Blessings Family!
How’s your heart? What’s present for you in this moment? Whatever your answer(s) take a moment and receive a few cycles of breath, our reminder that life is alive and well. Wherever you are in this now moment God/Love is right there with you.
What a few days it has been over here on this side of the world. With all the current happenings and goings on, now is always the time to start and/or begin again with your spiritual practices. What do I mean by this? Let me explain…
Nowadays we toss around terms so loosely and often times don’t even know what they mean for us the individual. So let’s start with the term Spirit – in this thing we call Spirit, I am referring to the invisible thread that tethers us all together, the thing Itself that we all innately come from. The perfect idea and iteration of who and what we are outside and beyond this earthly realm. Who we all were and are prior to incarnating into this human physical vessel. Next the word practice – to repeat a specific action for the benefit of being disciplined, healthy, aware, connected, and tapped into oneself. To perform something regularly in order to exemplify one’s best. So now we have these two words; Spiritual Practice(s)…how to apply practicing our own unique Spiritual Practices to our unique individualized world?
First let us remember that God IS personal to you and your own life and unique experiences to life, however we are not our experiences. We are the one experiencing the experience while also being the observer of the one who is experiencing it. Your relationship to and with the Divine is very personal which is why I will always encourage individuals to have their own unique innerstanding with God (the higher power of their understanding). No one can tell you how to connect with the God of your understanding, just as the saying goes, “you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.”
Back to our two words…Spiritual Practices; for many of us these terms have been lost in translation and/or the broad stream of society’s overuse of the coined “Spirituality” as some type of fad or trend. Yes, please LET US START TRENDING GOD! And then what happens when the trend fades away? This is where Practice comes into play.
We must learn how to develop our Spiritual muscles by practicing daily those things we know work for us. And if you are just now learning what works for you this is phenomenal, keep up the great inner work and inner inquiry of exploring what is working and what is not.
The current time is 3:16a, the relevance and timing of God will always be unmatched and beyond explanation and logic. Yesterday, my wife and I we at the vet when we met another woman. For me, the encounter was Divine in an extra special way. In the past few days I had two encounters that spoke to me directly about using the word God and some iteration of their interpretation of other people not feeling comfortable to talk about God or their Spiritual connection to and with The Divine.
Through the power of connection we are reminded how powerful we are through Love. Love being the greatest and most powerful force there is and ever will be, we get to Practice (there goes that P word again) in any and all ways the art of LOVING. I have come to Know that life is all about practicing who WE TRULY ARE IN LOVE. Life is about deeply innerstanding who we are as the individual expression of God and how we somehow tether and all fit together in this wild web of weaving our humanity with our Divinity.
May this blog meet you right where you are. May you know you are Loved, cherished, held, guided, and known in the heart and mind of The Divine. May you know Grace is sufficient for any and every part of your journey. And may you learn to be so radically gentle and tender with yourself that you begin to weep at the sight of a flower, a rose bush, a bird flying in the sky, a raindrop kissing your skin, etc.
Tenderness, joy, vulnerability, and radically Loving are a few of my superpowers…what are yours?
With all my Love,
Rachael Rose