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Potential and Prayer
When your world seems hopeless and you lose a little faith that you simply can't do what you are here to do, then read through the pages of my life to give you comfort and know that all you need do is make it through another day. Tomorrow will be better because you plan it to be so while giving something to another each day. For as you give, your life will change. Giving means emptying out. As you give you create a vacuum which allows space for you to fill up. Since nature abhors a vacuum, it will rush in to fill up the spaces that are empty. This is a principle and a promise. So create each day with faith in knowing that as you do your give-away, you will fill up any empty spaces with all that you need because nature watches out for you and over you. This is true with every aspect of life, including finances. If you feel you have nothing to give, then give someone some kindness. It costs nothing.
It is important to know and to understand how our thoughts create our world. As you think so shall you become. The body will do what the mind tells it to. Our physical bodies respond to our thoughts, making it very important that our words are always "what we want to hear".
At sunrise each morning I say a prayer that has been given to us from the ancestors. I give it to you so that you, too, may have faith in creation and in creating your day.
Today we begin a new life
To again care and grow stronger
We are loved and wrapped again in the blanket of time
And this day with the gift of your trust
We shall complete all that has been given
You are the Great Spirit
You are all wisdom and the Mystery that cannot be denied
This I am!
Today in this moment I need only be open to all that has been given
With this life and my people I am blessed and loved
I am surrounded by potential and I will to
create beauty health and abundance in harmony with my mother the earth
And my father the sky
I am and shall ever be the great spirits' joy
My words will be what I want to hear all around me
The sky will reflect back to me as a mirror
The earth will embrace my thoughts and so will life here be
This is the wisdom and the ancients say to heed this wisdom so we may be of happiness and free from pain and misery
Aho Creator! I embrace this wisdom and will to be.
Within these pages may you find confidence that you have an awesome ability to overcome disease, loneliness, faithlessness, and hopelessness and any sense you may have of quiet desperation. We are never alone because there is something that ties us all together. If I can make it in this life, so can you. As I pick myself up, reach out to me and I'll pick you up with me. This is a principle and a promise. So hang on. Don't let go. Come with me on one heck of a ride.
Prayers Get Answered
A few years ago I was in a place of desperation. Nothing in my life was the way I wanted it to be. I was in a place of great despair and sadness. I cried all day and felt like I had a weight on my shoulders. The whole time I prayed for these feelings to be lifted. I know what it feels like to be happy and joyful and hated dwelling in this place but didn't know how to let go of it. Some time around 3:30 to 4:30 this same day, I felt the sorrow, despair, and sadness lift off of me as though I had taken off a heavy coat, only the coat had been lifted off of me. I was restored to a place of sanity in a single moment. I didn't know what had happened to change my state of mind and reconciled that it was the prayers I had said. What else could it have been?
About a week later I had my answer to what had happened. A woman in my prayer group called me over to her when we were all together. She said, "What was going on with you last week? I was just sitting there (on the day I was so much in despair) and I heard your name whispered in my ear. So I said some prayers for you." I asked her what time on that day she'd heard my name and she said, "between 3:30 and about 4:30...sometime in there."
Many years ago a woman with whom I was acquainted in my circle of friends began to pop into my head, often. I couldn't figure out why this woman would be in my thoughts and I began to think of all the times we'd been together but had not really connected. She was very strong in spirit and was a leader in every way, always doing the things that anyone else would question or not want to do, she did without question or complaint. She was held in high esteem and much loved by our group. Every time her name would pop into my head I would argue with myself that I wasn't what she was, that I couldn't be friends with her because she was too "good" and I never had been able to gain her confidence. Her name came up more and more often. Finally, I just decided that I would send her some prayers. Although we were in the same group I didn't think my calling her and asking her what was going on with her would be welcomed because, as stated, we were never close.
A short time went by and someone else from our group called to tell me that this woman had taken her own life. I was devastated and felt as though I had let her down. It had been in my mind to call her and I didn't. I almost missed the fact that she needed prayers and I was too busy with my own insecurities that I didn't send them to her or call her as soon as I felt her need. From then on, when I "hear" someone's name, no matter what, I send prayers.
Many of us depend on Angels for help. We think of Angels with wings and feel protected and blessed that we have such beings in our life. Has it ever occurred to anyone that we are the Angels?
If you're still wondering if your prayers are heard or if prayers are answered, this story may help you decide.
When my daughter was born it was deemed that I had to work instead of stay home with her. I prayed that I would find someone to watch her that would love her like I would. I wanted desperately to stay with her and it tore me up to have to leave her. But like many mothers who don't have a good support system, I had to find someone reputable to watch my child. The first person I found was a wonderful woman with a great deal of love and joy emanating from her. I knew she was the one to watch my daughter even though I had to travel 20 miles to get my daughter to her. This woman's name was Pat and her husband's name was Len. Len was retired and was a big part of my daughter's life, also.
Eventually the drive became too much for me, the winter of 1976 was the worst winter on record, followed by another bad winter in 1977. The drive was exhausting and I had to make the decision to move my daughter to another home under the watchful eye of another lady who took in several children, which was good for my daughter to have friends to play with. I kept in touch with Pat and Len on a regular basis for awhile. Later I'd heard that Len had passed away. Knowing how close the two were I called Pat but the phone was disconnected with no forwarding number. Pat had moved without letting me know where she had gone. That was the end of it.
About a year later I had a dream. My dreaming has always been vivid and strong with lots of precognitive dreams telling me about the future. Some of which I did not want to know. Some I did. Like before my daughter was conceived, I saw her exactly the way she looked when she was born and I knew she would be coming into my life months before I even knew I was pregnant. I saw her in my dreams three times before she was born. Well, in this dream I had one night, Len came to me, just his face, and he said very clearly, "Tell Pat it is ok for her to remarry". Then he faded back into black space.
I tried for two years to find Pat, to no avail. I finally had to let it go. Then one evening I was at a home party doing a talk on the benefits of growing plants in stone and water, something called hydroponic plants. There, right before me, was Pat's daughter. She told me that Pat had moved to Florida after Len died. She would say no more, but she did give me Pat's phone number. I couldn't get home fast enough to call her. We had found each other and in a flurry of long distance hugs and tears we filled each other in on our lives. She was living with a man who was crazy about her and wanted to marry her. She said, "I've prayed every day asking Len if it is ok if I marry this man. I won't marry him until I know that it's ok with Len. But I don't know how that can happen." I couldn't wait to tell her! I gave her Len's message at last. She cried and said that I couldn't know how happy she was that I had finally been able to get in touch with her. I asked her why she thought I wasn't able to locate her for two years. She said, "because I wouldn't have been able to hear what you had to say". Len's message to Pat was full of love for her but she wasn't ready to hear it until I found her two years after the message came to me.
This experience taught me so much about the way life works and how everything happens on time and for a reason, although we may not know what that reason is or why we have the experience.
Those who have passed into spirit, some call them the ancestors, watch over us and give us messages all the time. We can hear them if we listen and trust that what we are getting is actually real -- just not in a physical sense. In a healthy, physical body, we depend on our eyes alone to let us know something is real. It is important to understand that when someone passes beyond the "veil" their spirit does not die. The physical body is shed like a heavy coat and flies free to other dimensions, other worlds. Life goes on in those worlds and if we listen, we can hear our loved ones speaking to us.
Experiment: Spend some time alone, with no noises to distract you. Find a place that is quiet where no one will disturb you. Close your eyes and sit and just listen to the silence. Breathe and follow your breath from your nose down to your toes. When your mind wanders, bring it back to your breathing. Try to calm your mind for one minute by following your breathing. If you can focus for one minute on nothing but your breathing, it may change your life. Listen to your body. What sounds does it make? What do you see with your eyes closed? Move your mind to your center, the solar plexus, just under the breast bone between the ribs. What color do you see? How do you feel in this place? Breathe deep -- take in a breath to the count of seven. Hold for a count of four. Breathe out to the count of seven. If thoughts keep coming, watch them as though they are a train passing through your brain. Do not grasp at them. Let them go. If another thought follows the last one, do the same and let it go. Don't hang on to anything. Just let it go. Practice this often. This is the beginning of meditation. Meditation sets up a vortex of light that spins out around you and sets up a kind of peace and protection and allows you to feel your surroundings in more ways than just using your eyes.
E-mail me with any questions and I'll be glad to help you!
This information has not been evaluated by the FDA and is for information purposes only. When needed, consult a qualified health care professional.
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