My Dad was a patient man. I remember helping him plant two trees in our backyard when I was in my teens. He explained to me that the two trees were to be a certain distance apart. The reason for that specific distance was that when they would someday grow big enough, he was going to hang a hammock between them. Being surprised by my Dad was a frequent occurrence, but I was impressed with my Dad’s faith and optimism then. There was no doubt in his mind that hammock would one day be there, in fact we often talked about how he would rest there in the shade of those trees, after cutting the grass, a cold drink in his hand.
When I woke up this morning, I pulled an Angel card to get an idea of my theme for the day. The message was basically “don’t be pessimistic.” I kind of went hmmmm to myself because I wasn’t anticipating feeling that way today. Okay, so on I go with my day.
Since it was one of our first warm spring days, I decided to remove one of the stumps in our newly purchased lot next door. I set a goal that that stump would be out by the end of the day. It was quite rotted, and it did move a little, but the main root was still firm in the ground. Even when I dug out the dirt around the stump and sawed through as far as I could with my little battery operated reciprocating saw, I could not get it to snap off.
Some days I might have growled at this point, but I decided to just continue and cut some wedges into the trunk so I could reach the center. But the saw battery chose that moment to die. Some days I might have become disheartened, and I did think of how this job had become harder than I had hoped. Then the thought occurred to me to try to talk to the stump and ask it to work with me. I asked for permission to snap off that stump and said that I would return the stump to the land and bury it there to replenish the soil. I asked the stump and the land and my spirit team to help me, because I was getting quite tired and would like to get onto the next phase of the project so I could start planting. I tried to break the stump again, but it wouldn’t budge, so I walked away to put the battery on charge and just left the possibilities open.
After running some errands, I grabbed the battery and went out to do battle, in an attempt to accomplish my goal for the day. When the saw blade touched the stump, I noticed the stump moved differently. So I pushed on the stump again, and I heard a crack. I was surprised that I wasn’t surprised. What a relief to finally separate the top of that stump, and I immediately had the feeling that it went so much easier than it would have, had I gotten pissed at it.
I immediately gave thanks for the help in making the job easier. I was astounded at the love and support for something small and silly like this, but boy was I grateful. I mean, tears in my eyes grateful and it was mostly to my Dad. I kept my promise to return the stump to the earth, to replenish it. It was then that I remembered my morning message for the day. Had I chosen or let myself become pessimistic, I probably would have hijacked and blocked the flow of energy that facilitated the stump breaking. By having faith, almost in a optimistic playful way, like my Dad taught me, I was able to manifest an easier, almost magical way to accomplish the goal… and it was so much easier, and took much less energy.
Those two trees my Dad and I planted in his backyard did indeed grow large and strong enough to hang that hammock. It took about 10 or so years, and I had young children by then. I got to explain to them how Grandpa and I planted those trees in their places for the purpose of hanging the hammock in which they were giggling and swinging. I told them how we nurtured those trees over the years and made sure they had enough water when there was a drought, and kept the weeds from growing too close to their trunks. We planted them with the faith that those trees would grow strong and that one day we would indeed hang that hammock, and used playful optimism to fuel the manifestation into reality.
Can you feel the hum within you?
Dr. Wayne’s daughter, Serena, wrote 
All the things we do in a day change when we love ourselves unconditionally. Doing something for ourselves feels different because we are doing it with a renewed love for our own sacred existence. Taking two minutes to thank our body, to remind ourselves how magnificent we are and to just be. Doing for others, and getting no thanks, changes because we are the ones who thank ourselves, and somehow the need for thanks doesn’t seem that important anymore. We do things out of love for ourselves, because we are each a piece of God, and connected by God.
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Whatever tomorrow brings, we can create a best case scenario by continuing to let go of our own old yucky issues as they pop up, forgiving others in the now and trying not to judge. If we can keep clearing out unhappy and painful thoughts, feelings and memories, we can rise with the high vibration of any event that comes. Our health improves when we form new habits of canceling negative thoughts about worse case scenarios as they arise and change them to open positive thoughts with love behind them. Gradually, our thoughts become tame and help us create a better reality. Once we get ourselves healed, then we can assist others…. and they will need it.
We have a little half acre lot next door. It’s been vacant and weedy for over 20 years. It has tree stumps. It came up for sale shortly after we moved in 5 years ago, but more than I could afford. It came up for sale a couple more times, each time a little less but still too much. Last year, two lots on the other side of the road sold and I began to worry the lot next door would be next. I began to use what I knew of the Law of Attraction to bring the land under my care. When I walked my dogs past, I would say things like, “I am the steward of this land” and “this belongs to me, I am the caretaker of this land.” I envisioned making a perennial flower garden around the stumps and planting flowers in them. The land slopes downhill so I imagined using the land in a way that manages the water for our property and others. Last month, I had a vision in my sleep. It was a picture of a stump with a few high grasses around it. I had no clue what it meant. “Why am I seeing a stump?” I asked. Two days later I saw a for sale sign on the lot. I knew the realtor and just knew it was priced to sell and that it was going to go this time. It was and I put in a call that night saying that I wanted to make an offer. Two weeks later I became the steward of that land. There were moments things didn’t seem to be going smoothly and I wondered if I was doing the right thing, but then I remembered the picture of the stump and knew my Guides were reassuring me. They just know me so well, and give me the signs I need.
What happens to our dreams and scenarios that don’t turn out like we hoped? The themes that dominated a section of our lives only to come to an end that we didn’t see coming… a marriage, a home, a business, a job, a career, a relationship, a family or friendship… whose skeletons lurk and rattle around in our memories because we still may not know what to do with them or where to put them. Painful to think they were failures, or worse we still beat ourselves up when they have the nerve to pop up in our minds.
The saying, “God doesn’t always give us what we want, but rather what we need” comes to mind here. When we don’t meet our original goals and expectations, we may subconsciously keep trying to achieve them by re-creating scenarios in our life because we are locked into a cycle or loop and trying to fix it. The people may be different, the place, our age and circumstances, but something feels familiar and we are locked onto winning something that will finally prove to us that we are worthy, lovable, and valid. These loops are particularly apparent in families of parents with addiction and denial (but not always.)
This energy is now asking us to dig up and pull out the deepest things inside of us so that we can forgive ourselves and others, and clear the blame, guilt and worry. If we are to claim our spiritual gifts now (channeling, healing, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairsentience), we have to finish healing ourselves before we can heal others. If we are finally ready to use the key to unlock the loops we’ve been riding, we can to ride the divine spiral upward to ascension.
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