The DAILY SPARK Blog

AWAKENING

           Awakening

Why wait for your awakening?

Do you value your reasons for staying small
more than the light shining through the open door?
Forgive yourself,
Forgive yourself.
Now is the only time you have to be whole.
Now.
Now is the sole moment that exists to live in the light of your true nature
Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.
Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.
Please, oh please, don’t continue to believe
in your stories of deficiency and failure.
This is the day of your awakening.

Poem by Danna Faulds

REFLECTION:

  • Do you continue to believe in your stories of deficiency and failure?
  • Can you forgive yourself?
  • We are about to start a new year… you have a chance at a NEW BEGINNING!
  • THIS IS THE DAY OF YOUR AWAKENING!

SEEDS OF CHANGE

SELF-OBSERVATION WITHOUT JUDGMENT

Release the harsh and pointed inner
voice. it’s just a throwback to the past,
and holds no truth about this moment.

Let go of self-judgment, the old,
learned ways of beating yourself up
for each imagined inadequacy.

Allow the dialogue within the mind
to grow friendlier, and quiet. Shift
out of inner criticism and life
suddenly looks very different.

i can say this only because I make
the choice a hundred times a day to release the voice that refuses to
acknowledge the real me.

What’s needed here isn’t more prodding toward perfection, but
intimacy – seeing clearly, and
embracing what I see.

Love, not judgment, sows the
seeds of tranquility and change.

 

Poem by Danna Faulds

REFLECTION:

  • I believe many of us (especially me) have a harsh inner critic.
  • Do you prod yourself toward perfection and allow that inner critic to be the only voice you hear?
  • What if you could shift to a quieter more friendly voice?  How would that change you and your way of being in the world?
  • Today, allow LOVE … non judgment( silence the inner critic)  to sow the seeds of change and peace.

GIFT OF THE HOLIDAYS

Child Jesus, Washington National Cathedral

Don’t get caught up in the wrapping paper and forget that the gift of the Christmas season is simply love.

 Quote by Toni Sorenson 

REFLECTION:

  • Enjoy this day with your loved ones!
  • Show love and kindness today.  
  • Wishing you and yours a wonderful Holiday.