Living the Good Life

This last Sunday I spoke about "good working on our behalf, knowing exactly what we need when we need it".  How do we put that into daily practice?  Yesterday while taking a nap in the afternoon, I was awakened to the sound of something falling in the house, I run downstairs to find that someone was breaking in the kitchen window.  I yelled out "HELLO" - don't ask me why, I don't know.  They ran away before I could get to the window to see them.   In that moment I was angry, relieved that they didn't get in, afraid, sad and wanted to get even.  I called the police to have a record of it, I called my honey to let him know what had happened, and then I called a life-line friend.  I asked that friend to hold the good not only for me, but for the folks who tried to break into our home.  

Now I could talk about the many things wrong with our culture today, or I could talk about "God being the only power in my life".  Once my honey got home I went to the Home Depot to get the items to keep the rain out, and secure the house.  While there I had a wave of sadness come over me.  Yet in the midst of that sadness I heard these words ringing in my heart and head, "GOD IS THE ONLY POWER IN MY LIFE, Situations have no power over me, personalities have no power over me!".  I did allow myself to have a good cry there in the Home Depot.  Then I realized "I take dominion in my life", and started calling in that which I know to be true.  I gave thanks that I was home to deter the event from going forward and that no one was hurt. I began doing my "Ho'oponopono work" where I ask for forgiveness from the divine for anything that I need to heal within myself.  What in me can be healed that will allowing healing in the ONE MIND?  Today I know that there is only one mind, one life and that is the life of God. 

I also know today that I get to choose how this affects me.  So often in life we become so used to living in the "victim" role that it is very natural for us to go to that space, yet when I remember that God is the only power in my life and at any time I can take dominion and choose how I want to experience this, it is truly "all good".  Now I am not suggesting that I have been doing cart wheels in the kitchen over the broken window, yet I have taken the time to give thanks for all the good in my life.  I know today that that which I focus on increases.  Why then would I choose to focus on this one minor blip in the day of BLESSINGS?  

At this NOW moment I am realizing that this was only 10 minutes out of 1440 yesterday. Can I just say I want to give thanks for all the GOOD!

I love you 

Rev. Allen 

Thanksgiving

I have always loved Thanksgiving for many reasons, one of which it is a time 
where celebrating "Giving" comes from a personal space.  It is not so focused on 
gifts exchange but more about sharing what we have right now.  It is a time for 
us to recall all the things we are "Thankful" for.  This is a great time of the 
year here in the Northwest as winter shows up in it's splendor; snow capped 
mountains, a clean-clear chill in the air, and this year's abundance of snow.  I 
remember when I was a child, I loved the rare South Georgia winters where we 
would get snow and didn't have to go to school.  Funny how things change as we 
age, isn't it? With all the snow, it brought about so many shifts in folks 
travel plans, as well as day to day life.  I love how as a child we see 
adventure in everything, yet as an adult we look on it so very differently; why 
is that?  


Yesterday when I was sharing a treatment with a friend I became very grateful 
for the abundance of snow as it reminded me that "Source" is ready at any time 
to give me all that I can ask for an more. Yet most often I allow something to 
separate me from that abundance.  It may be a lack of mentality or some old 
belief that says I am not good enough, or worthy of it.  Yet the abundance is 
still there waiting for me to pick it up.  Let's think for a moment that snow 
represented the thing you are looking for in your life at this moment.  Would 
you rush out side giving thanks for the abundance and scoop up as much as you 
could; would you think it is going to melt and go away as everything thing else 
does in life, or perhaps stay inside and say it is to cold to go outside?


So many times we choose to cut ourselves off from the thing we are for the most; 
be it Love, Abundance, Happiness, or Joy for one reason or another.  This is the 
perfect time to look around and see where you have abundance in your life and 
share that with others.  Let go of what others think of you and just dance as if 
no one is looking. Just close your eyes where you are right now put on your 
favorite music, and DANCE.  Get you body moving and allow the freedom to allow 
you to laugh out loud at yourself.  Take the time to tell someone that you love 
why you love them, and why you are thankful they are in your life.  You never 
know how much your words can BLESS someone else's life.  If you are here in the 
Northwest go outside and play in the snow like you did when you were a child and 
give thanks for the abundance and the reminder that it is always present and all 
we have to do it pick it up.  


LIVE, LOVE, PLAY and be THANKFUL for all that you have and watch it increase. 


I love you
Rev. Allen 

Sit Up Straight And Eat Your Vegetables!

“I am the Body Temple of the Divine!”  How does that feel when I say it aloud? 

This past week a group of us went to see the movie "Forks Over Knives"; a great presentation about plant strong eating.  After that outing I was speaking with one of the members of Amor and stated we should start a small group that meets once a month to share food ideas and eat together. "AND SO IT IS"!  Talk about manifestation and quickly; within 24 hours it was so.  I love when our community LOVES the greater good in all.  

I had the pleasure of choosing parents, and being "raised" in southern Georgia.  The beauty of this is my parents were those parents who always made sure we had great food on the table.  My mama, as I see it, is the best cook in the world.  I love the fact that she never made us eat anything we didn't like; funny how we ate almost everything she put in front of us.  I love that we had fruit and vegetables all the time and not only did we eat them, we grew them as well.  In looking back I learned at an early age that that which I plant, I manifest.  Literally!  I realized after the movie just how much my eating habits could use some adjustment, and that eating a plant strong diet would be a great idea.  I am so pleased to be a part of the newly formed group "Conscious Eating" on Facebook.  It allows us to share our successes, menu items, grocery lists, and keep each other motivated.  Today I made a "mama meal" of stewed cabbage and caramelized squash and onions.  YUMMY!!!!  

I was referred to a chiropractor this past week, and as part of the routine they did thermal imaging and an x-ray. Upon review of the both they found my spin to be out of alignment.  I could really feel that I was out of alignment as well; you know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and the small of your back feels tight…, yeah that feeling.  I was able to see on the x-rays that my head was tilted forward.  This is the good part.  The doctor told me that for every inch forward I was putting an 10 extra pounds of pressure on my spine, therefore the pressure on my neck felt like 30 pounds rather than 10.  He suggested that I pay attention to my posture.  "Sit up straight, and pull my shoulders back".  

I love how Spirit uses the most ordinary things to drive home an example in my mind.  When I am out of alignment with Spirit I feel it also.  How many times in my spiritual life have I placed extra weight on myself spiritually, knowing a simple adjustment would put me on the path to spiritual alignment?  The doctor told me it would take a few weeks to get my spin back into alignment.  How often, once I find myself out of spiritual alignment do I want to do 10 minutes of "OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM” and think that will make things all better, or better yet meditate one day a week and expect it to keep myself spiritually in tune? 

Posture changes and spiritual changes require us to shift physically and spiritually.  We begin by feeling our way back into alignment and once there, daily practice will help keep us in alignment with the Divine.  And, if we need an adjustment, it will most likely come to us easily and effortlessly. 

This week spend some time looking at your posture, spiritual and physically; I found out this week they are one and the same.  

I love you 

Rev.Allen

Contrast What Does It Mean?

I was speaking with a friend this week, and in that conversation we spoke about the things that are coming up in our lives.  What does this mean, and why is it here?  You know those things that cause you to think and feel something; the things that cause you to have a difference of opinions from someone else, or the bonding moment when you find someone who feels the same about a subject as you do. 

As I sat listening to my friend this thought come to me, "Isn't this what we have been treating for in our lives?"  Have we not been asking for a space of clarity  on this subject matter?  And, with the "contrast" does it not give us a clearer understanding of what we want and where we are heading?  That thought connected to the thought:  How many times in my life has something showed up I perceive as a challenge, only to have it transform the way I look at something I have been working on in a new light?  A light that opens up the door in a new direction, and thus creating a new path.  

How many times have I asked for love in my life, only to find the area within myself  that I didn't love?  I love this quote "I am the love I'm looking for".  Yet for the longest time I would look at myself in the mirror and say things to myself that did not represent love in the least.  "Ah ha" in order to draw "Love" in I have to be a vibrational match to that which I am asking for!   I was in the words of the song "looking for love in all the wrong places, looking for love in too many faces."  The love I was looking for was looking at me in the mirror all along.  

How often have I chosen to look for someone or something to give me what I think is missing in my life, only to recognize that no one can give me anything that I don't feel I am worth. That contrast along the way helped me see myself for who I really am; that which I came here to be, LOVE.

That contrast helped me find the launching pad for Self Love, knowing that "that which I give out returns to me multiplied."  

With that in mind today I look at "contrast" with gratitude knowing it to be he beginning of the manifestation process I need to allow in that which I have asked for.

I love you 

Allen

What Is The Lesson?

How many times have I heard myself say"I wish I could take this from you"?

How often do I take on others work in order for their life, or mine, to be "better"?

Who actually gets to decide what is better?

One of the greatest lessons I am learning in life is that my work is my work. Someone else can do it for me, in hopes that I won't have to.  Yet in the end the lesson is my lesson and I have to do the work.  As I take these courses of higher learning there has been the desire to audit this or that class in order to get to the higher level.  Yet I find myself enrolled in the classes that are mine to attend. Far too often I have been so attached to the cause rather than the lesson. I often miss the core reason for the class in the beginning.  I found this passage in "The Dream Book" by Bethards this morning and the following passages really spoke to me.  

"Life is school; we are here only to learn and grow.  We are taught by all people and all situations.  Be enthusiastic; we are going to go through it anyway.  Lessons never change until you learn them, so might as well get in and work through them NOW".  

How often I have asked myself what the heck is going on and have I not already taken this class before? Don't I have the degree to  prove it? How easy it is to be so caught up in anger, fear, bitterness, revenge, and hurt, to miss the lesson.  Love, I find is the answer to the questions in life.  Will revenge in this situation change what happened?  Will bitterness help me sleep any better at night?  Will anger help me to release all this energy I have tied up inside and pick up the goodness that is always around me at any given point?  In those times I have acted out on the need to be angry, bitter, or take revenge did it make me feel any better?  If so, is that what I want to send out into the world knowing that whatever I send out comes back to me?

I was talking with a friend this week about playing "God" and so often I have decide that what I want can't happen so I choose not to even try and call it in.  Let us step for a moment into our "history class" of all those things we have called in. What have we called in that didn't happen, and how many times when we did our work, did  we find the thing we were asking for all along?  Yet we keep postponing the lesson in hopes it will go away.  I don't know about your history, but I find that by the time it circles around again it has picked up momentum and the lesson is even LARGER. 

Be enthusiastic, we never get it all done, we might as well enjoy the ride. 

I love you 

Allen






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What's In My Toolbox?

I've always been one of those "folks" that likes to tinker with things around the house.  There is the feeling you get when you know you have the right tool for the job, it's this "ah, I know how to do this", or "I got this".  

This thought started me thinking. What is in my spiritual toolbox, ( know you all saw that coming, right)?

BUT, really, what do I have in my spiritual toolbox?

Meditation

Affirmations

Visioning

Conscious Choice Group

Mind Treatment 

Prayer

Reiki

Self Help Books

Journal Writing 

Practitioner

Minister

Gratitude

Appreciation

These are just a few of the many things I can find at my finger tips.

The next question will be in what shape are my tools.  Do I care for them and keep them clean, ready to use and always close at hand. Or do I have to ask where did I put that Journal. What are the questions I'm to ask myself when Visioning?  I find that when I do Energy work on a daily basis it changes my life.  So does eating ICE CREAM, and yet I choose to make eating ice cream so much more fun.  Why is that?  What is the thought behind, underneath, and around, myself and how I care for myself?  Rather than choosing to go into beat up, I'm learning to pick up a tool from my toolbox, dust it off if needed and get going.   I realize today I can choose ice cream, and yet there is not that external pleasure in saying I didn't know what else to do.  Today I know that I have a choice and no matter which I choose I am responsible and all is well. 

Where am I going with all of this, in this NOW moment?  Check to see what you have in your toolbox, how's it working for you?  Some tools may need replacing, while others may be the perfect fit.

In any case PRACTICE makes tinkering and Spiritual work so much more fun.

I love you 

Namaste

Allen

The gesture Namaste represents the belief that there is a Divine spark within each of us that is located in the heart chakra. The gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another. "Nama" means bow, "as" means I, and "te" means you. Therefore, Namaste literally means "bow me you" or "I bow to you."

What Are You Holding?

In Meditation the other day this was the thought that came to mind.  

What are you holding, and what is the unwillingness to pick up the joy of the moment?

First of all I know today through my work with Ho’oponopono that whatever comes to me is mine to heal, clean and clear.  I was speaking with a friend the other day about feelings and friendship.  I know as we make our way in any relationship we bump up against ourselves from time to time.  I often make the joke that I get along with my family beautifully because we live on different coasts.  My truth today is that I know when someone brings something to me and asks for treatment or energy work I give thanks for the opportunity to heal that within myself, knowing that once it is cleared in the mind of one it is clear in the mind of the whole.  ONE MIND.

So I meditated on friendship and what kind of friend am I?  

I have had the honor over the last year to bump up against a couple of my closest friends and I know in the past I might have handled it a different way.  In the ones that  are coming to mind I sat and talked with them and shared what was coming up for me and that I needed time to process.  It was my intention to resolve this and continue on in the friendships knowing that this was growth and taking us to a new level of love and understanding with each other.  I still needed time to work this out.  I continued to show up and love and after a few months I realized that the friendship was more loving than ever.  We had made it through and our friendship was transformed.   On a road trip recently I looked over at this one friend and stated I love who we are and that we were willing to stand in the friendship and let go of the past anger to get to the JOY of today.  

A few days later I received a call from a friend who wanted to ask some questions about our friendship, and asked me some pointed questions.  I love the opportunity to look at myself and who I am so I took this on with deep feelings.  After sometime I realized that we had brushed up against something as well and that I had pulled back to look at who I was in the friendship and what my expectations where.  This time of pulling back had really hurt my friend.  I also took the time to look at where we were today, and I was so very happy to have this friend in my life and the love and light they give.  I realized that they had been hurt in the process and that was never my intention, yet I needed to honor my need to look at my part in all of this.  

It was in that moment that I realized how many times I have held on to past hurt and missed the JOY of the present moment.    I had Chosen to stay in the hurt rather than remember why I loved you in the first place and why I love at all.  Am I loving you for what you give me or am I loving you because I recognize the divine in you?  In the clearing and cleaning process have I really laid down the past and picked up the present of the NOW moment?  If not, did that have anything to do with my friend or everything to do with my thought process?  And, knowing how the law works, was I not just inviting more of the same hurt in?

Today I recognize that we all have our journey to take, and how much I love walking with my friends.  I also know that the relationship I have with myself is most important and that I am responsible for my happiness, and love.  Placing this on someone else is placing that outside of the divine in me as me.  I also realized that I am a great friend and I am willing to stand for friendship, love, and in order to do that I have to love who I see in the mirror.  

At that moment I realized the joy of living in the NOW!!!!  For NOW is all we really have.

I love you Allen

"Your Full Of It"

How many times have I heard that in my life and had a negative thought around it.  

Today in meditation that thought came to me in a new way, what am I full of?  

There is a symbol that came to me during a visioning session a few month ago, it reminds me today that when my arms are full of (fear, lack, limitation, less than) it can appear difficult to lay that down, and pick up the good that surrounds me.  What am I full of?  

I realized that, loving, giving service, and spending quality time with others fills me up with such goodness.  I am so excited about Amor Spiritual Center as it opens the doors for me to do the things I love doing the most, Loving others.  I am reminded today that in order to give love that I need to be "full of it".  

So today I ask you to hold your hands up over your head in the shape of a "U" and see your body as a great funnel and fill yourself with Love, Light, Goodness, Joy, Kindness, and Abundance, and the next time you hear someone say "your full of it"  

say Thank you "I am".

I love you

Rev. Allen

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