Inspiration About Race

I am filled with inspiration about race today.

Everyone I know is filled with inspiration about race today.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, i filled with inspiration about race today.

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Today, what uplifts me is the inspiration I am finding in Steven Colbert’s interviews on race.

His very articulate guests express seriously, but without rancor, the solutions to the crisis that has been facing us for decades.

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They are inspired and compassionate leaders.

Colbert stated that he had been at the March on Washington fifty years ago.  His mother was there and she was pregnant with him.

My own mother was a Yankee, and when she married and came to Texas, she raised me with a “Northern” viewpoint.  We drank from the water fountains labelled “colored” and used the ladies rooms labelled “colored”.  She was the only white female teacher on the faculty of Texas Southern University where she taught voice lessons in the Music Department.

My own teaching experience showed me that every child is precious.  I taught the purest minds on the planet, pre-schoolers ages 0-5.  I observed no racial attitudes in any of them.

I am grateful for the dialogue that is once again opening about race.

I see no alternative but for us to get it right this time.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Peace Instead of Disturbance

Despite disturbing news, I can find peace within.

Despite disturbing news, everyone I know can find peace within.

Despite disturbing news, everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, can find peace within.

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Bad feeling seems to overpower good feeling.

But it can be prominent in my thought only for so long as I allow it.

Now that I am learning how easily old disturbances can be aroused by alignment with new disturbances, I am bringing more power to bear on finding my deep peace within and finding it more quickly.

The peace, once found, resonates more readily each time I seek it out.

Although there is no quick answer, I know that action has already been created to begin the process of uplifting and calming.

Any disturbance already has its solution within it.

I am listening to hear below and beyond the disturbance for that answer, for that solution.

As for me, I can still have a peaceful and happy day, knowing that a solution is always part of the orderly unfoldment of the Universe.

In anticipation, and because I know it is my divine right, I will continue to practice my new ways of finding happiness and peace from within.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Happiness Today

I have the power to make myself happy today.

Everyone I know has the power to make themselves happy today.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, has the power to make themselves happy today.

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In thinking about what would make me the most happy today, I came up with a very simple act.

I am doing food preservation through canning, and I decided the thing that would make me most happy was getting the canning jars ready by washing them.

A very simple thing.

I was so surprised!

Sometimes the thing that we can do to make ourselves happy is simple.

Even a complex thing consists of several simple steps.

When I make myself happy, I become the creative consultant.

I draw in all the ideas that are available to me.

I listen for more ideas.

Just the thought that I am the person who can make me happy is relaxing.

Some of the things which are supporting my happiness today is the fact that I am buying organic, fresh, good quality ingredients.

This builds on the happiness that my husband and I have been feeling better since I changed how we are eating.

I can return to this simple form of happiness over and over again, since food happens every single day.

I am glad to build my happiness on the many simple ordinary things that happen to me as well as big and rare events.

It gives me a constant presence of happiness in my life.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Freshness Without Judgement

I feel the freshness of a new day and of a new year without judgement from the past.

Everyone I know feels the freshness of a new day and of a new year without judgment from the past.

Everyone I don’t even know all over the planet feels the freshness of a new day and of a new year without judgment from the past.

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Every day, we have all the elements of happiness available to us.

How we use the day depends on our approach.

Carrying over negative experiences from the previous day starts the new day with a burden.

Trusting that each breath, each moment that we turn within, will bring us solutions, lets us dissolve the negative experiences.

We can proceed with nothing invested except in the solutions.

As we approach today’s experiences, we can pause for that great which says that we are ready to listen for solutions each step of our day.

It will be an amazing experience to see what this does for not only each day, but for the cumulative effect of three hundred sixty-five days in a row.

It is certainly a habit worth cultivating.

© 2016 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Gratitude for Inspiration

I am so grateful for the inspiration that is coming to me today.

Everyone I know is so grateful for the inspiration that is coming to them today.

Everyone I don’t even know is so grateful for the inspiration that is coming to them today.

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I know that when I listen deeply within, I can feel the quiet that lets me hear the natural presence of inspiration.

It is always there for me to listen to.

When I make that my practice, everything I need comes to me in a timely manner.

I am always in the Presence of divine inspiration, so it is up to me to get quiet and listen.

I can get quiet and draw on my unlimited resources at any time.

As I take my three deep breaths, I realize that this is true for all of us.

We can all listen deeply and contribute the inspiration we receive to any situation at hand.

It is a healing and uplifting process each time.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Persistent, Extended Action

I am so grateful for persistent, extended action.

Everyone I know is grateful for persistent, extended action.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, is grateful for persistent, extended action.

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Sometimes there is an unexpected interruption to our regular routine.

It may be very inconvenient, and yet, we still have to get our regular work done, and we want to continue enjoying ourselves.

However, the additional quiet time we are sometimes forced to gain can be quite productive.

Upon reflection, and through spiritual study and taking the time I needed to get things done, I feel I have extended what I am able to do.

I don’t mean in the way that I used to have to when I was working two jobs and running a household.

This is completely different.

Going inward to gain deeper insight is one way I have extended my action.

And going outward more slowly and with deep consideration is another way I have extended my action.

I have taken the time to notice my quick emotional judgements.

I have made a decision to spend less time in anger and impatience.

Things are getting done the way they need to.

If it takes me more time, it is supposed to.

I am releasing a lot of invisible habits, invisible to me because they have been there for so long.

I am becoming conscious of a new personality at work in me.

A more relaxed one.  A more conscious one.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

The Always Solution

I know there is always a solution.

Everyone I know, knows there is always a solution.

Everyone I don’t even know, all over the planet, knows there is always a solution.

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This time, I thought I was really stuck.

I did not know the way through this situation.

Then I remembered that right in front of me, right where I am, right now, there is always a solution.

That calmed my thought and then the very next part of the discussion revealed some immediate steps.

As the discussion continued, it further developed that an event was scheduled to take place the next day.

The timing was exact.

The location was near.

Another opportunity was available right away.

This is how the Universe works.

We are precious.

We are loved.

We are cherished and adored.

And we are always taken care of.

Not by our own design which can see only what we are used to seeing.

We are taken care of by the Universe, Who connects all of its creation with each other in ways which are much more far-reaching than we can design ourselves.

This is a consistent spiritual law.

That means, it works all the time.

© 2015 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com