Expect a miracle...

Today we can expect a miracle...
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Indeed, Life itself is a miracle...

The unexpected slips into our lives everyday...

Let us be open to the new that appears in the ordinary...

Without wanting, embracing the gifts of this day.

Peace, Joy, and Love while you're Holidazing ... John

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Our Words of Wisdom

Thanks to those who responded... if you wish to add your words of wisdom, send them in and I'll add them to the Sundance blog post.... and now....

OUR WORDS OF WISDOM

The following are bits of wisdom from some friends and neighbors who responded to a request to share some words of wisdom with loved ones pretending that they would be taking off on an adventurous journey to space... not knowing when he or she would return...

Love - Honor

• "Love is all you need to bring with you through life. 
  It is the answer to all of the questions." 
• "The only place to find timeless Love is in the center of the universe inside your heart. As you love and accept yourself and life, you are truly free to love Life and others."
• "...Honor [yourself] and love [yourself]... and to go to Delphi!!!"

• "...that [you] are loved for who [you are]....

Present Moment - Now

• "Life is a moment and in that moment we find all moments!"
• Be Here Now in this Present Moment, since that is the only place or time you will find Life."

Change

• "Life is change and we are life so change we must if we shall live." 
• "Life is a river of changes; do not resist the river's current."

One

• "Life is ONE and completely interconnected; Live as if every other being is you, because they are!"

Unique Gifts - Share

• "[your] greatest gifts to share with [yourself] and others are those that bring [you] joy and make [your] heart sing and to remember that as [you]  travel this journey: I would ask [you] to remember what makes [you] unique and then to share that with the world... As long as [you] share [yourself] in a healthy and happy manner [you] will be provided for in this physical world..." 

Not alone

• "...I am always with [you]  as is spirit and [your] guides, angels and teachers and that all [you] have to do is think of me and feel me and I am there;  that [you] are loved for who [you are]....

Important Data and Info

• "I will make sure [you] know how and where all my important papers are so that if something happened [you] will know where [your] physical earth securities were... 

Delay Leaving

• "And lastly I wouldn't even think of going until [you are] at least 18!!!!!!! 

Peace and Love.... John 
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John Hutchinson
www.SundanceWellnessCenter.com - [latest post to blog]www.sunhutch.com - [blog intro page]Lancaster, Pa

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"God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. We express our art in everything we say, everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment." ~ don Miguel Ruiz 

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Journey, Comparisons, and Gifts [QnA]

How do you stay on your own journey; stop comparing; see your own unique gifts to the world; and nurture those gifts?

The short answer is… “Only in the Present Moment."

We are on our journey now. The admonition from Rumi is: “Don’t go back to sleep.” And I would add that every time we realize we went back to sleep, we are awake again!

Comparing is always a game of our ego the egoic mind that is always comparing and categorizing. As we stay awake, we also see the comparison start to come in and then we can choose to continue comparing and get further entranced by our egoic thought process…or we can choose to return to pure awareness, without judgment. Usually comparison involves making self and others ‘worse than’ or ‘better than’… both egoic distractions from the Present Moment…

Being aware of your unique gifts and nurturing them also goes beyond thinking about what they may be… As we live in the present moment, we can choose to follow our heart and allow our natural gifts to continue to express themselves. Realizing that the creative Life Energy living through us can express itself in many ways and will never be limited to a lists of ‘gifts’ we may come up with through the thinking process… There are times when we use our thinking abilities to contemplate a particular quality, topic, word, or action… which is both in the moment and potentially useful in building a point of tension in cognitive and creative process that nurtures the intuitive, inspiration, and illuminating ‘pops’ to emerge.

Each aspect of your concern begins with awareness and acceptance of ‘what is’ in this moment… Follow your intrinsic nature to create and continue to give expression to the Life that is living through your form, your emotions, your thoughts, your sensations, your actions.

Beyond the Stillness

One day as I was climbing the stairs to my office, a delightful bliss moment occured and I was gifted with a bundle of Joyful glee in the moment... devoid of thought... just joy and laughter...

There is a difference between Joy and happiness...

Happiness is an ego emotion that usually depends upon a specific life situation at the time... perhaps everything seems to be going as we had hoped... at least in the current time-frame...

Happiness has as its opposite... sadness... when things are going less than we had hoped or expected...

Both 'Happy' and 'Sad' are natural reactions to our ego attachments, beliefs, assumptions, and expectations... combined with  the situation...

On the other hand, Joy enters beyond the stillness of the moment as a state of being... we may sense and feel the energy of this being-state, but it really has no opposite, unless you want to suggest its absence is its opposite...

Joy flooded from being in the moment and without thought or circumstance... pure bliss celebrates Life as it is...

Joy-Bliss was a gift of grace... not sought after or asked for...simpy presented by Life... and we can but give thanks!

Instaneously I 'knew' this was 'IT'... this was the pure essence of Life... right here...right now...

Again...THANKS!