To everyone of 'you', Thank You for being in my life. It's that simple and that complex. I want to keep it this way. This way I see more clearly and don't miss all the beauty in you and all around me.
The order of my thankfulness
1. To God 2. because He gave me 'you'
So with this simple/complex perspective, now I can be thankful for the bounty because the bounty is not the focus.
Love always Tere
hisheartmyheart@gmail.com
Friday
November 20, 2009 Here I am Lord
Here I am Lord
Just the day before yesterday I was invited to do what Dan Millman did in the true life story of Peaceful Warrior as he was in a 'stuck place' of his circumstances. Like Dan I went (figuratively) to lay on top of that old car to stare at the sky until I could get it. I often get 'stuck' in circumstances and come to realize with gifted 'coaching' of a peaceful warrior how to find my way back to what is already inside of me, seeing how precious I am comes quickly once I lay myself out before the Lord, this is the only place I am set free..
Oh the fight of the mind with the heart or if you prefer the flesh and the spirit is hard as the tests become harder! What a sick feeling it gives me when I get stuck in my 'head and thinking', having a pity party with myself which slams my door on being able to accept the continuous flow of God's Love. It's like standing in the shower with a rain coat on...I stop the flow.
If you would like to watch this, here is a trailer from the movie Peaceful Warrior. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CTr4SzyJgc&feature=related
Here's my on the 'top of the car' experience:
I like me
I love me
I can do anything
I feel God's abundant Light and Love drenching and lifting me
I feel the beauty in the universe as I look out into the sky
I smell all the sweetness that is a gift to me
My sensations are acute and I am one with God
I want to die for this beauty and peace
And as a result of experiencing this, only after 'being' and 'allowing', (which is the door to my heart) Jesus to drench me with His great Love, I find myself full of strength, renewed, refreshed and replenished, once again not affected or focused on the darkness around me. Then again at Wednesday night bible study I felt like I was the only one there, in an 'on top of the world' experience while the Lord continued to pour His Love into me.
Here I am Lord,
fill me up with Your Love until It is overflowing and spills out onto someone else.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/526337624_d08b31432c.jpg
And Mom, Happy Birthday!!! I feel close to you each day of my life. You are beautiful, you show me how to live Faith, Hope and Love in more ways than you could know. I see you and I love you.
To all of Laura Durham's family, my heart is with you today, having the assurance with you that this same Love pouring to you from Jesus will comfort you eternally.
Jesus reminds us. John 17:15 "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. 16 "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 "Sanctify them in the truth ; Your word is truth. 18 "As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 "For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 20 "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word ; 21 that they may all be one ; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. NAS
Teresa Parsons
hisheartmyheart@gmail.com
Just the day before yesterday I was invited to do what Dan Millman did in the true life story of Peaceful Warrior as he was in a 'stuck place' of his circumstances. Like Dan I went (figuratively) to lay on top of that old car to stare at the sky until I could get it. I often get 'stuck' in circumstances and come to realize with gifted 'coaching' of a peaceful warrior how to find my way back to what is already inside of me, seeing how precious I am comes quickly once I lay myself out before the Lord, this is the only place I am set free..
Oh the fight of the mind with the heart or if you prefer the flesh and the spirit is hard as the tests become harder! What a sick feeling it gives me when I get stuck in my 'head and thinking', having a pity party with myself which slams my door on being able to accept the continuous flow of God's Love. It's like standing in the shower with a rain coat on...I stop the flow.
If you would like to watch this, here is a trailer from the movie Peaceful Warrior. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CTr4SzyJgc&feature=related
Here's my on the 'top of the car' experience:
I like me
I love me
I can do anything
I feel God's abundant Light and Love drenching and lifting me
I feel the beauty in the universe as I look out into the sky
I smell all the sweetness that is a gift to me
My sensations are acute and I am one with God
I want to die for this beauty and peace
And as a result of experiencing this, only after 'being' and 'allowing', (which is the door to my heart) Jesus to drench me with His great Love, I find myself full of strength, renewed, refreshed and replenished, once again not affected or focused on the darkness around me. Then again at Wednesday night bible study I felt like I was the only one there, in an 'on top of the world' experience while the Lord continued to pour His Love into me.
Here I am Lord,
fill me up with Your Love until It is overflowing and spills out onto someone else.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/526337624_d08b31432c.jpg
And Mom, Happy Birthday!!! I feel close to you each day of my life. You are beautiful, you show me how to live Faith, Hope and Love in more ways than you could know. I see you and I love you.
To all of Laura Durham's family, my heart is with you today, having the assurance with you that this same Love pouring to you from Jesus will comfort you eternally.
Jesus reminds us. John 17:15 "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. 16 "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 "Sanctify them in the truth ; Your word is truth. 18 "As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 "For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 20 "I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word ; 21 that they may all be one ; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. NAS
Teresa Parsons
hisheartmyheart@gmail.com
Tuesday
November 10, 2009 Friends
'Thinking aloud' in person, via phone or email, pondering life over ice cream or at a table eating together, drinking coffee together, walking or traveling together or being creative together, communicating with our hearts occurs all the time, whether one-on-one or in a group or distant in travel and time.
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson
A patient friend allows all that is needed to be said without requirements or expectation, and when one's light is a little dim, a friend is ready to share some light to help see when needed. A friend listens with compassionate understanding when the other is talking too much or even when acting a little weird and silly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHmsVRshwU
You don't need a complete picture to see the smiles.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/520543509_e883cd83e1.jpg
Teresa Parsons
hisheartmyheart@gmail.com
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson
A patient friend allows all that is needed to be said without requirements or expectation, and when one's light is a little dim, a friend is ready to share some light to help see when needed. A friend listens with compassionate understanding when the other is talking too much or even when acting a little weird and silly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHmsVRshwU
You don't need a complete picture to see the smiles.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/520543509_e883cd83e1.jpg
Teresa Parsons
hisheartmyheart@gmail.com
Saturday
November 7, 2009 The Path of Truth
The Path of Truth leads us to peace and peace comes with surrender.
The inner work and the straight path to His Truth is not easy in this world, but there is no true peace anywhere except with Him and hearing His voice. It is here where it doesn't matter what any person does or doesn't do, thinks or doesn't think, because 'here' we are confident and know who we are and where we are going. My feet are on the Path of Truth. Here I can admit my own faults and be truthful about my own inner darkness. Truth sets me free to experience His Love and Light fully. And as I walk this walk this is becoming evident, "All men will hate (my observation - 'fearful of', hate is fear), you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved." Matthew 10:13. How is it that we can be so afraid of God's Love? With this, if my heart is not steady, my sight will move off course in the midst of the need for attention or approval from others. There is so much more to say in regard to this eternal journey.
In this wonderful fairy tale story (but so true to real life) a knight finds himself trapped in his armor and the only way out is with inner awareness and tears of compassion. He sets out on the Path of Truth to find a way to be set free through Castles of Silence, Knowledge, Will and Daring to the Summit of Truth. He is faced just before the Summit of Truth with a decision of complete surrender where he lets go....
"In that instant, he accepted full responsibility for his life, for the influence people had had on it, and for the events that had shaped it. From this moment on, he would no longer blame his mistakes or misfortunes or anyone or anything outside himself. The recognition that he was the cause not the effect gave him a new feeling of power. He was now unafraid." Knight in Rusty Armor, Robert Fisher
I have a personal choice to stay focused on my purpose and call, living Love and allowing deep interaction and conversation with God and keep this kind of armor that separates us all from building up and becoming a permanent fixture around my heart. On the Path of Truth you can't look to the right or the left only straight ahead. If there is a mountain or castle in the way there is no way around it, you must go through it to be set free. Surrender becomes an 'upward' fall which brings us to Truth and freedom.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3595/3290471956_9a7839f14d.jpg
Teresa Parsons
hisheartmyheart@gmail.com
The inner work and the straight path to His Truth is not easy in this world, but there is no true peace anywhere except with Him and hearing His voice. It is here where it doesn't matter what any person does or doesn't do, thinks or doesn't think, because 'here' we are confident and know who we are and where we are going. My feet are on the Path of Truth. Here I can admit my own faults and be truthful about my own inner darkness. Truth sets me free to experience His Love and Light fully. And as I walk this walk this is becoming evident, "All men will hate (my observation - 'fearful of', hate is fear), you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved." Matthew 10:13. How is it that we can be so afraid of God's Love? With this, if my heart is not steady, my sight will move off course in the midst of the need for attention or approval from others. There is so much more to say in regard to this eternal journey.
In this wonderful fairy tale story (but so true to real life) a knight finds himself trapped in his armor and the only way out is with inner awareness and tears of compassion. He sets out on the Path of Truth to find a way to be set free through Castles of Silence, Knowledge, Will and Daring to the Summit of Truth. He is faced just before the Summit of Truth with a decision of complete surrender where he lets go....
"In that instant, he accepted full responsibility for his life, for the influence people had had on it, and for the events that had shaped it. From this moment on, he would no longer blame his mistakes or misfortunes or anyone or anything outside himself. The recognition that he was the cause not the effect gave him a new feeling of power. He was now unafraid." Knight in Rusty Armor, Robert Fisher
I have a personal choice to stay focused on my purpose and call, living Love and allowing deep interaction and conversation with God and keep this kind of armor that separates us all from building up and becoming a permanent fixture around my heart. On the Path of Truth you can't look to the right or the left only straight ahead. If there is a mountain or castle in the way there is no way around it, you must go through it to be set free. Surrender becomes an 'upward' fall which brings us to Truth and freedom.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3595/3290471956_9a7839f14d.jpg
Teresa Parsons
hisheartmyheart@gmail.com
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