Om.

The following "question" really is simply a perfect tool for meditation. Give it a try:

"What is a must and what is not?" (Scriptures II-27)

Learning to be in the NOW, to be PRESENT, enjoying the moments when I GET IT! Living llife here and now, not missing anything, good or bad by learning how to apply NON-ATTACHMENT.

THIS! THIS is what I love most about my life right now. NOW is what I love! Here! This moment!

I love that I can have THIS MOMENT always, which carries absolute Peace within it. A painful moment is peaceful as a happy moment. Acceptance, non-attachment, Being Present.

THIS! This is what I love most about my life right now. NOW is what I love! Here! This moment!

Enjoy your moment too.

Namaste,
Lisa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM

Just now, I smiled, realizing I am an Angel of Healing.

I am here at my dad's house, healing him of the cancer and gall bladder disease. I am healing myself too. I am healing the world and rejoining all into One again.

Join me. We are all One. You also are an Angel of Healing.
Lisa

I'm at my dad's house in Phoenix now. I arrived 5 hours ago. Dad is already in bed, and went to bed moaning in a horrible cry-like sound. He is quiet now. My kids are with their dad back home in Colorado, and my husband is off on a ski trip with some buddies. I have my laptop, and my cell phone connecting me electronically to everyone, but as I sit here, I see them as only pieces of plastic and wire. I am trying to not feel alone, and instead be happy my dad has lived to see another Christmas, and that I am here with him now. I can't do anything to make his pain lessen, or make him be able to digest food. I can clean his house, and go to the grocery store for him, and that's about it. I try to just accept what I can do, and accept what I can't. Trying to focus on gratitude, and my breath.

I read Christo's advice on creating your day, or my previous post by Susan Taylor, "Sweet Surrender". I will focus on that advice, and feel the hearts of all of the amazing friends here at Gaia beating as one, even with my own. Knowing you all are out there is helpful.

Merry Christmas, sweet Gaiaians!

by Susan Taylor, as posted by Di.

Sweet Surrender

Our lives don't lie. Our joys, sorrows, challenges and triumphs reflect our deep, often unconscious beliefs, just as the choices we have made mirror where we are on our journey. If your experience is like mine, your most difficult moments have come from resisting change. We hold on to what is familiar, even when it is hurting us. We stay in unhealthy relationships rather than learning to love and cherish ourselves and our own good company. We may resist doing the work to heal our addictions even when they're destroying our physical and emotional well-being. At times, we resent our circumstances, unaware that wherever we are, we're always in life's flow. We feel alone, though we are never alone-and afraid, though we have nothing to fear. As we awaken to the presence of Spirit within and around us, we feel free and at peace.

To humble yourself and surrender to God-this is life's great spiritual challenge. Yes, we must have vision and passion, and we have to be engaged in life, planning creating and re-creating-but we must release our attachment to the outcome. God asks us to trust the details of our lives, the timing of our every blessing, to a Wisdom that is greater than we are and to find the sacred in our every circumstance. When something is meant for you, it can never be lost or taken away. When it's not for you, it simply won't come your way, and that's a blessing too. The task is to stay positive and focused on the big picture, so you will see along the path the treasures, ever plentiful, that God has laid out just for you-everything you need to fulfill your life's purpose.

Faith. Sweet Surrender. Trusting in the goodness of life. Understanding that everything and everyone has a reason and season for being. Allowing folks to be who they are and things to unfold in divine order, rather than criticizing, worrying, stressing, trying to force them to work our way-this is the source of inner peace, the path of joy and infinite possibilities. With this mind-set, hold the powerful thought: I can't wait to see the good that will come from this.

Sweet surrender is born of the faith that we're always in God's arms. We have only to ask God to ease, order, and organize our lives, to stand strong for us where we feel weak. This is how we stop sweating our parents every criticism; how we let go of men we love who aren't healthy enough to love us well. It's how we find the courage to do work that demands talent and skill greater than we think have. How we live Jamaican writer and poet Jean Wilson's powerful words: "No more smalling up of me."

Surrender to God your every burden-fear, guilt, anger, illness, addictions financial woes-everything holding you back. Banish the word can't from your vocabulary. Sweet Surrender-faith-leaves no room for doubt or fear. It's the ultimate paradox: What you fight, you strengthen. To be strong in this world, you have to be patient, humble and willing to let go. The spiritual warrior's path is one of complete nonresistance. Surrender the illusion of control and you relax into your great spiritual power. Bow to the Source with absolute faith-just as our foreparents did. Embrace the gifts of grace and divine protection that are yours; they were bestowed on you at birth. And practice living each day by the most powerful words ever written: Thy will be done.

http://www.dailycoyote.net/?p=1006

Read the "Most Beautiful Letter", and remember who you are.

I would have to no longer be naive to know that I had been naive, so looking back on my life, I would have to say I had been the most naive about trusting others. That sounds so sad, as if I've lost my faith in humanity, but fear not, that is not the case. Despite what I have seen and experienced, I feel that trusting in others is what will eventually create a beautifully conscious planet.

This does not mean you allow yourself to be taken advantage of, or put yourself at risk, but what this does mean is that you don't allow your life to be ruled by fear. Trust in the good that is within all people, even when they do not express that good, trust in the benevolence of the universe. Trust in the ways of karma, and only create actions in your life that will create good karma for you. Trust that everything works out the way it should, even when you don't understand how it could possibly be good. One day, you will understand.

I was naive to think that everyone thought this way, all of the time, that no one ever actually lied, or manipulated others, or purposely harmed others for their own benefit - that was only what Hollywood made movies about, but those villans weren't real... I think that the truth is, that each person is doing their best, and oftentimes they don't realize how wrong it is what they do. So the ones who are harmful for personal benefit, give them your love and trust that one day they will recover.

universal consciousness.