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May I take the liberty, before providing the text of the full speech of asking you to consider reading the entry regarding the speech as posted on Wikipedia from which I quote an extract:
The "Rivers of Blood" speech is a speech given by British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell on 20 April 1968, addressing a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. The speech strongly criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK and the then-proposed Race Relations Bill.
Powell always referred to it as "the Birmingham speech" and the expression "rivers of blood" did not appear in the original speech. The phrase is an allusion to a line from Virgil's Aeneid quoted by Powell ("As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood").[1]
The extract above was from CLICK HERE as it stood 12-Apr-2018, 50 years after the original speech – Wikipedia goes on to analyse various stanzas of the speech in some detail.
There are several full recordings of the text in Enoch Powell's own voice to be found on You Tube.
As at 21:00hrs 12-Apr-2018, some 8 days before the 50th. anniversary of Enoch Powell's original delivery, the most recent upload available was to be found at CLICK HERE
This audio version may well, in the fullness of time be withdrawn, removed or fail but I feel sure someone of ethical integrity will ensure replacement versions of the recording, which is almost 25 minutes in length, to ensure the truth, that is thus evident, that Enoch Powell can not for one moment, in the consideration of history in context, be considered in any way 'Racist', nor, when considered in full and in context, can his 'Birmingham Speech of 20-Apr-1968', be considered 'Racist'.
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It is, it seems, as erudite, prescient & valid as it was when first presented:
The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature.One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary.By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: "If only," they love to think, "if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen."Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical.
At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalised industries.
After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: "If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country." I made some deprecatory reply to the effect that even this government wouldn't last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: "
I have three children, all of them been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan't be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas. In this country in 15 or 20 years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man."
I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation?
The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that his country will not be worth living in for his children.
I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking – not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.
In 15 or 20 years, on present trends, there will be in this country three and a half million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General's Office.
There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of five to seven million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.
As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimised lie several parliaments ahead.
The natural and rational first question with a nation confronted by such a prospect is to ask: "How can its dimensions be reduced?" Granted it be not wholly preventable, can it be limited, bearing in mind that numbers are of the essence: the significance and consequences of an alien element introduced into a country or population are profoundly different according to whether that element is 1 per cent or 10 per cent.
The answers to the simple and rational question are equally simple and rational: by stopping, or virtually stopping, further inflow, and by promoting the maximum outflow. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party.
It almost passes belief that at this moment 20 or 30 additional immigrant children are arriving from overseas in Wolverhampton alone every week – and that means 15 or 20 additional families a decade or two hence. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population.
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancés whom they have never seen.
Let no one suppose that the flow of dependants will automatically tail off. On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 25,000 dependants per annum ad infinitum, without taking into account the huge reservoir of existing relations in this country – and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry.
In these circumstances nothing will suffice but that the total inflow for settlement should be reduced at once to negligible proportions, and that the necessary legislative and administrative measures be taken without delay.
I stress the words "for settlement." This has nothing to do with the entry of Commonwealth citizens, any more than of aliens, into this country, for the purposes of study or of improving their qualifications, like (for instance) the Commonwealth doctors who, to the advantage of their own countries, have enabled our hospital service to be expanded faster than would otherwise have been possible. They are not, and never have been, immigrants.
I turn to re-emigration. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population would be substantially reduced, but the prospective size of this element in the population would still leave the basic character of the national danger unaffected.
This can only be tackled while a considerable proportion of the total still comprises persons who entered this country during the last ten years or so.
Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party's policy: the encouragement of re-emigration.
Nobody can make an estimate of the numbers which, with generous assistance, would choose either to return to their countries of origin or to go to other countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent.
Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted.
I can only say that, even at present, immigrants in my own constituency from time to time come to me, asking if I can find them assistance to return home. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects.
The third element of the Conservative Party's policy is that all who are in this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made between them by public authority. As Mr Heath has put it we will have no "first-class citizens" and "second-class citizens."
This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendent should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow-citizen and another or that he should be subjected to imposition as to his reasons and motive for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.
There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it "against discrimination", whether they be leader-writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right up over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong.
The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and of resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming.
This is why to enact legislation of the kind before parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to gunpowder. The kindest thing that can be said about those who propose and support it is that they know not what they do.
Nothing is more misleading than comparison between the Commonwealth immigrant in Britain and the American Negro. The Negro population of the United States, which was already in existence before the United States became a nation, started literally as slaves and were later given the franchise and other rights of citizenship, to the exercise of which they have only gradually and still incompletely come.
The Commonwealth immigrant came to Britain as a full citizen, to a country which knew no discrimination between one citizen and another, and he entered instantly into the possession of the rights of every citizen, from the vote to free treatment under the National Health Service.
Whatever drawbacks attended the immigrants arose not from the law or from public policy or from administration, but from those personal circumstances and accidents which cause, and always will cause, the fortunes and experience of one man to be different from another's.
But while, to the immigrant, entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.
They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted.
They now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by act of parliament; a law which cannot, and is not intended to, operate to protect them or redress their grievances is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent-provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.
In the hundreds upon hundreds of letters I received when I last spoke on this subject two or three months ago, there was one striking feature which was largely new and which I find ominous. All Members of Parliament are used to the typical anonymous correspondent; but what surprised and alarmed me was the high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address because it was dangerous to have committed themselves to paper to a Member of Parliament agreeing with the views I had expressed, and that they would risk penalties or reprisals if they were known to have done so.
The sense of being a persecuted minority which is growing among ordinary English people in the areas of the country which are affected is something that those without direct experience can hardly imagine.
I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me:
"Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. She lost her husband and both her sons in the war. So she turned her seven-roomed house, her only asset, into a boarding house. She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over. The quiet street became a place of noise and confusion. Regretfully, her white tenants moved out.
"The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7am by two Negroes who wanted to use her 'phone to contact their employer. When she refused, as she would have refused any stranger at such an hour, she was abused and feared she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Immigrant families have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused. Her little store of money went, and after paying rates, she has less than £2 per week. "She went to apply for a rate reduction and was seen by a young girl, who on hearing she had a seven-roomed house, suggested she should let part of it. When she said the only people she could get were Negroes, the girl said, "Racial prejudice won't get you anywhere in this country." So she went home.
"The telephone is her lifeline. Her family pay the bill, and help her out as best they can. Immigrants have offered to buy her house – at a price which the prospective landlord would be able to recover from his tenants in weeks, or at most a few months. She is becoming afraid to go out. Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letter box. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. "Racialist," they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong? I begin to wonder."
The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word "integration." To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members.
Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants who have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction.
But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one.
We are on the verge here of a change. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population – that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate.
Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly. The words I am about to use, verbatim as they appeared in the local press on 17 February, are not mine, but those of a Labour Member of Parliament who is a minister in the present government:
'The Sikh communities' campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker; whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.'
All credit to John Stonehouse for having had the insight to perceive that, and the courage to say it.
For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."
That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century.
Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
It is interesting to note how the intellectually dishonest have selectively misquoted extracts from this speech to distort its meaning and intent and use it dishonestly to bully and browbeat those of little intellectual rigour, and those to lazy or too 'challenged' to read and understand the original speech, into the subsequent suppresion of discussion of the problems of unlicensed imigration for the last 45 years.
It will be noted that even intellectually lazy or challenged politicians have fallen for the dishonest spin which broadly falls into the catagory of 'Political Correctness' as do so many evils that are presented to distort morality, honesty and society at large.
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Mayor's Commission on Diversity Collection (MC 168)
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This collection comprises documents collected by Dr. Craig Lloyd while he served on the Mayor's Commission on Diversity between 1996 and 2000. These papers include documents on the Black Heritage Trail, from subcommittees including the Eugene J. Bullard Memorial and Entertainment Subcommittees, notes and minutes from general membership meetings and papers dealing with the annual International Festival sponsored by the commission.
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- Biographical Sketches.
- Black Heritage Trail.
- Black Heritage Video Production Committee.
- By-Laws.
- Entertainment Subcommittee.
- Eugene J. Bullard Memorial Subcommittee.
- General Membership Meeting Agendas and Minutes.
- Handwritten notes from Dr. Craig Lloyd.
- International Festival 1996.
- International Festival 1997.
- International Festival 1998.
- International Festival 1999.
- International Festival 2000.
- Mayor's Commission on Women and Minorities.
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- Resolution Establishing Gender and Minority Balance.
- Retreat, February 27, 1999.
- Talent Bank of Diversity.
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What He Said
Recently I came across a devotional which prompted me to put myself into the story of the blind beggar in the book of Mark.
One of the reasons I fell in love with my husband is the way he asks questions about situations. This practice took old, repetitive stories from the Bible and made them come alive in a fresh way.
This devotional prompted me in much the same way - to taste, feel and experience the story of encountering Christ. Jesus asked the beggar what he wanted Jesus to do for him. It then prompted me to answer it for myself. What would I ask of God? With sudden clarity, I realized I would ask the for the same thing the blind man did.
I have eyes to see physically, but spiritually I know I miss a lot. The circumstances of life, the hardships, and the joys distract me from walking in full connection to the power of Christ.
I have moments of breakthrough where I see what I believe God wants me to see. I want more of that! I want to walk closer so I can see things the way God does. Not just to see the opportunities, but also the lessons in day to day trials and joy.
Keep opening my eyes, Lord!
Our Obsession with Identity
Identity is an ambiguous concept. A quick search revealed thirty plus personality tests from the well-known Myers-Briggs to the recently re-popularized Enneagram. If this doesn't give evidence to humanity's obsession with our identity, I don't know what will. People use descriptive labels, their relationships or occupation in their attempts to identify themselves. Using those parameters - I am an INTJ, Reformer, wife, mother, writer, teacher, etc - but I am not the same person I was even a year ago.
Our obsession with identity doesn't end there. Add the countless branches of religion and their subsets which reveal our efforts to interpret God's identity. Our attempts to understand, lead us to more labeling and staunch viewpoints that layer up over time creating our interpretation or perspective. Systems and methodology are born in our pursuit to define God, people, our reality, and ourselves by these accumulated beliefs. With that in mind - I believe in a loving God and strive to follow Jesus' example.
I know my perception of God may not match yours. That is normal and okay! If you ask my siblings to describe our parents you would get differing descriptions. We are all unique and have our respective experiences that have shaped our individual relationships with each other. Our experiences will vary and naturally produce differing perspectives about God, too. Let's talk about fundamentals or the deal-breakers. Even what you think is fundamental probably differs from what I think is important. Sorry, not sorry!
I am seeking to understand who I am but more importantly who God is. For me, I feel my identity is wrapped up with God's. When my experiences with God do not line up with my "knowledge" of what I've read or been taught, I must accept the challenge to keep seeking rather than angrily cling to something out of fear or allow myself to crumble. If I stop seeking and think I know, then I am in big trouble. Fitting God into a box of my finite understanding should be a given impossibility. The disciples appeared pretty thick at times and theologians have differed over the centuries, so I am okay with it taking a lifetime to discover or grasp.
I was shaped by loving parents in an environment rich in spiritual religion. My childhood was a nice Christian bubble. I am grateful because my grandparent's faith transformation impacted generations to seek after God. I got to experience "church" in many cultures all teaching a variety of theologies. At home I was taught that God loves me and to be a friend before you share THE friend. That basic ideology has not changed in my mind. God wasn't forced on me, so I refuse to "evangelize" out of fear, through man-made strategy or out of guilt-ridden compulsion.
The layers of religion are slowly being peeled away. This statement may scare some people, but I don't know a better way to describe the modifications. I only share my thoughts because I process best this way. This journey has been slow, sometimes painful and definitely personal. Whether it is the gentle patter of the keyboard, the scratch of pen on paper, or discussing it with a trusted friend, I thrive with puzzling things out. I'm getting warmer, but God's timing in revealing truth comes as I am open to receiving or revising.
Being a life-long learner is one of my identifying traits. I thirst and curiosity runs deep. Maturity has taught me to wait and hear all sides. The same way a prosecutor's remarks can seem absolute or persuasive until you hear the defense, our initial interpretation without proper perspective is often faulty. It's a good thing we have a Spirit inside to guide us. I like absolutes, but I've had to get used to disappointment. The pendulum swing is real, polarity's pull is strong, and dynamic tension isn't always pleasant. It hasn't killed me but made my faith stronger. 1 Cor 13:9 talks about how we know in part.
The freedom to seek was presented to me around the age of twelve. I brought my questions and doubts to my parents. They assured me that God instructs us to seek and was big enough to handle all my questions. That encouraging discussion started a deeper awareness of God's guidance. My frustration has grown when religious authority or culture tries to designate where and how I am permitted to seek or serve. At seventeen, when I was first on my own, the Spirit in me discerned how a spiritual authority was wrong and that experience strongly impacted me in my journey forward. Time has revealed more truths about modern missions, the current-day spiritual culture, ministerial expectations, healthy boundaries, resentments, and true freedom.
I know my seeking will never be done. I have found greater peace in releasing religious custom and walking in greater awareness of my identity in God. I am a daughter of God created to bring glory by sharing my perspective of God's transforming journey in my life.
My Journey Through
I struggle in many areas. Some have been brought to light and gently dealt with or healed; others I am still blind to or need more rounds of wrestling to overcome. I continue to journey through one issue, one moment at a time.
One area of silly pride I held was the fact that I had never gotten drunk, until the day I did. The circumstances were right, and it happened. Rather than feeling that God was angry at me, I felt His gentleness. Through that situation, a gentle truth bloomed in my mind. BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I.
It wasn't my incredible will power or self-discipline that had kept me from drinking to excess, sleeping around and getting hurt, cussing like a sailor or fill in the blank. This voice in my soul whispered of how every step I take is known. He walks with me directing, protecting, and loving even when I make bad choices. Allowing pride to build is naive and childish because any credit is due to His strength.
In many ways growing up in the church and on the mission field provided a safe spiritual little bubble. Other surroundings and I would have chosen differently. I was never offered beer, drugs, or peer-pressured into anything. I was born into a healthy family in a privileged country. God is capable of shaping us no matter what circumstance we find ourselves in because none of it is a surprise to Him. I can only be thankful my childhood circumstances were pretty ideal.
Another area I had pride about was relationships. I didn't date around and get my heart broken like a lot of my peers. I had a ton of secret crushes, but I probably would have dated a lot, if I'd been asked. Males around me were apparently intimidated by me. (Later several admitted that my confidence relegated me to their friend-zone.) I know God gifted me that confidence and strong childlike faith to protect me from myself. God wired into me a loyalty that would surface quickly. God blindsided me with my complimentary mate at the perfect time. We were friends who fell in love. We've been married twelve years and are still choosing love and balancing one another out.
I get prideful about all sorts of ridiculous things. My kids behaving. The truth is my kids misbehave moments later. How I've never been pulled over. God knows I would have an anxiety attack and cry if I got pulled over. Pride about my house being clean. Truth is my house stays clean when my kids are asleep or out with their father, and I have time to clean it up without interference. Accomplishing a lot in a day. Often, I make productivity my idol and I'm trying to change that. By the Grace of God I accomplish or not. I shouldn't take the credit or put goals over relationships.
God wired me and designed my personality. He knows what to protect me from and what I need to walk through to become more like Jesus. Like a good parent, He knows I seek best in the midst of the tough stuff. A complete life of ease isn't actually that beneficial for shaping character. A little pain or uncertainty and He gets my attention.
I know if I had been brought up in a different set of circumstances, or around other people, I would be a different person. I am learning to be thankful in the midst of life's struggles. I still wish and pray for hardship to pass, but I try not to begrudge God the journey process in my life. He gently breaks down my pride and lavishes me with mercy, grace, and peace. But for the Grace of God, I am convinced, I could be pushed to the point of murder, theft, drug addiction, abuse, etc. I choose to trust that this path is for my good and that my God is good.
You Can't Out-give God
I love the verse where it talks about giving so the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. I write this not to trumpet my giving (which is measly), but rather to praise God for His.
Honestly, I have had a hard time being generous. I get fearful of giving away what I might need. Intellectually I know that God always has provided for all my needs and because of this my trust has grown stronger. Faith is something that is grown through experience and experience takes time. I am learning to not begrudge God the time it takes to journey with Him.
God has shown me that His heart is generous, so mine needs to be the same way. Now when God brings to light a need, we try to meet it. I can't tell you how many times we have given only to turn around and have God bless us right back. It is impossible to out-give God!
It can mistakenly seem easier to give when you have a lot, but no matter how much or little you have, fear tries to steal the opportunities to give. When we falsely believe that money equals security then we become ruled by a paycheck, our productivity or our own striving. My husband and I regularly remind ourselves who our provider is and to whom the money really belongs.
Recently, we experienced several financial miracles. God made us aware of a family in need and we dropped of an anonymous donation. As we were pulling out of the parking lot we opened a card to receive back the exact amount we had just given. Talk about the fastest turn around ever!
Right around this same time we were notified that our tax return would be the largest one we had ever received. We have continued to give as the Lord leads and He continues to bless us. We laughed at how God shows off. He really does own it all and we can't out-give Him.
We have lost track of the amount of times where we have written the check or made the donation and we turn around only to have God bless us in return. Each time it happens we are delighted and our giving becomes even more cheerful as we try to give back to God. Like drops of water in an ocean is our giving, but I think He is pleased.
2 Corinthian 9:7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
The Ebb and Flows of Life
It has been fourteen years since I met my husband. We have been married for eleven of those years and had three children. Our oldest just hit double digits and our youngest is potty trained. The infant stages are behind us, but we are still in the thick of parenting. Our sleep may be better, but our mental battles are just beginning. Both of us have experienced job changes while parenting and juggling school and ministry alongside. We have had some rough days balanced with some beautiful ones.
Without the Holy Spirit to iron out our communication and expectations, we would not be happily married. The focus of God in our lives has solidified our mission. Being partners isn't always easy. There have been times of great connection and others where we start to feel like ships passing in the night. Marriage takes intentional work and a lot of prayer. Recognizing and making priorities to pull back is key to not becoming disconnected strangers.
Having hit the mid-thirty mark, I find myself starting to feel more confident in my own skin. My weaknesses aren't as all-consuming, my strengths are more balanced and I find surrendering easier as well as asking for help. Finding the end of myself isn't as scary or disappointing. My boundaries are healthier because I recognize my people-pleasing for what it is and strive to let it no longer drive me. I am more comfortable with disappointing others because my focus is on pleasing Jesus. He is a lot nicer to me than I am to myself. Expectations are a killer. I am still learning to receive graciously.
More than ever, I recognize that life has a rhythm of ebbs and flows. There are periods where survival is all you can manage, sprinting is fun, and passion is endless. Crawling and apathy can happen too! The kicker is we are often in a different mode than those around us. I think God designed this specifically so we rely on Him rather than those around us for support. It is so natural to want to give advice, but love is the safest thing to offer no matter what place a person is in. Listening is better.
We need the example Jesus gives of going off to pray. Seeing that his human tank got empty is so enlightening. God created the seventh day for rest! Jesus couldn't always get away, however, and neither can we. Sometimes we have to keep plugging when we feel we can't. What has life taught me? When you get the chance to recharge - take it! Making rest a discipline is a must!
My personality idolizes productivity, so I must be reminded of my priorities. The Spirit's gentle nudge to put people over projects is helpful. I want my goals to conform to a higher calling. I hate to admit I lose track of the primary relationship for which I am so desperate. God is constantly tugging me in and nothing does that better than pain and struggle. Rough times remind me how much I need him. He whispers, "Quit doing for me and just be with me!"
As a family, we are pulling in to rejuvenate our spirits by getting in touch with THE SPIRIT. May His voice be heard, His presence felt and His will be done in us. When we start to flow out again, may it be with even greater grace and love in a beautiful overflow.
Too Much of a Good Thing
My heart is burning and I cannot sleep. Recently, our path was diverted from disaster. Many of you who know us might think that it was diverted by disaster, but trust me when I tell you that your perspective isn't ours. This shift in priorities was beyond needed! God knew how to get our attention.
In life we often have these pendulum swings, because our beliefs are tied to a dynamic tension with the Spirit of God. He is trying to bring us to a peaceful balance but in our finite understanding we take a lesson all the way to the wall. He is gracious and allows us to swing one way and then nudges or knocks us back the other way.
Maybe I am being too vague. Let me just put it this way. There is truth to the saying "too much of a good thing." God opened our eyes to how far we had strayed from our true values. We had slowly allowed the LOVE GOD and LOVE OTHERS value to become DO FOR GOD and DO FOR OTHERS. Our lives had become unmanageable.
Now we have been set free. We are grateful believers in Jesus who struggle with codependency. Our codependency was with ministry. Godly advice had replaced the Holy Spirit in our lives and doing "too much" had enslaved us. Out of desperation we prayed and He answered!
In recent years we have gotten wise to the necessity of healthy marriages. Date nights are preached and marriage seminars have become more prevalent. Our pendulum in Christian society has swung. But again we are missing the full picture. What about families? What about rhythms of life? We are still not seeing a balance!
We are running the race like it is a sprint and wondering why we have trouble hearing from God or resisting temptation. Exhaustion is a bi-product of having productivity for God as an idol! Guilt and shame about service are felt. But my battered soul cries out for the examples of Jesus' mountain-top time. Who is modeling a discipline of rest? Are we encouraging sabbath in balance with service?
I write this as your flawed sister. Rest is not your enemy. In the quiet God can speak. Are we too busy to listen? Stop asking him to join your agenda and see how you can join Him in the today. It is a battle of the mind to be still and know He is God. The battle is His not ours. Stop taking on what isn't yours to do. Ask and trust one moment at a time.
So back to my mantra.... Lord let me walk humbly with you and be faithful in this moment.
Confessions of a Counselor's Wife
First, let me allay your fears, I don't know all your deep, dark secrets. The things you tell my husband in confidence remain in confidence. I have people assume that I know all about their situation and that simply isn't the case. I will smile and nod, but I probably am being enlightened by you! Truthfully, my husband's profession is too heavy for my heart, and he knows that. He is the counselor, not me. If you would like me to know something, so I can pray, please share with me. I will pray and cry or cheer alongside, but my empathy will not give you helpful counsel.
Second, am I proud of my husband? Yes. I get this question A LOT! Yes, I love his heart for helping people on their journey. The Spirit gives him the wisdom to cut through to the heart of situations. He is highly relational and I love the way God works through him. The kids and I pray for his protection and discernment to help the people God brings to his office. We are also thankful that his career keeps him attentive to the needs of his family as well. He has to practice what he advises!
Third, Yes, I also get resentful! Hurting people are rarely respectful of boundaries. When clients fail to show, it is hard not to be resentful. I see that as a time we could have spent together as a family. Weighing other's needs, which are always an emergency to them, and determining what your response to them should be, is exhausting. I face a similar battle when fielding my children's constant questions, shrieks, and requests during the day. Sometimes, it is hard to have energy left over for each other at the end of the day or week. No one likes to struggle with guilt about giving leftovers to your loved ones no matter what your profession may be. -mom or counselor
Fourthly, we need prayer and I ask you for it. We are constantly needing God's help to define our borders and safeguard our family time. Some of the topics of discussion in the office, as you may imagine, are heavy. It is hard to watch Josh care more about someone's struggle than they do. I do my best to bolster, but a covering of prayer is always welcome.
Faith Over Fear
Be careful what you pray for! I expressed my desire to do more ministry together with my husband and he said to put it in our prayer circles. (See Mark Batterson's Prayer Circle Book) Not too long after writing this desire down I got what I thought was the answer to my prayer. Now I know it was only part of the answer...
The Celebrate Recovery program we started 6 years ago was finally big enough to afford childcare. I am now able to bring our kids and be a part of the program once again. The women loving on my and other's children are beautiful inside and out. They do crafts and my kids love going every Friday! The vulnerability and transparency of Celebrate Recovery is beautiful and addicting (a healthy addiction). I love that our whole family goes together.
A few months later, our church pastor asked my husband if we might be interested in co-sharing on a Sunday. Our pastor was putting together a series on the Song of Solomon and he wanted several couples to each take a section. Our young adult group was studying the Song of Solomon teaching when Josh and I met. Any other topic and I probably would have said no, but the Spirit nudged me. I agreed before I could chicken out.
I am an introvert. My husband speaks all the time, but it's not really my cup of tea. Over the next few weeks I struggled to capture every fearful thought and replace it with faith or worship. Then I found out our Sunday commitment also included a follow up talk during the week where we could go into more depth in a small group. So, not one opportunity to share together, but two!
God is so cool, because He knows what we can handle better than we do. He also knows exactly how to present things - baby steps. He also places people strategically in our life to encourage us. A sweet friend gave me a mug with these verses.
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13
They became my mantra the week before we were to speak!
As I tried to sleep God kept speaking to my heart - downloading tidbits. I have to keep a pen and paper near my bed because my mind always gets active late at night. My body is trying to sleep but my spirit is raring to contemplate truth.
As the day grew closer, my mother encouraged me to pray specifically for a big boost of confidence. I didn't want to be overconfident; I just didn't want to puke on stage. Flashbacks from speech class about picturing the audience naked didn't seem right for a church setting. I also thought about walking out without my glasses so everyone was a big blur, but a show and tell lighted candle prop made me decide against that. I did my part by reading through what my husband and I felt God wanted us to say. I told God the rest was up to Him. Help us convey your heart God!
I have been called a crier. I've cried when I am happy, sad, frustrated or angry. Empathy and emotion often overwhelm my throat and I feel frustrated and embarrassed. God has been taking me on a journey of EMBRACE this year. It was the word he gave me in January and I am still learning all that it entails. I felt God saying that I needed to embrace how He has wired me and stop feeling embarrassed about it. Feeling emotion isn't a weakness; it is my super power! If God wants to overwhelm me with His goodness, faithfulness, forgiveness, and love - so be it! And thank you!
The day before we spoke - I prayed that God would speak through me as only he could. I felt very much like Moses -no eloquent tongue here- but I promised to speak through any tears and keep going anyway. I asked everyone for prayer and I knew my husband would rescue me if I got too emotional to speak. He did promise not to rescue me too quickly.
On Sunday morning I felt excited - Like you're strapped into a roller coaster going up to the very first drop kind of excited. What the heck was I thinking! Despite a bug creeping across my foot, I spoke! Probably a little too fast, but I didn't puke AND I DIDN'T CRY!!! This was a first for me. I see now that God was preparing me for this opportunity by speaking in open share each week and facilitating a step study group.
One baby step led to another. I am grateful for the opportunity to stretch my faith. I don't really feel called to a public speaking career, but it is wonderful to know that WITH HIM ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
Thank you to everyone who prayed for me <3
Insight into Jericho
As I walk on the treadmill my mind wanders a lot. This morning I listened to my devotions and a podcast hoping to focus my mind while moving my body, killing two birds with one stone. Eventually, I realized that my thoughts had drifted to the city of Jericho and all that marching. Gee, I wonder what inspired that...
-How long did it take to walk around the city of Jericho?
-What were they thinking about as they walked around the city silently?
-Did they have to be silent the whole way or just when near Jericho?
-How far was their base camp from Jericho anyway?
-On the seventh day when they had to walk around seven times how hard was it not to whisper to a buddy?
This train of thought inspired me to do some digging.
I normally walk for an hour or about 3 miles to keep the joints lubricated and my sanity intact. My thoughts ramble disjointed and numerous. The city of Jericho with its protective walls is said to have been about 9 acres. Thank you, Google! So math whiz that I am... (haha) I figured out it would take me only about ten minutes to walk around the city itself. Ten minutes of silence is totally doable, but when I found out their base camp was in Gilgal it changed the whole picture. I had to tack on 9 or so miles from Gilgal to Jericho! So add three hours to that ten minutes and that is just one way!
We are talking a 6+ hour walk every day for 6 days and then about 7+ hours on the last day silently before the walls fell down! That is a lot of time to think!
I wonder if they were allowed to talk until Jericho came into sight? Imagine walking with thousands of people around without making any conversation. Eerie! Ten minutes of silently circling Jericho had to have those soldiers imagining what God was going to do... if anything. There had to be at least one doubter in a crowd that big.
Most periods of waiting aren't easy. Our brains fill the silence with worst-case scenarios, doubts, hopes, fear, anxiety, and prayer. Unknowns allow room for God to show off and with Jericho he definitely did. That seventh day is worth waiting for! I know, I know - I wish we could always know the waiting ended after seven days. Unknowns also allow fear to creep in. The end probably won't go in any of the hundred scenarios we run through our minds anyway.
Countless times the end "battle" turns out so much better than I could have hoped. Unforeseen consequences come and bless my socks off. The end result may be great, but the interim is the best place for me. Clinging to faith increases my spiritual muscle. No pain no gain! It also makes a greater testimony to God's glory!
Even when I feel like the end result was more massacre than victory I know I don't walk through it alone. I have learned to trust. Trust is something that is earned and learned through history together. God uses all things together for good. I like to add an eventually to this statement because His timing is not ours. Waiting is often the main point. In the valley, we get to choose to trust. We get to choose our focus. If we recall our history with God rather than our fears - that is our battle to fight. Our battle is in the heart and head! Choose to trust He will take care of the rest and walk with us through it.
In the midst, I feel like I can't make it through, but with His help I will. The waiting is still unpleasant. I mean who likes waiting? Uncertainty is still uncomfortable. Each valley of testing makes my faith grow and my certainty in God's love, protection, sustenance increases step by step.
My last random thoughts were on armor. How much did it psyche out the rulers of Jericho to see a massive army prepared for battle circle them day after day? They had no idea what God was doing. Maybe they were confident in their walls the first day, but some doubt had to be niggling in their mind with each passing day. I don't want to be waiting around unarmed. I want to keep Satan on his toes.
God wants my head protected with the knowledge of my salvation. My heart is safe, behind the breastplate of righteousness, knowing that God approves of me thanks to Jesus' sacrifice. Truth is my support knowing it should be shared in love. I am ready to share the Good news of peace with God wherever I go. I raise the shield of faith to block the arrows of doubt, shame, and fear Satan sends my way. The sword of the Spirit, the word of God, fights for me against the lies of Satan.
Let's keep growing in our waiting by asking questions and digging deeper into the word, so we will be stronger for the next valley. A good march makes the victory all the sweeter.
New Ventures
Josh and one of his best friends, Luke, opened the supplies for their new joint venture last weekend. Look at those smiles! It was exciting to be a part of their celebration.
One of the things that got Josh through ten years in the lawn service was listening to hours and hours of podcasts. He listened to everyone from hunters to pastors. In fact, he and Luke talked over a year ago about starting their own podcast. Late night conversations they had while biking together around town will be coming soon in their very own podcast series.
Dream are gifts from the dream giver. A generous donation came in specifically for the purpose of making their dream a reality. Wow!
Many hours of research have gone into this idea. As the equipment arrived, we wives were delighted to get a front row seat to the unwrapping. Laura grabbed her phone and captured those first smiles. Those smiles led to laughter. As the first microphone went live the first question popped, "What do you think we will be doing in ten years?" Eyes lit with joy as an easy conversation started.
As Josh and Luke move forward from the research-and-prayer stage to the production-and-prayer one, we ask for your partnership. Pray for clear direction, lots of Holy-Spirit-moments, and faithful listeners. They hope to have links up soon.
My new venture is actually a repeat venture, but I am very excited about it anyway. Five years ago I went through my first step study. God revealed some suppressed hurts in my life and some unhealthy tendencies toward perfectionism and food.
This is the first time I have been able to facilitate other ladies through the steps and I am very excited to journey through the steps again. It is an incredible privilege to journey with others! Not only does God knit hearts together, but you get to be a front seat witness of their freedom journey.
The beatitudes of Jesus are so key to restoring our relationship with Christ and accepting Him as your higher power unlocks incredible freedom and power. Our faith journey continues on as He continues to shape us in the image of His Son. I am looking forward to seeing what areas in addition to healthy boundaries God will have me working on.
So, as the guys and I start our new ventures we invite those around to join in on the journey: be praying for us, be looking for NAM - the podcast and join us at Celebrate Recovery on Friday nights.
My Current Mantra
Walk humbly with God and do the work at your hands....
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Today's the Day
In 2013, when I had just started feeding the homeless with Sean's Outpost, I met a middle aged homeless gentleman one day. He explained to me that he and his dog had just walked from Portland, Oregon to Pensacola, Florida. No plan. No support. Just one foot in front of the other until they had walked all the way across the country. It was on that day that I first started tinkering with the idea of running across the country myself. If this guy could do it, surely I could.
The next year, I did just that. I ran across from Miami, Florida to San Francisco, California. Running across the country is a funny thing, the haters come out in droves. While I was running I would get daily messages saying that the pace I was keeping was too slow and that I was a fat loser that should just give up. After I finished, I was told that it was physically impossible for me to have crossed the continent as fast as I did. In true haters form, they want it both ways.
To hell with the haters.
Under only my own power, I crossed the North American continent. It's not a race, it's a destination. For the record, the fastest time crossing the continent currently sits at 42 days, 6 hours, 30 mins (WOWZA). Last time I ran I crossed it in 112 days. Some people have taken more than a year to do it. But they did it. Annually, it is estimated that between 12 - 20 people attempt to run across the US. (over 800 attempt to climb everest). You can find records of about 400 people who have accomplished it (4000 for Everest). Obviously, that number has to be higher, because people originally got to California somehow. But you get the picture, it's an undertaking. And like the original settlers, some just got to Denver and said fuck it.
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Baton Rouge
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San Antonio
Austin (day trip, not on run path)
El Paso
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Las Vegas (day trip, not on run path)
Palm Springs
San Bernardino
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Santa Monica
I'll be meeting up with blockchain enthusiasts and crypto hopefuls in every town I pass thru. Feel free to reach out if you're on the route.
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Well, I'm heading to sleep. I've got a busy day ahead of me (It's 2am, lol)
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Allow Your Heart To Open - Mary Magdalene
Category: The Ascended Masters Written by Lea Chapin Views: 2553
Greetings Dear One yes it is I, Mary Magdalene. Yeshua is here as well. We say to you Dear Children of Light that we wish to begin with a prayer for Divine Love, calling in the energy of the Cosmic Flame of Love.
So Dear Sons and Daughters we ask you now to breathe in the pink flame of the Cosmic Flame of Love. As you begin to breathe in this vibration, allow it to fill every cell, fiber and pore of your being with Divine Love. Allowing your heart chakra now to begin to expand, and begin to release and let go of all fears, all doubts, all worries, and the separation from your I AM presence. Simply begin to take a deep inhaling breath, and begin to breathe in the energy of the white light of God, breathing in the Cosmic Flame of Love, breathing in the Cosmic Flame of Love. The rose pink flame of Cosmic Love, once again filling your body, your mental mind, your emotional mind, all of your subtle light bodies and all aspects of your being with love.
Today as you begin to heal those distortions and the negative frequencies that have consumed you from the beginning of your time here on earth, through all lifetimes, through all incarnations, through all dimensions, time and space, shall you begin to clear this energy from any distortions with the Cosmic Flame of Divine Love. You see Dearest Ones this was the energy that my beloved Yeshua brought forth through his incarnation, and that he and I hold together as twin flames. We have come here to help others to understand unconditional, divine love shall heal and restore all that is not of love.
And so as we have come together as twin flames, as the representation of the holy energy, of the cosmic flame of divine love, we ask you now to begin to unite within yourself, and to unify within your own being, the reunification and the energy that has created any distortions, that are not of pure love and pure light. Simply allowing the cosmic flame of love to begin to heal and to bring through your crown chakra and through your heart chakra a powerful vortex of energy that is radiating from your being. As if the beautiful cosmic pink flame is now entering through your crown chakra, exiting through your heart chakra, and radiating out into your being, and into the world. Flooding the planet with divine love, divine healing, divine grace. So Dear Ones each of you are a powerful conduit, a powerful transmuter of love and light, and it is of great importance that you begin to honor this within yourself, and call in the Cosmic Flame of Love, transmuting and transmitting all that is of pure love. Bringing the vibration into your consciousness and allowing your heart to open and to begin to heal, understanding that all is in divine order and all is as it should be. As you surround yourself with this beautiful pink flame of Cosmic Love, allowing your body to be absorbed, and your body to be embraced and nurtured with the Cosmic Flame.
As if you are surrounding yourself with a beautiful, pink, soft ray of light, that is nurturing and healing, and healing all of the distortions, all of the mis-qualifications of energy that no longer serves you. As you hold this frequency within the essence of your consciousness, you are breathing in the love, you are breathing in the light, you are bringing in the transformational energy so that your physical body, your mental body, your emotional body and all aspects of your being can remain in a pure state of consciousness, in your I AM Presence, and as you walk upon this earth plane, and as you infuse this energy into the earth, and into your surrounding vicinity, may the frequency of Divine Love and Divine Grace now be emitted onto the earth, allowing the healing to occur, for Mother Earth to be healed and cleared of the fear that is now so prevalent upon this earth plane. You see, Dear One, since the beginning of time there have been distortions, and separation from the I AM Presence, from the Great Creator, and the frequency of fear has kept humanity in bondage. So today as you call in the pink flame of love, do not allow yourself to be held in bondage, do not allow yourself to be held within the collective consciousness of fear, do not allow this frequency to rule you, or to consume you. For you know the truth of your being, that you are a Living God, that you are a powerful being of light, and you are a creator, a Creator God of Love and of Light. So simply allow your heart to open, and your mind to be healed, allowing the frequency of love to now consume you, to embrace you, to embody you, so that you may be at peace.
Know at this time, Dearest Children, that the opportunities that come before you will now be held with the vibration of love, that all that now comes forth to you will be held with the vibration of love. The pink, rose Flame of Cosmic Love will bring to you all that is yours, all that is your birthright, divine love, shall now enter into your physical lives, and enter in to your spiritual lives, and enter into all aspects of your being, so that now you have brought forth this energy, through you, into your heart chakra and then out into the world, and now, like a magnet, you shall begin to receive the powerful flame of Divine Love as it now magnifies and returns back to you. What you give out you shall receive, it is the Law of Attraction. So today as you release the fears, and as you fill your body, your mind and your spirit with Divine Love, only good will come to you, be not afraid, do not hold the energy of the collective fear that is held over this planet to be a part of your consciousness or to consume you. Simply now transmute this, and know that the Cosmic Flame of the Pink Love will heal and transmute all that is not of love, that is not of pure light. This is a tool, as we say, to use so that you may not become consumed with your own fears, or with the concerns of the world. Or even be susceptible to the collective consciousness fear that is held over this planet through humanity's thought forms. So you see, Dearest Ones, how the power and the potency of the Rose Pink Flame of Cosmic Love can heal and transmute. This is of truth Dearest Ones, this is the energy which I held within my heart upon the day that my beloved Yeshua was on the cross. Holding the pink flame of Divine Love for him, and transmuting the energies that were in the crowd, that were fearful, that were angry, that wished to harm my Yeshua.
Despite all that occurred upon that day, my beloved Yeshua was able to hold his frequency into the purest of light as he transcended himself into his mastery self and he was able to hold and bring the pink Cosmic Flame of Love to those present on that day. You see he and I are one, we are twin flames, and what he feels I feel, what I feel he feels. We are twin flames, and what he feels I feel, and what I feel he feels. We are able to transcend our consciousness into a higher state of awareness in union, Divine , Holy, Sacred Union. So this is what we are doing for you again today, Yeshua and I are holding the template, are holding the space of Divine Love for each of you to merge into, so that you may feel the presence and the essence of the Cosmic Flame of Love within your individual lives, so that you are here as you know, as a messenger of hope, a beacon of light. So you are here by Divine Appointment to assist this planet in raising the consciousness for all the world to see and all the world to know. The Cosmic Flame of Divine Love is your birthright, you see you are living on this planet of love, this beautiful planet, Mother Gaia, she is known as the planet of love, and as each of you now begin to open your hearts, and your heart beats with her heartbeat, become attuned to her, become attuned to the frequencies of the earth mother, and there Dearest Ones you will always be protected you will always be guided, and you will always receive and be nurtured from Mother Earth. So today as you extend your heart from Divine Cosmic Love out into the world and into the grid lines and into the heart of Mother Earth, you are now at one with Mother Earth, your heart is beating as one, and there is no need to be afraid of the earth or the earth changes, as you are aligned to her energy and her frequency, you are always protected, this is our covenant and promise onto you, you are always protected. So connect your heart to the heart beat of Mother Earth, and this beautiful flame of Divine Cosmic Love.
So as you begin to feel this energy expanding through you, and your heart beginning to open and expand, may you begin to feel the presence of the love of Mother Earth, and feel her peace, feel her peace, feel her peace, feel her peace, bringing this energy in to your mind, your body and your spirit, allowing this frequency to recalculate and to recalibrate any distortions, any negativity, that you have been holding on to, allowing the Earth Mother now to begin to heal you as you have sent out the love, you are now receiving it back from Mother Gaia. Begin to expand your consciousness, that you are making a difference in the world by being present with all that is. Holding the space of love for yourself, and being present with all that is. May the love of God surround you, the power of God protect you, the presence of God watches over you wherever you are God is and all is well.
So as you call in this powerful frequency of the flame of Cosmic Love, expand and raise your consciousness, to the purity and to the hope and to the restoration of your I AM presence, returning back to your I AM presence, be still, be still, be still and know that you are God. As you feel the Cosmic Flame building within your heart, and you are at peace. Transmuting and letting go of all that no longer serves you. Letting your heart open as a beautiful flower, a beautiful Lotus flower that is now ready to blossom and to bloom and to unfold. You are ready to serve and to be served with Divine Love and Holy Grace. You are ready to be filled with Divine Love and Holy Grace. As if it is what we call the universal law, what you give out you shall receive. The manifestation of the love that you are will create what we call Divine, Holy Union and Divine Balance in your individual and collective lives. As you hold the Cosmic Flame of Love within you, then all is in Divine Order. All is in Divine Grace. So the world and your inner world and your outer world will reflect Divine Grace. So allow your heart to open now, the pink, Cosmic Flame of Love. Merging your heart once again with the heartbeat of Mother Earth. Merging your heart once again with the heart beat of Mother Earth, and feeling her love and her peace and her tranquility within your own soul. So you see Dearest Children there is no place for fear, there is no place for separation. There is only love. When you see or feel the separation or the disqualified energies, breathe in the pink Cosmic Flame of Love and transmute them. You see Dearest Ones you are all masters, and you are able to master lower vibrational frequencies within you and around you. You are able to stay in the presence of your I AM presence and feel joy, feel loved, and feel the strength of your truth. That you are Divine Gods and Goddesses.
So allow your heart to open and begin to feel the joy, as you begin to resonate with the frequency of Divine Love, knowing that fear holds no place within your consciousness, holds no place within your subconscious, and so begin to clear the fears from you at this time, as if the Cosmic Flame of Love and the violet flame are washing you clean of all your conscious and subconscious fears. You see Dearest Children, you are the leaders, you are the teachers, you are the way showers, and you are here to help others to live in this state of harmony and balance. This is Divine Law, this is Divine Law, this is Divine Law. Holy Grace, holy grace, holy grace, this is Divine Law. So Dear Ones, know that you have this power, and as you infuse this energy within your being, using the Cosmic Flame of Divine Love, do not feel the fear, but embrace the love. Knowing that you again are in control and you bring to you that which you wish and desire within your life. Holy Divine Grace. So Dear Ones as you feel this energy now being embodied into every cell, every fiber, every pore of your being, may you begin to feel the peace and the tranquility and the love upon your soul. May your heart open to the presence of God's will. May you claim your mastery, that you are a divine expression of love and divine holy grace, knowing that all is in order and all is as it should be, as you feel the power of love, Divine Cosmic Love, and Paul the Venetian is standing beside you, guiding you, and infusing you with the Cosmic Flame. As if you are now a part of this frequency, your energy is a part of this frequency, you are living and breathing the Cosmic Flame of Love. Paul the Venetian is gifting you this frequency, as it is embedded and transmuted and encoded over you. As he stands above you and infuses you with this powerful frequency, so your body will remain strong, your mind will remain strong, and all aspects of your life, your relationships, your finances, your health, your career, your aspirations, your dreams, all will remain aligned in Divine Cosmic Grace and Cosmic Love. Once again, know that all is in order and all is as it should be, as the beautiful Paul the Venetian graces you with love. Yeshua and I stand with you in Divine, Holy Sacred Union so that you may feel the peace and the tranquility upon your soul, knowing that this is your birthright, love. For you are created from love and love you shall remain, you are created in light and light you shall remain. As you are deeply connected to the Earth Mother, the love and light that you hold will now sustain her and nourish her, and she is able to sustain and nourish you. Your symbiotic relationship with the Earth Mother now is fully anchored into the Cosmic Flame of Love. Go forward my children in Divine peace and Divine grace, knowing that all is in order and all is as it should be. As you feel the power of love on this beloved day. As always we are grateful for this gift called life. So Dear Sons and Daughters, today as you receive the energy of the Pink Cosmic Flame of Love, and the energy of the violet fire, transmuting all discordant, disqualified and fear based emotions and energies around you, may you feel the peace and the love and the tranquility within your heart, for it is time, it is time, it is time, to shine this light forward in Divine Sacred Union, with all of life. Go now my children and be at peace, and be still and know that you are God.
Reverend Lea Chapin
Lea Chapin has always been dedicated to helping others, whether in her psychotherapy practice or as a licensed massage therapist or any of a number of other undertakings she has pursued in service to others. Most recently, she has expressed her amazing gifts as an author, speaker, and teacher of Divine wisdom.
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