Life's Loving Memories

  You Are a Light "It's impossible for you to connect with someone else's heart if you haven't connected first with your own."  Carolyn Reynolds ,                    --Spiritual Fittness Donna Michaels is a manificent Mystic of Music In Centers for Spiritual Living, as well as  being an ordained minister. She has a song that I have sung many times, usually at Christmas or New Years, but it can really be sung at any time. The verses contain the following words, I am a Light in this world (repeated three times), You are a Light in this world (r epeated three times), and W e are a Light in this world (repeated three times) . The chorus between each verse goes, And I shine, and you shine, and we shine so brigh t (respectively for each verse). I love this song because it really resonates with the the idea that when I have happiness in my life and shine it out, I recognize that, like a mirror, that happiness comes back to me. When we realize that we collectively shine,

  DIVINE DISCONTENT Discontentment is a gift. It's the stuff that changes the world.   Shane Claiborne Do you ever get a feeling at times, that somethings needs to different; do you have the urge to do something different in your life? I think of it as a sort of Divine Discontent, something bubbling inside you that needs to surface as a new experience: it might be a new and rewarding job; letting go of a relationship that no longer serves you; or, deciding to live a healthier lifestyle. Whatever it may be, it may be a pulsing idea you feel compelled to follow. For me it was a progression of different work experiences. In college it was working in a sandwich shop, the library, and the theatre department's costume shop; in my mid-thirties, it was teaching high school drama, selling Mary Kay Cosmetics;  in my forties I focused on, contecting to my spiritual calling, taking classes, becoming a practioner, a staff minister, and eventually finding my own center to lead. In looking ba

 BEING BRAVE "There is a trap door in your mind. When you open it, knowing yourself as I am cosciouness , new perceptions enter your way of thinking." Raymond Charles barker,        The Power of Decision What does it mean to be brave? To me it means to follow your intuition, to realize you don't have to do something just because other people are doing it, and to follow your dream without being talked out of it. My nephew had a group of friends that he went places with and did all sorts of adventurous and crazy things, but sometimes his friends wanted to go to far, and he would say, no, you'll have to do that without me. People often said that he was the voice of reason within the group. So, being brave doesn't mean you do things haphazzardly, but sometimes you may do things a little out of your comfrot zone. Think of all the brave people in history. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake because she would not renounce her spiritual convictions. Norma Rae, who stood u

ON THE WINGS OF SPRING "Meditation draws us close to the Divine Reality so that we sense Its atmosphere and feel It's presence. When we think about Peace we become peaceful. And, it is in our feeling of Peace that we speak our affirmation of Power. It is from this Peace that we affirm  the presence of  Love and Truth and Goodness."                                               Ernest Holmes,    -- Living the Science of Mind  What are the signs of Spring that make you feel especially Joyful? For me, one of the biggest things that sparks my delight is watching humming birds at the feeder on my patio. I sit in the sunshine and sip my coffee, watch the birds and the tiny blue lizards that climb the surrounding the walls of my patio.  Life is peaceful and sitting in silence allows me to drink in the goodnes and peace of Spirit. Absorbing that serenity fuels me up with peace and love to share with the situations and the persons who cross my path each day. It allows me the abili