Day Two Oklahoma City

8.3.10 Oklahoma City I keep hearing that you don't need the same type of protection that you have had in the past. I keep wanting to say, well I still need protection don't I? And what I hear is that the idea of protection is an illusion. The more that you can trust God in your life and the more that you can listen and act out of this guidance, there is not the need to protect yourself in the traditional sense of the word. Here again it is necessary to go to the higher and broader picture. There is no need to always judge yourself and your physical needs by the way that the traditional outer world does. So what this means is that what makes sense for one person as bad or painful and horrific is not always seen as so in the spiritual world. Remember that it is the ego, not the soul that speaks in narrow terms of fear and avoidance of certain emotions.

More of what I learned from Heartwood:

Speak the truth often and as soon as you know it to be true.

This does not mean that you must be swinging a sword of truth around and cutting off everybody's heads with it. It does mean that when you know something is the truth and you are confronted by non truths, you must speak into it. If you do not, your body soul will not be in alignment.

Everything that needs to be reconciled will come to the surface to be healed.

I was guided to build a Reconciliation Labyrinth on the property at the Spiritual Renaissance Faire in 2007. From that time onward, it seemed like everything in my life that needed to be reconciled came to the surface. I studied Reconciliation and I learned that there were four components to it. The first one was Truth. Here we are back again at the place of acting and being in a space where truth is a requirement. There seemed to be no place to escape or live where truth did not demand to be present. The second part was Mercy, the third Justice and the fourth Peace. I began to see that reconciliation was really a vibrant and alive process that once invoked and present in your life, could also not be ignored. I began to see this process working in all parts of my life.

Listen to the Elders

I was blessed to be told the story of Siskeyah, a Native American woman who hid out with her medicine woman sisters in caves and by the river down the dirt road from Heartwood. She told me the story of her life and of the teachings that she wanted to be remembered. Many who have come to Heartwood have felt her presence. She continues to be a great teacher for me.

Perfection is an illusion

When you really honor and know the cycles of life and the season, you see all of them is part of the All That Is. This leads to acceptance.

This was the day of earthly frustrations. We traveled in temps that kept climbing on our little thermometer on the mirror of our car. The highest that we saw was 109. Yikes! We then kept trying to get with the people at Centurylink. Over an hour and half of holding the cell phone and waiting and waiting for a customer service representative. When one finally did come on the line, she took the information and then said she would be right back. At about ten minutes out the call failed.

We saw Tony and Lisa, Ted's son and daughter in law, for dinner on our way through OK. Ted gave Tony the family Bible to have in his possession for the time being. It was a blessing to share a short meal with them.