Today I’m inspired by freedom and it’s many opportunities and forms.
Today my intention for freedom comes in the form of clear seeing.
I trust implicitly my willingness, whatever may enter.
“The miracle of the holy instant lies in my willingness to let it be what it is. And in my willingness for this lies also my acceptance of myself as I Am I Am meant to be.”
Today and everyday, in Praise and Inspiration I focus my mind away from the ego. I will try to think:
“I who am host to God am worth of him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not need for that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan. ”

What wonderful freedom! Hallelujah! Happy 4th of July !
I Am grateful. ????????

Once I was moved by this poem which was read to me out in a sailboat in the ocean off of an island in Main.
I fell in love.

Call of the Wild

By: Robert W. Service

Have you gazed on naked grandeur
where there’s nothing else to gaze on,
Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,
Big mountains heaved to heaven, which the
blinding sunsets blazon,
Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar?
Have you swept the visioned valley with the
green stream streaking through it,
Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost?
Have you strung your soul to silence?
then for God’s sake go and do it;
Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.

Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation,
The bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?
Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation,
And learned to know the desert’s little ways?
Have you camped upon the foothills,
have you galloped o’er the ranges,
Have you roamed the arid sun-lands through and through?
Have you chummed up with the mesa?
Do you know its moods and changes?
Then listen to the Wild — it’s calling you.

Have you known the Great White Silence,
not a snow-gemmed twig aquiver?
(Eternal truths that shame our soothing lies.)
Have you broken trail on snowshoes?
mushed your huskies up the river,
Dared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the prize?
Have you marked the map’s void spaces,
mingled with the mongrel races,
Felt the savage strength of brute in every thew?

And though grim as hell the worst is,
can you round it off with curses?
Then hearken to the Wild — it’s wanting you.
Have you suffered, starved and triumphed,
groveled down, yet grasped at glory,
Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole?
“Done things ” just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story,
Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul?
Have you seen God in His splendors,
heard the text that nature renders?
(You’ll never hear it in the family pew.)
The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things —
Then listen to the Wild — it’s calling you.

They have cradled you in custom,
they have primed you with their preaching,
They have soaked you in convention through and through;
They have put you in a showcase;
you’re a credit to their teaching —
But can’t you hear the Wild? — it’s calling you.
Let us probe the silent places,
let us seek what luck betide us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There’s a whisper on the night-wind,
there’s a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling … let us go.

Moments of awe make me stop and feel full of wonder and alertness.
I have learned to be grateful for each time I stop become aware, look with curiosity , and go for what ever opportunities present themselves!
I believe awe moments are found in our everyday lives and we don’t have to wait for the extraordinary to feel awe. In fact, quite the contrary!
I’m so very grateful for learning to fall in love with each moment over and over again unfolding before me.
Gifts of awe surprise me when I stop to take notice of the beauty all around me.
I’m inspired by the wonder of it all.

I am very grateful for the many privileges I have received. I try to use them to the best of my abilities by giving back in as many ways as I can.
Being aware and practicing compassion with loving kindness is giving back.
When we awakento our inner light and love we align ourselves with the true Source.
Right seeing and trusting our inner guidance is doing a service to our world.
Once we spread out light throughout our world it will create higher consciousness which is heaven on earth.
To know and trust in your holiness is a true gift and what an amazing privilege it is!

I’m going to focus my compassion right here around me where I can try to help most effectively and hopefully immediately.
My father and mother just arrived last night. My father is suffering from a type of Parkinson’s disease that seems to be slowly getting worse.
He had an issue last night which caused my mom to be up with him. She is exhausted by what the last few months have brought.
I got up and helped as much as I could to almost 3:00am.
My mom has been doing a lot both for me with this divorce and migraines to my dad”s illness.
My kids are also having to deal with all of what’s going on in this kind of storm which has hit our family.
My compassion goes out to everyone in my family and all families which are affected by unfortunate turns of events.
People and families suffer often from twisted turns of illness or loss.
Compassion and loving kindness are what we can bring to heal from the suffering.
I am grateful each time I rise again after the migraines and hope to help others when I’m able. I appreciate my life so much and I’m grateful family and friends who love and care for me deeply. I’m grateful for my parents who made the long journey here to help me put my life together again.
Compassion and loving kindness are true gifts.