There Is Great Peril In Violating The Law Of Intuition

The other day after the Orlando massacre I made myself listen (yes, had to put effort into it) to a speech given by the Republican Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump, I was in a state of bewilderment and disbelief the whole time.  I listened  to the response or remarks by party leaders in the Republican establishment, especial one given by House Speaker Paul Ryan.  I grimaced.  Now, what about Mr. Trump's behaviour, temperament and decorum that these very accomplished and intelligent people cannot seem to grasp?  They are holding on to the belief that, somehow, once this candidate is elected and assumes the office of the President Of The United States Of America everything will magically change. They are compromising their integrity by putting party politics ahead of their values, and the best interest of their country. The words of Dr. Maya Angelou rings true, "when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time".  These leaders, all of them, are violating the Law Of Intuition.

I am like one of those people who when watching a thriller movie and sees danger will get excited  yelling, stop, stop, don't go that way!  Only it is a movie and they cannot hear me.  Reminds me of the phenomenon of the bad date.  I have had discussions with many women whose relationship ended badly.  When you dig below the surface, you will soon uncover that the relationship should not have advanced beyond the 1st or 2nd date.  Sooner or later you are going to uncover that there was something unsettling from the get go.  Your spirit picks up on something - that little thing that gives you a blip in the chest, some goose bumps or just a sudden flash of insight that comes across that maybe this situation is not right, but for whatever reason, this is overridden or ignored.

You move forward from dating to courting, there are bigger signs, or even blatant warning signals but you plough forward anyway because the person is nice, they have x, y and z qualities and you really want to "bag" this one.  This kind of remind me of the development with the GOP this election cycle.
The candidate, straight out of the gate, started with gravely insidious remarks, and the people cheered.  As the primary season advanced, the more abnoxious he gets, the louder the cheers, and the more embolden he becomes.  Courting continues, the family (the party establishment) are becoming wary, leery and anxious but nobody has the courage to stand up, take the risk  and say don't go any further with this, it is going to end badly.  So the relationship continues, then comes the engagement.

The Republican National Convention is the big engagement, that's when the candidate gets the proverbial engagement ring.  The "family" will keep talking behind the backs of the "engaged couple", Mr. Trump and the Republican and disenfranchised Democratic electorate who are convinced they got a "great catch" and are made for each other.  Then comes the wedding day, everybody eat, drink and celebrate all the while knowing that something is a miss.

Then comes real life, the wedding is over, all the guests have gone home.  The couple commence life together - oh my goodness, as I am writing this I am remembering an actual situation that happened back in the late 1970's.   Wow, that particular wedding was supposed to have been "divinely ordered".  Then the woman who convinced the husband that God gave her a vision that he was supposed to marry her turned the devil!  That marriage was over in two weeks or less.  It was then that everybody started telling their true feelings, so sad really.

It may not be so easy for the American people, or people around the world for that matter.  We now live in the global village. To be forewarned is to be forearmed - pay keen attention and don't stand by and watch your leaders be complicit and violate the 8th Law Of Leadership as so passionately written by the Author of the 21 Irrefutable Law Of Leadership,
John C. Maxwell.  We all are endowed with the gift of intuition.  Some folks are extra gifted with heightened intuition, prophecy etc. but we all have it.  To ignore, override or deny our intuition is to deny the God in us to our great peril.

Get in touch with that little voice and take charge.  Get your leadership on!

MissSam

Saturday June 18, 2016.

 

Daily Musings of MissSam: The Next Big Thing

Daily Musings of MissSam: The Next Big Thing:       A quote from The Sane Society by Erich Fromm: “That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not ...

The Next Big Thing

 

 

 

A quote from The Sane Society by Erich Fromm:

“That millions of people share the same forms of

mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

 

 

As many of you are aware by now, I am Christian, plus I am a mind & body + behavioural study enthusiast.  I say enthusiast because my interest was born out of curiosity, then circumstance and it would appear that I was gifted with the gift of "connecting the dots".  I have no training in these matters, I read, I listen to "experts"  and seek to understand.

I believe all of humanity mourn for the lives lost in the  recent mass shooting in Orlando Florida.  We grieve for the injured, we grieve for the families who are lost and looking for answers.  Since before 9/11 I started reading the scriptures defining and relating to love and relationships.  I was seeking to heal myself, but I was also seeking to understand for others because I come across so many hurting people. 

I have learned a lot, boy have I ever.  So today as I always do, I scanned my social media accounts to find out what is trending clicked on a few articles about the Orlando shootings.  The response or reaction of the Republican nominee for President did not surprise me, but what has got me thinking is the amount of vitriol  that is being spewed about.  This did not just happen overnight.  The intense anger and bitterness have been simmering for a very long time.  I think the pot has now boiled over.  Once it has boiled over, what has come out cant put it back in the pot, something has to be done.

There are many very gifted preachers, teachers and speakers doing what they were called to do.  Articles, books, television shows are written and produced on the subject of sin, and the devastating effect of what is referred to as the "7 Deadly Sins".  As a matter of fact, if my memory serves me right, The Toronto Star published quite an interesting series with this heading several years ago.  The problem is, hurt people hurt people.  Victims begets victims.  Most people who are suffering are not even aware that they do not have to be that way, it is their normal.  They have accepted their state as their fate.

Now that we know where society is and what is ailing it, how can it be fixed?  Certainly not by the prescription of "The Donald", I don't think so.  The prescription is LOVE.  LOVE according to the new commandment "Love your neighbour as God has loved you".  We are not called to judge but to love. Can you imagine that kind of love?  It's easy to say, but how can we teach people to love?

That brings me to the next big thing.  This will not be robots, or missions to some as yet to be discovered planet.  The next big thing will be workers in the field, to use a bible expression, facilitating healing humans of the severe disease of bitterness, anger and hate, one person at a time. Once healing start to take place the heart will be open to love, real love.  As more people become healed there will be planetary consciousness, just like the use of the telephone.

Do you feel the call?  Are you up to the task?  If you feel you are called and you are ready, get busy.  If you are not ready, get the ball rolling, there is lots to do.  God will intervene, through humans of course. 

A lot more to come on this post but for the time being I felt compelled to put this out there.  As the 70's fad goes, "all we need it love" and at no time in my lifetime this is more evident than now.

Love, Love, Love

MissSam

Monday June 13, 2016

Hurt People Hurt People!

Hurt people hurt people. Another way of saying this is victims beget victims.  But it goes deeper than that, because hurt people hurt themselves, some intentionally and others unintentionally but the effects are devastating on so many levels.  In that sense, no of us is "innocent".

Think of the loss of peace, diminished relationships, fighting, misery and I haven't event got started yet. Is this the "monkey on your back" that is stealing your time and energy and stopping you from living the life you desire? Just how much toll does constant fighting, divisiveness and defensiveness take on an individual?  It is immeasurable.  When we stop long enough to really think about it, is this not the devil at work?  How else does the devil work but to divide and conquer?  Remember the scripture said the battle is not against flesh and blood, but ......... so is this a spiritual wickedness?  If unforgiveness is such a very strong negative force that it causes your body to turn on itself then it must be, what do you think?

 

Hear is the real irony in the matter - sometimes we are so wrapped up in ourselves and the toxicity of turmoil, bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness that we cannot even see how much we are hurting ourselves.  If there is just a little opening for the light of Jesus Christ to shine in though, there is hope.
An individual has got to be at a point in life though where they have a deep desire to be happy and healthy and free mentally and emotionally.  An individual just have to reach a point in life where they've had enough and want real change.

That was me back in 1995.  Life was such a struggle and so burdensome then, and I didn't want to feel like that anymore.  I just didn't want to live that way.  I remember attending church one Sunday and our Minister at the time, Pastor Jeff Sensenstein brought the message.  He talked about the same topic.  for the first time in my life I heard unforgiveness presented this way, although I put the statement in quotation it is not word for word, this was a long time ago, okay.  "When you hold a grudge, you are hurting yourself.  Imagine the other party going about their business, living their life and they are free, and you are in pain". 

I sat there and squirmed in my seat - and could not wait for the service to be over.  I didn't have any particular plan but to go home, ponder what I had heard, spend sometime with myself and just forgiving myself for causing me so much harm.  That was an eye opener for me, and I never looked back. Over the last 21 years I have been on a spiritual journey, reading, learning, understanding, applying and growing.

Here is what I have observed about this subject - you cannot expect an individual who has not been healed to have compassion.  Remember we see the world through our own lenses, if our spiritual lenses are  covered or cloudy with hurt we cannot  see another person's pain.  As healing start to take place we start to see a little, then more, and more until our understanding deepens and we can truly be compassionate.

Another thing, while we are forgiving, we must forgive ourselves because we are usually harder on our own self than anybody else.  Forgive yourself, forgive others.  Don't forget that "confession is good for the soul" so where the spirit direct you, approach you, acknowledge that you hurt/offend and ask for forgiveness.  Sometimes, if it is not going to help neither you nor the other party and has the potential of making matters worse, discuss/confess to a trusted confidant and let sleeping dogs lie.
For instance, if someone is sick, especially if they are dealing with life and death, don't bring up petty stuff to disturb the person's mind, it's not worth it.  Just make peace with them and your self and be free.

Lastly, remember it is a process.  You chip away little by little, you will get there.  There are plenty of books available to help.  I follow the ones that follow medical science and line up with the teachings of Jesus Christ.  I always find great articles so check my Facebook page often. Here is a link:  http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2015/June/The-Deadly-Consequences-of-Unforgiveness

Be courageous and go for it, for what is the alternative - a lifetime of misery?

Cheers,

MissSam
Tuesday June 7, 2016

The Seed Is In You!



      Lovely Peony Undergrowth


If you examine the pictures in this post you will notice that there are two plants flowering.  The shorter one is a Peony.  The taller plant was there when I moved in and I just love the large bright bloom.  Last year I thought the plant would die as part of it dried up and I only got about 3 blooms whereas in previous years it would be loaded with blooms.

A few days ago I was watering the garden and noticed that the flower looked different.  A closer look revealed the Peony plant grown up at the root of the other (I don't know the name of that flower, saw it for the first time when I bought house 6 years ago).  I have been on my hands and knees weeding, watering, planting, arranging, admiring but never say anything resembling a Peony growing there before.  I have a Peony bush in the garden, on the other side but it's different.  A different colour and the blooms are full.

 I don't think they grow from seeds like that so my only plausible explanation is that it was there all along, in the ground.  The season came for it to pop out of the ground and it did, to my delight.
This Peony plant is not the first I have seen growing out of the ground since I move here though.  I have seen other flowers, including the odd Cana Lilly appearing out of the ground after taking care of the garden for three years and four years but those I noticed from they shoot out of the ground.  This is extra delightful as I didn't see it coming so to speak!

Now, are we any different from the seeds that stay in the ground and grow forth in their season?  Many of us spend years chasing what is not meant to be ours when the seed for our calling is still in the ground of the spirit so to speak.  Sometimes it's because we lack the faith, or we doubt the gentle nudging of the spirit because we don't believe we are worthy or capable.  If you are finding that you are not feeling fulfilled, if you are finding that this little voice is still telling you "this is what you need to do" listen up, pay attention as your seed is wanting to burst forth.  Remember, God has already equipped you for what you are supposed to do, so don't worry about it.  The opportunities for training, the talented people who are supposed to be on your team are there and they will show up at the right time.

It's been said that a book that is supposed to be written by you cannot be written by someone else, so if you don't write it, it will never be written!  I remember my first exposure to the world of Life Insurance.  It was my second full time job.  I was living in Canada and resigned the first job as a file clerk with the Ontario Government August of 1974 to return to Jamaica to marry my sweatheart.  First things first, our parents said find jobs before you get married.  I applied for a job at a life insurance company, Jamaica Mutual Life, as a policy typist.  I remember seeing a female agent visiting the Head Office where I worked and as she strutted around, just the way only Jamaican women know how, I thought to myself, that is what I want to do!

The seed was planted.  It stayed in the ground.  I returned to Canada a year and a half later - Jamaica had become a very unstable place economically and politically.  Stepped off the plane Sunday night, called a company Monday to respond to an add for a Policyholder Service Clerk position, interviewed Wednesday and started working Friday.  That was in 1977!  In early1986 my company, a subsidiary of the Lincoln Life, an American company, was purchased by a Canadian company and the opportunity came for me to become an agent and I said to myself, this is as good a time as any.
Those years working in the head office of the Jamaica Mutual Life, then their branch office in downtown Kingston and as a customer service clerk and branch administrator for Dominion Life Insurance Company of Canada prepared me to be a knowledgeable, compassionate and effective advisor.  So while the financial services industry has one of the highest turnover rate for sales people, higher still for women, I celebrated 30 years as a licensed life insurance agent this March!

 

 

 There was another seed planted in my spirit after I started in the life insurance business.  I am now on what I have branded "Miss Sam from Braehead, Act III".  I am working at it, more to come.

Keep watering that ground, the shoots will come out one day, and it will happen on a day you were not expecting it!

Cheers,
MissSam

Saturday June 4, 2016

 

A Life Conflicted

Wasp nest!

Of two opinions? Divided within yourself?  According to the teaching in the bible if you are thus you are unstable in, not some, but  in all your ways!

James 1:8King James Version (KJV)
⁸ A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

For the past nine years I have been watching "conservative" politics in the Unites States of America, dumbfounded, befuddled, bemused and frankly confused.  The say speak of "conservative values" with an air of arrogance, as if to say, they are better than non-conservatives.  Before Barak Obama decided to run for President I really didn't get too involved with American politics.  Sure I would know who the major contenders are, but apart from hearing pertinent news broadcasts and reading an article here and there I didn't follow too keenly.  President Obama changed all that.

  When I heard that the GOP was the  Conservative Party, the political party that prides itself in "Christian values" I really expected the majority of this electorate group and the leaders to be upstanding citizens of impeccable character.  It didn't take very long for me to realize how off-base, or more like how off the hinge this political party really was!  Actions speak louder than words, they say, and there is no finer example than the GOP for they say the care about people, they have Christian values and have the "Evangelical" vote locked up and yet everything they do is in direct contradiction to what they preach.

The 2016 election cycle has taken this conflictedness to a whole new level.  Of course, as they say like attract like, the GOP has managed to lock-down this segment of the American society.  As I watch and listen to the Candidates, especially the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, pundits and surrogates I just cant stop shaking my head, but I have to stop before it falls off.  We should not be too shocked though, because this is a demonstration of the collective consciousness of the people.  They are revealing their true selves before the whole world - saying, this is who we are and this is what we believe.  No more, no less, so don't be samfied.

I truly believe that America is at a crossroad and the outcome of this election will be a clear indication of which direction the country will be taken.  It is a clear choice between light and darkness.

Wake up American, the world is watching!

MissSam
Thursday June 2, 2016