MAY 2025: The Path With A Heart

“Men are governed only by serving them; this rule is without exception." - V. Cousin

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

May 04 - Path With A Heart

May 11 - Lead With Your Heart

May 18 - Nature of Love

May 25 - The Art of Giving & Receiving Love

"Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path." - Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

You cannot walk the path with a heart if you will not bare your soul. So there are 2 types of destroyer relationships that we encounter that can help us remove our blocks to this path. The first kind tears away the idea that someone can connect with our heart if we have not connected with our own heart and soul, thereby provoking us into standing up and being true to ourself, through the caricature of their own exagerated self-interest. In the shadows, this can show up as narcissistic and addicted.

The second kind removes our blocks to love by mirroring back the love within us that is buried deep inside our own heart. This can only be accomplished by someone who is connected to their own heart, and is soul sovereign. Otherwise in the shadows this is codependency and enmeshment. In the light, this is the truest path of heart to heart communication.

Both of these encounters destroy blocks to love; one by mirroring our outer state, thus inciting us to take better care of our inner self; and the other destroys by mirroring our inner state and challenging us to take better care of our outer self.

Most of us have experienced both of these destroyers. As they pull us to the center of our heart we come to the realization that love is an energy that wants to flow in our life, regardless of circumstances. Love is a substance of the creator, and how it moves and flows is up to us.

Once these dualities have been cycled through we have the opportunity to get to that third synergistic place within ourselves. In this space we can come into complete acceptance of any and all relationships as a kind of sacred other.

We can come into oneness, but not where we put our circle over someone else's circle, but where we link with them, like a venn diagram or visica pisces. This would virtually have us coming into divine union with all those we meet.

One day, that place where we meet in the middle would draw us to our perfect partner in life, because we were brave and loving enough to embrace parts of ourself that we either disown out of disdain, or unworthiness through many everyday encounters with sacred others.

This is when the mirror gets put down. This is where we can now see face to face, and we can finally be fully known, even as we can fully know another simply because we love one another as we love ourself, and as God and humanity loves us. In the other, as in our self, we see only God/Goddess.

1 Corinthians

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

 

Path of Heart AFFIRMATIONS

I  believe in the power of love.

I believe in the beauty of my dreams.

My dreams are important to me in ways beyond my imagining.

I allow myself time to rest and restore.

I schedule fun and play into my life every day.

When I smile, the whole world is alight with my love.

When I laugh, the angels are celebrating.

The care and feeding of my spirit is just as important as the care I give my body.

I give myself time to visualize, meditate and create.

When I am peaceful and tranquil, I am open to more inspiration.

I am inspired by the Light.

Each morning I lie quietly before arising and allow my higher self to speak to me.

I receive high inspiration from the quiet of my soul.

My soul speaks in silence.

I am a master of the art of doing without doing.

I treat myself as royalty and everyday I wear an invisible crown.

When I am happy, I give off the vibration of happiness and everyone and everything I come in contact with benefits.

I accept my highest good into my life in the manner in which it should unfold.

I rest in the belief that the Universe is supporting my purpose.

I acknowledge any apparent misfortune, but I see only good.

I experience my feelings clearly without attaching emotional baggage from the past.

I am filled with the endless blessings of the creator.

I find creative ways to relax my body and mind.

I breathe my cares away and restore myself with the breath of life.

I am leading with my heart.

I walk the path of love.

APRIL 2025: New Earth Values

"You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings." - Unknown

Sunday Talks with Rev. Renee Bledsoe

April 06 - New Earth Values

April 13 - Being & Doing (CoSL 17th Anniversary)

April 20 - Easter Celebration: Church in Circle

April 27 - Ascending & Grounding

We came here to shine our light. But first we have had to master this high and fine art of life to allow for the temperance of such brilliance so that we could learn how to physically work together. For we find here that shining our light to blind, exclude or compete with others is not what we came for. In other words, before we could really shine our light, we have had to experience the loneliness of our own omnipotence, in favor of taking a stand for our own unique desires and destiny, and looking at the power of going deep versus wide to express our own soul's purpose. Ironically, as we step outside of reductionist, linear time and thought, and into the fullness of fractal time and the realm of soul and spirit, we start to fully understand the gift of this physical world, and our embodiment takes on a whole new meaning.

"The darkness of our world awaits you -- not to engulf you, but to be transformed by you." ~ Neale Donald Walsch

The possibilities of an age of peace, enlightenment, artistry, creativity, unity in diversity, true appreciation for the earth and for the human condition can feel a bit like a fairy tale come true. Some of us are finally seeing how it is even possible to enjoy the journey, and not focus on the destination.  Can you imagine how sad we must have been to have to compete and bump up against each each other in order to reveal our unique soul's purpose to ourselves? We had to individuate, as this was and is our fate, but our true destiny is to re-unite and bring our great I AM presence back to the whole to honor each other. Humanity has finally "earned" through its own innovations, creations and evolution to come back into the garden.... and the garden is right here and right now ... on earth... with each other.

Truth be told, more people than ever before in the history of the world have the ability to find their tribe... to find their kindred spirits and to become empowered spheres of influence in their own right. This is the legacy of holographic creator gods and goddesses in the making. It is our birthright to step into the glory of the work of a true creator. Like our maker who was so patient with this work in progress called humanity, we must also extend this grace to ourselves, as we continue to emerge and evolve our higher selves into being. Could it just be that this new era of social consciousness is both too good and true?

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi

Although these new sensories, skills and ways of being are not without their own set of new rules and potentials, as well as pitfalls, the vast majority of the way has been cleared for both lift off and a grounding of this new energy. The antidote for any discomfort as we acclimate is to continue to do our clearing and recovery work so that we can come into complete integrity with ourselves and others. This transparency that is phasing in, after all, is what we've wanted all along. For true intimacy and co-creation requires a measure of vulnerability that we may not have felt safe enough to express.To truly be seen we must reveal what is in our hearts. We must be strong within ourselves to reveal our tender hearts to each other and to the world. In the new earth, our love is our boundaries and our protection is our love.... and our joy is the artful expression of our life's purpose... whatever that may look like, even as it changes and grows. We must come to understand that we have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of our own blessings and our own ability to bless others.

“It is now your responsibility to nourish the qualities that are in you to create the luminous and glorious life that you desire. From your heart, radiate all this Love for humanity. Share your Joy.” - Sai Maa

A new age of originality and creativity is upon us, a renaissance of the highest order, giving license to the individual to shine on the world stage right in the comfort of our own hometown. Now we live locally, but think globally. Literally, the world is our oyster. We can have the best of both worlds and find that this duality is merging to form a synergistic blend of all that is good and right. The eternal will to good makes manifest delight and joy in our lives now. We must move forward now, even as some still suffer. For we truly know that misery loves company, which means that any subscription to that channel keeps it alive. This does not mean that we ignore the suffering of others, and the systems that are up for change. On the contrary, our creative solutions have never been more necessary. For this new earth won't respond to force. It is our power that we must source to create heaven on earth by our own action.

So let your light shine, let love live through you...for yourself, for your family, for your tribe and for the world. After all...It's what we came for.

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New Earth Values Affirmations

My heart is free to love.

I let love live through me.

It is my joy to create my life in conscious awareness of the I AM Presence within me.

It is my responsibility to participate in the manifestation of my blessings.

I feel, see and sense the divine in all that is.

I apprehend the beauty of this world on levels beyond the ordinary senses.

I focus my desires and align them with my higher self.

My higher self imagines me to Be.

The love of the creator has gathered my soul and made me whole.

I explore my talents and skills to deepen the glory of the great work.

I am the living embodiment of all that I believe.

The solar initiation is the path of a creator god and goddess in the making.

I release the fate of cosmic loneliness, as I find expression in my tribe.

All is my relative.

I am in relationship with all that I see.

I take responsibility for how I am in relationship to everything in existence.

I see unity, harmony and social consciousness into being.

I practice social consciousness to bring in the new earth energies.

I hone may art and my craft in whatever my chosen path of endeavor to expand our experience of heaven on earth.

I have new respect and insight in the use of linear time to benefit my creations.

I work with the medicine wheel to step outside of time and space to receive inspiration from above and manifest miracles on the ground.

I seek to learn the languages of love that include sound, color and light.

Freedom is only serving me if it is leading me to greater realization of love.

Love is more than a feeling, thought, or touch...it is a catalyst for creation.

Love is the synergy that happens within when I give my time, attention and actions freely and without thought of return.

True love is always returned, immediately and from within.

Receiving affirmations of love are a mirrored reflection of the love within.

I believe in calling forth the purest essence of life, truth, beauty and love.

I slow down to spread joy all around.