BLOGGING WITH SPIRIT

INTRODUCING...Healing Chats With Your Pets

05/21/2013 10:30:00

NEWS FLASH OKLAHOMA. CHILD FOUND PLEASE SHARE

05/20/2013 18:43:00

Thinking of Oklahoma-Assistance with Contacting Loved Ones

05/20/2013 18:13:00

We are deeply saddened by the horrible tragedy in Oklahoma.

Prayers going out to all affected by this terrible event.

If you are looking to communicate with loved ones, please use www.safeandwell.org.

If you'd like to donate, here is one option: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to give $10 to American Red Cross Disaster Relief. (If fans know of others, please comment in this thread).

Remember, social media can do incredible good in times like this. Thanks, friends.

Safe & Well safeandwell.communityos.orgAfter a disaster, letting your family and friends know that you are safe and well can bring your loved ones great peace of mind. This website is designed to help make that

ANIMAL DAY-AURA PHOTOS AND REIKI TUNE-UPS-Mother's Day Gift!

05/07/2013 14:46:00

A WONDERFUL GIFT FOR MOTHER'S DAY!

K-9's and Kitty's

8544 W. Lake Mead Blvd

Las Vegas, Nevada 89128

Saturday, May 11, 2013

11:00 a.m.- 2 p.m.

$50 for aura photo and Reiki tune-up.

702-251-9663 (woof)

Call and make an appt. for Saturday.

Renee Penley will take a photo of you and your beloved animal companion. She will then use her divine intuitive skills to share with you what the beautiful colors represent in your photo. It is a lovely way to understand the sacred connection between you and you pets.

Reverend Peg Ashman- As a Reiki Master, Rev. Ashman loves giving Reiki boosts to humans and animals alike.

Reiki works well with animals for the same reasons it works well on children and people of all ages. Have you ever noticed that when you pet an animal, he rolls over to receive more or looks at you with lovey-dovey eyes or sighs?

Animals respond to your loving touch and intention. Reiki is another way to help your animals feel better.

You can give Reiki to animals in the following situations:

... •When they are ill: Reiki helps the healing process and works with any type of medical intervention.

•When they are young or old: You can use Reiki on an animal of any age or situation.

•When they have been through a trauma: Animals can use loving energy after they've experienced any type of abuse, loss, or move, or if they seem to exhibit depression or other behavioral disorder. Even if you don't know what the problem is, you can use Reiki to help.

Beyond Optimist

05/05/2013 07:23:00

In Praise of Large Windows

04/30/2013 08:15:00

It is the large windows that save her

yet again.

In the midst of the density that has descended deep

within she turns to the view to find

her way through.

The finches are scrabbling for leaves and fluff

for nests, the lone trio of geese

honk overhead in route to the pond.

She settles in the depth of this momentary despair

long enough for it to have its way

knowing that the light will

bring her out and forward

another day.

Let's Reach Out Far and Wide

04/29/2013 19:36:00

Abandoned in Chaos-Some Thoughts

04/27/2013 09:25:00

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Brendan Foster

It may be that this circumstance will present itself to you suddenly with the onset of trauma, feared diagnoses, the call you do not want to receive or, papers, the signed for kind, being delivered unexpectedly. Your body goes into a semi-shock state with a sense of the oxygen being sucked from the room and your body as well. Despite the unavoidable fact that these moments take place in all of our lives does not mitigate the trauma that takes place in our mind, body and spirit in such individual and personal fashion. Then, we are meant to rally forth and quickly develop a plan of action. We often feel a need to be strong for everyone else when we feel as though we have no bones in our body let alone a backbone to move forward with.

What many in this situation do not ever want to discuss is that these traumatic sensations and desperate moments of isolation come whether we have a rock solid foundation in faith or do not. Organized religion or a spiritual path do not seem to save us from the existential loneliness that illness and death and separation from those we love wrought upon us. It is as if we find ourselves plucked from lives that we scarcely knew how much we valued into a desert without so much as a canteen or compass.

Where is the divine in such a chaotic space? How has our faith abandoned us at this juncture? And frankly, the more to the point question is for people of faith, why has our loving God left us in a lump of loss and desperation when they are needed most? All fair questions.

Let's consider this further. Throughout our history there are many great stories of wandering in isolation in every east, west, religious or spiritual tradition we can point to. And so it is in these moments. As valuable, truly valuable as our loved ones and treasured friends are in these unfortunate phases of crises, there may be a reason, a divine reason for this feeling of abandonment.

The Divine resides in each of us. The Divine resides in each of us. Again, the Divine resides in each of us. We are created in divinity and when we feel isolated in a way that threatens to unalterably change us for the duration? We spiritually shed the shackles of this earthly life and speak, finally speak, to the spark of that Divinity within. The wise traveler on this journey cries out to the empty space for guidance and sustenance on every level. And then? They wait. They wait for what seems an eternity and more for the first whisper, hint and mere suggestion of Spirit. It comes at times in a subtlety that seems almost inappropriate for the moment. Still it comes. With the uncertainty of what is to come and how life is to be in a perhaps altered fashion it comes regardless and we are lifted up in moments of Grace. Yes. In moments that are fleeting and we will return again and again to the conversation that has gone from a crying out to an ongoing whisper between loving companions.

Reach out to those who wander in this desert alone. It will not alter their sacred journey to the Divine but holding a hand, offering a kind word or meal will sustain them on their journey. Praise the courage it takes walk in the face of such chaos.

May you know in the very seat of your soul of the Divinity within you and may this knowledge sustain you on your path.

Namaste.

Happy Birthday Dad-Inexplicable Grace

04/26/2013 08:51:00

Though I write about this in my book, I can never quite wrap my head around the "inexplicable grace" of many bits of my journey. One of these pieces is this...My Dad shown here worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad in downtown Sacramento in Car Shop 9. He HATED it. One of the many folks who worked in Car Shop 9 was a gentleman by the name of Charles McEntee. Folks called him "Crazy Chuck" in an amiable way. Charles McEntee is my Pop, my birth father. These two true gentle men with huge and kind hearts knew one another but did not know that they shared a daughter, me, in common. Inexplicable GRACE. They are both gone now. I am so proud to be a walking demonstration via genetics and environment and love of these two.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

May your cake be CHOCOLATE!

Find that Broken Spot and Allow Healing to Commence

04/25/2013 20:39:00

As a Reiki Master and spiritual coach the greatest joy in my work is seeing others feeling able to examine in true fashion that which has caused them deep internal pain and conflict and let it go. Once and for all. Conversely, the greatest disadvantage in this work is when a client simply cannot make a different choice and pain and conflict and chaos continues.

The compare and contrast factor in our lives and in this work is frustrating and beautiful all at the same time. It serves as an ongoing reminder that the Universe has certain laws that all must abide by. The first one of these and the most important is that our free will is the beginning and end of all other rules. Before we jump on too much judgment of ourselves and others, we need to consider that things and people and circumstances are neither

good or bad. The truth is there is more of a mix of these things in circumstances and certainly divinely created people. It is more about what "works" and what does not. All information, yes, repeating this again, All information is good information going forward. And...going forward is what we are meant to do.

Let go of spoken and unspoken pain, anger, angst so that you are better able to view others with the compassion that they need and deserve.

As you do? We all benefit.

And SO IT IS!

Namaste.