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Surfing with Spirit, Part 3
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoingand right doing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”― Rumi This week is the final post on surfing with Spirit. Using this practice is a great way to grow spiritually. Learning to trust your intuition by listening in the silence of your mind during meditation then becomes a habit when you are…
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Surfing with Spirit, Part 2
My Prayer for Today: Now Gentle Spirit, take my lips and speak through them; take my mind and think through it; take my heart and set it on fire for good. Amen Rev Judy Voght, Minister at Unity Spiritual Center of Gulfport Last week began the Surfing with Spirit mini-series, https://revairin.wordpress.com/2024/07/16/surfing-with-spirit/ , and I gave you an exercise to get your feet ‘wet’. No…
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Surfing with Spirit
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”— Jon Kabat-ZinnWhat is it like to let the Spirit, as in the Holy Spirit,run and operate in and as your life? What would that mean? The sport of surfingis a great metaphor and example that can explain how well we can have Spirit,run and operate in our lives. When one allows themselves to let the Spirit guidethem, one can flow more in their…
A Simple Act of Forgiveness
Updated from 2012 “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.”— Richie Norton This was one of my first posts when I began blogging. I don’t think many of you have seen this unless you did a search or you scrolled back to read all my posts. It provides a spiritual tool that gives you freedom in your life, in particular, as we celebrate the 4th of July every year. Is this another one of ‘those’…
Was Always a Dream, Part III
Photo by TMS Sam on Pexels.com “Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of…
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Was Always a Dream, Part II
Photo by Meruyert Gonullu on Pexels.com ‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But…
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Was Always a Dream, Part I
“Every night I lie in bedThe brightest colors fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awakeI think of what the world could beA vision of the one I see” In keeping with the Pride month of June, I have a story for you that continues into today. So that we are all on the same page, not all of you reading this may know what I mean by Pride. “The word ‘pride’ is an integral cultural concept…
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A Coloring book World Part II
“Colour, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder. As the saying goes: “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” The Nature of Things review of Living Colour documentary 1 Last week I introduced the idea of reflecting on how you color your world by using quotes and poetry. I have always loved brightly colored things such as a red plaid shirt or a plain read chamois shirt.…
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A Coloring Book World, Part I
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com “Life is a coloring book and yes, I have the crayons.” — Rev Patricia Bessey This week, I was moved by the above morning message from my minister. I instantly loved it. I had not thought about life in this way before. So, I am inviting you to think about the colors you use to color your world with as you go about your week. The following quotes, poems and…
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Hocus Pocus Focus
Three lady slippers in the top third of photo One morning when Aiden was coming back from a walk with his dog, he saw a lady slipper. Most of us know it is an endangered wildflower and not to pick or transplant it. After taking care of his dog, he went back into the woods to take a picture of it. He found it and thought it was the only one which had normally been the case for him. He began to…
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Hope in a Robin’s Egg
“Hope”is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tunewithout the words, and never stops – at all. —Emily DickinsonOne day as Aiden arrived at his house, he was surprised to find that there was a bird’s nest that had been built and wedged between the outside light and the side of the house by the back door. It had been there more than a week. That was why the sound of the…
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The Heart of Joy
“We cannot always control the situation we are in, but we can always control our attitude toward it.” – Victor Frankl Aiden remembers how his dad died. He died the way he lived, as a gentle man and a gentleman. His name was Wilbur Ernest Wolf, and he grew up on a farm, becoming a jack of all trades and a master at some of them. Dad was a…
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Immortality or Death
Sophie curled up next to Abbie “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Australian Philosopher Aiden couldn’t imagine life without…
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A Pan Handling Dilemma
Photo by MART PRODUCTION on Pexels.com “People don’t like to see homelessness,” he said, adding he felt like perhaps the community would rather the homeless, “be out of sight.” — Steve Huston Waiting in his truck at the stoplight, Aiden noticed the man dressed in a green leprechaun suit and hat (yes, really) who was holding a black decorated…
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Comfort or Distress
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”— Michael Jackson This experience was described by a nurse: “On Saturday 3/27 we had a patient that went into a rapid decline. At the time the patient…
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Solar Eclipse and Thoughts – Metaphysics
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Solar Eclipse and Thoughts Part I
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An Angel by Easter
Photo by Roberto Nickson on Pexels.com In last week’s Palm Sunday post, I introduced you all to Aiden who was resurrecting his life from the breakup of a long-term relationship by first surrendering control to God. Fast forwarding to the present day to where Aiden has been a chaplain at a large corporate hospital. The social worker in the emergency department had paged him to support the husband…
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Control or Surrender
Hollingworth Lake Shore by David Dixon is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0 “To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.” Bruce Lee It was as though he had woken up one day and his world had completely changed. Aiden was single after a sixteen-year relationship that had ended. She had taken their dog with her and left his cat, at least, but the apartment was emptied of all her things. This…
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Erasing the Black Cloud
Rainbow over the River Forth taken from the esplanade in Kirkcaldy, Fife. WorldPhotographyDay22 by Craig is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 It was an hour later and the patient having Dialysis had another code white. A code white can be that the pt was unresponsive, a possible stroke, or having respiratory challenges. He was unresponsive for a second time. By the time I arrived, he had been responding…
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Intuition Energy
Photo by Captured Moments on Pexels.com Lyrics for the song: It’s in Everyone of Us It’s in everyone of usTo be wiseFind your heartOpen up both your eyes,We can all know everythingWithout ever knowing why,It’s in everyone of usBy and byIt’s in everyone of usTo be wise,Find your heartOpen up both your eyes,We can all know everythingWithout ever knowing why,It’s in everyone of usBy and by It’s…
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