There are two basic ways we live as humans beings: barricading ourselves from the light of spirit, or allowing ourselves to be open to it—being transparent. We choose. Nothing but our own ignorance prevents us from living in the perfect peace of oneness with Spirit at any given moment of our lives. There is no one out there on this planet (reading this blog or not) who does not have some kind of barricade up right now in this very moment--a block to the spirit. Barricading yourself from the light of spirit happens with the slightest shift in your energy towards judgment—the choice we each make to be confused or offended by others choices or the punishment we give ourselves for our own. These two ways of being—blocking spirit or being transparent to spirit—actually create the environment we live in. Our particular space of existence may be recognized within a scale marked at one end by pain and at the other end by happiness. We will always find ourselves somewhere along that scale, and while we may suffer much in the pain category from day to day, we always possess within us the power to live mostly in the happiness category. Recognizing and accessing that power is quite simple. I will explain. Read the rest of this entry »

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! Read the rest of this entry »