Saturday, 8 March 2014

Entry from my personal blog-

Ends and beginnings, beginnings and ends!

 
We all have some secret life in a small way--this I wrote end of last year, it is time for it to see  "day light". I shall now and then re-post some of them here--as the universe instructs me. As I feel stronger each day, as I am so very much these days. AS I re-read these entries I see my way as I was growing up, and I was hammering at the same points over, over and over again--way through our relationship. I was battling myself, you and God--over and over. Same old, same old theme. At last I have finally relinquished it all, offered it all up--got the strength to move on.

All the images in these blogs have old clocks-I saw fit as time is non existent!

When I started these blogs--in July 2013, I had in mind that one day I shall allow you to read all  of them--when I was secure within myself, secure with you--and promised myself I shall never have secrets from you. They are very personal. Looking back--I now see that we were often at odds--why I have no idea for I knew we did truly love each other. I suppose love is like that.


“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
The Illuminated Rumi―
14/July 2013
AS above, so below.

The past two weeks have been almost a complete purging of spirit.  Paradise lost, and regained once more. This is my last post in this chapter, the end here and a wonderful new beginning--a new road, a new process, a new name, a new blog. The real one. Today--I see why Our Lady said it had to be done, it was my choice to"play the game" or not. I could have messed up big time, it was my test as it was yours. I passed, you failed. However as now, I know it was the right thing to do. Something awesome happened within me, hearing your last words would certainly have devastated me a while back, but as strange as it maybe, on the contrary--I am not. I feel a warm peace washing over me, a tranquillity, an exhilaration, exuberance, a surge of energy and ecstatically happy. I have been on a slow road to this, but suddenly I have arrived. In truth, with an open heart I knew your decision, for I known your stubborn, dogged nature, and your fire--but I had to be sure.

The sad thing for you, and the gift for me was that you opened up and have shown your heart--betrayal is a "dark spirit", that is one lesson that you still have to learn. To betray one`s self is a limiting, devastating exercise.  Am I the better part of you, and I, the older, the wiser if that is possible--the strong, courageous, the brave one. I never thought I would say this, but I am. I see now that I have never ever really needed you--because I was always present, within you, as you are within me. You always have and will need me for that completion of recognition, of acceptance.  I am that part of yourself that you are chasing. I am the angel on the train, I am the little hawk, I am the spider, also I am Cora. You are writing to me. I am the swaying aspen trees, the toothless old woman, the stone mason all the ever existing dark spaces, crevices of your mind.  I am the poison as well as the balm that heals all wounds, I am that silence and I am the mercy of God within that you are searching for, as well as the forgiveness. You know this, for it is all "you". Will you catch "yourself" one day, maybe. But, catch you will, for it is your missing part.

This is not a romantic notion at all, nothing to do with that, but the complexity of spirit, a jigsaw when a part is missing. Self realization. You think that it is about all the romance for me, this illusion of the "fairy tale"--never was. We are not opposites at all, but incomplete trying to be whole as we were created. I now know , but I have integrated within me that which is you, into every cell of my being--that is why I had to do this. That is why I am at the most tranquil, peaceful time that I have ever experience in all of my existences. I was heading this way a while back, but now with you  this happening--which had to, I have arrived. You see darling, as you said"walking backwards" we do arrive at the same place eventually, but also it becomes once more a new beginning with a complete vision on the entire territory covered. Thus I am there--Ouroboros.You are not yet.

As I was reading some of your recent letters I smiled often and repeated the phrase"you are so not grown up". Wisdom of spirit is not equated with intelligence, nor understanding complex philosophical issues nor using and knowing the entire Oxford dictionary backwards or writing beautifully in complex terms--that is just being a brilliant, exquisite and talented writer, but that still does not make you a brilliant soul. Neither an enlightened one. What is the use of all the writing when it is not adding to the polishing of the diamond?

Yes--much is in Pytha--I have read it, and re-read it, every word often through the years--probably can quote stuff from there that you yourself have forgotten. What I am trying to say to you is, do not be blinded for then you shall lose your way quite easily if you get stuck in the mud.  Strange as it may seem there were a few entries within Pytha that made no sense to me though I read it dozens of times, suddenly, now every word makes illuminating sense, it is like some scales have fallen from my understanding, and now I see with my minds eye. You have asked and were given, you knocked the door is open--though do realize that by pushing the door it will not open, for it opens inwards.

 I am that angel in the red raincoat, I am that whom you are looking for. I was on that train, I now see that,  I am the wayshower, I am that which you seek, I am that which you yearn for, I am that whom you are searching for--it is your very self all along. I thought it was the other way around--no it is not.

But, still your ego gets in the way. The great sin, the "missed mark"--still you do it. Like the sweet thornbird that dies in the process of sacrificing its very life on top of those thorns for that one song to God. I cannot help you if you refuse my help, I cannot hold your hand if you refuse to hold mine and I cannot give you peace unless you accept it. You cannot fly if you refuse your other wing, I cannot love you if you do not allow me to.

The past two weeks have totally transformed me, like the Phoenix, I have made it through the transformation, through the fire--into something else, into "completion". Transfiguration. This is ascension for me, I never thought I would utter these words--the "shift" is complete. For you, you have to choose it. Our Lady is always right, and so is sweet, beautiful  Xerxes. I wasn`t quite aware of your choice, but you chose something else. In the end we all know, our soul knows and if we ask God we are shown the way. Always.

Often I was measured with you, at times chose my words carefully--even then my words were misconstrued, misunderstood. I begged and pleaded with you, the more I did it, the more you refused. I thought I needed you, but it is you who needed me all along.

I was scared that you may leave me, frightened that you would forget me and love me no more. I thought that by giving all, allowing all and being all for you is what I needed to do for you to understand "us". The thing is you have to understand "us", I already always have. Only when you shall feel me moving within you, only when your hear my heart beats within yours, only when my mind is within yours, only when you see me as an expression of yourself, only when our spirits are fused and there is no more separation shall you have reach the point of completion within God. I have--I need no other human being--as you need Naomi.

I do know that we are very different from other souls--we are perhaps older, or come from a "different existence, or sphere of reality", a different creation, a different part of God perhaps than most--if there is such a term . There are some in the world like us, but very few. This is not haughtiness, or pride just acknowledgement and recognition of our heritage. Neither is it such that we are the "movers or shakers of this world", or the chosen ones, we are not. Is not about that, goes far deeper, but much to do about God . It is not about "here", it is about "all that is"--if that makes sense.

Why us? Why you? Why me?--I suppose the answer to that lies in our love for God, our dedication to our existence and our gratitude of "being"--in sorts"enlightenment". The purpose all that is--is "us", the complete version within God, as Rumi has said.  Yes, he was an other, so was Hafiz, so is dear Hermano,  the Little Flower and a few other saints and sinners .

I don`t know if you remember, but one of the very first messages of Our lady  answering my question as to our purpose, our mission. Her response was"pulling souls through".  That is it--but we can only do that when they allow us the permission to do so. Neither were we mature enough at the time for the task, I now see. We needed that completion within each other--you see it is done, you simply have to accept it, realize it then it is activated--I have. Have you? I know you haven`t, for you wouldn`t have written all those letters to Naomi--you see that was the "test". You are still looking and far more attached to the material than I am. You failed it. Think about it.

Please do not think this is about all the love and romance. Don`t confuse the issue, though that is tied in for that what is part of love, part of spirit, it is not really the issue--please give me credit for that. I am not this little confused, lovestruck teenager hopelessly in love with you--dreaming to make love to you. Once more I shall evoke Hafiz`s name--read him then you will once know me entirely, thus you will also know yourself. I do.

You are still far more attached to the physical than I am--that is why you need an audience, you need boosting of your ego to feel accepted. But, the only acceptance we need to do is accept ourselves, for we are "all". That is what is resting within God, that what you so ardently seek, you already have.

Read the letters you wrote Naomi--and think with soul. You seem to be in the exact spot you were seven years ago, extricate yourself. Everything is the same. Nothing gained, much lost.

" Lovers--that is another kettle of fish. I haven't grokked so fearsome a beast as all that. Not yet."
You see I have.



In memory of lent

 

With faith in your resurrection, with hope in your power that undoes every death, I lift up my heart with love for you. She for your Holy Spirit who makes me more deeply your disciple. Crossing the threshold of this holy season, I renew my gratitude for the gift of being alive.

On this Holy Wednesday, my forehead smeared with ashes, I accept my own death as holy: you have sanctified it. I offer my life and my death in thanksgiving to you, Jesus, the Christ, my Savior and my God.
-from last Wednesday

Clothing





Life absolutely amazes me in which way God works. I guess the reverend mother in the Sound of Music was so right about when God shuts a door He opens a window. This of course is only if we allow Him. I have, and my life is flowing in a most extra ordinary venue.  This year has been amazing in so many ways, in so many wonders, in such a magical way.  Friends from childhood turning up—out of the mist of time, new friends, connections that are transforming my life. One has to allow it all to happen—God is always there but at times we are obstinate and want our own way. We doggedly cling to the past, to hope that has long ago dissipated, and to love that is no longer there. It is hard to break free of the bonds, but once severed one is able to fly once more to height previously not possible. Each relationship has certain limits—or as they say—we have certain parts to play—and then we exit  or an other enters, life unfolds in the most wonderful way.

Do I regret anything in my life? Not one single minute—I would still do everything the same, want to be the person I am and keep walking the same path. I would not be the person I am were it not for my experiences which have formed me—which have kneaded me—are still kneading me, sculpting me; my soul as well as my spirit. It is like changing a garment—we put on a new one once we enter a new scene.  We carefully take it of—with some saddness, wash it, iron it and fold it and carefully pack it away amongst tissue paper in a cardboard box. At we may take it out now and then as time passes—look at it and remember through the remnants of the whiff of perfume, the colours of the fabric and the texture which reminds us of times gone by, moments carved into our minds, words of passion remembered with deep emotion and faces that seem to fade as time passes.  We recall the sweet memories it brings back as we hold our “well loved garment” close our hearts once more as we remember, recall the stories, the words, the memories that it holds—all the treasures that it implanted in our hearts—then once more we return it to its box, and put it on the top shelf of the cupboard being enriched by the experience. Nothing is ever permanent except the memories.

Someone asked today—“What do you believe? Do you believe there is only one person out there to love you? Or more than one? Can you truly love more than one person?” For a long time I thought there was only one—but now I have come to understand, acknowledge and do believe that most definitely there is more than one. I sort of felt guilty—I felt I was betraying “love”. Even a few weeks ago I coudn`t shake the feeling, until I realized through a conversation that –every relationship is an experience to grow by, every relationship brings along a new view, brings a new panorama of soul, spirit and the world with it. The more deep relationships we have, and the more we have to gain – the more we grow. Nothing that we ever truly posses, or love is ever lost—it becomes the very living fabric that we actually are –we become each other for always. This is the greatest lesson Our Lady could ever teach me—for now I know. Yes-strength, courage, faith, hope and experience the very transforming power of love.
-Firebird


Thursday, 6 March 2014

The Divine,is Love




Looking into my intoxicated eyes
You accept my passion 
with the serenity of Love
 You are the Master of Existence
One day I shall be a Lover like You
~Rumi


All that is Divine, is Love

All that exists, exists in love. From a cosmic perspective we see the divine romance, a divine dance in all things. The lover and the beloved.

In the beginning was only Love, Light, only love Divine.  Love was everything, the All that IS,--the I AM the Creator, God Himself.  And in His completeness, Love, whom is God personified had a dream.  He dreamed He could know Himself in His entirety, could explore and discover Himself in all His infinite wonder and so it created the Beloved—you and I. His very own essence—His divine nature, the eternal spark burst forth.  Out of the vast limitlessness of His creative being, You and I were born—sprung forth from the Creator`s very existence; we, the living divine spark. A single point of light, unique, an individual expression of the embodied of God, the Beloved was brought forth.

The Lover is Unity. The Beloved is a multifarious incorporation of divine love, a spiritual body with infinite members. Each spark of light has it's own wonder. You have your own wonder! When two or more sparks come together in love, the wonder is amplified. It is no small thing, when love unites together in embodied love.

This embodied love is an art, a living poem; when two lovers enter sacred pleasure or three friends share laughter overflowing from divine joy or a room full of open hearts silently gazing into each others souls. Love is magnified, enlarged, expressed.

Clowns of God


I saw a beautiful movie tonight--about a pure spirit named Jon who has the most severe Down`s Syndrome. He dosn`t speak--but his soul sings of the pure love of God, radiating pure light!


CLOWNS OF GOD

I know what are you thinking.
You need a sign.
What better one could I give
than to make this little one whole and new?
I could do it; but I will not.
I am the Lord and not a conjurer.

I gave this mite a gift I denied to all of you
ETERNAL INNOCENCE
To you he looks imperfect
but to me he is flawless,
like the bud that dies unopened,
or the fledglings
that fall from the nest to be devoured by ants.

He never offended me,
as all of you have done.
He never perverted the work of My Father hands.
He is necessary to you.

He will evoke the kindness that will prompt you to
gratitude for own good fortune....more.....
he will remind you every day that I AM who I AM,
that My ways are not yours,
and the smallest dust mite whirled in darkest
space does not fall out of my hand.

I have chosen you.
you have not chosen me.
this little one is my sign to you.
TREASURE HIM.

Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Be present, show up





All makes a difference. Being present, showing up to all events in one`s life.

Sometimes things eclipse, or dim our clear light and only later do we realize how important the events were.  We are busy, stressed worried, anxious about the future, missing the present totally—obsessing over inconsequential material stuff or events. Or at time totally immersed in the past—thus never being fully present or engaged in the “now”. There is horizontal time, (temporal time) and vertical time, (eternal time)—these at certain moments in our lives intersect. It is then we realize the signifiquence of every action that has serious consequences on our life—if we are vigilant, are present and actually show up. All events have a purpose and often we seem to sleep through the events—so we miss the “learning points”.

At the very point of intersection is the spot where we can step back and see events unfolding almost as if we were totally detached—like a movie, at that moment it all make clear absolute sense—we see all crystal clear the reasons of the happenstance.  In those moments we accept, embrace the situation with full awareness—and suddenly our lives seem to have purpose and interpretation for all the motivations and the so seeming incomprehensible actions of fate. In that moment we seem to see life from both ends—and recognize the eternal truth that, “everything in fact falls into the great cosmic unfolding”. There are no wrong roads, no senseless experiences, no coincidences—only synchronicity.

Once we realize this—life becomes easier as we realize that in the end it is all for the “positive expansion of the soul”.  This way all our life events have purpose—which we realize that in that moment of occurrence we may not comprehend, but willingly accept and bare the load. Picking up our cross in a way—without much complaint.

Personally I believe that unless we come to the realization of this—consciously, then those events have much less of an impact than when we recognize their importance, or being in a sense of an “awakened” state. If and when we live in the unconscious present oblivious of all divine actions all of life`s actions seems purposeless. Often life events occur and we rebel against it—kicking and screaming how very unfair life is, but looking at the events more objectively we see the lessons that the said event brought forth—are all within the “divine eternal now”.








Monday, 3 March 2014

Things seldom seem as they are!

 

The Cookie Thief

A woman was waiting at an airport one night,
With several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the airport shop,
Bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
She was engrossed in her book but happened to see,
That the man beside her, as bold as could be,
Grabbed a cookie or two from the bag between,
Which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene.

She munched cookies and watched the clock,
As this gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock.
She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by,
Thinking “If I wasn’t so nice I’d blacken his eye”.
With each cookie she took, he took one too.
And when only one was left she wondered what he’d do.
With a smile on his face and a nervous laugh,
He took the last cookie and broke it in half.

He offered her half as he ate the other.
She snatched it from him and thought “Oh brother!
This guy has some nerve and he’s also rude.
Why he didn’t even show any gratitude”.
She had never known when she had been so galled
And sighed with relief when her flight was called.
She gathered her belongings and headed for the gate,
Refusing to look back at the thieving ingrate.

She boarded the plane and sank in her seat.
Then sought her book which was almost complete.
As she reached in her baggage she gasped with surprise.
There was her bag of cookies in front of her eyes.
“If mine are here” she moaned with despair,
“Then the others were his and he tried to share”.
“Too late to apologize” she realized with grief.

That she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
~ Valerie Cox