You Are Not Alone, Revisited

You are not alone. In your shame and isolation, you may feel alone but you are not. God is with you and so am I. Write to me, contact me. I have been in deep shame and isolation. I know what it is like. It takes courage to reach out. Yes, I understand. I hope you find the courage to embrace your heart.

 Khatum
  
 Most Merciful and Compassionate God,
 Give us Thy great Goodness;
 Teach us Thy loving Forgiveness;
 Raise us above the distinctions and
 Differences which divide us;
  
 Send us the Peace of Thy Divine Spirit,
 And unite us all in Thy Perfect Being. 

--Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Lotus Group: Talking About Shame, Finding Self-Love

Feelings of shame often block self-love and intimacy with others. By talking about shame amongst spiritual friends, we unblock the flow of self-love a little more each time, encouraging self-love and Spirit to evolve freely within us.

Once a week for six weeks, from October 3-November 7, I invite you to explore with me the hurt of shame in a safe place of self-discovery where the group holds you in tolerance and compassion.

In this sacred circle, you can explore the trials of being human, suffering, and judgment, without suffering and judgment, where each person finds compassion for themselves and others through tolerance and acceptance.

This space, this Lotus Group, gives you an opportunity to share your feelings and stories of shame to illuminate greater clarity in your heart about your true nature, divine essence, and being as a sacred soul. Sharing in a sacred space, a sacred circle of intention, allows us to feel accepted among spiritual friends. Here is where we belong—in each other’s hearts, where we can be held and seen with dignity and love.

If you feel this is something you crave, a place where you are held, honored, and cherished by others and by yourself, where your self-love can blossom and grow like a lotus anchored and nourished by the muddy depths of your soul, I invite you to join me. Here we learn to accept, love, and cherish one another and ourselves just exactly how we are—muddy depths and glorious lotus blooms simultaneously.

This process is not therapy. It is spiritual identity and growth. It is a healing circle of spirituality, not psychology.

I am a life-long seeker who needs help and understanding as much as you. I call on my spirit guides to do just that—guide me, protect me, and call me to this sacred space of bearing witness.

I create this circle and welcome you within it.

Please come.

Enroll here: openhandsholyheart@gmail.com Sundays @ 10:00 a.m. -11:15 a.m. E.T., October 3-November 7, 2021

You are not the worst thing you’ve ever done.

You are not the worst thing you’ve ever done.

Shame may make you feel like you are the worst thing you’ve ever done. But you aren’t. We are so much bigger, deeper, richer, vaster, and mysterious than the worst thing we have ever done.

Forgiveness is the key.  Forgiving ourselves for the worst thing we have ever done takes courage and humility. And time. It takes making amends to ourselves whom we have hurt most profoundly and making amends to others, to those we have hurt. It takes tears and patience.

Life takes courage, but thank God we have God to love us, and She does. “Be brave, my daughter.”

Yes, it hurts but be brave. You are not alone.

May you find compassion for yourself. May you find the courage to love life and forgive yourself.

You are Life itself. May you know that and love yourself and Life and God. Live the Mystery. Be the Mystery. Because you are.

The Way of Love

They are dear to me who run not after the pleasant
Or away from the painful, grieve not
Over the past, lust not today,
But let things come and go as they happen.

-- The Bhagavad Gita