What would you most like to experience today?

Posted on Sep 2nd, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 02, 2009:

I would like to experience the wonder of the world around me, each and every moment an Aha moment.... a moment that is healing, is loving, and is creative.

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What would make your day perfect?

Posted on Sep 3rd, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 03, 2009:

The day is already perfect what I chose to do with it is "icing on the cake". I can chose to be aware and conscious of my involvement in the world around me or I can chose to be asleep, going about the day mindlessly getting things done...

One will have a different effect on how I perceive the day at its end.... yet it was and is Perfect just as it is... Grand and wondrous opportunity to experience who I am...

I am Love, Jeff

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What helps you deepen into the present moment?

Posted on Sep 10th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 10, 2009:

To take a few deep whole body breaths.... allowing silence to enfold and inform me of the importance of the moment... deep listening while in that moment, being total present without any other thoughts, questions, motives, agenda..... breathe, breathe, breathe... aaahhhh !

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Remembrance 9/11

Posted on Sep 11th, 2009 by

Jeff

I took these photos last summer 2008 when I was in NYC Greenwich Village for Pride weekend... I as stunned and moved by this wall of tiles that many people created and placed there to remember 9/11/2001...

I found this very healing and touching... I have never been to Ground Zero and have no real desire too stand in that place...

So here is my wall of remembrance...

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/mulry/mulry.html

If you wish to see more of these photographs please visit my photosite:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/jeffstroud

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What was going on in your life today, one year ago?

Posted on Sep 14th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 14, 2009:

I am going to say, pretty much what is going right now... maybe a little less maybe a little more...

It seems I have jumped out of the stream of things for awhile, as I healed my wounded ego, placed intention to having my Photography viewed, sought and bought... as well as having a Reiki practice that had on going paying clients...

I will be the featured artist in January for the Salem County Arts League, and I have sold at least five cards off my site on http://www.redbubble.com/people/jeffstroud.

I was also pursuing my BA on line at Ashford University and have placed that on hold for a while... I was not getting the benefits out of the course work I wished to receive...

The Reiki practice is still an ephemeral, there for the offering and providing healing to those who desire a treatment...

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Life's Reflection

Posted on Sep 14th, 2009 by

Jeff

I wanted to pull this apart a bit, since I have been ask to facilitate a "Conversations with God" group at The Starting Point in Westmont NJ.

And to do that I have to experience what that is like once again... So here is the beginnings of some offerings and ideas...

One of the wonders of CwG is the language, it is also one of the challenges people have... (I think) and nothing like A Course in Miracle's ... for people find CwG simple on the first read, the language they speak, yet my journey through this material as informed me that the words used are on purpose, the phrasing expressing more then just rhyme and rhythm but true mean to the words.

The words here are desire and believe, Desire being "a conscious impulse toward an object or experience that promises enjoyment or satisfaction in its attainment." (Webster's Dictionary). Believe: according to Webster's as well states, "to have a firm conviction as to the reality or goodness of something."

With those thoughts in our mind who do you think these statements below work for you in your life, and do they? Did you believe that those two words meant the same thing?

God Never Says No (Part 2)

Your life is a reflection of what you desire, and what you believe you may have of what you desire. I cannot give you what you do not believe you may have — no matter how much you desire it — because I will not violate your own thought about it. I cannot. That is the law.

Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch
Pages 81-82

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If you could take the next month off, what would you do?

Posted on Sep 15th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 15, 2009:

I already have a month off and more.... more or less, self employment allows for more freedom, then 9 -5 yet also takes more self esteem and will to do work and get work...

If I had unlimited financial abundance... I would travel the world, or as far as I could go in a month, I would find the beauty in the everyday moments, which I do already, or seek too, with my photography, with offering Rieki, and sharing joy and wisdom wherever the road less traveled took me...

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What is your preferred contemplative time?

Posted on Sep 17th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 16, 2009:

Usually in the morning, in the quiet of the hours of dawn. Yet anytime can become a moment of contemplation...

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What do you prefer to "small talk"?

Posted on Sep 19th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 19, 2009:

I prefer to hear about one's feelings, not in a complaining way but from the heart.

I want to know what your reading and thoughts on that. How one is experiencing life to the fullest, or not...

Sharing from the heart, listening and responding from the heart, encouraging and supportive of the creative adventure that we all can experience....

I am Love, Jeff

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What would your dream vacation be like?

Posted on Sep 21st, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 21, 2009:

My Dream Vacation would be to travel the world, camera in hand, venturing into places seen by few, plus the great temples and buildings created by the people to honor the "gods" of their culture, photographing all the way, people, place's, objects of the everyday, that are common as well as sacred...

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What did you want to be when you grew up?

Posted on Sep 24th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 24, 2009:

A Movie Star!

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What, in this moment, are you most grateful for?

Posted on Sep 25th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 25, 2009:

I am Grateful for wondrous music that can transport one to place beyond our crazy world, even while they are singing about the crazy world... Diana Krall, Billie Holiday, Barbra Striesand, just to name a few...

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Who in the world do you feel most similar to?

Posted on Sep 27th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 27, 2009:

No one that I know on a personal bases really... Neale Donald Walsch and Conversations with God Book 1.

It was the first time I had ever read words, heard the Language of Love in a voice for I heard a voice as I read and still read/study this Material! Who's voice? Does it matter? I only know, that the words written touched me in place I had long to be touched, comforted when I found no comfort from the world around me.

This man and this book and the language of Love spoke to my soul, my heart, my spirit and even to the broken human that I was and am at times....

That is who or what I feel most similar too! The Language of Love.

How to Be a Light (Part 1)

By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love.

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Grand Niece Caroline

Posted on Sep 28th, 2009 by

Jeff

She is just a month old... It was my first visit to meet her, I took Mom, who had just got back from Vermont to see her New Great Grand Daughter...

There are other Photographs on http://www.redbubble.com/people/jeffstroud...

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My Meadow for Mimi

Posted on Sep 29th, 2009 by

Jeff

Mimi has been sharing since she has moved she has not had the opportunity to wonder around in a meadow... so here are a few photographs to help, this way you don't have to get full of bugs, or stickers, get stuck in the mud, etc...

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What would be the hardest thing to change about yourself?

Posted on Sep 30th, 2009 by

Jeff

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 30, 2009:

The Color of my skin.... everything else is changeable...

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Morning Pages

Posted on Sep 30th, 2009 by

Jeff

A couple of days ago I began my Morning Pages from The Artist Way, not that I was stuck creatively it is more that I have other areas of creativity I desire to embrace, to have knowledge and understanding about. In that way my creativity is not blocked by not knowing, or lack...

I had a list of ideas, practices, chores, connections I chose to take on, and get accomplished in the next few days, weeks, months, etc, however long the goal would be to experience the path into opportunity.

A few weeks earlier I took on the Man in the Maze mens group, I posted about it, I ask and discussed with the Powers that Be here on Gaia the process of maintaining someone else's group. I felt empowered, excited, honored to offer this opportunity for Men to come and share their spiritual experience, their journey from what they where taught to what they are doing or being now.

I place questions aplenty on the site, questions I asked and sought myself, I invited men I knew, I invited them to invite men they knew.... a few attended, the first few days and weeks, and I am most grateful those brave men to trust the safety of this space. Yet I pulled back, someone put their heart out there and I told them I would get back to them... I have yet to do that. I have yet to see anyone else be involved with this group.

My point is as soon as I seem to create, shine the light on the direction I wish to go a big shadow walks across my path...

My MacBook informs me when new software is available to be downloaded, so I did, I do it often, this time though the package was new version of Office, and it will not open without the key, "the what? the key?" I did not have a clue...

so I have been unable to write my Morning Pages here, at least, of course I could do it the old fashion way, with pen and paper... I journaled that way for years... yet I have seen it as a distraction to what I wished to accomplish.

The mens group Man in the Maze sits there waiting for me to get my shadow behind me, to stir the men up once again, to walk through my fear of not knowing how to hold a discussion, what are the right questions, my fear of men in general, trust issues...

As I was setting the tone, and shinning the light on this group. My own personal shadows dance in front of me, saying who do you think you are, what are you doing, do you want to trust your self again, when your friend has just given her power over to others who believe that they have her best interest at heart, placing her back on Anti-depressants, causing much shame and with draw from her friends, and me...

Do you trust you healing powers, look what happen."

I had to face all of these things emotions, doubt, fears, and I am still dancing around them, well not dancing around them trying to learn the dance. To be in step.

All of this could be why my lower back and kidneys have been acting up. Right now my right lower back is giving me much distress. There are moments I have to stop and breath into the pain, allowing to wash through me, allow it to inform me of what my actions have to be. Allowing my self to ask for help, I am grateful for everyone who as offered healing, comfort, in what ever form you have! ((((Hugs))).

So for the moment this is my "morning pages", this is my calling the shadow out, this is my practice to honor where I am and what I still have to do. This me trusting the universe to show my the way, shine the light, attract what it is I desire to have in my life... To Share the journey, as it is... The healer, healing...

I am Love, Jeff

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