Gratitude
In the presence of the Divine, one becomes grateful
for all of life.
A grateful heart is one that has been touched
by the Divine, whether knowingly or not.
Calendar of Awakening - Day 92
~Julie Redstone~
From gratitude all good flows.
One of the deepest truths of life is, that when one is feeling gratitude we are in the presence of the Divine. And when it is difficult to feel the goodness and holiness of all life, then one can seek gratitude, for when we truly seek to be grateful, open, innocent we are open to be moved and touched by God’s love.
I am very moved by how gratitude can lead us home to our truest selves and to the Divine. My prayer is that no matter what the challenges we each face in our daily lives, that we allow love and gratitude to guide us.
All of Life is Sacred/ All of Life is Precious ~ I first received these words over 15 years ago for my first website. I say that I received them, because they did not come from my conscious self, but they came as a gift. A gift from my soul and God, to remind me of the preciousness and holiness of all life. These words have had deep meaning to me throughout these years. I experienced them as a great truth, yet I longed to know, feel and live this in my daily life. For the most part I only had moments of being able to do so. I was very grateful for these experiences, but I longed for a deeper connection with all that was holy.
Through out these years, I would continue to have spiritual openings. Profound and beautiful experiences of the beauty and truth of the sacredness and holiness of all life - and yet I still could not live from the place that I longed to live from. I prayed to know God in every moment, to know and feel the sacredness of all life, no matter what my outer circumstances were, and I continued to deepen my own healing and purification with God. I waited, prayed, and continued to life my daily life to the best of my ability. I was grateful for all that was given, yet I longed to live a life that was filled with the experiences of knowing and feeling God’s love for me.
In these last few months, I have experienced a deep, profound and holy gift. More and more, I am having the experience of the sacredness, beauty and holiness of all life. It is not complete, I know that there are ever-deepening ways of being present to the Divine. For now, I am so moved and grateful that my deepest prayers have begun to be answered.
Alongside this great gift, on many levels these have been very challenging months. I hold this suffering deeply within myself. My own suffering, the great suffering of many around me and the ongoing suffering that exists in our world. They exist for me entwined in my heart. The beauty and goodness of all life and the enormity of the ongoing suffering for so many. I am profoundly grateful to be able to feel both. It allows my heart and my being to open more deeply to All of life around me.
As I have opened to the deeper truths of living life more fully with God, I have begun to experience the preciousness and goodness of life daily. On the outside, my life continues to have many difficulties, but my inner experience alongside these challenges, is one of profound knowing of the depth of goodness of life. For a period of many days I had the experience of feeling completely pure, whole, innocent and a Beloved Child of God. I could feel God’s precious love for me, I could feel how all my journeys, my “mistakes”, my life was held in God’s palm and held preciously. I experienced my own complete and unconditional self-love. I experienced this Love, as gift that was here for each of us. This is how we are all meant to live. This is how we will all begin to live in peace and harmony with each other.
I now know deeply in my own personal experience, what is possible. And so when I am not holding myself with the deepest love, I know that I have left God ~ for God is only Love.
At this time life has many challenges for so many. Yet underneath all these challenges lies the inherent truth of life - that all of life is good, precious and sacred. We are each awakening to this truth, and as more and more of us awaken the world will begin to change. This is how our swords will be changed to plowshares, this is how each mother will have food to feed their children, this is how each human being will be able to live a life of dignity and freedom.
With all love and blessings, Michaela
Surrendering to Love, to God
All good comes through love.
If we remember nothing else, we can seek to love, and let all that is not love within us fall away.
Surrendering to God, I am upheld in each step on the path of love and truth.
The recent time for me has been one of significant deepening in love and truth. I’ve become more awake to ways that have not been of love in me. Ways I haven’t given myself fully to love.
As I’ve become aware of this - through the light and love of my spiritual teacher Julie Redstone, and of Michaela, I have felt remorse for ways in which I have not been more loving. Along with this comes the great opportunity to choose to love more fully and deeply - to truly give myself to love. There is a growing surrender in me - in our marriage, and to God. Through this, I am becoming more open to being led, let go of ordinary ‘planning’ of the mind, let go of control. I am so grateful for what I am being given.
It means not really knowing where I’m going - except that it is toward love, toward openness to God. It means letting go of my separated will, agenda, ways of doing things, and habits of emotion, energy, and behavior. All these have to be purified in the pathway of surrender and love. Then all the things I do will have within them, surrender to God and to love. Then the vibration of how I am can truly help the world move into the future of love that is my deepest prayer for humanity and the Earth.
No matter what we may plan, life unfolds differently from what we might expect. It’s not in our control. We may try to arrange life according to our habits, attachments, and preferences - yet doing can close us off from opening to possibilities that only God can see. God sees what we can’t, with our limited human perspectives.
Learning to let go of navigating with our limited human perspective - and opening to and aligning with the larger Universe of which we are part -we begin to live in the fullness of who we truly are, as part of All that Is.
Love is my compass.
Growing discernment of what is Light, and what is not, becomes the path I walk.
Opening to the Unknown opens me - opens my life up. I am not in control.
I learn to give all to God, “Thy Will Be Done”.
In this way I come, by love and trust, to the innocence of the deepest self I AM.
With deep gratitude,
Robert
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