My mother is scheduled to have a partial or full glossectomy (surgical removal of her tongue) in an attempt to keep her passageways open. She's 87 1/2, and has faced this cancer aggressively. She is just not ready to stop living. Her family loves her so much! I emailed her the prayer that I've been using, essentially. She replied back, "It's a lovely prayer." I thought I'd share it with you. Perhaps it will come in handy at some point in time.

 

Beloved Creator who illuminates All,

 

Behold your beautiful daughter, Marjorie. I know you see her as your adored child, a radiant expression of your love. Help her also

remember that part of herself.

 

Please infuse your Love into her being so that she may become filled with the peace and joy that it brings. Please help her open

to receive it. She  has been in a body for so long, that it has become the memory of who she is, but You know that she is perfect

Love. Perfect love feels no pain, and has no needs. Melt away her fears. Reveal Yourself in some form that she may recognize,

whether it be in dreams, or vision, or from a living soul.

 

Help her remember to ask for help from the Holy Spirit, the angels and her living and departed family and friends who surround her.

 

May your Perfect love numb the pain that she is feeling, and may she accept Your will for her knowing that Your will comes from Your plan

for the highest good for her. We do not have Your vision, and cannot see the greatness You have planned for us all.

 

Please bring healing to her being, and give her peace.

 

Bless our family as well.

 

And so it will be.

 

Amen

Well loves, I 'm  back from the east coast. The family got together in Cape Cod, which was delightfully dusted in snow, and more snow, and then we were in the blizzard. It was all beautiful to me, because I live in Hawaii, and don't get to see it, and my sister's house was all warm and toasty. An added bonus was a gas lit "wood stove". The weather was cleared up in time for our flights home, and now I'm back on Kaua'i, and in the teaching groove again.

 

I wanted to share with you something inspirational for the New Year. I've had the same resolution for about 3 years now, and can't see that it will change much. I really want to BE LOVE. I remember this first came to me as a young woman in my 20's, and my childhood friend thought it was impossible. But I don't. In fact, I think that we really all are Love in Reality. 

 

Love and life are keeping me on my toes. Mom is having another difficult surgery on Jan. 13th to remove the cancer on her tongue. I had a wonderful conversation with her about our  True Selves, and she's at peace about transitioning, but just wants to keep on being able to  breathe! When thinking about what to say, I received Tom Carpenter's New Year's message from Brother, his name for Jesus, and it was what I was thinking, only edited.  I have permission to share it. Blessed be!

 

 A New Year's Guidance
 
I have asked our Brother to give us a message to begin the year.  This is what he has said, and I want to share it with you.        Love and blessings,  Tom
 
 
 
"This is the time when you review your life and decide if you will make different choices for your future.  Pause for a moment and reflect on whether this process has ever fulfilled the expectations you have had for it.  I ask you to consider there is but a single choice you must make if you would bring happiness and peace to your life experience.  Indeed, just this one choice can you make if peace and happiness is what you truly want.
 
Resolve to be the Voice for God.  All other choices expect too little and so must leave you unfulfilled.  Resolve that it will be His Eyes you use to see, His Heart to decide the worth of everything.  His ears will determine what you hear; His Voice will speak the words that all will know to be the truth.
 
Resolve that by your presence everyone will know that they are loved.  Let no one escape the healing joy of your forgiveness!  Let nothing of his story distract you from your goal.  It is time now for sin and guilt, lack and suffering and every other denial of your wholeness to be put aside.  There is no reason for you not to love!  I ask this of you because to ask less would be meaningless to the Holy Child of God. 
 
Resolve that your strength of trust will be the bridge across which all may walk to find a loving world.  As you accept your role and allow God’s Plan to effortlessly unfold through you, you have become the world’s witness that love through forgiveness answers every need.
 
If, as you consider these things that I suggest you are tempted to doubt your resolve, then in that moment use my strength of trust in you.  Let me be the bridge to your place of trust, as I ask you to do for others.  Accept my assurance as though it were your own, for such is the bond we share.  There is no point where I begin and where you end.  Only in the ego’s world can distinction be made between us. 
 
Do not dwell on how difficult this may seem or how long you can hold to your resolve.  Join me but for a moment and let that be enough.  Then join me for another moment when you can, and another after that.  See each one complete unto itself and you will have no fear of loss. 
 
Resolve to be the Voice for God for that is what you are.  Decide that you can give the world all that this implies for only in the giving of it will you recognize that it is yours.   Only as you are witness that everyone is loved can you accept God’s promise of what you are. 
 
Join with me now that together we are the vision that answers and heals the world’s need for separateness.  Join with me that together all consciousness may now find and share the peace and strength that is in our Oneness and remember at last what it means to Love."