Here Is Your Life

Frederick Buechner wrote “The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.  Here is the world.  Beautiful and terrible things will happen.  Don’t be afraid.  I am with you.  Nothing can ever separate us.  It’s for you I created the Universe.  I love you.  There’s only one catch.  Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you’ll reach out and take it.  Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.”

How often do we miss opportunities, relationships, partnership and all that life has to offer because we did not have the courage to reach out?  Like the gift of grace, it is our choice to live the life we have been given.  I hope you are enjoying co-creating with the Universe!  There is a whole world full of marvelous gifts to choose from.

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage

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Self Alignment – Are You In?

As I lay in bed with the strange sensation of vertigo, I have been contemplating life and the seeming inability for humanity as a whole, to change.  I have often talked about the garden of our consciousness.  Pulling weeds, then planting seeds of love, wisdom, peace, gratitude and grace.  All watered with unity.  As we make a conscious effort to make changes within ourselves from the inside out, shifts occur.

But what about our Higher Selves? The true perfection of who and what we are.  Imagine our Higher Self, or Presence trying to plant just ONE seed of a Universal Law inside us. One that can be nourished and grow!  Not easy to do, as we all run around busy busy, trying to survive in the “outer” world.  That one seed could deliver our true identity, or some information critical to our survival as a species, or our gift – the passion in life we came here to live.  I want that connection, don’t you?

This is two fold.  One, by taking responsibility for our own life’s garden. Two, by being receptive to a more important message from our one true source.  It’s time to take the blinders off, to get busy living our true authentic life.  Not the person the world thinks we are, or expects us to be.  Reaching inside gives us the courage to look deeper, past what is in the “outer” world.  Only by living from the inside out, will we survive on this planet.  Unity is critical at this point.  Everyone needs to come to terms with the fact that we have created quite a mess down here.  We do have the ability to re-align ourselves and this beautiful planet, back to the original state of purity/perfection of creation. Our responsibility is to our Creators, the Collective, Mother Earth and all her Kingdoms.  It is time to return to that divine place in our hearts that will heal everything, bringing us all back into alignment.  Are you in?

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage Online

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2010 The Year of “Awakening”

“Self observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change.  And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.” – George Gurdjieff.

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Grace @ Living in Courage by Anne Lamott

I do not understand the mystery of grace–only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us.

-Anne Lamott

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Courage & Grace

You wake up in the morning feeling great, ready to take on the world.  Your feel that your day will be wonderful and then ka-boom, you get pulled out of the happy place and into feelings that make you not so happy. It is wise to stop getting pulled out of your core by going into human reactor mode. To be in “human reactor mode” is constantly reacting to a world of effects that seem to make us smaller, taking us out of our power.  We are here to create, to generate, to build. Not to react, but to respond.  Responding gives you time to think, to re-evaluate.  In this way we can change the direction of our life.

What supports us?  Grace & Courage. If you live from the outside in, you are constantly reacting to the stimuli outside that makes you less.  Living from the inside out will make you more, a power to reckon with, gifting you with tools to build, to create the life you dream of.  Positive self talk helps you build your inner center into a powerful place that you can live your life from.

Let’s talk about grace. Grace gives us the courage to take one mighty step after another.  Welcome grace into your life and all your experiences.  Wear it, be it, smell it, taste it, see it, live it. Grace will reveal love to you, and lift you above the turmoil of the world.  Have you ever really thought about this word.  Now might be a good time.  Grace opens the door to wisdom,  illuminating your mind to guide you in your choices and decisions. We all have free will (a force, a power) that drives every quality, giving us passion, which unfolds into our creative expression.  Grace can take everything that opposes the joy of life, and transform it.

What is your relationship with your home, environment, creativity, work and employment, friends, and family? How does grace act when you don’t limit it?  I suggest you try living in courage and grace.  This experiment and experience my surprise you.  Where do you live the center of your life from?  This is a big question.   When we take ourselves off of automatic pilot and start answering the bigger questions with honesty, then we become expanded, conscious, and powerful.

You wake up in the morning feeling great, ready to take on the world.  Your feel that your day will be wonderful and then ka-boom, you get pulled out of the happy place and into feelings that make you not so happy. It is wise to stop getting pulled out of your core by going into human reactor mode. To be in “human reactor mode” is constantly reacting to a world of effects that seem to make us smaller, taking us out of our power.  We are here to create, to generate, to build. Not to react, but to respond.  Responding gives you time to think, to re-evaluate.  In this way we can change the direction of our life.

What supports us?  Grace & Courage. If you live from the outside in, you are constantly reacting to the stimuli outside that makes you less.  Living from the inside out will make you more, a power to reckon with, gifting you with tools to build, to create the life you dream of.  Positive self talk helps you build your inner center into a powerful place that you can live your life from.

Let’s talk about grace. Grace gives us the courage to take one mighty step after another.  Welcome grace into your life and all your experiences.  Wear it, be it, smell it, taste it, see it, live it. Grace will reveal love to you, and lift you above the turmoil of the world.  Have you ever really thought about this word.  Now might be a good time.  Grace opens the door to wisdom,  illuminating your mind to guide you in your choices and decisions. We all have free will (a force, a power) that drives every quality, giving us passion, which unfolds into our creative expression.  Grace can take everything that opposes the joy of life, and transform it.

What is your relationship with your home, environment, creativity, work and employment, friends, and family? How does grace act when you don’t limit it?  I suggest you try living in courage and grace.  This experiment and experience my surprise you.  Where do you live the center of your life from?  This is a big question.   When we take ourselves off of automatic pilot and start answering the bigger questions with honesty, then we become expanded, conscious, and powerful.

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage Online

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