Forward Momentum

Forward Momentum, by Carla-Rae

( You/We REALLY are moving Forward.)

So, in my Quiet Time I was meditating, and while I have found myself frustrated about what I see as a lack of forward momentum, I was given a beautiful visual.
In the vision, I was in a commercial airliner about to reach cruising altitude. As I looked out the aircraft window, I could see for miles and miles over a clear horizon and then I looked down. From the altitude, it seemed as though nothing was moving below me. Yet, I knew I was seated in an aircraft that was cruising at a mere 500 miles per hour. HOLY, MOLY! So, something IS moving!

That visual helped me to realize that while it seems there is no forward momentum, I am cruising in my forward direction at great speed. It just doesn't feel that way.
Don't be fooled by the ILLUSION. I/You am/are making great progress and moving quickly in a forward direction.
You can THANK me for sharing this divine revelation, when you reach your destination.
Until then, SHINE ON!

Be Happy

A Quiet Time Word, by  Carla-Rae

BE HAPPY, by Carla-Rae~
~Find reasons to be happy, and pretty soon you find you are always happy, because there is always SOMETHING to be HAPPY about.
You cannot expect to have a 'Happy Ending' if you are not finding things to be happy about along the way.
No, Carla-Rae, your head is not in the clouds. You face challenges every day, just like everyone else. You are making the CHOICE to find the JOY and HAPPINESS, rather than focusing on what isn't. Do you fall sometimes? Hell, yeah!, Yet you get back up, shake yourself off and find something to be GRATEFUL for, which makes you HAPPY. That a girl! You are getting it. ~
SHINE ON!

I AM NOT DIMINISHED ~ (I Am a BRIDGE) by Carla-Rae 2015c

I AM NOT DIMINISHED ~ (I am a BRIDGE)
By Carla-Rae
October 2015c

I am not diminished because YOU don't agree with me.
I am not here to be validated by you, you see.
I KNOW my calling, and my character, to such a degree,
That no opinion can stifle my SPIRIT, so alive and free.

I will not say that I do not, within me, feel
Your disregard for my life's purpose, so real.
To you my ways are not ideal,
though, my SHINE, my CHARACTER you cannot steal.

My eyes, my ears, my heart are open,
To see and hear the words you've spoken.
Yet you do not see the hearts you've broken,
by the words and stance you have taken.

No, I am not Diminished because YOU don't agree with me.
I stand as a symbol for ALL to see,
There are a PEOPLE who will be set free,
Because of the BRIDGE I have chosen to BE.

Bridge (Campbell's Covered Bridge Upstate NY)

QUIET TIME By Carla-Rae October 1, 2015

SUCCESS and ROSE COLORED GLASSES
a real life encounter by Carla Rae

Before I even had gotten my ~ blissful ~ morning coffee, the question had been posed to me, by an individual who seems annoyed by my SHINE, 'DO you really think you are going to be successful in life, in the things that really matter, by being so simple and idealistic?' The question followed by a bellowed 'WAKE UP, the world is not IDEAL. Take off those damn rose colored glasses'.

I am thinking this person did not REALLY want to hear my answer as he/she stormed off while I stood there with that silly grin, the one those who know me well, have seen more times than they can count.
'Oh well', I thought, 'another who got pissed off at me for being SHINY.'

Yet I had that question rolling around in me so I have decided to address it.
My first and simple response is 'YES.'
Further, not only do I believe I can succeed in life with the attitude that desires to see the BEST in everything, I have already succeeded in things a weaker resolve would never have even embarked upon. I SHINE because I choose to. I SHINE when I am not even thinking about SHINING.
SHINE as I see it is a blending of all the virtues which are encompassed in LOVE.

The way I see it, through my LOVELY ROSE COLORED glasses, the world, and its inhabitants, are screaming in the faces of the very ones who are AWAKE or in the process of AWAKENING, just like my SHINY self, already knowing that their answer is to become BRIGHT and SHINY themselves.

The only way to succeed is to become pure in heart. WAKE UP to the fact that nothing will change in our WORLD, if we don't make changes in ourselves.
It is not ROCKET SCIENCE, it is all a matter of the HEART.
We can continue by screaming in the faces of those who are changing and AWAKENING, or we can change and awaken ourselves. Thereby releasing our SHINE to see our WORLD in a whole new light. Further because this heart light shine is my true calling I am seeing more and more of what the world calls, success, manifest itself in my life daily...

That is my definition of SUCCESS.
As for me, I am gonna put on my rosey glasses and SHINE ON!

~NOTHING TO BRING, BUT ME~ A Poem by Carla-Rae

~NOTHING, TO BRING, BUT ME~
A poem by Carla-Rae

I have nothing to bring, but me.
No great skill, or craft so worldly,
Nor riches, wealth or finery,
The heart of a child is my gift, you see.

I have nothing to bring, but me.
My head raised up, so you can see,
The weight of the world is not on me.
No, I walk with Joy and Truth, and Liberty

I have nothing to bring, but me.
A simple girl, soft, shiny, and free.
Wide open, no shadows, complete transparency;
All my colors, brightly vivid, so the world can see.

I have nothing to bring, but me.
Unique in the facets that make me be,
Everything my dreams, intended you, see,
No longer ashamed, I am free,
When I have nothing to bring, but me.

QUIET TIME WORD By Carla-Rae A FORCE ~ AN ESSENCE

A FORCE ~ AND ESSENCE ~
By Carla-Rae

'Today, as I was in my QUIET TIME, an awareness of another facet of who I am presented itself. There is a force, an essence within me that you have heard me refer to as SHINE. It is a Tender-Strength and Nature that I have come to embrace in its electric, primal form, and in its subtly tamed, refined interior.

It is a soul-force that I recognize as a BEACON of perception/knowing and persuasion that can calm raging, confused souls, while inciting awareness of the SHINE that resides within each of us.

If I can be an example of anything to the world around me, is that my LIFE-SHINE will cause others to discover their own SHINE.'

KEEP SHINING Dear friends.
Carla-Rae

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