To all who see this, I wish you a joyful and safe celebration on New Year's Eve and new year in 2011 filled with Light, Love, and Peaceful Hearts.
Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
"If you do nothing else this year......evolve." ~Lily Tomlin
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Written on Christmas Eve 1513
Greetings Friends and Family,
This is one of my favorite pieces of writing…. Each year at Christmas I pull it out to savor again. I hope you find it meaningful too.
I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see. And to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver. But we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there. The gift is there and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Your joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it; that is all! But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country home.
And so, at this time, I greet you, not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and shadows flee away.
~Fra Giovanni
Written on Christmas Eve, 1513
I am appreciating that this was written 497 years ago, but it is still completely appropriate for today.
Wishing you all the blessings of Love and Light during the season of Holi-Days, and into the New Year.
Shakura Cathryn
“We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.” ~Marie B. Ray
Monday, December 20, 2010
Holi-Days and New Year's Blessings
Greetings, Friends,
The Winter Solstice is a very special day for me – I believe it is the true beginning of the New Year. And it is also a time to welcome and honor the return of the Light….. both the return of longer days and more sunshine (especially appreciated by those of us who are on solar power), and the increase of Light in the consciousness of humankind.
I did not write the prayer below… I don’t know who did. But I find it to be a perfect expression of my wishes and hopes for us – for ALL of us humans – in the New Year.
May this New Year be one of Joy, abundance, good-will, peaceful awakenings and graceful journeys. May we have courage to look for the blessing in every moment, and the audacity to celebrate it!
May compassion reign in our hearts and kindness ring through every word. May our waking dreams be filled with joy, creativity and passionate pursuits. May our hearts and minds be joined as One; unified within, so without.
May we remember we are all Children of the Earth: kindred spirits, brothers and sisters, members of the Great family of Love.
May we choose Love over fear; unity and harmony over separation and discord. May we have the strength to claim our authentic power; standing true in Word, action and deed, and with firm resolve BE the change we wish to see in the world.
May our children see the Light of Love in our eyes. May our elders be honored for the wisdom each bears. May every Heart trust they are Divinely endowed with the birth-right to thrive,
and wake each day celebrating the Great-Full-Ness of life.
May we remember Heaven is within our Hearts, opening our eyes to the sacred in all things. May we breathe prayers of thanks into each moment, and with reverence honor the gift
this Life brings.
This is our prayer. We give thanks it is so! And so it is!
May compassion reign in our hearts and kindness ring through every word. May our waking dreams be filled with joy, creativity and passionate pursuits. May our hearts and minds be joined as One; unified within, so without.
May we remember we are all Children of the Earth: kindred spirits, brothers and sisters, members of the Great family of Love.
May we choose Love over fear; unity and harmony over separation and discord. May we have the strength to claim our authentic power; standing true in Word, action and deed, and with firm resolve BE the change we wish to see in the world.
May our children see the Light of Love in our eyes. May our elders be honored for the wisdom each bears. May every Heart trust they are Divinely endowed with the birth-right to thrive,
and wake each day celebrating the Great-Full-Ness of life.
May we remember Heaven is within our Hearts, opening our eyes to the sacred in all things. May we breathe prayers of thanks into each moment, and with reverence honor the gift
this Life brings.
This is our prayer. We give thanks it is so! And so it is!
~Author unknown.
And tonight is the lunar eclipse…. I was so hoping for a clear night for Moon watching, but it is very overcast here. I’ll have to settle for a picture of a previous eclipse:
Watching the moon at midnight,
Alone, in the middle of the sky,
I saw myself completely… whole,
No part left out.
~Words of a Dance of Universal Peace, from a poem by a 10th century Buddhist nun, Izumi Shibiku
To all of you who are my friends and family, wish you all blessings of Love and Light,
Shakura Cathryn
"Humankind is being led along an evolving course...and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are." ~Rumi - From "The Dream That Must Be Interpreted" ~p.113, The Essential Rumi
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Glee - Imagine
Thanks to my friend Sky Majida for posting a link to this on Facebook. Sky said...."this is really, really, really good: inspired, inspiring and full of heart.
I agree. It brought tears to my eyes. Love in Action.
Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one." ~John Lennon
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