I asked the Holy Spirit in me for an answer to a supposed problem and the HS has answered me through you. A friend I love has been trying to start a regular threesome luncheon with a woman I dislike. I've been trying to think how to get out of this gracefully, and asked the HS how to. Now I want to give this a try, instead: "I would see you as my friend, that I may remember you are part of me and thus come to know myself." I see that what I need to "get out of" is my gap of love. Thank you for cawing at us this morning, Sean. I'll report back. : )
I am happy to caw! Thank you, Nancy. I appreciate you very much. I'm glad you're going to give that lunch group a try. One never knows where the light will shine (until, I guess, we realize it is always shining, all the time). I hope all is well Nancy 🙏🙏
All is well, thank you, Sean, and thanks for the encouragement. There's a phrase from Thomas Merton that I hope I will remember about persons I'm tempted to dislike.. I believe he wrote it in regard to that epiphany he had when he saw the light in people. He said, it was as if he saw ". . .the secret beauty of their hearts." I love that so much.
Awesome Sean - the Irish believed in "thin spots" in the material world which were the link to the eternal realm. Yes there are portals every where and at every moment for those who ask and believe they have the eyes to see. ACIM really emphasizes our agency concerning the world we see. It does seem a wake up call is necessary (a bottom) to break us out of delusion and programming. Jesus told he became human so we could have an abundant life. As much as when I am restored to sanity I choose to believe Him.
Thanks Tom. That's a resonant connection - the Irish thin spots. I appreciate that. Keeping an eye out for them - however they appear, whatever we call then - seems helpful. I wonder sometimes if the openness - the willingness - isn't more vital than whatever is revealed or perceived.
Thanks again, Tom - it's great to hear from you. I hope all is well.
This little light is what I need these days. And now I know where to look for it and I know what I will give attention to after those micro-moments; especially on the days that seems to be extra dark. Thank you, Sean, for including me to receive the thought that you and our brothers will hold for me today and thank you for also including me in holding one for you and for all our brothers.
You're welcome, Cheryl. They are a new idea for me but I am very grateful. There is a lot of resonance there. I'm hoping to give some attention to Deb Dana's work in the next few months. Gotta make space in my reading list :) Hope all is well 🙏🙏
I have been gently but consistently nudged to check out the link in your essay. . . so I finally did. Read her description of glimmers and then felt it in the same way I feel “God sparks,” tiny portals of connection. Truth be told, Sean, over the last decade or so, your writing, in all of its permutations, has offered up more glimmers than you could know. Just saying’ 😏
Thank you so much, Cheryl. Truly the writing is relational - without the other, it doens't mean a thing. So I am grateful as well. And grateful that we have been friends for that long! You are often in my mind, always as a light. Thank you again (and yeah - Dana's work seems pretty fabulous - I'm looking forward to going deeper). Hope you and the family - four legs and two - are all well 🙏🙏
Glimmer! . Why have I never identified it? As always, beautifully said. Clearly glimmer is what comes through to me from all of your work and now that seems so obvious where before it was an unidentified sense. Once again, I am on my knees in gratitude. Thank you. -RO
Thanks for reading and sharing Rose Marie . . . Yeah, Dana's work on glimmers was really interesting and helpful for me. From time to time I think about doing a book study - a month of Sundays or something going more deeply into it. I think it's a helpful way of shifting our focus from fear to love.
That would be an excellent offering. I’m just seeing your reply today just when I needed it! I miss your posts when they’re not here and certainly they come exactly when they are meant to come as they always glimmer through perfectly. 💕
I read this the day you wrote it, but didn't have the time to respond. Now I've read it again - and it is still as honest as it is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. <3
There is something about interactions with Birds and wildlife that tempts the senses beyond the physical meeting into further potentials of meaning. Like repeatedly coming across that Blackbird with one pure white tail feather when out walking the dog (there's another one with two little tiny white blobs on each side of her body that sometimes comes out of the bushes to say hello too). Or that night a Barn Owl flew out of nowhere in front of my car, briefly led the way, illuminated by my headlights before going on its way. Or perhaps that perfect flying v of honking geese that flew directly above my head as I walked out of my door the other week.
Perhaps there is a message somewhere in these things? I quite enjoy doing a little casual digging into the significance or deeper meaning of coming across certain animals. But maybe the message is simply to bathe in the moment and feel some bliss which seems to come as a result of the experience but might just be an insight into something a little closer to home.
You're welcome, Martin. And thank you. I really appreciate this meditative comment, especially the last paragraph. I think there is something in our openness to the experience - regardless of how we translate it or subsequently explain or describe it - that is healing, where "healing" has the meaning of getting "a little closer to home." Thank you 🙏🙏
Thanks again, Sean, for sharing your experiences and insights. This whole piece spoke to me, especially the affinity for birds and their songs. I'm not familiar with Deborah Dana's work (yet), but I've studied and practiced a somatic form of therapy and so I get "the glimmers." I'm so glad those crows sang to you that day and helped keep you here, and that you in turn are "singing" to us. All the best to you.
Thank you, Margaret. I am glad as well. It truly does feel miraculous, in the many sense of the word.
I am not deeply familiar with Dana's work but I am curious and will probably at least read her book. The concept of glimmers felt so instantly resonant to me - a local yoga instructor mentioned it and I felt like all of a sudden this nameless experience had a name! And then it integrated very neatly into ACIM forgiveness. I'm always fascinated and grateful for those kinds of connections - makes me feel like Indra's Web is lighting up just for me :)
This was so timely. I have been noticing small moments and feeling the energy of the moment that feels so sweet. I concluded this awareness was me feeling safe enough to feel joy and love. I did not know "glimmer" was the term for it. Thank you for your vulnerability and wisdom, written so easily understood!
You're welcome, Colleen. Thank you for being here and for sharing. I'm very grateful for this community of folks all committed to remembering our shared cause for joy and peace. Together is the way 🙏🙏
I walk on the levee in the morning to be in the presence of the river, the birds and their songs, the trees and all the wild plants. This morning I realized that the trees awakened in me a profound calm connection that I now realize was a glimmer. I actually had tears of joy and asked the HS to help me spread that joy from the ordinary to all I encounter today. We are so fortunate...thank you Sean for the deep insight.
Thank you for sharing, April. There is something about morning walks - or just morning stillness - that opens the heart and mind in helpful ways. Thank you for sharing this. And I agree that it is all about extension. If our happiness does not beg to be given away and offered up then it's not happiness, it's something else. Which isn't a crime against God or nature! But what joy to know the happiness that is shared! It's that joy that teaches us we are one, without separate interests or agendas. Thank you April !
I asked the Holy Spirit in me for an answer to a supposed problem and the HS has answered me through you. A friend I love has been trying to start a regular threesome luncheon with a woman I dislike. I've been trying to think how to get out of this gracefully, and asked the HS how to. Now I want to give this a try, instead: "I would see you as my friend, that I may remember you are part of me and thus come to know myself." I see that what I need to "get out of" is my gap of love. Thank you for cawing at us this morning, Sean. I'll report back. : )
I am happy to caw! Thank you, Nancy. I appreciate you very much. I'm glad you're going to give that lunch group a try. One never knows where the light will shine (until, I guess, we realize it is always shining, all the time). I hope all is well Nancy 🙏🙏
~ Sean
All is well, thank you, Sean, and thanks for the encouragement. There's a phrase from Thomas Merton that I hope I will remember about persons I'm tempted to dislike.. I believe he wrote it in regard to that epiphany he had when he saw the light in people. He said, it was as if he saw ". . .the secret beauty of their hearts." I love that so much.
Yes! That is lovely . . . Thanks for being here, Nancy.
~ Sean
Damn, you’re good at this.
Thank you brother 🙏🙏
Glad you're here, Carl Hope all is well.
~ Sean
Awesome Sean - the Irish believed in "thin spots" in the material world which were the link to the eternal realm. Yes there are portals every where and at every moment for those who ask and believe they have the eyes to see. ACIM really emphasizes our agency concerning the world we see. It does seem a wake up call is necessary (a bottom) to break us out of delusion and programming. Jesus told he became human so we could have an abundant life. As much as when I am restored to sanity I choose to believe Him.
Love you brother.
Tom
Thanks Tom. That's a resonant connection - the Irish thin spots. I appreciate that. Keeping an eye out for them - however they appear, whatever we call then - seems helpful. I wonder sometimes if the openness - the willingness - isn't more vital than whatever is revealed or perceived.
Thanks again, Tom - it's great to hear from you. I hope all is well.
~ Sean
The glimmer that passeth understanding….
Indeed 🙏🙏
Hope all is well Kristine :)
~ Sean
This little light is what I need these days. And now I know where to look for it and I know what I will give attention to after those micro-moments; especially on the days that seems to be extra dark. Thank you, Sean, for including me to receive the thought that you and our brothers will hold for me today and thank you for also including me in holding one for you and for all our brothers.
You are welcome, Yihsing 🙏🙏 Thank you for being here and being part of this on-going learning-to-love process. We are in this together.
~ Sean
Glimmers. . .a gentle yet resounding yes. Even the word feels shiny and joyful. Thank you.
You're welcome, Cheryl. They are a new idea for me but I am very grateful. There is a lot of resonance there. I'm hoping to give some attention to Deb Dana's work in the next few months. Gotta make space in my reading list :) Hope all is well 🙏🙏
~ Sean
I have been gently but consistently nudged to check out the link in your essay. . . so I finally did. Read her description of glimmers and then felt it in the same way I feel “God sparks,” tiny portals of connection. Truth be told, Sean, over the last decade or so, your writing, in all of its permutations, has offered up more glimmers than you could know. Just saying’ 😏
Thank you so much, Cheryl. Truly the writing is relational - without the other, it doens't mean a thing. So I am grateful as well. And grateful that we have been friends for that long! You are often in my mind, always as a light. Thank you again (and yeah - Dana's work seems pretty fabulous - I'm looking forward to going deeper). Hope you and the family - four legs and two - are all well 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Glimmer! . Why have I never identified it? As always, beautifully said. Clearly glimmer is what comes through to me from all of your work and now that seems so obvious where before it was an unidentified sense. Once again, I am on my knees in gratitude. Thank you. -RO
Thanks for reading and sharing Rose Marie . . . Yeah, Dana's work on glimmers was really interesting and helpful for me. From time to time I think about doing a book study - a month of Sundays or something going more deeply into it. I think it's a helpful way of shifting our focus from fear to love.
Sean
That would be an excellent offering. I’m just seeing your reply today just when I needed it! I miss your posts when they’re not here and certainly they come exactly when they are meant to come as they always glimmer through perfectly. 💕
🙏🙏
I read this the day you wrote it, but didn't have the time to respond. Now I've read it again - and it is still as honest as it is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. <3
You're welcome . . . thank you for reading and for the kind words . . . I'm very grateful
~ Sean
Oh yes Sean the Glimmers! Hallelujah for the glimmers I love them and you Sean. Thank you for being there. X
You're welcome, Suzy - I'm grateful we share this path - thank you 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Thanks, Sean, for sharing.
There is something about interactions with Birds and wildlife that tempts the senses beyond the physical meeting into further potentials of meaning. Like repeatedly coming across that Blackbird with one pure white tail feather when out walking the dog (there's another one with two little tiny white blobs on each side of her body that sometimes comes out of the bushes to say hello too). Or that night a Barn Owl flew out of nowhere in front of my car, briefly led the way, illuminated by my headlights before going on its way. Or perhaps that perfect flying v of honking geese that flew directly above my head as I walked out of my door the other week.
Perhaps there is a message somewhere in these things? I quite enjoy doing a little casual digging into the significance or deeper meaning of coming across certain animals. But maybe the message is simply to bathe in the moment and feel some bliss which seems to come as a result of the experience but might just be an insight into something a little closer to home.
You're welcome, Martin. And thank you. I really appreciate this meditative comment, especially the last paragraph. I think there is something in our openness to the experience - regardless of how we translate it or subsequently explain or describe it - that is healing, where "healing" has the meaning of getting "a little closer to home." Thank you 🙏🙏
~ Sean
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Fantastic writing, thanks for sharing. I am also in love with the birds.
Thanks for reading and sharing Dan. They are such beautiful creatures, aren't they? I'm very grateful for them!
~ Sean
Thanks again, Sean, for sharing your experiences and insights. This whole piece spoke to me, especially the affinity for birds and their songs. I'm not familiar with Deborah Dana's work (yet), but I've studied and practiced a somatic form of therapy and so I get "the glimmers." I'm so glad those crows sang to you that day and helped keep you here, and that you in turn are "singing" to us. All the best to you.
Thank you, Margaret. I am glad as well. It truly does feel miraculous, in the many sense of the word.
I am not deeply familiar with Dana's work but I am curious and will probably at least read her book. The concept of glimmers felt so instantly resonant to me - a local yoga instructor mentioned it and I felt like all of a sudden this nameless experience had a name! And then it integrated very neatly into ACIM forgiveness. I'm always fascinated and grateful for those kinds of connections - makes me feel like Indra's Web is lighting up just for me :)
Thanks again for sharing, Margaret.
~ Sean
Sean ... thanks for helping me re-center this day. I think I shall look for glimmers and then the miracle behind them.
You're welcome, Anne. .Thanks for reading - I hope all is well on your end. And yes, "the miracle behind them" - that's it!!
~ Sean
This was so timely. I have been noticing small moments and feeling the energy of the moment that feels so sweet. I concluded this awareness was me feeling safe enough to feel joy and love. I did not know "glimmer" was the term for it. Thank you for your vulnerability and wisdom, written so easily understood!
You're welcome, Colleen. Thank you for being here and for sharing. I'm very grateful for this community of folks all committed to remembering our shared cause for joy and peace. Together is the way 🙏🙏
~ Sean
I walk on the levee in the morning to be in the presence of the river, the birds and their songs, the trees and all the wild plants. This morning I realized that the trees awakened in me a profound calm connection that I now realize was a glimmer. I actually had tears of joy and asked the HS to help me spread that joy from the ordinary to all I encounter today. We are so fortunate...thank you Sean for the deep insight.
Thank you for sharing, April. There is something about morning walks - or just morning stillness - that opens the heart and mind in helpful ways. Thank you for sharing this. And I agree that it is all about extension. If our happiness does not beg to be given away and offered up then it's not happiness, it's something else. Which isn't a crime against God or nature! But what joy to know the happiness that is shared! It's that joy that teaches us we are one, without separate interests or agendas. Thank you April !
~ Sean