"I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion."
What do you use to embellish the emotions in your life?
May these embellishments bring blessings to you today.
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Gower Champion says,
"I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion." What do you use to embellish the emotions in your life? May these embellishments bring blessings to you today.
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A river is an interesting metaphor for our desires.
Are they a raging torrent, destroying all in its path, or are our desires a mere trickle, gurgling and bubbling along without care? Are they crystal clear, so transparent that we can fathom their deepest reaches, or are they murky, muddied, a turmoil of silt and sediment and detritus? Are our desires flowing over firm bedrock, or do they constantly mingle with unstable, inconsistent foundations? Do we take advantage of stepping stones provided for us, or do we dive in, skilled swimmers or not? Do we regard forecasts or warnings or advice, or do we strike our own path? How do we harness our desires; conserve our desires; enable our desires to create a better world? May your desires bless and enrich all you encounter. May your desires bless you. "Peace begins with a smile", said Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." May the smiles you give, the smiles you receive, and the smiles you pass on, radiate blessings and grace. I believe compassion is the key,
the cornerstone, the essence of all human relationships and endeavours. But it is perhaps the most difficult attitude to fully embrace. Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan of Or Shalom Synagogue in Vancouver came up with this meditation. Get comfortable. Breathe, relax. Think each of these phrases with intention: May I live in safety. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease. Visualize someone you like very much. Think each of these phrases with intention: May you live in safety. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you live with ease. Visualize someone you are neutral about. Think each of these phrases with intention: May you live in safety. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you live with ease. Visualize someone you dislike. Think each of these phrases with intention: May you live in safety. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you live with ease. Come back to yourself. Think each of these phrases with intention: May I live in safety. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease. Breathe, relax; open your eyes when you are ready. May you be richly blessed as you adopt compassion as a cornerstone value. I caught a phrase of a song -
one of those snippets you hear as you idle in traffic ... "From the edge, wisdom grows and Christ is born again." Christ, the human embodiment of LOVE. Wisdom, the inspiration of LOVE. The edge ... the moment of encounter with LOVE. May life on the edge be a life filled with every grace and blessing. Our lives are rich with every day epiphanies.
These manifestations of LOVE may hit us with great force or shadow us on tip-toe; may arrive with amazing clarity or masked with irrelevancies; may be welcomed with open arms or resisted with compunction; may demand a change or invite stability; may seem banal and mundane or are a once-in-a-lifetime event; but they always reveal LOVE. We can delight in these epiphanies, these serenades of LOVE, when we have an open mind; a receptive spirit; time to pause; a grateful heart; and a soul-companion who gently directs our gaze. May LOVE be revealed today in your everyday epiphanies. Thoughts can be such an enigma.
One moment they do not exist ... the next moment they may engulf our entire being. Often, thoughts are gatecrashers ... uninvited, unwelcome, intrusive. At these times, we can acknowledge them, then we can place them on the altar of our hearts. Sometimes, thoughts arrive in a group ... bouncing off each other in gentle comaraderie. Thoughts may so elusive ... appearing in dreams or the middle of conversations ... or as shadows on the wall... determined not to categorised or labelled ... not to be coralled and broken to be the servants of others. They are free spirits ... pure gift an act of grace. May your thoughts bless you and all you encounter today. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Divine love inhabits the pause; the choices; the decision. May this grace imbue your day with rich blessings. Thomas Merton wrote,
"Choose your love. Love your choice." No more sitting on the fence. No more flitting from one attraction to another. No more regrets. Instead, a wholelearted commitment to a choice. A sacred choice ... a sacred commitment. May your love grow. May your choice be blessed. In this season of best wishes and new resolutions,
what is really important? Carl Sandburg put it succintly for me ... "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems, and remember, no one can get the jump on the future." We are invited to be fully, consciously attentive to this present moment, to whomever we are with, to the actions we are executing, to the emotions we are experiencing, to the words we are expressing. And from this attentiveness, the phoenix will arise, and grace will suffuse our lives. May your day be redolent with grace and blessing. |