It’s funny how the little things can have such a great affect on our moods, almost as if to control the very outcome of how we manifest our daily lives. Attachments to people, things, beliefs, and experiences definitely create much of our reality—how we see and experience our lives every single day.
Last Monday was my mother’s 80th birthday, and I spent the day celebrating by looking at old picture albums and thinking of her. She died at age 54, and I have missed her ever since. My daughter was with me that special day last week, and commented on the change that came over me as I went from being ‘fully present’ to the state of longing for loving times with my family in my past.
She brought up a very good point, which I share a lot more about in my book, Trusting Spirit Now. But for today, I will explain the energy around such concepts and a great tool for affecting a shift of one’s energy into living in joy in the now!
In the fall of 1972 as I began my sophomore year in college, my sister joined me as a freshman, sharing an apartment near campus along with 4 other friends. Janice & I had grown up very close, being only one year apart in age. We were so excited to be together again at school, though we were far from our home in Tennessee. Mother told me later that Daddy cried all the way across that 2000-mile drive home, feeling the loss of leaving his two little girls so far away from him.
As I was kayaking across Lake Tahoe’s northern shores last week, mesmerized by the intense cobalt blue waters so clear you can see all the way to the bottom—I had an epiphany. I was not entirely happy, and I knew why: I was holding onto a lot of other people’s stuff, and it was sucking the life out of me!
As I glided along across the miles of glassy water towards a gorgeous rocky point, I noticed some extra pounds of heaviness—added weight in my heart that did not fit my style in that moment. I knew I had to let go of something in order to return to my own peaceful center,
When I was a little girl, there was a show on TV called Queen For The Day. I don’t remember much about it, but I remember liking the idea that perhaps I too could feel like royalty, even if only for twenty-four hours.
Throughout my Trusting Spirit Now writings and teachings, one of the concepts I continue to espouse is my deep belief about our royal birthright. Maybe I fantasized about the idea while a child watching TV, nevertheless as I have grown to know God and to comprehend my relationship with Him, I know without a doubt that I am His child and that I am deeply and unconditionally beloved of Him!
