MARCH 2025: ART OF SOUL

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” ― Albert Einstein

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

March 02 - Sacred Art

March 09 - Unlocking the Soul

March 16 - Fae & Imagination

March 23 - Courage, Strength and Confidence

March 30 - Soulcoming

If knowing thyself is the key to life, one of the most important bits of knowledge may very well be to know what inspires us to create. What moves our souls? Sparks our creativity? Gets the ideas flowing and the heart glowing? Even if we don't exactly know, the next most important question would be... is there a willingness to explore?

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”  ― Walt Disney

All too often when on the spiritual path, especially as mystics who thrive on our connection to the mind of God, we sometimes don't focus on the heart of God. We forget about the Goddess. The Spirit, the lightning bolt of inspiration might fuel our visions, fill our senses and portend the ineffable, but in order to truly capture the essence of God in the physical senses we must have a sacred container to be able to connect where it counts... right here on earth! For the mystic there is truly only one logical conclusion to this conversation, as we go deeper and deeper into the divinity, we find that some form of art gives us the outlet that we need to express the inexpressable quality of the divine in the physical.

“Creativity takes courage.” ― Henri Matisse 

The role of myth and archetype, as well as angels and masters can become a tremendous influence for our creativity. These are fantastic jumping off points into the mystery void of creation, as they contain universal themes and also hold clues about ancient memories. Go with what tickles your fancy. Don't be afraid to allow whimsy and nonsense to tease out some serious art! The wonderful thing about art, contrary to popular opinion, is that you really can't do it wrong. For it is personal expression, and art does not live in time and space. Art is the language of the soul.

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

We are all artists. We may not have fully discovered our art, but that doesn't mean that it isn't in there. And if we have discovered something of it, that does not mean that it won't change or evolve. The artists touch  is something to apply to every single aspect of life. Art is not only beautiful, touching and inspiring, it is also deeply healing. In many ways artists are healers, especially if they can get in touch with their own soul through their art. There is nothing like that moment when we see a work of art and feel the recognition of a kindred spirit resonating with us. This is true joy as our own soul is reflected back to us in a way that articulates somestimes something lost in ourselves. We are so grateful when our deepest, innermost soulful notions can find expression. there is a soul satisfaction in this, an understanding of the kindred spirits, that might well be an art form unto itself. The art of Kin.

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.”  ― Pablo Picasso

One of our biggest blocks to creativity is what we think about how we feel. All too often I have seen serene, happy people become critical, anxious, and self-effacing during the creative process. Some of that is an over-active inner critic, or triggers from childhood, but much of it is discomfort with long suppressed sexual energy, as the creative process is re-engaged and re-routed into the form of creating art. For sexual energy and creativity go hand in hand, and often the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. As we have repressed and misunderstood sexuality, as we have been immersed in the world of control, we have metered and rationed the very energy that we need to create with.

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ― Pablo Picasso

Working with our artistry is crucial to ultimate healing, and our soul's emergence and evolution. No matter what we are creating, the very act of relaying that creative energy into a new channel sends a powerful message to the psyche. Even the smallest project could have big energy opening impact on other aspects of our life. Allowing the soul this expression pleases the Goddess within, and the muse will smile upon us, as one flash of inspiration gives way to a whole series of lightbulb ideas, and then another, and another, as we continue to give ourselves creative license.

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”  ― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

As we develop the courage, the strength and the confidence to tap into our imagination and activate our imaginal cells, that part of us that looks like a question mark, we influence the power of our soul to come forth. They mystic within, the part of us that braves the mystery of our own selves is never happier when the fear of going into the void of creation is richly rewarded with synchronicity, divine conversation and inspirational wisdom. It is through this way of being that we can turn our entire lives into a masterpiece, especially if we allow ourselves to keep finding new avenues or going deeper with the artistry of our self-expression.

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”  ― Osho

It is through this trust in ourselves as creator gods in the making that we truly can come to know God, and actually find expression for divine love. As we allow the mind and the heart of the higher powers of the universe inspire and guide us, our creativity takes on new meaning even to ourselves, offering brilliant, out of the box solutions to long standing issues and concerns not only in our lives, but in the world, as we tap into the prodigy within. He or She is in there. We have only to keep exploring and allowing that one to emerge into the light of our soul, and fearlessly enter the unknown. As they say, keep on until you surprise yourself.

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ― Martha Graham

March Affirmations

As I go into the depths of my soul, I am inspired and restored.

My true creative powers come from the realizations of my God Self.

My soul is a Great Mystery to me.

I am comfortable with mystery and excited to learn more about who I am.

I am curious about the world and enjoy experiencing this creation.

I am willing to step out of the box with my creative endeavors.

My life become a masterpiece of my divinity.

I see beauty in everything.

As I look through God's eyes, I witness miracles of creation every moment.

I allow myself to be inspired by others and their art.

I inspire others with my art.

I bring the sacred into the artistry of my life.

I create with my hands something beautiful.

My hands are the extension of my heart.

I address the critic within by making art anyway.

I identify where the critic is coming from and send lovingkindness.

I listen to suggestions to improve and further develop my art.

I collaborate to create art.

I look for inspiration in unexpected places.

I stock my life with chances to be inspired by other creative people.

I soak in the beauty of life.

I am moved through my emotions to creative expression.

I allow my emotions to heal through my creativity.

Art infuses my life with creative solutions on every front.

Every day is an opportunity to create something beautiful.

I enjoy sharing my art with the world.

Art can heal my life by putting me in touch with my soul.

Art reveals the mystery of my soul.
My art and the art of othes helps me connect and communicate with my own great mystery.

I am a creator God in the making.

In truth I am creating all the time.

I am willing to look at what it truly is that I am creating.

Do I create joy and beauty, or do I create suffering?
The more I understand my powers of creation, the more I am inspired to be creative.

I am willing to become responsible for what I create.

I am a creative expression for the divine Will to Good.

My life is my art.

February 2025 : Abundance of Love

“You are truly wealthy when you have something that money cannot buy." - Unknown

SUNDAY TALKS with Rev. Renee Bledsoe 

Feb 2 - Abundance of Love

Feb 9 - The Dance of Yin & Yang

Feb 16 - Your Soul is your Super Power

Feb 23 - Prosperity Consciousness

Many think only of money when pondering abundance and prosperity. But few would disagree that the first abundance is love. But what do most of us really know of the true nature of love? Many have spent a lifetime learning what love is not. Now the challenge is on to really take ourselves individually, and as a whole to the next levels of love. Our poverty will not uplift, enrich, support or create life. But our poverty observed has the potential to enlighten and teach us, and help us transcend belief systems surrounding lack and limitation, and allow ourselves to receive and create a life of true abundance, filled with love and blessings of all things needful.

“Life in abundance comes only through great love.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

Throughout our lives love takes many forms, assumes many faces, and takes us places both inwardly and outwardly that stretch and grow us. Always opening us to experience the unloveable, to allow us to create the space for true love and true abundance to enter our hearts, and infuse our lives.When we realize and truly open to the absolute abundance of love, it has no choice but to outpicture in our lives. 

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into." - Wayne Dyer

As we fill our daily existence with more expressions and opportunities to show love the universe responds. Lack is released and old belief systems about love, spirituality and religion, divinity, sexuality, partnership, friendship and prosperity start to shift and move, quake beneath our feet.

"Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

As we come to the realization that we are love, by practicing the art of love, new ideas and needs come into play that support the desire to release limiting beliefs, most especially about money. Money seems to be the paper equivalent of dynamite. If we hold and handle it correctly, with consciousness, care and respect, it can be utilized to great effect... but one false move... and boom.... total devastation. As with all things of great power this is true. Yet, if we kill the messenger, we never get the message. So what is the message of money?

“People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to…rather than detracts from…our lives.” ~ Stephen R. Covey

As we heal our relationship with money, and understand the energetics behind the paper and metal, we realize that we have been practicing with real world playthings that allow us to see how we are handling our dynamite... before it could blow us to bits. And some of us do get blown to bits, and in the process are released from the stranglehold of the little ego and the cosmic belief systems that have come to be attached to the money wound.

"Abundance doesn't follow giving until giving becomes its own reward." -Jan Denise

Money, like all things of great potential  tempts and calls us out like nothing else, with the exception of sex. Yet, we cannot blame the temptor. For if we do, we fall prey to the perpetuation of the old belief systems that say that money is bad, sex is bad and having alot of anything is bad. Inherently this is both true and false. It is a paradox. For we are really handing it to ourselves, testing ourselves and working with our own ability to release our selfish separate selves that are driven by lack.

"The universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. and in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives." ~Deepak Chopra

Our soul's are stalking us. The different aspects of ourselves are weighing in, counterbalancing and allowing us to attenuate the expression of our soul in the physical. So the truth is that while we are lost in lack and fear, we may well stay there... or by sheer force of will manhandle our way to apparent wealth. But the underlying energies of lack will remain no matter what has outpictured. For we do have the ability to work our will through the distortion of whatever belief system we are running it through.

“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.” ~ Ben Sweetland

“The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.” ~ Ben Sweetland

As we continue to learn our lessons about proper energy management, and continue to open up to the glory of our own soul, we will ultimately begin to find our place, amongst our people, the world, and the entire cosmos. When we open up to the limitlessness of our soul, we find that unlike the body, the soul and the spirit are not bound up in lack. Yes, the soul may throw limitation our way, but it is largely for purposes of exploration and getting our priorities aligned with our purpose. When the soul's expression comes to meet the desire to receive in order to share, a very big vortex of power begins to open within the mind, body, heart and soul connection to Spirit. And suddenly one day through this new, high and vital energy our perception shifts, and we realize that the Light, God, Love and Money are all connected.

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.” ~ Buddha

As the realization unfolds and we actually perceive this not only inwardly, but outwardly, as well, our earthly possessions of all forms, including our money, talents, work, energy, our light and our love go back from whence they came, and our absolute desire is to use the great gifts we've been given, in service to the Light and to bring even more love, joy, abundance and peace, creativity to the planet.  Furthermore, we come to the realization that our abundance was always there, and that all we have done is released the belief systems of lack and limitation, not because we've been wrong, but because we are ready to do more, take on more response-ability to bring love, and to allow ourselves to belong to the world.

This is true love... and that is true abundance. We do not attract what we want, we attract what we are. The power that is within us is beyond our conscious grasp, early in our human development. But when it is time to fly and we find our compassion and love for life has given our heart wings.

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AFFIRMATIONS

I see all the blessings that are bestowed upon me.

When I can see my blessings, I am grateful.

I do the work to see the light in my life.

It is my hearts desire to connect with the light of my soul.

The light of my soul guides me to my true calling.

My true calling knows no lack or limitation.

I no longer see limitation as lack.

I fill my heart with love and peace.

As I create with my hands my life is infused with creativity.

My creativity allows for positive expression.

I send blessings for the abundance of the world.

I am happy for others who are abundant.

I feel abundant in the Spirit.

I allow the abundance of Spirit to enter my heart.

As the abundance of Spirit enters my heart I am overflowing with love.

I open to more creative and responsible ways to express my soul and serve the world.

I am a New World Server who brings the Light and the Love of Creator to the earth.

As we formulate, invent, and create new energy becomes available to us all.

Our creations are connected.

When I am creative, I silently give others permission to create.

I am abundant in all things needful, both spiritual and material.

I am open to receiving what is necessary to continue in my life's mission.

My life mission and my purpose are important to us all.

As I step into my life purpose, I am instantly abundant.

I give to others that which I value in my life.

I activate the desire to receive in order to share.

I turn my physical bounty into spiritual gold.

As my purpose is realized I become responsive to the needs of my mission.

Generosity of Spirit and Gratitude for life is my True Abundance.

My abundance is backed in spiritual gold.

The currency of abundance is true love.

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JANUARY 2025 : Perfecting Now

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life." ― Eckhart Tolle

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe
January 05 - Perfecting Now
January 12 - Becoming the Tracker
January 19 - Harmonic Convergence
January 26 - Unity Consciousness

"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.” ― Eckhart Tolle

These two statements are like a lock and key. The NOW exists on the inner planes of our being. When we don't work with the inner, there is no now for us. Everything remains linear and segmented. Cause and effect only happens in times and space as we look outward. When we work in the present moment, ironically it uses time to our advantage, and we can tap into a new depth of cause and effect. We talk about "the Secret", but this is the real secret; the place that exists outside of linear time and physical space, but encapsulated by it.

The fact is that this realm is as real as any other reality in any other realm, and brings us to the place of Now, a sacred space of miraculous creation. We realize that when we step outside of time and get into the now, we can only be in this state by communion in oneness. It is a byproduct of that state. When we are focused only outwardly on circumstances and situations that are outside of ourselves, and holding them apart from ourselves, we have just stepped out of the now and into clock time. Time ticks and days are numbered. This is the realm of quickening. Alchemy is happening and we are now ready to move. This is the fourth dimension.

Perfecting Now does not mean that we are in sitting meditation all day. It means that we are mindful and present to every nuance of our existence that we have the eyes to see and the ears to hear. This is the nature of the fifth dimension, or unity consciousness. It means that we do the work to open and sharpen our skills of observation so that we can get into the Gap of our lives.

Getting present might mean that you confront someone. Because unfinished business keeps us either mourning the past or fearful of the future in some regard. This robs us of the NOW, as we end up using our precious energy to babysit some unspoken specter.

In truth, we are being called to perfect our ability to defy gravity through the power of the illumined mind to work with time, inside of the sacred space of our own heart for the purposes of coordinating, gathering and communing in the physical with each other.

This is practice for the day when we will commune telepathically through a greater force than we now know that rules our lives. As we come clean with ourselves and each other, this possibility becomes an ever deepening reality.

This kind of kinship and communion is the re-unification of God's journey. Humpty Dumpty isn't looking to be put back together the way he was, not just because it's not possible, but because as he sat on that wall and fell back down to earth he was forever changed. He was broken open, just as we expand and grow we no longer fit into our old notions of who and what we are. As we realize this, the closer we get to God, the closer we are to each other. We are emerging something together here greater than the sum of it's parts. But in order to do this, in order to receive the future recall, the visionquests and the dreams, we must be present. We must be in the presence of our own soul.

Being one means that we are together, not the same. And being together means that we are of one mind, one heart and one soul. One mind does not mean that we think alike. One mind means that we have wisdom, love and understanding, and that we realize what a treasure our unique view, and another's unique view brings to the whole. It means that we foster our unique individually to benefit the greater whole.

As we realize our place in this world, enjoy the richness of our diversity, we harmonize this multi-verse into one song... the uni-verse. Not by sounding the same note, but by listening for the harmonics of our soul signatures to help us come together in perfect synergy and harmony.

We realize that physical space and our bodies are truly the only thing at this point that separate us and with the understanding that this separation is not the whole picture of reality we do not tell ourselves the lie of separation. We KNOW that even if we are not aware that what we do and who we are affects the whole. We can be of one mind, as we bring in the Light of the Soul and enjoin with the mind of God, however, you see the source. This is perfecting now.


PERFECTING NOW AFFIRMATIONS
I am present to my life, to myself and to others.
I strike out on my new journey with renewed faith, hope and love.
I speak my truth with love and compassion.
I allow others to speak their truth with love and compassion.
I understand the difference between my truth and universal truth.
I am filled with the light of angelic forces within.
I call to my spiritual guides and guardians for guidance and assistance.
I am a force for good in the world.
I allow all that I am to fully integrate into my being.
I operate with the highest levels of integrity that I am capable of.
I release the bounds of illusion and the wall of denial that keeps me from my soul.
I authenticate and validate my true self.
I accept myself unconditionally, as I honor my transformational process.
I trust in the wisdom of my spirit, to inform my life and lead me to my higher self.
I treat my body and mind as a sacred trust.
I see the holistic view of every situation.
Everything we see is connected on levels that we can barely imagine, with things that we cannot see.
I honor the interconnectivity of all that is.
I am open to the expression of my highest creativity.
I acknowledge the power of humility to bring me to my creativity.
I surrender to the love within my soul.
I trust the creator, the master of the divine plan and see the brilliance of this creation.
Whatever I am experiencing is exactly what I need to more fully claim my free will.
The wisdom of my higher self is my guiding force.
I see the Light, within myself, within others and this creation.
I am open to the adventures of this magnificent journey called life.
I live fully in the present moment.
I am M.E. an ever evolving Moment of Eternity.
I am, that I am.

As I heal and grow in love I become my true self.

As I live from my true being, I am immersed in unity consciousness.

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