‘The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.  Alan Cohen

Open Up!

We are here to give love, aren’t we? Deep down, we know that beyond all of our individual gifts and talents, we are here to be a lover…a lover of God, and a lover of every brother and sister on the planet. Our natural impulse is to love…and when we do, we feel happy. Every loving thought has the power to open the heart’s door. Each loving action opens it even more.

Isn’t it time to open wide the floodgates of our hearts. Why not? The more love that gushes from us, the more we will receive. It’s the law. It must be so.

It is also evident from our day-to-day experience that every judgment we have has the power to shut the door on love. When we judge, we contract…we tighten up…we separate. It doesn’t matter whether the issue is big or small. Even the slightest annoyance at another shuts the door tight.

I think that recognizing the negative price we pay for our unloving thoughts is motivation enough to forgive them and let them go. Don’t you?

How do we let go? We turn within, and with the sincerity of a lover of Spirit, we go to that safe and loving place where we can release any and all pain and suffering that is blocking the door to Love. Now, with pure hearted intention and willingness we ask and the barrier is lifted. The door opens and there is the LOVE.

In that moment of letting go, the floodgates automatically open and we remember that we are Love. And we know that in the Oneness, giving and receiving are the same. All there is, is Love.

Knock, knock.

Who’s there?

LOVE.

LOVE Who?

LOVE YOU!!

Affirmation: Today my ‘love door’ is wide open. I am a giver and receiver of Spirit’s Infinite Love.  Every moment is a blessing.

Unconditional Love has no age and no limits.

Holiday Gifts (below) is my latest contribution to Agape’s Inner Visions.
This is my holiday card to you.

“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own
happiness.”
Esther Hicks

HOLIDAY GIFTS

There is a gift you can give this holiday season that will save you time
and money and be most appreciated by those who receive it. You can be so generous as to include all of your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors…even your enemies on your holiday gift list. Even if you don’t give gifts at this time of year, you can try it anyway…for no reason other than that you are happy.

Your happiness is contagious. As you express it, it spreads. Your bright smile, your good attitude, your happy thoughts all assist the recipients of your gift in finding that happy place within themselves. And, of course, since giving and receiving are the same, you will feel your own happiness increase by leaps and bounds.

Let’s get happy so we can spread the joy. All we need do is turn within. That simple act of going to Spirit for a moment reveals the joyous state of being that is already present. It is who we are. In that moment we choose Joy from the menu of God given qualities and just bring our awareness to it with intentionality and love. We capture the joy of the moment, communing with Spirit. And, like filling our tank with the energy of joy and happiness, we cruise through our day on a full tank. We share and laugh and shine light everywhere we go and folks around us feel like they have received an unexpected gift of great value.

Affirmation:
“Today I unleash my God given happiness as my gift to the world.”

Wishing you Richest Blessings as we close out another year of our
precious lives and begin again.

Much love,
Marsha

P.S. I am thinking of doing some video interviews and groups in 2015.  If you are in southern California and would like to participate, please let me know. I see it as a wonderful opportunity for us to learn and grow together. We get to explore aging by leaning into Spirit’s guidance. And we get to do it in community. Now to me, that’s exciting!

I will also be doing a workshop at Agape in March. Details to follow.

Late Autumn

I live in southern California where autumn is barely a blip on the weather forecaster’s screen. So when I visited New York a week ago I found myself totally spellbound by Mother Nature’s fall outfit…extravagant in all of her autumn splendor.

A long drive out to the far tip of Long Island revealed an endless panorama of fall colors, singing out noisily in the breeze. Every shade of red, yellow, gold, rust, brown singing and swaying together like a gospel choir on Sunday morning.

They were not asking to be praised, but by the very nature of this moment in their life cycle, these magnificent maples and oaks were singing the praises of the beauty that is late autumn. As I looked out the car window, I felt the trees singing to me…and what I heard was a hymn to aging.

 Now, here we are in the autumn of our lives. Do we want to fight back against the inevitable, only to feel the ravages of the war on aging beat us up? Or, can we find a way to embrace the exquisite beauty of our age?

Do we have the courage to come out to ourselves and let go of the cultural pressures to look and behave young?

What can we expect from life if we find a way to just be ourselves?

I am thinking that this Thanksgiving offers us a perfect opportunity to begin a process of loving, self-acceptance and gratitude for all that we are. And I mean All that we are, and all that we are.

So, first and foremost, we are a part of the All, the Infinite, the quantum field. The Allness of God is right where we are, always. Now that is something to be thankful for! Just in the remembrance of our Spiritual truth, we can dive deep into the well of Gratitude where we will find our Love and Peace and Joy.

The more challenging part of this process is accepting and loving the all of the ego. The part that judges and evaluates, listens to the critical voices that berate the lovely, handsome, beautiful person in the mirror.

This is the part of the process where we intentionally turn away from those voices. We refuse to give them power. Instead, we give ourselves messages of love from the place in us that is Love.

We practice turning away from the societal messages of aging and we deliberately turning toward the place in us that is already loving and kind. We lean into our own Intelligence for answers to that, which feels challenging.

Then there is the all that we have been and done…our lifeline.

At this point in our lives, we have had countless (as in a gazillion) experiences; good, hard, happy, sad … life lessons that have shaped our body mind and spirit. Let’s take time to remember all we have done and learned.

We recall how some of the most challenging situations that seemed too tragic or impossible at the time, later became understood in the bigger picture of what was to unfold.

And then we recall our major life milestones… the events that bring up feelings of love, accomplishment and joy. It may be surprising how many there are. Remember, smile and be thankful.

Noticing what we have to be thankful for is a very powerful process. Getting in the habit of seeing the world through thankful eyes is actually quite revolutionary. It will make your vibration soar! And as we take flight on the wings of Gratitude, we find that those old worries, fears and negative thoughts seem so small and insignificant. Eventually we will live in the rarified atmosphere of the Most High and won’t even remember the fuss about aging. We will know that we are eternal, Spiritual beings, having a human experience, in which everything is happening for our good!

 Happy Thanksgiving

Xo

Marsha