It Sticks With You…
It sticks with you…and you wish to help others feel the same.
One day as I was talking about the experience of a spiritual moment, a God Wink or a God-incidence as some would call it… a person said, “It sticks with you.” Such a simple statement to describe the real essence of how these spiritual experiences affect the individual.
How would you share your spiritual experience with others? Or is the experience so personal that you really just want to hold it close to your heart and love it in the silence?
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As 2018 comes to a close and the new year commences, we think of the past… we think of the future… and we are reminded that our most important moment is our present moment… this day… this hour… this moment… Listen to these words about being in the ‘flow’…
Choosing to go with the flow is often a matter of letting go of the notion that we need to be in control at all times. The flow is always taking you where you need to go.
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Oneness is the interconnectedness of
all Life of everything that exists. It is our unity with the Divine and each
other. We are an inseparable part of the Divine, God, Source, All that Is…
When we ask the question “What is
Oneness?” The essence of Oneness surrounds us. Like a fish asking “What is
water?” we are immersed in Oneness in every moment. Science tells us that
everything is energy and that we are all connected. Ancient spiritual teachings
and modern day quantum physics are very much in alignment.
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I have always been a star gazer… a cloud watcher… a dreamer… Many years ago I began taking photographs when I was on a walk or had some occasion to be out in nature. I would carry a camera with me and often took pictures of trees and clouds and beautiful scenery. Sometimes I was spending time in prayer and reflection, and other times I was just pointing the camera and snapping pictures… On these occasions I often had to wait until I got the pictures developed (for some of you that will be a foreign concept😊).
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Over the last couple of years, I have been called to write. The words came to me in a variety of ways and moments as the concept of interconnectedness tumbled onto the page and brought the feeling of spiritual love and support to the youngest of readers through these selections. I have enjoyed expressing these concepts through poetry in children’s literature. In reading them to our younger family members, it became evident that their perspective was changing and that they were looking at the world differently.
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“There once was a Zen monk being pursued by a ferocious tiger. He raced to the edge of the cliff, looked back and saw the tiger about to spring. He saw a rope hanging over the edge of the cliff. He grabbed it and began to shimmy down out of the clutches of the tiger. Whew! He checked below and saw a quarry of huge, jagged rocks. He looked above and the tiger was poised atop with bared claws. Just then,
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I have been a professional educator my entire life, both on the elementary level and on the university level. Working with any age of student requires patience and creativity in order to get across the necessary content. There are many pieces of information that educators need to share with their students, but it is the incidental learning that is probably the most profound. It is the method of learning, the experience with other learners, the feeling of being valued as a person that stays with the learner.
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Living in the northeast, brings special moments….
At the present time we are cloaked in a blanket of snow. It is beautiful and it is challenging… but there are occasional peeks of sun that bring hope for the Spring that is beckoning us forward.
These days, my attention has been consistently drawn to the trees… standing tall… and silent … waiting… How strong they are… how resilient… how majestic.
I have recently been reminded over and over… to be like the tree in winter… “all of life needs to rest and take time for incubation”… “learn to honor the peace of rest”…
We are so busy….
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I went to a school this week to read one of my books, I AM With You All Ways, to the children in the third grade. The principal was wonderful, the teachers were wonderful and the children were so attentive and responsive.
We talked about the writing process and how you get ideas and how to keep a journal and think about illustrations. I shared several photographs I had taken and how they became illustrations in my books.
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I like to walk in the morning before the hustle and bustle of the day gets into full swing… as I work to keep the list of the day’s projects from flooding my mind… I take in my surroundings and listen to my environment as I enjoy a few moments of solitude and communing with nature. Recently, as I walked with a friend, I was struck by the beauty of the springtime… the trees looked extra green against the blue sky and there were no clouds in the sky……