Monday Offering...Creators Beauty

Today is the holiest of days

and

You are the most precious of God's Children...

There is nothing you need to fix

There is nothing you need to do

Other than 

BE

And sink into the miracles

That every moment brings.

Love and Light my Lovelies
I love you all
 

A late night Monday Offering...Healing...

The path of healing

can feel lonely 

desolate

We often walk blindly

hoping

hoping 

hoping

but not being able to ask

for what it is we are hoping for

And often we find ourselves

back to a place where we have been before

and we say...

why am I back here?

why am I looking at this again?

haven't I faced this already?

we don't see that each time we return

we have more to offer

and each time we go back in

the wound is that much cleaner

I want to tell you...

Healing is a delicate process

that never ends

These are the things

we aren't taught by those

who would not have us think for ourselves

It is on going

which ever way you look at it

the journey of healing

never ends....

and this is a good thing

It is a steady

A faithful companion

that will not leave our side

I want to tell you

that healing has no time line

no statue of limitations

no schedule

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Healing does not care how much you weight

Healing does not care about the clothes you wear

or the car you drive

Healing does not care about the colour of your skin

or how much you have in your back account

or if you have a bank account at all

Healing only cares about you finding your way

back Home

What Healing does ask of you

is that you show up

that you play a part

that you do the work

that you say what you mean

and mean what you say

It asks that you listen

but not the surface kind of listening

It wants the deep listening

that comes when one is stalking their shadows

that is present when one has surrendered

that develops when the words are wispered

"I trust you"

"I am ready"

Healing wants you to be brave

too find the warrioress within

and hold strong your staff

and lift high your light

rooting into your knowing

reaching up to the Truth

hearing Spirit in the breeze

finding Mary by the waters

seeing the face of God

in all that is around you.

because

Healing

knows

you

can

Healing to you my lovelies...

whatever it is that ails your wounded hearts

Healing to you

Love and Light

Mondays Offering...why I do the work that I do

“An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying their treats. When he asked them why they had run like that when one could have had all the fruits for himself, they said, ‘UBUNTU, how can one of us be happy if all the other ones are sad?’ (‘UBUNTU’ in the Xhosa culture means: ‘I am because we are.)” (Credit: +Sara Del Valle)

This story is why I do the work I do

Those faces are why I do the work that I do

Those homes are why I do the work that I do

*

I do it all because I live with the belief  

that we are all connected

that we call come from one Source

Created by one Spirit

Each of us equal

Each of us mattering

Each of us knowing

*

In one week I leave

to go back to my other home

I am ready to be used as an instrument of Love

and I take you with me

Your gifts of money and love

will be carried down and felt and appreciated...

*

As I continue my preparations to leave

I hope to find time to come by and see you

but if I do not

know that I could not be doing this

without you, your love, your support

Thank you my lovelies of love and light

your love is a precious gift

I leave you today 

with an offering of prayer

 

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Great Spirit, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

So it is
All my relations

Amen

 Love and Light

 

Mondays offering...Strong Woman

For you my lovelies

For you who are 

Strong

For you who are

Enduring

For you who are

Steadfast

For you who are 

Brave

For you who are

Woman

We are Women

Let Us do

what it is 

We do

Re-entry from being away has been good

There is nothing like leaving Home

and coming back with a renewed

appreciation for what Home is.

*to find my Heart Song reflection*

go here

~it is good to be back~

Love and Light

ps
thanks to all those who read my family story
I so appreciate your reflections and encouragement's

Monday Offering...Keep your Heart Strong

In the wake of last weeks shootings

I remain in the stillness of prayer...

words escape me

I spent my time watching
the spaces that had grown between us
And I cut my mind on second best
the scars that come with the greeness
I gave my eyes to the boredom
still the seabed wouldn’t let me in
And I tried my best to embrace the darkness
in which I swim

Now walking back down this mountain
with the strength of a turning tide
The wind so soft at my skin
the sun so hot upon my side
Looking out at this happiness
I searched for between the sheets
Feeling blind, to realise
All I was searching for was me
Oh all i was searching for was me

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong
Keep your mind set, keep your hair long
Keep your head up, keep your heart strong
Keep your mind set in your ways
Keep your heart strong

I saw a friend of mine the other day
And he told me that my eyes were gleaming
I said I’d been away
and he knew the depths I was meaning
It felt so good to see his face
the comfort invested in my soul
To feel the warmth of his smile
when he said ‘I’m happy to have you home’
Oh im happy to have you home

Keep your head up...

Because I’ll always remember you the same
Eyes like wildflowers with your demons of
change
May you find happiness there
May all your hopes turn out right

Keep your head up...

Because I’ll always remember you the same
Eyes like wildflowers with your demons of
change...

~Ben Howard~

Holding on to all that is beautiful and good

Love and Light my lovelies...

The prayer is from Marianne Williamson


For those who bear the unbearable burden
of unimaginable grief,
who in their agony yell at the forces of fate...
For those who moan and those who faint,
for those who rage and those who pray,
we moan and pray along with them.
For tonight, those were our children too.
Dear God, 
May a legion of angels come upon the parents
and bring to them an otherworldly touch,
an otherworldly comfort
and otherworldly sense that their children are well,
that they are safe with God,
and shall be with them always.
Give to those who grieve what no mortal force can give...
the touch of Your Hand upon their heart.
May all who are touched by this darkness
be Lit by Your grace.
Please wipe away all tears, dear God.
as only You can do.
Amen
(thanks Nyssa)

Monday Offering...Marshal Davis Jones

Slam Poetry.....

a reflection of our modern world

it makes one think...

this one brought tears to my eyes

so powerful!

Some things to think about as we

head into our week

my lovelies....

would love to hear your responses

Love and Light

Monday Offering...Seeds of Love and Hope

This past weekend we had out 5th Annual

Seeds of Love and Hope International Society

Fundraising Banquet.

This is our big event of the year...

the one that pulls in the most people 

and the most funds.

This year we raised over $120, 000.00

THAT

is so something to celebrate.

(this is one of my kids Claudia...we sponsor her and her brother)

This year I spoke at the banquet, 

reflecting on my trip this past Spring.

I offer my words, that I shared that night,

to you today...

Hunger: the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; the exhausted condition caused by want of food...

World Hunger refers to those who live in malnutrition; the lack of proper protein in their diet.

In 2010 925 million people went hungry everyday

1 out of every 7 people

(this is Oscar-Daniel, he is another one of our children...we sponsor him and one of his sisters, Sarah.

There are 5 children in his family, all of which are sponsored.  He and Sarah are the youngest.)

Does the world produce enough food to feed everyone?

Yes

World Agriculture produces 17% more calories per person 

then it did 30 years ago, despite a 70% population increase.

This is enough to provide every person with at least 2,720 calories per day.

What are the causes of World Hunger?

Poverty

harmful Economic systems

Climate Change

(my butterfly girl Anna-Marie and her little sister)

1 out of 3 persons in developing countries

are affected by vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Approximately

10% of the worlds population owns a car

50% of the worlds population own their own home

4% of the world own a computer

12% have access to one

3-5% have internet access

25% of the worlds population sleep in their own bed

30% have enough money to have a bank account

(giving Daniel his gift)

I do not share these statistics to cause us to feel bad or guilty.

In fact it is with these facts I hope to empower ourselves.

To shift us into awareness of our position in the world.

For we are a minority

The way we live here in North America is not the norm

in comparison to most of the worlds life styles.

It is easy in our society to feel like we live in lack.

The media speaks of recession, global warming, loss of jobs, horrible violence and crimes, things that cause us to draw ourselves inward,

feeling like there is not enough.

Of course

the "forget" to tell inform us of all the wonderful abundance, love  and giving that goes on...

When we live in this kind of

Fear or Lack

we live with a perception that if another is successful there will not be enough let for us.

From this way of thinking we become steeped in 

living competitively, 

pitting us one another instead

of working together.

But

the truth is there is more than enough

and by living past the physical

we no longer see ourselves as separate from one another.

Instead we see ourselves as the spiritual beings we are

each coming from one Source...a Love Creator

thus coming from a source of Abundance.

During my last trip I felt the shift 

of deeper connections being formed 

A Trust

A Unity

was becoming ever present

and this realization brought me to a deeper sense of 

what we are doing

and why.

This is about Unity

about Family

This is about being threads in the same tapestry of Life

and holding fast to one another

and realizing each ones importance

in that tapestry

when one thread is removed

the tapestries strength

is compromised.

So yes

we go down to feed, provide, assist,

but on a deeper level

we come to strengthen the human bond

that lies between all human beings...

we go to lay claim to our birthright of belonging

and being a family

and loving one another 

beyond social status

beyond skin colour

beyond language.

When One heals we all heal

When one succeeds we all succeed 

When one grieves we all grieve

When one is fed we all are fed

When one Loves we all Love

Living in Unity moves us away from ourselves

and into a deeper relationship with each other...

Today, my lovelies, I challenge us to walk out

into our lives in Unity.

Share with someone the importance of Unity

and what that means/looks like to you.

Accepting our position in the world

and being responsible with it

understanding all we do has an effect 

on the rest of the world

it is our choice as to 

whether that affect

is positive

or

negative.

Love and Light

Seeds of Love and Hope International Society

http://www.solahis.com/