★Highlighting Things Which Make You Smile'

_{excerpt by Oriah Mountain Dreamer} We all need encouragement. We are small and brief and highly bio-degradable, and the world is large and on many fronts, in need of tending. But we are also resilient, connected and contributing every day to shaping the world by our choices about how to be here.

When I become overwhelmed- whether by news of another species being endangered or with concern for someone I love going through a challenging time- I remember and focus on these words from Arthur Ashe that have become a guide for focusing on life instead of wasting precious energy on attachment to results we cannot foresee:

Start where you are.
Use what you have. Do what you can.

We need both practical solutions and poetry, strategies for living in balance and stories that sustain the heart and soul. There are infinite ways to contribute to how the world unfolds.

• • I feel like smiling.
  • This is a harmonious, receptive, loving, peaceful day. _{Louise Hay}

•  I  move through my daily life with ease.

 

• •  I begin and continue as needed.
  •  All of the cells in my body exist in harmony and peace with every other cell in my body.

 

Prayer Evolving Five Personal Explorations INTO the Future of Prayer by Dennis Rivers

1. INDWELLING

The seed of the Spiral:

I am in the loving heart of God

wide as the morning sky

I am in the radiant heart of Being

fragrant as a flowering tree

I am in the loving heart of the Universe

shining with endless Light

I am in the infinite heart of God

Whose presence caresses me like a warm wind

I am in the loving heart of Being

which sings through me with angelic voices

I am in the endless heart of the Universe

who holds me like a sleeping child

The Spiral deepens:

I am in the loving heart of God

wide as the morning sky and full of golden light

that fills the entire horizon of my life.

As I walk deeper and deeper into that light

I become filled with a deep peace.

I am in the radiant heart of Being

fragrant as a flowering tree.

I press my face into the blossoming branches

and my body fills up and overflows

with the perfume of compassion and delight.

I am in the loving heart of the Universe

shining with endless Light

I feel the warmth of this endless Light

washing through me with each breath

I am in the infinite heart of God

which caresses me like a warm wind

the hands of the wind are full of joyous electricity

which fills me to overflowing

I am in the loving heart of Being

full of angelic voices, singing,

I hear them, first far away,

then closer, then all around me,

then deep within me.

As their voices become clearer

I realize they are announcing

infinite forgiveness.

As their voices become clearer

I realize their voices are my own.

I am in the endless heart of the Universe

who holds me like a newborn child

and rocks me to sleep

on the front porch of eternity.

Every time I go to sleep

I go to sleep deep within

the endlessly loving,

endlessly beautiful heart of God.

2. BECOMING THE LIGHT:

A MEDITATION WITHIN THE LUMINOUS MIND OF GOD to read more

Such is human psychology that if we don’t express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. _{Lin Yutang}

_{excerpt by Oriah Mountain Dreamer} We all need encouragement. We are small and brief and highly bio-degradable, and the world is large and on many fronts, in need of tending. But we are also resilient, connected and contributing every day to shaping the world by our choices about how to be here.

When I become overwhelmed- whether by news of another species being endangered or with concern for someone I love going through a challenging time- I remember and focus on these words from Arthur Ashe that have become a guide for focusing on life instead of wasting precious energy on attachment to results we cannot foresee:

Start where you are.
Use what you have. Do what you can.

We need both practical solutions and poetry, strategies for living in balance and stories that sustain the heart and soul. There are infinite ways to contribute to how the world unfolds.

Wonderful post with breath taking photographs, absolutely magnificent!
Thank you for sharing. Blessings unto you forever and a day…