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We all classify ourselves as not one thing but many;  for example we may be a parent, a son/daughter, niece/nephew, aunt/uncle, friend, colleague, neighbour, carer, lover etc. 
If you were to take a pen and paper and list all the labels you use to describe yourself now, how long would the list be?  

But these words are just external labels if you were to continue and create a new list with labels for what you consider to be the inner true you, how long would this list be?

Now you have at least two lists of words.  But they are just words they aren't you, there is more to you than just labels.  You could add to your lists daily but they would still not even represent a fraction of who/what you are.  

We have been taught to classify and separate ourselves into measurable boxes to fit in with our social idea of where we fit in our lives and the lives of those around us.  As a child you were told 'what a beautiful little girl you were' or 'what a cheeky little chap you were' and our parents unwittingly guided us on by using comments like; 'if you work hard and do all your homework you too can be a great .....', 'If you want to be a doctor then you will need to spend your time reading lots of books and studying hard,', 'if you join the local football team you will learn great leadership and sharing skills,', 'If you want to get a good job you will have to give up your creative ideas of studying art/dance etc.'  The list is endless but i'm sure you get the idea.  

But what truly are we saying to these children?

We're telling them frankly they're not good enough.  
They are not perfect. 
They require more to fit into our society.  
They will need to work harder and accomplish more to be accepted.

Wrong message. 

When you look at a little baby just a few days or weeks old you don't use comments like, 'he'll be a great 'whatever' some day if he does his homework.'  
No you breath in and absorb their innocence and purity because as you look into those beautiful deep eyes you see the divine in all its greatest majesty looking back at you and looking into your soul.  The baby is perfect; sweet, innocent, pure and totally perfect.  

So what changes?

It's simple - we do.  
We impose our 'learned' beliefs and wants and needs onto the child and in doing so we tell them they are not enough.  

But the truth of it all is completely the opposite.  

Just like the little baby we don't change.   The same divine majesty is still within us, although we have covered it over with lots of 'rubbish' it is there gleaming strong and bright.  
We only need to remember and reconnect with it.  We don't change we just take on the 'rubbish' of life and pile it on top and thus carry it around with us all our lives, constantly telling ourselves that we are not good enough, not deserving enough, not entitled enough etc. 

We are so much more.  
More is such a small, tiny fragmented word to explain what 'IT' is, but it is beyond our greatest imagining, more intense than our wildest dreaming and more beautiful and amazing that we can comprehend.  

Remove the rubbish you have been carrying around all your life, let it go.
  
Instead reawaken your Divinity and know that you are more. 
You were created perfect and you still are perfect, totally, magically, and divinely just the way you are. 
Let Divine joy radiate in your life, spend tomorrow accessing your more. 

Life's Mirror

Life is such a clever game

mirrored in the mists of time,

all we need to do is sort

the tumult from the rhyme.

Softly onward we must tread

along our path of light inclined,

until we stumble to the end

knarled and beaten fast and bled.

Then looking on with eyes anew

every stumble a lesson true,

now wrapped in our soul divine

added wisdom bliss sublime.

God Is Good

My life is mine but yet it's not

A gift for me to live.

All are one, in this place

connected through every race.

I was chosen to come here now

to share my love with you

I serve him every day I live

by serving you.

Share his light and gift of love

with others every day,

Then you will bring your soul

to light and fill your life with love.

He waits for us to return home

full of joy and peace,

to share our lives lived on earth

so all will know his love. 

Be Thankful

Are you thankful for all the good things in your life?

When was the last time you seriously thought about all the positive and beautiful things you have each day?

Do you give thanks for your sight, for your health, for the people in your life, for your home, for the food you eat or the job you have?

If not what are you giving thanks for ?

Inner Joy

Some people search their whole lives for happiness.  They move from relationship to relationship, never feeling truly fulfilled or loved.  They will put it down to having had a hard childhood, or being unloved as a child, a difficult adolescence, or choosing the wrong partners.  There are many such stories and i'm sure you're all very familiar with them either through friends, family or the good old information box ; the television.

However, we all actually have exactly what we need to make us happy.
Have you stopped recently and observed your life, your family, your home, your pets, your children, your world ?

To find joy in a fleeting moment is an awesome experience.
You can find your awesome moment, but to do so you first have to stop and look around ---
What will you see ?
What will you find ?
What will you experience ?
Will you find your inner joy ?

I would love to hear your stories on finding the Joy in your life.
Click on 'comment' below to leave your message.  Remember your words may help others to appreciate and understand similar events in their lives.  Blessings Cora xx

Driver or Passenger ?

Are you engaging with your life or just a passenger ?


Many people say 'I wish I had money, health, friends,' etc 'then I would be happy'.  Other say 'If I complete this course or this training then I will know all there is to know about a particular subject.  If I can achieve this goal or overcome some difficulty then I will be in control of my life.' 


They go through each day of their lives wishing and wanting.  Not looking at their life in the present, 'now' and realising the wonders, gifts and joys they have already.  They strive forward in a searching way always looking for someone else to tell them how they should feel, react, engage, etc.  In his constant search they encounter many other's perspectives and opinions and yet none resonate with them.  


Today the Angel's message is to just take a moment, look at what you already have.  
Question what is driving you forward ?  Ask what is pushing you on, what are you searching for?  When you honestly answer these questions for yourself, you will realise you have become a passenger in your own life and it is passing you by.  


Engage with your life, it is yours, no one else's - you control all it is, and all it will be, you direct it forward.  Do so positively and in the right way for you.  You don't need to constantly seek and search because you will find the answers are within you.  


Have you found the answers you are searching for?  Let us know by leaving a comment below.  Blessings Cora xx

I Wish !

'Don't wish your life away."  
I remember someone saying this to me when I was a child moaning on about long school days.  


Do we use the 'I Wish' phrase too much or not enough? 


I can only speak about what I experience and in my opinion its over used to the extent of being maxed out.  


One example is when we add it ourselves after receiving a compliment or thanks.  We turn a positive comment/compliment into a negative by adding 'I wish' or its partner 'If only'.  We should not do this because it belittles our talents and also those of the person who have offered us the comment/compliment.  
So don't add 'I wish' or 'if only', when someone says something nice about what you've done or achieved.  Thank them graciously and accept it in the spirit it was given.  


Another example is where we actively 'wish' away for something.  We dream of a fruitful reward to our wishing like winning the lottery, or meeting a tall dark stranger, having a luxurious holiday etc.  These may seem like nothing more than fantasies and dreams.  


I'm not saying we should stop dreaming, if mankind never dreamed we would not have achieved many of the great things we now take for granted today.  We dare to dream and it propels us forward, we turn our dreams into a reality.  


But many people can get stuck in the 'I wish' phase.  They never get off the ground and begin to turn their dreams into a reality.  Instead they sit and wait for another to come and show, tell or instruct them on how to move forward.  While all the time they have the answers and ability but no drive to do it.  


When my Grandparents were born (1890-1907) it was a far different world.  I never recall hearing them using the phrase 'I wish'.  They had a more down to earth attitude.  They grew up with an expectation that if they needed food they had to provide it, so hard work was the norm.  There didn't have the range of shops, choices and luxuries we have today.  They had what they had because they worked hard for it.  They knew the difference between right and wrong and lived their lives by what we today would possibly call a simple code.  


So where did the 'I wish' come from and why is it so prevalent in our society?  The evidence is all around us.  Pick up any tabloid newspaper, there are the wannabe's trying to sell some crass story to further themselves or some 'z list celebrity' trying to flog a book they haven't even written.  We have teenagers appearing on saturday night shows trying to grasp that golden key to stardom, all wishing hard to live the dream.  


But why?  Is normal life so dull and uninteresting.  No, because they have been sold a dream - a dream where if they wish hard enough (no other effort required) they'll get it.  Education is not a requirement, but fake looks and bodies is all that is needed with a willingness to be told what to do and when.  


We have allowed ourselves to be blinded so that we all want the 'I wish' to come true.  Check sales of lottery tickets for proof of this.  We have allowed our governments to lead us by the nose, TV channels and bosses to tell us what we should be watching and allowed ourselves to sit by and watch it all happen.  


Many countries now find themselves in recession due to the financial crisis and its aftermath. But what are people doing about it?  Nothing!  Youths who have never had a job still hang around waiting for their 'big moment' expecting someone to hand it to them.  We have whole areas in cities where the unemployment is almost 100% and what are people doing - nothing.  


Now is the time to get up and going.  Get your life back.  Stop wishing for someone to tell you if you're going to get a new job, change your career, find a husband, have children, visit another country etc.  
Take responsibility for your own life.  What are you doing to answer these questions for yourself?  Go plant some vegetables, meet your neighbours set up a bartering group, volunteer to gain skills, there are plenty of opportunities out there see them for yourself.   


You have chosen to live here and now.  Stop believing the rubbish you see on TV, and read in the papers.  Live your life your way by following your own integrity and you will see the rewards.  

Life at my Kitchen Table

Life at My Kitchen Table


My Kitchen Table is the hub and centre of my life.  Here my family eat, talk and share life together.  There's always a great whirl of excitement about it at holiday times like Easter and Christmas and It is where I spend hours on my computer, updating my website, Facebook, Twitter and Cora's Cloud and it is also where I do most of my writing too. 


I love this little corner of my home, its warm, full of light and energy and the table has been with us for many years now.  My daughters did their homework on it, i've baked birthday cakes on it, researched my family's genealogy here, spent hours at family dinners and generally many hours of fun and laughter too. 


I love my little corner with My Kitchen Table and thought i'd share it with you all today.   


Blessings Cora xx

Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate


So you've done it, lived your life, been good and kind, a spiritual person, gave to charity and worked hard. 


So you arrive at Heaven's Gate - what next?
Poor old Saint Peter shuffles forward with a clipboard in hand, "Just a few questions and then you can be on your way," he mumbles.
Somethings obviously are the same as on earth, you think to yourself.


So what are the questions?
Well everyone is different and we all live very different lives, even within families.  
What questions do you think you'll be asked?


Some of you will say, well i've never thought about that, mmmm let me see...


Okay so its not something you expect to think about regularly, I agree.  But honestly why not give it a few minutes now?


Some of the things you won't be asked are :


So how many bedrooms did your home have?
How many houses did you own?
How many acres of land?  Really that many !
You drove a what?   Nice !!!
Bank balance please?  That many zeros!
Income before tax ?
How many plasma TV's?
How many people did you walk over to get to your current employment position?
Where did you holiday?
etc ...




So to think about some you might be asked :


Who did you help when they didn't ask for your help?
How kind were you to people you didn't like?
How many times did you do it because you knew it was the right thing to do?
How many times did you forgive people who did and said hurtful thing to you?
How many times did you turn the other cheek?
How often did you just sit and listen?
How many times did you wipe the slate clean and begin again?
How often did you cry when you couldn't see a solution to a situation?
Did you love with an open and just heart?
What intention did you hold in your heart before you did something for someone else?


If you're being really honest you might find that one or two from the top list creep into your questions, however, it's what you're asked when you get there that's important not what you answer today.  


Which list do you want to answer when you reach Heaven's Gate ?