Sharing ~ Brenda Kay

While doing research and sometimes just stumbling around the internet, every so often I come across a website that intrigues and delights me. One such site belongs to an artist by the name of Brenda Kay. Brenda is a visionary and psychic artist and her work is extraordinary. But don't take my word for it . . . visit her website and see for yourself.

I was so smitten by her art and by her words that I wrote to Brenda asking her permission to post her work on my blog. To my delight she agreed. I'll be posting one of her pieces a week until I've posted all I can post of her work. You'll find them here every Wednesday (doesn't everyone need inspiration to get over the 'hump' of the week?). My heartfelt thanks to Brenda for allowing me the use of her extraordinary works.

TRUTH

Know Truth by the freedom and flow it brings to your state of being. Truth soars to Almighty heights, then swoops into grounded realization. Let Truth speak to you in quiet moments when your mind is free to soar and let it be reaized in who you are and in the heights to which you aspire. Take heed of these "Eureka" moments, recognize them as Truth and act exactly as you have been inspired. Dare to leap beyond your norm extending Light and Life beyond that which has been accepted but does not serve.

Once realized, Truth flows in never ending waves through the waters of the body. Listen closely to your words. Do they ring true with clear vibrations that ripple in accordance with the fact that your body and your life flow with ease? Or is your Truth denied in favour of lip service born out of fear? Perhaps words whirl repeatedly in your brain in justification of a fear based reality. Spoken or thought, these are the words that catch and clang and dam into stagnation in your heart, your health and your life.

Be true to yourself. Search you heart and mind for deluded reality and dishonest thought. Honour only that which is genuine for it will ripple your river with murmurings of Joy. Be faithful to your intent to stand firmly in Truth in this moment. Now flow forward, gliding with the tide of your life, no longer to struggle against it.

Be at Peace in Truth.

(All art and the words that follow it are the work of visionary artist
Brenda Kay and are used with her permission.)

12 Days of Yule ~ Day 10

10th Day of Yule – Remembering the Noble Virtue of Self-Reliance
December 29th

"Do not create co-dependent relationships in any way. Do not let your happiness, or your success, be determined by anyone else. Be responsible for yourself. Rely on your own efforts to secure your needs."

"I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth,
to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it."
~ Sarah McLachlan ~

I lived most of my childhood, adolescence and adulthood as an on-again/off-again Christian. It seemed to me that's what was expected, and being a people-pleaser that's what I did. It wasn't until this last year that I took a leap of faith and started to trust myself. To listen to my own inner truth. To rely on what that truth told me and to follow it, wherever it led me.

It hasn't been an easy path to follow. Being a solitary, I've had to rely on myself, to educate myself, to practice, to seek out new truths and to follow those truths, so long as they ring true. If at some point they don't ring true anymore, then I'll rely on myself to alter that truth so that it does ring true. It's an ever-changing landscape, but I know that I can rely on myself to stay the course.

One truth that is ringing ever-louder is that I have to be responsible for myself. For the truths or untruths that I tell myself, or if I choose to listen to others, what my portion of responsibility is in what they're telling me. No one has power over me. I'm responsible for myself and I have to rely on myself to tell myself so.

It's a process, and even at my age I'm still growing, still learning, still working on those parts of me that harbor the child within. You see, she still relies on me, and I'm not going to let her down . . .

12 Days of Yule ~ Day 4

4th Day of Yule – Remembering the Noble Virtue of Truth
December 23rd

"Truth is as relative as the individual. What one person or group finds to be the Truth, another finds to be ridiculous. There is no universal truth. There is no one-way or right way of seeing things. What we accept as truth is merely that; our truth. No one person or group has the right to dictate their truth on anyone. Search for your own truth."

I watched the movie Zeitgeist yesterday which fits perfectly with today's theme of 'Truth'. In the movie it talks about the untruths that we as people accept and live with. We don't always know the untruths we're being inundated with and so we go along our merry ways, oblivious to the fact that our freedoms are being taken away . . . one by one.

Now, I'm normally an upbeat kind of person, preferring to focus on the positive side of life and giving people the chance to share their truths with me. But this movie got me mad . . . mad at the very people that we put our trust in, namely the government. Is this movie truthful? I don't know for sure, but it sure made me think.

This movie and others like it, newspapers, television, politics, organized religion, and the like are the whole reason why I DON'T read newspapers, watch television or partake in politics or organized religion. I guess you could say that I follow the old addage 'Ignorance is bliss'. Not that I'm ignorant of the world and what goes on in it . . . I just choose to focus on the positive. It's like in the movie 'The Secret' where they discuss the world, war, political unrest, et cetera. Instead of focusing on what you don't want (i.e. war) it's better to focus on what you do want, and for most of us that's peace.

And so today, I choose to reflect on the positives in life. The fact that I can follow my own religious truth is one of them. That I live in a place where I don't have to worry about stepping out my front door into a war zone. I have good, fresh food to eat. I have people who love me and people whom I love. I have warmth on a cold winter's night, and I have my own truths that uphold me and give me courage and strength.

Ma'at ~ Egyptian Goddess of Truth, Balance & Order

Universal Divine

I am better than my own prejudices,
my heart is deeper than my own pettyness,
my true spirit seeks the balance of harmony,
my journey as a human can unite me with all.

In our hearts, the eternal divine dwells.
I call it by one name of my understanding,
you call it by another name,
and others call it by other names.
The different names do not matter.
Divine is divine is divine and eternal.
It has names beyond counting
each name is true and sacred.

We are divided only by our own prejudices,
threatened by our own fears of the unlimited.
We see the indivisible power of spiritual eternity
and divide it into manageable bits of understanding,
leaving the greater truths beyond our feeble grasp,
clinging to a few facets of the unlimited divine
and defend our facets as the whole truth,
the only truth we dare to see and accept.

May my heart be open to understand more,
open to celebrate the facets held sacred by others
knowing that their truth is as true as mine.
Each path and every path to the divine is sacred
and deserving of my deepest respect.
Call it God, Energy or something else.
All names of the divine are true,
sacred, eternal and magic.
~ Abby Willowroot © 2008 ~