Summer

 Dear classmates
 I wish you all a wonderful summer
Allow yourself to enjoy it. For me, this is the perfect song thereto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDq36YD1ESM

Lots of love, peace and sun
Ruth : )

Meditation

Dear Students, Here is a short email I sent to a client who was asking about meditation and creative visualization. I am sharing it here with you. It contains a meditation and a short reading for this person, although I left out the more personal parts. Perhaps you can also benefit. Love to you as always.

CAULIFLOWER "BREAD"

If you are trying to get away from Bread…
CAULIFLOWER!!

Gluten and grain free. Also healthy!

Cauliflower 'Bread' Sticks

1 head of Cauliflower
1/2 cup shredded Cheese
2 Eggs, beaten
1 tsp dried Parsley or Oregano or Basil
2 cloves Garlic, minced
Onion powder, Salt and Pepper to taste

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
2. Cut up Cauliflower and steam till soft.. put on a tea towel and blot, try to get as 'dry' as possible.
3. Put in food processor or blend till it's mashed potato texture.
4. In medium bowl stir Cauliflower, Eggs, Cheese, Garlic & Seasonings
5. Lightly spray baking pan and pat the mixture out.
6. Bake at 450 for 15-20 minutes or until top starts to brown

Cut into bread sticks.

East Coast Retreat

For Your Information: Registration for the East Coast Retreat is now closed. Thank you!

Bird Beauty

HAPPINESS

this fits our new lesson -just read this today.happy day everyone.
ursula 

Lord open my eyes wide so I can see

Dear Students,
Here I am sharing part of an email I wrote recently to someone, since it contains some words of wisdom we can all use...

Dear....

Time doesn’t exist except for us as personalities and physical beings, and can be transcended by our relationship with God, by cancelling the false me.

We must take what peaceful moments we can and drink them so we have enough water, like the camel, to carry us across the hot dry desert of human existence to the true oasis.

If we could only see, all suffering would be seen as nonexistent and self-created. Lord open my eyes wide so I can see must be a good prayer.

I pray for you that your anxiety and tension and stress be seen through and thus vanquished. And that you do not listen to self-harming voices but say no and take a different path to health and well-being at every level.

Happiness

I am busy writing a new lesson for the students who first began the lessons. It is called Happiness, and all of you shall read it, if you continue long enough in your school. It is Lesson 67. Often I am amazed that I have written so many lessons by now. And that I can still write more. We can't hear words of truth and inspiration enough. We need to hear words of wisdom often--because we are so unconscious. And we hear the words of the world all day long. The world is always trying to convince us that we need to be more of what the world wants us to be. You are not here to be the image on some magazine cover. You are here to be the image of God. You are here to shine in your own unique beautiful way. You are here to know that you are the light and the light is good and the light is your true nature. So at least for today give yourself permission to shine. Radiate. You have the right to be here. Just as you are. I love you more than you can ever know.

FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE PRAYER

Dear God, I have a resentment towards a person that I want to be free of. So, I am asking you to give this person everything I want for myself. Help me to feel compassionate understanding and love for this person. I pray that they will receive everything they need. Thank you God for your help and strength with this resentment.

I loved this posting -it spoke to me.

Tree Beings Breathing

Your Classmate Monika  F. (we have 2 Monika's in our school) sent me a picture she took in France, so I made it the background for awhile. We all love trees, right! They give us air to breathe. What a gift! Trees are our breath. Monika also shared this in a comment, if you didn't see (hear) it: http://www.realfarmacy.com/this-is-what-it-sounds-like-when-you-put-tree-rings-on-a-record-player/#vkJuoF54PKEMPqdD.99

Lao Tzu Wisdom

Lao Tzu also said:

Just remain in the center, watching.
And then forget that you are there.
—Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching

4th Step Resentment Prayer

"God, Please help me to be free of anger and to see that the world and its people have dominated me. Show me that the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, has the power to actually kill me. Help me to master my resentments by understanding that the people who wrong me were perhaps spiritually sick. Please help me show those I resent the same Tolerance, Pity and Patience that I would cheerfully grant a sick friend. Help me to see that this is a sick man. God, please show me how I can be helpful to that person and save me from being angry. Lord, help me to avoid retaliation or argument. I know I can’t be helpful to all people, but at least show me how to take a kindly and tolerant view of each and every one. Thy will be done." 

The Step Prayers are from Alcoholics Anonymous, but they are relevant to all of us. We all have our addictions. Anyway, I post them here, to take or leave them, use or not use them, as they do or do not appeal to you.

Sing Your Heart Out!

Sing your song with abandon and innocence.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200291308432061&set=vb.31867439512&type=2&theater

Chicken Walks Into A Hug

This is a short video and I watched it over and over--such a simple and beautiful expression of innocence and love.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152751459660299&set=vb.32799215298&type=2&theater

"ANGEL TREE" LOCATED ON JOHNS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA

Beauty in Smallness

Just beautiful...so small...so simple.. Check out the website...
http://news.distractify.com/culture/arts/macro-photos-of-snails/?v=1
"Ukrainian photographer Vyacheslav Mishchenko documents tiny creatures in nature who often go unseen. In particular, he captures portraits of snails that are both magical and adorable. The photographer gets in close to snap macro shots of precious, surreal moments."

First Step Prayer

You can fill in the blank here, with whatever habit or addiction is controlling your life. What probably works for all of us is....thinking. Our negative, limited, fearful thinking controls our lives in unfriendly ways. This prayer originated to deal with alcoholism. You can substitute any other addictive behavior . . . even the word, ego, will work. Other words might be: compulsive eating, anger, greed, fear, spending, daydreaming, laziness....you get the picture.

God, Help me to see and admit that I am powerless over  _________. Help me to understand how _____________has led to unmanageability in my life. Help me this day to understand the true meaning of powerlessness. Remove from me all denial of _____________ .

This prayer comes from the Chapter to the Agnostic from the AA Big Book.

The Set Aside Prayer:

"Dear God please help me to set aside everything I think I know about (people, places,or things) so I may have an open mind and a new experience.  Please help me to see the truth about (people, places or things). AMEN." 

Blood Moon

 

On Tuesday, April 15, there will be a total lunar eclipse that will turn the moon a coppery red. It's called a blood moon, and it's one of four total eclipses that will take place in North America within the next year and a half. Pictured here is a blood moon seen over Gaza City in March 2007.

Before the dawn of the 20th century, there was a 300-year period when there were none, he said. Zero. That would mean that neither Sir Isaac Newton, Mozart, Queen Anne, George Washington, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln nor their contemporaries ever had a chance to see one.