Service Book of Days 10/10/11

Outside my window… (weather, what do you hear, what do you see?) Is a quiet morning.  After doing all of my chores including my workout I am enjoying a few moments of relaxation before getting ready for the kids and Master to come home 🙂

my thoughts… are on letting go of the past and not letting it hurt my future.

Today’s Quote:   The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time.  

Dean Acheson, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

I am putting myself through training for a half marathon.  I don’t usually like running on the treadmill as I am going no where just running in place.  So I tell myself to take every mile one at a time and not look at the miles I have to do totally.  This helps me get through my run without feeling like it is a drag.  I also give my best to that one mile at a time.

My bad habit is looking at everything that I need to do and getting overwhelmed by everything I need to do.  Master has told me that I tend to look at everything as if it needs to get done now.  I would say that I need to now so that I can adjust to it but I don’t think that this way of thinking is working for me as I end up getting overwhelmed and depressed by everything that needs to get done.

So guess what I am going to take these things one day at a time.  This is my new motto…one day at a time

i am thankful for…Master.  I really do appreciate him.

From my service training…(any skills, training etc; notes you want to share this week) household organization and management

i am wearing…a black tshirt and black pants.

my adventures this week…(where are you going this week?)  Are none.

Becoming well read…(What are you reading this week?) I am not reading or listening to anything at the moment.

Today’s Melody…(what music are you listening to? even if it’s just the sound of a bird…)  no music today just the chirping of insects…LOL

Still….life(share a picture you’ve taken OR a picture you found online that speaks to you)  Photo used with permission from:

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http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=415918

Optical illusion of uniform steps being narrower at the top versus the bottom.Steps from the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac. Originally shot as merging right to left ascending, but flipped horizontally to left to right descending.

 

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I give up

Life is a risk.   Diane Von Furstenberg

I was speaking with Master about something yesterday.  I said to him during the conversation that things will change or I’ll give up.

That phrase “give up” has been wandering around in my mind a lot.

In the past that phrase would have meant me getting things in order physically, mentally, and emotionally so that I can leave.  I would be shutting down and giving up the fight and getting ready to move on safe in the knowledge that I have done all that I could.  Such a self sacrificing martyr.

Thank God for lessons learned.

This time I am going to give u… but I am not leaving.  I am giving up my martyrdom though.  I am giving up “making” people happy (kids, family members,etc.).  I am giving up  this stress as it is causing my jaw to hurt and my body to be sick.

I can’t control everything that happens in this life but I can take the risk of living it truthfully and authentically.  Right now that means giving up those things that are not a part of my personal growth.

Like floating lanterns in the wind that’s how I am giving them up, they are not for me anymore.

 

MV’s esclave

 

 

 

 

Service Book of Days 9/19/11

Outside my window… (weather, what do you hear, what do you see?) Is a beautiful tree covered drive way.  It is 2 weeks today that I have moved permanently in with Master.

It has been a re-learning curve for me and more of a mind adjustment.

my thoughts… are on the sale of my home and settling into my new home.

Today’s Quote:   The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.  Robert Frost US poet (1874 – 1963)

i am thankful for…housing contractors…lol

From my service training…(any skills, training etc; notes you want to share this week) green cleaning supplies and cooking within budget and on plan

i am wearing…a blue shirt and blue jeans.

my adventures this week…(where are you going this week?)  no adventure this week and for a while.  With everything that has happened these past few months staying home and relaxing will be on the plan.

Becoming well read…(What are you reading this week?) I am not reading or listening to anything at the moment.

Today’s Melody…(what music are you listening to? even if it’s just the sound of a bird…)  The soundtrack from WoW…lol

Still….life(share a picture you’ve taken OR a picture you found online that speaks to you)  Photo used with permission from:

 

 

Creative Commons License

 

Title:  New Media Art

 

 

the first of my digital art to go online :) There's a part of me hoping to get out in the open, be one with nature and there's still a part stuck in the "digital"..the blob above the head is my mind : goin thru a millio...

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Meditation Space?

Since being with Master I have had the priviledge being able to meditate outside. I wanted to update this post with pictures of my meditation space.  It’s like having my own secret garden.  I love this space…sounds of birds, seeing butterflies (I’ve had two land on me while there ), flowers and clovers:

 

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One of my rituals with Master calls for me to meditate 3 times a week.  A much as I fight the idea of sitting still for a certain amount of time to meditate I have found that it is really helpful.  I tend to not feel necessary unless I am doing something needful.

In His wisdom having me set this time aside helps me refocus on the fact that it is not what I do per se but it is so much more deeper than that.

I can’t say that I have taken to meditation like a duck to water but I know it is His desire for me to meditate and it is necessary.  So for the first 2 minutes I spend settling my mind and shutting out all of the internal noise that tells me to get up.   With the hectic pace of the last 3-4 weeks I have spent my meditations just breathing and relaxing and remembering the promises of my Father that my life is in his hands and his promises to me are true.

With the move and getting settled in my home with Master my current meditation space just has a picture of him in it.  I want to add more but that will come with time.

My question to those who read our blog and those passing by:

1.  What’s in your meditation space?

2.  Do you find that meditating helps or is it a waste?

3.  How do you meditate?

Okay so that’s more than one question…lol

MV’s esclave

Totem – Spiders

I can’t say that I have any particular love for spiders.  I have this thing about creepy crawlies.  The thing is I don’t like them…lol  There is something about having a bug  with that many arms and legs touch me that just gives me shivers.

It seems that the universe is  telling me different though.

It is said that the spider is the weaver of dreams.  That the spider’s web holds life together, meaning it shows us how connected we are to the each other.  The web connects our past with our present and teaches us to not forget our Creator.

I have been doing some research on spiders and came across these two websites:

http://www.manataka.org/page236.html#SPIDER

http://www.animaltotem.com/store.html?wc=76

 

When I first just slept together (no euphemism for sex, lol,  we actually just slept together) I had a dream about being caught in the most intricate and colorful spider’s web I have every seen.  Instead of a smooth circular pattern it was built in the design of the pentagon (hard angles).   Even the spider was in this design.  So every time I would try and break this web down to get away the spider would build it back quickly even before I could move forward.  It was really fascinating to see.  It was like the spider was saying to me that this was my point of staying.   That no matter how much I try this space was my space.

 

The second time my spider appeared in my dreams was the night I realized that I did not have to go home that I was with Master for good now.  This was a weird one though.  An eagle and a bear was trapped in the spider’s web.  When the eagle would try and break free of the spider’s web the spider would spin an even more intricate web to keep them trapped.  It was beautiful.

That for me was my next sign that being in Master’s house was were I needed to be.

Incidentally my fear of creepy crawlies does not include most spider’s anymore…lol  Most spider’s not all…lol

 

 

Service Book of Days 9/7/11

Outside my window… (weather, what do you hear, what do you see?) is a dark and stormy night.

my thoughts… are restless…it’s 12:30am and I am watching New Jack City

Today’s Quote:   The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.David Russell

Sometimes there are things you really need to let go and I am facing that bridge that should have been burned a long time ago.

i am thankful for…gardening tools…lol   my project at my new home is to deal with the landscaping

From my service training…(any skills, training etc; notes you want to share this week) Reminders that I am Master Void’s slave.

i am wearing…my snuggie 🙂

my adventures this week…(where are you going this week?)  no adventures just real life.

Becoming well read…(What are you reading this week?) No new books this week.

i manifest and co-create…(what are your hopes, dreams, and prayers this week) Peace and serenity.  I only like to put out things that will uplift other into the universe but sometimes things need to be said so that you can move on.

Today’s Melody…(what music are you listening to? even if it’s just the sound of a bird…)  Living just enough for the city…I’m living just enough.

I am up watching New Jack City.  Quality TV late at night…lol

Still….life(share a picture you’ve taken OR a picture you found online that speaks to you)  Photo used with permission from:

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Sunset from the sunset cafes, Antiparos.

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