Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 50 - Life Everlasting

     I give thanks for this miraculous body that carries my soul.  It is my earthly home, but it is not me.  My essence is spiritual, eternal and connected to my Source.  Source animates and protects me and as I believe, it is done unto me.

     I watch my body age from year to year.  I know each stage of life as beautiful and full of wonder.  I embrace each step along the journey and know that I am given another kind of life and another reality after my earthy home is needed no more - a life everlasting.

     Living without fear of death and knowing that of which I am a part will never forsake me, is the greatest gift the Tao has given me.

Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 49 - Namasté - Repost

     I honor the place in you where we are all one.

     There is a kinder, gentler, more loving way of life.  It is a life free of judgment, prejudice and condemnation.  It is a life where we see in each other ourselves, our children and our brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers.

     If we can get beyond labels and catagories that have so organized our world, it would transform our planet, not just with us humans, but with every living creature, even the very environment.

     It is that simple.  But it is not that easy.  We have been conditioned over a lifetime to criticize, find fault and condemn.  Being loving to ourselves means not judging, accepting ourselves as we are, not condemning any part of us that does not live up to some "ideal" or someone's idea of the way we "should" be.

     As within, so without.  If we can treat ourselves with kindness, compassion and love, that is what we have to give. Whether or not it is returned, it is in our nature.  It is living with an open heart.  Trust in that. Namasté

Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 48 - Enough is Enough

     Accumulating, gathering and letting go.  How much is enough?  Beyond what is needed, why seek more?

     As I ask for illumination, what thoughts come?  Live simply, live humbly and live each precious moment that is given.

     For all the moments of life are a gift:  the beauty of the Earth, seedtime and harvest, the unfolding of a life.  Each season, each phase of life a joy.

     Here in the quietude of early morning, I am free to just be... and it is enough.

Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 47 - The Beat of My Heart

"Dancing to the beat of my heart
To the rhythm of the drummer within me
Never gonna stop what it starts
I'm dancing to the beat of my heart"

Beat of My Heart by U.S.E.

     It is not necessary to travel the world.  It is not necessary to climb mountains or traverse the sea.  All is within our beings, animated and sustained by our hearts.

     All the wisdom we need is contained within that miraculous bit of muscle, giving us life and illuminating our minds with its steady rhythm.

     Be still and its whisperings are guide posts through life; follow and be blessed. 

Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 46 - Our Words Have Wings

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:11

     As humans we have no concept how powerful we are.  Our very words can be slayers or healers.  It is up to us to seek the loving inclinations of our hearts.  We have the power to choose; we have the freedom to choose.

     We have the potential of both hate and love, cruelty and kindness, dissension and peace within our being - if only in fleeting thoughts.

     We can find the pathways that lead to the Tao and make them our own, living them day by day, seeking them and finding them in every circumstance and encounter of our lives.  They open up before us like a flower or the dropping of a mask that now reveals our own tender hearts.

Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 45 - Perfection

     It is simple.  Miracles are all around us.  Looking through the eyes of love, all is perfect.

     I have been led through unspeakable anguish to that high place where self knowledge blended with compassion has opened my eyes to the perfection of the Universe..

     And as we rise, as we become more and more in the likeness of our Creator, our stumbling, our flares of anger, our ineptitudes, our judgments and condemnations lead us to a silent place within ourselves that knows our heart and gives us peace.

Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 44 - The Way Back

     The day spreads out before me like a lavish feast. What shall I fill the hours with?  What shall I occupy my mind with?  What shall I put my hand to?

     The world of the 10,000 things with all its enticing, shiny, sparkly distractions, beckons.

     Source knows my heart: what will fulfill it, what will give me joy, what will last, nourish, give life and endure.

     So I come to Source and open to the peace that loving Presence gives.

     "He opens His hand
     And satisfies the desires of every living thing."
                                              Psalm 145:16