This Earthly Temple

Technology...

2009-07-11T15:36:00.000-07:00

..is not my friend this past week!

My computer is refusing to cooperate, mainly due to the dial up modem we have to use. We are in the process of getting an air card, but need an external amplifier and antenna to boost the signal ( we live in the base of a canyon..great for peace, not so good for internet service!) so for now, writing requires a trip to the library...where I am now.

The garden is producing lovely tomatoes now, the green beans are just about exhausted so I have replanted them, the early peaches are making wonderful jams and the apricots are beautiful this year. In another week or so...fresh Honeydew melons and maybe the corn as well.

the baby goats are getting big and so need to be moved to a new playarea next to the big goats this week....so I'll be fixing fence bright and early Monday morning.

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I have begun to work my way through Rodney Yee's 8 week yoga course that I found at the library... must start a program instead of just meandering about the mat...

I have been able to read blogs during the week when the dial-up cooperates and will hopefully be back in town this week and let you know if I have remembered to be mindful in life...

(a big thank you to the bloggeers on the right...you keep me going!)

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I snapped at the dog this morning while I was moving from one pose to the other... he was being a dog... it's his naure...right?

So why the snap?

Dunno.

Hubby said,

" Doesn't sound like that yoga is workin' for ya".

OUCH.

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Breathe in.........

breath out........

repeat.

Namaste.

Finding Balance

2009-07-06T07:30:00.000-07:00

I sought to find balance...and found it not so easy to do as it is to say.
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I had a birthday last week....I am blessed to be able to tell you that I am 47 years old now. Numbers never bother me...I am what I am.
What I am is real and what I want to be is to be better at being real.
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I have read, re-read, pondered and debated life...
and how I accept things
situations
people.
I know HOW I should handle most things.......
things one wouldn't think would happen
happen.
Things found me this past week...
and I forgot HOW to handle some of them...
....and I got lost.

Today I look at these things and I think
"I realise I am "lost" in these things..."
.....the process of being "lost" part can enable me to become that better "real" I want to be!
Aha! Someting good has already come out of these things!

I ask myself today:
Who holds the world in the power of His hand?
Did He not allow these things to come my way?
Who invites me to come under the shelter of His wing?
Who is my Shield and Buckler?
Who is Jehovah but the Creator of all?

In this shall I rest today.
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I purposed to do at least one full set of Sun Salutation this morning.
My mat lay on the floor...
it is cold this morning.
I want to do Savasana...so I cover with a blanket.
My body won't go there
too much to do, it says.
So I slowly rise into Seated Angle and rest here for a few breaths.
The up into Tadasana and my one complete set of SunSalutations
aware of my breathing
mindful of my neck
(Just found out that I have some degenerative stuff going on there)
and instead of feeling shortchanged
My body says "Good job; I needed just that right now. Check with me later and let's see if we want to do some more".
Listen to the body.
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Today~
I will find balance...by listening to my body
paying attention to it's needs
not a worldy agenda.
I will be mindful. ...in each footstep I take today
to be present to every person, place or thing I touch
leaving it better than when I arrived.

Brand New Day

2009-06-26T07:54:00.000-07:00

I've often thought how fast time seems to be slipping away these days.

Wasn't it just summer??

How can that child possibly be married...oh, wait. He's 21 years old ....

Wasn't she just a toddler??

We just built this house a few years ago....oh, 24?

It was just yesterday...right?

What happened??

I think my favorite worldly phrase is

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".

Thank you, John, for stating that so eloquently.

Sometimes the problem is with "KNOWING".

I KNOW how to breathe.

I KNOW how to get into that just right asana, the one that makes me feel so much better.

I KNOW how to eat,

what to eat,

when to eat.

I KNOW who holds eternity in the palms of His hands

I KNOW.

And in all of that "KNOWING"

I forgot.

I forgot to live wholly

to breathe

to make the time needed to be the best me...for myself and then, in turn, for others.

So after a time of "going like gangbusters"

I hit the wall of exhaustion.

And it hurt.

To the bone.

I thought

I haven't felt this bad...in years.

Since before all my "KNOWING".

Hello?

Have you been there?

Are you there still?

Will you join me for a brand new day?

BREATHE.

Breath into asana

into life.

NOURISH

Body.
Mind.

Spirit.

SOUL.

Clothe yourself in the beauty of holiness.

Center yourself

and in that center you will find balance in life.

Spread the toes wide

Root the heel into the earth

feel creation refresh you and heal you.

It's right there in front of me..and you.

It's yours for the taking.

Choose this day to be a brand new day.

I'm looking forward to the journey.

Are you?