Mekenya's Blog

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a Butterfly.” ~Richard Bach

Miracles aren’t some big thing that happens to catapult us into some new experience or existence. Miracles are the small things, that occur in our lives and synergistically tie everything together creating magic in our lives.

Gratitude requires being cognizant and aware, paying attention to the small things, that occur in the moments of our lives when we least expect them or think little of what is happening.

As Don Miguel Ruiz states in his book The Four Agreements: “ Awareness is always the first step because if you are not aware, there is nothing you can change.”

When you are aware you are shown the miracles of life. Life is not one explosive experience but a succession of small experiences that become big, because you see and acknowledge the beauty in the small. Incredible and unbelievable events will happen in your life when you become open to acknowledge and receive them.

When you are paying attention awe is natural, when you’re seeing the beauty of each of your experiences, gratitude comes easily. When you realize that everything serves you in some way, gratitude isn’t far behind.

You must see and experience the beauty in the mundane (or what you consider mundane) for the magic to appear, it’s all in attention.
What you place your attention on, and the meaning you give your experiences can’t help but create gratitude; if you are looking at life from a perspective of love.

I believe one very significant way to express your gratitude is to create a gratitude journal, in which you list on a daily basis what you are grateful for.

In doing so I’d like you to reach and go deep, beyond the obvious blessings in your life such as saying I am, grateful for food, clothing, shelter, even though you should be grateful for these things. I would prefer you to offer gratitude for something deeper, an experience that created transformative growth in your life, something not so obvious, something rich and powerful.

Something that challenged you beyond limits you set for yourself. Gratitude for something that allowed you an opportunity to find or identify some part of you, you neither recognized or knew existed.

Vocalizing on paper allows you to see what you feel about the things that happen in your life and will open up a plethora of experiences for which you can express gratitude, even if the experience was one you believed to be your darkest hour or Dark Night of the Soul. “We must see our pain as a catalyst”, or an opportunity for us to get closer to our truth.

By showing gratitude we open up an opportunity to assert mastery of who we really are, an opportunity to identify our true purpose. That is the truest form of creative expression.

There is no such thing as perfection in life. Life is a work in progress having gratitude will reveal to you where you need to do the work in your life; what you can do to open up.

Having gratitude is the way to gain insight into the self, life and others. It seems like a small thing, thank you, but what you hold gratitude for says much about who you are.

I must say I am most grateful for my troubles, because it is from these experiences I experienced the most growth. I don’t say that to say one must have troubles or suffer to find the self,( actually that is not the case) however; without challenges we often don’t reach the next level.

It is sometimes important to test oneself and stretch beyond familiar territory to grow. Each and every experience that was most challenging in my life caused me to evolve.

In some of my darkest moments, I discovered buried treasure, which have been my greatest gifts; and brought me to the realization that there is a deeper, secret meaning behind each and every experience one has.

It is up to us to find it. As Srully D.Blotnik stated: “What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping produce the major achievement of your life.”

To begin your gratitude journey create yourself a gratitude journal, and begin journaling your personal life experiences connecting them to reveal and see the patterns which will reveal how you have grown . What you love and are grateful for becomes more beautiful and prolific.

Gratitude opens the door to all your wishes and allows for more creativity from within. The appreciation and gratitude could very well be the key to your purpose and the beginning of the Miracle you so long for! Write out your Life and have gratitude for every moment.

Greetings BraveHeart Sisters,

At a time when we're each experiencing our own challenges it is important to remember that this too shall pass.

Be Courageous and Take Heart, which is what courage is one with a large heart. I have included a couple of Quotes that I found to be very inspirational to me and I'm certain they will be so to you.

"You block your dreamwhen you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."

"Our deepest fear isn't that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brillant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you. We areall meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

I for a very long time lived fearfully, shrinking, rather than expanding. I so love this quote because it frees each of us to be exactly who we are. Please when you have time go to my google site and take a look at what happens when one doesn't fear anymore.

They become who they truly are and dreams come alive. This is my dream.

http://sites.google.com/site/soyoucandancespiritualsantuary

Last evening I decided I would visit the beach in the morning, hoping to see the sunrise, and commune with God, be lavished in his magnificence. See his electric blue sky, magical stunning clouds, marvel at how the ocean ripples going on into infinity, and how the sun shone on the rippled ocean.

I was amazed at how sky met ocean and ocean met earth and how brightly the sun shone while I lay on my towel gazing at the sky. For a moment I looked away from the sky and in the corner of my eye in the reflection of my sunglasses was this amazing perfectly shaped crystal.

The crystal was extremely beautiful, the colors of gold, blue, red, and orange each encapsulated in its own shroud of luminous golden white light, the crystal was kaliedoscope like in the sense that there were all these beautiful colors inhabiting the same space, emanating light, miniscule dots of colored luminosity, but there was one difference, they were dancing!

The colors were moving and the crystal was round like a perfectly cut faceted gemstone reflecting in my sunglasses. I didn't know where this vision was coming from, but the suddenly my eyelid fluttered and I realized what I was visioning was my eye. I was seeing my eye as it actually is for the very first time. My Iris was atoms of color bouncing about, and I saw space between the atoms, I actually saw this. I continued to lie there opening and closing my eyes to be certain what I was actually seeing was real, and I have no doubt! I played with it like a small child, blinking and blinking my eye.

Oh my God, this is what the physicists mean when they say we aren't solid. I actually saw the atoms with the naked eye, it was more than the miracle I'd bargained for today. I knew going to nature and to God would give me some relief from the myriad of concerns I believe I have.
I knew the smell of the ocean, the sound of the waves would be soothing and give me some sense of balance. I knew being in God's nature, the splendor of it I would remember that anything is possible, even if I did not see an immediate shift in my life circumstances.

Yes, I knew all this, however; what I did not know was the gift God would give me, the opportunity to see how amazingly made the human body is, and to experience this with the naked eye.

It was What the Bleep Do We Know, Down The Rabbit Hole, quantum physics in reality.

Honestly, I don't know what to say but this; I know that we are incredibly made, and I also understand that what we appear to be is not what we are. We are spiritual beings in a human form, but this form is neither whole or solid, and I've always believed it, but now I've seen it.

Having this revealed to me, assures me that everything isn't as it appears. What I see as difficulty is more like blessings in disguise. What isn't detectible to the human eye doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't there. What may not appear to be manifesting in my life, what I believe should be in my life, or the desires I have for my life, although undetectible or obvious to my soul (mind, body, emotions), are within me none the less, although I can't see it..

Our life circumstances are our atoms, bouncing between the space which supports the outcome; which has yet to reveal itself, and it will happen when the miracle is needed to appear, restoration comes. Absolutely amazing!

Sister woman stride tall
Shoulders erect,confident, relaxed
Stride with the wisdom of a sage
The strength of a woman
The Lineage royalty of a queen
Stride with the esteem of your shining light
Your brillance, and magnitude the wonderment of you
Stride tall filled with courageous confidence
Bowing to none but the Spirit of whose essence
you originate from
Be blessed in the fullness of your knowing, I AM!
No doubt do you embrace
Endowed with every imaginable commodity
Rest in your splendor
A gift of immeasurable value you are
Avowing your worth and sustenance by virtue of your
inheritance
Lacking arrogance, embracing humility, benevolence is your birthmark
Stride tall knowing His-story valueless
Without you what exists?
Your contribution, acknowledge it
Apologetic to none
Acceptance of your granduer, your majesty
Head tall
Just be
Stride!

Maiden inhabiting Crones body, never knew her Maiden self. Blighted by life experiences, her angel wings shorn their innocence, her being, her balance, her center, herself. Maiden relegated to the shelf, of sad stories, left to die. She wondering why? Her veil shattered, betrayals abounding, she no value, must comply.

Character of the maiden misaligned and made a lie. Evolving characteristically of one knew herself not, her shattered core lay in pieces all that was left, Maiden not soon to be whole or her true self.

Life took on its many phases, one by one did pass her by, in each moment of her growing, she grew not , though she would try.

Year by year fulfill the promise of her purpose as was told. Maiden plunged into the dungeons of her dark and desperate soul, crying out to be the maiden she had never known.

Desperately attempting to fulfill phases of her life as best she could, Though she strived to be the woman she believed she never would, for her heart was with the Maiden she hadn't understood. Longing for life's endearments, hoping for her Maiden self, she'd take on opposing roles and dictums, self-betrayals, despising self.

Time would come and time would pass, but her Maiden desires would secretly grow. Passion for wishes, dreams and hopes not forgotten, only swept aside. Life had become its own mandate; Maiden acquiesced to life requests, relinquishing her soul, her best.

Disappointment would be her mantra, healing seemed it would not come. Lack of center, fewer blessings to her life did belong. Maiden's heart was broken, shattered, but outside persona not. Strong exterior she managed, but power lost!

Unclear choices, pathways taken, perils at every turn, danger abounding, broken nature of the Maiden persevered somehow.

Continually fulfilling all others expectations, as she bereaved her wishes fade, maiden suffering and, dying
slow, soul fated death day by day. Not so different from any others, but inside somehow she knew, what she longed for and desired was within her, deep and true.

Though it seemed too deep to dig to be found. Worn and tired, old exterior now. Youthful desires repressed inside, Maiden takes on Cronedum life, with her Maiden yet set aside, barely alive!

Un-nurtured, unloved, yet yearning for an ardent and lovely life, lost Maiden never stops searching or forgets her lust for love, for life, feeling deep within her heart she deserved to be alive, reveal her Maiden side.

So much time already taken, unrequited everything, as her soul continued trudging her life's mountains she must
climb, in hopes to be free again. How much more would be required before she would have her chance to live the life she desired, would she ever have her Dance?

But the magic was in the journey, her instincts true and strong, that no matter what the trial would reveal where she belonged. In spite of all the dross and din, inherently she knew, that she was still that Maiden, no matter what she'd been through.

The victory in the journey, no matter the price, the reward lay before her, Maiden's true glory, her Dance, her Song, her Love, her Life!