I started this work to find lasting inner peace.
I continued this work because along the way, I found that I love God.
I found that I love Jesus, Mary and the Buddha.
I found that life is simple. It is all about love.
I found that each of us is capable of achieving Christ consciousness.
I found that Christ consciousness brings lasting peace.
I found that Christ was the embodiment of love.
I found that we are each capable of that kind of unconditional love.
I found that we must start with self-love.
I found that every relationship reflects the love that we have for ourselves.
I found that this is a life-long journey, but it is one that is worth taking.
I found more inner peace than I dreamed of.
I found that I am not perfect, and I am okay with that.
I found many marvelous teachers.
I found some hard lessons.
I found I could master some of those lessons and not others.
I found that it didn’t matter.
I found that the only lesson was love.
It’s so simple. It’s all about love.
I found that I wasn’t an “I”.
I found that there is beauty in emptiness.
I found that there is beauty in the space between the leaves on a tree.
I found that there is beauty in the silence between the notes of a song.
I found unity with the sinner, the saint and the beggar.
I found unity with the Golden child.
I found that I was pure essence struggling to be free of the ego’s grip.
I found glimpses of freedom when I released the ego.
I found that the ego has many layers.
I found that I have not yet released all those layers.
I found that I have the strength to keep working at it.
I found that I could suffer and still find joy, peace and love.
I found the joy within me,
I found the peace within me.
I found the love within me.
I found that every journey leads back to the Self.
I hope you find what you are looking for.
How do we attain and maintain inner peace? That is the question that plagued me. I would work, become stressed, go on vacation, become stressed about traveling, go back to work partially relaxed, then within 24 hours the whole cycle would start again. I needed to find a solution that would extend past my next vacation. Then I met a reiki master who was the calmest person I knew in spite of being a single mother diagnosed with cancer. How, when faced with a crisis, did she not only maintain calm, but had extra peace to share with others? My inner peace journey is the topic for this month’s blog, which is in the form of a 
The scent of a flower is part of the essence of the flower. It is not the physical form of the flower, yet it does not exist without the flower. It is the same way with your soul. Your soul is the essence of who you are. It doesn’t exist on this earth plane without you. It exists within you and extends outward as your unique fragrance. 
What if when schools reopen, we all went back to school regardless of our age, degrees or skill set?
The benefits of the coronavirus were not immediately obvious. However, as I watched the pandemic unfold, I could see that the virus was teaching us a lot about our underlying equality. Coronavirus recognizes no borders. It checks no one’s nationality. It doesn’t ask about skin color or political party affiliation. It sees all life as equally valuable. What does the virus know that we don’t?
Throughout the history of the world there has been famine, drought, war, illness and everything in between. And it is in these moments we are brought to our knees. The mind is dismantled and it leaves open a space for the heart to take over. These extreme circumstances command the heart to grow even bigger, forces us into a space of grace, forces us into alignment with God. When there is extreme imbalance in the world these catastrophic moments force us to shed illusion and realign with our own divinity, realign with God, realign with divine possibility, realign with faith. 
Let yourself be free.
I took my two dogs for a walk outside after having walked three miles on a treadmill. I arrived back at my condo tower to find that all the elevators were shut down, which meant that I had to walk up twenty stories with my two very small dogs (6.5 pounds and 12 pounds) in tow. I managed to coax them up fifteen stories before they refused to take another step. My thighs were burning and my heart was racing, but I picked up the dogs and put one under each arm and carried them the remaining five stories. We reached the landing of the final flight of stairs only to find the door to exit the stairwell was locked—I tried turning the handle every which way but the door wouldn’t budge. I remembered then that I didn’t have my phone with me. Panting, I sat down on the step in the pitch-black vestibule and said to God, “Please open that door.” I always ask with the caveat that it be done if it is for my greatest good, so I was prepared to walk back down the forty flights of steps. I would surrender to whatever the outcome. I caught my breath and walked to the exit door for the second time, turned the handle and the door opened immediately. Sometimes the only thing we need to do is ask. Now, if I had only thought to ask for working elevators!
Just like water doesn’t control the river you, as the water, do not control your life. God says: Be My guide; be My eyes and My ears and My heart in the world. Trust that I will take care of you on the journey through the rapids. As you approach every bend you have a choice between encountering rapids or still water. You must set your intention for what you want to encounter. You may think you’re in the rapids, but I see you in still water. You find out who you are by how you navigate the rapids as well as the still water. Find your true power by being the paddle, by being the canoe, by being the rapids, by being the oarsman, by being My eyes ears and heart in the world. 
Faith is not blind.