There is no Death
by Rev. C - January 2009
I had to be ready for the transfer of power. Just like my Seminary vows, I was being asked to commit to the task of being a vessel to hold the power of the Divine Feminine in my heart until the world is ready to receive it.
Penny
transferred the power and commission of holding Unconditional Love unto
me.
I am now the vessel for that Love; responsible for this powerful
medicine as in the Native American traditions. The gifts she “held”
sacred were always freely given – no conditions applied, nothing
withheld. Her eyes reflected my certainty of that Love – the loyalty
and devotion to Love – as all of my animals have before her. They've
been the messengers, delivering their message through their simple
presence and responding to me from that place of Love – true
instruments of peace.
The
sorrow I felt belonged to the pain body and the story of separation and
aloneness and therefore caused suffering. The truth however, is joyful,
liberating, and expansive. We were never separate her and I. She
existed as an Angel before her birth and visited for a time in physical
form, only to rejoin the celestial realm when the time was right,
except that her perception of that realm was never lost, her connection
never broken as mine has been.
We
think we are severed from our Angelic Selves because we've been
focusing so powerfully on the appearance of separation – distinct
bodies, minds, lives, and yet that is not the Truth. In our
stubbornness and ignorance we believe we are alone, unsafe,
unprotected, vulnerable, unloved and unlovable. We humans perpetuate
this belief despite the multitudes of symbols, signs and messages that
are placed before us every day that remind us of our eternalness,
interconnectedness, and true state of Love.
The vet said; “She's gone.”, and as my heart pounded through my chest I knew absolutely – “Oh no she's not!” She's more here now than ever before, literally and figuratively as reflected in my elevated heart rate! This was more powerful than a Reiki attunement yet with the same side effects of high vibrations in my body, heart pounding, feeling ungrounded, tears of Joy & Freedom. The task of staying focused and aware of what was happening was more challenging as I had to deal with the clinic staffs beliefs around death, their sorrow and their baggage.
I
grounded as best I could the energy expanding minute by minute into and
through my heart. I breathed deeply and moved the energy down to my
root and legs accepting this intense initiation of Transfer of Power.
On the outside it looked as though I was grieving death but on the
inside I was overwhelmed with the power of LIFE.
I knew at once that I'd needed to be ready for this powerful spiritual
medicine. My body, mind, and spirit had to be ready to accept fully
what this implied. To love as God loves, to see as God sees, to know as
God knows.
The eyes of the dog reflected back to me the love that flows from my own eyes. Tears of gratitude flowed with this realization. I no longer needed her physical presence to remind me. I had become patience, I had become acceptance, I had become Love.
The spirits we think are separate from ourselves are always nearby just waiting for our call, quietly protecting, supporting, guiding, made manifest by our simply focusing upon them; coalescing energy patterns of love and light, offering their gifts of service for all of eternity. The sickness and tiredness of her small body was the old ways departing. They are gone now, the old ways of suffering are gone. Thank you for heralding that! The ways of holding pain, transmuting disharmony through the body are gone. She took them with her. I need not go through that. I need not suffer, or fall ill or experience decrepit age. Those ways are gone. Her last year of incontinence was a brilliant mirror for me that I was no longer holding onto anything! An indication of my surrender to the flow. Ridiculous and grand in its Divine humor.
With
the days and weeks that pass, I recognize an absence of rituals,
routines of daily pet maintenance. I do not however “miss her” in the
old sense, because I feel her with me, as it has always been. There is
no sorrow, only joy as this experience brings me closer still to fully
realizing that we are indeed All One.
Tamara's Pretty Penny
December 1991 – January 2009
A Discourse on Love
by Rev. C - January 2006
The Secrets of the Heart
by
Rev. C, June 2006
To
be "in" Love is to exist inside of, or within, or in the
energy that IS Love.
The purpose of life is to live - to feel -
to fall - to rise - and to fall again.
My emotions are what make
me human. They open my heart. They cause me to feel great joy and
great pain alike. Without my emotions I would be dry and brittle as a
stick of old wood. I would cease to live, I would cease to understand
the ebb and flow of cosmic forces within my body, I would cease to
dream, I would cease to imagine - I would fade away to nothing. So,
what of the painful emotions - the one’s that bring tears of sorrow
and separation? How do I accept these as part of my human adventure?
How do I learn to experience these emotions without remorse or
bitterness at their presence?
By seeing and accepting the
gift of emotion itself. For without my emotional body I could not
experience deeply the myriad perspectives of the human condition. I
could not empathize. I could not forgive. I could not feel compassion
for another. But most of all, I could not relate to other humans
having their earthly experiences. I would seem foreign, an alien
among the people of earth. I would seem cold and distant and
heartless. For it is through the heart that the deepest emotions are
felt.
The heart is the doorway, the portal through which we
all participate in life. It is the meeting ground, the communal
place, the place where we find unity amidst our illusions of
separation. Through the heart we find peace and love and joy and
laughter. Through the heart we bond from common experiences of life
and living. The heart can be broken and the heart can heal. The heart
is the eternal doorway leading us to the very depths of our Soul. Our
dreams live in the heart - our deepest desires - and our deepest
fears. As we grow, we learn the lessons of the heart, its pliability,
its elasticity, and its vulnerability, and still we go on living and
feeling, loving and hating, laughing and crying. For the passions
which drive each of us are unique and special and holy. The
experience of the One is not to judge good or bad, right or wrong,
proper or improper, but to relish ALL experience, ALL perspective,
ALL of Life and what it means to Live as a Human.
So, I
choose to embrace my emotions, the "good" and the "bad".
I choose to accept my attachments, as they are and as I AM. I choose
not to judge whether my feelings are appropriate or not, but to
embrace them as part of a grand legacy that can be appreciated only
from this finite human perspective. I AM as God created me - in the
image and likeness of It, and for now, my form of creation is my Life
and how I choose to Live it.
In my own unique and special way.
Amen
The Return of the Bride Groom
by
Rev. Christine – October 2008
There
has been so much talk about the return of the Divine Feminine
energies to the world. In the last 12 years that I've been seriously
working my spiritual path, the Goddess and all her attributes have
been the focus of many ceremonies, womens gatherings, meditations,
and sacred circles. It seems that with the absence of “her”
influence, the world in general experienced such an imbalance as to
drive the open worship of the Divine Female underground. The
resurgence of healing work, particularly around the persecuted female
has served to return empowerment to women in all walks of life. But
its not just the women who have benefited in this, many men are so
uncomfortable and unfamiliar with their feminine side that their
contribution to the imbalance could not be overlooked. For so long,
the aspects of compassion, gentleness, loving kindness, and
forgiveness were seen as a weakness when displayed through a man. And
because men were in such denial and confusion around their seemingly
softer side, the women through the law of balance held too much of
the forgiving, gentler energies. So much so, they continued to
“settle for less than they deserved” in situation after
situation.
Through
my own personal spiritual practice I've studied, embraced, and merged
with my lost feminine principles. My energy growing up was
predominantly male as I struggled with an incomplete understanding of
what Divine Feminine energy looked like. It felt safer to me to block
out the softer side mainly because my female role models were steeped
in a paternalistic world view of victim consciousness and
preconceived limitations. In short, the women of my world grudgingly
accepted their lot in life; some gracefully, some not. However, the
limitations I developed because of my environment were the very
impetus I needed to change and grow.
My development included phases of standing up for what I wanted rather than submitting to the influence of others, finding within myself the worthiness necessary to feel like I deserved to be happy and in control of my life choices, to a place of comfortable certainty and self assurance. Forgiveness and compassion, both qualities of Divine Feminine were the aspects most instrumental in my process of bringing myself into balance. Recently however, I'd been sensing something more, something new. Now that the Divine Feminine was back, and securely anchored within me, her true strengths now fully revealed, I was able to predict the return of the Bride Groom to the Sacred Chamber; a mystical place where the male and female could join in equality and balance.
Now
that the Bride had been properly prepared so to speak, the stranger
(the long lost Divine Masculine) who had been absent from our world
for so long, could now return home. The Balanced Male could now be
accepted without the female fearing a re-occurrence of past
mis-creations. She feels safe, and now her lover, The Beloved, can
now return to her. What this looks like for me in my life is a calm,
serene clarity around almost every situation. I certainly still have
a few moments when my ego, or pain body is triggered, but for the
most part, I feel capable, adaptable, and almost unconsciously able
to respond with equal amounts of courage, strength, compassion and
forgiveness. In other words qualities I'd associated with both the
Divine male and female have equal representation.
The Divine Masculine brings such an element of “rightness”; an otherworldly knowing of the original intention for life on this planet, such that when I encounter a situation or person who is using their creative abilities to purposely bring distraction, perpetuate fear based assumptions, or some other misrepresentation of the Godhead, something deep inside me goes into “action". It feels sort of like a large stop sign, raised up high, causing the movement of energy or activity to cease. Then there is a sort of “resetting” sensation that occurs which serves two purposes. If there are any “innocents” in the room; people who are overly open or vulnerable to fear based energy, they are immediately protected. A sort of shield of Grace is placed around them. Secondly, another force of energy sets to work dealing directly with the person presenting the disruptive influence. A lot of times the so called “teacher” or presenter, is fully convinced of their “rightness”, in that their view is irrevocably and undeniably the most enlightened one in the room. The danger, if we could actually call it that, of such a scenario is in the blatant misrepresentation of the vastness of consciousness vs the much more constricted view of the ego.
Neal
Donald Walsch in Conversations
With God
said; “Be aware of those who think they know.” In their
un-knowingness they will unintentionally perpetuate those aspects of
the illusion that tend to distract the less discerning spiritual
seekers. The Divine Feminine energies of course also come into play,
releasing or repairing any “damage” by infusing forgiveness and
compassion. By combining these two powerful perspectives peace is
instantly restored.
The
progression through the various stages of awakening or enlightenment
has been a fascinating experience. I've always felt that no matter
where we feel we are along our journey, there's always more to
experience in this ever expanding universe.
Life indeed goes
on.
February
2009
Deeper Into The Bridal Chamber
The Return of the Bride Groom - Pt 2
The
old male energy contaminated by beliefs of competition, control,
power struggles, and insecurity required the healing powers of the
Divine Feminine attributes of forgiveness, compassion, kindness, and
nurturing.
He
needed the Divine Female in all her strength, power of love, balance
in the heart, truth about god, peace, and oneness to eradicate the
trespasses of shame, guilt, and pain, suffered by all. For the old
male energy to submit, She needed to be quiet, open, receptive,
ready, patiently waiting, sitting in silence, stillness –
being-ness, rather than doing-ness. Her stillness is what draws him
in; the magnetic pull of her Love attracts him, soothes him, lends
him courage to proceed.
In Her acceptance and unconditional
love He finds solace, a safe harbour, welcoming open arms that
embrace Him lovingly, gently, and passionately. Here Love envelopes
Him, draws him into The Beloveds sweet embrace, placing a protective
cocoon of Light around Him so that he might enter into his
transformation. A time of deep surrender to the wisdom of the ages,
He is safe, loved, forgiven for all trespasses throughout time. The
process of metamorphosis has begun in earnest, the final stages in
completion.
In
this safety, His strength returns, his clarity, wisdom, purpose, and
direction laid out before him. Divine intelligence fuels his systems,
he becomes immutable, strong, and certain once again. When the time
is ripe, He will emerge, Angel Wings spread wide, His Divine Presence
felt on this planet once again.
He will emerge into a
different place of partnership, His existence un-threatened by Her
powerful Love. His surrender has been his salvation. Her Love; his
tonic. The faults of the past mis-creations dissolve into Divine
Acceptance; losing all their negative power. Dying to the sins of the
father, old paradigms of lack and insecurity fade into the mists.
She
too is feeling un-threatened as She stands fully in her Divine Female
Power of Peace and Knowing. They will stand together now, first
within the Sacred Hearts of each individual, then reflected out into
our world.
The past is gone, the old ways soon forgotten;
into The New Earth we walk, hand in hand, arm in arm, heart to heart.
Both of us heard. Both of us listening. No longer are we threatened
by one another's power; instead we honour, appreciate, and celebrate
our diversity.
The Bride and the Bride Groom together once
more in the Sacred Chamber of the Heart. Thus creating a time of
harmony, balance, and beauty.
The reality is Love, the
measure of which is our Joy.
We are free to create, to dance
this dance as Divine Male and Divine Female, in harmony, unison, and
Oneness. Time to celebrate indeed!
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