This morning I got to listen to A Promised Land written and read by Barack Obama. It reminded me of an old practice, to have 3 cups of Black Tea with Cinnamon Stick, every morning while I practice my Spiritual Conscious Contact—in whatever form that took. So, I got some tea, set about working on a painting puzzle and I got to listen. How wonderful!
I hadn’t had breakfast yet and my chattering mind said it was hungry, but that I could not eat because nothing was clean and there was no food. It, per usual, took a small scrap of truth and made a fiction out of it. It also used that story, holding it up like some Eternal Truth, to punish me and to berate me.
I said to my mind well okay then, it is not really THAT awful and I can listen to the book while I do some dishes, if I must. I said HP please remove this false thinking from me, it doesn’t serve me…and before I was done with the asking, the idea came to mind to use the GF pizza crust dough to try making like an English muffin or a bun, and to make fried egg and cheese for on it. My mind said this was NEVER going to work. I got up and fashioned the bun shapes and put them into the air fryer, set aside a slice of cheese and the pan for the egg.
OMG!! It worked! I do not have to buy ten dollar GF rolls, the only kind I’m not allergic to, that I have found. I get to use one of my least favorite, but premixed and affordable flour mixes with some yogurt and baking powder added! SO cheap and SO delicious! SO grateful. Glad to have listened to the nudge. Now I get to eat Hamburgers, Tuna sammiches, and other bean/veggie based delights nearly as often as I wish! No 8 dollar loaf of bread either!
I paused and the nudge to do some cards came to mind, and I thought it was my mind and I began to revolt and yet… I would really appreciate a more simple way to cease the itty bitty chitty committee going on all day over small things so….
I pulled some cards while thinking, how shall i think, no how shall i stop thinking, no, what do i need to know about the thinking. Here they are…
Deck is: The Dream Weaver’s Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid
Card: 29 All Is Calm upon These Shores—a calm and centered sense of self, radical acceptance, peaceful interaction with others, releasing attachment. (YAY! And of course my mind grumbled)
Card: 25 Time to Feed the Hungry Heart—Time Out, self-care, a need to regroup and replenish, nourishment. For me so far, in my experience, it can also mean Number five needs INPUT, which I began doing my blog roll and following when my eye was drawn to old forgotten blogs which led to NEW and amazing brain and spirit food, a new library loot list and so on. The booklet talks about pushing ahead even when in burnout (for me not even seeing I am in burnout) to prove me the hero, ha, and that the Universe is NOT impressed (Yay big smile, my mind said WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT IMPRESSED!! Don’t you SEE all of the things?!) It also says to feed it with LOVE, self love taking care of self eating properly, putting in good things for mind and spirit!
Card: 7 If You Hear a Sasquatch Sigh: spiritual narcolepsy. Seeing through the lens of separation, competition, arrogance, ego, narrow-mindedness (ok so this card fell out first while I was awaiting nudge from my guides how to shuffle and what to pick). HA! OH really good card, the ‘problem’ my head argued with the card the entire time I was reading it, so that’s how I Know it’s right on target! And my mind tells me no need for cards to clarify or what not, they aren’t right WE are right you should this, or you failed that. My forgetter forgets, which for me is what this card is about!
I am rewatching Jack Ryan movie and then past seasons, so that I can enjoy the new season just released!