“Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we’re 22.”—Taylor Swift
I grew up in a traditional Christian home. Until I was 16, when my minister father left the family for another woman, I attended Sunday services on the regular.
While my beliefs have evolved over the years (isn’t that the point—evolution, expansion?), I am beyond grateful to my early biblical education that emphasized miracles.
I learned that manna fell from the sky, water could be changed into wine and a few loaves and a couple fish could feed 5000 hungry folks.
Life provides few certainties, but knowing that “impossible” things happen is the most important lesson I’ve ever learned.
Things I can’t even imagine happen every single day. New portals of energy open up all the time.
That’s why it’s so important for me to connect with this higher truth, this yet-to-be realized truth first thing every morning. If I start my day with the narrative fed to me by the internet, the news, “the known,” I miss the possibilities. And possibilities are everywhere — wild, dazzling possibilities.
Maybe I can’t overthrow the system, but I believe I can supplant it with my openness to new, to possibilities, to the allowing of the force field that wants to speak through me, through you, through each of us. And, yes, it helps to question the limitations, fear and shame we’ve accidentally learned.
The picture with this post is a mandala I made this morning with fallen petals in my yard. Like a sandcastle, it won’t last long. But that’s not the point. I’m here to notice and create beauty. And then be ready to notice and create a different kind of beauty tomorrow. Or later this afternoon. Or whenever life calls.
I’m not here to lead anybody. I’m just here to support the life force that is evolving and expanding and repeatedly trying to tell us we’re not broken, we don’t need to be saved. We simply need to listen to the still beating Truth that exists beyond and beneath the message of our culture.
#222 Forever!
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)
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Amen. Blessings to you.
What a lovely, inspirational person you continue to be, Pam.
Thank you for sharing. Resonation!😎
😌🙏❤️🤗
Pam, thanks for always reminding me to reject my self imposed limitations.
Another wonderful post you are always inspiring us, big time thanks.
YOU and your flower mandala are MAGNIFICENT!! I’ve been thinking lately about how many Christians don’t want people to believe in magic, and ban Harry Potter from schools, but they believe the host and wine are turned into the body & blood of Christ – like actually turned into it. I didn’t walk away from my Catholic upbringing believing in Miracles – it was more like feeling I was unworthy, needed outside validation, and if my message was too much I’d be crucified on a cross and hung up to traumatize people! I AM so glad you shared your experience today and I AM going to lean in to MIRACLES! There’s power in rewriting our stories!! I LOVE YOU Sister….prettier than the prettiest flower ever found! Keep Shining!!
Read this at 12:22. 🤩 Thank you.
God love you Pam; I found myself mired (just a bit) in the perspective of my little “me” today. Your message has helped.
I so agree with what you have shared about the way you begin your day. When I stay anchored in my true Self, I know all is well; even though it can appear not-so-well.
With loving kindness and appreciation,
Art
Pam, you’re crazy funny and on point! Amen, Amen and AMEN!!!
Thank you Pam beautiful and inspiring words x
That’s a pretty great epigraph there, Pam — and it fits well with your “brand” to boot! 🤩 As quotes go, though, it’s going to be hard to beat…
“I’m here to notice and create beauty. And then be ready to notice
and create a different kind of beauty tomorrow.” ~Pam Grout
…and your observation about being raised in a home where miracles were believed somewhat ordinary strikes me as a very important concept. I mean, just think how that evolution-expansion chapter of the Adventures on Earth saga might take off if recognizing miracles was part of everyone’s childhood experience! 🚀
I love the mandala, too, of course. Thank you for noticing and creating beauty… today and tomorrow and forever… ❣️
A perfect message to start a new day. With thanks, love and gratitude always. ❤️🙏
Thanks for sharing your pretty flower-petal mandala Pam – I love it – and for reminding us that it’s ok if it doesn’t last because the point is to notice and create beauty over and over again. I also love the idea that there are wild dazzling possibilities available to us each day that we can access by starting our day connecting with and listening to the divine within. Thank you for blessing us with your gentle wisdom and sharing your light with us so we may shine our own light brightly too. Love and hugs across the seas between us dear Pam! 💖🌼🌸🤗🌸🌼💖
Thank you so much for these inspiring blogs! I so appreciate it!
Thank you Pam🌻♥️ The reminder I needed
Dear Pam
Again thank you for more of your thoughts. I am reading Wayne’s book Gifts from Eykis , he published shortly after his first book. He speaks about incorrect thinking. Very interesting. To constantly switch to correct thinking, with help from the dude via various techniques has been working for me. The hooponopono habit you spoke of really is a miracle tool. Thank you. 2,000. Magically appeared. Your sprout experiment also worked for me as proof of the power of our thoughts.
In gratitude
Marianne
That was a beautiful reminder. Thank you. 🙏
What a beautiful post, so true! And what a beautiful mandala! I love you, Pam!
While commenting on a piece by one of my favorite substack writers this morning, I was reminded of a poem that accompanied a jazz pianist’s album from 50 or so years ago. As I reread it, I thought “Pam would like this, I think.” It’s called “Death and the Flower” and is included on this wikipedia page…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_the_Flower
Happy Friday! 🌹
Thank you Pam. This resonates with everything I’ve been reading and learning lately.📚 I can’t hear these Truths enough….