Captured Moments

In all the current confusion, unrest and disarray, a clearing is occurring.  A dusting off of the way the old structure was working.  A removal of over-burdened excess, like someone clearing off furniture and moving it around to eliminate the build-up of dust under the old tattered and torn couch!  After the work is done, a new era, a new space, a greater room can be ushered in. Yes, there is loss, pain, worry and stress about why this is all happening and affecting so many people, families and groups of human beings around the globe.  In the clouds of confusion, despair, sadness and fear, we also have the opportunity to heal and transform and begin anew! As if the Queen herself is arriving for afternoon tea, the whole space and place must be cleaned, aired out and fresh new bold changes must have taken place!  Then once that has happened, the improved area is perfect for the Queen to arrive, thrive and survive the time and space, right on time! If, in fact, the...

Without being particularly aware of it, we carrying the remnants of old punishments around, hidden away inside of us.  We learn how to swallow our experiences of being punished because they are painful experiences to have and they are even more painful to hold. Again, if we see our inner sense of self like a pond that was full of golden Light when we were born, it is easy to see how that 'pond' might have been affected and impacted throughout the course of our life to date. When we are young and innocent, we have no idea who could hurt us or why.  We don't yet have the consciousness to see negative things that might impact us come from others who could have issues and past unresolved pain that is still impacting them in negative, old ways.  It could be young people our same age that are jealous, fearful, envious or angry that they aren't us.  We don't know and we don't know why they or their words would hurt us!  Because of our not knowing, we can take their hur...

We all carry Infinite Light and Energy of the Cosmic Soul because we cannot be separate.  Our existence is not different from the existence of the Great Cosmic Soul. The ONENESS that we are is LIFE!  Unity with that Light is why we are here!  When our consciousness is just coming from our ego or our physical body, social arenas, connections to others who share our perspective only, we can forget there is just one forest but within it, there are many trees. The shape, color, style, height, age, name of each tree isn't what's important.  What's important is that it is there!  It matters and it counts because it is alive and living right where it is located in the one big forest.  It matters because it exists. The space it occupies matters, the place where it needs to grow matters, how long it has taken for it to be full, matters, too.  Yet, that one tree among many doesn't fight for it's space, place or the right to be where it is. It has a natural right...

We are BEINGS of INFINITE POSSIBILITIES AND POTENTIAL.  We are connected to a much greater field of existence.   When we are brought up within our families, we are taught and shown many, many things about life, love, survival and connection to family!  They are useful, needed, wanted, desired and necessary skills and experiences, whether they are painful, difficult, challenging, wonderful, loving or fulfilling! Our families are usually our first exposure to lessons and experiences regarding life. Yet, not all aspects of life we can possibly learn or want to learn are just found within our limited structured frame work of the past!  Often, it is relatively one dimensional thinking, feeling and an acceptable way of life, rich with needed and necessary skills, development and understanding but lacking visions and development of the bigger picture.  We learn about how our bodies function and what they need, we learn our names, our gender, our schooling, our...

In changing times, when there is such a 'great pause' in our daily lives, it gives us a chance to view the world and ourselves in a new way.  How best to proceed when all we have counted on gives way.  How do we see ourselves and our lives when all is changing around us.  When our stability is threatened, our established ways are altering, our way forward is currently blocked, what do we now have to turn to? The first thing to realize is we must allow our self image to shift and change and give ourselves time to develop into a new self, ready to adapt to changes.  We need to do so gently and without judgement.  Digging down deep, we can accept changes of courage, boldness and access a deeper truth within us.  See it as a well that has been on our property that has now gone dry.  Do you dig down deeper to access water again?  Do you move your drilling site further out by your property line, do you borrow your neighbors's well or do you pull up yo...

When fear settles into any part of us at any age and stage in our lives, it is useful to understand it, feel it and consider why it is there.  It is also useful to fish it out and begin each day with a new and renewed sense of self. To move through life with a certain degree of caution is wise but to carry forward with us a very old, outmoded, unnecessary amount of stagnant fear is to rob ourselves of a current 'now' presence. We cherish our lives, our existence, our connection to other people and the people we love.  So we fear the loss of what we know to be that.  Yet, in light of ongoing gratitude, a state of mind we can always welcome in, we can be present with all we love all the time, despite any and all fears that arise within us about the loss of what we cherish. Let go of all we fear to lose, as Yoda said in Star Wars.  It is through our attachments that we experience a great deal of fear!  We fear to lose what we have that fulfills us and makes u...

When all that has flowed on in your life is currently dammed up, apparently immovable, possibly the only way forward is to allow a new spring to come.  To halt the known, cherished, trusted and followed in order to give way to a new undiscovered spring to bubble up and reveal itself can be what is now necessary to lead us on! It is so easy to cling to the past understanding, the long known path we have been on in order to not invite in what may have been waiting for us all along.  It is in the process of inviting it in that opens the only way to embark on something new and brave!  We must use our own discernment, of course, but if a new spring calls to us, it may be quite wise to hear it. Perhaps you become lost in the forest and cannot find your way home.  Now you must survive on what you find to eat and drink.  As you seek to find it, suddenly you hear a stream and find berries!  It has literally bubbled up near you and found you in need.  It ans...