Question To The Spiritual Community

If there would be one question I could offer the Spiritual community it would be: 

In your use of judgment, are you not naturally discerning, and in that discernment opening yourself to greater compassion, tolerance and understanding, while lovingly sharing your valuable and loving perspective of improving the world....while ever evolving your sentient being?

Reflections

the question is
deep
honest
open to truth
even if i don't know it yet

the question is
what do i do
how can i help
is doing anything the point

i am so willing
so in love with the life
in the earth
and in people
The Light

the question is
what is this insistence
to grab more money
to grab for things that cannot
bring joy
that cannot reflect light
like colorful gems

how has this grabbing
and keeping
grown to destroy us
and our nourishing home
and what can i do

this day
i step into the light
i see joy and simplicity
my fists relax
there is nothing to hold
i remain vulnerable

there is light reflecting
every where
peace to all
joy to all
love to all
Lynne Lovelace--om shanti

Yes I Am

Yesterday I was just "me"...

Today I am the magical forest in an ancient old land,
welcoming all to explore my inner sanctuaries.
Yes, I am the explorer and the explored.

I am the Great White Egret dancing the sacred ritual of courting my mate.
Dressed in the grandeur of my exquisite plumage.
Yes, I am beautiful.

I am the dewy beads of water, gently kissing the leaves and foliage,
adding an extra shimmer of sparkle to that which is already so brilliant.
Yes, I am brilliant.

I am the luscious and  sturdy blades of grass, waving in the wind,
blanketing the earth with the grandest of all tapestries.
Yes, I am luscious.

I am the water lily, open in grand splendor for all to see.
I rest on the water and delight in the sun, trusting that everything is perfect just as it is.
Yes, I am splendid.

I am the rays of sunlight piercing the crown of the trees,
sending shafts of love and light into the depths of the forest, illuminating the shadows.
Yes, I am light and I am dark.

I am a mother giving birth on the banks by the water and I am a baby being born.
I am a brother offering my back to carry my sister through uncharted territory.
Yes, I am both the  protector and the protected.

I am the scent of the honeysuckle and the color of the ripe blackberry,
 inviting others to get lost in my fragrance and delight in my taste.
Yes I am sensual and succulent.

I am every bird ever created, flying with Divine Spirit on the breath of the
great wind!  Dipping, diving and soaring high above, beckoning all to join me in
this dance of life.
Yes, I am Divine.

Today I am the Sacred of all Sacred and the Holiest of all Holy.
I am you, I am me, I am everyone.
Yes, I AM!

Scotti Holloway, April 2013

www.SPDivineExplorations.com

Natural Attraction in Action: Transforming the Story of Confinement into Freedom

I have been weeding and communing at ground level and tho' enjoying it all

sensing still a limitation behind these garden walls. The sun and clouds just beckon me

beyond and I long to fly over the gate into the balm of imagined green pastures.

As I was sitting feeding the fish I happened to look up  and there as the sun was setting the very

top of the river birch tree was illuminated and perch for about ten cedar wax wings sunning themselves.

Thrilled I ran for the binoculars….identifying the ochre underbellies,  top notch and mask and

felt utterly amused that they pleasured themselves in the golden warmth beyond which shone

a lovely growing moon. Not only did the casual sociability tickle me but the generosity of the tree

itself…It stood as an open hearted sentinel offering friendship and shade, home to squirrel, and

a soft presence to me…..  I was completely rewarded by these attractions and glad to realize the 

immediate comraderie within the intimacy of my surroundings…The isolation fled and was replaced

by a joy unique to the sheer beauty I beheld. Specifically I noted the measure of distance beyond the 

tree limbs and up into outer space where moon waxed against an evening sky. This pre-reflective observation brought

previous senses of confinement back into balance and I felt immense relief and connection instantly.

It was a gorgeous revelation of paying attention to the detail and communication that's available

everywhere even in our own back yard.

Nature Facilitated Stress Relief

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

Henry David Thoreau

If you often come home from a long days work and feel something deep inside you is missing, could you allow yourself an hour or more per week to reconnect with this most sacred part of yourself? It cannot be done through television, internet, movies, or a book. Usually, these abstractions further cloak our deep yearnings for authentic Nature connection. Time spent with a pet indoors does not fully satisfy our callings for Earth Consciousness and relatedness on deeper and multidimensional levels.
We inherently need Wildness in Nature because ultimately, this is who we are.
For 25 years now, the most common response I receive from people after we have walked in a sacred and wild natural area is: “How have I so neglected this part of myself? I feel so at peace now.”

This past Monday, a friend and I spent the whole day in the Wilderness of Bear Island in the ACE Basin of the Lowcountry in South Carolina.  We walked for miles along dikes through old Rice Fields and experienced Bald Eagles (one within 50 feet), Alligators, White Pelicans, hundreds of other birds, and were stunned by the beauty of an untouched (by human destruction) Maritime Forest.  We spent 3-4 hours in this Wilderness, both knowing deep within ourselves, the re-spiriting, stress relief, and nourishment it gave us.  I encourage all of you to spend more time in direct connection with Nature. 

“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wildness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.”

Terry Tempest Williams, RED: Passion and Patience in the Desert 

Earth Consciousness & Eco-community

Eco-Community is enriched at it's greatest depths, in the presence, openness, stillness and reverent communion with Nature in and around us....and takes only a moment to inform us through our most authentic communication relationship, the senses.  Then, the most treasured of all relationships emerges....within that resonance with Sensory Earth Consciousness....and brings the realization of our inherent being into our stream of thought and creativity once again....no longer cloaked by the dominant veils of thought and reasoned abstractions and stories, which hide it's profound love. (Copyright, Dan Shelton, writings in "The Garden of Eco- Community" at Eden Forest Ecostery, Feb.2013).