Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

Maryanne Williamson

Been thinking of this a lot lately, what does it mean to give up our stories from the past…..to allow the full awareness that they are in the past and therefore can not hurt us further unless we continue to dwell in that wounded place.

How do we honor all we went through, and at the same time put down the old stories so the Universe can write us a new one.

Perhaps we do a ritual burial of all those past hurts, or a Fire to consume them – it’s important to see and honor all of who we are….but boy oh boy is it time to move on from the wounds.  To claim our divine birthright of Whole-ness/Holi-ness so we can see what work God might have for us to do!  How will you practice allowing a new story to be written for you?

Has it ever happened where you are sort of plugging away at something (work, a business or something else) and suddenly it all just feels wrong?  You are wondering what/why you’ve been chasing the dream in a particular way?  Listening to others whom you think have achieved something you want?

Then you find yourself in confusion, you thought after all, that you had it figured out….you just had to keep doing the things everyone said you HAD to do if you were going to get results but it’s just not working.  You aren’t having fun, or experiencing joy, you feel flat and like something is off……maybe way off, maybe only a little off.

That is an interesting place to be.  You can ask yourself the questions or you can panic and jump into the next thing.  I think it’s more beneficial even if more uncomfortable to be in the Void, the place of not knowing but waiting…..for internal guidance on what your next steps might be.  Maybe you don’t feel like you have the time for that, there are bills to be paid and other things to attend to but I’d encourage you to wait for those Whispers as much as you can.  That is where the real juice is, the real direction.  It’s scary as hell to sit in the Void for a day or a week or a month…..cause you have to TRUST, that the answers will come.  You have to trust that there really even is internal guidance to be had and that that guidance is going to be so much more accurate than listening to all the other voices outside clamoring for your attention!

Give it a go for as long as you possibly can, do ceremony, ask for guidance and wait – listen and then act.  We are in this time now as we approach the Full Moon this month…..the energy of it supports us in our quest if we can just be patient.

The best way to summon your true calling is to put yourself in service to God.

There is magic in this statement made by Marianne Williamson…..why because it is when we are in service to God that we can experience true freedom.  It is a mindset, the way we think…..and yes, then we need to take action that is in alignment with that mindset.

We all wonder at times what our true work is or how we can best use our god given talents, at times we can get very confused about that or find ourselves in situations that don’t seem like they are in alignment with our true calling.  It just doesn’t feel right, or maybe the work feels right but we aren’t being adequately compensated for it.  At the moment when we realize that, we can turn to prayer and ask again for alignment in our work, our compensation for that work and we can rest in the knowing that it will be.

Why not try it, and see where you go?

My Eyes So Soft

by

Hafiz

Don’t

Surrender

Your loneliness so quickly.

Let it cut more

Deep.

Let it ferment and season you

As few human

Or even divine ingredients can.

Something missing in my heart tonight

Has made my eyes so soft,

My voice so

Tender,

My need of god

Absolutely

Clear.

Loneliness is not the most comfortable emotion.  Most of us reach for something to distract us from it, sweets, conversation with another, a TV show or movie…..anything to keep us from feeling it.  These words suggest that if we really allow ourselves to let the loneliness cut more deeply, we might find ourselves reaching for connection – to our Higher Power, or Great Spirit or God.  What might we find, if we have the courage to really feel loneliness?

We might fine Peace or Joy or Inspiration – all things that can then lead us to be our bigger and best selves.  It might just be worth it.

From Being and Vibration – Joseph Rael

“When a new idea calls our attention to its reality, what is going on is that the energy wants to lift us.  It starts to lift us from where we were at to a higher place where we can become what we are going to become next.  That is the very nature of one of the mysteries of vibration.

What is interesting about this lifting energy is that when it happens to us, it also happens to other people who are also being lifted as well without necessarily being conscious of the process.”

So the real question in my mind is, are you aware when new ideas call you?  Do you or can you act on them to allow this new Vibration, this energy of lifting, help you to become the next best thing?

It isn’t so easy is it?  We are held back by shame or idea’s that “who are we” to act on perhaps a big new idea?  We are the ones Spirit is calling.  Do your old wounds keep you from acting on it?  I know I want to act on that inspiration, I know it is Spirits promptings – asking me to become more of who I am meant to be.

Sometimes we need a Mentor or a Guide to help us overcome the shame or other mindsets that are holding us back.