Yielding

Yielding your ego, surrendering and being humble is the way to God. The way to reach a more perfect life. An uplifted existence.

God is the creator of all. God does everything and our ego just gets in the way of His guidance for us. Yielding our egos allows us to choose to live by our spirit and return to God. It allows us to live in the flow and truly know love, peace and joy.

Yielding is not a sign of weakness. It is actually a sign of power through God’s grace.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses,

So that Christ’s power will rest on me.

Therefore I will take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses,

For Christ’s sake.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

                                                                                                 2 Cor 12::9-10

In the middle of disagreement, Yield. Rather then talking about our self, our achievements, Yield---Yield and listen instead--Yield and wait and see--- Yield and step back.

When two forces are in opposition the victory will go to the one who yields.

Yielding allows a new starting point. A way to settle down and stop forcing things. A way to stop our ego’s from thinking we are correct and another wrong. It can build understanding, trust and peace. It can take us to surrendering and surrendering can take us to joy.

Surrender to the guidance of the Holy Spirit and you will find yourself responding in the appropriate way through attitude and action and yielding of ego.

Peace and Joy to All

More Thoughts on Love

Sunset at Rimrock, CA

“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough.

But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence

one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.”

                                                                                               Anna Louise Strong

Sometimes when we fall in love with someone we see in that person all that we want within ourselves, all that we want to be. All that we have not been able to be by ourselves. We place our love and hope in that person expecting them to show us how to become like them, because we think that will make us complete.

However, we cannot expect the love object to be able to give us what we cannot give to ourselves. When we expect someone else to fulfill us in that way we are afraid to love and are waiting for the other to show us how to love. We want them to remove our fear and lack of self-love.

It can never be a fulfilling relationship when we go into one expecting to receive. What we put into love determines what we get out of it. If you love someone and you give completely of yourself with true desire to show them love and caring, kindness and respect, you will receive love in the same way. However, if you are just looking for them to give to you, the relationship is doomed from the start.

Real love comes from your soul with the ability to come together without barriers of egoism or personal needs.



Sunset at Rimrock, CA

 When we love for what another can do for us or because we want them to fulfill our needs, or desire them to help us be who we want to become, we love with conditions. When we place conditions on love, it becomes selfish and turns to indifference or even hate.

If we love from selfishness, we cannot even see the love the other person has for us. We are too wrapped up in ourselves and because we do not understand how to love or because we fear love, we cannot give love to them either. We are stuck in a crazy relationship of wanting love but unable to give or receive. This leads to guilt and blame and the end of any love there might have been.


Real love, true love has to be unselfish, committed to each other, caring, giving, and sharing. Reaching within and finding the spirit of both persons to connect with a holy relationship, based on love of God. Both becoming who they truly are through their soul connections.



Sunset at Rimrock, CA

 Real love opens as a light from within covering, caressing, soaring to complete the other--It is joyous, wonderful and awakens all desires of completeness--Love!!!

“True love does not come by finding the perfect person,

 but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

                                                                                             Jason Jordan



Sunset at Rimrock, CA







 Peace and Joy to All

I was given two Zebra Finches from my friend’s daughter, who raises Finches, Parakeets, Button Quail, and several other species of birds in an aviary in their backyard. It amazes me how well these birds get along together. Maybe we can all take a lesson from them. Anyway, my two little birds are young and just away from their mother. I named them Joy and Jubilee.

The lighter one is Joy, the darker Jubilee.

I have only had them a few days but they are getting used to me and starting to chirp and make that distinctive noise that Finches make.



Today while I was trying to take these photos, with the camera inside the cage, Joy escaped. As soon as she was out of the cage, she started this loud, (very loud) calling noise. You would never believe a bird only 2 ½ inches long could make such a loud noise. You could tell she was afraid and did not like being away from her home and her brother. She flew around and around the ceiling calling and calling. Finally when she got tired, I was able to pick her up and put her back in the cage. I had visions of her living on top of the cupboards in the kitchen for the rest of her life. Looking down at me and pooping on my head. But she is okay and no harm done.



As they grow the coloring will change and become darker. And their beaks with become orange/red.

I made this cute cover for the cage, and as soon as you put it on they stop talking and cuddle up with each other and go to sleep.  Very cute!

Peace and Joy to All