Joyful Gratitude

This picture is so interesting. To me it looks like an eye, perhaps the eye of the earth, or the universe. I think this picture tells a story, and I could spend my writing time today just writing about that, but I’m not sure that I should. I see the sun and the moon, and ice and snow, water, flowers, green grass, trees, a seed within, and ever so much potential for all there is...a literal garden of Eden. Amazing!

I have been so consumed for the last few weeks by my website technical details. I have found it difficult to begin writing each day because maybe if I try just one more thing, I can get my WordPress Network to work. And I do keep trying, it’s a mystery I need to solve, a puzzle that needs to be finished, a challenge I have accepted. I have had to take a step back and re-evaluate the situation because I’m not making a lot of progress at the moment. It almost works, but not quite. So, I will keep plugging away.

So, I know it’s time for me to begin working on other things. I will keep trying to find the solution, but I will also try to not let it take over my life. Yes, I am learning from this experience and I guess it was something I needed to learn. I am the only one applying pressure, demanding perfection as usual. Another reminder for me not to be so hard on myself.

I am growing, expanding and most importantly, diversifying. I am merging the darkness of matter and the brilliance of Light, my dream seeds are Unifying Earth and Sky!

In the Heart of Creation, I am Marsha!

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart).

~ ee cummings

Growing Gratitude

In yesterday’s message there was a link to ‘APA, The Grand Mystery of Water’. I watched it this morning, there were 9 videos about 10 minutes each. I found them interesting so I just kept watching until I had watched all of them.

So, today, every time I used some water I thanked it, then saying a little prayer of blessing. It felt really good and I drink a lot of water, mostly in tea. I even blessed the water I used for cleaning. I felt really good all day long. It was an interesting experience to say the least, and I will keep doing it.

In order to Birth a New Reality, I know there will be many things I will need to let go of. Not only things but my beliefs too. It feels a lot like change, I guess it really is change, but somehow it feels good. I really love learning new things and after all, this is a learning experience. I know, that I must release what is no longer needed, what no longer serves my needs in order for me to grow. And that is the hardest, letting go of my attachment to these things even though I know I must make room for the new reality being birthed. I will do the best I can and I will let go of the outcome as I learned in Healing Touch.

I am Marsha, a blooming human!

~ from the Sufi master Hafiz

Light Will someday split you open

Even if your life is now a cage.

Little by little, You will turn into stars.

Little by little, You will turn into

The whole sweet, amorous Universe.

Love will surely burst you wide open

Into an unfettered, booming new galaxy.

You will become so free

In a wonderful, secret

And pure Love That flows

From a conscious, One-pointed, Infinite Light.

Even then, my dear, The Beloved will have fulfilled

Just a fraction, Just a fraction!

Of a promise He wrote upon your heart.

For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,

Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain

You hold the title to.

O look again within yourself,

For I know you were once the elegant host

To all the marvels in creation.

When your soul begins

To ever bloom and laugh

And spin in Eternal Ecstasy-

O little by little, You will turn into God.

Waters of Gratitude

When I was little we had a well and the water tasted so clean and pure. I remember never having to worry about having clean water. I can’t say that now. I grew up without fluoride and chlorine in my drinking water. Today it is so difficult for me to drink chlorinated water, I cannot stand the taste or the smell. I always filter my water, but it’s never as good as the water I had as a child.

Water is life, without it none of us would be here. Even though water can be life giving it can also be deadly, as we have seen with the recent tsunami in Japan. Never the less, it is an integral part of our lives, we begin our lives surrounded by water before our birth, and we spend our entire lives dependant upon the waters of life.

So, what if every time I take a shower, I visualize the water as the First Spirit of Life, baptizing and sanctifying my body, my soul, and my dream seeds in my heart and allowing the Spirit to move through me and beyond? Sounds amazing! I will try it…so we shall see.

I am a blooming human! I am Marsha!

We call upon the waters that rim the earth, horizon to horizon, that flow in our rivers and streams, that fall upon our gardens and fields, and we ask that they teach us and show us the way.

- Chinook Indian Blessing