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Well, it took a full week to get out of my little beach house and I confess, by the time, it was done, I was glad to be over it! I loved my little place and fulfilled my plan to be there for a year, but a bigger world beckons.

Who likes moving?!  I used to think the way around moving and having to pay rent, was to buy a place of my own. I never thought I’d do it, by having NO place of my own and getting rid of al my belongings! lol God must have a good laugh at me sometimes-witnessing all my imaginings, all the while knowing the ways they will eventuate.

Why?

So, why go to such drastic lengths? Other people travel all the time and don’t sell everything, or go ‘homeless’. All I can say is that we are all different and we all walk our own paths. I’ve been thinking about this for two years, at least. And to know that I have nothing more to consider than what is actually with me in the NOW, is quite freeing.

When I considered doing such a thing two years ago, I went in to mental overload. I just wasn’t ready. But our inner beings have this incredible way of working in and through us, co -creating with the Universal Love and delivering up all manner of circumstances and illuminations to bring us to the place of where what was overwhelming suddenly becomes the most logical next step.

It actually seemed the only thing TO do, if travel is what I want. If I wanted to settle down into a more sedate existence, I’m sure I could have, but I don’t think I could ever have convinced myself that is truly what I want. Every step I take toward my dream of France and singing my way around the world, sharing about Gratitude and  Love, about being One Family and living true to your dreams, I feel emboldened to take the next.

I’m  sure I will come home and I will set up a new life. But it will be anything but sedate!

Reactions and Responses.

I’ve actually been quite surprised at the lack of  people that think I’m crazy. I don’t personally know anyone else who has done this, or is planning to in this fashion, at my age ( 50 on Oct 10) and yet, people seem to think of it as the most natural thing in the world for me to do! lol

Of course, I will have addressed all the same potential concerns and fears that anyone else has, but I guess the way I’ve lived my life up to this point has prepared me better for doing so. I’ve always relied a lot more on what I believe than what I do. And I’ve always believed I should be able to do what I love and not what someone else thinks I should do but I have had to establish those beliefs and deepen them, just as anyone else would need to.

Perfect in Love- Agapeism (a-garp-ay-ism)

I have made a point of locating and annihilating the power of Fear in my life. I have made it my ally in the sense that I realise it highlights where I feel deficient in Love. And I want to be “perfect in love”.

“There is no fear in Love. Perfect Love casts out fear because fear has to do with punishment.

He/She who fears is not made perfect in Love.” 1 Jn 4:18

What does it mean to be “perfect in love”?

It means to know myself as whole. To know myself as aligned with the nature of well being, that is God. It is having “eternal life”, if you like. It is participating in the life of God, the life that is God. Zoe life. Abundant life. It is acknowledging my oneness with Him and the sameness in our beings. This harmonises me to all God desires for me, which happens to be all I desire for me as well.

Jesus said it’s the kind of life he came to share with us and that if we follow his example directly( and not those who claim to do so), we would enjoy the same fullness and also be able to share the freedom it brings.

“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you.” Jn 15:7                              He is speaking here about being of one mind and heart with him. It’s being aligned to God in Love.

“And so we rely on the  love God has for us. God is Love. Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in him” 1 Jn 4:16 Being “perfect in Love” is relying on this Love we know God has for us. It is trusting in knowing that we are fully supported. It is a Blessed Assurancethat God is watching over us and is indeed one with us within our beings and connecting each of us. It is knowing that God, by whatever name you give Him cares for you.

Being “perfect in Love” is always knowing that God is aware of and will over and abundantly meet your needs and fulfill your dreams. When you are convinced of this, you are perfected in Love. And when you are perfect in love, you no longer fear those things that used to worry you.

True Freedom

If you knew that you would never be sick, never go hungry, never be harmed what would you need to worry about? I know it sounds simplistic and hard to accept, but the only reason these things touch our lives is because we believe they will. It’s like feeling we are the ones that somehow keep the earth spinning so that the moon remains suspended in the orbit around her, but if we only stopped,trusted and rested, we would see that it all happens without our effort. IT’s all done for us.

We are striving to get what is already our birthright. We are struggling to be all that we already are. The rift is an illusion. An illusion which, when  believed becomes our perceived reality. If we will simply stop and choose to believe in this Love, we will find deep rest for our souls. We will find ourselves at Home-Oneness with God.

How to be perfected in Love

First and foremost, it is a decision to accept that living in the Love that is God is what you want.

If you make that choice wholeheartedly, the spirit of God, the energy of All-That-Is will guide you as gently or as intensely along the path to “perfection” ( Love’s wholeness) as you are willing. When Fear arises, and it will, question it. Of what am I really afraid? Locate the fear and surrender it to God.

For example, I am technically “homeless” by most people’s standards. It might be considered reasonable that I am afraid about where I will sleep next week. I’ve already settled this and feel no fear, even though I may not yet know. However, if I was afraid, I would remind myself that God knows I need a safe place to lie at night and that he cares about me. I can be sure that He will lead me to the next place, just as he brought me to this one!

If you’re new to this, it will take a little while for old thoughts and feelings to quit plaguing you, but just stay with it. If you are committed to your choice, you will prosper in it. And usually God leads you gently, as you are ready. Having said that, sometimes, you are more ready than you think! lol Or you are already in a state of crisis and this kind of faith is what it will take to free you.

My Plan-live a life of love, sharing and thanksgiving

So part of what I’m doing here is proving how God loves and cares for us.I want to exemplify a better way than the striving and the struggling that goes on everyday and the unveil the illusion of the fears that keep people bound to a way of life that limits their ability to enjoy it fully.

If you knew that you could pursue your heart’s desires and that God would ensure your well being, how would your life look? There would be nothing left but to be thankful, loving and giving. Imagine it! What comes up to block it? What reasons and rationale surface to deny you? Or have you forgotten your dreams having accepted them as lost or vain wishes?

Name ONE thing you’d like to be doing that you are not. ONE thing that you are passionate about or have held an interest in. Let’s see if we can’t make the beginning of a passionate path! But be prepared…change will come!

As I often do, and have spoken of before, I like to name things. Plants, vehicles, objects…and I also name seasons in my life. I have just one more sleep left in my little beach house before I embark on my nomadic lifestyle, for at least the next 5 months, so I have dubbed today The Eve of Nomad or Nomad’s Eve.

This planter is an old converted “ready robe” that I used at least ten years ago, maybe longer, for clothes storage in the family home.

My mobile rain forest!

Living Connections

I wanted to show it here as a visual metaphor of what happens when we take root and get connected with our environment and those around us. This is why moving and moving away is hard. There are countless intricate connections, especially by Bathsheba, my “Orange trumpet creeper”. She’s like a clingy lover that lives to attach-and has! Not so much to the structure, but the other plants. Her preference is in “living” connections.

This is how I feel about my trip and my time of living without a bricks and mortar address. I will be making even more “living” connections and relying on these to give me the sense of belonging I know I will need.

Kerham Tehillah

I love overgrown gardens…with well manicured parts and have always wanted to own one ( a dream to come) For now, I see myself as the embodiment of my Kerham Tehillah. This is Hebrew, Kerham meaning garden or vineyard and tehillah means spontaneous outbursts of songs of love and adoration ( worship)

God in side in my anchor and Home, my grounding and roots but it’s a very odd thing to consider not sleeping in my own bed EVER again (not this one anyway!) nd not to own one of my own for such a long period? Huge! Understanding me and my love for being in my own space, I know I am going to need to give myself a way of accessing the feelings of being in my own space.

For the next little while, that will be easier because I will keep some small plants and chimes and maybe a lantern. Little things that are home for me and create my space. And I’m sure before I leave Oz, I will have found something to keep with me that will travel everywhere and will be HOME to me.

Embodiment

This principle of embodying all I am and believe myself to be is what has enabled me to finally disengage from the external versions, freeing me up to create them everywhere I am. And one thing I’ve learnt about living connections via all my online friends, is that they DO span time and distance. I can move about physically, but I never need to disconnect from those I love. Nor will I

My song will keep me connected!

The Family Song

Lisa in Burleigh…In Oz

An Adventure!

I am about to embark on an adventure.

This may not be the biggest, or most ambitious adventure a person has ever undertaken, but it’s certainly one of the biggest I have undertaken. After being born, I think giving birth, and raising five beautiful babies, to be my most significant work. I feel what I am doing now to be as life impacting for me.

I’ve decided that from today I would blog the journey.

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It is my highest hope and deepest desire that my life would inspire others, no matter who they be-regardless of a person’s age or gender, or how grand or seemingly small (or perhaps dormant) their dreams, no matter where they are in the world, or what family they’ve been born into. I hope to somehow ignite a spark that becomes a fire so furious in every heart that desires fullness that people will be compelled to live fearlessly, and authentically, in Love.

The Dream

To go all over the planet and meet as many of my online friends, their friends and their friends’ friends, spreading the message of profound gratitude and Agape Love. This tour is the culminating of multiple streams of personal ideas, creativity, visions and dreams over my almost 5 decades and brings them together in what I believe to be a cohesive and timely delivery of a great Truth-that we are ONE family.  And that beyond our differences-be they personal, cultural, racial, political or religious-we are so fundamentally alike that we can rally around what we have in common, cultivate a genuine connection between each other and face the rest of our issues in a spirit of compassion, humility and kindness. This is Agape Love. This is, I believe, what is otherwise known as “Energy”. This is the Love that IS God.

And in-keeping with the gifts, talents, skills and callings deposited upon my life, I present Agapéism. The philosophy of Love as the governing principle for Zoe Life-that life that is God’s life-abundant, eternal and good for all.

I choose to use all that I am and have to demonstrate this Love and to teach by example, the greatness of its power to bring about lasting change. I may not do it the same way Jesus did, or Mother Theresa, Mahatma Ghandi, or Nelson Mandala , Joan of Arc or even John Lennon, but I will do it in my own authentic way-through music, art, writing and telling stories. In truth, I can do it no other way.    

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The Plan

The itinerary for this trip is still being put together. It is part of my Masters Degree in Cross Disciplinary Art and Design for the whole year of 2012, and it is also part of a collaborative endeavour between me and key online associates I have that share my dream of ONE family, Love and gratitude and respect for Social Media.  In fact, the only way this tour can come together is because enough people want to participate in it.  The fabric of it, aside my contribution of performance, speaking , artwork and writing, depends entirely on people that believe in what the tour represents and decide to get involved . That involvement can take many different forms, from simply following along to becoming the host of an event, a local business or corporate sponsor, an attendee, or a subscriber to the tour site for the content that is being produced as I travel along.

Social Media for Social Action-Change

The days of stepping on one another to ‘get ahead” are dying out-thankGod!

I have no desire to be political. My only cry is “Freedom for all to be happy in any way they choose, so long as they harm no other or impinge upon the right of another to pursue their freedom and happiness.”  But Social Media is a powerful Voice and it will impact politics.

Social Media has the power to cultivate a sense of family around the globe like nothing before has ever done. We are so intricately connected with the human face of one another’s worlds that it is easier to experience empathy for one another.  Especially if you are like me and find “friends” all over the world.

Clashes of various kinds may arise, but a person can vary the settings if they wish.  A person can decide what they allow in their “online world”.  Not only this, but friendships across diversity may actually be created so that when governments make decisions that individuals don’t care for, that individual voice can be heard.  That heart can be felt and known somewhere else in the world. And we can help each other.

Sure there are those who have tried to exploit the avenues available on the internet, mass and multi-media, but more than ever before the power is with the people! A compulsory political vote in a democratic country doesn’t carry the weight that an unadulterated single voice in Social media can-in my opinion. Social Media can be the great leveller. In fact, that’s the beauty of the Internet overall. It puts so much opportunity into the hands of every person!

If it does this for the individual what will it do for those that come together for a cause that is for the highest good of all? Inestimable value.

This is my dream. This is my desire. I am no Martin Luther King Jr, but I share his dream. Not just for people of different colours but people everywhere of all colours, races and creeds. I have a dream that one day the citizens of the world will rise up and live out the truth of Agapé-loving their God and loving their neighbour as themselves, doing unto another only that which they would have done unto themselves or their children.

This is my dream. And I am totally convinced that it can be made real.

So, what is an “OP Day”

An O.P. Day is a day that is dedicated to “Other People”.

It’s a day for finding ways to bless the people in your personal circle. You can create an OP day for your business and other kinds of connections, but it must be completely about giving and blessing, not getting back. The aim is to show the people you focus your attention upon, that you love them appreciate them and are so glad to have them in your life.

Blocks to OP actions

Ever find yourself feeling unable to give worthily?

I know, not just from my own experiences, but from others I speak to as well, that often the reason we don’t ‘give’ as soon as we get the unction to, is because of a sense of lack or inadequacy. It could be we feel we don’t have the time NOW, or the money NOW, or even the right idea NOW.

Depending upon what it is you would like to do and where you are when the idea strikes you, you may need to make a note for later. However, the best advice, if at all possible, is “Do it and do it now”.

If we have a grander desire than we have resources to fill, then that’s the time to remember that giving is about the heart. If it truly comes from the heart, it will have power to impact the heart. You can trust this truth.
“The gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have” 2Cor 8

When two of my boys turned 18 and 21 ( two days apart), I had so little materially to share with them. They still preferred money to do with as they wish. The amount I could spare seemed so insignificant and so impersonal that I had to create something to make it memorable, give it substance beyond its $dollar value and delight them as well.

Matt and his money tree.

So, I bought two tomato plant saplings and broke the small amount of money into incremental notes as well as my jar of silver. I added the money to the plants and covered the soil with silver and explained something of a “money can grow on trees” principle if the “right seeds are sown”. I was referring to thoughts and beliefs and corresponding inspired action.

This did the job pretty well. It took longer. It required creativity and thought and a faith to believe that I could change what seemed so lacking, into something worthwhile. If I stayed with the “state of lack”, not only would they have been robbed the delight of something unique just for them, but I would’ve lingered in the awful feeling that comes when you fall short of your own personal parenting standards. Is there a worse feeling??

Resourceful Ideas-

If you’re short on money, use recycled ideas. Done with class, gifts from recycled materials are well received-usually because they’re often innovative. I make LOTS of little “books” out of everything and fill them with news, images, sketches and colour. Some are tiny. Creativity and time can do far more than $$.

Hand make almost anything! A simple pop up card. A daisy chain with a poem of love and four leaf clovers. DO something with the person-sit on the top of a grassy hill and make daisy chains! I did this with one of my daughters ( at 21!) and she was so pleased and thanked me for teaching her something so lovely to share with her children when the time came. Document it, make a keepsake from it. Make it a moment that lasts forever. You don’t have to be especially talented-just sincere.

Deliver your own singing telegram…or other kinds lol Make a video. Treasure hunt gifts are fantastic. The more fun and challenging the hunt, the less “impressive” the gift needs to be! This has such great potential. I’ve done many.

Sometimes, it’s as simple as a little note in an unexpected place. Or a run of them in all different places and forms, digital, analogue, hard copy.

Truly, the ideas are endless and they can make the most ordinary , mundane, previously worn out thing a joy inexpressible!! And no one will forget! The more you do it, the better you get at coming up with stuff “in the moment” and life takes on such a richness. This has to be one of the greatest joys of relationship. Having something to share with someone.

Deal with the Backlog, dedicate a day-

So, today, I decided that I need to spend a day giving to the people I love-just because. I want to do a bunch of things I’ve been postponing, too preoccupied with my own stuff, and spend the whole time just filling my available weekend time, giving.

Especially because I feel I’ve been so supported and surrounded with love and blessing from so many quarters. To take this time and just give back into other peoples’ lives has a sacred sense of washing and grounding to it. It feels so good.

Also, there are times when a idea comes, the time/money/talent/creativity are all there. At such times…do it now!

The Giving Equation-

So, I found, if you are lighter on the $$ side, you may have more time for making or doing. If you’re lighter on the time side, you might have more $$ for buying…BUT IT STILL NEEDS TO BE PERSONAL. But I have found that creativity and a whole hearted decision can make up for almost anything!!

And don’t think, “Oh, I’m not creative!” You are!! But aside from that…it doesn’t take trying to be creative.
It takes loving someone, knowing them, knowing how you feel about them, thinking about them and continuing to think and feel about it until a spontaneous expression of affection and appreciation bursts forth! This is actually what’s known as “Tehillah” and is the highest form of adoration we can give GOD! It is a gift of enabling Grace-meaning grace gives us the ability to give.

This is what makes a gift not only acceptable, but worthy of the highest regard and tresured.
And it will be.

You know, I would say that I travelled a pretty amazing journey.

From the time I was 3 years old ( about 46 and 1/2 years ago), I have undergone signifcant change. By “significant change”, I mean in those areas that are considered to be the most traumatic…loss or separation of immediate family members (6 of the 8-having only my younger sibling with me all through to 18), geographical moves ( 25 places in totally different parts of Sydney by the age of 25). I had one 7 year stretch till I turned 32, then, once again, interstate and added another 12 addresses and a four month bout of  ”no permanent address”-yes, officially homeless. But this is not a sad story-by no means!

Aside from moving a lot, obviously I met a lot of different people too-from all manner of backgrounds. A much as I longed for emotional stability and anchors, I don’t think I ever realised, until now, just how much I loved the colour and diversity of this life path. I was a ‘shapeshifter’. I could fit anywhere and connect. I could adapt to multiple environments and moved between them easily. I became an expert at transition and observed people from all sides as they viewed the “others” with whom I felt an equal connection on some level.

I experienced a great deal of contrast early in life that help me to sharply clarify dreams for desired alternatives. I also had some fantastic opportunities to experience fun and unique opportunities. This has never ceased but I can see that my young life could be greatly responsible for my appetite to live life to the full and on my own terms. And like never before, I am viewing every single aspect of my personal history as a true gift-even the deepest of sorrows and shames-because they all so enlarged my capacity to profoundly imagine the life I desire and created in my a refusal to accept less.

Yep, that's me. Left front row. The only one in a winter uniform, hair absolutely everywhere and NO front teeth! I had three brothers, so a game of "Chasings" before school was always likely!

On a wonderfully positive note, one such period was when I was attending North Curl Curl Primary School. Although a very difficult time for my family, I had the wonderful experience of being recognised for my singing by anyone and everyone! Every lunch time and recess, I was asked to sing ( as a little 8 yr, with no front teeth), taking requests and including hits of the day like Leaving On a Jet Plane and Bridge Over Troubled Water. My young heart, although overjoyed at the pleasure I brought people was already capable of expressing the sentiments of these songs through my voice and I got an incredible taste of what it was to take people on an emotional journey with me.

Any one who knows me, whether from then, in between, or now, knows this is still the case. It set the tone of one of my greatest life desires: to give my music to those who could hear it and be somehow moved by it for their benefit.

A little later on,  and one brother less, we moved again and I attended Avalon Primary School. This school amazed me from the outset! It was HUGE to my 9 and1/2 yr old eyes. As big as any high school I’d ever seen, double storeys and all!  I spent half of 4th, and through 5th and 6th grade here and I “blame” these years for some of seemingly insatiable appetites for life.

I was already writing and drawing but I discovered Enid Blyton! Other worlds around the globe. (I need my own island!) I was already singing and started to teach myself music using a recorder and book, then the school started a “school band” ( 110 piece!!!) and I started clarinet. For the sweetest 6 months of my young life, I had a piano and began to teach myself ( but was denied it in the next move Another reason why I dislike practicality over dreams!).

In 5th class, my classroom was lined in fish tanks! End to end tanks. We went to the rock pools and caught fish, we went on TV doing it ( I fell in, cut my foot open, had to get a tetanus shot and they screened it! ) and we lived amazingly rich lives for primary schoolers! I also joined an external Christian drama group, started acting and singing on a different stage, met more amazing people…some that became significant along my path and some who are once again part of my life ( Thanks Facebook!)

But 6th class really stuffed me as far as living the normal 9-5 and walking the common road-if I wasn’t already!

In Yr 6, my class were given a house for a classroom! yes, a  HOUSE! It was at the back of the school property and we loved it! We were not taught in the usual way but given a quota of work to get done. Once completed, we were free to cook in the kitchen, play on the trampoline, read in our own personal library, do creative projects, learn dances, make plays, be active outside. We even had a dog! We could do the work anywhere and  anyhow we wanted.

Now, if you had gone to school like this, how would you be today?? Paul A Bryant, if you’re out there…thanks for being the amazing teacher ( out of Newcastle Uni) who implemented this! I can still picture him SO clearly!

I loved school and had always excelled. It was “my space”. It had become my emotional anchor. But, in this set up, I flourished. I had everything done and record time and was totally free to play with everything else my heart desired.

Now if my life to that point hadn’t set me up and sealed me for the life of the New Rich, as Timothy Ferriss calls it, grade 6 sure did! I was a “gonner”.  Coming from a long line of artists, musicians, actors, writers and creative dreamers kind of helped too. And my five children look destined to have the same imprint.

So…you may not have had my colourful, intense and sometimes extreme existence but I guarantee you-whether it’s a sedentary life of solitude or an adventurous life exploring global communities (or that and everything in between), your life has its own rhythm, rhyme and wonder. Find the best beat for your step. Let the experiences of life reveal aspects of what you love and yearn for, whether by their absence or their presence ans start becoming intentional about how you want your  life to look.

It’s the funniest thing! Now that all my children are grown and living their lives, I have finally come to a place of personal confidence and internal security that I no longer need brick and mortar anchors. In fact, right now, it’s the last thing I want. All I see ahead in the immediate future for me is travel-diversity, change, community, arts.

Taking care of that thing called “Making Money” as my weekly quota of work  (on my terms) and living the rest of my time FREE! Thank God for the 4 Hour Work Week

A very happy OZ Day Week to you all, my bloggy friends!

I am on fire! Lol
Even more than usual…and scarily consistently so! Not really. It’s great fun and has its roots in a stable place, so I’m feeling exceedingly good.

You know I’d heard of Tim Ferriss’ book, The 4-Hour Work Week but so glad I never started to read it before now. It seems I have found my way into the perfect position for it. After being reminded of it again recently and watching so many testomionies, I could see that now was definitely the time to get this book.

I put it on hold with the library.

What had Been Lacking

I knew the only thing I ever needed to do was shift some beliefs. I never lacked anything else…not a single thing! I am intelligent, creative, and have developed several talents and skills. I have so many wonderful people that believe in me and offered all manner of assistance. And I was certain life could be what I wanted it to be-mine anyway. Yet, forever hit glass walls and ceilings…no bottoms. lol

People who know me would likely have heard me say “The only difference between the person that “does” and the one that “doesn’t” ( or “has/hasn’t”) is the belief that they can.” I frustrated myself terribly at times with this conviction.

And oddly enough, I always knew HOW to shift those beliefs that stood in my way and had done it in several other areas before. Still, I doubted. Lost so deeply in these erroneous, handed down patterns, the frustrations of “knowing” in theory, wanting to believe and living in conflict with that, culminated in a cataclysmic broken heart experience and a decision to change the “unshiftable” barriers in my life. (Many hit a specific point where they vow to never be there again-this was mine)

COMMIT

It was death or REALLY get over it. And I meant it…still do. Not another day will I live in these old self destructive and deprived states! I set this path with great commitment working from the depths- a promise between me and my God. Having come to similar places before with other areas (recovering from an emotional breakdown and restoring hair afteralopecia, believing a dead foetus to life again and others), I knew I could do this now.

Every step of the way, I was provided for, tho I barely worked.
Late Dec…as the 6 month “pact” concluded, I made a new one. A 30 day one, inspired from within to focus on and completely break free of any financially crippling mindset, once and for all. I cleared the slate and every single action I’ve taken  has been birthed out of this place.

Here's to a life of freedom and choice!

Up till now, I could believe for almost anything and see it manifest…even money and relationships…but they were momentary and not what, or how, I wanted them. I needed to change my “set point”…lol And Have!

I just started reading the book-Tim’s book I can hardly sit still to do so!
I am already doing so much of what it says that I cannot help but feel greatly affirmed.

And what I found so difficult to do before…like get a US tax number…was mere minutes on a skype call…less than a dollar for the call and no cost on the number! Things that stopped me before because of how I believed are coming much more easily coz I am done with making excuses why they can’t be done.

I already have so many things in place but much of what I had not being maximised or completed fully to BE maximised.This is no longer be my pattern.
I’m getting rid of what I won’t use and completing what I will. Clean, clear lines everywhere!

Too excited to  sleep!

I just wanted to share my enthusiasm with you guys. I feel that I have finally figured out how to turn all I do into gold. I am finally on the resonant path that draws the string that joins the dots to all these half done “knew I’d use one day” things! Aligned.

Very happy.
I’m really glad too that have been those who have been here all along-friends and mentors and family- will finally see their faith rewarded as well.
Thank You.
It is because of people like you, who have given to, and believed in, me ( my five incredible children, the larger family I wish to bless and the people everywhere I live to uplift and encourage) that I persevered.
That, and the fact, that I couldn’t stand the idea of dream-killers saying you “can’t” lol
Now…I’d like to share my process here from this point and be the living embodiment of the Truth I believe about how we can live and enjoy the best that life on planet Earth has to offer.
I am going to refer and recommend some great friends of mine and their content-starting with this book by Tim Ferris. By it, read it.. DO IT with me!

Stay Groovy,
Lisa In Oz… just for a little longer…

Wisdom for the day

As a young mum of 5, I had a deep hunger to know the best way to mould and care for my babies.
Materialistically, I had grown up with little and still had about that, but I started to explore God’s wisdom to find the answers and guidance I sought. I studied what I found in the Bible but also relied a lot on the wonderful connection I felt between me and God and His love for me.
The following passages became mantra-like for me. To know that I’d been granted access to the same forces that framed the universe gave me incredible inspiration.
Pr3:19-20
“BY wisdom the Lord laid the Earth’s foundations, and by understanding He set the heavens in place.
By knowledge the mountains were formed and the clouds let drop their dew.”
Pr 24:3-4
“By wisdom a house is built & by understanding it is established
By knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.”
I concluded from these verses that God had given me the exact same abilities to raise my family (build my house) as he used to create perfection in the universe. And in James we read that we can simply ask God if we find ourselves in need of wisdom and he’ll freely give it to us (Jam 1:5)
Obviously wisdom is more than a lofty ideal. It has potent practical application.

Wisdom at the beginning of all things

Just as Pr 3 states, wisdom was from the beginning. The book of Proverbs espouses the countless benefits of walking in wisdom’s counsel. Silver, gold, honour, long life, health, safety, practical knowledge and rewarding relationships are ALL listed as blessings offered through Wisdom. Who of us doesn’t want these things and yet how often we ignore what’s available to us in the form of Wisdom, in order to acquire them? Or try to find other places that share some of these truths without encountering God because Ego doesn’t want to face Judgment. But Truth is God. Eternal. Unchanging.
Of course, it isn’t about knowing the theory of wisdom, it is about reshaping one’s beliefs to harmonise with this Logic of God. And when a person starts out on that path, that’s when he finds just how much he has been alienating himself from the Truths of God’s wisdom, understanding and knowledge. Prov 2 and Prov 8 are particularly good for a description of and the benefits surrounding Wisdom. And also the level of dedication it takes to attain her company and blessing. Nothing short of your complete commitment will yield these returns. Total alignment-and once aligned…the rest follows.

The Woman Wisdom

No Punishment Today

Proverbs 1:7 opens with the concept that the “fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom” but ‘fear’ here is referred to “a reverential respect” for God and his ways…not a terror of being punished by him. God isn’t punishing anyone at this point and if anyone tells you differently, you can say that Jesus bore the punishment of ALL of, not only your past , present and future “sin”, but everyone’s past, present and future shortcomings! Anyone willing to accept this can be free of judgment, come boldly to God’s throne of Grace and experience God’s peace.
And then, on the other hand, if you encounter someone who tells you there’s no need to receive forgiveness then evaluate the fruit of their self worth.
Perhaps some can find a way to get free of judgment another way, but I’ve not really encountered it. Somewhere along the line, I find people come to a place where they can’t forgive themselves and so suffer self inflicted guilt. This is the guilt that destroys us. Telling oneself it’s ok is not the same as freedom-trust me!
The antidote to a poor self worth is being LOVED as you are. God does this but if he hadn’t provided a gateway for man to approach him, we would still be running and hiding like Adam, when God wanted to come and commune with us. Because we feel GUILTY!
We can’t even reason WHY we feel bad, or why we feel the need to justify. The mind and heart become an endless labyrinth-an abyss of rationalisms. Personally, I gave up trying to understand and just accepted that I can enjoy freedom from judgment without having to analyse it, by surrendering to Wisdom.
To accept this “wisdom of God” opened my heart and keeps it open to receive whatever other insights I need to live well.

To Live As I Was Designed