universal expansion

things are moving. shifting. transforming. a lot of people are scared, fearful. others are hopeful, optimistic. i'm one of the latter. i see and feel energy and the interconnectedness of things in a deeper and deeper way each day. and it ballasts my capacity to find my own center, my own little place in the larger pattern of it all. where i fit in. how beautiful and perfect it all is. sometimes. or rather, it's there always, and i sense or perceive it sometimes. when i open.

so i open more and more. to wonder and beauty. to abundance. to light and love. to compassion. to healing. which brings us back to transformation.

to me, the crucial work ahead is less about external reality and more about inner work. undoing judgment, on all levels. unraveling oppression and old stories of good and bad. transforming hurt, through the alchemy of compassion, into strength and wisdom. and further compassion. for all that is.

a quote:

"If you knew everything was really all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. EVERYTHING is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right." -the Nonphysical entity Abraham, speaking through Esther Hicks

whew

asher is challenging me to believe this more and more and more every day.

i often think of my role in his life as someone who's been on earth longer is to show him what i've learned about the world, about how to be safe, not fall down the stairs, how to watch the trees swaying in the wind, communicate with me about when he's hungry or wants me to read a book, how to DO so many things that take us through the day-to-day. and i certainly also make a focus of showing him my joys and my inspirations and love to share with him when he takes a special interest in some crumb he picks up and carries around. and i'm coming to realize that i feel SO much better when my focus is less on showing him the world and more on letting him show me myself. he shows me everyday where i get stuck, what my hang-ups are, where i can love myself more fully. when i get frustrated in my caring for him, there's always the opportunity for a breakthrough and release of some story that's holding me back from a fuller experience of joy. he's my shaman. and he came into my life to help me expand and grow and live in the light.

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the agenda

there's always an agenda, isn't there?
there's always something we're working on or moving towards
or an outcome we're expecting or hoping for
there's always a strategic focus
there's always a paradigm under which we're functioning

so what is it?

often we're answering the question of how fill our days starting with "well, we'll need to provide for our food" and "we'll need a place to sleep" and "we'll need to be 'productive' today"
we consider the projected future needs of our physical manifestations
and maintaining the status quo

but, zooming out for a minute, and considering our lives on a grander scheme
on a longer timeline
as part of a whole
what considerations do we want to have when answering the question of how we fill our days?

what about "i aspire to be happy" or "my focus is to maintain and nourish connections to god" or "my work is to be inspired and inspire others around us" or "how will we contribute to global spiritual evolution today"?

how would we live if those were the FIRST priority?

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+ long exposure
+ beautiful patterns everywhere
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