Aligning with Grace

Sometimes, insights and answers come from unexpected places. They will come to us if we quiet the voices within that often drown out the stillness so that we can truly listen and take heed... Welcome insights and answers can come to us in messages we receive from friends - in an email, or a call, or a Facebook post, or simply through our observation and appreciation of the wild life all around us - or the beauty in flowers and vegetation. For the last several weeks on my walks, I have been invariably visited by exuberant robins manifesting out of heavy canopies of draping branches that then proceed to "walk"  on the path, right in front of me. They gayly hop a few steps forward, then slyly wait for me to catch up to them. I follow at a safe distance, until they decide to start hopping again. Sometimes we play out this little ritual for few minutes. So finally today, I decided to look up the meaning of robins on my favorite animal totem site: "A Robin totem will s...

Recently, I compiled this list of beautiful insights and teachings - "Messages of Love" - from the site "Circle of Light," so that I could review them often, and continue to be inspired by them. www.circleoflight.net I offer them here for your own reflection and edification. May you find some inspiration here. 6.3.13 Everything is Love. Love is the common denominator. Love is the answer to every question. Love is the unity, the presence, the way. When Love becomes your only identity, all separation is healed. If you deeply feel that you are Love, then you have moved into the continual answer -- the one answer to every question -- the answer that mends and blends it all. There is only Love. 5.30.13 Your hearts, beloved ones, are great vortices of living Light. They are connected directly to the River of Life. Your hearts are alive with an "intelligence of Love" that connects you to all the living wisdom that we are as the pure...

When I woke up this morning, I headed straight for my meditation space to celebrate the birthday of Paramahansa Yogananda, whose writings have enriched my life and nourished my soul for decades. It is said, that the energy on the birthday of a guru, spiritual teacher, or saint, is strong - and that the prayers we offer and the intentions we set on this day - are very powerful indeed. I have felt that in the past, and I felt it again this morning during my meditation and subsequent prayer. Without disturbing the deep sense cultivated during that hour, I headed down to the river with a cup of coffee in tow. I had not visited my beloved river for a while, and when I arrived, no one else was there. The riverbanks were frozen at the edges, but I could side step those thin areas quite gingerly so that I could survey the broad expanse of the river. It was wide. But not as wide as the heart of God, or the Love of God, I imagined... Eventually, I walked up to the the high point, and from my pe...

How lovely to be constantly reminded about the reason for the season! It all comes down to LOVE! And so, I share here, a few reminders that have come my way, capped off by a short poem that I wrote... "To live in the Reality of Love is to be willing to be God awakening to the truth of only Love and every expression of it, every nuance to be marveled at and discovered. Every radiance is honored - the fullness of the miracle of 'both/and,' the indivisible unity of this one life and the powerful gift of our relationship which is a relationship with every expression, every aspect of God. and thus do you dance in this sparkling Light in the world as an acknowledgement of the miracle of the facets of Love and the beauty of their expression, every one of which contains the whole. Every electron is the universe. Every breath is the Moment of Creation, and every heartbeat is the birth of God consciousness, all of it ready to be honored by the miracle that is you." "Messag...