love

The more evil we see in the world, the more love we need to put into the world. The only thing that will cast out darkness is light. In honor of the Norwegian people, let's all do one loving thing today that perhaps we wouldn't have done otherwise.

-Marianne Williamson

Finding peace with yourself......

Every circumstance offers an opportunity to be a better version of yourself.

- Marianne Williamson

Play Ball

Mark and Marko :)
Marko is so obsessed with baseball....now if you say any position and the team, he can tell you who the person is.......
crazy stuff!!!!!

You either learn the lesson and become even better at it than you were before, or you postpone the lesson and it comes back around in a different form.

-Marianne Williamson

Joy

Who are you "not" to be a princess???

Joy

Marko is playing for the Twins this year. They rolled to a 14-2 win for their first game this year. Marko went 2 for 4 with an RBI and two runs scored.

I hope you enjoy the quote below.

Namaste,

Michele

Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

-Marianne Williamson

Fear

I have always loved this passage and I hope you do too. :)
Namaste,
Michele

Love

I have been reading and practicing the lessons from "A Course in Miracles." I am doing it by myself thus far, but might join a group after I complete the lessons....they seem to be something that will be ongoing for me. The thing that I have noticed the most is the theme of learning to let go and embrace change.......helpful for me because things are constantly changing around here :) ( my nursing unit is moving in 6 mos. to another hospital, Mira just got her temps, Marko has been redistricted to a new school, the girls switched dance studios...etc...blah, blah, blah).......I guess the only constant is change so I might as well learn to love it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the quote below......it was from one of my past lessons.
Namaste,
Michele


"What we give to others, we give to ourselves.
What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves.
In any moment when we choose fear instead of love,
we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
To the extent that we abandon love,
to that extent we will feel it has abandoned us."


— Excerpted from
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of
A Course in Miracles

Relationships

artwork and picture by Mira :)

Relationships are assignments.

They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment,

the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led

to greater awareness and expanded love.

Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which

He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time,

and then assigns them to each other.

Like a giant computer, He knows exactly what combination of energies,

in exactly what context, would do the most to further God's plan for salvation.

No meetings are accidental.

-Marianne Williamson

letting go

Dusty got tired!!



The void is where God is. Empty places, empty moments are not really empty; they're pregnant. God is the potential fullness gushing out from every empty space, the ever-present possibility of a magic moment or miraculous thought. Off the blank page jumps a cosmic summons to write your own names. Out of that silence came the opening chords of Beethoven's Fifth. We try to consume the external, to give us a feeling of internal satisfaction. And yet we cannot satisfy that yearning, because nothing outside of us is the stuff for which we hunger. The more we grab, the less centered we are. And so we disintegrate; we do not grow. We take on the characteristics of neurotic, needy people, for that is who we decide to be when we look to the world for what the word cannot give us.
Marianne Williamson