Peace is in the Present Moment

 

  I was lucky enough to find this poster that shows a quote from Lao Tzu speaking on peace.  I think that when we feel peace in ourselves and our surroundings, we receive a triple fold blessing.  I believe that peace keeps us young.  I mean it stops our bodies from aging.  With peace, we have time to focus our faith and to feel the calling of our spirit.  

For me, peace is:

• sitting by the fireplace with my husband, roaring fire, book in hand
• walking in the park with my dog and hearing the trees, the water, the birds, and the breeze
• sitting in our arbour under our mountain ash tree, in the summer, being surrounded by green life and all the birds and squirrels that are in the trees
• sitting in meditation and floating with the Universe
• working in my garden
• cooking and baking

What is peace to you?

Approve of Yourself

 

One of my guides over the years has been Saint Germain.  The message below is one that he gave me back in 2017 when I was struggling with all that I had to do,

Saint Germain tells us that we are very hard on ourselves.  Mostly, he says, because others are hard on us.  They criticize, want to change us, and condemn us for things that they dislike.  

Saint Germain tells us that it is time to take back our lives and to give approval to ourselves.  When we are in spirit, we can easily see how perfect we are.  This peace is filled with gratitude.  Our wellbeing comes back to us, and we move forward with confidence and with faith.

I hope that these words help you today.

Many blessings,

Judy

How Do You Deal With Storms In Your Life?

Poster is from an email from a friend.  The original source is unknown.  It is beautiful.

We all have challenges that come up in our lives from time to time.  It may be illness in the family, job or career issues, or mental health challenges, to name a few of the challenges.  Often, we are so busy living that we have no way of coping with the challenge.

There are different ways for us to deal with problems and the stress from these problems.  Sometimes it is by fighting the problem.  Sometimes it is by waiting it out.  Sometimes we choose a different path.  What makes it easier is having faith that everything will work out the way it is meant to be.

Often, it is in choosing a different path that we find that the problem was actually a blessing in disguise.  I came back from an overseas trip with malaria. And, yes, I took all my recommended drugs to prevent malaria.  However, the strain that I had was a strain not covered by the drug.  So, I was too ill too work.  The company that I was working for terminated me as soon as I got home because that way they did not have to support me with any benefits. Fortunately, I was able to find help through the Employment Insurance case worker that took on my claim.  She directed me to infectious disease control who got me on some control drugs.  As I was off work for several month, I had a chance to reflect on my career path and whether I should look at a different line of work.  Be assured that I did lots of meditation during the time I was off because I thought, like many people think, “why me?”.  I did healing meditations, and worked on chakras, and how to balance my chakras.  I did a lot of  anti stress work.

While I was off, different friends and colleagues learned that I was probably looking for a new job and I received many suggestions for new jobs and invitations to interview.  When I was finally cleared to start job hunting, I was offered a term position for six weeks.  I took the job because it was with a former client and it was fun work (for me) designing an information database.  I had to create a proposal and quite a few supporting documents as well as a project plan of the work to be done.  When the contract was completed, I was invited to a job interview with a major software company.  The interviewer wanted to see samples of my work.  With the permission of my contract employer and with major identifying names replaced with a false name, I used the documents that I designed over the six weeks.  The documents and the work experience landed me a wonderful job.  The storm - illness - led to something wonderful for me.

If a storm is affecting your life right now, I wish you peace with it. I wish you balance.  And, I wish you success in weathering the storm.

Blessings,

Judy

What is Life?

 

When we are able to see all the little things that are amazing in Nature, then we have achieved the ability to move beyond the small things in life.  We have moved beyond the pettiness.  

Nature tells us and shows us so many beautiful things and so many miracles all the time.  Mostly, though, we do not see them.  We are locked in a rut of living that we consider to be our life.  Our life is so much more, if we let it be.

Chief Crowfoot, in the quote above, teaches us to look at all the little things that otherwise go unnoticed.  Today, step back from your regular steps in your life, and look for something different.  Look for the daily, little miracles that move through this world.

Many blessings.

Judy

Meanings for Common Spiritual Terms

                                     

When I work with students (apprentices) or clients, I find that they often do not understand some of the common spiritual terms.  I am sharing what some of these terms are and how they are used.

Universal Law -  Laws that are created with the birth of the Universe... this one or others, that guide the beings in the Universe to have the ability to reach their highest evolvement for their soul.  These laws help reach higher consciousness.  The First Law is - Do No Harm.

Higher Self - This is the highest vibrational aspect of your soul that is the liaison or intermediary between you and The Universe (God, Creator, whatever your belief system is for your prayers).  One finds their higher self through meditation and looking within one's self.  Higher Self provides unfiltered truth which most people are not prepared to listen to.

Vibration - Everything is made of energy.  We know that energy is made up of moving atoms, and that the movement of the different atoms happens at different frequencies or speeds which create a vibration.  When we "feel" energy, we "feel" the vibration because it is different than the vibration within the atoms of our body.

Blessings.

Judy

You Are A Child Of The Universe

                                                        Picture is from seeds4thesoul.com

 Today is a good day to change your thoughts about who you are.  The best guidance about who you are or your “operator’s manual” if you will, is a poem called “Desiderata”.   Read it over and over as a meditation.  Let it change you.

 

DESIDERATA 

- BY MAX EHRMANN, C1920

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. 

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. 

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. 

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. 

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. 

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. 

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. 

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. 

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy

The song was written by Les Crane.  He added this most beautiful chorus using the words from one of the paragraphs.

You are a child

Of the universe

No less than the trees and the stars

You have a right to be here

Desira-desiderata

Desira-desiderata

This song is a mantra that I use to switch my thinking when I am feeling sorrow, pain, sadness, guilt, anger, frustration……   The words - With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.  Be cheerful.  Strive to be happy. …..No less than the trees and the stars you have a right to be here.

I think that the words - you have a right to be here - tells us all that we have a place and a purpose here.

It is something to contemplate and meditate on.

Many blessings,

Judy

 

Your Worth

  

                  

I saw this poster and it set me on a train of though around worth and all the times I have heard my parents or other parents say to their child, “You are worthless.” 

I wonder what event in that parent’s life created the ability for them to demean a child.  A child cannot think or act or work in the same manner as an adult.  To apply the same rules of engagement in work or life to a child as you do to an adult seems like an illogical thing to do.  Yet, many parents do this.  Teachers also do this.  I don’t know why.  It is a puzzle.

Your worth is that you are on this Earth to be a part of the constant change and evolution of the world and even the cosmos.  No one is worth-less than any other person.  Having wealth does not make you have worth other than you might be on the top 100 rich people list.  It does not make that person a better person or more worthy.

This is a very complicated subject and can be mind puzzling.  A good way to work with this is to sit in quiet meditation to see what comes up for you.

Have many blessings today,

Judy