Here With My Family

Two years this November, I left on an “around the world” trip in which I landed in Palm Coast, Florida for this past ten months.  This little home was gifted to me by my family and was a perfect “cocoon” to relax in and just be for a while.  

I am presently in New England.  

First, visiting with Ted and Julie Blickwedel from Providence, Rhode Island.  It was such a significant visit for us all.

Now, I am with Elizabeth and John Reuthe in Vasselboro, Maine, which is just northeast of Portland, Maine.  

Their home is a lovely farm with two horses, Sojourner and Genuine Cool Guy, chickens, two dogs, Jethro and Zoe, a cat named Gracie and over 100 acres of woods to walk in.  We have spent some precious time together.

  

This stop in New England officially completes my around the world trip.  As I look back over what has happened during this time one thing stands out above all else – being with my family. “Family” includes my blood family as well as my spiritual family.  

While in Florida, my sister and her family visited from Canada.  

We were looking at when was the last time we spent more than just a few days together.  It had been a long time.  The feeling of comfort and familiarity was naturally present.  

Now, as I look back over all of the visits into the homes of my spiritual family during these past two years, I realized that there was a similar feeling present.  The common bond was this Heart-felt familiarity even though it may have been the first time I had ever been in their home and met their family. 

What was the source of this familiarity?  What came up was  experienced and seen directly ...

We have all been given the freedom to choose to live from the Heart as our Source or from the world – my family, I am happy to say, has chosen to live “in the world, but not of it,” and has realized how important it is to be present with what is arising to utilize it as an opportunity to receive it all just as it is, realizing that we would miss the boat if we ignored this all-inclusive responsibility.  I had the opportunity to witness this first hand.

I want to acknowledge my family for what and who you ARE and for your total dedication to being, living and sharing what's Real and True.  I am privileged to have you as my family.  This is a vision come true - a vision that was seen some thirty years ago.

Here is an excerpt from a new book “A Journey to Oneness,” by Rasha, that seems to express what is being seen here so perfectly…

You were given the power to make a difference—to the infinite degree. You were given the possibility to know yourself as the Oneness you truly are, not simply to speculate. Not merely to philosophize and theorize. Not only to hash and re-hash linear concepts within the circuitry of your logical mind, but to transcend the inclination to seek that route to understanding the nature of who you Are, and to reach out for the experience of knowing who you Are, with the deep, innermost cry of your very soul. 


All Creation has been waiting in silence—for eternity—for you to come to your senses. Literally. The collective will at your level of being-ness has expressed itself in a way that commanded The Answer—The Answer that has eluded all of you since time began. The Answer that is so very simple you never could have figured it out, not with your brilliant, logical minds. It is only in the infinite silence of your feeling body that you can know The Answer. And once you have it, there is no question.  

Loving you,

Elizabeth

Is the Sky Looking?

Recently, this presented itself as a very subtle shift in this process of “working on ourselves” … 

There is no one “watching feelings going by”!  Who would be doing that?  Even the witness or watcher notion is only that … a notion.  Emotional reaction triggers contraction of … what?  … For whom?  We must be very clear to see if there is some subtle belief being given to the notion of the “me” as some real presence apart from reality.  The emotions and thoughts are practically irrelevant to the issue at hand.  Let them be as they are.  Leave them as is … unaltered, unmodified, uncorrected.  Who is even present to care if emotions are present or are contracted?  What is that reference point and who is making the determination that such experiences are good or not good?  Does the sky care if a cloud goes through?  Is a contracted cloud any better than a spacious one, as far as the sky is concerned?  Even in this, there can be a subtle overlooking of the ever-present fact of what is really present.  Is the sky looking at the cloud formations to determine whether or not it (the sky) is free? 

[By John Wheeler from his book “Clear In Your Heart”]

What is being noticed as something is arising in the space of our awareness?  Have we come to believe there is a “me” that is here that needs to be cleared of various patterns and tendencies.  Do we see that in this activity we are actually giving this apparent “me” life … making it real?

Are we seeing that even though these “cloud formations” may be light or heavy, it doesn’t matter to the Sky of Awareness?  Have we noticed that our giving reality to what is arising does not honor the clarity that we are always, already complete … untouched … whole and free?

Aha! … a subtle shift happens … simply being as this Sky of Awareness … naturally allowing what is arising to come up and dissipate, without any urge to do something about it … honoring who we are as what’s Real … here and now.

"The Space in between words, thoughts, movements

 is the eternal abode of love,

of Stillness, of Beingness, of Silence, of I AM.

All of Life exists now

in this always-present Presence.
This is the Essence of All That IS. 

This Space of unconditional Love

lies both between, and AS all movement,

all thinking, all music, all songs, all words and speech.

Without this Silent, Still Space

nothing as we know it could even exist. 

IT is Core, IT is Source, IT is I AM and IT is Now.

The World Says…you must keep moving at all costs.
The Divine Within says…be still,

rest in That which you are ... I AM.

The World Says…fill up all your time with doing stuff.
The Divine Within says…simply Be As You Are and be happy! "

[By Jim Dillinger – written on July 5th, 2012]

Another Gift from the Sea … from this that we ARE ...