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

Mon Jul 6 19:44:46 PDT 2020

Marc your words are such a blessing for all of us to learn from, or
relearn. Every writing you have shared with me through Spirit House has
enriched my Life...my Spirit..my Being. TNot only that...your voice when
speaking your words....puts me in trans that holds tight unto cellular
level...dream level. Thank you, Love Always
Gracee'

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 4:13 PM Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

>
> 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> 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
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