Faithfulness and Insight

Do your work.

Ask for the inspiration to do your work well.

Become good, very good, at what you do.

Ask for inspiration for both the repetitious aspects and for new ideas.

At some point, there is a merging, a cross-over, and the repetitious, which has by now become automatic, leaves room for more inspiration and new ideas.

Beyond that comes insight.

There is simply something deeper.

Beyond the repetition, past the automatic, there is beauty, symmetry, and… something else.

Every time you reach the “something else”, you discover insight.

Your facility, your competence, your inspiration take you beyond what you are doing, into why you are doing it, into why it exists, and then you find your insight.

After that, you can take yourself through the steps pretty quickly and add the most value and satisfaction to your work through insight.

Then your work reaches farther and has more than just the physical result of providing you a living.

It lets you live more and more in the realm of inspiration and, ultimately, service.

Your life becomes something for more than yourself.

You become able to give others a glimpse into the deeper, more inspired aspects of your work.

You become able to inspire and uplift others, right where you are, as you go beyond yourself into the deeper work and service.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Creating Your Images

Whether we know it or not, we are creating the lives we live all around us.

Whatever dominates in our thought, consciously or unconsciously, comes out in the life we are living.

I found this very disturbing.

There were many issues which I prayed about constantly, and although I could see improvement in many of them, there were still situations in which my otherwise effective prayers had no control whatsoever.

As I watched with deepening horror my utter inability to change the very slow progression of my life in certain important areas, I was finally led to some other conclusions.

Through reading and workshops and persistent rigorous attention, I finally was led to the understanding of deep unconscious influences.

These are the types of things that we simply grow up with.

They are in the atmosphere around us when we are born.

Or certain shocking, tragic or traumatic events can be buried.

While we appear to be able to function after their immediate effects disappear, we may still have deeper work to do to destroy their influence and effects in our lives.

With no other options, I took on the work of redirecting, and even rebuilding, my mind.

It has been trial and error many times, but gradually, I have gained some techniques and tools which have aided me greatly.

I have learned to create the images which will benefit me instead of causing me repeated despair.

I have learned to release even the most treasured of desires and relationships in order to gain my peace within.

No treasured association is worth the pain it can cause if things are not going right.

I required uplifting thoughts around me as well as from within.

And so, I have reshaped my life, both within and all around me.

I am greatly encouraged by my progress and look forward to expanding it.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

The Reason to Keep Asking

Every time we ask, it opens the door of possibilities a little further.

When it is something we are drawn to, or deeply cherish, it becomes more imperative each time we ask.

If we are waiting for an outside power or circumstance to change, we are not actively invoked in the solution.

But, if each time we ask, we are impelled to take a little step, then we are showing our trust in the power of the Universe to bring it to pass.

A precious idea wants to grow.

It grows where it can find space.

When you give it space in your thought, your consciousness, you are bringing your intelligence, your care, your consideration, your desire, to bear on it.

That is a lot of power!

Keep asking.

It may take years, but that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening.

It means the door is opening just a little bit more.

The steps you are taking dissolve boundaries, cross borders, create connections.

When they are all mature, when they are ripe, then you get to see the harvest.

And just like timetables for seeds, they bear well and truly at the right season.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Where I Need To Be

I am aware of my divine being within.

It keeps me from going in directions I do not need to go.

It gently leads me where I need to be.

I listen, I act, I am when and where I need to be.

The overall pattern of my life shows me this.

I am acquiring a different kind of wisdom.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

As Artists

Walking around the Dallas Quilt Show, it felt so very good to be immersed in such color and design and creativity and beauty.

My favorites were the art quilts.  

Such individuality.  

It was fun to read the short descriptions by the quilters to gain a bit of insight into the work.

Mainly, it justified all that I feel about art and music and creativity.

The expression fulfills its own purpose.

When I want to play with colors and layers and shapes, it is for its own sake.

When a musical idea partners itself with words, I get to witness the dance.

When I visit a museum, I see the encapsulation of thousands and thousands of tiny thoughts into one work.

Art and creativity are beyond description.

They simply have to be.

And we, we get to be, also, as recipients, as artists.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Simple Persistent Impulsion

I am simply impelled to make my products and product line in order to release spiritual ideas in these forms.

When ideas persistently come to you, listen.

They are directing or redirecting your life.

In fact, you are the one who is supposed to give them life.

That’s why they keep coming to you as desires to be expressed.

When you give into that impulsion, it will lead you through each step.

The smaller ideas will get done when it is their time.

The larger ideas will get done when it is their time.

Throughout this process, you will be in action in the direction of your heart’s love.

You will be in alignment with your soul’s deep purpose.

You will no longer be confused or sad or unfulfilled.

You will find yourself happy, content, challenged and alive!

Listen.

You are being distinctly impelled.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Larger Movements

Judging by today’s weather, it is still winter.

But, we know that the northern hemisphere is tilting toward the sun, so spring is inevitable.

Just the same, as we are taking the steps we need to accomplish a goal, we are being brought to the point where it is accomplished, even if it still looks like we are not there yet.

I find myself doing the boring parts, the refining of the layouts, substituting the new back cover, checking the order for front and back pages, getting ready for the first new sample.

Will it work this time?

Will everything work?

Will I see something else that needs to be fixed?

But the goal is the same.

I am still excited about my product line and the service it will provide to its very young clients.

So it is worth all the steps it is taking.

At some point, everything will be done, and then, voila!, it will launch.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com