On Sunday, Rev. Lola kicked off our new series, “Intentional Living,” with her message, “Design + Build = Your Life.”
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Notes
Opening
What is the space wanting to become?
- There is a right and perfect design of and for all things
- When we listen for the soul of the thing that is coming forward we will catch the intention of it
- I imagine Nathan standing in an outdoor space with his client and I imagine him saying “what is the space wanting to become?” and can you imagine the busyness of the one not accustomed to such a practice launching into a description of what THEY want it to become
Objectives
Distinction between living and intentional living
- There’s you determining what you want and there’s you allowing Grace to have it’s way
- Individual role and Universal role
- Know what you desire – Listen then Move, Design then Build THROUGH SPIRIT- the big idea, the qualities
Stories/Keywords/Points
You are one with all that is – to awaken to your divinity, your oneness with the Infinite…you only don’t know when you’re too afraid to claim it
- SLIDE: To say you do not know what to do, or you do not know what you want, is to negate the Infinite Intelligence which is individualized in you. What you are really saying is that you are too lazy to determine your own experience. No one else on earth is better equipped to determine your good than you are. The Power Of Decision by Raymond Charles Barker p. 54
- There is not a power outside of you determining your fate. You are one with all that is. Your conscious awareness of your oneness with life avails to you a sense of vision and purpose that is unique of and for you life.
- There is an Infinite Intelligence at the center of your being – to hear it, to know it, to sense it is to spend time with it – to get still with it and to trust it.
How available are you to hear the spirit of Life stirring in you – what moves you? Who are you listening to?
- SLIDE: The whole world of facts shouts at you what you cannot do. It says that you are a victim of the times. It measures you in words of success and failure, health and disease, friends and enemies. It is emphatic about your age, your life expectancy, and finances. It affirms you as body, bank account, and ultimate death. I am consciousness reverses all of this. The Power Of Decision by Raymond Charles Barker
- Intentional Living is the practice of noticing – it is the activity of discernment – it is the awakening from duality to unity
- When you are motivated
You’ve heard me talk about my desire for a new kitchen – yes? I want to tell you about that kitchen – describe in detail
- SLIDE: True intuition does not deal with getting. It deals with self-awareness. It is not the Infinite seeking to give you more things. Most do not need more things. They need a larger sense of self. The Power Of Decision by Raymond Charles Barker
You are here for great things – you are here to transform the consciousness of humanity – that is the mission you are on – the human experience will never be the same because you entered this dimension of reality – the question becomes HOW will you be here
- SLIDE: Do not imitate the way of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, that you may discern what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2 Lamsa Tr.
Summary
- Be in conscious relationship with your breath
- Be still – beyond your practice of meditation – moment to moment stillness, listening, discernment
- Place your attention on beauty
- Release the stuff that no longer serves you – people, places and things – make room for peace
