[Thespiritexpress] 4th of July Weekend ~~~~~~

Sun Jul 5 16:13:01 PDT 2020

Yes  ~ thanks so much  Ron for bringing us into alignment once again during this time of turning and awakening ~ putting focus where it gives heart and perspective to it all.
I would like to add this prayer as an offering which I read at one of our solstice or equinox gatherings a few years ago.
May all love and light be with us ~
~ Marc 🌟

Praise be to the Below!

Praise be to our Mother Earth!
Sustaining us and providing for us so abundantly.
We give thanks with deep gratitude!

Remembering 
what we do to the earth
we do to ourselves.
That from this earth 
comes the miracle of life
from each small seed and everything that moves.

From each and every thing that moves and grows 
giving life and food to all creatures great and small
to all things living here together.

Great Spirit help us to grow 
and to learn to take better care of our lives
to sanctify this precious gift of our life
this miraculous earth
 and all that there is.

Great spirit help us to realize that we are One
 That we are each other.

May we learn to live where we remember
there is nowhere that we are not touching.

Each blade of grass 
grain of sand
breath of wind
is a sacred holy thing.
~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~
Help us to sanctify this place we are in.
A moment to moment thing 
to Remember 
that wherever we are is the Holy place.

Help us to remember the Awe
 that each step and each breath
 is a sacred and miraculous gift.

Help us to remember
how these rivers and oceans 
keep pulsing their course 
their life-blood flowing 
through everything 
nurturing everything.

Help us to remember
how the earth and us
are One body
that what we do to the earth
we do to ourselves.

That EVERYTHING 
is a miracle and a mystery ~ a sacred gift.

Just to be is a blessing
 Just to live is holy.

That this is the thing to remember:
That with each step we are touching the earth and each other.

Remember where we are.

Remember as we walk upon this earth
that all that we have is our soul.
We are the caretakers here.
That we are the Earth 
The Earth is us

We are One.

> On Jul 5, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Amanda Zabel via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Beautiful, Ron.  Thank you for taking the time to articulate this perspective.  I bow to the complexity and the simplicity.  Thank you for your gigantic heart of wisdom.  
> Love and only love,
> Amanda
> Song of Love
> 
> As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious—
> So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams 
> from the deep singing mind of the earth.   
> ~Dale Pendell, Living with Barbarians
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 5, 2020, at 5:05 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Independence Day 
>> or
>>  Interdependence or Inner-dependence
>> 
>> ~This is the year with no sky dazzling fireworks display ~ No Salmon BBQ ~ No big family and friends bash~.  Only the sound of a few fire crackers and gun shots ~ American flags displayed here and about and the #1 big event in my neighborhood was the 8:00 howl of sorrow~.  I took out my long departed Grandmother’s American flag that I inherited may years ago ~ it is old, thin, faded and frayed around the edges ~ put has been flying proudly
>> off the second story balcony surrounded by tall bamboo~. 
>> 
>> That seems to somehow fit the description of America right now in light of what is finally being revealed, and exposed to the only ones on the planet that have not been able to see the true of the “Windigo"~.  And yet it’s always been 
>> so so SO obvious and yet over looked as a result of some fancy magic mass hypnosis convincing us that we are numero uno 
>> and beyond reproach and that we are distinct and that we are separate, insulated with a privilege
>> that is beyond reproach ~ that our consumption of the World’s resources, including people, comes without sanction~.
>> 
>> "Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy. The population is projected to increase by nearly 130 million people - the equivalent of adding another four states the size of California - by the year 2050.” (ref. Google )
>> 
>> ~The article below (link) is one that speaks to all of us in a very sober fashion ~ If you don’t know the meaning “Windigo” pls. Google it”.
>> We speak to “waking-up” in spiritual circles of conversation, study, discussion and inquiry and all the while 
>> we are awake but the knowing is obscured, covered up by unconscious thought patterns we
>> have been conditioned to believe ~ all wrapped in belief structures organized to create 
>> unconscious complicity against that which actually is the Life sustaining
>> force of Love manifesting~. 
>> 
>> ~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!
>> 
>> ~The entire World of 7.8 billion of us is Waking-up to the realization that are living and dying in this very moment we call “Reality” ~! 
>> This reality of opulent aliveness and diverse abundance nurtured by one sun that shines equally upon
>>  everything and everyone~. We are this season’s people and what are planting and harvesting~?
>> 
>> ~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!
>> 
>> ~ Waking-up is for many something new and shocking ~ there is also the hangover realization of a bad dream and the uncomfortable
>> feeling that accompanies rubbing the sleep out of one’s eyes to greet the morning light~. We are in the process of clearing the old dream right now and there is a sting to it and that sting may intensify as we deepen into the clearing of what is not right, never been in right-relationship, 
>> making amends and dreaming a new, healthy, sustainable dream with total equanimity motivated by the presence of 
>> love and beauty as the operative motivation to all of life~!
>> 
>> ~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!
>> 
>> ~ Independence, Interdependence or Inner-dependance are all choices~. The one thing that all three of these words have in common is the word “dependance”~. 
>> ~The definition of “dependance” is, “the quality or state of being influenced or determined by or subject to another.” 
>> That quality or state is based on a dualist form of “otherness” ~ The dualistic form is based on separation and fear 
>> and the non-dual is based on the realization that there is only One and all seemingly others are but part of the One~.  
>> This is a choice that is made based on one’s own experience - either out of fear or Love ~ 
>> That is the choice we are asked at this time in the human experience - 'do I recognize that I am of the One~?’  
>> To recognize the beauty in every moment 
>> is one of the keys ~ there is great beauty in opening the eyes and ears of the heart~. 
>> 
>> ~ This article is a beautiful piece of writing that offers a loving hand in the choice for sustainability as a function of living in 
>> this garden of beauty~. A lot of restoration work ahead of us in multiple areas~.
>> 
>> Only Love, ~Ron 
>> 
>> 
>>> https://lithub.com/robin-wall-kimmerer-greed-does-not-have-to-define-our-relationship-to-land/?fbclid=IwAR3lhZ56_kd1pvfKknj2IBXfs41LDlJ3P5Z9KVjqr7rAUZ0LgR6S5XDWuEQ <https://lithub.com/robin-wall-kimmerer-greed-does-not-have-to-define-our-relationship-to-land/?fbclid=IwAR3lhZ56_kd1pvfKknj2IBXfs41LDlJ3P5Z9KVjqr7rAUZ0LgR6S5XDWuEQ>
>> 
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