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I got very angry at the little wax-eye birds yesterday when they insisted that they would not listen to me and would get into our raspberry patch at every opportunity. I spent a lot of time fixing up the netting over them and this reminded me that it had been my choice not to do this until now. The birds were are a waking dream: they were teaching me something I didn’t know about myself.
Later when I had calmed down I realised that I NEEDED something not to listen to me. I was always upset about one thing or another that hearing me. It was my creative thought to do so and I was ready to change to “I listen, am heard, and communicate with All”.
Now that I am different I know the birds will hear me; they no longer fly right up in front of my face and ignore me. They may or may not agree with me.
Spiritual Exercise:
Take responsibility for what has happened when your angry and look inside for the thought that needs you to get the results you are getting. Then consider changing the thought. If you have an inner, spiritual master or guide invite them to help make it easier for you to recognise what it is that you doing to yourself.
A bike ride home was difficult with a bit of fatigue and nausea so three inspirations came along as there unexpected events. A possible visitor encouraged me to get underway. A little rain just before the steepest climbs inspired me to push the peddles round faster, and a puncture just 1.6km from home helped me feel grateful to get home.
Spiritual Exercise:
When a task or journey is difficult. Do it the name of God, Spirit, or your higher self and note the help you get in unexpected ways.
I asked a friend to tell me what they wanted our relationship to be like as I was curious to have it get a bit better. I was rather suprised by the turn of events.
We bought some takeaways to share and I keep dropping the food on the footpath (pavement). Angry at the loss of something they were about to enjoy eating, the friend said how stupid I was, that I was alway like this, and this is what annoyed them most about me. If I was present with what I was doing, ie. paying attention, I would not drop things like that.
They then described how they had difficulty talking to me because they felt I wasn’t present with what I was doing; that I was in often my head and not my body. In therapy ealier in the day I had been told the exact same thing by someone else.
Listening I realised that my friend had the same problem I did, and that we were both afraid of not being heard when we communicated to each other. It was a miracle for me. I had never thought that I would be fumbling and dropping food to find answers that were as much about myself.
Spiritual Exercise:
If something is not working out right. Take slower breaths and sing HU, to yourself or outloud, on the outbreath. Ask for insight into what your are doing that is stopping you getting the results you wish. That which most annoys you in the behaviour of others is probably what you are doing!
Do you often find that not getting what you want is a blessing. A few days ago I had made compost and it hadn’t heated up so my blessing was in getting to rebuild the heap. The miracle in this was that I now needed to tidy up all remaining green grass and weeds to get enough green matter to lift make the heat. Not getting what I wanted turned into getting what I wanted faster. That is the place was a lot tidier. Beauty of it is 5 hours later its temperature was up to 27 degrees, 15 hours later 40 degrees. Interesting I took the temperature then as that means its hot enough to destroy enzymes, which means it is starting to kill all the weed seeds!
Today was a great day planting seeds of lettuce, several types of beetroot, rainbow and silverbeet chard, borage, and carrots for our autumn and winter food. Now we wait for rain. When its waited for without really knowing when or if it is going to come, yet being so totally dependent on it, rain is alway a miracle. If it comes often enough, a week or so later, we will see the miracle of birth, as tiny seed leaves emerge from beneath the soil.
Spiritual Exercise:
Be grateful for the rain, the sun, the wind, the dry, and the cold. Enjoy yourself at all times.
Writing this I look up and a blackbird sits statue like on our lawn. I write and several minutes later look again. It does not appear to be moving. Is it? I look away briefly to check I’m not seein ghosts. Look back and its gone. Was it indeed a ghost?
Is this part of my answer. Are blackbirds and thrushes going to stop moving – into areas of the garden that we’ve asked them to stay out of? Or are they going to disappear altogether (from Harmony Forest) – has I required of them when they didn’t keep to their areas!
Spiritual Exercise:
When you are not sure of the meaning of something, shine the light of Soul upon it. Chew it over, quietly and serenely like a cow chewing its cud in a pasture of clover. Take your time like she does and let the light of the day shine upon it giving you insight.
The beginning of the year, Summer in the southern part of world, brings many blessings. The cheep cheep cheep of plump black young bellbirds calling to their parents for food. The solitary sight of newly fledged bellbirds all green and equally chubby, not yet in their adult feathers, and practising a few notes of song. The well developed songs of adult bellbirds in full plummage. Makes me wonder with all the notes, songs, and melodies if there might be new birds in the forest.
Spiritual Exercise:
Today, this year, fill your heart with joy to sing about the opportunities each new day brings and the fun each day has been. When you’ve done this several times note how you enjoy your days more. (Sing to yourself or aloud – as appropriate).
I was talking to the Harmony Deva this morning, and perhaps it was all the people travelling away on holiday, while I was enjoying it at home, for the deva said that she would be having holidays sometimes to. Not matter who or what we are we all need time out and holidays.
Spiritual Exercise:
Honour yourself as a joyous Soul, and give yourself time every day to have fun. Better still have fun as much as you can, even all day long!
At 45 degrees of lattitude you get a long twilight. It doesn’t let you seen in the dark but the light fades so gradually the eyes widen accomodating the change and before you know it you are in the dark without really noticing that there’s only a couple of light beams left to see by. Living among hills in a forest also adds to the subtleties of this change.
The sun set at 9:33pm last night and I carried on mowing the lawns and making compost. An hour later twilight was deepening and I continued. A torch would have created invisibility beyond its beam so I relied on my eyes and completed the work. I hadn’t looked at the time until I came inside as I don’t like my head to fill with “Its so late outside you cannot see”.
I came in at 11:30 and went outside again later. It was then that I realised my blessing. The moon was coming up over the trees. It had risen at 10:30pm and gifted its ever increasing glow as the the last scattered rays of the sun dwindled from the hills.
It is miraculous the amount the eyes see. The mind places limitations that mean you only notice what it tells you you can see. I was told in school that the Australian aborigines were able to see the distinctive V of kangaroo ears many kilometres distant.
Spiritual Exercise:
Imagine that your brain deceives you. Allow your eyes to gift you all that they see. Seeing in the dark and at other times can be a great deal of fun. Explore all that the physical eyes reveal to you. You will also find yourself seeing as Soul, maybe sensing whether there are cars coming around the corner, or that the person in front of you “looks healthy”. If there is anything you want to see ask your eyes to see it.
The last day of the year and a lonely, young, wild goat bleets pleedingly for hours in the forest. Where are its fellow goats. As this year comes to and end, many wonder where are my brothers and sisters? I help myself, I need help, were are my kin? I am lost in the forest of life and know not quite what to do.
Spiritual Exercise:
When all appears to have abandoned you contemplate on God, whom has carried you thus far.
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