs over the altar in our bedroom.






1- with grace and ease
are words that keep
coming up for me
as of late in-
Kay Cordell Whitaker's
Song News
[www.worldbalance.com]
and World Gratitude
[www.worldgratitude.com]
and this morning's Daily Word
from Unity.
-What message
is trying to get
through to me?
2- grace is one of my
touchstone words
3- every new year
instead of adopting
resolutions of
something I will
try to take away
from my life
i feel led by spirit
to choose words
and look for them
in the coming year
to see what messages
they bring to me
I've been doing this for years
some of the words/phrases
I've focused on have been:
-courage to pick myself up
from my woe! is me
Poor Pitiful Pearl place
-in-stances
-response-ability
-the Powers That Be
-focus on the Spirit Of God
@ the core of my being
-hope
-gratitude
-empowerment
-revelations
-at-one-ment
-oneness with the Source
-helpfulness and hopefulness
-upliftment/uplifting
-wonder-ment
-joyful doingness
-the Tree of Life
/chakras
/Tarot path of understanding
-living in joy
-everyday is a blessing
-awe-inspiration of nature
-amazing grace
2005: surrender
-Grace/transformation
-Personal Legend
2006: connecting/attuning myself
with God/ the Powers That Be
/Creative Force-Source
-weaving the divine into
the earthy-earth/ the mundane
-living with thanksgiving
/an attitude of giving
2007: search for spiritual truths
/inspiratiion
/ways of being
2008: Revelations of Truth
-Dharmic Service of Others
for the Highest Good of all beings
-Oneness with all of life
2009: Living in spirit with joyous delight
-Inspiration with joyous delight
-Love, grace and gratitude with joyous delight
-Being joyful with joyous delight

words for a new year chosen
i look for them everywhere
i listen to hear people speak them
i figure out ways to manifest them
into my life
at the year's end those threads
are woven into my being
and i pick up new threads
to add to them

start looking for your words/phrases
you'll know them when you find words
that make your heart sing
words that ring in harmony
with you wherever you are on
your path with heart
collect them now like balls of yarn
to have and to hold
and marvel at their color, weight
and beauty
when the old year ends
you can pick these new strings up
and weave them into your soul
then later when you build
your altar
you'll have these touchstones
like precious gemstones
to add to the bowl of your being
the truths you grow inside of you
will be some of your most
valued treasures
they'll uplift you
when you weather storms
and help see you home to
bon secour
/safe harbor
4- joy! was to be found
@ Orange Beach today
not only did i get to
sit on the sand
in the sun
being soothed
by the sound
of the waves
Thanks to my braiding, beading friend
Renee I got a taste of
http://www.sandseaandspirit.net/
I got in on a few minutes of
Cyndie Lepori's
Divine Love Workshop
and shared with
Doe Hart and Betty Elliot's
Women's Wisdom Circle
and Catherine Nimon's
Dream Interpretations
5- then i went on to Pensacola
for bread, granny smith apples
and veggies
dipped in cheese
@ The Melting Pot
and
6-Edgar Cayce Group
with Pat, Virginia and Ed

7- joy! this was a day of pure
joyous delight

Journal September 19 2009 Saturday

Gratitude and Ponderings
1- [inspired by Harmon Bro's
EDGAR CAYCE ON RELIGION AND PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE]
What is my intent
quality
and direction?
2- If the way the universe was built
was a way of wise love and radiant creativity
what is the way of Holy Spirit
/the Divine?
3- I can call into being
my native psychic ability
to seek and find Holy Spirit
/the Divine.
4- I can become
the living spirit of God
and daily orient myself
by this lodestar.
5- I can look to see
to what I respond in others.
I can find that
what I weigh and measure
in others
or am drawn to,
is the standard actually
at work in my own soul.
If I see beauty
the beauty calls me;
if purity
if play
if patience
-each is nudging me
for decision
and action within.
If I see mostly evil
or selfishness
or betrayal
then I should know that my own soul
is holding me tightly to my own idea,
pressing me to it
until I change my ways
or broaden my idea.
If I find a new thing
a new hunger
a new longing
arising from my own soul
I can make it real.
I can bring my new treasure to life
by giving it away.
Money might not be buried,
but must be invested in life.
The Cayce readings said many times,
"If ye would have love,
give love;
if ye would have friends,
be friendly;
if ye would have mercy,
be merciful;
if ye would have beauty,
make your world beautiful
for others."
For this is a law,
not just a good thing,
but a law.
6- It is important
to think of ideals
in positive terms,
rather than negative.
Better to seek love
than to omit hating.
7- What would the Master do?
8- Stella Bennett's
#16 The Tower Card
tells me:
Liberarating myself
from old ways
and belief systems
will provide the path
to a higher place
within my spirit.
I need to let go of the past
and welcome
the new things
coming in.
Hanging on to old ideas
and goals
will only prevent me
from recognizing
new opportunities.
The card reversed
tells me:
Don't mourn the past.
Although what I consider
to be losses today
may bring me pain,
in the future
I will recognize these losses
as doorways to better things.
11- [inspired by Upper Room]
Do not be anxious about anything
but in everything,
by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God.
- Philippians 4:6
12- [from The Message Bible]
Don't fret or worry.
Instead of worrying, pray.
Let petitions and praises
shape your worries into prayers,
letting God know your concerns.
Before you know it,
a sense of God's wholeness,
everything coming together for good,
will come and settle you down.
It's wonderful when it happens
when it happens
when Christ displaces worry
at the center of your life.
- Philippians 4: 5-7
13- "Prayer is a powerful gift,
and yet we often fail to use it.
We let other priorities
crowd out time
with our Creator.
What a salute to God
when we,
together with thousands of others,
give thanks for the life given to us
We are thankful for God's love
God's spirit
God's healing hand
God's guiding light
and God's comforting grace."
-James H. Norman (Texas)
14- All over the world this day
people pray to God/Goddess
the Father
the Mother
Yahweh
Abba
Allah
Buddha
Krishna
Tara
Shiva
Creator
Great Spirit
Creative Force
Source
the Divine
and names I do not even know.
It is the same One Source of the Divine.
15- I pray for those
who feel they have
no one to pray for them
this day.
16- I laugh
I sing
I dance in joy!
17- I think perhaps
this great shift
we have in consciousness
is harder for civilized people
who hafta move from
me! me! me!
to us! us! us!
and the realization
we can't go home
as a planet
until we realize
we all hafta get in the boat
that sails home.
18- How can I open my eyes
to see glimpses of truth
this day?
19- What can my hands do this day
to build Heaven right here on Earth?
20- How can I wake up
to know my true nature
and see the Divine
in all of creation?
21- What tasks will come to me
this day
to joyfully do
in spirit
with love,
light
& laughter?
22- How am I living
my intention
for this week:
to live in gratitude
and surrender?
23- [inspired by Daily Word]
Am I in touch with
all of God's blessings?
Am I in touch with beauty?
Do I gaze in admiration
and give thanks for
God's ever-present grandeur
surrounding me?
24- [wriiten in my ESSENE BOOK OF DAYS]
today I will bring the spirit
of Abundance to my:
thanksgiving for the
abundance of grace and beauty
in my life
I awake full to the brim and
overflowing with joyful delight
the blessings of this day
pour over me like honey
Steve's here
bubbling over
with talk of his joys
being the admiral
in THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Sarah-Star calls
bubbling over
with the bliss of blogging
and gratitude for making it home
safe and sound
after another week
of flying
as attendant
for Jet Blue
25- yesterday I started
a cycle of World Gratitude
@ www.worldgratitude.com/gblog
I am thankful I live in
a world of people
who live their lives
in a state of gratitude
26- I am thankful
Patrick Swayze
lived for a while in our world
with his cowboy's grit
and dancer's grace