Life!

I heard about death on the car radio yesterday. It isn’t an unusual experience, but because I grew up with these celebrities, I, like everyone else, I started thinking about the value and meaning of these people in my life.

It was Farrah’s hair I was in love with – during the early ‘70’s I had really, really long hair. I took a magazine cover into a beauty salon and said “Make me look like this.” Little did I know that there were thousands of women doing the same thing and this at a time when it was important for me to be an individual! A few years ago, when I decided I wanted long hair again, I naturally went back to that style. It works for me.

I wasn’t as enamored with Michael Jackson as many of my contemporaries were. I was more of the folk music type – but I loved dancing, and his music was certainly danceable! A few weeks ago I heard him say on an interview about his upcoming England tour “This is the last, the final goodbye.” How prophetic those words were – what surprised me was that he still sounded like a young boy at 50 years old.

Watching the interplay between Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon on late night TV was delightful. And oh my goodness, those envelopes, every few months over the years, from Publisher’s Clearing House, with a letter from Ed McMahon, brought hope and fantasy to the hearts of many!

Going back to value and meaning … Whether its death from a long illness, old age or sudden death, it reminds us of our mortality. We’re all going to do it – and the fact that many of us grew up with these people brings the fact that we’re not going to physically live forever even closer.

It reminds me to LIVE now – really live – not just observing from the sidelines, but getting in there and wallowing in every aspect of Life – feeling all the feelings, whether they be happy or sad, glad or mad – it’s all part of the human experience.

It also reminds me I am here for God to experience Itself as me. What kind of experience does my Spirit want to have? I believe It wants me to be authentic, use my God-given gifts well, and be fully present! So for the Divine Feminine, partially expressed through my hair, for the Divine Child within, and for the divine wise older person I have become -- This is my intention, and I am so grateful for every moment of my life.


SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

There is That Within Me that desires to be more fully expressed, to have greater experiences of Itself. It is Life, my Life, which is GodLife. This Life works through me, as me, for me, through Love and Law.

I choose to open my heart and mind to let Life live an even greater experience as me. I let go of my sense of littleness, of not deserving, of unworthiness. I am the incarnation of The Divine right here and now. I accept this, I acknowledge it, I express it. I am fully alive!!

Gratefully I acknowledge all aspects of my Life, relishing being a spiritual being living a human experience. This is good, very good.

I release these words into the Law of Mind, knowing they are so, and so it is.

Death

Tonight is Halloween for many – with the fun of costumes and parties and candy … for others it is Samhain, (pronounced Sow Inn) .. the ancient Celtic holiday of the dead.

Our culture is so afraid of death (tho one would think we worshiped it with the proliferation of violence and death in movies and TV). We avoid aging as long as we can with hair colour and wrinkle creams and the latest fad to keep us young.

We are also alienated from the cycles of the seasons- yet who hasn’t caught their breath in admiring the beauty of Fall. There’s a part of us that remembers how powerful the natural flow of Life is.

For the ancient people, the indigenous people and people who celebrate the seasons, death is not a thing to be feared or fought. Old age is valued for its wisdom and dying is accepted as a natural part of life.

Earth-centered people use this holiday to honour loved ones who have died during the past year, knowing death is not an ending to Life. It is also a time of honouring the little deaths – the things that have ended, such as jobs or relationships.

Perhaps we could all do this …. Honour our Beloved Dead. We can think about what they meant to us and what we learned from them. We can think about the benefits we got from the jobs or relationships or situations that have ended.

We are all going to die – Let us approach it with a sense of the sacred. Honour your Beloved Dead and in return you will be honoured.

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

There is only One Life – that Life is God’s and this Life is the life I am living now.

I celebrate my life and all its seasons.

I celebrate myself as a child – open and in awe of new concepts and fun adventures.

I celebrate myself as a teen – ready to forge new ground and step out on my own.

I celebrate myself as an adult – willing to use all I have learned – and willing to be real.

I celebrate myself as an elder – full of compassion for all that has been before and having greater understanding of my personal Power.

I honour all those that have gone before me, knowing that Life does not end with the shedding of the physical body.

I honour all experiences that I attracted and have passed through my life.

There is only One Life – that Life is God’s and this Life is the life I am living now.

I release these words of Truth, grateful I can consciously do so, and so it is.

Recently two dear friends lost people who were very close to them. During these moments, and at other times when life seems so hard for us, is when I wish I had a magic wand or word, that I could use to make everything all better – sort of like a mother’s kiss on an oweee. But I don’t. We all have to go through what we have to go through. I can be there for you, spiritually, mentally and emotionally – even physically, but I can’t change your experience.

Many times the person who is left behind thinks if only they had done a certain thing – perhaps the results would have been different. What I know is that the person who had the experience is the only one who could have changed it.

Every Life is precious. I believe one of our innate desires is to be remembered as having made a difference in our world. Instead of thinking “what if”, we can remember the gifts our loved ones gave us. Those moments where we can’t even remember the date, but we can remember the smile or the touch or the laughter.

We can also realize how precious our own life is. We can choose to notice more of the blessings instead of the challenges. We can realize that just as the person who made their transition was important to us, we were important to them, and we are important to others in our lives as well.

Death is not a bad thing even though we do everything we can to avoid it. How we choose to leave is not a bad thing either. It is just a choice. Holmes writes in the glossary of the Science of Mind “The experience of dying is but the laying off of an old garment, and the donning of a new one.” Like the butterfly who dies to being a caterpillar, all of us will emerge from this earthly experience to soar!

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

Life is ever present. It is birthless and deathless. It is the thing that animates our bodies. It is our Real Self.

Knowing this, I choose to experience Life as the gift It is. I move forward on my path of human experience with a true sense of awareness that I really am a Spiritual Being having a spiritual experience I am choosing to call humanness.

I claim my rights as a spiritual Being. I claim that within me is unconditional love and infinite intelligence. I claim my place as a co-creator with Life. I choose to experience more joy, more peace, more of what I am – Love in action.

In doing this, I notice all the precious moments – the moments of laughter and the moments of tears. Facts and figures no longer affect me as they have in the past. I let myself feel things in the present moment, knowing that Now is the most important moment.

I am so grateful for Life, and for all the people, here and beyond that have touched my life. I am grateful for my conscious awareness of Divine Life within me, moving through me, as me, for me.

I release these words into the Law of Mind, knowing they are so … and So It is.