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Reality Wishes & Fairytale Dreams

August 31st, 2010

Greetings, my smiling friends!

Today is a very special day for Mike and I.  Today we have been arm in arm in this world together for 12 years.  I still wake up in the morning and wonder what amazing stockpiles of karma I must’ve earned in my last life to be so completely blessed in this one.

It really is a dream life.  A fairytale.  Some perfect work of fiction romanticized by a poet who lived long ago, now manifest in a living reality.  My reality.

Even when I hate him, which is very rarely, I still love him with a force so all consuming as to take my breath.  A force intensified by a thousand when I am loving him.

It’s unreal to me sometimes.  There are days I fear I might wake up.

He makes me want to be better.  To do better.  To live up to him.

There is always a danger when you place someone upon a pedestal, that they may topple off.  But it’s not upon a pedestal that I keep him.  He just IS that fantastic.  There is no one thing that he could ever do that would displace him from my heart.  Never in my entire life has any person loved me so completely, and without condition.

It truly is a beautiful fairytale in which I reside.

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My affirmations until ….. ? I LOVE these 3!!!~
I AM a miracle in motion~ Only more miracles can come from me*
My words have power~ I will choose them wisely*
Wonderful new experiences give me wonderful new ways to express the divinity that I am*

~ OxOxx

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All Growed Up with Some Place to Go

August 20th, 2010

We ventured out to our local amusement and water park yesterday with the boys.  We go every summer and they begin looking forward to it on the car ride home the year before.

We were all ready to walk out the door, and I went in my bedroom to do a sweep of the area to make sure I didn’t forget anything.  My eyes scanned over everything, and landed on my tarot cards.  I hadn’t drawn a card in several days and I figured today would be a great day if there ever was one, so I sat down and began to shuffle.

I drew the Tower.

*Sudden, dramatic change, upheaval.   There’s a possibly uncomfortable change on the rise…*

That made me want to worry a little given that we were leaving town for the day.  I decided to let go of the worry by saying a prayer for fun, health, and safety.  Then I let it go and out the door we went.

The amusement park doesn’t open until 1pm.  We always start in the water park because it opens at 11am.  Usually around 2pm we are starving, so we go out to the vehicle where we stretch out with each other and the radio and have a nice picnic lunch.  After lunch, we go through the dry park for a few hours.  Around 5pm, we go back in the water park until 7pm when it closes.  Then it’s back out to the amusement park until it closes at 10pm.  It makes for a busy, exhausting day.

Well….

We were in the water park for about 10 minutes when I realized what my sudden, dramatic change was.  It WAS an upheaval and it WAS uncomfortable.  And it was certainly sudden and dramatic.

For the first time ever, my boys went off to play in the water park by themselves.  They left Mike and I to float around the “Endless River” on tubes alone.  I wanted to cry.  When did my babies grow up?

We didn’t even talk about it before hand.  We got inside and Michael looked at us and said, “Can we go by ourselves?”

Mike and I looked at each other and he said, “Well, it IS completely enclosed.  There ARE 4 or 5 lifeguards at every post, AND only one door out….”

Then he looked at the boys and said, “You are not to leave the water park for any reason and if someone tries to make you leave, you sit down wherever you are and scream your head off… That way everyone will know something isn’t right… Okay?”

There was an immediate round of nods and agreements and then, BAM… my babies grew up right before my eyes.

I’m trying to hold tight to the perspective, “Isn’t is wonderful to watch the growth of these two little people?!  Isn’t it beautiful how they are becoming whoever they’re going to be and I get to influence them and help them to truly know who they are?!”

I will adjust.  I won’t hold them back.  I won’t TRY to control and shape them, but instead through my love and encouragement, I will teach them about their own control, and allow them to take shape.

Still my heart hurts…

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Weekend Book Love

July 23rd, 2010

Happy Friday!!

If you’re looking for some weekend reading, then boy do I have a book for you!

Clearing for the Millennium by Albert Clayton Gaulden

I was drawn to this book when I picked it up.  It virtually jumped off the shelf at me.  Okay, so it didn’t jump, but it WAS sticking out further than the others and grabbed my eye right away.

The first thing that held me captive was the tag line across the top, “We are all fallen angels.”  I’ve been exploring the “fallen angel” concept lately as I’ve been reading A Course in Miracles.
The forward to the book is written by James Redfield (author of  The Celestine Prophecy ~ Another book I LOVED!!) and the word “Sedona” is on the cover.  Those points sealed the deal and into my bag this book went.

I experienced synchronicity after synchronicity while reading this book.  It was an amazing angle on God, angels, the Universe,  LOA, Spirituality, truth, integrity, authenticity, and psychological dysfunction.

Yes, it’s another Spiritually angled self help book, but yet, it’s not.  It’s a story of His journey, of His path, of His realizations.  It’s a story with the same aim as my telling of my own story.  To help anyone on a similar path find their own way Home.

It’s also brought me to a place where I feel compelled to seek and allow contact with my own higher self/holy spirit/spirit guide.  Pick a name of your own.  There are many titles they carry :)

I hope you’ll grab this book and give it a perusal.  It was riveting and took me only about 3 days to read.  I was regretful putting it down when I had to and am a little sad that as of this morning, I’ve finished it.  Yes, one of those books that you enjoy so much, you wish it’d taken longer to read.  Don’tcha just love that?!

Have a fantastic weekend!!

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My affirmation until Sunday, 7-25-10 on the Full Moon~
As I focus upon being happy, all other joy filled things in my life expand*

~ OxOxx

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