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I Was Reminded Today the Key to Life

Posted by Barbara Techel

I Was Reminded Today the Key to Life

When Spirit speaks. Well, the reality is that Spirit is always speaking, but how often we fall asleep and don’t hear the message or catch the signs along the way. This is the reality of being human.

I’m at the half way point of being in Oracle School with Colette Baron – Reid, tapping deeper into my intuition, connected with Spirit, and learning to be the observer in life. This I know will be a life long practice and that I will never fully arrive, and why I can now see why no one ever graduates from this school.

And why I will be among the many that stay and it’s the beauty of this school – that you never have to leave and be left without support. I feel like I’ve found the tribe that will be my home for a very long time to come. Even though there are some days I feel like my mind will explode from all the information I’m taking in. 

And there are some days when I feel uncomfortable with the inner work I’m challenged to do and don’t think I can continue…but then another day dawns and I am reminded that Spirit always has my back.

As was the example from earlier today. Each morning, our assignment is to meditate and then pick a card from The Wisdom of the Oracle deck, read the message in the booklet, and journal what comes up. This has become the most beautiful part of my day, even when I may not like the card I get or understand.

Today was a good one though. Wishing for something to manifest sooner than it is in my life, I posed the question to the cards about wanting to know more, even though a small part of me worried I might get a card I might not like.

But this card, Higher Power, made me sigh in relief, smile, and my whole body melted. There’s truly no better answer to what I was pondering, or really for any question we ponder at any given time in our lives.

I was reminded to trust the amazing Higher Power that is always working on my behalf. There is the symbol of a key located on the third eye (our intuition) of the image. Ah yes, taking time each day to go inward, connecting with our heart which is connected to Spirit – that is the key.

And so I relaxed around my pondering question realizing that as long as I take actionable steps forward, the rest is in Spirit’s hands. Another part of what is being taught in Oracle School is also to not be attached to an outcome.

Well, that one my friends, is one I need lots of practice in and I have a feeling I’m not alone on that one. 🙂

Much love and gratitude,

Barbara

Moments I’m Reminded that I AM a Part of God/Spirit/Source

Posted by Barbara Techel

Moments I'm Reminded that I AM a Part of God/Spirit/Source

It’s so easy to see God/Spirit/Source in nature and our animal friends. Not always so easy to see it in ourselves. We can get so caught up in our minds instead of living from our hearts and in our body.

But there are beautiful moments when I’m reminded once again that I too am a part of God/Spirit/Source.

Especially afternoons when the sun is streaming in through the kitchen window. I feel like I catch a glimpse of this essence we can’t see, but can feel if we really tune in.

And I really feel it in moments like this when I see Gidget in the rays of the sunshine as if lit from the inside, out.

It brings me right back to the center of how one should really live in order to experience pure joy. It’s an inside job that will reflect on the outside when we are living from our true essence. Animals live this in every waking moment.

Yesterday I had an amazing experience of working with the spirit of horse at my friend Pam’s horse farm. I’m still simmering in all the gifts of that time before I write about it.

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See God in All Things. Saving Our Locust Tree.

Posted by Barbara Techel

See God in All Things. Saving Our Locust Tree.

Yesterday we had a tree service company come look at our locust tree. We noticed this spring that part of the trunk has a pretty good split down it. With high winds that came through Monday afternoon, it split even further. I was on pins and needles hoping it wasn’t going to break off and land on my writing cottage.

This tree has been here a long time — pretty much since we moved here about 28-years ago.

It has shaded our deck and my writing cottage, provided wind on warm days, and held a swing from one of it’s branches where I enjoyed many moments of relaxation.  Not to mention, all the birds that love to sit upon its branches!

Mike, from Woody’s (yes, his company is called Woody’s!) noticed a hairline split in the major trunk of the tree which we hadn’t even noticed. His advice was to take the whole tree down.

“No! We can’t do that,” I said. “I love this tree.”

After a bit of discussion we’ve decided to just remove the major split in the secondary part of the trunk of the tree and some other branches to ease up on the weight for other areas of the tree. For now he used ratchette straps to hold things in place until he can get here in a few days to trim it.

We hope by doing this that the tree will be around for a few more years.

I even said to Mike, “Do you think if we just love the tree a little more it will last longer?”

He said, “Well, you can certainly try that.” I don’t know if he was just playing along with me — or perhaps thought I was a bit nuts.

But I’ve really come to love trees over the years, even hugging one last Christmas as I had the urge and didn’t care if someone saw me. I just had to hug that tree!

A part of me felt a bit silly later on last night wondering if perhaps I’m a bit “out there” feeling so attached to this tree.

This morning after I practiced my yoga on the deck, looking up into the locust tree, and standing facing it as I did tree pose, I picked a card from a new deck of cards I have by Caroline Myss called, Wisdom for Healing and this is what it said:

See God in All Things

“Put yourself in slow motion, and observe everything and everyone through the lens of “This is sacred and it speaks to me.”  How does that change your environment? Your goal: to learn the spiritual practice of seeing God in all things.”

see god

And so it is. This tree is sacred to me and it is my friend. And I will help it be the best it can be and love it for as long as it has left on this earth…

Because I do see God and spirit in this tree.

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