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DAY 54 | NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | POWER OF BELIEF

Nov 21, 2022
3 min read

Updated: Jan 20

It's a choice, in every moment, what are you going to believe in keeping in mind the lies are in your beliefs. Love is a way to see clearly to be in connection with all that is. Practice learning to see with your heart's vision. Seeing well beyond the lies in our beliefs. Why not consider love's voice, love's joy, love's connection.

Day 54 NEXT 100 Days of Love Heart Art. Fuzzy pink heart love.

AWAKEN: WHAT WE SEEK WE FIND, SEEK LOVE

What we see reflects the processing experience of our mind's 'eye.' Eyes and ears merely reflection projectors, in and of themselves. The mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. There are many ways to reference this, what you seek you find, your thoughts create your perceptions. In this way, from insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth. Beliefs are the lies shared that shut out true connection with the world, a world by its very nature of interdependence is constantly changing. Love is a verb, an action and connection to each other for peace.

Photo By: Melanie Lutz — The beauty of the Community Garden alive, interacting with stories to tell.

REMEMBER: TIME KEEPS ON TICKING

The lie is hidden in our beliefs. Beliefs are the illusions of our unloving thinking, they are the lie made manifest. Free yourself of any lie that keeps you stuck in your beliefs. Be about the inner power of your authentic expression. Be about connection and love and peace.

DAY 54 | NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | THE POWER OF BELIEF

FOUNDATIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS AFFIRMATION

I experience more clarity and joy as I connect to my inner power.

PRAYER'S OF THE HEART

May you always see with your heart.

LOVE ACTIVISM 💚🌱✨ A WAY FOR SWITCH

We continue to hold space for the Women led Revolution taking place in Iran. We stand with our sisters, our families, our children. It is courage of the heart. It is a beautiful people who have said, "ENOUGH." Oppression, Rotten ideologies, Fear, Murder. "ENOUGH." It will not be our way. A renaissance of loving is here.

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Practice learning to see with your heart's vision. Seeing well beyond the lie in your beliefs. Give this day to what love wants to show you. Give this day to the soft focus of what your heart and soul has been trying to tell you. Give this day to the flight of that magnificent expression of all that is you.

From the community Compost this gord/squash grew. From death to birth, from trash to the fruits of connection.

Listen to your body. Be in relationship to your ecosystems and enjoy.

Love, Mel

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DAY 55/ NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | LOVE > FEAR

Give it all. Why not? Feel the joy and get out there and do it.

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De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina: From My Ranch to Your Kitchen, a delicious recipe full of simple ingredients, one of our favorites, enchiladas made the Michoacan way. We love them. We are here to share the gifts we've been given, to offer our wisdom to the collective. It is wonderful to celebrate cherished recipes. Simple and tasty. Doña Angelita charms, entertains and cooks here heart out. Subscribe and try to cook something delicious.

Telling loving stories, creating connection.

Expect more. Explore the stories nature has in store for you.

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DAY 53 | NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | HAVE FAITH

Nov 19, 2022
5 min read

Updated: Jan 18

"Have faith or pandemonium is liable to walk among the scene." is one of my favorite lyrics from one of my favorite writers, Johnny Mercer. The pure joy that flows through the standards sung by the most iconic singers of all time flowed from his quick wit and turn of phrase. Have faith or pandemonium. So good. It is a choice. Faith is an aspect of consciousness. What you place your faith in, is the basis of your foundational health and wellness or something else. What you choose to hold dear will bear fruit. Take today to practice placing your faith in the miraculous nature of your loving heart. In the unending, all powerful, cycle of nature. Lose your attachment to the way things are unfolding and engage the muscle of truth of that which is in us but not of us, that does for us that which we can not. Johnny Mercer wrote more than 1,700 songs in his lifetime because he had faith in his way with words and had a song in his heart. Sometimes whatever it is, you need to have faith, and watch the untold miracles unfold.

Day 53 NEXT 100 Days of Love Heart Art. Shadows of the heart, heart.

AWAKEN: SPREAD JOY AND LOVE TO THE MAXIMUM

You got to spread joy up to the maximum

Bring gloom down to the minimum

And have faith, or pandemonium

Liable to walk upon the scene

Faith is the belief in that which we can not see. The truth of stepping into your life so fully, doors will open where you thought there were walls, people we don’t know and have never met will show up with their heart open igniting the flame of our efforts into the grandness of that unified field. There isn’t much else to say about all the fabulousness that takes place in this practice of faith. There isn’t anything to do in this space of transformation where you are waiting for that instant of complete amalgamation in the alchemical process where everything gives over to that new elemental creation. Enjoy today in the faithfulness of each moment, for connection, for love, for grace, for community, remembering you are held and you are whole and you are most certainly loved.

REMEMBER: FAITH OF THE MUSTARD SEED

Life is a multi point expression. There is light and there is dark. There are ranges of light and dark, there can be a binary, two sides, or there can be something more perceptive to experience, to each idea and many sides to every story. When we let ourselves embrace the mystery, that beyond and within this is the full expression of God's work. Faith is enacted. Do you spend time making things more complicated than they need to be because you have placed your faith in unloving thinking?

DAY 53 | NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | HAVE FAITH

FOUNDATIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS AFFIRMATION

I fiercely answer the call of my being.

PRAYER'S OF THE HEART

May your heart open to the practice of faith in the light in all things.

LOVE ACTIVISM 💚🌱✨ A WAY FOR SWITCH

What are you willing to give of yourself so completely the very act satisfies your very soul. Lauren Artress, D. Min., a psychotherapist and Episcopal priest, is the founder of Veriditas the Worldwide Labyrinth Project and a Canon of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. brought the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth to the West. It is a long standing movement for peace. Consider donating, supporting, visiting them.

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The way is made by walking. Joseph Campbell, a writer and professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College, referred to the Chartres Cathedral as one of his favorite places. The place is a Mecca for pilgrims and a mythologists dream. The carvings, artifacts and art contain every story ever including the greatest story ever told.

"We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known, We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.” ― Joseph Campbell

It vibrates with an energy of chanting, prayer and echoes of history. It holds the grace of all who enter. from the website - The labyrinth of Chartres evokes Greek mythology. The architect Daedalus constructed it for the destruction of a monster – the Minotaur – who ate the children of Athens. Theseus vanquished the monster, and he was successful due to the thread spun by Ariadne. The labyrinth at Chartres has important geometric points:

– If you ‘project’ the façade onto the pavement, the center of the rose window – where Christ appears majestically – corresponds to the center of the labyrinth.

– If you compare the labyrinth with the central portal statues and the placement of the old altar, draw a square, and there will be a pattern in the plan of the Cathedral.

Architecturally it contains wonderful examples of sacred geometry.

And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to love.

Now we are sure we do not walk alone.

For God is here, and with them and all beings.

Now we know that we will never lose the way again.

-- ACIM

Charles Cathedral Labyrinth photo by: Melanie Lutz — Chartes Cathedral Labyrinth

Change is not an abstract; it was a daily roller coaster of which every hour required a miracle and every day we wake up without any knowledge of what the day will bring. Hold to a faith at the center of the wheel of fortune, that remains constant as the wheel goes round and round, the center never changes while the wheel goes round and round.

Love, Mel

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DAY 54/ NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | LOVE > FEAR

Give it all. Why not? Feel the joy and get out there and do it.

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Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth | Ep. 1: 'The Hero’s Adventure' Joseph Campbell encourages the audience to discover what excites them, and to make that the basis for their personal journeys.

Expect more. Dive into the mythology that surrounds you.

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DAY 52 | NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | LET IT BE

Nov 17, 2022
3 min read

Updated: Jan 17

Relax into the truest nature of your being and just let it be. You have all the support you need to be all of you. Know you will be guided to the person, place or thing that will serve the needs of your soul. For now, let it be. In this moment, let it be.

Day 52 NEXT 100 Days of Love Heart Art. Heart circling the power of the people heart

AWAKEN: OUR TIME IS NOW

We need look no further than the innate truth written by four lads from England, and one particular artist sharing from the heart of his personal experience of Paul McCartney's origin story of a dream about his dead Mom reassuring him "it's going to be okay, let it be." When he woke up, he was like yeah, things are going to be great.

When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

And in my hour of darkness

She is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

-- The Beatles

See the video here with James Corden in Liverpool for a special day exploring the city of Paul's youth, visiting his childhood home where he wrote music with John Lennon.

It's always about the love and positivity and connection to family and community that brings comfort.

REMEMBER: TIME KEEPS ON TICKING

Let it be. Let it be. Let it be, yeah. Let it be. Speaking words of wisdom. Let it be.

DAY 52 | NEXT 100 DAYS OF LOVE | LET IT BE

FOUNDATIONAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS AFFIRMATION

I love with passion, courage and grace.

PRAYER'S OF THE HEART

May you celebrate each moment of surrender, relaxing deeply, as you let everything be exactly as it is.

LOVE ACTIVISM 💚🌱✨ A WAY FOR SWITCH

What are you willing to give of yourself so completely the very act satisfies your very soul. Consider becoming a member of your local community garden. Our local incubator for story, art and ecology represents a way forward to contribute to Urban Ecosystem Restoration, Community care and mutual aid. Check them out at The Bird House.

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