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!

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!

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!

The deepest pain a parent has is not when we are disrespected, but when we are disregarded.  Parents make sacrifices, survive unbelievable odds, make choices that put them in harms way and sometimes suffer irreparable damage to their body, mind and spirit.

Some of the shame, selflessness, and secrets that parents experience in the process of parenting are payment that is due to them from the world and their children.  The pain cuts deep when a child becomes an adult and is selfish, self absorbed, manipulative, bitter, and unresolved of their child/parent relationship issues.

The pain the parent received from their children is what they inflicted on their own parent.  This issue will not be resolved until the parent recognizes themselves in their own parent/child relationship issue.

On this Meaningful Monday of our lives, let’s ask for forgiveness to our parents for the damage, disregard and disrespect we inflicted upon them.  If they are still alive…tell them right now!  Call, go visit, or write them a letter.  If your parents have passed on, light a candle and place a glass of water down for them and for you.  Begin to write to them and tell them how you feel.  When this very sincere, apologetic letter is finished, leave it under the candle and leave it there for three days.  Then do with it what spirit directs you to do.

Have a Forgiving Meaningful Monday!

Is it because they are selfish?  Is it because they fear being alone or seeming desperate?  Or are they insecure?  Perhaps they are completing a karmic lesson.

When someone cheats on their partner, whether emotionally or physically, it still amounts to the same lack of respect and integrity for Self.  There are all types of justifications as to the why without acknowledging and taking responsibility for the spiritual imbalance it creates in their own life.

When two people commit to telling and living the truth with each other and one or both of them breaks the commitment, it breaks the spirit not only of the union, but of each other’s guardian spirit.

Relationships, whether romantic, platonic, or business, are brought together through the spirit that abides and thrives in us.  When we have come to the place where there is a change in the intention for the relationship by one or both people, a conversation to the spirit of the other can be had.  Conversing first with the spirit allows the courage that is required to converse with the other person easier to attain.

Here is a suggestion to help you have clarity and courage:

Take a white flower baths to open your spirit to enlightenment

Ingredients:

8 white flowers, 1/2 teaspoon of Florida water, lavender, or almond essential oil

Pluck the flowers into a bucket of water as you pray and ask the divine energy of the Universe to be present and assist you in accomplishing the intention of the bath.

Take a shower, when you’ve finished, proceed to pour1/3 of the prepared flower bath all over your body as you say your favorite prayer(save the remainder for 2 more baths).

When you have finished your bath put on white or light colored clothing.

Listen to some quiet meditative music, do deep breathing and visualize yourself surrounded by white light

On this Meaningful Monday, let’s talk to each other’s spirits and find the courage to change some of our choices.

Have an Honest Meaningful Monday!

I wanted to tell you that the Mango Oshun Scrub is unbelievable!!  I had to buy more from Griffins Loft this past weekend.   I have met more men in the past week than ever before.

Here is my testimonial—Funny stories–a young guy followed me around the grocery store the other day and when I went to check out and  he checked out too whether he was finsihed shopping or not!!!

I was at the mall in Palm Beach Gardens the other day with several shopping bags when again a young guy asked if I needed help and he carried my bags for me!!!

A young guy I used to work with called me out of the blue sky the other day and wanted to see me.

Another guy I used to work with called me out of the blue as well to tell  me he missed me and wanted to know what was happening.  It really works!!!

Forever grateful,

C P

As I became a real mother, it seems it was the same for me.  I raised my children for the majority of their life on my own.  Because of the polygamous household I shared with my husband, I only had him as an “on hand” father sometimes twice a week and at other times, 2 to 3 times a month.  The emotional and daily responsibilities as a mother fell on me.

As I reflect on who I have become, I realize that the children that I have given birth to and raised have their own ideas about whom and what I am to them.  These three people are not my dolls who did everything and said everything I wanted them to do and say.

As I look at my children who are now adults and parents themselves, I question if in my “tea parties” that I had as a young child, did I imagine myself as a mother of three young children?  Did I imagine they would grow up, move out, move on, disagree with and even disappoint me?

I look at my 3 children as adults and I try to connect to who I saw them becoming and who they have become and I don’t see myself in some of their choices.

Seeing, accepting and being with adult children can be quite an adventure.  I am working on my own self acceptance as the mother I was and am.  I am trying to connect to who my children have become through their own choices and accept them.  I guess parenting is not something you do for your children only when they are small.  It’s something you are constantly striving to understand and perfect no matter how old your children are.

I am aware and truly believe that I chose my parents as a way to develop my destiny, my incarnation, and to pay dues to my karmic debts.  My children have chosen me for that very same reason.  At the end of the day, what matters most to me is that I have the ability to choose what to accept.  Things that I cannot change are merely a part of who I am becoming and I use them as valuable lessons.

I have three unique adult children who I am proud to say contribute to the world on a daily basis, love me unconditionally, love themselves, love their own children, and love God.  I thank them for assisting me in my parenting journey.

On this Meaningful Monday, reflect on the parent you thought you’d be and the parent you’ve become.

Have a Self-Accepting Meaningful Monday!

He has an above average IQ, a wonderful temperament, he is disciplined, level headed, pragmatic, comfortable in his own skin, and is psychologically healthy, a very Zen personality.  His moods never go very low or very high.  His cool is effortless, he is self assured.  He loves and is devoted to humanity.  He meditates, he is athletic, handsome, grounded in spirit, and has a wonderful generous mind.

When you are in his presence, he makes sure you know you are valued.  He is compassionate to his children and he is devoted, loving and demonstrative to the women in his life.  These are just a few of the reasons I fell in love with this man.  In fact, I use him as a measuring stick for assessing what a real man can be.

When I first loved him, I thought he was just another tall, handsome, charismatic politician.  However, the love grew when I met his mother, grandparents and step-father through his memoir in his autobiography “Dreams from my Father.”  The love deepened when I read “The Promise” by Jonathan Alter.  I don’t know if I loved his creative, natural genius first and then the love went on to his love of humanity and his ability to recreate himself through his circumstances….or was it his swagger?

The part of him that I loved the most, however, is how he has helped many families feel connected, have hope, and appreciate living in America.  He has pulled more than four million people out of poverty.  He passed a Recovery Act, one of the most important pieces of legislation in generations.  Along with the bank rescue, he kept our recession from becoming a depression.  He has extended unemployment benefits to 33 weeks, expansion of food stamps and secretly gave us the best anti-poverty bill in years.

On this Father’s Day, I say Happy Father’s Day to the man who inspires me, gives me hope, and a clear gauge as to the ability, potential, and brilliance of most men and all fathers.

Happy Father’s Day, to the man I love, admire, cherish and pray for.  President Barack Hussein Obama.

Have an Unconditionally Loving Meaningful Monday!

Living in the present can, at times, cause us to forget about ourselves.  The expectations to be considered a successful adult can be exhausting, stressful, or emotionally psychologically and physically very depleting.  There seems to be less and less hours in a day and more and more strangers coming into our lives.  It seems at times that we are not getting the love from our friends and families when we want it.  Sometimes we are not as loving and giving as other would like or expect us to be.

In order to fill the void that will make us feel balanced, productive, supported and loved, we must fall in love with ourselves.

1. We can learn to treat ourselves as we do our lovers.
2. Say loving things to ourselves
3. Take ourselves out on a weekend getaway.
4. Dress up, groom and be a model on your own runway show.
5. Give yourself small inspiring cards and love notes around your home and workplace.
6. Give yourself big hugs.
7. Give yourself at least two compliments a day.
8. Take your self love seriously.
9. Dance when no one is watching.
10. Eat one of your guilt foods once a month.
11. Don’t allow anyone to break up your relationship with yourself.
12. Reject self loathing and treat yourself with the kindness and respect you would show your best friend.

Have a Self-Amorous Meaningful Monday!

Remedy that stimulates the dreaming part of your brain and opens the door to sweet and exotic visions.  Drives away depression and encourages your imagination to take flight.

• 5 drops of patchouli oil
• 4 drops of ylang ylang oil
• 4 drops of lavender oil

Burn this in an aromatherapy lamp/oil burner.  Burn at night before bed.

On the beach near Perry St., Dania Beach, Florida

7:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 25, 2010.

The forecast recommended for 2010 is to achieve global healing.

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July is the energy of Yemonja/Nurturing.

Nurture the spirit of God in you by baptizing yourself in the sea healing yourself from childhood longings.

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