"I Believe God has to be Known by Looking in the Mirror."

Deepak Chopra, -How to Know God

What a startling statement! Look in the mirror to see God? Almost scary. However, with the conditioning of our minds we have had since childhood until the not so distant past, we certainly would call this blasphemy! Yet, we ignore all the passages in our Scriptures, both in the Old Testament and in the New. Over and over we have read and been told that

"We are made in the image and likeness of God." So, we must ask ourselves if we believe this is true, and if we do believe it how can we not say: "Yes, God is in me as He (It) is in everyone - every animal, every tree and blade of grass, for "all is God.."

Our physicist have been telling us now for many years that everything, yes everything, is made of Energy. Think about it, and then you can begin to understand that you and 1 are each a "cell or packet of Energy in the body of God." For the Universe is God - all of the Universe is Energy. So, can you and 1 look into the mirror and realize we are made of "God stuff," and that we are indeed a part of this magnificent creation of God. He created the Universe, and He created you and me. And as we learn to accept our Self as a Holy Being, we can gratefully look into our mirror and see the Holy Spirit in us and acknowledge our Oneness with God and all of God's creation.

Then how differently we begin to perceive not only ourselves, but how we perceive each other, and begin to understand how others are mirrors for us also. And that brings to mind that we project to others what we really believe about ourselves. If we can see others through sacred eyes and with a heart overflowing with love, we are also seeing ourselves

with God's love for us. However, if we criticize or see others faults, we need to remember that we really have some of those faults in ourselves. And this is quite a challenge. However, it can be an excellent way to see and know what needs to be changed in ourselves.

So, "All things work together for good for those that love God." And it is a truism that we learn ITom our mistakes and that is an integral part of our journey, for we all make mistakes.

So, with a bit of courage, let us look into our mirror each day and know that we are gods in the making, and that we are becoming, through His grace, more and more of His goodness as we live and learn and grow into our Godhood..

Harriett Freeman
June 20, 2007

"I am a divinely inspired resource of creativity in the world."
Daily Word

When I become quiet and relaxed, and invite the Presence of God into my being, I become an "inspired  resource of creativity."  Ideas form and take shape as words, pictures,  ideas, or feelings.  Feelings of love and of loving kindness for family, dear friends, and for all of mankind, and I am filled with thanksgiving for life and love, and for being.  And I know these feelings, and this holy energy with which I am filled, is flowing out from the center of my being as a blessing to others and I feel blessed beyond belief, and my heart leaps with joy.

When we spend time in the silence, in meditation and prayer, our hearts become full with God's loving kindness, and we send forth this blessed energy.  God's loving, healing energy, flows not only to friends and loved ones, but to the entire universe, which is our home, and all the inhabitants are our brothers and sisters.  And, as we bless others we are doubly blest.  As the Scriptures say: "Our hearts our glad and our soul rests in peace."  For then we truly are filled with light and love for the entire Universe.  And what we send forth comes back to us two fold, and our hearts sing with joy.  Yes, with joy unbounded.  And then we are inspired to go to a higher level of Oneness of consciousness with the Christ Spirit that truly informs us all, everyday, and every moment, when we become aware of this precious gift of the Holy Spirit.

Yes, we each are a "divinely inspired resource of creativity," ordained by God to be his hands, his feet, and his voice in the world. What we say, and what we do not only impacts our own life, but the life of every individual in the world.  For what we think, say and do today "ripples across the Universe into a thousand tomorrows," and returns to us in like kind.  If we send our wisdom, love and truth, it will return to bless us.  And, as Einstein said: "If we believe everything is a miracle, or nothing is, it will be so."

So may we let the Christ Light shine ever brighter in our souls today, and into a thousand tomorrows.

Harriett Freeman
June 9, 2007

LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST

"Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated   by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotions, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth."                   

 ~Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Live every moment of every day to the fullest.  This life is a miracle.   We each are a miracle and we author our own life.  We have been given free will to make of our life what we will.  So dive deeply, drink fully of the water of life.  Become immersed in Spirit - God's Holy Spirit - that is the essence of who we are - for we are made in the image of God, so we are gods in the making.  We each contain the spark of God is us and it is up to us to fan that light into a living flame that consumes our being with its passion of becoming all we can be.

Let the fire in us burn away the negative thinking of "I can't, or I'm not capable," and change our thinking to "Yes, I can ~ I can become a holy being, full of light and wisdom."  Full of loving kindness, capable of fulfilling my mission on this beautiful earth.  For with God's help I can change myself into a sacred holy fire of wholeness.  Yes, there will be times when I falter and fail, but with God's help, I will learn from my mistakes and go forward with renewed courage.

Life is a challenge, and each challenge we over come makes us wiser and stronger.  And the path goes ever upward into the realms of light, and of peace and joy.  With God as our mascot it can be all we can dream it to be, and more. With diligence we can make of it a journey into Light, Love, and everlasting Joy.  The choice is ours – every minute of every day.  Choose wisely, because what you think, say and do, is who you become.  So become all you can be.

Harriett Freeman
November 28, 2007

GIVE THE BEST THAT YOU HAVE

As we grow and learn and become mature, we hopefully grow beyond our childish ways, putting ourselves first, or perhaps last; often feeling inadequate.  We often make mistakes for which we blame ourselves, but later find we learn from them.  When we don't do our best we often feel we are inadequate, and somehow not good enough.  But life is a school, and we lean that, yes, we do make mistakes and often we don't do our or give our best.  But along the way to, hopefully, maturity, we begin to know ourselves as becoming more adequate, less fearful in certain situations and gradually we start to "bloom where we are planted."

Then everything begins to change.  We become more confident, more at ease with who we are.  Gradually we begin to understand that we belong; yes, we belong to this earth plane that formerly felt so foreign to many of us.  And we even feel we not only belong here, but that we are a part of the entire Universe, and that we came from the stars. Yes, we have truly come from the God-force.  We not only belong, we are part and parcel of the evolution of this planet, and we are at the leading edge of this evolutionary process, because we have and are Consciousness, which is the God-force in us, around us, and everywhere present throughout the Universe.  Consciousness is the God-force, the " Energy that spins the Universe."  Therefore, we can and must give back, or add to this evolutionary journey of the Cosmos.

So what can we give?  We can give the very best that we have in every situation: To our enemies we can give forgiveness, for they do not understand.  We can give tolerance to an opponent by trying to understand where they are coming from, and we can be non-judgmental. We can give our love to our family and to our friends; we can be examples

for our children; respect to our father.  We can give our best conduct to our Mothers to make them proud of us.  And most of all we can give respect to ourselves, and charity to all men and women.

Yes, we can grow into wondrous beings of light and love, and we can give the very best that we have, and it will be an honor and a privilege. Yes, we will give our very best because we have become, with God's help, the best we know how.  And we will continue to grow and to learn and to give more and more, because we represent the God-force at the leading edge of this wondrous journey into the Light of knowing - more and more. 

How privileged we are, and how grateful that we have been led to this Journey of our soul to spiritual heights we did not know even existed, for they must be experienced to know.  And when you have experienced the Presence of God in your life, no one can take it away from you, and you can only know what you have truly experienced.  How grateful we are and how privileged to "know that we know," and to realize and understand that there is so much more that we can only hope to reach even greater heights while we are still on this earth plane. We are truly blessed, in the true sense of the word.

Harriett Freeman
August 28, 2006

I MYSELF AM HEAVEN AND HELL

"I sent my soul into the afterlife, some glimpse of the truth to tell, and my soul returned to me and said, I myself am heaven and hell" The Rubatyat of Omar Khayyam

What a startling statement.  And Omar Khayyam lived a long time ago.  So why has this truth evaded me for so long?  Or is it synchronicity that it would appear at this time in my life when I have just discovered this truth for myself after reading Deepak Chopra's Book: "Life After Death," which confirmed what I had become to believe myself.

I know I had read this verse in the "Rubatyat" many, many years ago.  But I believe we can read or hear great truths and they are not heard or seen and are meaningless to us until we mature, or "wake-up" and are ready to understand them.

I have felt the Presence of the Energy, the God-force around me. The Presence of Angels that protect and guide me.  I know and feel an unseen world of beings that bless and guide my life.  So why is it that I suddenly have become aware of this great and startling truth.  I think it must be because I was or am ready to hear it. 

Yes, I believe heaven and hell are right here, right now.  Not some place we are going after we die, and  that I believe it is true that we don't have to wait until we die to experience either one.  It is right here all around us, we need only be aware of what we are thinking. Or just turn on the evening news, or the morning or afternoon news, yes 24 hours a day on the News Channels.  Pick up the Newspaper or a News Magazine.  We are inundated with horror stories, wars that kill and maim, and destroy our young men and women with Post Traumatic Syndrome, and many will tell you that "war is hell."  How could it be otherwise when it means you are killing your "enemy."  So we can live in hell right here, right now. 

Victor Frankel, who wrote "Man's Search for Meaning," survived the death camps by not only controlling his own thoughts, but taught others in the death camp to also survive by teaching them how to control their thoughts.

Until we realize we have a choice of what we think, say and do, we cannot change anything and we can live in hell much of the time spent here on this earth.  But until we awaken (Buddha means the awakened one, or "He who is awake") we can spend our whole life living in hell, or at least a good part of it.  Or we can choose to live in Heaven - to be happy, to feel good about who we are, and to smile because it has been said: "You can't hold a negative thought when you smile."

So, as Omar Khayyam said after he sent his soul into the afterlife, "You yourself are Heaven and Hell."  It is a choice.  A choice we have every minute of every day. 

What a challenge.

Harriett Freeman
Journaling Group, Sept.11,2007

"TO BE BORN IS TO BE CHOSEN”
John O’Donohue

What a privilege to be living at this time when we have the freedom to seek and to know who we are. I didn’t grow up knowing all the wonderful truths I have learned in this life time, because this information and this knowledge was not available at that time to the masses. We had mostly the “Faith of our Fathers;” and that’s what most people believed. But I have had the privilege of living long enough to learning these truths. So to know and understand that we each have been chosen, and that we have a mission and a purpose for our lives, leaves me in awe of the love and grace I feel and know: that I am a chosen child of God, and that my life has meaning and purpose, as does everyone, if they are aware.

Just to know this wonderful truth fills me with so much gratefulness, and fills my body with so much light energy that I know beyond a doubt that the Presence of God is in me and that it radiates from my being, and adds to the spiritual energy that helps lift the collective consciousness of our world.

What a precious mission we each have been given: to bring the light of consciousness (God’s Holy Spirit) into the awareness of our Universe. We have read and been told, and we know, we are the Light of the World, and we have been commissioned to let our light shine so that others may see and know God’s light is in each of us.

What a sacred journey this is, and what a privilege it is to know and to carry this Light in us and to be an instrument for God’s peace to flow through us to others.

As Saint Frances says in his immortal poem: “Yes, let us be instruments of Thy peace,” and that our mission in this world is to be a vessel so others will know beyond a doubt that they too are special; for the wondrous miracle that each of us are here is so beyond belief. From the billions of sperm created in our father, and that a particular one impregnated a single egg in our mother, and after nine months in our mother’s womb, we appeared fully formed on this earth. So what are the chances that you and I would be here, this day and this moment, and we each came from one egg and one sperm? It never ceases to amaze me.

Yes, we truly are chosen, and that we have been led step by step to know and to experience the Presence of God’s light and love in us, is a miracle. Yet, yes, we are here now, because we were chosen. How blessed are we.

Harriett Freeman
November 28, 2006

YES WE DO HAVE WINGS

Yes, we each one come from God. We are pressed out pieces of God. We come from the stars - we are star light. So where and when did the story we were taught get off track? When did we learn we were “conceived and born in sin”? When we are so rich in potential, in goodness and truth? When and where did our dreams get crushed? Yes, we were each born with greatness; and yes, we do have wings. So we have to learn all over again who we are, where we came from and what our potential is. We need to learn to spread our wings and fly, for we came from God and to God we will return.

But we don’t need to wait until we die to return. We can be in touch with this God Energy in us every minute of every day and night, for all we have to do is “ask and it is given.” We only need to turn our thoughts to God and we feel His Presence in us and through us. We live in an ocean of God Energy every minute of every day.

The scriptures say that God is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. Heaven is here now, not somewhere we will eventually go. We only need to claim our inheritance, to affirm it and to live it. Every moment we choose what we think and feel, and what we think and feel, we become.

So we need to dream bigger dreams; to trust more; to recognize our greatness and affirm our potential. Yes, we need to spread our wings and fly and to soar to greater heights, for that is our destiny. It is our potential. For we each are angels unfolding our love and kindness everywhere we go. We are soaring into the Light of Beingness, and our thoughts and actions speak of trust and gentleness and of unconditional love, which all come from the Presence of God in us, around us, and through us. How can it be otherwise, when we have been made in the image and likeness of God.

So we need to spread our wings and soar wherever we are, and to remember who we are and from where we have come, and that we have an unlimited potential to spread goodness and loving-kindness, for there is no greater gift to give than to give the love of God.

Harriett Freeman

Aug. 14, 2006

LISTENING TO SPIRIT

My heart soars when I listen within to the Spirit who sings It’s song in my heart. Spirit speaks whenever I ask, and answers with Its wondrous wisdom. Spirit never fails because It is my guide, my energy, it is what informs me and guides my feet and my mind in paths of right thinking. It renews my energy whenever I turn my mind to its generous guidance, and I feel Its Energy radiating from the center of my being where Spirit abides in me, making me whole and holy, and helping me stay in touch with the awesome power that is the God force within.

As I lay down to sleep in my bed, I immediately turn my mind to listen to the Spirit within me as the words of a Sufi prayer, given to me long ago, lull me to sleep:

* “May the Presence of God rest upon you.

May His peace abide with you.

May his love Illuminate your soul,

Now and forever more.”

As these words echo in my mind and heart, I go to sleep in the arms of Spirit, and I awake refreshed to start a new day, keeping Spirit always uppermost in my mind. And often during the day I repeat these words again and again to keep my mind “stayed on Him.” For me this is to “pray without ceasing,” which is my desire.

My gratitude for living pours from my being as I go through my day and listen to this Spirit within - never very far removed from my daily activities. It reminds me of my “ground of Being,” my source, my All. It is God’s Spirit in me, for which I give thanks.

Harriett Freeman
Journaling Group

IT TAKES COURAGE

It takes courage to be all I can be; to look inside, to face who I really am.
To grow, to become, to author my life, to speak my truth, the truth I know is true for me.
It takes courage to go against the grain, against society's "shoulds and oughts.”
To be true to my inner self, my convictions, and to take time to know who I really am.
It takes courage to be real, to be honest with myself, to say what I need to say in a kind accepting way.
It takes courage to be vulnerable, open, trusting, to be authentic, real; to be creative, i.e., to be filled with God, and to know what I know is true for me.
It takes courage to stay centered, to be aware of Spirit all of the time, not just occasionally, and to proclaim: I Am, for I Am Spirit, a pressed out piece of God, a cell in the global brain, to be forever becoming more and more of who I really am.

Mother Harriett

CELEBRATE

Celebrate! Celebrate your life!

Celebrate who you are: gifted, wise, full of wonder, kind, loving and compassionate. For it is time to drop all negative thinking about yourself-the mistakes, (which were learning experiences,) the traumas, (which made you strong.) You have learned your lessons well and have entered a new realm in which you live and move and have your being. For this is the best time of your life on this earth. You have earned your wings and now you can soar into higher realms of knowingness and beingness. Now you can radiate love wherever you go. You truly can bless all things and all peoples everywhere. Your loving energy does make a difference because it is focused and strong. It is the Cosmic Energy of loving kindness. You have come into the Promised Land.

Celebrate each day of your life. Celebrate the earth and all its fruits so lavishly given to all; what beauteous bounty upon which to feast daily. Be grateful for all its gifts. Celebrate Nature: the blue shining sky above you, embracing you; the sun's healing, nourishing rays of radiant light. Celebrate the wind and the rain, the beauty all around you, created for you to enjoy. Celebrate the starry night sky which is your home, for you came from the stars and to them you will return.

Celebrate family and friends to love and to be loved by and all the gifts you have to give each other. Celebrate opportunities to learn, to know, to serve, and from which to grow. Celebrate music that inspires and lifts you to higher realms of creative knowingness and feelings of harmony and joy, expressing life in new and energetic forms, and which lift one to soar into magical heights of beauty newly revealed.

Celebrate your journey as you look back and "see" the territory you have traversed, acknowledging the terra firma in all its myriad diversity: the rugged heights and the deep green valleys, the rough waters you have crossed and the placid lakes from which you have received sustenance. You are each a marvel, imbued with perception and insight, and the ability to reflect, to bring you great wisdom and a loving heart. Celebrate who you are: a child of the Most High, for you too are a creator, a co-creator with Me. You have helped fashion yourself in My image. You each are a god-like being, a god or goddess imbued with all the attributes of the Divine. Celebrate every day of your life for you are loved, you are loving, you are love, now and forever.

Mother Harriett

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

You my dear ones, are surrounded by peace, for yours now is a peaceful world. Your world is peopled by a heavenly host of angels and arch-angels. You truly make your world by the thoughts you think and the energy emitted by your feelings of love. This energy then creates your environment in which you live and move and have your being.

This is why I have said to you: The Kingdom of God is within you.” It is not someplace “out there” where you will magically be transported “someday” in the future. It is here with you now, and ever accessible.

“Be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds,” means clearly to change your thoughts, and by doing so you change your life, and you change the world in which you live. Others may live in a world very different from yours. It may be one of violence, chaos, or fear. We choose our thoughts, knowingly or unknowingly, but we do choose, and by our choices we create the world in which we live. This is free will.

How wonderful it is when one learns this lesson and begins to transform ones life. Then it becomes one exciting adventure filled with wonder and awe. You now begin to become aware of the tremendous power you have at your disposal, and when it is used lovingly it truly transforms all it touches into gold. It is correctly called the “midas touch,” but it does not congeal the substances as Midas did, but transforms them into a flowing, radiant, creating, ever recreating substance to be fashioned into a new species of beingness of a higher order.

You were formed in the heavens and you came from the stars “trailing clouds of glory;” and to the heavens you will return, fully clothed in wisdom and wearing jeweled crowns of glory on your heads.

You are heralds of a New Age where all who wish will dwell in this rarified environment of a new heaven and a new earth.

Remember, the magic is to truly know: all things are possible, for thinking makes it so. Whatever you believe, you can conceive. You are co-creators with Me to bring the impossible into being, and the greatest gift is transforming yourself into the incredible being of love you are created to be. I Am here within you to help you bring forth the Divinity you truly are. You are loved forever and forever. Amen

Harriett Freeman,
September 27, 1996 - Write No. 112

WE HAVE ONLY THIS MOMENT

"We have only this moment, sparkling like a star and melting like a snowflake; let's use it before it is too late." Lera Ray

When I read this quote and thought about the million, or trillions of moments I have wasted being annoyed, or angry, or dissatisfied, or - on and on, it makes me shudder. But then I stop and think of how far I have come and of the million or trillion's of moments I have been full of joy, of loving kindness, of satisfaction and gratefulness. So, is my glass half empty or half full. Well, I choose to think of it as being half full, and I am grateful for the road I have traveled with God's grace, to have come this far.

So this moment "sparkling like a star and melting like a snow flake" obliterate all other moments, past and present. For anytime I feel God's Presence in me and around me, I am filled to over flowing with this joy and peace that fills my being. And, if it took millions and trillions of moments when I didn't know, and didn't feel this Presence, for me to reach this "peace that passes understanding," then I am grateful for all the negative moments that have taught me to become who I am now.

When we know all we have to do is reach a higher level of consciousness, and the pairs of opposites: night and day, good and bad, black or white disappear and we are at one with Spirit, and every wrong passes away, every negative thought disappears, and only Oneness prevails.

How simple it seems, yet much of our day we have to deal with the mundane, but it does get easier and easier to keep, not one foot on earth, and the other in heaven, but to keep both feet firmly planted in a higher realm where only peace abides.

What a challenge. But what a treasure and what a blessing it is when we know that with a simple reminder, like a "snow flake melting in the palm of our hand," we can immediately shift our thoughts and once again be anchored in that Spiritual realm where there is peace, light, joy, and an abundance of blessings.

What a beautiful metaphor. I think I shall past snowflakes everywhere to remind me to "remember to remember." Is that why I picked up a small sheet of snowflakes sometime ago? I think it was to put them in a Birthday card to my great grand daughter, but it was to large to fit into the envelope. Another small blessing.

Harriett Freeman Sept. 24, 2004