LISTEN to the Bells Ever-RINGing!

The Bells RING

Within US

Through US

Within the world

Through the world

Miracles bursting

Reminding us

Awakening us

To all that we are

Listening

Allowing

Let the gods show off

Dance you

Express you

Life breaking through

Breath by breath

HEAVEN

RINGing

Freeing

The MORE

The seeds of promise

HATCHing

Life is the prayer

YOUR life

My life

ALL Life

The PRAYER

Answered

HERE

To express

Our truest Self

Soul guided

Soaring

Birthing

Our truest LIFE

A waking DREAM

Manifest

Realized

Here and now

This is YOUR life

Your Sacred gift

Your Prayer

Your Offering

AWE

WONDER

JOY

GRACE

BEAUTY

TRUTH

You

You

You

YOU are the Offering

Layers uncovered

Flowers blooming

Ever-growing

OPENing

Hushhhhhhhh!

Drop into the silence

Within

Listen to the BELLS

Ever-RINGing

Living Poetry

Echoing TRUTH

Nature’s Beauty

Yessss…

REMEMBER!

Wake up

Show up

Shower the World

With the Blessedness

You are

True Freedom

Life Beyond

BLISS

Abounding JOY

VIBRATING

Higher

And

Higher

And

Higher

As the pitch

Of the Bells

Ever-RINGing

Lead us into

All that awaits

US

To be KNOWN

At a depth

That quenches our Thirst

Nourishes our Soul

Fulfilling our Destiny

Dropping

Deeper

And

Deeper

Into the WORLD

Within

New Worlds

Ready to SING

Ever-RINGing!

For once we hear the BELLS

We cannot unRING them

We cannot NOT hear them

No snooze button

Perfect Time

RINGing

And

Ringing

Divine scheduling

We cannot go back to sleep

AWAKE

As never before

Resounding

Reverberating

SWEETNESS

Echoes

From the vast canyons

Within

We can pretend

We don’t hear the BELLS

But it takes

Far more energy

To hang on

To avoid the unknown

Than

To Let GO!

Surrendering to the sound

Of Our Soul

Taking us where we couldn’t plan

Where we were always meant to go

New shores

We rest in the music

Ever-playing

Recognizing

KNOWing

Our Self

For the first TIME

Again

And

Again

And

Again

LISTEN

To the BELLS

Ever-ringing

They

Are

YOU

The SONG

In YOUR Heart.

 

Celebrating Thanksgiving with 3 cherished soul companions, D, LeAnna and Lance, in my Nashville home, I had an inspired idea to write on the place mats messages to each of them letting them know how much I love them and what they mean to me.  I also wrote myself a note:  Girl, how could you have ever known that all of your life – all the heartbreak and all the joy would lead you here into this lifetime where you love life at a depth you didn’t know was possible…Keep showing up and dancing your happyass all over this world, shaking your turkey tail feathers because it feels damn good to celebrate life and to share this joy with all…

LeAnna came out of the guest bathroom holding my prayer box and asking me about it saying she loved it and felt drawn to it.  I told her it is a magic box that holds my heart and then, I got side-tracked preparing my first Thanksgiving feast and LeAnna joined D and Lance who were playing guitar and singing so sweetly.

This morning as I made my way out onto the balcony to say GOOOOOD Mornin’ Nashville! with my arms stretched wide open offering my heart to the day; I kicked the prayer box which was on the floor.  Beauty, my beloved kitty must have climbed onto the bathroom sink and batted it off.  But I knew with all of me that this was a sign from the heavens to look inside.

I opened the box and read the prayer I had written January 1, 2001: I want to live authentically and passionately! written on a tiny ½ inch by ½ inch faded neon pink sticky note.  This was unlike all of the New Year’s days before when I would write out my resolutions that usually were motivated by shame believing I wasn’t enough and would be enough if I reached the goals of the year like:  Lose 15 pounds, exercise 5 days a week, run 3 marathons, read a book a week, increase sales year over year 18% and so on.  The depths of me knew what I was inviting tuned into the divine schedule but at the level of personality, my limited Self was not aware of how profound this declaration actually was. 

For the first time, instead of trying to create a perfect version of my Self in the year ahead, I wrote a prayer for my life that was grounded in Spirit, the whole of me:  body, mind, heart and soul that knows our life is a living prayer.  The bells ever-ringing within me were waking me up, letting me know it was time to step into a new life, to allow the songs within me to sing.  The sweet sound of my soul wanting to usher me into parts of me longing to express, to be counted, to come alive, to free the joy in living this ever-unfolding adventure, flowing with the winds wanting to take me where I could never have planned but was always meant to go.

What a full circle moment for me.  Reading what I had written almost 13 years ago.  And then reading what I had written on my place mat where I claimed the truth that the whole of my life, every single step, that which I have blessed and that which I have cursed led me here to this freedom where I live authentically and passionately unconditionally present to life; and from this, I love life fiercely and want this for everyone.  I see with eyes wide open – the eyes of my soul as well as my physical eyes that all of the events, the experiences, the totality of my human journey allowed me to step into the dream, my truest Self and truest life awake.  The grace of the bells ever-ringing set me free!  The echoes of Truth that I longed to stop! and hit the snooze button when fear gripped me could not be silenced for the bells ring and ring and ring so we might know our Self again and again and again for the first time. 

The invitation to you this day is to Hushhhhhhh!  the noise, the busyness of life and go into the silence within.  Listen to the bells ever-ringing, longing to take you where you could never have planned to go but were always meant to go.  The soul’s journey not cooperative with the human journey as it lives outside the confines of the conventional life and linear time.  Listen to the bells for they are YOU!  They are the song in your very heart singing sweetly, ushering you into an authentic life to live the passion ever-springing until your last breath.  Ahhhhhhhh…