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08/23/2026

The Most Important Fitness Plan

Most of us are plagued by unwanted layers
of self-judgment.

We are carrying unnecessary pounds
of self-condemnation.

We over-consume
self-sabotaging junk thoughts.

We are out of breath
from non-stop boxing with our inner critic.

This interferes with our ability
to feel peaceful,
sustain meaningful relationships,
access innate divine wisdom,
and make lasting progress
in anything important to us.
With that high a price to pay,
why do we keep investing in it?

What if you were to have
a Grace-driven fitness plan
for losing self-judgment,
practicing self-discovery,
and abiding in and as self-awareness?

What might that look like for you?

Would you be willing to devote to that?

How hard would you be willing to train?

The alternative is a meandering,
miserable, exhausting path
to self-destruction.

08/22/2026

Why Are You Here?

You are not here
to try to get others
to love you.

You are not here
to try to get others
to be different.

You are not here
to try to get others
to believe in a specific path
(religious, political, cultural, etc.)

You are here
to be with others.

Others are here
to be with you.

We are here
to accept and feel and be
the coherence that is Love,
and to love Being.

Photo credit: Jon Hosmer

08/21/2026

Reflection Questions

If I watched you for a typical week,
what would I say your priorities are?

Are you entirely focused
on the content of your life,
run by your schedule and to do list?

Can you notice default patterns
that you act out when on auto-pilot?

When difficult feelings
like anxiety or overwhelm appear,
do you push them away
so you can get more done?

What is the white noise in your life
that is keeping you
from increased clarity, creativity and inspiration
and perhaps, deeper peace and fulfillment?

How often do you pause
to notice the context:
to observe how your moments and days
are creating a direction for your life?

Do you pause to reflect on and feel into
the Source of your intelligence and life?

Do you feel called to deeply consider
and perhaps use any of these questions
as journaling prompts?

08/20/2026

When does One feel like two?

When you incarnate
and individuate.

When does two
feel like One?

When doing and being merge
in moments of flow
as self-consciousness evaporates
and there is complete absorption
into this moment of Being.

Photo credit: Jon Hosmer

08/19/2026

Living on Purpose?

Perhaps,
consciously and devotedly
learning to love
is why we are here.

What if you saw every interaction
as a classroom where this was
your primary agenda?
Everything else,
all the content and itineraries,
were secondary.

What if the Teacher
was resident within your heart,
so you got private tutoring?
Would you be willing to learn to listen to
and heed Her resonant guidance?

Would you be excited about homework
even if it didn’t make logical sense
to your conceptual mind?

Would you enroll in this school?
Tuition is free.
But it will cost you everything
you thought you were.

08/18/2026

Your Biggest Mask

What is the biggest mask
you have worn
so you could protect
an image of who you thought
others needed you to be:
so you could feel safe and loved?

Mine was that I can’t address conflict I feel,
because if I did,
I was afraid love would be withdrawn.

Even though there was often not evidence
that that this would happen,
I was so frozen in my fear
that I still avoided whatever I thought
might cause conflict that could motivate
a loved one to abandon me.

So, connection was put above
an honest expression of
addressing my confusing and disturbing feelings.

This ate at me in all my waking hours.
It felt like lonely desperation,
that I couldn’t speak to anyone about.

Now that I am finding tangible ways to address this,
the familiar masks have been exposed
and are gradually being removed.
I’m continuing to open
to related unconscious fears
that may be hidden and lingering.

This is great work.
I’ll keep you posted.

08/17/2026

Shapeshifting

Have you noticed the roles
you have adopted
throughout your life so you could:

Fit in?
Be accepted?
Not feel excluded?
Believe that someone does love you?
Be called a “good” girl or boy?
Get into college?
Stay married?
Keep your job?
Avoid conflict?
Get a raise?
(Add your own)

Are you still doing this?
How does it feel?
How’s it working for you?

Who would you be
if your lived from your authentic heart?

For me right now,
having spent most of this incarnation shapeshifting,
in many personal relationships,
I’ve stopped trying to transcend life and be “spiritual,”
and am completely focused
on being “authentic,”
so I can act from the I AM in daily life.
Finally.

I’ve never felt more peaceful being Me.

08/16/2026

Allowing Grace

We are in this human experience
to learn to surrender
to the divine River,
not to try to get the River
to irrigate our crops.

Allowing Grace
to be our experience
helps us embrace
the wheat and the tares,
and gives us the exhilarating adventure
of non-stop unlearning and harvesting.

The openness and humble listening
this requires may be a vital key to
unlocking every issue
you could ever face.

We really can let
Life run our lives.
(Especially since She is our Life!)

Photo credit: Jon Hosmer

08/15/2026

A 20-foot-wide Catcher’s Mitt

If someone throws you a ball,
it’s likely you won’t drop it
if you create an open and soft surface for it to land.

The same is true in life.
There are times when people throw us comments
that feel really accusatory or condescending.

Instead of arguing
and throwing a comment right back at them,
what would it take to “catch” their idea?

Another way to think about this is to picture
that you have a 20-foot-wide catcher’s mitt.
In this way, pretty much anything they throw
you can catch in the mitt.

To “catch” it means to reflect back to them
your sense of:

• what their issue is
• why it is important to them
• how they were feeling

You keep doing this for however long it takes
until they tell you:
“Yes. That’s it. You get it.”

So, the question is:
What would it take for you
to have a big enough catcher’s mitt
to not take another’s comments personally?

Can you push your own emotional pause button,
pull-in beside the other,
and curiously listen and paraphrase back?

This often takes practice,
but the results can bring blessings
every time you do it with sincerity.

08/14/2026

Listening in Stillness

In religions and wisdom traditions throughout history
spiritual development coincides
with listening to the Divine in stillness.

If your practice of spirituality
does not include conscious steps in this direction,
what are you substituting for it?

Your upbringing might have schooled you
in reading, memorizing and repeating
sacred texts and prayers.
Perhaps that served you in the past.

But now:
Are you yearning for a deeper peace and freedom
that does not feel so vacillating?
Are you wishing that a Divine Order
would guide all your decisions?
Are you longing for a more direct route to Truth,
and feeling frustrated
because of the cyclical detours you keep taking?
Are you hungering for a love
that is not dependent upon others?

All of this, and so much more,
is waiting for you,
through consciously abiding
in the abundant stillness of divine Presence.

Perhaps making this
your hit-the-street top priority
might be worth considering.

Photo credit: Jon Hosmer

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