On my morning walk… I heard a cardinal calling… I don’t know many bird songs, but I know the cardinal. I started looking for the bird…. There he was atop a tall tree along the road that I was walking on…
His red feathers were iridescent in the morning sunlight and his feathers shown so brightly atop that tree. I listened as he called out several times.
For me, the cardinal always signifies a message from God… you are important to God… and I pay attention as I need his loving guidance.
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I have a favorite passage that seems to circle around at critical times. I love the messages. It is entitled: Hopi Wisdom. It clearly speaks of feeling the flow of life when we feel stuck or we are holding on to ‘something’ too tightly.
We are called to allow for ‘the flow’… the flow of life… and the flow of the universe that is in everything and connects us to everything and each other. It is like the river current that takes us down life’s many paths and beckons us on… and on…
Many live life working against the current… feeling that there is a best way and holding on to the shoreline in a sense that allows for our need to control… control the path… control the outcome…
When we let go of the shore and allow ourselves to ride the flow of the current… it takes us where we need to go and places us where we need to be…
There is no prescription or rule book,
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I was in a bookstore the other day. It is a big book store with two floors to peruse. We were there to pick up a book we had ordered and then we went downstairs to the Bible section … I was looking at different versions and suddenly a woman reached in front of me and held a Bible up to a satchel she was holding in her hand… she remarked… “It doesn’t fit”…
I said something about what a good idea it was to bring the satchel so that she could check on whether the Bible would fit into her satchel…
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I have a favorite passage that seems to circle around at critical times. I love the messages. It is entitled: Hopi Wisdom. It clearly speaks of feeling the flow of life when we feel stuck or we are holding on to ‘something’ too tightly.
We are called to allow for ‘the flow’… the flow of life… and the flow of the universe that is in everything and connects us to everything and each other. It is like the river current that takes us down life’s many paths and beckons us on… and on…
Many live life working against the current… feeling that there is a best way and holding on to the shoreline in a sense that allows for our need to control… control the path… control the outcome…
When we let go of the shore and allow ourselves to ride the flow of the current… it takes us where we need to go and places us where we need to be…
There is no prescription or rule book,
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I just love Moose Tracks ice cream. For some reason, I just really like the little peanut butter cups that give a sweet and chocolatey taste to the mainly vanilla ice cream. I get chided a lot for ordering it every time we stop for ice cream, but I like it… So, I feel a close affinity with the moose… 🙂
One evening we were watching a program on television that involved a man who did long term studies on animals.
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Existentialism – a philosophical movement stressing the importance of personal experience and responsibility for what we make of ourselves.
Exigency – crisis, emergency, a case or situation that demands prompt action.
Reflecting on the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes…
What lies behind us
And what lies ahead of us
Are tiny matters compared to
What lies within us…
I find comfort in knowing that Spirit is my guide and center and that my personal relationship with Spirit is my personal responsibility as I seek to connect with my God/Spirit/Higher Power.
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ONE
GOING… DOING… BEING
I AM With You ALL Ways
INTERCONNECTED
SPIDER
MOVING, SPINNING, WORKING
FORMING A SILKEN WEB OF STARS
GRANDMOTHER
There is a Hopi myth that tells of Spider Grandmother, according to mythology she was responsible for the stars in the sky; she took a web she had spun, laced it with dew, threw it into the sky and the dew became the stars.
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