Energy Share for Sunday
February 4, 2007

TRUSTING

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step in an act of faith.

Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead Drummer

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.A clearing affirmation can often open the channel. One excellent one is "I trust my own inner guide." Any of them will eventually yield us a sense of our own direction - which we will often then promptly resist!

This resistance is really very understandable. We have bought the message of our culture: this world is a vale of tears and we are meant to be dutiful and then die. The truth is that we are meant to be bountiful and live. The universe will always support affirmative action.

Mickey Hart's hero and mentor, the late, great mythologist Joseph Campbell, wrote, "Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before." It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe. While we are ambivalent, the universe will seem to us also to be ambivalent and erratic. The flow through our lives will be characterized by spurts of abundance and long spells of drought, when our supply dwindles to a mere trickle.

If we look back at the times when the world seemed to be a capricious and untrustworthy place, we see that we were ourselves ambivalent and conflicted in our goals and behaviors. Once we trigger an internal yes by affirming our truest goals and desires, the universe mirrors that yes and expands it.

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right actioin - although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

By trusting, we learn to trust.


So sorry for the delay in getting this message out to you. Having connection problems can sure gum up the works.

This Thursday is my nephew's 5th birthday (pictured left) which will be celebrated this weekend at the local Chuckie Cheese's Pizza Parlor and Arcade. This is the second year in a row that he's had his birthday party there. And he loves it because he and his friends can lay claim to the place with total abandon.

If you've never heard of or been to a Chuckie Cheese pizza parlor and arcade, imagine an entire building teeming with kids running amuck between video and arcade games, long tables covered in piles of pizza, soda, and cake, and singing along in front of a theatre-like stage with a group of 6-feet tall costumed animatronic characters. The main and central character being Chuckie Cheese, of course, and his friends - a pizza guy (complete with chef's hat), a purple dinosaur, a few bears, and a duck. All of whom can barely be heard over the kids' hysterically ecstatic screams when Chuckie Cheese appears and the parents and relatives struggle to get them calm enough to blowout the birthday candles. Makes me laugh just thinking about it.

Should you be curious enough to checkout the place, here are a few words of advice: Go during a school night. But if you enjoy a raucous party on a Friday or Saturday night...wear earplugs, dress your little ones in distinctive brightly-colored clothing, bring a few friends of your own and just be a kid.

Checkout the previous posts on listening and a humourous message about Missourians from an old Missouri friend and former co-worker.

With joyous, child-like enthusiasm, I send out a radiant boost of energy to you with LOTS of aloha, light, and hugs. Help yourself to the boost I send to you and enjoy it fully. With heartfelt gratitude, I thank you for being a part of this energy share. I joyfully acknowledge the boost of energy from you and welcome it with open arms.

Enjoy every moment and live the passionate life you intend it to be.

a hui hou (Until we meet again),


Lydia


1. Lydia Smith-Lenardson, Moreno Valley, California, USA
2. Lynn Wilson, Manchester, England, UK
3. Judy Oliver, Silver Spring, MD, USA
4. Joan Anderson, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
5. Sandra Richer, Banff, Alberta, Canada
6. Lena Goon, Banff, Alberta, Canada
7. Mari Hayama, Berkeley, California, USA
8. Veronica Hansen, Sarina, Queensland, Australia
9. Mirjam Kik, Oude, Tonge, The Netherlands
10. Andy Cooper, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China
11. Sheryl Morris, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
12. Andy Yantha, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
13. Linda Prucha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
14. Joseph Bennett, Ventura, California, USA
15. Steve and Karen Edwards, Gunnislake, Cornwall, England
16. Rev. Patricia Lusher, Berlin, Vermont, USA
17. Patricia Blundon, Pembroke,Ontario
18. Violet Moreau, Pembroke,Ontario
19. Brian Yeates, Dublin, Ireland
20. Dunni Olasehan, Lagos, Nigeria
21. Austin Ndego, Lagos, Nigeria
22. Gurjinder Strom, Miami, Florida, USA
23. Natasha Adair, Olney Springs, Colorado, USA
24. Amy Manuel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
25. Janet Kinge, Basingstoke, UK
26. Janet Henningsen, Indialantic, Florida, USA
27. Sister Mary Mebane, Santa Maria, California, USA
28. Denise Matthews,Nottinghamshire, UK
29. Meelah Rasheed, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
30. Chandra Madrona, Tacoma, WA, USA
31. Eve Hale, Hampshire, England, UK
32. Sandy Kolman, Belleville, Illinois, USA
33. Hilary Bisaillon, Yorktown, Virginia, USA
34. Heidi Fruhling, Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA
35. Maree Rogers, Hastings, Westernport Bay, Australia
36. Carol Gent, Lancashire, England, UK
37. Matthew Leonard, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
38. Moira Congreve, England, UK