MY UMBILICAL CORD

The last few days I have been feeling as if I was entering a different state of being and have not been able to figure out where this shift is coming from. Then I remembered that this is October, the month where my body remembers to grieve the loss of my god-daughter, the leaving the adoption center, the birth into my family, the severing of yet one more umbilical cord in my life and the creation of another one.

Reading Thich Nhat Hanh’s book on fear has reminded me how you have always been my umbilical cord. When it was time for me to leave the safety of my birth mother’s womb, you were there to protect me. You brought me into your utero for just a moment while they worked on saving my human life and the life of my birth mother. Even when my spirit returned to my infant body, my umbilical cord to you remained attached. When I was moved to the foster home, my umbilical cord to you remained attached. When I was brought to the adoption center, my umbilical cord to you remained attached. When my parents adopted me, my umbilical cord to you remained attached.

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Thought for the day

As the song suggests sometimes we are looking for love and sense of self worth in all the wrong places.  Look within.

Thought for the day

If love is not in your air, change the air you breathe. If it is, then breath love in and breathe love out to all you know. Let's spend this month keeping love in the air.

Thought for the day

Song of the week

This has been our song of the week before, but in this month when we are focusing on self-worth it seemed appropriate to listen to again. We all going through moments in our life, it is not about the challenge before you; it is about how you go through it --

ALL ARE WORTHY

Somebody recently asked me why I continue to write in this blog? How many different connections can one possibly make between food and spirituality? I just smiled and said the connections are endless. They challenged me to make a connection between food addictions and spirituality. As I have a few (olives, pot stickers, sashimi, anything spicy, and seafood), I found this interesting. Just about everyone I know has a food they crave. Recently I saw an article that talked about how fast foods activate similar parts of the brain as drugs. I can say, at least for me, that my addiction to my foods of choice is not about the food. It is about me. There are things about those foods in which I find comfort and a kind of satisfaction that I do not get from other foods, especially at certain times in the semester (grading frenzy), or around the holidays. When somebody offers me the opportunity to eat any one of the three things listed above, my mouth begins to salivate. Even writing about them, I find myself thinking about Guy Fieri when he talks about how the jets in his mouth are turning on while he watches one of the guests on his show cook one of their signature dishes.

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Thought for the day

Remember you are worthy of seeking freedom, love, light, and positive energy in your life.

 

"Great wisdom, through painful experience is an inside job" ~~ Meg Christian 



Rev Dr. Sharon Jacobson 

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