“Keep walking til you walk into it!”-Rev. Rackel Ferguson

Sometimes we get stuck in what may seem like a long, arduous journey towards peace, religion, and spiritual enlightenment.  We go through many different phases, path, roads, alleys, bushes toward finding The One, God, The Bright Light.

Some may start in Christianity, work their way through Islam, take a detour to Jah Rastafari and sojourn through Buddhism, Transcendental Meditation, Metaphysical New Age, and sit down to rest in Afrikan Spiritual practices.  All of these walks that you have taken are part of your journey towards finding God in you.

Take what you can from each one of them.  Include what resonates within your spirit.  Try to find the beautiful similarities in all and leave room to investigate the differences.  Keep walking til you walk into it, it being the very thing that you’re looking for.  That very thing is looking for you.  The door will open and you will walk into that thing…the “It” that makes you feel complete.  It may be called Orisha…it may be called the Deity…it may be called the Christ…it may be called Jah…it may be called Buddha…it may be called Allah.  The “It” has always been with you, so keep walking.

Have a Revealing Meaningful Monday!

Moving and Shaking

If you cannot find anything new to do, go home and change the bed around.  It will start something moving and changing in you that will not stop there.  The physical act of moving the bed will allow you to remove dust from around and under the bed.  You will automatically start thinking about how long it has been since you changed the bed around…..heck, you might even find some lost jewelry, money or just buried treasure.

As you begin to put the bed in a different location and begin redecorating the room, throwing out old, useless things, you may even take down the curtains when you realize they, too, are dusty and need refreshing.

As you declutter closet spaces, you slowly come to realize how much you’ve grown and changed.  The importance of some of the articles you once valued seems to have vanished without you realizing it.  You may even find items you’d swore you’d returned to friends you’d borrowed them from.

As you change the room around, it may dawn on you how far you’ve come spiritually and emotionally and where you are going.  As you enjoy your newly decorated room, look, admire, and give thanks for how wonderful you are and how far you can grow.

Here’s an energy shake to go along with your new found energy:

1 handful of parsley; 4-6 carrots with greens removed

Bunch up parsley and push through juicer with carrots.  Garnish with a sprig of parsley.

Have a Moving and Shaking Meaningful Monday!

PERFECTION

What is perfection?

Is perfection when you reach your goal?  Is it when you have the perfect job, mate or life?  Is perfection when you make the deal that gives you all you want?  Is perfection the perfect weight, height, eye color or perfect car?

At times, trying to reach perfection by focusing on the how, when and where leads us nowhere.  Perfection comes when we have stopped striving for it.

I had been praying for the day my family would realize how we rob each other of value by not communicating our true feelings.  All of us (I thought) inherited the fear of confrontation, familial timidity, or were just emotional cowards.  I prayed, meditated, fasted, received council and gave it up to spirit.

I assumed that as the strong woman, mother and daughter that I am, I would have to call a meeting for the perfect solution.  Much to my surprise, relief and joy, my middle child (the one who I’d struggled the most with) called a meeting without my knowledge.

When I arrived at the meeting, I learned that my children had been praying, meditating and receiving council about the same issue….and so they spoke.  They spoke to me as a voice of one, letting me know how much they loved me…how much they were concerned for my well being and that they were ready to break our legacy of familial timidity.  They sat me down, as both their mother and their child, and settled my fears.

It was a perfect day.  A day all of us came together for the good of all involved in a loving and complete way.  A day when order, balance and perfection were God’s work.  A day when we broke a pattern, not only for ourselves, but for our future generations.

On this Meaningful Monday, let’s stop trying to find a perfect way of saying or doing something about your struggle.  Meditate, fast, pray, get council, and give it up to Spirit.

Have a Spirit-Guided Meaningful Monday!