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For You to Know

4/1/2014

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Video presentation of excerpt a from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story illuminated with paintings by the author Debra Clemente.

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They will resonate

11/12/2013

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Peaceful Pasture, oil painting by Debra Clemente
It’s not even about you, so don’t take it so personally when another is so rude. It’s nice to receive an apology but don’t think for a minute that anyone owes you an apology for their actions. For when you do, you are deciding that your happiness or your peace of mind is attached to the actions of another. You are taking away your own power, the very power you hold within yourself to determine your own happiness level as you wish, regardless of any action or lack of action by any other.

Entering into the state of Grace, Zen, or the Flow, for you it was your painting that took you there, for another it is their daily run. Others find this awareness of the peaceful center of their being as they sit cross legged on the floor and give attention to their breath. All very valid paths to the same state of knowing and bliss that is always available unto each.

You, mankind, walk in darkness, barely seeing the Truth which shines ever so brightly by the light of day. You gather and form a line playing “Follow the Leader” not knowing that the leader is as blinded as yourself, as he as well is clothed in darkness. Stories are made up and told and retold explaining the whys and wheres of things that go bump in the night. Yes, you remain blinded by the darkness which surrounds you not realizing your own power. The power you were born possessing to open your own eyes unto the light chasing away the perceived darkness and revealing the continued blindness of the leader you once followed. Lo, is the one blessed with ears to hear this and eyes to see the light.

Your ego wishes another man to agree with what you know. Your ego wishes another person to validate what is coming to you. Please come to the place of knowing that all is well and right and you need not the validation of any other to own this Truth. Once you get rid of that need, what you would like, will come to you. This is so because when you perceive anything as a need, you are perceiving lack of what you desire. Thus you are not putting out the proper receiving energy unto the world. Believe that which you desire is available unto you although your physical eyes and ears have not yet witnessed. This is the process of allowing.

Believe unto me this, this is important work you are doing and there are ears that need to hear these words as you write them, for they will resonate in the core of their own being and be further confirmation of their own truth.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente

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My Arms, My Hands, My Feet

11/10/2013

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No doubt about it. Aim high for the stars and beyond thought. Feel your way to Me. Help where you can. You are My arms, My hands, My feet. Through you, My love is complete. You have to use your new eyes with which to view the world. With these you will see keenly unlimited possibilities laying out before you. Not beyond your reach, within your grasp. This you need to understand. This My dear is your task.

What would you like to know? What would you like to show? Have fun with life. It is here for you to enjoy. So, show joy. Know joy. Be joy. Joyful you shall be. You are a channel for My spirit, for My love. Flowing forth like a great river after a rain, My love rains down upon your being. Flow forth My love.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente

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True Grace

10/14/2013

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All is Well and Good, oil painting by Debra Clemente
I can remember kneeling in prayer at my pew as I was supposed to do. My prayers were not rote, they were words so deep they stuck in my throat. Swelling within my heart tears then flowed. Yes, I knelt crying, for why I did not know. “This is not the place for tears,” I said to myself, and hear with my physical ears. “Contain yourself, behave. Wipe your face, appear with grace.” Yet, True Grace was what I had found but did not know for I had not heard it told as so.

Excerpted from the book Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story by Debra Clemente

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Special Dispensation

6/11/2013

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I get new information everyday. How enlightening!

Special dispensation.


What is that about?

Well, what did you ask about less than an hour ago? You asked about the Gift of Divine Love.

Yes, I do want to know more. As I know I am receiving this Gift and this Gift from the Holy Spirit has swung my life around 180 degrees, and opened my eyes and heart. I ask and continue to ask, but I need to know if all others who are being given gifts of enlightenment as well are receiving this Divine Love. Is it naturally “a given” or are special words or thoughts required to receive this “Love” which is so much very higher? I lay in wait for the answer.

Go ahead with the things you need to do. I’ll get back to you.

Special dispensation that makes life easier to grasp, to take in, to live fully, yes, it is a Gift, given to those whom ask. Not everyone knows, not everyone shows. You have to desire higher for this is the highest Gift of all, for all, for the asking.


We have told you to ask for more. This is your Father’s Love. Above all else, know this, it is your Gift. Gift of discernment, rise higher in Love for all, with My eyes see the glory before
you. Share it, My Love. Why do you doubt? You have been given This Gift, has it not given your own heart a lift? As you know you will show.


You have to have a heart opening to receive This Love. First one has to know there is more and that they are deserving of this more to be able to begin to want, to yearn for more. For one has to truly desire higher to reach higher.

The kind of Love of which I speak is the Love Paul wrote about to the early Christians, but if they as well had this Love as Paul did, they would not have had to be told what to do, to be doing God’s Will, they would just be doing it!


Excerpted from the book
Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story
by Debra Clemente

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Divine Love Flow Through Me

9/6/2012

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My mind used to be filled with pain and fear. Now it is filled with love and comfort.

See how far you have come. It is truly a delight. I delight in you. Delight in Me. Delight in Me in you. Oh yes, this is the way. It is and shall be. Walk with Me.


It was a whole new concept, the idea that I should fix me, not everyone else. Talk about a hard pill to swallow.

But swallow you did, not all at once for sure. You broke it up into little pieces and nibbled on it from time to time. Bitter booger wasn’t it? But see how sweet life tastes now? How you can enjoy the company of, actually delight in the company, of those who you had determined to fix if it killed you, and in fact it was.


My first decision was that I was going to learn mind control. I jokingly said that, knowing all the while that it was my own mind I wished to tame. As I explored and researched ways of doing this, new information continually came to light, very shocking and unsettling information which I didn’t just take as a truth and swallow whole. Again, I picked over each bone and investigated and tested the teachings.

Yes, you did. We were so proud of you. This is how it is supposed to be for when you did accept each concept new to you blind belief was not needed, for you knew their truth by your own testing and proving.

After having spent so many days of so many years in continual physical pain and limitation I was deeply offended to hear it said that it was of my own creation. That really pissed me off. It’s surprising now that I didn’t just slam that book shut and kick it down the stairs.

You were so curious. You were so wanting and desiring better for your life that you closed no door to possibility. This is what is needed by all an open mind. It is the mind that is “made up” that has no room to grow.


The thing that kept bugging me about the whole “law of attraction” thing was that the ideas that had until that point formed the foundation of my ideas of life, my understanding of what was and shall be were rocked, rocked back and forth. The ground beneath my feet no longer felt firm. If this was so, the law of attraction and all the tricks and tweaks to life as presented in The Secret, what was true of God and Jesus as I knew? How did all that fit in? I was not so easily swayed to believe that someone could replace the word “God” with “the Universe” or “Spirit” in a sentence and just move on.

It’s also true that prayer had lost its power and magic over me. I had continually turned to “the Church” for answers and comfort and left at a loss for all. My needs were not met. My answers were not coming. But God, or the idea I had always held of God, had a hold on me and said “Keep looking, seek and ye shall find.”  

One very important thing, actually I know it was the most important thing I have ever found, proclaimed and received is a Divine Love prayer titled, The Prayer Perfect. I found on the internet, happened upon, as it seemed while on this truth quest. The person that posted it challenged the reader to pray the prayer twice daily for fifteen minutes and that whoever did so would never experience life again the same. There would be a wondrous, internal and permanent change.

So as is always my way, I didn’t follow his prayer outline to the letter or even the word. Just as I can’t seem to follow a recipe as written, I cannot pray someone else’s prayer. So, I created my own inspired by the given prayer. Mine was simpler and flowed gracefully from my lips. Most importantly, I could remember it and creatively embellish it with flourishing concepts as I prayed and desired in prayer.

Divine Love fill me

Divine Love flow through me

Divine Love be me.

That’s pretty much the gist of it. So I did it, every time I remembered about it I stopped and said it. I wasn’t even sure what “Divine Love” was. It didn’t really feel like a prayer or sound like one, almost like an incantation or a spell.

I remember shortly there after things changing for me. More and more my actions, my seemingly thoughtless actions, surprised me. By “thoughtless,” I don’t mean not considerate of others. I mean I didn’t pre-think my actions and they were so amazingly thoughtful of others it was if I knew beyond my own mind how to be of the right help at the right time. I would continually say and do the right thing. “Hold on a minute,” I heard a voice inside me say, “You are surprised at your actions but haven’t you just been praying for God’s Love to flow through you and become you?” Was I? Did I? Is that what Divine Love was? I needed to know, for I had never heard it spoken of that way. Divine Love, what was it really? What was happening to me and had any other experienced such and written about it?



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Grace

7/1/2012

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Detail from "Iris Walk" an oil painting by Debra Clemente



People never
fall from Grace.
They fall from
their
acknowledgement
of Grace.



Excerpted from the book
Listen Hear, A Divine Love Story

by Debra Clemente

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