On the Right Track

"The Intelligence that endowed you with the power to be that which you are has fortified you and is always revealing to you ideas that will bring forth that expression."  Collected Essays of Robert Bitzer

No matter how much we think we don't know, or how much we evade what it is that we were meant to do, eventually we have to do what we were created to do.  This explains why I started my career as a file clerk, moved up to being what is now called an administrative assistant, learned book keeping, office management, got into sales - and in all of it - searching.  Searching for the "right" fit for me.  Interestingly enough, I was a great success at all of what I did.  It just didn't seem enough at the time.

When I finished my training as a spiritual leader, I realized that all of what I did previously, led me into doing what it was that made me a better minister.  The first ministry I moved into, I had to clean up the office and "file" important papers for posterity; was able to read a profit and loss statement and "get" what areas of the church needed some immediate attention; and my job was to "sell" people on a concept of a power inside of themselves that would assist them in creating a more fulfilling life.

All of life's experiences gently lead each one of us down our particular paths.  Early in my career, I heard Jean Houston say, "We are all multitalented."  I wondered what else I could do well within the ministry.

I realized early on that my presence was a "healing" presence.  Just holding a hand, calmed people down.  My words while doing a Spiritual Mind Treatment (prayer) were the right healing words for people to grasp to have huge changes in their lives.  My Sunday lectures brought interesting insights and various areas for individual contemplations.  

Years later, I realized that I had just followed an intuitive trail inspired by my higher power.  Robert Bitzer goes on to tell us that, "Intuition works so quietly and silently, almost subtly, that you have to be very alert and receptive to get it."  I just followed the ideas which were leading me to my next step.  Now I realize it was leading me into a higher awareness of consciousness and to a life that allowed me to fully enjoy all that it has to offer.  

I invite you to think about this and your life in order for you to accept your destiny early on and live a life filled with divine blessing.

A Deeper Understanding of Life

"We are not one in God or one with God, but we are One of God."  Ernest Holmes

Ernest Holmes goes on to tell us, "Although the identity is the same in essence, is is not the same in degree."  The definition of degree is "a step or stage in a process, course, or order of classification; the extent, measure, or scope of an action, condition, or relation; relative intensity."  

I love knowing that I am a "spark" of God.  In order to increase that spark in degree, I just need to step up the intensity or step into a greater degree of knowingness for myself.  In thinking about this concept, I get, and then I don't, how greatness, power, and genius reside in each one of us.  We are One of God.  Even if all it, is a cell, molecule or atom, I'll take it and I want more of it.  

Think what is possible with "the Mind of God within."  When I think of stepping up into the "mind of God within me," I automatically think of the great Biblical quote that says, "All things are possible with God."  Yikes! That means that all things are possible with me, for me and of me.   Well, there go all the excuses!  

Can you imagine God saying, "Oh, I need to sit and rest" while creating the world?  Ah, but maybe that is where Komodo lizards or alligators or monsters of the deep came from - maybe an unfinished process?  Or if It said, "This is too hard, I don't think I can do it?"  Or "What's the use?  No one will use it anyway."  

I am certainly grateful that I was cooked (brought to term in the womb) perfectly and that I am allowed to use all of the gifts given to me at birth.  There are times that I forget how talented, creative and artful I am, and I want (like most of us) to use all of the excuses I can to NOT come up to perfection.  Then I think how blessed I am and that I need to give something back for all of the goodness I am enjoying in my life.  How about you?

Consciously Awake and Aware

"Consciously choosing engages your will as well as your mind and heart.  It brings you into the center of our own existence where you can feel in charge.  Consciously choosing also means that you are becoming a more skilled observer of your own life.  Again, this doesn't invite cold detachment.  It does support a greater sense of inner stability, openness, and freedom."  Stephanie Dorwrick  

This reminds me to be mindful of all that is going on around me.  It calls to me to pay attention to what is important and to what is going on around me.  There is a tendency to go unconsciousness when the pressure gets too much or there is not enough going on.

These last several days have been very painful for me and I had a tendency to go unconscious because I didn't want to face what happened or how I was dealing with the situation.  We were in Phoenix last week where I officiated at a wedding of the daughter of one of my best friends when I first moved to California right after high school.  Danny and I were roommates and we managed to stay in touch with each other through the years.  She got married and moved to Portland, OR.  I got married and moved to San Jose, CA.  She moved back to southern California and again we got in touch.  I officiated at the wedding of her son, her remarriage and then the memorial for her years later.  During this time, her daughter said that she wanted me to marry her when the time came.  I agreed.  

That time was last Friday.  Her brother walked her down the aisle and gave her away.  She was so incredibly beautiful and I knew her mother was there with us in spirit because we both cried with happiness.  Several hours later, her brother died of natural causes in his hotel room.  His 9 or 10 year old daughter, who traveled with him from Ohio, was with him and discovered him the next morning.  

We were driving home to Oklahoma when we got the news and I went numb.  I could not process the information because...because...I don't really know.  I guess I didn't want to accept the situation.  I went unconscious.  

The most incredible thing out of all of this is that his company flew the company jet to California to pick up his in-laws, flew to Phoenix, to pick up the daughter and then home to Ohio.  I tracked down the company phone number and called them to tell them how much I appreciated their consideration and good will.  

I realized that the way to process transitions is to talk, talk, talk.  The more I talked, the better I felt.  I can accept his death now, bless him on his journey, send comforting thoughts to the family and proclaim peace and calm and comfort to all.

Life can be short, appreciate all you have and the loved ones you have around you far and near.  Be blessed.