Art credit: "Patience" by Melanie Weidner, Art and Wisdom Cards Beloveds, As you continue in your practice of noticing when you are holding your breath, and all that surrounds this noticing, I share with you a poem of Danna Faulds' from her book, What's True Here. This is what I have to say to you. Your first and last and only task is to stay open to the divine flow of grace in and through and all around you. It’s everywhere, this grace, from the gifts of nature to your own creative juices running free. Give yourself to this mystery without needing to know outcomes. Risk falling, because you can always get back up. Risk failing, because you can always begin again. Give yourself without restraint into the vast embrace of love that never wanes, even when your attention wanders, even when you lose faith. The way is lit from within no matter if sun and moon are both hidden from view. This divine light shines all the time, your own personal beacon, like a lighthouse flashing in the night. Stay open to the divine flow of grace this day and the next step on your journey will be so obvious you’ll laugh at any former confusion or resistance that held you back. Practice: What do you notice as regards the movement and non-movement of breath in your life, and how does it relate to your experience of the flow of grace? See if you can be specific in a given moment, focusing in on the question, "What's True Here?"
Much Love, Julia
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1/16/2025 02:24:32 pm
The day of my spiritual awakening was they I saw, and knew I was seeing Everything in God, and God in Everything. (Mechthild of Magdeburg) When I breathe in, I am breathing in the grace of God which emits from everything Real around me. When I breathe out, I am breathing out God's love and grace back into everything Real around me. Everything, everything, everything points to God. There is nothing which is Real that is not God. God is love. There is nothing Real that is not love. All else is illusion!
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