Monday’s with Marilyn…Love is the Answer

Love is the answer! Mornings with Marianne has reminded me of this! Hmm sounds so simple. And to some it sounds so very naive. How can LOVE solve the world’s problems?

Very simply…We live in a fear dominate world. There is fear in all of us & it’s the basis for all other conditions of hatred, anger, greed, judgement etc. And its all expressed through words, behaviour and ultimately energy that is dispersed into the world like giant tsunami waves. 

We know it to be true because we can see it & feel it. Just look around at the state of the world. The state of our hearts & minds. The unnatural state I must add. 

What above love & compassion. Can we see and feel it? Are there tsunami waves of love and compassion flooding the earth? 

There would if we lived in a love dominate based world, where we were as committed to sharing and expressing love as we are to expressing fear & (control based) energy.  It could be if we agreed that returning to our natural state of being would change things. 

For example our first reaction to fear based behaviour, such as hatred and judgement, is to hate & judge back. Our first reaction is to engage in that fear based behaviour and energy, which then increases it in size & volume. And that perpetuates the cycle of fear and all that fear encompasses. It adds to the tsunami waves. How cannot it not!

Hmmm. We know this but we continue to do it even though it distrupts our own peace of mind and of those around us. We’ve become conditioned to engage in it over and over again and interestingly we expect different results. And they never are. 

We’ve become conditioned to believe it’s our only defence and we use it like a shield of protection. What if love was our best form of protection & defence. 

In other words…what do you think would happen if you loved the ones  labeled as “haters” (the fearful, greedy, evil etc) instead of hating them back? Instead of judging & engaging in the very behaviour we have deemed to be unacceptable & is so “peace & loving” disruptive? 

Hmmm!! What do you think would happen to your own peace of mind and heart if you guarded your thoughts carefully & noticed when  fear based attacking thoughts surfaced? And what would happen if we choose to change them to loving thoughts instead? Hmmm. 

What do you think would happen if we returned to our natural state of being…love, compassion & forgiveness, to think & therefor act with love & compassion? Do you think that would add to the loving energy also flowing through the world? Do you think it would have an effect? Do you think we could send out tsunami sized waves of love energy to wash over us all? 

Hmmm! Well perhaps it’s time we tried. We already know how things are working out for us now, how much more fearful and angry we have become. How we are becoming “flooded”…swept away & pulled into the riptides of conflict and non peaceful behaviour.  

Perhaps the time has come to try a different approach. I know the salvation of my own inner peace is dependent on it. And I believe so is the salvation of the world.

So I am going to do my best, one day (one moment) at a time, to return to love. To return to loving & compassionate  thoughts & behaviour. To my natural state of being. 

If you have read this all the way to here, and this resonates with you…I invite you to let me know if you  would like to join me on this journey “this movement” to return to love. 

Let me if you would like to join me on my mission …to return to my highest purpose here on earth…to share & receive LOVE and restore myself to the peaceful state of mind my heart and my Creator desires for me!

I would like to start a “Return to Love”…Mastermind Group with regular weekly contact so we can master returning to our “heart-full loving hearts & minds. We can only do that by retraining our ego fearful minds so our knee jerk reactions  & attacking thinking patterns no longer dominate our thoughts. Then & only then can we unite in LOVE & the belief, LOVE conquers all.

Monday’s with Marilyn Conscious Living Love or Fear

Is there really more fear (anger, hatred, greed, judgement etc) in the world than LOVE (compassion, kindness, charity, non-judgement etc)? I don’t believe so. Fear just seems to be louder & more aggressively shared. It seems to be accepted as the norm of human nature & behaviour.  Hmmm!

Perhaps its time LOVE was more assertive, more vocal, more proactive. More openly spoken about and shared. More the norm. 

Perhaps those of us who believe LOVE is the answer & will prevail, could be more aware of our reactions and conscious of our non loving thoughts & actions and how they contribute to the fear based thoughts & energy swirling (within us) & all around us.   

Perhaps we could notice when we are judging, criticizing, gossiping instead of having compassion & understanding. 

Perhaps we could raise above & beyond the confines of those thoughts…those of our Ego minds and the illusions it creates. Perhaps we could stay grounded in the truth of LOVE. 

Perhaps we could retrain our minds to seek the truth, see the truth, live the truth. 

We can. One mind one heart at a time. I will start with mine through conscious loving. 

Will you join me?

Mondays with Marilyn/Mornings with Marianne

I am so happy to say I am thrilled with my decision to start the new year with a program that totally aligns with my hearts desires to enhance my Spiritual Growth. And this course is certainly doing that. 

“A Course in Miracles”…which I started January 1st, includes two video lessons from Marianne Williamson. They arrive daily by email and are in my “in box” first thing every morning. I’ve never been much on “structure”. Monday to Friday 9-5 jobs were never my thing. So I am pleasantly surprised at how much I am enjoying having this structure in place. Especially here in Mexico with its laid back lifestyle & energy. 

Mornings with Marianne is a wonderful way to start my day & I am learning so much.  Sometimes the lessons seem deep & beyond my comprehension. That’s only when I try to figure them out with my mind instead of just letting them resonate “within” or as Marianne suggests…”wash over” me. 

The overall message I am garnering is simple…Love! Love Matters Most. I am learning there really are only two basic emotions. Love and fear. And we can choose which one will permeate our thoughts, which then dictates our behaviour & alters our vision of the world outside of ourselves. 

And that totally resonates with my belief that I am here to be a clear channel for my Creators love to flow in & thru me. That we all are. That we are all here to be of service to each other. The foundation for that service is Love. And non-judgement. Fear is the foundation  of judgement, which comes from the Ego mind. And that I can change. 

Hmmm. I’ve always thought I had to manage my Ego…shut it down, ignore it, control it. Learning to train my Ego mind is a refreshing idea. Noticing what I am noticing (as I learned from my life coach Patricia Campbell), and asking myself if I am thinking out of Love or fear in any given situation is easy. 

Well perhaps easier said than done, but thats what training my mind is all about. I can choose Loving thoughts or ones based in fear & ultimately judgement. 

It will take practice to do that, to undo the previous training…the training of the Ego/Mind dominate & fear based world that has become prevalent and teaches us to be afraid. To be separate. 

And I know now that no longer serves me or mankind. Nor has it ever. So I shall do my part to remember who I am & why I am here and return to love, all-ways! 

For those of you reading this…thank you for being here and walking with me on this journey. We are all one! We are all Love!! 

Better Late than Never/What Matters Most

It’s been quite sometime since I wrote here. I started writing my blog on my Facebook page and forgot all about adding it here. I thought about it many times, but like many of my “projects”, I kept putting it on the back burner knowing when the time was right, I would get to it. Well today the time seemed right. So here I am again. I will post my Monday’s with Marilyn Blog here as well as on my Heaven Can Wait Facebook page. And from time to time may add other tidbits of my life journey, and inner & outer travel journey!

I am now back in Mexico for the winter, after 2 + years of travelling in our motorhome, after another surgery to remove a cancerous spot on my right lung, and many many adventures in between. We (my hubby & I) are here until the end of April so I have lots of time to complete some of the projects I started.

So I’ll start here, adding my New Years “Mondays with Marilyn”, Facebook Blog Post…What Matters Most.

It’s a brand New Year & I am excited about continuing to share my life’s journey & experiences here on my blog.

And at this time, I am even more happy to be sharing it from my favourite place…sunny warm Mexico!

I’ve mentioned many times that my Personal & Spiritual growth/development has always been a priority most of my adult life.

It matters most because I know that achieving my ultimate life goal… of attaining Inner Peace/Self Actualization is truly possible & remembering “who I really am” is totally my responsibility.

I know that at the core of my inner being I am love…that the true essence of each of us, is love. But I forget this from time to time, as we all do. When I forget that, I fall victim to my mind and Ego that tries to convince me otherwise, that perceives things through the lens of fear, doubt & most of all judgement. Then I act in ways that are not aligned with my true self. With my heart & soul. My Spirit!! My inner peace is totally disrupted. As is my happiness!

Remembering & forgetting who I really am is pattern indeed. A pattern worth transforming.

Well this year I have signed up for Marianne Williamson’s “A Course in Miracles” to help keep me on track… on the Spiritual journey to enlightenment & inner peace I am on. To help keep me “remembering” who I really am and how I want to be and experience this world!

I wrote this song, “What Matters Most” many years ago. (Rather I took dictation as the words and music flowed through me onto the paper) It is What Matters Most! And for me, it is worth remembering…

What Matters Most

If you look into my eyes

I know you will see

The Spirit that lives deep inside of me

You can call it the Creator, Great Spirit, Holy Ghost

What you feel inside yourself

Is what matters most

So take a look around

See the beauty

Feel the presence

Hear the sounds

Then take a look inside

What matters most is something you can’t hide

My eyes tell a story

Yours can do the same

If you open up your heart & soul

Just let go & surrender to the love thats all around

What matters most is something

That truly can be found

So take a look around

See the beauty, feel the presence, hear the sounds

Then take a look inside

What matters most is something you can’t hide

If you’re afraid to take a chance

Reach out hold my hand

Together we can walk I understand

It takes the power and the magic of the Universe to heal the world

And make the circle strong.

With what matters most nothing can go wrong!

So take a look around

See the beauty, feel the presence, hear the sounds

Then take a look… don’t hide

What matters most is God’s love deep inside

What matters most

Love matters most.

What matters most.

Love matters most.

Yes indeed! 

Love is what Matters Most…

From my heart to yours, Marilyn Rose

Before I Get to Heaven…to Heaven Can Wait!

Our 1 Year Anniversary…On April 12, 2023 it was our one year Anniversary. Our 1 Year “Before I Get To Heaven” travel adventure anniversary. And 18 months since my lung cancer diagnosis set us on a whole new life trajectory!

Almost hard to believe its been 1 whole year since we left Edmonton headed for our across North America travel adventure. 1 whole year since we put our hearts desires into action & headed out in our Motorhome. With minimal RV experience & first time travelling in Mexicao, we were as green as the grass in…well not Mexico or Arizona. Perhaps California! LOL. But we figured things out as we went along. And at times there was a lot of figuring out!

From mountain, lakes, oceans, rivers, deserts, lighthouses & churches. Lot of churches & lighthouses. (There were even Lighthouses in Arizona). We saw everything I wanted to see & more. And we went everywhere we wanted go!

And everywhere we went surpassed our expectations above & beyond what I could have imagined. I wanted to have fun, see & experience new things & make connections. Meaningful connections! And that we did. The connections new & old being the most important & memorable to me. And again…about & beyond what we expected and imagined!

That’s what happens when one follow their hearts desires & goes where the wind blow them where. Where Spirit guides one to go! And doing that has taken us to places we were meant to go and meet people we were meant to meet! And as green as we were and as many “mis-adventures” we had along the way, things always turned out for the good, and or better than our original plan.

Now that we are back in Edmonton, for follow-up medical tests and appointments and to reconnect with family & friends, we’ll start planning for the next leg of our travel adventure. We plan to return to Mexico for the winter but between now & then, plans are up in the air. Stay Tuned.

In the meantime I will continue getting stronger, healthier and happier living a life of true G.R.A.C.E. (Gratitude, Respect, Acceptance, Courage & Excitement). It’s been 18 months since my lung cancer diagnosis, 14 months since my lung surgery (to remove the upper lobe of my left lung where the most concerning of the lung spots throughout my lungs were). And I am thriving! Travelling agrees with me. As does fulfilling all my dreams and living in hot winter climates! Especially that!! Can hardly wait for the rest of our adventures to unfold.

And so it is…I have officially changed the name of my Blog and Fakebook Page to Marilyn Rose “Heaven Can Wait”. “Before I Get to Heaven” was derived out of a poem I wrote right after my cancer diagnosis…about all the things I wanted to do before I leave this earth to return home. My “bucket list”. Well I’ve done many of things on my original bucket list, but there is still so much more I want to experience and share. So Heaven can just wait. As the saying goes…I still have places to go, people to meet. I still want to inspire more people to live life to the fullest & and follow all their hearts desires. And not to wait until they are given a terminal health diagnosis or some other traumatic life event. We are all terminal…none of us are getting out of here alive, so why do we act like we have all the time in the world to do things? We aren’t guaranteed that. We only have now!

So…having said all that, until we start travelling again…I will keep sharing here & on Facebook & and will be a doing recaps of our travel adventures over this past year. I have so many pictures & so many amazing stories to share! I will try to pick out the highlights, although even that will be hard as there were so many.

And before I sign off…a big Thank you to all of you who have been following me on Facebook, commenting, sending likes, hearts etc. All that lets me know I am on the right track and that what I am sharing is meaningful and hopefully somewhat inspiring. So please keep them coming! Connection and engagement is important to me, especially when on the road and I’m not able to meet up in person. So grateful for modern technology! So grateful for everyone and everything in my Life!

So, as I said before…stay tuned. I guarantee following our journey will not disappoint…

With love & gratitude today & always…

Marilyn

A little bit of this, a little bit of that…

A little bit of this, little bit of that…

A little shopping, a little sightseeing (found a beautiful church), a little work on my new website, and a little bit of wondering…or should I say more than just a little bit.

After our shopping adventure I spent some time figuring out my blog on my new website. Well, I got so focused on the task at hand, I forgot Lea was outside with me. I was supposed to be watching her. Den had gone to Walmart. Lucky for her & me she is well known in the park, so when a neighbour found her almost at the pool, she knew where to return her. (Thank you Edith)

Lea is now like having a baby that has learned to walk and wonders everywhere! Now I have to remember that. Lol.

Even she is living her best life here. Mexico agrees with all of us!!

Welcome to marilynrose.ca

I am so excited about my big announcement I couldn’t wait another day. Drumroll please…! I now have a new Website!

After shutting down my previous one many years ago, the time had come! So while I was frolicking in the sun, visiting relatives back home, and floating in the pool…work was in progress! I know how to create with joy & ease

Thank you to the beautiful and talented Deanne Kynastan for designing and setting up my website. It is so beautiful and accurately represents who I am, what I am about, and what I am out & about doing! I will be posting my blog here for those who don’t use Facebook as well as on my Facebook page Marilyn Rose Before I Get to Heaven! Now I have to learn how to add pictures etc. Everything in life is a work in progress…including me!

Above & Beyond Reconciliation…

As promised…more words of wisdom.

Above & Beyond Reconciliation…

Up Til Now being a Spirit in a human body, having a human experience (on this Earth), has been challenging for me, as it has been for many. I remember, forget, & remember again. For me, reconciling “everything” in my human experience is about remembering, once & for all, who I really am & why I am.

So without further ado, from my Heart & Soul to yours…whispered to me by my Creator…”We are One”. (No make-up, no filters, no high tech recording, just the simple truth). The truth my journey to/thru Grace has revealed to me…

Spirit Whispers. Above & Beyond Reconciliation. An Invitation…

The process of Reconciliation, in the Indigenous communities in Canada, has been going on for several yrs. And it will continue to be an on-going process for many generations to come. Some embrace it, others not so much. Everyones process is different. And everyones process affects others.

For sure no likes to be told to “get over it”, however big or small “it” may be. And yet without reconciliation, staying stuck in “it”, stuck in the experiences of the past, limits our ability to move on. It limits our ability to grow, transform & evolve above & beyond painful & traumatic experiences, to the loving, peace-filled life’s we deserve to live! So perhaps, just perhaps, there is an alternative.

And yes, immediately the Ego says No way!! It would like to convince us there isn’t. It’s goal is to keep us safe at all cost, keep us grounded in fear, anger, punishment, retaliation & revenge etc. What if there is an alternative. What if we can rise above & beyond all that. Well, Creators tells me we can! And invites you to consider it. We just have to be willing to live in our hearts & souls guided by our Spirit. Our Spirit is capable of rising us above & beyond the confines or our minds & physical bodies. Our Indigenous ancestors have been doing it for centuries, thru…ceremonies, sweat lodges, dancing, fasting etc. Most cultures have their unique way of connecting Spiritually …whether it be thru nature, meditation, rituals, prayer etc. It can be as simple as taking a walk in nature or as complex as structured practices that one follows diligently every day. Whatever it is, it will indeed rise you above & beyond the limiting beliefs your mind would like to keep you entrenched in. So although you might not want to “get over it, go under it or go thru it”, rising above & beyond is always an alternative. It’s where love, compassion, beauty, creativity, forgiveness, freedom & joy lives, & will always be the wings that rise you above & beyond to the path of true happiness & true reconciliation. And remember, we teach our children to love or hate, to be judgemental & unforgiving or to be compassionate & caring. To live in joy & peace or struggle and anger.

P.S. The best analogy I can think of is this… There are Eagles that soar high above & beyond the clouds in the sky. They rise above & beyond the confines of this earth. And there are gulls that stick around on the ground & fight with each other over french fries & other scraps in the fast food parking lots. Hmmm. I know where I choose to be. I know what I choose to teach our children & grandchildren! How about you?

Last but not least, please remember…this is an invitation. You can accept or decline. We all choose how we want to experience life. Creator always invites, not forces! That’s the beauty of free will.