I’m not known for my physical beauty, and even my mother used to say that beautiful people had to try harder to be accepted for themselves rather than their looks.  Maybe she said that to me because I wasn’t so beautiful, and maybe she said it because she was.

In any case, I’ve been a member of an international organization that has clarified it does not promote itself.  It has grown to astronomical numbers because it just is–and people share the benefits of membership (high initiation costs tho).  Attraction rather than promotion.

Maybe that’s why it seems so hard for me to promote the gifts I’ve been given.  To be a flute for the Divine message: You are the Beloved.  Forever and always.  This is an amazing adventure you chose, and you are always safe and loved.

The message comes through the cards, the blueprint of planets at your birth, through the recovery process and the ageless practice of prayer and meditation.  Philosophy, healing, metaphysics and therapy all intend to remind us of this.

That is why I am here and now, fingers clicking, to remind myself from the gentle tapping of the leaves in the cool breeze, sparkling chatter of birds, indelible signs of Presence everywhere, through me to you.