Let LOVE, love me

So I can love myself

Love myself so I can love others

Receiving LOVE shows me HOW to love

Now I am creating a LIFE WORTH LIVING!

The cycle of giving and receiving LOVE
is a practice in daily life!

LOVE: So, what’s going on with you?

Me: I am fed up with people making mistakes!

LOVE: Mary, what do you expect to flow from the first mistake but a series of
mistakes? When people make mistakes it stings you, because the thorn hidden in
your flesh is that you are a failure, you are a mistake.

At this moment, the “secure” safe I keep inside of me that holds
unhelpful hidden beliefs and shame, that safe was unlocked.

I can no longer hide from LOVE’s knowing, LOVE’s desire to help and heal.
LOVE hit the nail on the head excavating a deep-rooted, yet
just beneath the surface of my awareness mistaken belief I hold about myself.

Me: Well, I feel that! This is the thorn in my flesh ~ that I am a failure. I’ve tried
removing this thorn on my own many times. I’ve tried everything to get rid of this
thorn!

LOVE: This is my job. Only truth can heal error. Let Me forgive you.

Me: You don’t want to forgive me.

LOVE: I am not forgiving you for being a failure. That is just another error in your
thinking. There is no truth in it. I am forgiving you because you think you are a
failure, not because you have in any way failed. It is in your accepting my forgiveness
that this thorn in your flesh will be removed.

Me: I do. I accept your forgiveness of my mistaken belief that I am a failure.

LOVE: No amount of “achievements” as you so call them in your world, could begin
to remedy one’s crucial need to accept LOVE’s forgiveness, to let LOVE forgive you
for all of those untrue~unloving beliefs about yourself. Be free of them.

Me: I find that I am willing to accept LOVE’s forgiveness. To lay this false belief and
judgment of who I am at the feet of LOVE. Maybe for the first time in my life, I
experienced This LOVE truly lifting my mistakes off of me, and I let LOVE see the
truth about me, which is that I am Pure LOVE, nothing less, nothing more.

I Pause, Step Back from the lies I believe about myself, Step Aside to welcome LOVE,
and truly accept forgiveness ~ receiving the truth about what LOVE says about me. I
will need to continue pausing to remember the truth of who I am and that LOVE IS
TRUTH. Such is why we are called to LOVE. In this practice, burdens~untruth are
lifted and only Peace remains.

What are the thorns in your flesh that you unknowingly treasure,
believe, and to which you are tethered?
Pause, and receive LOVE’s forgiveness for these mistaken beliefs.

LOVE’s forgiveness AND your accepting AND truly receiving
this forgiveness removes the thorns in your flesh.
Let them be removed.

Even in darkness, trusting This LOVE is with us, letting
This LOVE love us, will help us always and all ways.

LOOK at 3 ways to be spontaneous . . .

EXERCISE

Me: I need to exercise but don’t feel like it.
Inspiration: Mary, exercise doesn’t have to look like you think it does.
Spontaneity: I stepped outside in the evening sun and gentle breezes to enjoy
Qigong followed by asking John to join me on a walk as the sun was setting. The
following morning I played on the mini-trampoline for 20′ to begin my day.

WORK

Me: I received an email response from an educator asking several questions
that I, as an occupational therapist, had no clue how to answer. I felt
incompetent.
Inspiration: Mary, work doesn’t have to look the way you think it has to look.
Spontaneity: I walked away from the email rather than forcing a quick
response to get it done. I gave myself a pause and was later moved to respond.
I took one question at a time, followed Inspiration without judging what was
coming forward, and didn’t even notice I was sitting at a computer. Creativity
streamed out. Now, instead of beating myself up, I am enthusiastic about
possibilities.

HEALTH

Me: I hate aging! I am anxious about my body seemingly falling apart. I thought
I was taking care of myself. What more can I do?
Inspiration: Mary, if you keep this up you’re never going to be happy. Your
judgment of yourself and others is causing distress and is not a good use of the
Mind I gave you. That my dear is not what I want for you.
Spontaneity: In a pause I claim, I am not going to rely on my body which is
always changing, to feel Peace of Mind. I lean into LOVE. I have confidence in
LOVE’s plan for my life. I lay my body down at the feet of LOVE. I listen to LOVE
about what being healthy is for me now. I am willing to receive Inspiration about
how to care for my body by listening to inner Wisdom. “Peace I give you”, and so
I shall receive.

I follow Inspired Spontaneity

Within each of us, there lays a LOVE.
A LOVE without vengeance.
A LOVE within while still above.
Not above as we think, in space and time,
Not above and out of reach
unable to be mine.

This LOVE supersedes all my tiny thoughts.
My thoughts I think I know, I think I believe, and I effort to show.

If only you would pause with me, beckons This LOVE,
for then your heart would be on the mend,
and you would recognize that
I am not your enemy, I am your Real Friend.

I seek not to destroy you
not to dismay your heart,
I desire only that you release all your many parts.

You think you must do this, do that, and be even more,
yet unlike you, I am not asking you to even any score.
I am not counting up your duties and things
you’ve left undone.
I am only kneeling here before you
asking you to come.

Come as you are whether torn, lost, or glowing.
Inevitably you will find all my Love for you freely flowing.

When you think you’ve had enough
and this world is weighing your body down,
Pause in My LOVE, and let your Loving Self be found.

The choice for LOVE is always yours.
LOVE is motioning you to choose.
And you can be certain,
you have nothing to lose.

In The Pause,

Mary

Have you ever opened into an experience of total freedom? A lapse in time
and space in which
suddenly everything is New?

Driving down Forsyth on my way home, I remember listening to a tune on the
radio one moment then merging into a Wave of Newness in which everything
within my vision became more than its form. I saw the shapes, faces, and
colors, except now the Whole was more than the sum of it’s parts.

Two young college-aged men waiting to cross the street caught my eye
and now their playful laughter also belonged to me, we belonged to
each other.
There was no difference between us, no division in the space we shared,
no time to keep watch over.

I found a Wave that I had never surfed before, never surfed at all.
This Ultimate Wave lifted me out of an ordinary day, a repetitive mindset.

What was once a long-lost memory became a
Wave of Wonder.

I had been feeling down for a few days when this happened, but staying open
to what the Pause motions us to ask,

“Is there Another Way to see this?”

and

“What would be truly helpful now?”

Sharing by Mary

Then, I noticed that I had switched gears from sailing along to being stuck in
things
not going my way.
So, I Paused, Stepped Back from my impatience, listened to the Quiet
Wisdom Within, was guided to help him instead of judging him, and
answered his question that his coworker had not responded to, but I knew
the answer. Looking at one another we both laughed.

Do you ever feel divided?

Across The Bright