Friday, January 30, 2015

Thursday, January 29, 2015

NINE WAYS OF OBSERVING





I was first exposed to the writings of a woman who goes by the name of Starhawk when I began reading about ecofeminism. Her writings have always intrigued me because they challenged me to pay attention to the physical landscape that surrounds me in new ways. In one of her books, which I read almost 10 years ago, she outlined nine ways of observing the spiritual in the physical. My meditations this week, have led me back to this book and the lessons it taught me about paying attention. So I thought I would share a few excerpts from her book this week.
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Inspiritual Song of the Week

Drinking tea I see that the steam is in me
It is water in a river flowing endlessly
The true nature of its being is ecology
We are all one organism and together we breathe
This is a part of the song from this week's song of the week, which reminds us that we are a part of nature and nature is a part of us -- http://inspiritual.biz/inspiritual-song-of-the-week1/

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Friday, January 23, 2015

COOKING IS LIKE MEDITATION



Over the last few months, I have had to make major changes in the way I eat and therefore the way I cook. Initially, I felt a little overwhelmed at the growing list of foods that I could no longer eat and for the first time in my life, cooking seemed stressful. It was then that I had to return to my basics and go back to some of the basic lessons that I had learned across my lifetime. One being that cooking is like meditation. When I stop, relax, and focus on being at one in the moment and with the ingredients, my creativity would kick in and the answers to what and how to prepare would flow like a river.
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

For me, everything in life is a miracle. Which one is true for you?
Photo: For me, everything in life is a miracle. Which one is true for you?

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Song of the Week

What you fear only has power over you as long as you let it. May we each find the courage to move through our fears and be surrounded by those who will journey with us as we do http://inspiritual.biz/inspiritual-song-of-the-week1/

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

LOOK AT THE VIEW



Anna Quindlen in her book, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, wrote, “He stared out at the ocean and said, "Look at the view, young lady. Look at the view."
And every day, in some little way, I try to do what he said. I try to look at the view. That's all. Words of wisdom from a man with not a dime in his pocket, no place to go, nowhere to be. Look at the view. When I do what he said, I am never disappointed.”
How often do we take the time in our lives to look at the view? How often do we take the time to really see what is right in front of us. I know I am so often guilty in my own life of not seeing the view. Sometimes I focus on all the things that I have yet to accomplish today that I forget to take the time to look at the view. I have been trying this month to take my own challenge to notice something new every day.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

THE WORD IS OURS



This quote from Lao Tsu brought me back to my childhood and all of a sudden, I can hear myself as a child singing, “She’s got the whole world in her hands. She’s got the whole wide world in her hands. She’s got the whole wild world in her hands. She’s got the whole world in her hands.” Whenever my Bubby and I would sing this, she would remind me the Ultimate did not have a sex or a gender. The Divine could be male, female, and everything in between. Because of this, she would say, we could sing it she or he.
Perhaps more importantly, she would always use this song to remind me that when I kept the Ultimate close to me, then I would never lack for anything. She would remind me that the Divine would provide me with everything and anything I needed in my life and that I would never lack anything essential to my purpose in life.
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Thought for the day

May we remember to invest time and energy in healing ourselves and discovering and re-discovering our authentic selves

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Thought for the day

May we remember to look inside for our eternal joy and peace.  No one can give you this, but you.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

IT’S PAY ATTENTION TIME!


When I was pastoring, one of the least listened to parts of the service was the announcements. One of the young girls in the congregation came to talk to me about how disrespectful the adults were being. I asked her if she had any ideas on how to get the adults to pay attention and she said yes. The next Sunday, this powerful 7 year old got up in front of the congregation and loudly proclaimed, “It’s pay attention time!” The adults immediately paid attention and then she explained that announcements were not a time to talk to their neighbors, but a time to pay attention to the announcements. It has been years since she taught this lesson and took over that part of worship, but I still remember her telling everyone, “it’s pay attention time!”
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Song of the week

Sometimes it is the words of children who can speak to our spirit and remind us of the importance of being in the moment http://inspiritual.biz/inspiritual-song-of-the-week1/

Thought for the day

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Monday, January 5, 2015

Thought for the day

What other people think about us is about them. What you think about you is about you.