Hi there!
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Love
Sister Bridget
Hello everyone,
It has taken me a few days to be able to speak clearly about the tragedy in Oslo, Norway. My first order of business was to try to check up on our friends and clients that live there. Thankfully, I believe that we have been able to determine that everyone we know there is fine. Sadly, of course, not everyone is so lucky to have been personally untouched.
These kinds of events not only leave us sad, angry, and frustrated, but often wondering how one person, looking so normal, can do something so heinous. It is always a mystery to me when I look into the pictures of these people; why, what, how did you get to be that person? Of course, there is no easy answer. Maybe there is no answer, easy or otherwise.
I will not relate the details of his crimes here, but they are chilling right down to the bone. The crimes involve things that nearly none of us could even stand to see in a fictional setting let alone know that somewhere in the world these acts happened to innocent people. The feeling is of incredible sadness and yet still laced with wondering how this kind of person gets shaped in life.
When we are faced with the tragedies of natural disasters, we are horrified that nature can be such an awesome force to take anyone and anything down. I have heard reporters say that we are sometimes at war with nature and nature will eventually win. But when it comes down to one human being causing such death and destruction, where do we look? Upon whom do we lay blame? Surely we cannot blame Mother Nature here.
There are no easy answers to any of this. Most of the time we end up just feeling helpless and frustrated, not knowing how to direct our energies to most help. One way to help is to join with us here at Spellmaker in praying for whatever peace and help can be given to those affected by this tragedy in Norway. The Spellmaker Prayer Group will be devoting a portion of the prayer meeting on Thursday, July 28 to praying for those victims and families in Norway. Please join them if you can – even if you cannot join in on the meeting, praying at the same time they meeting is going on will combine our collective energies.
Also, remember, the prayer group takes requests for your prayer needs, too! Our prayer group offers prayers for all that we know about, it is very easy for you to be included. Just follow the link above for instructions.
Take care of yourselves and each other! Have a safe, blessed, and peaceful week.
Love, Mambo Sam, www.spellmaker.com
Hello everyone! Continuing on with our series about Making Healthy Decisions! (I will do a wrap up of this when it is all done – so you will have the list of questions all in one place!
Today's question to ask yourself in your decision making process is:
Should I be acting or should I be stepping back?
Okay, so this can be a tough one. Do we wait and "see what happens" or do we jump in take that bull by the horns, wrestle it to the ground, and show it who's boss? :-) Living in this microwave-instant message-tweet-email-Facebook status updating-seeminglyinstant gratification world can be detrimental to our decision-making process. We are beginning to feel that everything needs an instant action! That just isn't true! Some things are best left alone, left to marinate, left to give a chance to breathe and perhaps evolve into something else.
Countless times we've all acted too soon or without sufficient information, or we've stepped in where our input wasn't needed (or wanted – what is up with that – it seems that I can hardly even go to the grocery store without someone commenting on what I should be doing/buying, etc. – so strange… anyway…) and muddied circumstances that were already working themselves out.
When you ask yourself, quietly and confidently, what your part is in a given situation, and where to wait (or exit entirely), you'll get a clear idea of your role. If you ask the question and still want to act against the advice of your internal coach, remind yourself that, although life is a series of little dramas, none of them needs a drama queen (or king).
Of course, as with other decision-making processes, it takes some thought to decide when to act and when to step back and see what happens. Putting these question together with the other questions, however, lets you see that this is just part of a whole process. Putting the process together will make much more sense in the end! 🙂
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
PLEASE NOTE: Sorry, I accidently got these out of order! So after this will actually come Part 6 since Part 5 was already published. Sorry for the confusion!
Greetings, everyone! As we continue on with our series about making healthy decisions, we move on to our next question to ask ourselves:
We have a tendency to sometimes protect ourselves in difficult situations by not being willing to seek out what we are not wanting to see about a situation. It is something we all do – we can have a tendency to gloss over the details that are unpleasant to us. Naturally this can lead to some disasters in decision making!
Often, what we're not seeing is what we don't want to see. While it may be difficult, or sometimes even painful, force yourself to look at what you don't want to see. Hiding details from yourself is truly not helping you. Trying to force an objective, dispassionate view of the situation can be tricky and take some practice, but try it! It is very difficult for a human being to try to remove emotion from a decision. Sometimes we can trick ourselves into it by pretending that the situation actually belongs to someone else – what would we tell them that we can see?
Looking at the situation from the outside looking in can often really help us in seeing what we think might not be there! Taking off our blinders and searching for clues might be difficult, however, the end reward is completely worth it!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
Hello everyone! We are at the half way point in our series on making healthy decisions! I forgot to mention in the beginning that these things should be done in order! Ask the questions in the order in which they are presented. For instance, today's question:
What Would my Grandmother
(or mother, father, Jesus, Buddha, the Lwa, whomever's philosophy your admire) Do?
Thinking of a role model, whether a great spiritual teacher, admired friend or family member, spiritual person, etc., is like having a mentor on-call. Ask yourself what this person would do if facing the same situation. You should use someone whose philosophies are well known to you and are admired by you. This is not to offset your own opinion or philosophy but rather to put things in perspective by looking at another point of view, one you have admired.
This is not to go get another opinion, this is more to see what your decision would like if shaped around an admired philosophy. The decision might not be exactly right for you configured within those parameters, however, it will give you another perspective to consider. This question should be asked after you have established the prior points in this exercise. You must first consider your own feelings and thoughts before putting someone else's spin on your decision! 🙂
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
Below are a few pictures from an afternoon this spring in Madrid, NM. Pronounced Maaaaaah-drid 🙂 Marran, Parran and myself had a really wonderful lunch, and did a bit of shopping in this "recovered" ghost town that is now the home of many little shops and art galleries. The weather was just lovely and it was a splendid day. Thank you MaMere & MaPere!
Enjoy the pics!
Love, Sister Bridget
The Mine Shaft Tavern. The movie "Wild Hogs" with Tim Allen and John Travolta was filmed here.
Locomotive engine parked behind the Mine Shaft.
MaMere and I at a shoppe which was located in a rail car. I got a lovely little pouch to keep my prayer beads in.
While some values might be considered universal and subjective, each of us have our own set of values germane to only us. In order for your decision to please you long term, you are going to have to make it happen within the parameters of your own set of values. At this point in the decision-making process, it is our values that come into play, leaving alone what others might think (we will get to that later).
First we must decide how our decision impacts our core values. For some, honesty might come first; for others stretching the truth might seem perfectly acceptable. Those two people are going to come to their decisions differently and most likely with a different outcome. There is no judgment here as to right or wrong, you must decide what is acceptable within your value set.
Most all of us know what is okay with us and what is absolutely not okay with us. Looking to this set of values will help you make the decision so it falls in accordance with sitting well with you later on! If the decision is going to lead you down a path heretofore unacceptable to you then either you are experiencing a drastic change in values or you are making the wrong decision! Most like, it will be the latter.
If you don't have a stable set of core values, you may want to look to establishing that for yourself. Most people already have, but every once in awhile I have a client tell me that they are unsure what is okay or not okay with them. While it is great to be flexible, there should be a basic set of values keeping you strong! 🙂
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
"Possibility"
by Ralph Masrton
"In the seed, there is a forest waiting to grow.
On the artist's canvas, a masterpiece is waiting to be painted.
In the engineer's workstation,
a technical breakthrough is waiting to be developed.
Everywhere there is possibility.
Every moment of every life is filled with possibilities,
and the next moment as well.
Every problem has a possible solution.
Every goal has a possibility of achievement.
Right now, right this moment,
your life has possibilities that you never even considered.
Possibilities you can follow to overcome the challenges you face.
Possibilities that can bring joy and fulfilment.
There is a pathway leading to wherever you want to go.
All you need to do is find it and start the journey.
Today does not have to be like yesterday.
There are plenty of other possibilities.
Consider your possibilities. Follow your possibilities.
Open yourself to what could be, and make it so."
Hello everyone! As promised, we are moving on with our series about Making Healthy Decisions. 🙂
Today's question to ask yourself when making a decision is:
We hear a lot about "gut" decisions. Really, that is no joke! 40 trillion cells can't be wrong! :-) When you are working on a decision, take some quiet time and just sit and listen to what your body is telling you. Even if you want something badly, how are you feeling physically? Does your heart get aflutter with anticipation? Do you feel sick to your stomach? Are your limbs tingling? Does your decision make you smile, cry, laugh?
Take some time to note the feelings you get from your body about your decision. If your decision fills you with dread, you might want to take some time to try altering the decision in your mind and then noting how your body feels about it! If your body doesn't feel good about the decision, try reworking it until you notice feelings of relief, smiles, even laughter! :-)
You are hard-wired with instinct and abilities to help yourself make a decision. Most of us have been taught to ignore those very things that were given to us! Try starting out by just listening to and feeling your body in different states of emotion – how does it feel when something is good for you? What are the sensations within your body? How does it feel when something is bad for you? What physical manifestations do you get? Learning to discern what your body is telling you is the first step to receiving your body's own physical guidance for you! Learning to then TRUST that guidance will be the next step. That will only come with practice!
Practice can be simple or complex. One very easy way to practice is to watch movies or TV shows! Watch a movie that is funny, inspirational, or in some way positive to you. Pay attention to how your body feels – note each part of your body and the sensations that are there. Continue on with a movie or show that is sad or makes you angry or feels in some way negative to you (not that being sad is always negative). Again, pay attention to what your body's reactions are. Make note of these sensations so that you will recognize them when it comes to decision making.
Try it! 🙂
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
As many of you have heard by now, Saxaphone Great Clarence Clemons passes away over the weekend from complications of a stroke. As one who grew up listening to Clarence, I know I will miss his music and his philosphy greatly. He was wonderfully talented and I know his music will live on for years and years to come. We will miss you, Big Man!
You're a Friend of Mine by Clarence Clemmons
Striking out?
Well count me in
I'm gonna stand right by your side through thick or thin
Ain't no doubt
Gonna win
A walk through hell ain't bad compared to where we've been
Oh you can depend on me
Over and over… over and over
Know that I intend to be
The one who who always makes you laugh until you cry
And you can call on me until the day you die
Years may come and go
Here's one thing I know
All my life
You're a friend of mine
That argument I can't forget
We fought so hard I don't think I've recovered yet
The girls we knew
Who thought you were cool
I never introduced my favorite ones to you
Oh you can depend on me
Over and over… over and over
Know that I intend to be
The one who who always makes you laugh until you cry
And you can call on me until the day you die
Years may come and go
Here's one thing I know
All my life
You're a friend of mine
Oh you can depend on me
Over and over… over and over
Know that I intend to be
The one who who always makes you laugh until you cry
And you can call on me until the day you die
Years may come and go
Here's one thing I know
All my life
You're a friend of mine
Oh you can depend on me
I'll be fine
cause you're a friend of mine
yeeaah
I'll be fine
cause you're a friend of mine