Beautiful Things in Humble Places

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” – Camille Pissarro

Life Has Been a Blessing

“My life has been a blessing. I’m grateful for everything I do have and the places I’m going and the things I’ve seen.” – Leah LaBelle

This month we wil be looking at being blessed and blessing others. It is easy to be dissatisfied with what we have and become jealous of others. Join us as we remember how blessed we truly are and ways we can bless others.

Life Changes

“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” ~ Hugh Prather

Who Looks Inside, Awakes

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Jung

The Friday Affirmation

Let us affirm together.

I am one with the Universe.

All Moments Matter

“All moments matter. We just rarely know how important they are until the chance to act on them has already passed.” ― A.L. Jackson, Show Me the Way

Remember This

“You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too.” – Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

Ripples into the World

 “I want to remind us all that the world is listening, all the time. How we are ripples out from us into the world and affects others. We have a responsibility – an ability to respond – to the world. Finding our particular way of living this responsibility, of offering who we are to the world, is why we are here. We are called because the world needs us to embody the meaning in our lives. God needs us awake. The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream. “ — Oriah Mountain Dreamer 

Spiritual Beings

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Teilhard had a profound effect of me as a college student, being required reading in a college theology class called The God Man Christian Experience. Not the Old Testament class or the professor I expected. I was being forced to think and see things in new ways and I wasn’t ready to let go of the old ones. Let’s just say I was not pleased.

But that class ended up being life changing for me. It laid a foundation to help me find way to where I am now on my spiritual journey even though there were a few detours. And it all began with the words, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

We never know who the wayshowers in our life will be or when and how they will show up. Let’s be open to their appearance and willing to follow.

Compassionate Action

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate action of its members.” — Coretta Scott King

I have been blessed during my life to be a part of strong communities. Although they were each different the one thing they all had in common was “the compassionat action of its members.” We all genuinely cared and looked out for each other.

My first experience with this kind of community was church. I grew up in a church where we were family. I had spiritual brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents who looked out for me.

Growing up with this type of community I thought all churches were this way. I was shocked when I realized that was not the case.

I have also experienced community in “outsider” groups. People who just don’t fit in the world can come together to form their own communities. There can be strong bonds in these groups.

I am concerned that these types of communities are disappearing. I have watched as the compassionate actions of communities have been considered bad things. I’m not talking about a controlling hierarchy, I am talking about people who genuinely care for each other.

Mrs. King was a wise woman in the company of her husband Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who spoke of “the beloved community,” Mohatma Ghandi, the Buddha, Jesus and others who throughout history have tried to show us the way. May we seek to create communities of compassionate action as we follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before us.