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“Someday after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity,
we shall harness the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, Man will discover fire.”

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Dagote shi gotah diyi ~ Welcome my family of Spirit . .

As always, I pray you are well and thriving!

What an amazing time to be alive!  Intense change is jolting us out of our comfort zone, and beckoning us to stretch, grow and go where Love calls us!

On our home front, we are preparing to move from WA to AZ. We’re excited to be reunited with family and friends there, and are always delighted to connect with new ones, too.

Maybe that includes you or someone you have ties to? As so, drop us a line and say ‘Hello!’

With sweet sorrow, we also are preparing to say our goodbyes to our family, friends and community circles here! We love the NW and will always carry its Spirit in our Hearts!

This move is a quick shift for us, requiring us to be present, sure-footed and have faith in our selves, our vision and Source. We are returning home, in many ways, after leaving for the NW just over six years ago.

It feels much aligned with the energy of the times.

Collectively, we are beginning to awaken!, to follow our bliss while trusting the still small voice of Love within. We are quickly ditching a dulling dream of lack and separation,to find we are World citizens, dreaming awake a One Heart Nation!

Blessed be!

With these massive shifts in our world reality, we are finding it necessary - yes, vital! - to turn within to find our Truth.

No longer can we rely on a crumbling, old-paradigm matrix to nourish and sustain us, to guide and inspire us.  Rather, it is our time to cleanse and purify our hearts and minds that we may see clearly the path before us.  To let go and flow with the swift waters of change that are carrying us to new shores, new communities, and new world realities.

One thing I love about the ever-evolving Portland area, our current home,  is the forward-thinking, cultural creative Spirit that weaves together the land and the people.  Fittingly, a common bumper-sticker here is, “Keep Portland Weird!”

In this *weird* city, we recently attended the NW film festival, to see ‘Fierce Light’, an engaging, inspiring and heart-breaking movie about spirited-activism by Velcrow Ripper. If you have the chance to see it - go!

For now, let me share this:

I walked away with a renewed passion and commitment to living an authentic life.

Beloveds, it became piercingly clear that nothing less at this time with suffice.  Nothing greater will ever be asked of us, nor a more priceless gift can we offer the world.

Who are we to deny our greatness, or to hide in the shadows and play ’small’?

‘Fierce Light’ is a radiant guide, beckoning us make the journey through shadow of separation — to merge Spirit with Action, Purpose with passion and step forward to shine our authentic light.  And live it!

Scene by scene, Ripper reveals acts of compassion in the face of
hatred, Love in the face of fear, and joy in light of miseries darkness.

Ultimately,  this film mirrors the beauty of Choice: one moment, one person, one heart at a time - choosing to harness the energy of Love and bravely stand for it!

Beloveds - This is why we co-created the Go Gratitude
experiment, and World Gratitude, with you:

To awaken this fierce light within and deliver us home to the heart of Love.

To help us recognize the feeling, and presence, of the Divine -
in all things, in all places, in all people.

To empower and fortify our ability to choose wisely no
matter what obstacles, ignorance or fear we are faced with.

To BE-Member we are One Heart United, in Love with Life, daily choosing to Go Gratitude!

With Gratitude as our guide, we can let go of all that no longer serves.  We can grow and stretch into beyond illusory limitations and separation, to find what connects us, inspires us, and what truly supports the continuance of Life!

Thankfully, each and every one of us have a built-in guidance system - the feeling and experience of Gratitude — that lights our inner path and guides our way home to the heart of what matters, home to the heart of Love.

It is the choice and courage to go within — to find our truth and then go with Gratitude — that IS and WILL BE our saving grace!  We will remember how to live peacefully and thrive by gratefully embracing, embodying and shining our own fierce light!

Blessed be!

As we flow into the holy-day season, and prepare to complete this turn around the Sun, we want to take a moment to thank you for all that you are in our lives.

Thank you for the opportunity to be of service, and for helping us - myself and the ground crew of Go Gratitude - to refine our program, build our community and daily evolve into a deeper experience of Love.

Thank you for the connections you share and the insights you offer that guide, inspire and enhance our lives.  Thank you for following your bliss, for living your Truth and for coming together, as One Heart united, to witness the Great Shift of the Ages and embrace the Great*Full*Ness of Life.

Thank you for supporting Go Gratitude - by word of mouth, through thought, prayer, offers of assistance and generous donations that make possible our outreach in the world.

We are blessed beyond measure to come together with you, reflecting what happens when a world wakes to the power of Love and Gratitude:

We have discovered fire for the second time. It lives and breathes in our *hearts*!

We look forward to sharing the unfolding journey as we witness the Great Shift, unwrap our fierce light, and make changes as we grow!

Thank you for joining us for this experiment in Gratitude. Thank you for being in our lives. Thank you for being YOU!

With deep love and Gratitude,

Stacey Robyn

and the ground crew of Go Gratitude

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p.s.  Have you seen the World Gratitude intro movie?  Check it out on the World Gratitude homepage.

It’s an up-close view of what happens when Spirit meets Action, Purpose meets Passion, and the fierce Light of Love is set free!

All this is made possible by using the Master Key of Gratitude.

Join us for this wave of World Gratitude as we Align with the Hearts calling, Embrace the Great*Full*Ness of Life, and let our Fierce Light shine!

The dates:

November 20th - December 31st, 2009

The place:

www.WorldGratitude.com

The cost:

You choose! Donation on the basis of Appreciation.

We believe so deeply in the benefits of this gathering, we want everyone to be able to participate, at a level aligned with current financial circumstances.   So what exactly does that mean?

You choose. $0, $5, $10 $42, $42 Billion. . . a miracle or two,
inspired ideas, connections, win-win possibilities, world peace . . .
just to name a few.

Come on in … we’re waiting for YOU!

http://www.WorldGratitude.com/join.html
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“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.”

-Rachel Carson

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A wise, dear friend once taught me our Soul-Purpose in this world is to tend our Sacred Garden.  I believe this to be true.  This same friend, who understands the freedom found in cultivating ones’ own life, is now serving time in the state penitentiary. A paradox in many ways and a profound mirror of something I deeply acknowledge:  We teach what we most desire to learn.

How can one such being, over-flowing with potential and a deep desire to be of service, seemingly turn into a ‘bad seed’?  More poignantly, is there such a thing? Or rather, do we choose the optimum conditions for our growth and then remember to bloom where we are planted?

I believe this to be true, as well.

As we flow through the seasons of Life, we daily plants seeds of possibility in the landscape of the heart.  We nourish these with our thoughts and water them with our tears of joy and the sweat of sweet-release.  We must be ever diligent to pull suckers and weeds that would choke out the light and steal vital resources required for strong growth.

With attention, we learn each seed has its own Divine timing, we can no more hurry it to fruit than make the sun rise or set.

This, our Sacred Garden, is teacher, playground and friend. Through communion and stewardship we remember ALL things are Sacred, and so come home to thrive in the light of Love, our hearts blooming with planted Seeds of Gratitude.

True to her nature, this same friend catalyzed the creation of a green jobs program for inmates, offering training in emerging fields, as well as daily mentoring in conscious creation and making change from the inside out.  Not your standard program, though highly desired — and effective.

We are extremely proud to have been on the ground crew that helped to get it up and growing, and continue to witness the local community embrace, support and evolve the program.

One of many gifts and shifts to come out of this venture, is an evolutionary technique for tending the Sacred Garden, through the power of Gratitude.  More specifically, it teaches the art of planting Seeds of Gratitude in the heart, inviting each bearer to remember she/he is the Soul gardener of her/his sacred life, and able to enjoy a fruit-full experience no matter what the ‘outside’ world looks like.  Very powerful, indeed!

Now, one can imagine, some of these Sacred Garden plots have been long left untended … they are scarred, perceivably barren, and hardened from a lack of attention, nourishment and care.

This is true for many — for those behind physical bars, and even illusory ones built to protect a tender heart. Self-Love, Self-Nurturance, and Self-Appreciation are vital to replenishing the Sacred Garden within all our hearts and are truly the key to Freedom!

The ‘Seeds of Gratitude’ exercise is so powerfully effective, connective and empowering we are gratefully sharing it here, too!  We believe what we’ve witnessed thus far — in the gains, breakthroughs, and miraculous life shifts of those brave-hearts willing to give it a go —  this is only a small taste of the great harvest that lay waiting at the heart of Humanity.

Here’s the basic formula:

1) Draw a Gratitude symbol on a piece of paper.  Let it take up the whole space!  Now, write in the center of the symbol something you are seeking to heal, understand, transform or release.

2) In the outer area, record all that you can be grateful for, in regards to this experience.  Be free with this!  Be creative!  Open your heart-mind to receive wisdoms nurturing Light and write, write, write.

3)  Choose one of these gifts.  The most touching, profound and clear. Now imagine this is a seed.  Place it in your heart, and feel its presence. Feel its wisdom.  Feel its gifts growing within you. Opening your heart. Nourishing your Soul.  Rising to touch and embody the Light of Love.

4)  Imagine taking the words written in the center of Gratitude.  Fold them and place them into your heart, too. Feel the Love you have grown in your heart embracing, transforming, enlightening these words, this experience.  Stay with this feeling while thinking about this experience.  Stay with this for a minimum of 33 seconds.

While you do this, you are re-programming the mind to Love this experience.  Cherish it.  Embrace it.  Be grateful for it! As you do, you become one with the Divine, in Love with All that IS, an expression of the Great-Full-Ness of Life!

Blessed be!

We created a printable .pdf file for easy download and use.  Simply click the image below to download the file:

You’ll find the exercise is designed to transform challenge into gift, by revealing the ‘golden’ opportunites of every ‘leaden’ experience. This allows us to quickly move from judgement, shame, blame and guilt into Love, acceptance and appreciation.

Alternately, it can be used as a manifestation tool.  Simply place a vision, intent, or waking dream into the center of Gratitude, and write current and emerging ideas, inspirations, connections and resources in the outer circle.  This will accelerate and magnetize the forces of creation, as you focus on, feel, and witness the beauty of the Seeds of Gratitude now planted at the heart of YOU!

As you put this powerful process into practice, please come back and share your results with us.   This process is a continual evolution — a Come-Unity Sacred Garden, you might say!

On that same note, please feel free to share this exercise widely!  Blog it.  Post it.  Email it onward.  Share your experiences, linking here so others, too, can share their golden moments of Gratitude!

Blessings to all as we grow ever inward and onward!

Stacey

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“Within life’s most difficult challenges

lie the seeds of our greatest gifts.”

D. Lightmoon

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Hearts-Up!

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The World Gratitude Gathering is flowing and growing now!

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Join us as we gather to plant seeds of Gratitude, Align with the Hearts calling and embrace the Great-Full-Ness of Life!
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** For reasons of confidentiality, the Source of this exercise must remain anonymous.  It is with great thanks, Love and deep appreciation that we acknowledge her contributions in the world, and send blessings beyond measure to her, and all the women she serves, that they may know the difference their courage makes in the world!**

Ukehi shi’bijii - Thank you for being our heart

We truly are the One’s we’ve been waiting for!

Remember — caring is sharing, and we each hold a ‘peace’ of the Grande Design.  By opening our hearts, and shining Light on the beauty of our Lives, we inspire others to find and share the Great*Full*Ness of Life, too — together weaving a vision for our emerging world into being, and laying the foundation for change with Truth, Beauty, Freedom and Grace!

Let this image, feeling, or memory flood through you, and fill every particle of your being.  Take joy in accomplishments made.  Release any attachment to how this might have been imagined, and simply BE with the beauty and perfection of NOW.

Thank you for sharing your lives, thoughts, and experiences.