“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 of Hearts
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.
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PATH WITH A 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.
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