Inspirational Reflections: On Love, Life, and Your Inherent Spirituality.
Thursday, September 16, 2021
You Get To Choose
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Choice
Choice 01.13.21
Grateful and Thankful
I chose
to read
this
blog post
this
morning.
https://youarelovenow.com/2021/01/13/a-choice-of-love-2/
I
responded to it
with
this:
The
ability
to make
a choice
is such
a gift.
Sitting
in awareness
and
leaving that option
of
choice open
is
allowing yourself
the
Grace To Be.
Do I
allow myself
to be
dragged
into
negative thinking
by the
ego,
or do I
allow myself
to view
all things
through
the eyes
of the
love I am,
that we
all are.
During
the
most trying moments
when my
son
was in
the ICU
after
emergency brain surgery,
I was
consumed
by all
sorts of
negative
thoughts.
I asked
myself why?
I
meditate all the time;
why
isn't it helping
now?
At that
moment,
I chose
to seek
that
stillness
I was
so familiar with.
What
came
immediately
was this:
"Breath
in Love, Exhale Peace."
It
brought me home
to my
center,
where
Love resides.
It
calmed
my
monkey mind then.
It
sustained me
for all
the ensuing
difficult
times
of his
two year battle
with
brain cancer.
And
now,
as his
first Angelversary
approaches,
it
comes up
as a
choice to make
yet
again.
Again I
lean on the mantra
that
came
from
the stillness
that
day in the ICU.
I am
continuing
to
choose
to
anchor myself
in it:
Breath
in Love, Exhale Peace.
It
always leads me
back to
the Love
that
birthed us all.
All My Love always,
Keith
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Connection 01.09.21
Connection
01.09.21
I read a blog from a friend
called Love's Eternal Light today.
My heart was feeling very heavy.
Next week's impending
first Angelversary of my son
was hitting me very intensely.
So I did as I often do,
I took a hike.
It always seems to bring me back
to my loving center.
I was breathing in the winter's air
in the peaceful silence of the woods.
Allowing myself to go where I felt led.
So as I got to a split in the trail,
I followed my intuition
"this way!"
As I strolled along,
I noticed a Robin.
Jason's robins were with me!
That is a sign I have had
since his transition.
And not just one this day,
a flock of them.
I felt connected to him
in those first moments
of seeing them.
I saw my whole hike
unfold in my mind.
So I looped down to the main trail.
I crossed the bridge
(that has its own story of connection).
I now call it Jason's rainbow bridge.
Just after that,
another flock of robins.
A smile crosses my face
and lifts my heart higher.
As I head back,
I know I'm going to go off
the main path again and
back into the deep woods.
As I climb a ridge,
I notice Robins as I look up.
They always seem to be flying off
away from me farther down the trail.
Time after time,
when I look up,
I see this.
My heart becomes so light
with this loving sense.
This sense
that I'm hiking again with my son
as we so often did on visits.
Then I'm beaming
with the realization
that Jason knows
where I am going next!
He's guiding the Robins
to the path in front of me!
The flock is continually
flitting off before me
as I look up.
It fills my awareness,
time after time, when I look up.
Robins are everywhere before me.
This awareness gifts me;
it's washed the heaviness
from my heart.
It has left me with a confirmation
once again, that love never dies!
Thanks for hiking with me, Jason,
you made this dreary
cold winter's day
filled with the heaviness
of grief so much brighter.
Your love fills my heart
to overflowing.
My tear-filled eyes
again look up now
to see the title to
Sandy's blog message today.
"Love's Eternal Light"
thank you
for continuing
to shine it on me,
Dear Jason.
Love you, Dad.
My dear friend, Sandy,
posts daily messages.
You can read the one
my post refers to here.
https://youarelovenow.com/2021/01/09/loves-eternal-light/
All My Love Always, Keith
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Be The Light
Be The Light
Facebook brought
me this
from their Share A
Memory feature.
It is from
December 3rd, 2015.
I thought all I
was sharing
was the quote and
image.
Since all that was
all that displayed
in the Share A
Memory box.
I was pleasantly
surprised
by what I wrote back then.
It comes as a reminder
that it just may
be more relevant
in these times of
social distancing
and quarantines than it was then.
Here it is:
I sat with and an
excellent read the other day.
Then during a
discussion,
I was told to do
nearly the same thing.
Spirit is always
sending us messages.
If we but still
ourselves enough
to recognize its
presence.
You may be
thinking now:
How am I to be the
light?
Well, what
resonated with me
from that book was
this statement.
When you want to
connect to Source,
whatever your name
for it is.
Imagine a column
of light
from your heart to Source.
I envision this
beautiful
golden glowing
umbilical cord
soaring into the
heavens.
There it connects
to the Source
of the infinite,
the unconditional
love of the universe.
To the infinite,
unconditional love
of All That Is.
The other thing?
Envision yourself
standing there
with whoever you
want to help.
Hold this vision
of both of your
souls
standing there in
front of you.
Holding hands with
one another
face to face.
Envision this
golden beam of love energy
moving
energetically
back and forth
between your souls.
Communicating
whatever
it is you want to.
Be it healing,
love,
or just to support
them on a soul level.
I did that sitting
in church last
Sunday.
I knew of two
people
who required
healing energy.
I sat there and
held the connection
to infinite
unconditional love.
I saw this golden
heart sized
umbilical cord of
divine connection
going from my
heart to the heavens.
I also saw two
streams
of that golden
energy
connecting to my
friends.
Joining them at
their heart level.
Beaming in
compassion,
love, and healing
power.
It was like a
visual
silent prayer for
them.
Try being the light.
I know you'll love
this new way
to pray for
others.
All My Love Always, Keith