The Way Jesus Loved - and we can too!

I've been having a bit of a challenging morning.

We enjoyed a sweet Women's Circle last night,
and sometimes after leading programs where shifts happen and new possibilities open for myself and for others...

Spiritually, I experience push-back from within myself 
and from external forces that don't agree-with the Light. 

This can feel shitty
- like fear, like pain, like invalidation, like I SUCK... 
Until I regain my sea legs, and take the helm again ; )

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Fortunately, something Jesus showed me a couple years ago, just came to mind.
And of course it is helping open to the Light.

Jesus showed me a way in which he lived,
and in which it serves us humans to live:

IN Love!

IN/ With/ As/ Filled-up with God's Love,
overflowing with the spiritual experience of Oneness,
experiencing our Wholeness and Completeness directly from our Source!

Jesus showed me:
when I come to my relationships full - overflowing with Love,

I am free to just love - period.

I am free to fall into Love.
To more and more easily & naturally love God, love myself, love my body, love my life, love the humans & all my relations, love my path, love Momma Earth, love all of Life, love ALL... 
just as we are and just as we're not.

In this consciousness, I am free. 

I am free to align and follow the Light where it leads.

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When I come to Life empty, needing, focused on my brokenness, etc.

- I cannot truly love. 
- I'm in a much too self-centered, precarious, vulnerable expereince, to call it love.

I am not aligned with/IN the Light, 
I am off-track, 
I am screwed.

I am, of course, always falling off this horse 
(of BEing IN the Soul expereince of Love)
and eventually, gratefully falling back on the horse... repeat.

Being IN the spiritual experience of Love,

gets me out of the way - Life is Not About ME.

From there, I remember: I am FREE to be, to do.

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This is crazy empowering, and life-changing, IMO/E, 
so I will say it again:

When I am IN Love,

I get out of the Way.

I Realize my Freedom to Be, to Do.

Regardless if *I* am tempted to like or hate me.

Regardless if *they* agree or judge me.

Regardless if I seem successful or not - etc.

I am free to Love, to Validate, to Heal, 
to be IN Light, to follow the Way God leads.

When I let the River of Life, Love, Truth, God... flow through me 
- I am well, and all manner of things are well.

I easily share this cascade of Love with all I meet, I can't really help it.

I really appreciate when I am in that place, IN Love.

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Now let me go find that horse - it ran off somewhere ;)

Blessings on your Unique Path,
Wendy

YOU are God's Own Special NUT!

Do you sometimes feel like a Round Peg in a Square Hole?
(secret: so do we all!)

Some encouragement as we start this NEW Year:
You are God's Own Special NUT!

We have our own Spiritual DNA.
We are perfectly designed to be US.
I am inimitably Me and you are inimitably You.

No one else can be who you are.
No one else can do what you do.
NO ONE!
so Let's SHINE!

If you do not be you and do your unique path,
your voice in the chorus is missing.
so Let's SING!

No one else can mature into the beautiful flower you are,
so Let's BLOOM!

No one else can share the fruit, the gifts, that you can,
where and how you can,
so Let's Come to FRUITION!

Magic happens
when we let go and BE our True selves,
when we Truly DO our own thing...
when we Let go and let God.

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You are not and never will be Bad or Wrong to miss this opportunity,
but you will miss your mark,
and the tremendous blessing it is for you to play your unique part;
and All your Relations will miss your inimitable self, as well as your unique contribution.

Let's not get sidetracked

• by playing small
• by replaying old songs that we don't even enjoy
• by trying to be someone else
• by doing it like someone told us to...

Please come PLAY, as YOU.
I will do my best to Play as Me.
See you on the field!

Learning to feed ourselves, and - from there - others

 
When I am stuck, when I feel broken, when my soul is hungry...
It is useful when the question, the request, my ASK...
is bigger than: please I need a fish, and I really need it now!

From this desperate place, I have great motivation and powerful potential to play A BIGGER GAME:

• please teach me to fish
• which is the seed of: facilitating fish for Us...

The powerful Lever, my Goal has become:

• What is there to Learn, to Heal, to Grow-into?
• Where can I be Willing to change, that I have been resisting?
• How can I say YES! to my Source, Light, Life, Truth, Path - in a whole new way?

Allowing transformation,
being willing to go from in need,
to opening to my needs being met,
and then as I mature, I naturally facilitate Our needs being met.

Exactly where I am stuck, feel broken, my soul is hungry.
THERE is my chance to invite blessing, and naturally to bless others.
Where I trip, is my treasure - and eventually - a treasure for our world.

Blessings on your unique path,
Wendy

Where we trip IS our Treasure

 
Sometimes our Healing, Learning, Growth, Transformation…
takes a Giant Leap.
We say a BIG YES and magic happens, we are blessed, the stars align - and our lives move forward.

Sometimes our healing is easy, fun, fast, miraculous.
But...
Usually we progress incrementally: slowly-we-turn, step-by-step, inch-by-inch.

This is no mistake.
It isn’t a failure on our part, it doesn’t mean God is not Mighty or we are not Dedicated or Worthy…
We have Not Failed!

Our Journey toward who we already ARE,
our attainment of the Contributions that are already ours to offer,
takes Time, takes Attention, takes Intention.

On the way

• we HEAL from the wounds and the chains that have kept us down;
• we GROW through the barriers that held us back; learning to leap the hurdles we used-to avoid, and then crawl-under;
• we learn to SHINE our light, the Light; to truly BE ourselves, as well as BE the difference we want to see in the world.

And in this PROCESS, we discover Blessings and Glory beyond our wildest dreams.
Under our wounds and chains, beyond our barriers and hurdles:

• We find lost-parts of ourselves.
• We find lost abilities, senses, connections - both spiritual and physical. 

• We allow-in wisdom, insights, and true knowing.
• We allow-in connection, confidence, charisma.  

• We discover the Light in the Darkness, is within us - always here.
• We discover the One we have been waiting for, is within us - always here now.

In this slow PROCESS, we receive the Dark Gifts of Healing, Growing, Shining.
And we are So grateful-for these gifts!
Although we wouldn’t wish this Horrible path - the Horrors we lived, and faced, and conquered to get here - on our worst enemy!

And yet, on the other side of the darkness, when the day dawns,
the Blessings of the Dark Journey start to be seen
we are full of the Light, and we ARE Grateful.

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That’s what I have found, for myself and others,
When we don’t Heal in a snap, when we are stuck and stopped:
There is a reason: there’s gold in them there hills!

Where we trip IS our Treasure.
Start Digging!
Don't stop until you are blessed.

Best to you on your unique Healing Path!
Wendy

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{Guest Post) Listen. The Spirit speaks.

Guest Post: Jo Hilder

God speaks. And you hear His voice. 
You do. 
But do you recognise His voice?

We are trained early and consistently by those who wish to lead us that our inner voice cannot be trusted, that we need another to teach us and guide us. 

But Jesus Himself promised to go away and send us a Helper. 
We need only ask for His help, and we will receive it. 
There is no trick to hearing the Holy Spirit speak. 

The skill is in silencing the mind. 
And in trusting. 

When you have learned to distrust the still, small voice and look always to an outside source to bring your truth to you, 
when you have only ever heard a jumble of mixed messages when you look to the silence within, 
any confident person who can string three sensible words together will be able to lead you anywhere they want you to go.




But that's not for you.

Listen. Listen. The Spirit speaks.

Selah, my friends.
Jo

Guest Post: Jo Hilder

Jo is an Australian writer, coach and speaker: website.
She shepherds a highly-interactive & nourishing FB group: Free-range Christians

the Divine Presence does not fail

If I had to name my disability, I would call it an unwillingness to fall...
This reluctance signals the mistrust of the central truth of the Christian gospel:
life springs from death,
not only at the last but also in the many little deaths along the way.

When everything you count on for protection has failed,
the Divine Presence does not fail.
The hands are still there -- not promising to rescue, not promising to intervene --
promising only to hold you no matter how far you fall.

- Barbara Brown Taylor, from her book Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

It is worth the journey

God gave me this verse to me personally,
in the midst of very long, very deep, very dark night of the soul.

And it really was a pinpoint of light
at the end of a many, many years long tunnel.

I want to say for all to hear, it was worth the journey,
and my journey isn't even over yet ; )

He shall see of [the fruit of] the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied
- Isaiah 53:11