Divine VS Animal Nature

This morning as I spent time in meditation my little furry baby joined me. Her name is Mila short for Miracle or Milagros in Spanish. Well Mila came beside me. Her little furry face rubbing my legs. I picked her up and began my breathing routine. Three breaths in, five breaths out. She jumped out from beside me and I opened my eyes, I let her go and closed them again. Three breaths in, five breaths out. She began to scratch the chair I was in. I picked her up, sat her next to me and again began my breathing. Three breaths in, five breaths out. Down she went again. We did this a few more rounds until I decided to hold her close to me. I held her close to my heart and I asked the Universe what the lesson is that she was teaching me. This was the awareness that came to me.

Our animal nature and our Divine nature exist side by side. The animal nature will always be fidgety and indecisive. Angry for some and aggressive in others. The animal nature will always want and need and perhaps fear. The animal nature plays the game of not enough, too much and mine verses yours. In all of that, “We” have choice. When our animal nature shows up we can either dismiss it or embrace it. When we embrace it with love and compassion we bring our Divine nature to it. When we hold it close to our hearts and cover it with unconditional love instead of judgment  we tame the beast and allow both to exist. We stop the separation of God and man and Become ONE SUBLIME ENERGY MANIFEST IN FLESH! We merge the two and our life becomes ONE with all that is. We transform the mundane moments into manifest Miracles. We no longer separate ourselves from the other. We no longer separate our Spirit from the flesh ; We Transcend the Whole body and Soul into Light and Love. We Love, not war. We make Peace, not anger. We make the ideal of Freedom and Justice for all a reality, not just an ideal. 

So the next time your animal nature shows up in your lap, try embracing it as it is without judgement. Hold it in your arms and see what it is really asking for. Do you need more attention? Do you need more love? Do you need to be heard, seen or recognized? Then offer it to yourself. Offer yourself unconditional love in the moment and watch the Miracle of Transformation become an Ordinary experience, because it is. 

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A Souls Purpose for Lemons

In life the lemons we receive are the challenges, difficulties, trials and errors we experience. Sometimes these experiences happen in small batches like the first buds on the lemon tree; the small potted lemon tree on your patio or in your backyard. And sometimes they happen like the orchard in groves and groves of happenings too quick for us to make sense of.

What do you do with that small batch of lemons better prepare you for how you deal with an orchard. In life the tests and trials are given to us in perfect measure with our capabilities to handle them. This is what the bible means in 1 Corinthians 10:13 about not having put on you more than you can bear”.

In our quest for more in life, more happiness, more health, more wealth, more success, more fun, more joy, more free time, more, more, more, each of these more things comes with responsibilities. Each more wealth comes with greater responsibilities of how to handle not just the wealth but the challenges that come along with being wealthy. Each more health comes with it the challenges of what to do as a result of the health you receive. Each more free time comes with the responsibility of how to make use of the time you already have. When we aren’t able to accept and properly deal with the challenges at the level we are at by making lemonade with the lemons we are unable to move forward and accept the more that we desire. The more of contains more of everything you have now and then some.

Life gives us lemons to make lemonade is not a new sentiment. Your life contains your Souls purpose. When we look at life from a Soul perspective we rise above the mundane day to day occurrences of the things we encounter and see the orchard for what it really is. We see the magnitude of our decision to be incarnated to bring love to each and every situation. Love is what makes life sweet. Love is the sugar to the lemons of life that makes the lemonade. When we are able to make love to the situations and experiences, life becomes sweet and we can then take the bitter with the sweet and enjoy both equally.

How do you make love out of the lemons you are given?????????

When you are able to love the bulb and the tree, when you can love the lemons in your own backyard you will be given an orchard view of what is already yours. The Soul longs to be engaged in your life from a place of conscious awareness. It is when we can rise above what it looks like in the muck and mire were we are standing and see beyond the mud to the tops of the trees. Our Soul has this perspective. The Soul longs to show us how we can see it from a different view. It will not come into our conscious mind without an invitation, even thou it sits on our shoulder waiting to broaden our perspective. The Soul is evolutionary and contains all that you need to be able to make love in each situation. The Soul doesn’t just quiet the war it declares a cease fire and dismantles the weapons of destruction by applying a salve that has the power to transform everything in its path to be more like itself.

The tools we have been given to cut open the lemon and squeeze out the juice is the hand and knife of prayer and meditation. Prayer is the knife that slices open the sour and astringent, tart and tangy bitter and acrid expressions of our fear and doubt, anger and negativity that is housed in our limited view of what is being experienced. Meditation is the tool that stills the mind long enough to make an intelligent decision. It raises the mind above the clamor and noise of our small self into the Presence of MIND as our Higher-Self; the Orchard View. Here the Souls is in direct communication with the self to make a loving choice in the moment.

This holiday season and every day of the year take a Soul-filled look at the experience and make love to the situation by allowing your Soul to guide you. Place your sour expression, bitter comments and anger on notice that their days are number with love.

Today’s Affirmation:

I choose to make love to life by being love in every moment.