Aloha,
I'm Reverend Cindy Palos and I wanted to talk about the precious wonder of life.
The kind of wonder that St.
Francis felt,
The kind of wonder that Rumi felt,
The kind of wonder that anyone who experiences that magic,
That spirit,
That light and throws off the burdens and the heaviness that we all encounter to allow yourself to be inspired.
Now inspiration of course is spirit inside,
Going into spirit and meditation can do wonderful things including making you more in tune with the truth of who you really are and when you are in tune with that sometimes you let the worries of everyday life and the heaviness that living can bring slip away for a while to really be able to see the magic of living.
Now I recently went through a very hard move.
It was expensive,
It was a lot of work.
It probably happened because I hate moving and so I had to encounter the experience again.
I have to say I didn't learn to love moving but I did realize the difference when you really don't enjoy what you're having to go through and when you have to do a lot of work out there and sometimes you forget to go back to that reason that you are alive.
I don't know if this ever stops.
I've been doing meditation all my life and I've had times of absolute bliss and I've had times of illumination.
I know how you're supposed to integrate it into your everyday life but you have to also maintain that sense of wonder,
Maintain that gift of being able to see the beauty of life.
And I just did an album called Sacred Rainbows.
It was done in honor of a lot of people who had passed on and there was a month where I had many,
Many chances to experience this.
I've always found that if I know someone who's passed on I will almost always see either a rainbow or an amazing sunrise or sunset.
Usually sunrise for me where the colors of the sky are just lit up so bright.
So I realized that we are always connected to that beauty,
To that wonder,
To that spirit,
To our soul but sometimes we just forget.
Sometimes we're so busy and working and living and doing what we have to do that we forget to make space for that place of wonder.
I wrote a couple of poems about this and I'm also going to play you the song that I started the album Sacred Rainbows with,
Precious Wonder.
But this morning I wrote Sometimes we need the infusion of the wonder that life really holds.
A moment of appreciation to feel the gift of how magic unfolds.
Now I'm just going to pause here after this phrase,
This first phrase of my poem.
Now I hope you've all had a chance to experience how things sync up for your realization.
How there really is this amazing master plan that sometimes we get out of sync with and sometimes we get wow yeah every day can be a wow.
It's beautiful when we see that and we experience that but it doesn't happen unless we allow it to happen.
We have to make a choice to see that wonder,
To allow it to touch us in some way.
I go on to say in this poem sometimes we need to let go of the burdens living brings and see the world anew and let your heartstrings sing.
And with this I was trying to talk about that attunement we get.
The attunement we get when we go inside and we are still.
It's almost like an alignment when things feel like they are aligning with your higher self.
And when you do that alignment sometimes it's just allowing the flow of life to go through you and to bring you back into that alignment to understand and to appreciate your life.
Next phrase I have is to go inside and connect with light and let its power show.
The preciousness and the beauty that inspires your heart and soul.
I love capturing that.
Maybe words,
Maybe a photograph,
Maybe a painting but I do feel it's so beautiful sometimes that I'd like to share it and share that inspiration in many ways.
And I hope you have a way.
And it can be just stopping and experiencing it with a mental photograph or an inner connection to that wonder.
Or it might be a poem or it might be a connection that you feel to something higher inside yourself,
To your soul.
And I continue on with how precious is the wonder.
How beautiful the song.
When we stop and understand the miracle of God's plan.
So some people don't think there is a plan.
And I would understand that if they didn't ever have a chance to experience it from an overview,
A higher view from the objective observer,
From your higher self.
When you start to look at your life and see what you came here for and you get it and you see how those pieces all fit in the puzzle of life.
And if you can look at it in that way,
You do kind of step back and go,
Wow.
I love wow moments,
Don't you?
I really do love when we can go,
Wow,
Okay.
That's a good thing.
I heard somewhere that the last words that Steve Jobs ever said as he was dying was,
Wow.
I like that.
When I heard that,
I went,
Wow,
That kind of sure shows you what could be coming.
What's next is a wow.
Those wow moments,
Right?
The aha moments of wonder.
Let's just take a moment of wonder.
Let's just breathe in the wonder.
Breathing it in.
Allowing it to align and attune us to let that energy of breath flow through us.
Breathing in and pausing and breathing out,
Letting go,
Letting go,
Letting go of any of the heaviness or the burdens you might have accumulated.
Breathing in a fresh breath of inspiration and allowing it to go out.
Just breathing in and as you breathe,
Breathing in,
Holding and breathing out.
Allow the space of your soul to be present.
Breathing in the soul,
Letting it be present and allowing it as you breathe out to fill you with that presence,
That energy.
Breathing in that wonderful space of the soul's presence and breathing out,
Releasing anything that may have come up that has been blocking that energy to be present in you right here and right now.
Just be in that presence.
Let's just be present.
And allow your mind to be still.
Just listen.
I'm hearing the wind here right now.
I'm hearing the birds,
Some doves.
Just allow yourself to be aware of anything that comes through you.
Breathing that energy in and out,
Allowing the light of your soul inside to shine forth into your heart of hearts.
Let your heart grow with the wonder of being.
Let the love in your heart shine with that light of wonder.
How wonderful you are.
Love the wonder.
Love yourself.
Love the love and love the light of that wonder.
Allow it to spread throughout every single cell of your mind,
Your throat,
Your heart,
Your solar plexus.
Down to the base of your back and spine to the root chakra.
Infusing light into all of every cell within your body and allowing it to flow through your legs,
Your thighs,
Your knees,
Your calves,
Your feet.
And on out and allow yourself to be in a center of protective light and love going up,
Up,
Up above you through you down out.
In front of you,
Behind you,
On either side of you.
You are now in a bubble of wonderful light and love protected from anything out there.
That might not be anything but your best and highest light and love pouring through you.
And allow yourself and your soul to allow spirit to enter through you and inspire you with that light of being.
That wonder,
That precious wonder of being alive right here,
Right now.
And feel yourself being renewed and restored and revitalized.
What a wonderful word.
Revitalize the vital energy of being alive here and now.
Breathe it in and slowly come back,
Come back,
Come back,
Come back into your very beingness.
And allow yourself to bring into your conscious mind anything,
Whether it's a word or a feeling or a poem.
Anything that you might wish to bring from that rainbow bridge from heaven to earth to here right now.
And the preciousness of the wonder of being alive.
What a precious wonder this magic of living brings.
With flowers that blossom and rainbows that reach from heaven to here where heaven and earth meet.
What magic this creation is.
With the nature that brings this beauty and such a state of peace.
All part of a whole we can experience in every moment that within us is complete.
This eternal light,
The sacred spirit alive in the soul,
Perceived in so many ways to know.
What a precious wonder this magic of living is.
Present in what we see,
Here where rainbows meet,
With the blessing and smile it brings.
I send blessings of goodness that come from the source to you so you may see how good life really is and have the strength to see you through.
May you step out of darkness and be bathed in bright light.
May that light awaken you to the miracle here in life.
I bow to the amazing grace that has the power to truly heal all the pain and sorrow and make us whole and free.
And lifts us to be an instrument of your love and rainbows of light that transform us with love.
What a precious wonder this magic of living brings.
With flowers that blossom and rainbows that sing and from heaven come here to reach us.
Where heaven and earth do meet.
