“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.”

Eckhart Tolle

~ Present daily intention for focus: Gratitude ~

“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”

Eckhart Tolle

 22 Yes, in union with him, you yourselves are being built together into a spiritual dwelling-place for God!

~Ephesians 3:22~

“Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.”

~Eckhart Tolle

"What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”

Eckhart Tolle

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
 

Eckhart Tolle

Lone Stranger

Words.

“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”

-Eckhart Tolle

“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”

~Eckhart Tolle

Enough- Children's Poem - Poet Warrior

Enough

by Socorro Jaquez 

Dear Lalo,

It brings tear to my eyes

Every time I see you!

This is not you,

The brother I knew years back—

The only family I had

When no one was there,

The only one I trusted.

You were my rock.

Now you’re like an angry dog,

Mad all the time.

Now I see you drugged

All the time.

I wonder:

When will you be good

Not high?

You question: why do I care?

Why tell you to stop?

It’s your life.

Yes, I understand,

I was there once.

When I was there,

I saw mom was hurting—

Our mom,

Sisters,

Brothers,

Our family.

When I was there,

You were hurting too.

You can’t lie.

I stopped.

Now I see you in the same path.

You might be older,

But I’ve been there.

And it hurts.

I see you out there

Putting things in your body

That can kill you.

Mom cries;

I cry.

We are scared

One day we will get a call,

But you don’t even care.

I understand

That it is your life,

But you are throwing it away.

Remember, I’ve been there before.

Yes we fight,

Act like we hate each other,

But at the end of the day,

We care about one another.

Don’t throw your life away.

You’re going to end up dead,

In jail.

You have made the house

A stop and go.

Seeing you doing all these things

Makes me think

How I was throwing my life away.

Think to yourself:

What do you want to do with your life?

Think about how much you love your family.

Think about your life.

I am hoping you understand

How much you are hurting

Yourself

And your family.

We love and care about you!

God is doing a good work . . .

I don't know how I got burrowed down like that.
To lose awareness..  not have awareness of what I was doing.
I was getting by with behavioral successes and stopped challenging myself in instructional delivery.
I got comfortable and needed to be challenged.
Now I am convicted, have been beautifully forgiven in community, and repented.

Jessica-
When will you learn not to just jump in?
Take your time.
Don't compromise God's Light and Presence for that.

How do I get burrowed like that?
Now I will work harder than ever before because I will work consciously

Planning.
Grading.
Intentioning.
Updating.
Being consistent.
Being structured.
Serving.
LOVING.
Encouraging.
Being a light.

Being an obedient woman of faith...
The fight lives on.

~J.ay.be.

* God Speaks Through Babes *

poem's purposes...

This poem makes me...
Think (7%) Smile (21%) Somber (0%) Surprised (0%) Feel a Connection (7%) Inspired (64%)

Stuck Between Colors

Stuck Between Colors

by:Ken’Yonna Taylor

you say this is your time

theirs a fine line

between your time and my time

this is our time

you see me as black

and you think i see you as white

but i only see you as a person

that i no longer want to fight

we live in a world

where there used to be colored

but now its black and white

listening to the stories

it all seemed like a big fright

unlike some people who ran away

i will stay

i will fight fight for my rights

to be black in this crazy world

youre stuck between color lines

some people think im color blind

but im not

i just don judge people

by what color they are

i only accept people for who they are

Jesus Within ... Love and Beauty

“When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature.”



Eckhart Tolle

Breaking Free From Strongholds

"IT'S NOT UNHOLY OR IMPULSIVE... IT'S PURE."

Lord, work on me.

God comes and offers to work this absolute surrender in you. All these searchings and hungerings and longings that are in your heart, I tell you they are the drawings of the divine magnet, Christ Jesus. He lived a life of absolute surrender, He has possession of you; He is living in your heart by His Holy Spirit. You have hindered and hindered Him terribly, but He desires to help you to get hold of Him entirely. And He comes and draws you now by His message and words. Will you not come and trust God to work in you that absolute surrender to Himself? Yes, blessed be God, He can do it, and He will do it.

http://www.jesus.org.uk/christian-classics/andrew-murray

“When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them — your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past — and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.”



Eckhart Tolle

Cultivating Happy Habits

Each morning, write down three things that you are grateful for. The key here is to come up with three new things each day. This trains your brain to focus more on the good in your life.
Journal for two minutes a day about one positive experience you’ve had over the past twenty-four hours. Write down all the details you can remember. This helps your brain re-experience the experience, thus doubling its impact.
Meditate daily. This does not have to be complicated. Simply stop all activity, relax, and pay attention to your breath for about two minutes. This helps you to focus your brain on things you want to focus on, and not get distracted by negativity.
Do one random act of kindness every day. This can be as simple as taking two minutes to write an email to someone you know, praising them or thanking them for something they did.
Exercise for fifteen minutes daily. Simply cardio exercises have a powerful antidepressant effect.