Awaken To Spirituality

I had an amazing experience with a hummingbird that taught me an important lesson. We are one with nature and we can have a relationship with it; but we have been programed to believe we are separate from nature. A couple weeks ago, I was sitting in my living room enjoying a latte while writing in my journal. It was a beautiful, softly-breezy, and cool sunny morning and the fresh air was so captivating I opened my front door to let in the life force and the crisp, dreamy smells of nature drifting in and filling my senses. I don’t have a screen on the front door but I didn’t care as I needed the freshness beckoning my senses and soul. As I sat in my quiet bliss I heard the sound of something akin to a “vroom” race through my living room toward the large nine-foot window across the room. As I gazed up, I saw a green and yellow hummingbird frantically darting up and down at my window. This sweet little bird of joy found his way into my home and was now in a panic, flutterin...

Living a life of joy and all forms of abundance begins from your heart. Your heart is the conductor and starting point for everything you do – not your mind! Your mind is actually the servant to your heart, responding to direct the desires originating from the passions and longings of your heart. Before you make a decision about anything, sit in a quiet setting and go inward. FEEL what your heart desires regarding the decision, invitation, or action you are considering. Even something as small as selecting a piece of furniture begins from a place of feeling. When looking at a table, for example, forget about the trends and the sales person guiding you. Stop, go inward and feel if the item brings warmth, comfort, and a good feeling to you or not. If it does, then it is right for you. If not, then it is not right for you. Pass on it until you are led to the exact right feeling item. Then move forward.   Your heart will always guide you to the rig...

Make you the priority of your life!   Set aside 15 – 20 minutes each day to sit alone, in quiet, inward peace. If you need to go into a closet to be alone than do so. Only in the absolute quiet will you find your true self which is love.  Go inward focusing on stillness and being held. Pretend you are floating in the vastness of the ocean. Imagine the feeling of warm water gently surrounding you and caressing you. Allow your thoughts to slow down and see yourself held in the peacefulness of the water. Breath slowly and float. Rest in the stillness and feel the comfort within yourself rise up. Ask yourself, “What do I need right now?” Allow the water to embrace you as you FEEL what you need most. Be gentle with yourself and see what comes to you. Listen to what you have to say to you. What action can you take to give yourself what you need?  Enjoy loving yourself…

Mary Magdalene Grotto in Southern France I want to share with you my pilgrimage experience at the Mary Magdalene grotto in the Sainte-Baume mountains. This cave in Southern France was the home of Mary Magdalene and two others during the last few decades of her life. Saint Maxim-Saint Baum, day 10 on my trip through Southern France felt like a long-awaited journey. A journey I looked forward to and at the same time, I felt a sense of dread rising within me as the day approached. It was a scorching 95-degree day and the sun raged along with an intense humidity that made every breath a challenge. As we prepared for the 45-minute hike up the mountain to the grotto, I geared up with a bottle of water and a sun hat upon my head. I was thankful that large, lush trees lined most of the path leading to the cave but the intense heat pulled at my senses and I had to stop a few times to catch my breath along the way. It felt as though the closer I got to the cave entrance the harder and mo...

REFLECTIONS - Is it You or is it Me?                              The people in our lives are there to mirror back to us all that is within us – the beautiful and the not so beautiful. Whatever you see in another person, you hold within yourself! This is how it works here on earth. A Divine set-up set forth so that you can learn and understand yourself. With this wisdom and understanding, you can begin to look at each person differently, seeing the positive and beautiful Divine attributes each individual holds. And when you recognize these wonderful characteristics know they are also within you for what you are seeing is a reflection of yourself. The not so nice attributes of another person that you see… this is also a gift because those traits you may deem as “flaws” in another are also places within you that need healing – if you are brave and courageous enough to face what i...