touched by G0D

On the Change Warrior Blog - Touched by G0D

Life. Lived. Living.

Real. Reality. Really.

http://changewarrior.blogspot.com/2014/07/touched-by-g0d.html

forgive & forget

Uttering the phrase,

“I beg your pardon?”

What exactly is it we ask?

Forgiveness? Mercy? Release? 

For the full version, go to http://changewarrior.blogspot.com/2014/06/forgive-forget.html. 

welcome to the neighborhood

Walking around our neighborhood we always find something to intrigue and entertain us.

Read all about it here.

http://wonderwanderwomen.blogspot.com/2014/05/barrio-walkabout.html.

disconnect

"Don't let yourself be separated from me. The country called life is close. By its seriousness, you will know it. Give me your hand." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Before He Makes Each One

Yesterday was April Fool’s Day, an occasion I have long ceased to actively participate in. Yet this year I felt like the butt of some cosmic joke when we found ourselves at midnight bidding goodbye to my sister and our niece’ whole family at the airport. . . .

Read the full story here - http://changewarrior.blogspot.com/2014/04/disconnect.html. 

celebrating siblings

celebrating my beloved sisters' birthdays

http://changewarrior.blogspot.com/2014/03/celebrating-siblings.html

Happy New Year 2014

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labels & roles, patterns & habits

For most the holidays and year end are when matters come to a head - for better or worse. As we rush, rush, rush then crash headlong into our future.

Instead of waiting for a special occasion, would it not feel better to acknowledge the specialness of every moment - timely or not?

Rather than giving the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time - how to do the opposite with attention and effort?

Giving is a disciplined art that needs years of practice and observation to be done appropriately.

The poet David Whyte writes of Giving - "The full genius of gift giving is found when we give what a person does not fully feel they deserve, but that does not overstretch the point, it is the appropriate but surprising next step in their lives. It disarms and moves and empowers all at once while gratifying the one who gives beyond most everyday satisfactions."

Hopefully our state of attention and affairs allows us to be creative and contemplative enough to do so.
If we missed it this year then there is hope in the New Year!

Posted by Bhakti Issa Urra at 5:44 PM 

making whoopee!

October 31 is Samhain or Halloween - also known as All Hallows Eve - the celebration of the end of the year and the beginning of the year's last season. Straddling the line between fall and winter, harvest and follow, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. 

Pagan or Christian, ancient or modern, young or old - the world over, we all come together to share and celebrate on this special day. As the wind grows chill and the days shorten, we bundle up around our hearths and get warm and cozy. 

Read the full post here - http://changewarrior.blogspot.com/2013/10/making-whoopee.html. 

being penny wise but pound foolish

While social media is an inevitable part of most of our lives, many are ill 
equipped to even make educated distinctions between media formats 
and socializing. 

To be clear, social media is a way to convey or share information with a 
wide audience, while social networking is an act of engagement. Social 
media is the means to deliver a message. Social networking is the 
two-way communication that builds and develops relationships. 

"Social Media can be called a strategy and an outlet for broadcasting, 
while Social Networking is a tool and a utility for connecting with others." 
~ Lon S. Cohen 

Read the full blog here. 

ghosts from the past

It never ceases to amaze me who shows up to greet me for my birthday each year. Now that my birth month is done I can officially say my birthday acknowledgements are finally over. 

There are my all time predictables - mostly family & long-time friends. Whether they greet me early, on time or belatedly - it's always a warm & fuzzy pleasure to hear from them.

There are the social media savvy - those close & dear sending greetings from casual to sappy - as well as passing acquaintances or former friends & colleagues grown distant - be it thru time or presence or convenience or the lack of either.

Every year though, some long lost one or two pop up to surprise me & spice things up. Memories stir, feelings are rekindled, conversations ignited. Whether we find ourselves back in the groove or orbiting in different spheres - reconnections are made however brief or long lasting.

Intangibles are made tangible as magic manifests once again. Travel the world & the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something. Sweet dreams are made of this.

Posted by Bhakti Issa Urra at 12:39 PM 

Labels: future, past, perfect, present, tense

martyrs, mystics, monsters

"There is no way on the spiritual quest to avoid demonic forces. At the very least the seeker carries them within himself, in the form of his own passions and illusions. At various stages of the path, he must confront and deal with each of them in one way or another." - "Wrathful Deities" by Edwin Bernbaum, Parabola Magazine [Volume 6: Number 4]

The age old debate over fate and free will has wound from discussion to debacle between friend and foe.

read more. . . .

of fathers, padres & daddy issues

as seen on Change Warrior

We were once a conquered land, ruled by the church back in the time of the Inquisition. Many old families can trace their ancestry back to their parish priest. Unfortunately, long after we rebelled and won our independence, priests continued fathering illegitimate families.
read more. . . .

the push & pull in growth & expansion

via Change Warrior blog. . . .

In our drive to produce and advance, priorities can grow conflicted. In development the priority is meeting challenges and expectations of growth and expansion. In production the priority is doing the right thing at the right time and doing both well. Implementation and management of development and production greatly influence outcome and advancement.

Read in full here - the push & pull in growth & expansion.

Easter post

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mish mash

being a Pinay, raised by German Benedictine nuns in our tiny provincial town, having moved halfway around the world & proud to be a global citizen - I sure can relate

"I’d like to yogalize my poses, buddhalize my prayers, jesusize my love and hindulize my smile."

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/12/slow-down-my-beaten-heart/

longing for. . . .advent. . . .easter. . . .spring

Let the thrill pass into and thru your DNA as fat rain drops are absorbed into newly turned earth to soak and fertilize it. Prepping for new life to push out into the world and embrace eternity. Lips parted in a smile of complete recognition as the palm of an upraised arm flattens forward, breaching the distance.

New Year's post: Shape your world

Shape your world through your light.

Illuminate your unique path. Don’t live in the

shadow of others’ judgments. They are not

yours - unless you let them be so.

 — ASCENSION TESTS by Jim PathFinder Ewing

As the dust of Christmas Past settles and we settle into the New Year, hopefully clarity and balance are restored. With the learning that every thought, person and issue is here for the sake of our freedom, may we come to the true realization of limitless and boundless divine source. http://changewarrior.blogspot.com/

advance or retreat?

I feel vastly stimulated - hyper aware.  Often in ways difficult to understand or rationalize.  Intuitively more sensitive to other people - empathetic to how they feel and compassionate towards them.  

Egoless-ly identifying with and helping others.  Yet wanting to flee the mundane universe and go off into some private secluded world.  Harmless daydreaming or full-scale evasion of reality? 

Do I withdraw or forge ahead? 

being open hearted once again

It is said that [we] are cowed by the need for gender identification/conformity at age five and women are not caught until they are in their teens. Be that as it may, it is adolescence that separates people in our culture from their core 

identification as competent individuals. Adolescence is a time during which there is no meaningful role for our youth, and they often mark time by playing the role of "teen-ager."

At a time of full emergence of sexuality and the need to know how to direct it into socially acceptable forms, our society fails miserably to provide guidance. The mind has now developed to the point where a person can introspect and think about his/her own thinking. So a great deal of existential questioning goes on with no answers apparent. The culture is silent about what makes my life meaningful. Silent about Spirit.

Loneliness due to the separations that have been culminating combines with sexual urges to produce romantic love which is fed by sex-role stereotypes to produce remarkably deviant relationships. These are deviant in the sense that they are not based upon anything substantial upon which to create a lasting union with the other person. The heartbreak that results from these tentative efforts at intimacy can still be felt in middle age decades later. Who does not remember their first love?

Because we do not provide our children with any education about how to be parents or how to be intimate in relationship, over two-thirds of the marriages in this country end in divorce. We don't know how to be intimate. And this ignorance causes untold heartbreak and anguish of loneliness. It begins in adolescence when the urges come to fruition, when love affairs fail and we are rejected or betrayed (often because of stereotypes of attractiveness). We are separated from our hearts, we learn not to trust them. Openheartedness is something we need to relearn, along with the trust that was forfeited back in infancy.

According to Erikson (1968), development of trust is the first task we have in life, one that is encountered in infancy and which depends upon adequate loving and mothering for its fruition. All other developmental tasks (autonomy, initiative, industry, identity, intimacy, generativity and integrity) depend upon this one for their successful emergence. When our hearts are closed, our lives go into a state of rigidity as a defense against further vulnerability. And spiritual development ceases. In the resulting isolation, adults try to find meaning in relationships and family or in their work. But nothing can substitute for the real Love and connection that we all seek. When the pain comes to a head, the search begins. . . .

excerpted from "Return to Spirit: Disheartenment" - http://www.spiritsong.org/intro.htm