Mornings with Mary

These pictures were taken early this morning
in my one Mary garden shrine.
It has been extremely hot here and the scent
of these angels' trumpets or moonflowers
are wonderfully pungent.

The Seventh Teaching from Ten Teachings, Wisdom from Mother Mary

by Gina Lake

Follow your Joy

You were given a compass,

and that compass is joy.

You are meant to in the direction

that brings joy, not in the direction 

that brings suffering. The egoic mind

promises you joy, but delivers only temporary

satisfaction and happiness.

Then the suffering that comes with feeling

you are never enough returns.

Most people do not follow their joy.

Instead, they follow the sense of not having

or not being good enough.  They allow the

sense of lack to drive them forward, seeking

here and there for fulfillment,

for what will fill the sense of lack created by

the human condition.

However, nothing that the mind suggests can fill that lack,

because the sense of lack was created by the same thing that

proposes to fix it.

The sense of lack can only be solved by

dropping out of the mind.  When you drop out of the

mind, you lose the sense that anything is lacking.

There never was anything lacking, and that is 

all you have ever had to see to feel full and

complete.

The sense of lack is so ingrained that most

people are unaware that it is there.

They just react to it as if it were true.

For most, this sense of lack, is a deeply held

belief.  It seems absolutely an

unquestionably true.

The sense of yourself and the sense of lack are both

manufactured by the mind.  They create the human condition

that is one of suffering.  You not only believe you are who you

think you are, but these thoughts about yourself tell you

that you are lacking and that your life - indeed, life

itself - is not good enough.

This unrelenting sense of lack interferes with the joy,

that is possible whenever you are willing to simply

be with whatever is showing up in your life.

The assumptions causes you to overlook the

happiness that is present at your core and ever

available in this simple and sweet present moment.

The happiness at your core is very subtle

unless you turn your attention to it and

allow yourself to experience it for more than 

a brief second.

When your attention is focused on fixing a perceived

problem, it is not available to notice the quiet

beauty, peace and joy that is already

present with you.

A wonderful Morning with Mary to you!

I changed the name to Mornings with Mary - with the

time difference and everyone's full schedules, anyone

can join in on any day.  The post stays up for the week -

just scroll down past my new posts.

Gloria was the only one who linked up last week - Gloria, I will

send you a full set of Mother Mary blessings seeds

and some of my brand new Archangel Michael Seeds!!

A blessed, joyful and art-filled week to you!