I’m just back from a road trip to Lily Dale, New York.
I can’t remember when I first heard of the Lily Dale Assembly, but I know that since hearing about it, I’ve wanted to visit.
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Last fall, someone walked into my studio and asked, “Do you flow Reiki energy through your paintings?”
It surprised me that he saw the energy in my work, that he looked at the paintings and thought, Reiki.
Of course, the answer was yes - whether you call it Reiki or something else - my artwork is intentionally infused with healing energy.
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I have things to share with you about my adventures in Germany, Austria, England, and New York this summer - delightful, touristy things.
This, however, is not that post.
Travel is difficult for me.
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Recently two different people said to me (in response to my social media postings), You really enjoy your life, don't you?
It's a lovely thing to say, but in both cases I noticed a strange internal reaction.
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Surrender, in the spiritual sense, can be a difficult concept.
I've often heard someone say they're surrendered to God and what follows is something horrible.
The god they're surrendering to doesn't resemble the God I know. The god speaking to them is a god of the ego or psychosis.
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Years ago I had a psychic reading that struck me with its veracity.
"I see you walking along the path of your life," the reader said, "and there are people who join you. They come and walk with you for a while then they leave."
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When I was a young woman, walking down the street deep in thought, a man I did not know would say to me, "Smile, it can't be that bad...Why would a pretty girl like you look so unhappy?"
It happened quite a bit.
If you are a woman, I'm willing to bet it has happened to you - a stranger has told you to smile.
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In yoga class, our instructor is in the middle of the room and we arrange our mats all around her, to face her.
There is no back row, no hiding.
I am next to the mirror.
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When I’m in a guided meditation and someone says, go to a place where you feel safe, go to your sacred space, I go to this place in my mind that requires first a walk through the forest. I am always barefoot on this walk, but the path is soft with pine needles.
I reach a clearing and in that clearing is a small cabin.
There is firewood stacked up outside.
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When you lie back in your tub of water.
When you walk in the woods.
When you light a candle and sit in the prayer chapel and breathe.
When you allow yourself to be still, you are aware of your self, and when you are aware of your self, you are in the presence of God.
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