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

Creating the Happiness I Want to See

I woke up this morning with tired eyes.

I realized that I am tired of looking at the kind of life the world is presenting - limited resources, greed, lack of compassion, violence.

So, I decided to start creating the happiness that I want to see.

There are many people involved in a better view of humanity.

My most recent search involved the www.earthship.com website.

Another wonderful project is a Permaculture for Students Kickstarter project which will contribute to better practices.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattpowers/the-permaculture-student-1.

There is so much good in the world and this is providing wonderful opportunities to increase our best sense of life.

If we start out with the idea of limited earth resources and how to be sure “I get mine”, then we act in a particular way toward others.

If we start out with the idea of a different kind of unlimited resources and and develop the ideas which come from that, we act in a completely different way.

In my life, I have seen how an expanded sense of life and living can provide for a large number of children in the family.

I am noticing a lot of good practices by organizations who truly have the welfare of the earth and all people on it at heart.

I plan to spend more time with those ideas and practices and look forward to the happiness I can contribute.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Uplifting Change

I relax into the destiny that the Universe provides for me day by day.

I can do nothing to rush it.

I can do nothing to interfere with it.

I can do nothing to slow it down.

It happens as the Universe weighs in and takes care of all of us all the time.

We came here with specific goals and ideas.

We accept the modifications that occur through circumstance.

We choose the modifications that we see to improve our course.

But, bottom line, we are part of the great evolution of consciousness as we encounter the set-in-place experiences of millennia.

As our awareness has come on-line and joins the awareness of so many others, we are creating, by our combined influence, the new direction of the world.

We are witnessing the destruction of the old mind-set as it tries to hold on desperately for its right to exist.

But separation and exclusivity have no more place.

Even as Nature denies it and takes care of all Her creation, so we are now denying it in order for all of us to be taken care of.

We are all precious.

We each have a role to play in our evolving consciousness.

Painful as the process is, it is ongoing and unstoppable.

Sweet is the goal, even as the path reveals itself one step at a time.

Change is happening.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com