Monday Offering....On Waiting....

And I came home
Like a stone
And I fell heavy into your arms
These days of dust
Which we've known
Will blow away with this new sun

And I'll kneel down
Wait for now
And I'll kneel down
Know my ground

And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

So break my step
And relent
You forgave and I won't forget
Know what we've seen
And him with less
Now in some way
Shake the excess

But I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

So I'll be bold
As well as strong
And use my head alongside my heart
So take my flesh
And fix my eyes
That tethered mind free from the lies

But I'll kneel down
Wait for now
I'll kneel down
Know my ground

Raise my hands
Paint my spirit gold
And bow my head
Keep my heart slow

Cause I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

~Mumford and Sons

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God is offering an invitation. A call to waiting. A call to the mysteries of the cocoon. I discovered that in the spiritual life, the long way round is the saving way. it isn't the quick and easy religion we're accustomed to. It's deep and difficult-a way that leads into the vortex of the soul where we touch God's transformative powers. But we have to be patient. We have to let go and tap our creative stillness. Most of all, we have to trust that our scatted hearts really do have wings."

~Sue Monk Kidd from her book "When the Hearts Waits"
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...we all must follow our beacon, even if it does not make sense in the physical world...
and lets be honest....
most time it does not : )
there seems to be this kind of shift happening in many of the blogs I follow, including my own
as we have been living in such intention and pouring into there comes a time to sit in that knowledge we have acquired and marinate within it...
let it soak in to our skin.... 
become one with our blood and become the marrow of our bones...
I think that might be what it is...
we are taught to be quick in all things in our culture
I find it is a constant reforming to stay out of that tendency as it is so sutler in its assault
~Me (a comment left here)

"When you're waiting, you're not doing nothing.
You're doing the most important something there is. You're allowing your soul to grow up.
If you can't be still and wait, you can't become
what God created you to be."
~a wise monk

"There is more to life
then increasing it's speed"
~Gandhi

The following song
might be considered a love song for another
but consider it a love song for yourself...

will you wait for your soul
my lovelies?
will you allow it to grow up?

Love and Light

Experiencing the Divine...

Embraced

Fully Surrounded

Held

Deeply Nourished

We came

Empty

Ready and Needing

to be filled

6 women

6 stories

6 Divine Purposes

unraveled

unfolded

released

Through ceremony

we entered

On forest Floor

we opened

Into Mother Nature

we were called

and

In Shadow

we found our Gifts

Candles lit

Alter laid

Prayers lifted up

Stillness Honoured

And so we were

Returning back to Ourselves...again

The Channeller

The Lover

The Teacher

The Poet

The Shaman

The Guide

Each offering tears and self

Each pouring out and taking in

Arms open wide

Ready for Truth

Ready for the next season

Of our Journey

Ready for Love

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Hello my lovelies

an enlightening weekend was spent

I look forward to unfolding it

here

with you

As I marinate in all that was revealed

I remain in stillness

and look forward to a long weekend of Thanksgiving

here in Canada

I pray all is well with your soul

I pray you live in the truth of how Loved you are

how precious and unique

how every part of you is beautiful

and that you live in the abundance

of Divine Love

Nothing you say or do 

makes that anymore real

It is because It is

as you are

because You are...

Love and Light

for more on the retreat
click on the links below...

reflection #1
reflections#2
reflections #3
reflections #4
reflections#5
reflections#6

Monday Offerings...a couple songs

On bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently
All my destinations will accept the one that's me
So I can breathe...

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know
A mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul
And so it goes...

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you...

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought
I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead
Overhead...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed

~Eddie Veder

(one of my favourite movies)

I’m gonna walk a hundred miles,
I’m gonna whistle all the while,
If that’s what it takes to make me smile,
I’m gonna walk a hundred miles.

I’m gonna rend right up this hill,
Summer sky or winter chill,
If I gotta take a break I will,
But I wanna rend right up this hill.

I wanna hold the whole wide world
Right here in my open hands,
And maybe I’m just a little girl,
A little girl with great big plans.

I’m gonna go and take a chance,
I’m gonna learn to ballet dance,
Learn a little something about romance,
I’m gonna go and take a chance.

I’m gonna live a crazy dream,
Impossible as it may seem,
Doesn’t matter what the future brings,
I’m gonna live a crazy dream.

I wanna hold the whole wide world,
Right here in my open hands,
And maybe I’m just a little girl,
A little girl with great big plans. 

I wanna hold the whole wide world,
Right here in my open hands,
And maybe I’m just a little girl,
A little girl with great big plans.

You tell me, don’t try it,
I’m warning you that I won’t buy it. 
All the failure is fleeting,
I trust it always has its meaning.

I wanna hold the whole wide world,
Right here in my open hands,
And maybe I’m just a little girl,
A little girl with great big plans.

I wanna hold the whole wide world,
Right here in my open hands,
And maybe I’m just a little girl,
A little girl with great big plans.

~Mindy Gledhill

What are your great big plans 

my Lovelies?

Love and Light