I am not one who meditates in the sense that I sit cross legged on a little pillow and attempt to empty out my mind of all that fills it. I've avoided that idea like the plague for years. I was scared, I was not taught to "meditate" and thus it didn't feel right or I did not feel it was "the right thing to do."

But I have come to see that I do meditate in my own way, and so do you. Mediating is thinking on something. Letting an idea just sit within. The trouble begins when we "sit with ideas" too long that we don't really wish to live.

I just came upon this meditation video. This is wonderful. This is perfect. Give yourself this gift I ask. Give yourself some time, some space, the gift of a quiet place to be, just be with these words. Let them touch your soul and open you to know, thus allow your soul to grow in a loving relationship the God.

So if this is "meditating" then I am all in. For are the kind of thoughts I choose to be my reality. - Deb

So you want to be purified, how much? How much do you want it? As you experience the glory side, the other side seems deeper and darker.

The more you experience in life the more you will be aware and thus more of My Love you can share. Do not hole away. I need you to live fully each and everyday. I come bearing gifts for you, gifts of patience, wisdom and clarity. My good fortune is yours as well as you accept My Love into your heart. These are the true Gifts of Christmas which I offer unto all.

What is required is that you detach from your dire attachment to the world. You cannot hold My hand and walk through life with Me and expect to live the life I have planned for you if you have the other hand full of ideas of the world. You cannot stuff your pockets with your fill of your worldly desires and then come to Me. I give you My All and will accept no less than your all for Me. Only in this way can you hear My Voice so plainly, so clearly.

Trust all is well, this is what is meant by having faith in God. God is good so we are to believe as God’s children that all of God’s goodness is available to each of us as well. We are to trust in God, trust in God’s goodness, purely and completely, without doubt or fear. For God is Love and Love does not know fear. No fear, God is near waiting in Love with Love to welcome all to the center of His heart Eden, Heaven on Earth.

Know what you want. See what you want. Be what you want. See it true. Evolution of consciousness. It’s expressed differently because it is coming from different channels. But all channel from the same Source of Truth. All water flows from the one same Fount. Amazing things can happen when allowed. Don’t let your mind be a plug which stops the flow. Let the good be as it may.

You have continually questioned what you have been told all of your life. You were made to know. You came into this world with a yearning for full remembrance of Truth. You are still yearning for more clarity but now confident that you are on the path to understanding and most important of all you feel and know My Love. You are My Love and you express and exude My Love. Oh yes, it’s all so lovely. Thank you for letting Me have this dance. It’s a long slow romantic heart to heart dance we have. I am in no rush to hurry on with life and nor should you be. When you stay close to Me, time (as you will) stands still. Come out of time and dance with Me.

I used to pray by talking, talking, talking, but never heard a word in return. I see now that I never stopped to listen, to listen in. I prayed my prayer then went back to the rush of the world, back to the noise and confusion. “Where is God?” I would say. “How am I ever to know what to do? How am I to believe when hate and pain is all I see true?”

And now you know and must show the world the Way unto the Words I write upon each heart. As you write My Words, this is a start. As this is the way you found My Voice as the Small Still Voice within you. You asked to know. You asked to show My Love. You asked for Me to so fill you with My Divine Love. You got your ego out of the way and surrendered your will unto Mine. You asked for guidance all the time.

I have always been here. I have always held you dear. But I could never and would never force My Will over yours. I want and need to be chosen. I have already chosen each of you. Your birthright is My Glory, but only for the asking, the asking by a truly repentant heart. Repenting of what? Repenting of your old ways, your selfish ego ways, your old single mindedness where you thought you knew it all. Forget all you have known and come unto Me like a little child full of wonder and a wondrous life you shall know.

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

From Publishers Weekly: Henry Nouwen, Catholic priest and popular author (The Wounded Healer, 1972), hit a six-month spiritual and mental crisis at the end of 1987 during which he "wondered whether I would be able to hold on to my life. Everything came crashing down?my self-esteem, my energy to live and work, my sense of being loved, my hope for healing, my trust in God... everything." This book is his personal journal written during his time of anguish. For years, Nouwen felt his experience was too personal to share with the world, but on advice from friends, and in the hope that these insights would help nurture others, he published his journal entries. Although there are occasional gems here, most of these meditations are rather generic. Perhaps this generic quality may make Nouwen and his work more human to a public that has come to view him as a spiritual giant.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

How can it be that another writes the same as me? How can it be? Well, it is because we are all one indeed. For those of you that doubt it so, I like to share this link with you to a book which appears to tell, the same story that I do. 

Love is all around
and continually
available to each
and ever one of you.

A NEW DAY DAWNS

A PERFECT ENDING

ABOUT NOW

ABUNDANCE

ALL BLESSINGS FLOW

ALL MY DAYS

AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT

ANY DAY NOW

AS I AWOKE

AS INTENDED

AS IT WAS

BE REAL

BURNING DESIRE

CALLING MY NAME

COLOR MY WORLD

COME AGAIN SOON

COME CLOSER

DELICIOUS

DON’T LOOK INTO THE SUN

EDGE OF REASON

ENCHANTMENT

ENDLESS DAYS

ENLIGHTENMENT

FEEL JOY

FIND YOUR WAY

FOREVER AND EVER

FROM HERE I SEE

FROM HERE ON

GOLDEN GLOW

HARD TO FORGET

HEARTFELT

HEARSAY

HERE BEFORE ME

I CAN SEE

I FELT ALIVE

I SEE YOU

I THOUGHT OF YOU

I’VE BEEN WAITING

IF EVER

IMAGINE

IMAGINE THE DAY

IN GRATITUDE

IN MY DREAMS

INTO THE LIGHT

IT STRUCK ME

IT’S ALL BEFORE ME

JUST A GLIMPSE

JUST ENOUGH

JUST THE BEGINNING

LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW

LIKELY STORY

LISTEN

LIVING PROOF

LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

LOW AND BEHOLD

MAKE GOOD

MEMORIES OF ME

MOMENTS LIKE THESE

MORE THAN EVER

MORNING LIGHT

NO HOLDING BACK

NO MORE WAITING

NO THING IS FOREVER

NO TIME AT ALL

NOT FAR AWAY

NOW IS THE TIME

ONE MAGIC MOMENT

ONLY FOR A MOMENT

OUT IN THE OPEN

OTHERWISE OVERLOOKED

PLAYFUL GESTURE

PRIMARILY TRUE

QUIET TIMES

REMEMBER THIS MOMENT

REMIND ME

SEE THE LIGHT

SEEMS TO ME

SLOW WAY DOWN

SO BE IT

SO STILL

SOFTLY COMES THE NIGHT

SOMETIME SOON

SOUL FOOD

SOUND OF SILENCE

SPRING HAS SPRUNG

STANDING STILL

TAKE TIME

TELL ME AGAIN

TELL ME MORE

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE

THE SKY IS NO LIMIT

THIS I KNOW

TIME TO TELL

TIME WILL TELL

TRUTH BE TOLD

TUCKED AWAY

USE ALL YOUR SENSES

WALK INTO THE LIGHT

WHEN YOU SAY IT LIKE THAT

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

WITHOUT STRIFE

WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH

WORTH REPEATING

WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND ME


I wrote this story as I lived my life, as I painted images inspired by the calling of my heart. And as well, as I named each by listening to this same Voice of Inspiration. But not until now could this full story be told. Not until this moment, did this Truth so unfold.

The story above was composed by the alphabetical listing of my inspired art titles since the day I began seeing and hearing, painting and writing as I now do, to this day that I write this story to share with you.

Debra Clemente 2/3/2013

artist/author
DebraClemente.com