Bring gentleness and gratitude to your harvesting
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An excerpt from the book, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy
It happened that during a time my daughter and I were living in Amsterdam, the small community at Findhorn was garnering headlines in Scotland. Many readers might well be familiar with Peter and Eileen Caddy’s story. Peter, a Scottish businessman, and his wife, Eileen, found themselves making an unlikely move to Findhorn, north of Edinburgh, on the Moray Firth, where their inner guidance directed them to begin a garden.
The locals smirked behind their backs because the land was quite sandy and arid and salty and farmers were certain Peter was truly daft and delusional to begin to grow anything on such land. But Peter and Eileen were true to their inner directives and began to cultivate many varieties of vegetables and plants. ...
These days we are bombarded with an array of communication, media and technology demanding we always be “on.” At some point, this distraction and stress can catch up to our natural system, leaving us depleted, unfocused and disconnected from ourselves.
The first 44 years of my life was, for the most part, like many others. I had a job, a family, a home; I was married and participated in this world like many others do. For a while I did the religion thing, the God thing, the angels and guides thing, but have since ended all of that, too! I read and listened to the truths and perspectives of others, but as I did, I began to become aware of what was not true or accurate. So I stopped reading other’s truths and writings, because I could not get through them any longer.
If I could do anything, I would see as God sees, and love as God loves. Just saying this out loud, and writing it on this page, I feel the longing for such an openness and loving connection welling up within my breast.
My world took an incredible turn recently that changed my life forever! For several decades my husband and I were devoted students of what we thought of as the highest path. We both thrived in our love for God, service and spiritual practices. I dwelled on exercises in heavens above the soul plane and my husband did out of body travel nightly with Spiritual Masters.
You can’t even bring up the word Faith without automatically putting yourself on the opposite side of the fence as logic. And the society we live in worships logic. Being a person of faith means that you believe in the illogical, the irrational, the mysterious, the flighty — the make-believe. If something is not touchable, seeable and provable, you are not allowed to talk about it, not in intelligent company. The only approach to matters of faith, most people believe, is through speculation and/or wishful thinking and is therefore useless, unless you’re dying, and then only as an opiate to soften the blow.
Spirited Kidz
It’s supposed to be easy. But, let me tell you, after reading Wayne Dyer’sYou’ll See It When You Believe it, experiencing The Futures Group (previously Executive Futures) course and having good friends who “understand” abundance, I am still finding it challenging. One of my clients suggested creating a T-shirt that reads, “This is only my form.” And yes, I know our souls are larger than our bodies, and yes, I know positive energy attracts positive energy — but wait a minute — how do I learn to live in the everyday world when I feel continually connected to my Higher Self, my Higher Power, and everybody else?
Have you been diagnosed with anxiety or depression? If so, do any of the following scenarios, based on actual people and events, sound familiar?
An education isn’t the only thing many college students “get” at college. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 20-25 percent of college students in the United States have either been infected with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) or have transmitted an STI to their sex partner(s). Two out of three STIs are found in people under the age of 25, and there are about 9 million new cases each year.
Everything is connected, but did you realize you could be having a more compassionate relationship to your home and your property, for the highest good of all?
How much of your day is spent “playing?” Really — think about it. In a world where working overtime is applauded and rushing our kids from activity to activity has become the norm, who’s got time to relax, laugh, and truly enjoy life?
In a classic scene in The Graduate, young Ben is at his college graduation party when a friend of his parents takes him aside and earnestly whispers, “plastics.” That industry will be the next rage, the fellow hints, and if Ben is smart he’ll get in on the ground floor.
Name: Lori Bestler
