Spring Reflection

As nature around me awakens from Winter I sit and open my mind and heart to receive from God the words that will fill this post today. I gaze out the windows and see from the smallest bud on maple tree in my front yard to a beginning of a birds nest being built in anticipation of new life. I think about my own place in this reality and how as nature stretches to re-bloom, I , in my mind am hopeful. For the last few weeks since my last post there seem to be an increase in demands upon my daily life that made quiet time to write and reflect just not possible or I chose to believe that. At first I was thinking that I must get back to my blog, I must get back to my blog. I did and re-read my last post about God time and smiled and thought, OK, for now I will be in each moment of these demands and remain aware of any and all things I could learn and grow from in the experiences. I know from past experiences or bumpy times in my life or in the lives of those close to me how when everything begins to calm and everyone accepts the changes the flow is restored to one of a peaceful nature. Why? I believe that it's due to me allowing what is a part of the divine plan to transpire instead of desiring my own expectations to rule or attempt to control the situation. It's up to me to step back into the flow if I truly desire peace and to be at one with Spirit. I keep a verse from the bible posted on my fridge that reminds me daily when I sense the fears of my own ego or the fears of others creeping into my space. I hope you will share this with others as I share with you now; Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you, I do not give to you as the World gives. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid. John14:27 Then I think on the Tao and how it states in a part of the eleventh saying " Returning to the source is "stillness," and this is called returning to destiny; returning to ones destiny is constancy, knowing constancy is clarity. Ignorance of what is constant leads to the wanton taking of risk. It goes on to remind me to "Go to the limit of emptiness, carefully guard the still center. " With these teachings and many others I have always drawn from an endless supply of spiritual strength and love, but more than this my understanding comes from my personal relationship with God which is communion with the holy trinity. I am that I am. I send ( give ) out the spiritual strength and love I receive that which keeps the balance in and around me as I move through my life here on this journey.
Today, in the World there is so much anxiousness over unemployment, financial lack, loss of homes, crime, addictions, mental disease, wars, etc., etc...but you can weather the stormy outlook, you can even change your perception while at the same time bring light and rays of hope to others by remembering to guard your own stillness, in that stillness you will allow the connection to Spirit to lighten your heart and mind, your fears will fade away and you'll stretch and grow stronger just a nature is doing right in this moment on this beautiful new Spring day. Namaste'