Sunday, January 7, 2018

Oops! Did I Forget Who I Am?

As we’re still in the early days of the new year, do we find ourselves floundering attempting to discern exactly how we want to move forward?  Is there an unrest within that causes us to feel unsettled as if someone, something, is trying to reach us but we just can’t seem to make the connection?  Does it seem feel like an internal wild wind howling?

If we can answer yes to that question can we also agree that it has howled loud enough to get our attention or will we keep looking around for the source only to have to finally acknowledge that it’s within us?  Will we finally become so exhausted from trying to figure things out on our own that we give up and decide to listen to that howling wind?  Can we release our defenses so that other part of us can speak, that non-physical part that knows all about us and has the answers to all of our questions?  Call it inner self, higher self, that still small voice or give it the name of your choice, it’s function remains the same.  Its purpose is to help us look below the surface of our being and see who we really are, that the answers we seek are already there and always have been.


So, can we accept the message from our inner source when it says it’s never too late, we do have what it takes, and that it will get us to where we want to be?  When it speaks, will we hear, ‘remember, remember, remember who you are and let me show you how to plug into your real spirit so that you may reclaim your power.’

💘 Marian




Monday, January 1, 2018

It All Begins Now

Well, we’ve ushered out the old year and are beginning a new one and whether we are feeling the effects of celebrating or writing our resolutions put in a drawer, forgotten, until we happen upon them at some other time, we still have a tendency to put some preparation into making sure we’re on solid ground as we start a new year as if not doing so could put us in the position of starting off on the wrong foot.  But whatever our rituals or superstitions, we do take time to celebrate the passing of the old and the starting of the new and that’s as it should be.

So, what are our plans?  Will they be brand new challenges or unfinished business from previous days, those old dreams lingering in the recesses of our minds?  Having gone around the block with some of our dreams more than once, we feel we are no longer in the game of working with them until something triggers an awareness held deep within setting off a new string of thoughts that bring them back to us full-circle.  Will we open up and release all that does not serve us and allow that which does to enter into our awareness so they are given the attention they deserve?  But whether old or new, if they tug at our heartstrings and are beckoning for us to listen to them, then the message has been delivered. 


There’s something almost magical about celebrating collectively.  It seems to authenticate our plans and give them power.  So, if ringing in a new year is what propels us forward, let every day be a ringing of the bells, let every hour awaken us to our full potential and every second fill us with the realization that it all begins ‘now.’  There will always be celebrations surrounding the ending of things and the beginning of other things but the most important thing to celebrate is ‘that’ we begin.

Now, given a brand new year with 365 days to fill in the blanks, let us fulfill the promises we have made to ourselves as we place one foot in front of the other on that highway leading to the realization of all that our hearts yearn for and all that our very wise spirits lead us to experience for the growth of our souls.


Violet Trefusis
As Violet Trefusis penned to Vita Sackville-West in her letters dated September and October 1918, “live fully, live passionately…let’s live you and I, as none have ever lived before.”

🎉🎉 Marian







Monday, December 25, 2017

The Secret of Christmas


Naples Island, CA 
Okay.  They're  officially here.  The holidays whether we want them or not but given the fact we have no choice in the matter how are we going to deal with everything they entail? 


Will we celebrate or prefer not to participate?  Will we go forward joyfully proclaiming what the holidays represent while we engage in everything we can think of to make the days exactly what we want them to be?   Will nostalgia have us reminiscing even though we can’t go back?


OR

Will we linger in dismay as we complain about the fact that Thanksgiving, the current holidays and New Years are jammed together each demanding their own recognition? Will we look at our end of the year calendar counting the days till January 2nd when life will go back to normal. 
Naples Island, CA
Whichever route you take, perhaps some middle ground can be found in the following song.

THE SECRET OF CHRISTMAS

Words by:  Sammy Cahn; Music by:  James Van Heusen; From the movie:  Say One For Me
Staring:  Debbie Reynolds, Bing Crosby and Robert Wagner


Refrain:

Look at the happy people
Christmas is in the air
Well, I know THE SECRET OF CHRISTMAS
A secret I’m will to share

Verse:

It’s not the glow you feel when snow appears
It’s not the Christmas card you’ve sent for years
Not the joyful sound when sleigh-bells ring
Or the merry songs children sing

The little gift you send on Christmas day
Will not bring back the friend you’ve turned away
So may I suggest
THE SECRET OF CHRISTMAS is not the things you do at Christmas time

But the Christmas things you do all year through

🎄 Marian