Time Keeps on Getting Ahead of Me

It is 9:28 PM EST on December 31, 2010 that I begin to create this blog.

I have not been here for awhile to share and when I saw that my last blog was posted on December 15, 2009 I said....it's been a year....already!!!

In 2010 I turned 40 and I swear that time is speeding up. I see movies that I thought I just saw and then realize that they came out in 2008 or 2009 and I'm like....it's been that long ago???

Well I am entering the last couple of hours of 2010 and am ushering in the new year of 2011 and as I prepare to do so I decided to visit my long lost blog and offer something to the Universe. :)

I'm not sure if any one comes across what I write since I do not promote or advertise what I write here to others but still I suppose that if someone where to happen across Your Inner Voice blog they might...just might find something of inspiration to take away from my rantings.

2010...man I swear if you asked me to give you a list of all that happened this year I could probably not do so because it flew by me so fast.

So I won't create a laundry list of things that happened to me in 2010...I'll just say that it was a rocky one but I'm still here.

I am still breathing the Life Breath of God and for that I must be thankful. To all those beings who made their transition in 2010 I say.....how wonderful is it to be back in the full stream of light, love and pure consciousness? I am sure that your loved ones miss and desire to be with you but congratulations on your return HOME.

To those of us who are going to be in the land of the living as our local times zones click into 2011 I say.....here we go again...another beginning.

As I think about what I can do to usher in the new year I realize that I must first lighten my load because these days my mind has been weighted down by worry, fear and anxiety and I must make the choice to start anew minus all that.

So tonight in my home my son and I will be performing a clearing of the space we live in and of our persons. We will also list those things that we experienced in 2010 that we would like to leave in that year and not carry over with us into our new beginning which we will burn as a symbolic gesture that they are consumed in the fire never to be looked upon again. Then we will take some time to ask our Selves what are those things we would like to experience in 2011 and list them.

No new years resolutions for us.....just an honest attempt to bring in the new year with a prayer and a new thought and the hope that we will see our lives with a greater optimism then we did in 2010.

That we will love and embrace our perceived differences with more willingness than we did in 2010.

That we will temper our feelings, emotions and the words we speak to each other with more lovingness than we did in 2010.

That we will recall to our minds faster how God's Mind is one with our mind and God's Heart is one with our heart and walk in more peace than we did in 2010.

No regrets in 2010....just situations and experiences that cause me to say.....

I am worthy of much, much more and I am capable of achieving much much more in 2011.

To all of those souls who have passed through my life in 2010 in whatever form or fashion I send you a sincere thought of love and prosperity. Some of you have helped me weather the highs and the lows of the past year and some of you have been the proverbial thorn in my side who caused me to wonder what I did to deserve "all this". But I know that each of you have played your role according to what I have agreed and allowed in my life and I say Thank You.

To myself I say.....you did the best you could with what you knew and had at your disposal at the time and it's ok. It's ok. It's ok.

Be ok...Sukie.

Total Eclipse of the Heart....

Remember in the '80's that song "Total Eclipse of the Heart?" You know the one where the chorus goes...."Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart...nothing left to say....total eclipse of the heart"....or something like that. :-)

Well right now I feel like I'm having a total eclipse of the heart. My heart is being eclipsed by a sense of anger which is slowly but surely covering the light and love that I have spent the last few years attempting to nurture and grow.

This week I have had two situations which have presented themselves and both of them are bringing up in my the rage I thought I had left behind me oh so long ago.

Keeping it real right now so here's what's happening:

First the person I'm "seeing" (no one's ever verbalized it but we live together and are intimately involved) and I had a huge fall out that led to a physical altercation. Yes you read it right....we put our hands on each other. Something I have not experienced for almost 20 years back when I was married and I would explode with anger and fight my husband.

Secondly my son's father just told me that my son cannot spend Christmas with him because his wife does not want my son to visit for the Holidays. Now mind you my son is 11 years old and one of the most loving souls you will meet on this earth. Also note that my son's father was unfaithful to me....let me repeat that in all capitals in case he ever comes across this blog....UNFAITHFUL...and left me to carry a baby and deliver it while he was romancing his girlfriend/fiance/wife.

Now here's where I'm feeling all turned around.....

Over the last 10 years I have consciously worked to reduce how explosive my temper is. I won't go into all the details of how I reacted when provoked but lets just say that like a bull I would see red and my only objective was to inflict serious bodily harm or death to the offending person.

See I grew up with lots of anger in me.....

• Anger because I felt my mother loved her mother more than she loved me.
• Anger because my mother would beat me and sometimes would do so leaving the physical marks on my light skinned body.
• Anger because my mother caused me to believe that if she did not have me she would be better off.
• Anger because my Godfather mistook me for a woman when I was around 10 and when my mother found out decided not to "cause any problems with the family" thereby not standing up for me.
• Anger because the only father I ever knew left us and when he married again his new wife convinced him not to spend time with me.
• Anger because I was the one in the family that got picked on for being different when I couldn't control how light I was or how "flat my butt was".
• Anger because every man I was involved with lied to me and left me for someone else.

I could go on but you get the point......

By the time I joined the Marine Corps at 17 I was a human anger bomb waiting for any opportunity to transfer my anger by hurting someone.

But then I had a major event occur in my life. At age 28 I became a mother.

Shortly after having my son I went through a deep depression. I had "suffered" from depression before but this time it was different because I had an infant to care for on my own and I was adjusting to life outside the Corps after almost 12 years of service.

During this time I was experiencing this depressed emotion was one of the darkest times of my life. Everyday as I viewed my life and the world around me all I saw was me in a huge pit with darkness all around me and no conceivable way to escape.

I was able to overcome the depression when my doctor recommended I take "something" to help me think clearer. I agreed and I took an anti-depressant for approximately six months. While the medication helped me manage my life and find a way through this time I released the depressed emotion fully one day when a friend of mine took me to see Anne Graham-Lotz (Billy Graham's daughter). After the message I went for prayer in one of the rooms and as the person prayed for me the depressed emotion was released from my body and to this day I have not experienced depression.

So what does my depression have to do with my situation today? Not totally sure but I felt that I needed to tell that part of my story in case someone who is dealing with the depression comes across this. Know that there is hope and freedom from depression!!!

Back to my total eclipse of the heart.....

As a result of the emotional healing I experienced I came to know that God's love heals and restores and as I mentioned earlier I have spent much time discovering God and removing the anger that has ruled almost 1/2 of my life. I have learned to be more patient with other people and realize that each person's journey is their owns to do with as they see fit. I have learned to smile more and even be kind to people I don't know. I've learned that I can choose to forgive those who "spitefully misuse" me. I have learned that unconditional love is possible. I have learned so much about so much.

So why do I now find myself being faced with the desire to turn from the Light of God and return to the darkness of my anger?

This is what I will ask God and my spiritual guides for clarity on.

Right now I feel the anger again rising in my heart chakra and I want to turn away and hurt people as they hurt me.

But there is a voice that I hear...still and small...saying....you know that God's way is to act in Love towards all beings and that people can only hurt you if you give them the power to do so. You do not know what tomorrow holds so why do you think that you can "fix" these situations by acting out your hurt and anger in retaliation? This is small of you. You must rise above the pain you feel that causes you to want to "show people that your not the one for them to "fuck" with because you will "kill them".

It is time to "Do a New Thing".

And so this is my prayer to the One who keeps me and guides me:

Open my heart to a greater love for My Self so that I might walk in Peace knowing that my life and all that concerns it is created by me and my beliefs about what I experience.

Nothing can touch me unless I give it the power to do so.

If anyone else reads this and is a praying person.....please pray for me that I will continue to act in the Love and Peace of God.

And so its,
IamSukie

It's Been Such A Long Time......

Namaste all my fellow travelers....

The last blog I wrote and posted was in May 2008. WOW....what happened to me?

Where have I been?

Well I've been....HERE.

Since May of 2008 several events have come into my experience. I attracted two employment opportunities and am currently back at work as an IT Helpdesk Technician.

My son has returned to live with me as I now have the financial means to support us.

I filed the "B" word....and now I am on my way to financial recovery after loosing my home and nearly loosing my car. Those were cold nights when I had to hide my car from the repo man and walk blocks to my house.

Just 5 short years and I can apply for credit again. YIPPIE!!!!! I can't wait....oh wait a minute...that's the kind of thinking that got me into unneeded debt the first time.

Belay my last statement (for those of you who are not familiar with Military jargon that means disregard what I just said).

And that's about the gist of it for me over the last year and a half.

So what brings me back to this Blog that I started in 2008 out of a sense to serve the greater good and assist in the journey to enlightenment we are all on???

I'm glad you inquired :-)

Honestly.....the thought just "hit" me.....you should start writing your blog again. So in an effort to trust my Highest Self and know that my work is inspired by the Divine here I go.

This time; however, I write this from a "different" space of consciousness.

First I am not focused on "if my blog will make me well known". I am only focused on finding an outlet for my thoughts and feelings and if it is meant to Bless someone else...."So Mote it Be".

Secondly even as I write this I'm not checking my verbiage and editing every sentence wondering if echoes all of the Spiritual concepts I have ever read or heard. I'm just trying to let it flow. From my Heart to the world's. (Of course I do want to present myself as a person who knows the parts of a sentence so I guess I'll take the time to proof read and edit these).

It is my prayer sent to the Universe and the Divine that this blog will assist me in discovering my Self and My Inner Voice which I seem to still be ignoring.

I guess you could say I've hid my light under a bushel as the Great Teacher Jesus encouraged us not to do in Luke 11:33 (thanks Julie's Jewels for that scripture location).

And I can feel the dissatisfaction of it all around me..pressing me from all sides. So through these writings I hope to come to know my Self and to honor my Self through the simple form of Self Expression.

Thank you God for Inspiration and Guidance as I journey this path and may your Light, Love and Peace be realized by all Human Kind.

And So It Is, And So it Is, And so It Is.

IamSukie