As I
prepare to welcome in 2014, I am grateful for the many adventures, and
journeys I have taken, and for the many souls I have shared my heart
with. It has been a wondrous year. I have celebrated my
80th birthday, and my tenth wedding anniversary by visiting family and
friends in New York, Italy, Sardinia, and Brittany. I have taught
in Serbia and visited a student in Croatia. My experience
teaching in Bahia was breath taking and joyful. This was a year
of miracles. I am grateful, grateful and grateful. My heart is
singing with gratitude as I enter into this New Year.
So what
is my intent, my resolution for this year?
My intent
is to honor the teachings of Spirit. (The Guide, Emmanuel, A
Course in Miracles, The 12 Step Program) As I am writing this, I
hear the voice (teachings) of Emmanuel asking me to consider how
beautifully my world has evolved, and all because "my soul was willing
to enter into the illusion, and to go to that depth of forgetting in
the name of love."
Emmanuel
says we have all traveled from truth to illusion, from heaven to earth,
from perfect love, from oneness into separation and into the
forgetting's suffering and loss.
I reread
my notes and listened to my old tapes... Emmanuel has asked me over and
over again the following question:
"Dear
Barbara,
You
have come a very long way. Is it not time that you reward
yourself with the fulfillment of the promise that brought you here, the
promise that somewhere, sometime in this lifetime your LOVE will be
allowed to shine, and you will illuminate your world with the truth of
who you are?"
This year
I am going to pledge my allegiance to my heart. I am going to say
yes to my passion, yes to my longing, yes to the life "Love
called me to live," and yes! to illuminating the world with the
truth of who I am.......step by step, breath by breath.
I invite
you to sit with me and take the time to be in the stillness and listen.
"Let every voice but G-d's be
still in me:
Father,
today I would but hear Your Voice. In deepest silence I would
come to You, to hear Your Voice, and to receive your Word. I have no
prayer but this: I come to ask You for the truth. And Truth
is but Your Will, which I would share with You today."
ACIM
If you
are willing, please write down what you have heard. I would
greatly appreciate it if some of you would be willing to share His
Voice and Will for you with me.
Please
join me in this prayer:
Please
dear G-d support me in being your messenger for spreading your message
of love.
"Please, dearest ones, do
whatever you can to bring yourselves to the freedom of that point of
self remembering and Celebration of NOW."
-- Emmanuel
Now is the only moment there is.
I wish you all the love in
universe, and a very Healthy and Happy 2014
Barbara