Speak Up to Protect

Most of us grow up with a desire to nurture and protect what is close to us.

It may be family, it may be Nature, it may be a cause that we are involved in.

We must make sure our voices are heard in cases where there are infringements.

No where is this more evident than in today’s politics, so more and more of us are speaking up to protect, defend, and expand the practice of democracy.

The feeling of crisis as we see commercial and corporate interests taking away physical safety, as well as food, water and ecological safety is extreme.

So, many groups and individuals have become involved as we take part in correcting egregious practices.

We are all valuable and precious in our appreciation of our freedoms.

We are all valuable and precious in what we have to contribute to civilization and society.

In order to make those contributions, we must be free to live and to vote.

Our decision-making ability is most harmonious through unrestricted voting for all members of our communities.

Without a peaceful method of making our voices heard, more stringent methods become inevitable.

By releasing all to vote and respecting and valuing their right to do so, we create a society which is fair and balanced.

Such a society can progress within and without.

Such a society can address problems with solutions to benefit all of us.

The narrow-minded thinking of greed is trying to erode the benefits of a representative government for such a pitiable reason, personal control of resources.

Such selfish motives have no place in a democracy which exists to benefit all her people.

I am grateful to hear so many voices speaking up to protect and defend all of us.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.yougnpersonsmentor.blogspot.com

Some Projects are Slow

When projects move slowly, they are taking the time they need to become mature in your own thought.

Sometimes, when I start a project, I think I know what I want to do with it.

But something will get me off-track, and then I know there is more that is developing.

At times, the idea will slip into place within a few days, and I will be able to proceed,

Other times, it may be months, or even years before I return to finish the project.

Many times, I have grown beyond what I thought I wanted to do, and so I release the project even though I did not complete it.

I acknowledge that I have grown, and that it is time to make room for the current expression.

Since I acknowledge my growth in my spiritual study, I can acknowledge my growth as expressed in my creative projects.

I have recently acquired many new skills, some of which I had been longing to learn for some time.

I have learned them on a beginner level and discovered which ones I love.

I do not have to continue the ones I do not love, so I am release them.

What I love will continue to grow.

It has been good to discover what is worth doing in terms of what I love.

The slowness of some projects has been a gift.

Either I matured enough to finish them, or they were not something I loved so much that they had to be finished.

I am learning to release my attachment to delightful things which no longer figure in my creative growth.

Slow is good, and so is release.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.inspiredpractices.blogspot.com

What is Needed at the Time

For a long time, I needed comfort in the form of creative projects.

These combatted the feeling of being pushed into a straight line.

If I could create something, I had room to breathe.

Or course, I have ended up with many more materials than I could use to create projects.

I have also had the satisfaction of saturation with comfort.

I have joined many communities of creatives.

The warmth and acceptance on common ground has been consistent.

I feel completely comforted through my association.

Now, as I release so many of my materials and move into following another dream, I move with complete security.

My feelings and memories largely replace the dissociation of being forced into a straight line.

There is room for newness from the basis of a new foundation, a new way which I have had of experiencing the world.

I have the comfort of moving on and releasing many of the props which helped me in the past.

Aspects of moving on are difficult to deal with, but on the whole I am grateful.

I had what I needed at the time.

Now, it is a new time.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Remaining Calm

I take my first deep breath of calm and remember that there is room for good for everyone.

I take my second deep breath of calm and remember that everyone I know sees that there is room for good for everyone.

I take my third deep breath of calm and remember that everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, sees that there is room for good for everyone.

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As I watch the heightening frenzy, I feel the deep calm within.

I know that the ability to emotionalize seems very powerful indeed.

It is a kind of drunkenness, an addiction.

Those who respond to the addiction are losing command of themselves and their best interests, as in all cases of substance abuse.

We can continue holding the ground, not only for ourselves, but even for those who are vulnerable to this addiction.

It feels as though the perpetrators of the addiction, the “dealers”, are very powerful, indeed.

However, there is a deeper, more powerful influence than emotional addiction.

It is the calm security of the truth.

No matter what temporary highs are being handed out, over a much longer term, the calm truth will come to light and take its rightful place.

Hopefully, there is enough awareness now to counter the emotional addiction and other fraud being released.

As I take my deep breaths of calm, I feel the power of being in the right place at the right time.

Let us commit over and over to taking the action that our awareness tells us is good for everyone.

Let’s give respect, and upliftment and empowerment to everyone who holds good in their heart and in their vote for all members of our community.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.takethreedeepbreaths.blogspot.com 

Organizing Peace

I am experiencing a new kind of peace through organizing my affairs.

I have recently enjoyed the peace of having everything ready when I go into creative mode.

I am organizing my projects differently now, as I switch into a priority order.

In weighing each project, I am sifting through what makes my work unique.

Do I need to create something organized by someone else, or am I ready to concentrate fully on my own work?

It is an interesting paring away of many things which I love to do.

I am making room for what I love to do best.

I am preparing to concentrate my efforts in ways which will benefit me most, along with my outreach to others.

Resources are pouring in, as they do when the focus is precise.

Step-by-step access to presentation outlets are being revealed.

Although I find myself resisting, when I apply my priority order, each situation resolves itself.

I feel the certainty of fulfillment as I gain focus and concentration.

I feel the peace of that certainty.

I am able to be all-inclusive, from project creation to release, with this new peaceful sense of priority order.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.pebblesofpeace.blogspot.com 

Legitimate Fear

A legitimate fear is not a panic attack.

When you can see the pattern’s negative evolution, you do not have to follow it, nor endure it.

When you are around someone in such a deep conviction of despair that there is continual self-sabotage, your need is to lift yourself up and out.

As a child, you may develop coping skills.

Later, you will be compelled to find healing in order to thrive.

Even a nation can be affected by the people who intentionally spread fear.

This is the time to look within and to listen for what you know is true.

You can combat much of the fear by noticing the difference between the lies and the truth.

Then you can direct your own life accordingly and build on what you know to be true.

If it looks like the lies and fear are becoming overwhelming, listen within once again, and below all the fear, you will find guidance and direction.

You may be guided to take action in a particular way.

You will be able to maintain your own safety and that of others as you continue to listen for guidance and to take action.

There are infinite resources within to keep you safe.

Depend on these instead of the fear which is being spread.

Take simple or radical action when and how you are guided.

You will defeat your fear and contribute to the establishment of an overall feeling and practice of well-being.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedcherishedadored.blogspot.com 

Living and Thriving

When something takes longer, even much longer than you expect, it is not because it is being delayed.

It is because you are being required to build a really strong foundation.

All the things you need to take the next step have been being built while you were living and developing your life.

Until everything is in place for thriving, it is impossible to move freely.

You also cannot force nor delay a move that is happening on the Universe’s timetable.

You will find yourself caught up in ideas and actions which you did not direct.

Things will resolve themselves in ways which you did not anticipate.

You will be lifted into your highest dreams.

You will find that you are living a life of purpose.

Connections will occur which are outside your field of reference.

You will release many precious things in your present life in order to move higher.

Your sense of sacrifice will allow you to let go in order to serve a higher purpose.

Your ambition will focus in the direction of your intuition.

You will allow yourself to be led.

Even what is beautiful in your present life must go as you rise into a higher sense of your being.

You will willingly take the next steps with a clear sense of direction.

You will let your Higher Power fulfill your life.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage

www.lovedchersiehdadored.blogspot.com