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The Silent Treatment

3/30/2014

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Feel your power in patience. Enjoy the stillness in your soul. You need not always offer comment upon another's words or actions. Often the silent treatment is best. It allows the others words to hang unadorned in the air. There they remain bare, exposed for what they are. You can hear them and leave them alone. The other has said them and can own them or choose to atone.

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

1/2/2014

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"Southern Comfort" an oil pastel painting by Debra Clemente

Why do you concern yourself so with the future? So you can worry about what bad could happen, or hold good thoughts and see it all well? Be your own fortune-teller. Predict the good. Predict the fabulous. Then prepare yourself to be amazed. Live in wonder. Live in awe. Live in joy. Live in love.


Divine Love is my power and my strength.

There has always been only one Truth, one Power. It is a matter of surrender. The surrender of one’s own will to the will of God, surrendering the power of your mind to the power of your heart. When heart and mind are one, you will see Me and know Me beloved, the Divine Presence within, your Calling, your Truth, your Name, your Glory. See your glory now. Praise it. Praise the lovely Presence, the Loving Presence you are. Take care. Treat yourself with love and respect. Love yourself first, then you can share this Love you know with all.

This is not a selfish thing. The love you are to feel is the divine grace, the love of God pouring forth. When you become selfless and think of God, the Eternal Good of Life in you and in all, then you will feel and know the glory of this manifestation in your thoughts, actions, word and deed. Allow this Love to fill you, to be you, to breath through you, knowing all is well. Now and forever claim this Love. Be this Love. Share and pour forth this Love. Be the clothes this Love wears. Be the arms and legs of this Love.

As you realize, you will live anew. You will naturally show up differently in the world. Your Love will magnetize more Love to you. You will become such a wonderfully magnetic presence of good in this world that all will desire your presence, for you are the Presence of God. Know this and you will be this. This truth is yours. Claim it now.


I am the most loving and ever expansive Love of God. The Presence and Power of God fills me and fulfills me. So be it. Amen.
    
Nothing can limit you now.

I used to desire to have control over my life, my heart, my mind and my experience, but I now see that that path did not lead me to peace. Serenity evaded me.

What do you acknowledge in life? What do you see and hear? What do you nod your head in agreement to? All is well. What you desire is all things higher. Raise your spirit, delight in all the good, for all goodness is yours as you believe. “We are hoping for the best,” versus “We are fearing the worst.” Both are mindsets with the same power, hope and fear. Both bring guaranteed results. Where do you put your power? Where do you put your trust? Trust in the best possible outcome for every situation.
What do you fear?


I don’t fear a thing. I fear nothing. I have no fear, for God lives here!

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

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Who says?

11/12/2013

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Personality is a human physical trait. As “One” we are not limited by nor identify with personality. Personality is part of man’s “ego consciousness” which keeps him small. It’s not about personality anymore. Your mind is attempting to define this voice as one or another personality or individuality, as you understand how souls appear to you in your earth form. It is not this way, not for us, not for you, not now, before or ever. It is only your limited consciousness that perceives it so. Please don’t bother too much with your attempts to comprehend or fathom the greatness of this concept. All you need to know is that “all is One and all is Love.”

You know both in your heart and mind that these messages are messages of pure love. The same love which Paul spoke about. This voice never judges or condemns but is patient, comforting and encouraging. Love knows all. Love conquers all. God is Love. This is what you are to know.

You have to discover your own power. You have to lay claim to the Kingdom within. It is all within the power of your word, in thought, spoken and in deed.

Buddhism is about mastering the mind. While there is much to be said for that as an effort to becoming the perfection of man, we are offering you more, a way to get beyond the mind which knows all it knows so well. We ask you to forget all you know and be born again unto Truth. If you can learn to work, live and breath just through, only through, the mind of God, that’s when you’ve “got it going on!”

Whenever you go past the point you thought you couldn’t go, that is when you have reached the next level. You have to venture beyond your comfort zone for growth to appear. You have to push yourself to this new limit. It’s a personal challenge, whether mentally, physically or spiritually. You do yourself no good by measuring your rate of growth against any other.

All have access to the same gifts. All good arises from the same Source. All power is One and One for all. The only difference lies in individual man’s level of consciousness and awareness of such power and aptitude gained by the exercise of such. Jesus, as Christ, told us “What ever I do, so may you.”

Some say they talk to dead people but that is an improbability. It is impossible, for if anything is truly dead there is no life with which to communicate. Communication is a back and forth thing. It should be better stated that some are aware of communication with Spirit and the souls of the bodily departed. That is not the same as “dead people.”

A soul inhabits a body for a time for an earthly experience as an opportunity for soul growth, or advancement in the Heavenly Planes, by seeking soul purification and enlightenment. When the body is spent or damaged so that it can no longer support the life force, the soul energy escapes the imprisonment of the physical confines it has known. There is no skip, pause or lapse from one moment of knowing in the body to the next moment that the soul realizes its freedom. There is no change whatsoever in the attributes of a soul just because it is no longer present in a physical form.

You were a soul before this body and you will continue as that same soul after you depart. The only thing you depart from is your physical form. You remain present, actually more present than when in the physical form. As you have not the physical senses, nor local brain activity, to distract you, you are Pure Being. You exist in the Ethers, as Heaven was first described.

You reside in a state of continual joy, but happy as you are to just to be you are aware that other souls enjoy more joy and reside in a brighter light space. You long for this “more joy” and learn that the way to this more joy is through the infilling of your soul with God’s Divine Love. All souls can receive this gift as they ask for it with all the energy their soul possesses, but the most soul growth opportunity is when a soul is with a physical body and is having a human experience.

What are you looking for? What’s wrong or what is right? There are basically two ways to go through life; you can either look for what’s wrong or what’s right. Seek and ye shall find. Be careful what you look for, for what you think about you bring about.

People always ask, “Who says?” They are looking for an “authority figure.” Someone else they believe holds all the answers. They search on for a supreme authority, one whose truth never varies.


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

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Oh, Sings My Soul

6/11/2013

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Everybody is born “in the zone.” I mean every soul in a body is not only “fresh from Heaven” but still there. We are not “born” with a sense of separateness, we learn it. We are conditioned. We are taught. We are told. We are “civilized” and “de-spiritualized.” We are “reprogrammed” but not “rewired.” Nope, nobody can change who we really are. It’s still there, all there. The innate connection we have with the Divine, lost to our own awareness perhaps but always at hand. Jesus was reminding us of this when he said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

One needs not even to reach. It is already within, within each of us, all the Power and Presence of God. We are to seek this “Kingdom of God” this eternal and internal land of good. We are to seek it ourselves and to acknowledge its existence in all others, whether they themselves have come to recognize and demonstrate this truth or not. As one finds his way, his way back to his Truth, to the Light of God, he becomes illumined. His light shines. This light becomes a beacon of hope for all others still foraging through the forest of doubt.

But oh to live in joy! Oh sings my soul. My eyes have seen the glory. These words are mine now, my truth, my reality. I write the songs of joy, my psalms.

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




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It will Ring True

5/28/2013

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It is scary, because all I have known as safety is slipping away. Yet I know what matters isn’t matter at all, it’s spiritual and my spiritual truth is grand and wonderful. On this truth I rely. I put my faith in God and His Magnificence. All glory, I give to God.

This is the way, the way you come to Me when all else fails and is broken. You fall to your knees and I lift you up in My Arms. I hold you, love you and admire your strength, your willingness to circumvent yourself for the larger goal of love to and from your “True Self.” This is the way of Life with Me, Life for Eternity.

Things are better than they seem. They really are. I can see the glory of the day to come. I know what you do not. I know what your future holds and it is glorious. Yes, your vision is clouded, but your heart is in the right place, next to Mine. We beat as One. You are My hope and you thought I was yours. I have plans for you, for things We can together do. Yes, Me and you. Oh, what We will do.

We do not desert Our own. You have awakened into a Brotherhood of a caring Family. We are here to love and support you as you do “the work.” You are our eyes and ears. Head to toe you can be and go, and be seen, where we may not. Whatever you do, wherever you are, we are now fully able to assist, as you have allowed us to enter your heart and consciousness. You can say what needs said, so it can be heard. Your voice is clear and beautiful. It will ring true and herald Truth for many. We write books together. Of One Heart and Mind we are. Whatever kind of questions you ask, are the kind of answers you get.

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


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Your Work to Do

4/5/2013

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