The Road Home

After a long five work weeks I finally had a weekend off to myself. Naturally, Saturday was mostly dedicated to catching up with long overdue errands.  Before leaving the house I pulled out a contemplation seed card. I read, “Listen to the Holy Spirit.”

I recalled reading somewhere that angels and spiritual guides are always around us, helping and nudging us every moment of each day. It is up to us to “spot” them, if you will.

On that note, I decided to make my errands day into a spiritual exercise by doing my very best to keep my attention on the presence of the Holy Spirit and the spiritual guides working on our behalf.

I soon realized that it was easier said than done as my attention kept getting distracted by the multiple things I needed to take care of.

At a certain point my stomach let me know that it was lunch time and I needed some food. I went to Whole Foods to get something at their salad and food bar. The place was packed with holiday shoppers and the lines to check out longer than usual. While standing in my line, food plate in hand, I remembered my spiritual exercise and I switched my attention away from my stomach’s impatience to get to the food as quickly as possible and the frenzy of the shoppers dealing with tired cashiers.

I opened my consciousness to the possibility of a presence beyond what was going on all around me, welcoming it into my awareness with a grateful and open heart.

Something inside me, I can’t really explain it, immediately recognized a multiplicity of beings shimmering light and radiating love, just as many if not more than the amount of people present in the store. A smile lit up my face and my heart rejoiced and returned the love that was being given so freely to all who would but take a moment to recognize it and let it in.

I encourage you to try this and see what your experience is.

In the meantime, I will leave you with a sentence that came to my attention today.

“At times you will be overwhelmed, perhaps confused, and will not want to face what is to come, but that is when you should put aside negative thoughts and bear the responsibility of listening, for as Jesus said, once you put your hands upon the plow handles, there is no turning back!” “Truth is here now. It is up to you to take charge of yourself and accept it now!” “It is possible for everybody!”  From “The Flute of God”

Happy Holidays to all!

“What can I do right now to open my heart in order for me to give and receive God’s love?”

I have posed this question to Spirit every morning during my daily contemplation time.

A couple of days ago I had a nudge to randomly take another card out of the deck.

This is what the Divine handed me answering my request,

“Everything Flourishes in a Grateful Heart” – a card from the Spiritual Laws of Charity.

The biblical verse associated with the card is from 1 Thessalonians 5:18 and it tells us:  “Give thanks to all circumstances for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

I couldn’t help but smile and feel grateful for the answer. In so doing, my heart softened and slowly began to open.

What a wonderful and simple tool to open the heart to loving God.

However, it isn’t always easy to feel grateful when life brings me painful or difficult experiences. How can I be grateful for that? I can mentally tell myself that I am grateful because I know that God is giving me these experiences for me to learn and grow. That’s fine but it doesn’t help one bit to open my heart. It is simply a logical notion or justification to make things okay but actually it does absolutely nothing to heal the ailing or fearful heart.

I can pretend to accept the notion and go on with my life thinking that everything is fine now, but my heart isn’t open and I am living from my mind. From experience I know that sooner rather than later Spirit will bring yet another experience that will reopen the wound and place me right back into the pain or fear and the only reason for this it is so that I learn to open my heart.

It finally hit me that there is one thing I can always be grateful for no matter what the circumstance. It is my love for God thus I am grateful for God.

Now I sit in the mornings in God’s presence and say, “I love you God and I am grateful for you God.” I say it with all my heart, with all my love.

May The Blessings Be!

Ask and you shall receive…

They say that the lessons in life come in threes; my lessons/blessings to learn about pride came as three separate experiences during the same day.

Acknowledging and owning pride is not an easy task – the mind fights it as if its life depended on it and the reality is that it does. Let me share my experiences.

I have a friend that I take dance lessons with every Saturday. We have been doing this for the past three months (here is the number three). Suddenly, a couple of weeks ago, he decided to stop doing it because he started dating someone. Nothing wrong with this, you will say. Yes, I agree, however the problem started because he didn’t tell me his real intentions. Instead, he said that he was dating someone and was going to take dance lessons with her. However, this would not interfere with our Saturday lessons as they would be dancing on Wednesdays. Then, come Thursday morning I received a text from him asking me to call him when I had a free moment. That very morning I received the news that my dad who lives in Venezuela had a stroke during the night. Knowing that he was dying and that he was terrified, I was on my cell texting and talking with his caretaker all morning, helping her to assist him through the death process. For those of you who don’t know me, I have practiced spiritual healing for over 20 years and have helped many people meet with death.

Needless to say, it was an intense emotional experience being my father the person I was assisting to die. To top it off, quite early that day I had received a text from a friend of mine who is dying from cancer and was asking me if I could visit her because she wanted to say goodbye. Asking Spirit what would be a good time for me to visit her, I had gotten the nudge to do so at three in the afternoon (here is that number again!). So, after taking care of my dad and whatever else I needed to do at work, I went to visit my girlfriend. By this time I was feeling pretty tired at every level, physical, emotional and mental. When I left her home I called my dance partner. He had tried calling me while I was visiting her and I was now finally able to call him back.

He asked me if we were still going to dance Saturday and I said that we were. Then he proceeded to inform me that he had called my son and asked him to go dancing with me Saturday so that he could take his new girlfriend instead. I was stunned and knowing that I wasn’t in a good place to answer without getting upset I told him I would talk to him at another time because I had a pretty rough day and that my father had passed away.

The day wasn’t over yet. In fact, I received another text from a friend who gave some information about a woman I have been helping. This information, unbeknown to him showed me that she was taking for granted my help and actually expecting it as if due to her.

Well, by now I was a complete wreck feeling so much anger and turmoil inside me. I decided to remain calm and allow my emotions to settle down by doing a spiritual exercise and ask Spirit for help.

I remembered the contemplation seed card I was working on and asked myself if pride would have anything to do with this angry feeling in my stomach. It could not be because I was right at feeling upset for what these two people had done to me, or so I thought.

The days went by and I could not shake the tight feeling deep inside my gut. Furthermore, I was now remembering all the times my father had hurt me very much in the same fashion as these two people had done. What was at the core of it all that bothered me to the point of taking away my peace?

Hidden behind the anger was a deep pain. It was the pain of being rejected, the pain of being used, and the pain of not being loved. So I cried and cried realizing that most of what I had been feeling towards these two people was the pain I had suppressed all my life in relation to my father. I was a walking open wound and I was glad it was all surfacing so that it could be healed in God’s presence and love.

The days passed and even with all the grieving I was doing I still could not feel at peace inside. What was going on? Why was my heart so tight and closed? Why couldn’t I feel God’s love? Once more I remembered the contemplation seed about pride standing in the way of loving God. Could it be that I was being prideful? How could that be? I asked Spirit to show me if pride was keeping me in this prison.

Guess I was finally ready to realize that indeed pride was standing between me and God’s love and I was holding onto it because I needed to be right in order to win. What a revelation that was for me and how humbling it was. I came to realize that by holding onto pride I was keeping the dynamic of anger and pain going on and on expecting a resolution that would never come. The resolution came once I acknowledged and owned my pride and resolved to let it go instead and to forgive.

I did speak to both people and explained to them how their behavior had caused pain. I did this from a new place, a place of humble truth and not of judgment. One more thing I learned, that when things are done from a place of true love for God everybody wins.

Welcome to this site/blog. I am looking forward to sharing my insights with you and also to learn from your own insights and personal life experiences.

I have learned that life gives all of us the opportunity to learn and grow spiritually, if we allow for the possibility of something more, something new and different to enter our awareness and expand our consciousness into greater expressions of itself.

About a year ago I had the insight from Spirit to look for the Spiritual Laws of Life within the quotes of The Bible. I thought that it would be a fun learning experience to see if indeed these Divine principles would be spoken of in this Holy Book.

A Christian acquaintance told me I would most likely find one or two quotes if at all because, according to her, the principles I was looking for were “not biblical”

Being the stubborn woman that I am, and also having learned from past experience that whenever the Holy Spirit nudges me to do something it is because it is true, I disregarded her words and quietly did my own private search.

As a matter of fact, after having shared with her what the Holy Spirit had nudged me to do, Spirit strongly advised me to follow without any hesitance one very important Spiritual Law called The Law Of Silence. This meant I was to conduct my search alone and shared it with no one until the time would come when I would be allowed to do so.

A year later, this set of contemplation seeds cards to develop spiritual wisdom, freedom and charity has come to life and I can now share it with the spiritual seekers of the world.