So... how's your writing coming...?

A friend asked me that just the other day. I was embarrassed to admit I was having a lot of difficulty getting it started, although I have accumulated quite a few pages of material.

The person asking me that question is a published author, having written several books herself. She affirmed for me that getting a book started is one of the harder tasks in writing.

So, I came home re-committed to writing the book that, a year ago, I was convinced would be published by now. Still don't have the first line down, but I have decided to not let that be an issue.

I was told once (by the same person) that I needed to get the passion I have onto the page. That is the hardest part. Give me with a cup of tea and just mention the topics that interest me, and I can talk and share for days on end. Sit me down at a keyboard, and it is a whole different outcome.

Recording my workshops is an option. Tried that on several occasions. Problem is, I forget to turn the darned voice recorder on. That, I can work on.

And there's the blog that I can use as a springboard, which is what this post is about. I really want to write, and folks tell me I have something to say. So, as I said earlier, I am re-committing to the task, and with prayers and blessings, can work out a pretty decent book.

Whew.....

Tender Love

If you knew of the love that is held for you, and that there is nothing that you do, think, see, hear, feel that is not held in that compassionate embrace... You are loved with a love that you cannot even comprehend, and still you are loved.

Do not be too attentive to the things that you see around you. This is not your home. You reside in the infinite, and it is in that embrace that you are at home. When you seek the comforts of your perception, you are missing out on this awareness, yet it is still there, deep within you, and it will be brought to the surface in the way that you are turning.

When the fire is the hottest, never forget that it is but fire, and has no claim on you, and therefore cannot harm you at your most significant. This is what will move you from the place where you are to that experience of oneness that you so seek.

We have heard your cry, and our answer is tender love. You need nothing else, for that is what you are.

Will you tell more about how people can find the hope they need?

That is simple. Look within. You see, your kind is used to finding answers outside of themselves, when all the while, the answers they are seeking are already there. It is simple, but it is that your kind is not used to believing in the information that comes from within yourself.

You know this. All of your kind knows this. And they will recall that knowledge, and that will bring the hope they crave. You see, it is not difficult. It is not impossible. But it does mean to re-focus and re-look at the direction of your gaze and inquiry.

Your kind is on the brink of either coming to terms with your own nature, or falling into the sea to be washed away as so many others had before you arrived. It is not difficult, so you don’t have to make it so. Relax, and be aware that you are not the center of everything that you know. You are not the center.

See? That takes the burden off right away doesn’t it... Now you can relax into simply being and enjoying your being. You don’t have to go outside to fix it. Just be who you are. All that you need is within you. All that you want to know, it is there. But your task is to go within and see it - live it. It is not a hard task, because you know that when you take that step inward, what you will find is what you have wanted to find.

Be at peace. The changes you are seeing around you are just that - changes. It is inevitable that change occurs, but you need not fear it. Everything around you is changing because you yourself are changing.

On the rocks and lava – see how things grow.

They are not stunted or weak.

There is robustness.

They find a foothold in the destruction of the land and grow strong, feeding from the earth-source – the nutrients in even what would appear lifeless. And in turn, they put back what is needed for further and future growth.

Take heart: What appears destroyed is but the rich soil of newness germinating and budding. Look for the signs around you and take heart.

See what slowing down will do?

Patience- you see the rock that cooled slowly – yet very quickly as earth measures her physical time - quick enough that no crystals formed – just the solid lava that you see.

I watched, and saw the distant ridge taken down in an instant. I felt the fall of thousands of giants, the rumble of their wanton destruction,

I myself have been cleaved and am but a part of what I was. The rest hauled off for some other rampart. My gleaming stone aged and discolored. My shine diminished.

Yet beneath this surface that you see, I gleam still. It is the nature of shining – One cannot see it until it is stripped of the outer stuff. But once wounded in such a way, the shine is brilliant and beautiful – clean and clear.

Watch the birds flying and lighting on the bushes and grasses of the places around you. Do you ever notice how they are constantly looking around them? You think it is because they are wary of being eaten and hurt. But it is not as much that as they just like to sit and look. They are air creatures and it is nice for them to just sit on something and see the world from the vantage point that we see the world.

Of course you will also notice that some birds are so unused to seeing from the earth plane that they still perch high in the tree tops and come down only if need requires. But they do like to sit and watch.

So be a bird-student. Perch in your bush and take time to watch what is around you. Enjoy the vantage point and see what you can see. If your vantage point is high in the treetops, then find a place that gives you that perspective. If lighting on the grasses brings you joy, then do that.

The important thing is to just let yourself have the time to look around and see. Enjoy the bounty and beauty of your surroundings.

Go. Find your branch and be there.

Seat of the Heart

There is a home that is within all things. It sits silently and patiently, waiting to be recognized, but never putting itself forward. This home is the seat of the heart. That place of ultimate love – ultimate compassion – where there is no distinction between soul and source. Come home for a while. Sit in wonder and awareness. Rest in that tender and loving knowing. It is there waiting for you.

There is much activity in what is around you and sometimes it seems that the activity is the most important thing. You are taught that, and you have learned it well. But see the beauty around you –this is no accident. It has been called into being and now you see it with not only your eyes, but also with your heart and soul. As pleasing to the spirit as it is, there is yet more. And you are just beginning to know it.

Enjoy the walk, for the path is a wondrous one and you will see many things familiar and unfamiliar to you. At the end of the day, it will all be familiar, and you will know that you have known for many lifetimes. Do that which pleases you and know that it also pleases the source. You and it are one.