Stop, Feel, Look & Listen

At some point in every day, we need to be aware and in the moment, spiritually, to see what kind of energy surrounds us, what kind of energy we’re feeding on, and what kind of energy we’re radiating, right at that moment.

So … take this as your cue to STOP!

Close your eyes for just a few seconds. Now, spend a few minutes deep breathing. Deeply inhale through your nose, letting air flow slowly into your abdomen, then into your mid-section… finally filling up your chest. Exhale slowly through your nose… first emptying your abdomen, then your mid-section, and finally pushing the last bit of air from your chest. Do this a few times.

Breathe and FEEL your gratitude… for your life… the people in your life… your coming blessings, and this present moment of your journey.

LOOK around you at the manifestation of this moment. What kind of physical space are you in? What kind of emotional space are you in? Spiritual space? Are you where you want to be or have you been dreaming about moving in some other direction? Remember that you are mainly SPIRIT! Look around you and KNOW that you are exactly where you are supposed to be right now… even if it’s a space that you’re not really feeling too positive about. Know that wherever you are right now and whatever you’re feeling is just a tiny part of a process that God is totally involved in, a tiny piece of your story… not your total journey.

Sit quietly and LISTEN for just a moment, to find out what you need to know. Discern the spirits of the people around you. Are they working and moving with you or against you?

PRAY, right now, about what is shown to you… about who or what comes to mind.

And KNOW THAT YOU ARE BLESSED!

Love & Light,
Esther

Do You Know Your Job?

God moves in our lives, always . . . in ways both big and small.
What we have to learn is that we should always be moving, too—always taking action in accordance with our prayers for the hopes and visions we have for our lives. Until we begin to move and act in ways that reflect our new high-beliefs, these new beliefs—and even our faith—won’t avail much.

Once you are truly believing higher for yourself, you will find yourself walking a different path than you have in the past.

When you are truly ready to leave your Trouble, you will find yourself standing—refusing to sit and rest—in your troubled state of being, any longer.

“Faith without works, is dead.” and “ . . . By works was faith made perfect.” (James 2:20,22), are two of the most profound statements in scripture because they address our natural human tendency to want to watch God do it all for us. While most of us have come to realize that every change we desire for our lives must be orchestrated by the hand of God, we also need to understand that unless we are moving our-selves into a position to be blessed—praying/moving/ listening and aligning ourselves with spirit, along with, and in anticipation of, God’s moving—nothing much will happen for us in this realm.

Are You Living As Your Highest Self?

If you have ever wondered if you are where you are supposed to be, doing what you’re supposed to be doing, I think those are nice questions to ponder . . . when you have time. The problem with those questions, though, is that there’s no way to ever know if you’ve arrived at the real answer to them. Some people believe that no matter what your life looks like, you are exactly where you are supposed to be and that your life, just as it is, is how it is fated to be. Others seem to believe that God expects us to co-create our lives as we go along—a much more inspiring notion, I think, that leaves room for free will, hope, faith, creativity, motiva-tion, and vision to be integral parts of our lives.

So, which is it?

Well . . . as mundane and uncreative as the first theory seems, that’s the theory that many of us subscribe to, by default. We view our lives as if they were already carved in stone (even though our Creator is still moving in our lives), and governed totally by outside forces that are already done with us. Spiritless traditions and other notions, as they have been interpreted by others and imposed upon us, are the margins we’ve come to observe and live within, unquestioningly. Like the spaces between the lines that rule a grammar-school writing tablet, we squeeze ourselves into a predefined state of being and try our very best not to make any stray marks. 

Perhaps, instead of asking questions like . . . “Are we where we’re supposed to be?” and “Are we doing what we should be doing?” . . . we should begin to ask ourselves different questions like—

“Am I at peace with my life . . . and how it’s going?” 

“And, am I at peace with myself about how I walk out my days?”

“Am I living by faith or do I live by fear?” 

“Do I believe that I could be living a life with more peace, more wisdom, more purpose, more passion, more abundance, and more joy?”

“Do I believe, as the scripture says, that God really will make my feet like hinds’ feet . . . and set me upon my High Places?”

High Places

I know a few women who live from hearts that harbor crazy-faith. They walk out lives that are somehow balanced on the pinnacle of a lived-out state of spirit. I can see God’s Spirit combed thoroughly throughout their lives in ways that are both magnificent and startling.

These women have twisted and folded their lives into profound origami that resonates with Divine Wisdom and the peculiar Light of Compassion that could only come from having walked a while through Trouble.

They have spent much concern and conversation on the tedium of loving sometimes-hard-to-love men and mothers and fathers and friends and children.

They have wrestled money to a submissive stance in their consciousness, and have come out into a wide and wealthy place.

They have found power in their own tears and laughter and songs and silent prayers and joyous-praise and love-giving.

And God peeks out, frequently, from behind their clear eyes, as they go about doing their Woman-Work.

These women live on their High Places, and they have clung to their Highest Selves, through bouts of depression, and through the loss of husbands and lovers, mothers and sisters and precious babies. They have braved broken hearts and busted visions that, like broken veins, have threatened to stop the flow of God-Breath throughout their lives. They have ridden portentous waves of empty promises and torn relationships, hard commitments and hammered duties. They’ve known sick-swollen wombs and cancered breasts. They’ve waded through lakes of tearlessness, seas of abysmal sadness, and oceans of moments when there was not anything to say. And yet, I heard you Dr. Angelou . . . and still they rose! Against and beyond all logic they permeated the struggles and morphed themselves into pink and purple tulips that broke new frozen ground and created new species of themselves. Reaching beyond their own dead cells of reason, they regenerated themselves and heralded a new season of their own being.

These women have shown me that there is something about woman that can spawn . . . herself . . . give birth to herself . . . to raise herself . . . to be herself . . . to un-delineate herself . . . to re-dream herself . . . to then re-be herself.

They’ve shown me that the passionate potential of a woman to overcome anything, and everything, is truly awesome!

Do You Realize That God Created Us Just As We Are, On Purpose?

Each of us has experienced dastardly low points and exhilarating high points in our lives. And, we have each been like travelers, visiting our low places and high places, and journeying those expanses in between.

Each step we have taken has been significant. 

Each fear—significant. 

Each love—significant.

Each devastation—significant.

Each trial—significant.

Each failure—significant.

Each triumph—significant. 

Each of our past joys and triumphs, loves and passions, has served to strengthen us and stabilize us, even in the present. But our past fears, our failures, our lacks of cour-age, our angers and unforgivenesses have created wounds inside us that hold enough power, still, to taint our thoughts, about ourselves and our lives, and trip us into believing that our lives can’t get any better.

The pursuit of a truly better life involves truly better believing. We have to open ourselves to a level of thinking that delves deeper into our spiritual notions of who and what we are: We are creations of God . . . and nothing has happened to us that God doesn’t know about.

None of our experiences have been mistakes—they have all been crucial chapters of our legend.

And nothing has happened to us that could dismantle our God-given birthright to be amazing spirit-creatures with all the power we need to leave our Trouble for our High Places.

Our transformation from troubled-Self to High Places-Self begins with our re-evaluation of our notions about God. Everything we believe about ourselves is determined by what we believe about God, who we think God is, and what we think God feels toward us. In the womanspace, what we feel about ourselves and what we believe God feels about us are one and the same thing. It is imperative that we see that our connection to God doesn’t depend on what we do or don’t do; but more, it exists as an unchangeable, benevolent energy that we cannot end or mutilate or affect, except in our own minds. God’s love for us is out of our control! This essential life-blood connection is not subject to our whims, fears, doubts, or neurosis! Nor does it depend upon our ability to be good girls, as we have, in whatever way, defined that notion.