| Communicating with God has been integral to my life | | | | Ask and Yea Shall Receive |
| - all of my life. As a young girl I sensed a God in my | | | | Before going to sleep last night I read an excerpt |
| life although my family wasn't religious. As a young | | | | from Oriah's, "The Call," wherein she wrote each of |
| teenager I felt a certainty within myself that there | | | | us has a word we are here to embody and teach. I |
| are as many paths to God as there are men. | | | | had never heard of this but it rang true. If each of us |
| The God I have come know is the ground of billions | | | | is birthed with certain gifts to be expressed why not |
| of far flung galaxies and the ground of our very | | | | a specific word to embody and teach? |
| being. God, this Sacred Mystery, includes all of life | | | | Of course, I wanted to know mine. Was it "trust? |
| regardless of belief, religion, creed, or lack thereof. As | | | | Security? Freedom? Expression?" I know one cannot |
| the great psychoanalyst Carl Jung had inscribed upon | | | | madly dig for such answers. Again, for me, |
| his doorwary and tomb: "Called or not called, God shall | | | | communication with God is the answer. I sent off a |
| be there." | | | | little prayer asking God if it wasn't too much to just |
| I am not claiming to be a theologian or spiritual guru | | | | send "my word" along to me. |
| nor, do I want to prove I am right or anyone else | | | | As, I mentioned, I was journaling my three morning |
| wrong. I am a simple woman, writer, and speaker on | | | | pages and writing many insights about my |
| a spiritual path living as much as I can from God's will | | | | taskmaster and unworthiness dream when I was |
| for my life. | | | | gifted yet again. My 'word' hit me. "Worthy!" Just like |
| Just this morning, I felt such awe and gratitude at | | | | that. There it was. So clear. So obvious. |
| how God answers my prayers. | | | | Being the only girl and baby with two big, brothers, |
| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as | | | | five and seven years older than me, I have struggled |
| though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though | | | | all my life to prove my worth. Within, my fifteen |
| everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein | | | | years of facilitating the "Career Assessment |
| God Hears Us | | | | Program" for people in career change at our local |
| Two nights ago, before drifting off to sleep I asked | | | | college - I wanted more than anything to lead people |
| God to send me a dream clarifying what I needed to | | | | back to their worth: to their God-ness and their gifts. |
| know (about a stuck-ness within myself). I awoke | | | | Returning to God |
| screaming from a terrifying nightmare which I then | | | | Communicating with God is something I live and |
| returned to for the dream's finale when I fell back | | | | breathe as much as I humanly can. When I forget I it |
| asleep. This was not the communicating with God | | | | is not too long before my small, still voice within calls |
| chat I had in mind. However, after two days of | | | | me back home. Come with me now, dear reader. |
| 'being' with my dream, journaling many insights about | | | | Stop. Take a deep breath and on the out breath |
| it, and feeling the 'ping' in my soul of truths sinking | | | | repeat, 'I calm myself." Do this three times and, just |
| home I felt deep gratitude. | | | | at the end of the out breath - just before the next |
| Through being with this nightmare I saw the driven | | | | in breath comes of its own accord notice the still |
| taskmaster within me was the fear-driven, flip side of | | | | space. God is here. In this still, space, always, awaiting |
| the deep unworthiness that has haunted me since | | | | our return. |
| childhood (despite professional success). All had | | | | Can you take time to sit and be still each day? |
| surfaced from the deeps for yet more healing and | | | | Communicating with God springs from this still place |
| light. As I journalled these insights within the three | | | | within although I see God speaking to us in a myriad |
| morning pages I write each day before I do anything | | | | of ways. "The Kingdom of God is within you," my |
| else (thanks to Julia Cameron's idea in The Artist's | | | | friend if you'll but take the time and listen. |
| Way) I was gifted yet again. | | | | |