Spring 2014

The energies are very strong right now and it's a good time to really clean house, and by house, I mean your inner temple.

 

Scour out some deeply embedded feelings of disappointment, pain, loss, unworthiness, etc. and RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE!  

 

Smell the sweet air

Feel the growth spurts

Sense the calmness and happiness

Feel the sun warming your body and spirit

Radiate out more of your true essence

Love yourself and be true to what you really want in your life

Know you are worthy of receiving

Feel the JOY and GRATITUDE

Create a conscious, clean slate, where you can live as a free, sovereign being. It’s liberating! 

Wishing you all the absolute HIGHEST AND BEST!!

Hannah Bellaff

Pastor Joel Osteen's Full Sermon on The Power of I Am - Video - @OWNTV #Lifeclass

I AM WELL!

http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/Pastor-Joel-Osteens-Full-Sermon-on-The-Power-of-I-Am-Video_1 

Your Love is a Temple

Treat it like a sacred place

 by Ramona Ticco

Heartbreak is something we're all very familiar with. It's never fun, and though we do survive it, no one is sitting around wishing for it to come along again. Yet we all look for love, lasting love, the kind that doesn't make you feel like all your insides were just shattered with a jack hammer.

Ah, if Cupid had an evil twin brother, wouldn't it all make sense - but he doesn't. So just remember in love…during love, after love ends, before love can begin again - your love is always a temple.

Ritual
Maybe you're thinking, "My love is not a building." Fair enough but here's what it means. We all carry, give and receive love all the time. Love is not just an emotion that comes out of us or our hearts or minds. Our love is its own entity, and we need to treat it and respect is as such. And we need to make certain that others have the same respect for our love.
When you enter a place of worship, whether it is a church or Jewish temple, mosque or Buddhist temple, there is often a ritual when you enter that displays your respect. Perhaps you cover your head or you put blessed water on your forehead or light a candle and say or chant a prayer or meditation. In some way, you show respect to the divine.

Every day in everything you do, you must show yourself and your love that same respect. Maybe you don't feel comfortable enough to stare off into your mirror shouting I love you to your reflection (though it works for some people!) but try not being so hard on yourself at least one day a week. You don't have to be Stuart Smalley, but you get the gist. Pay homage to yourself and your love daily.

Respect
Places of worship demand respect. Whether you take off your shoes on entering or whether you maintain a clean sanctuary, we all know the disrespect and judgment that comes from those who desecrate places of worship. You wouldn't want to see graffiti on your local church or a fire set to the Buddhist temple in your city right? So don't let others desecrate your temple. If someone enters your space and shows that they are not fit to worship there, tell them kindly that you have too much respect for yourself to put up with that. We all give people the benefit of the doubt but if you are pouring your love out to someone who is consistently disappointing you, lying to you or breaking commitments, you are allowing your temple to be desecrated. Only you can put a stop to that.

Intruders
But still heartbreak happens. Maybe we saw it coming, maybe it came out of nowhere but someone you loved and trusted, someone you let into your temple, decided to go in and break all your beautiful vases and stomp on your fresh flowers, while lighting all the candles… setting fire to all the beautiful tapestries you'd thoughtfully hung in your temple. You get the picture.

Sure sometimes relationships don't work but there is a responsible respectful way to handle things and destroying a temple is not one of them. This can be so painful. All of a sudden our beautiful sanctuary is a mess. All the things we took so much care in have been damaged. So we mourn the wreckage, we sit there in disbelief, but eventually we need to clean up the mess.

Healing
When you're ready, get in there and pick up the pieces from the broken statues and glue them back together, find ways to fill your temple again with love. Talk to friends, write about it, meditate and let yourself heal. Ask yourself for forgiveness for taking a chance and forgive the person who hurt you. It sounds hard and often times all we do want is to wish ill on the other person, but if you can truly forgive them (which doesn't mean you have to talk to them in person or let them back in your life either) you can truly move on. Once you feel everything is whole again, you can begin to allow others in again. Take care to remember your love is divine and special.

"My brain and my heart are my temples…" - Dalai Lama

Love Is Your Job

By Rev. Kylie Renner, Senior Minister at the Albuquerque

Center for Spiritual Living

It is easy to forget that our job is love. When I forget this, I’m always drawn back to a quote from the Course in Miracles that says that “absolutely everything is either an expression of love or a call to love.” Everything. So either we are able to express the love that we are, the love that we’ve come to be, or we are calling for the remembrance of that. I sometimes forget that my calls for love will be answered, and I will sometimes get angry with circumstances and situations designed to realign me with the truth of who I’ve come here to be…calling me into the remembering of love is my job. I actually tend to resist these things and in fact, I call them, “things that have gone wrong,” “people I don’t like,” and “situations that I’d rather not experience.”

I picture the job offer coming about like this: the consciousness of all-good, which is the divine knowing, put out a craigslist ad of a job opportunity that was opening up here on earth. The position coming available was for love to arrive on this planet in a way that only you could bring it. And so you saw this job description listing that included all kinds of things, such as what you would look like, what you were going to be insecure about, and all the challenges you would need to overcome. And knowing all of this, having seen this very honest job description, you decided, not in spite of it, but because of it that you were going to accept the position.

You recognized that you could be an expression of love in a unique way which had never existed before and you were willing to be just that. And so you took the job, and before you started, you got everyone you would ever know together in consciousness and planned to meet up at your new job. You all knew that you wanted to come together on this planet to support one another, to remind each other that no matter what appearances looked like, that your job was love. So you gathered together and agreed that through all of space and time, in all of the amazing places that you could have incarnated, you were going to choose here and now. So this job you have accepted is the opportunity to remember that you came here because you have a unique way to express love that needs to be present on this planet at this time.

There are millions of ways for us to express our love. In fact, everything we do can be an expression of love if we allow it to be. We must allow ourselves the space to remember that love is our job no matter what we’re doing and see what happens. Maybe we’ll be transformed just by creating the space. There is room for this love to grow in all of us, and this is one of those jobs you don’t retire from. It just keeps employing us as we become bigger and bolder and more powerful expressions of that love. We are the only ones that can do it; each of us uniquely. It’s high time we let go of all the excuses, our sense of smallness, of all the ways we think we are broken, and become that expression of love that we are and allow it to grow.