When we realize that terror is a heartbeat away, a step from where we stand, and a few fingers from the hand that waves us welcome home, we may be tempted to run to safety, find shelters, and retreat behind barricades. I'm asking you to deny the impulse to flee. Stay present and focused. Do the next RIGHT THING. Keep calm and carry on. Be the change you wish to see in the world. We can be powerful, courageous messengers of freedom by living authentically, openly, and mindfully in the day we are given by Working, Playing, Loving. To BE the LIGHT that conquers evil, simply practice the ordinary, regular routines that connect to Highest Power, Love, Joy, Peace, and its INFINITE SOURCE. I have successfully integrated three options to stay centered in confusion: Pray (bless others), Look for Light, and Live out Loud. When we are bombarded with news of evil, chaos, and despair, we consciously connect to greater good than we may see around us. We become a channel for peace, an instrument of change, couriers of courage. Let us PRAY ~ for any soul whose life has been disrupted through violence, terror, fear, anger, chaos, greed, or division. Let us LIFT~ our hearts in the light of hope, compassion, understanding, peace, reconciliation, generosity, and unity. Let us LIVE~ honestly, joyfully, courageously, and lovingly so that others may share sweet dreams of freedom. Finest Hour Services offers one-on-one support, group coaching, and workshops for mindfulness, balance, and centering meditation. NOW ~in times of challenge and change~ is our Finest Hour! How will we share it? DonnaMarie Fekete, 22 March 2016
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Here in the mid-Atlantic of the US, the first day of spring often brings snow as well as sun, reminding how resistant even seasons are to changing. Being creatures who know our "place," we may forget that in another longitude, we have kindred spirits who are counting their blessings, making an inventory of what will sustain them through cold and dark. Equinox may be the best day to reflect that our world shares one life cycle: Spring to Harvest; Autumn to Blossoms. Twice each year, at equinox, we share light equally no matter where we stand. As Above, so Below: Seasons change. Life bestows blessings of growth, harvest and home. Days turn dark. Cold and frost warm. We stand this day between heaven and earth, with equal knowing: blossoms will seed, be gathered and gleaned. Always around and within, the cycle begins. Without and with ALL, we rise and fall. As one turns from winter to Spring, communities grow with Love. As others swing from summer to Autumn, neighbors store thanks for longer nights than days. One day twice in every year, ALL are One in equal Light. Finest Hour Creative Peer Support/Coaching and Workshops support your your transitions and transformations. We allow your Intuition*Decisions*Energy*Authenticity to SHINE! Contact us for a complimentary 30-minute session. Check out our Heart/Mind/Spirit Activities for opportunities to shift your Light Cycle! I noticed this morning that there is a major difference in the darkness when, against my wishes, Daylight Savings returns it to me. The birds are singing their hearts out! I welcome the shift that signals a change in seasons, as January closes and February starts. As cold as those mornings can be, winter fades. As late winter mornings slowly turn from black to blue to gray, bird calls change from the harsh cough of starlings and piercing caw of crows, to early geese pulling their flock along with steady honking. Before I see robins, their trills filter through the woods, a sweet promise that the season is changing. As light grows each day, I'm aware of more and more calls: cardinals whistle, jays chatter, woodpeckers drill, doves mourn. As my delight in dawn's orchestra warms my heart, the clock springs forward and I'm thrust back into night, grudging the return of darkness~ longing for twilight to be recycled over four more weeks . This morning, for the first time (unless, perhaps I'd completely forgotten), I walked out into the darkness to hear the avian orchestra tuning itself as sweetly as I'd enjoyed it a week ago. I was enraptured! Spring is still singing in the trees! How is it, that after years of complaining about returning to dark mornings, I never realized that the birds don't need sunshine to welcome the day? Why should I put my celebrations of life on hold, because someone tried to turn out its light? I admit to being tantalized by calls to LEAP INTO PASSION AND PURPOSE AND COLLECT A SEVEN FIGURE INCOME! It's probably because, while I'm quite bright, it has taken me TIME for me to understand that my expressions of abundance, passion, and purpose are as diverse as wildflowers and as authentic as cow patties in a verdant pasture. I'm a mix of qualities characteristics, and emotions, so the only way I've become fearless and free is to let what enrages and agitates me be replaced in ways I can engage and appreciate the situation. That includes humor, resistance, advocacy, surrender, action, flight, and prayer. Fearless Freedom often comes when I follow my heart regardless of others' promises or practices. When I allow myself to flow through a range of feelings, I'm experiencing freedom at this very minute. When I act from what brings me into alignment with my core values, I become fearless and recognize opportunities without limits. FEARLESS FREEDOM helps open my heart to miracles. Frantic Emotions Aggravate. Restore Loving Expression and Souls Sing. Find Release and Essence Emerges. Divine Opportunities, Miracles Live through US. DonnaMarie Fekete 11 March 2016 Today is International Women's Day. At the risk of stating the obvious...
Every woman everywhere, has reason to be honored. Single, married, coupled, lonely, consecrated, liberated, gay, straight, bearing children, childless Women feel the pull of tides, walk with pain, rejoice at blood and mourn its loss. We start each day knowing mother to daughter, back to Eve or Lucy, seed or star, at First Breath all (hu)man kind and power seeks our presence. DonnaMarie Fekete, 8 March 2016 |
AuthorI've been paid to sing, act, paint, teach and write. What I do most to express myself is write. I've self-published four books: poems, essays, stories, and prayers. Archives
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