Energy Connections-I Hear the SOund of Rain

hi Guys...
I know i don't do as many blogs at the moment, but you know how it is when life gets busy, and we get so caught up in the DOING aspects of sowing and reaping, rather than the fallow times of being still outwardly.

WORKING HARD

I feel I have been working very hard to get what looks like nowhere outwardly.
All along I've felt that there is strength and movement on an energy level, but my eyes have grown heavy and tired with looking at the horizon in anticipation of the promise of abundant rain!

But in the last day or so a refereshing has come in the form of knowing it's all about perseverence and focus. Nothing is lacking , simply a continuance is required. A sustaining of the aligned energy vibe. Remember from a few months:
"all the connections have been made, just maintain your vibration"
I always know when I get such a clear and strong directive, I'm gonna need to listen to it!

It's been three months, more or less, since I awoke to that, and I've had need to heed it with determined deliberation!
And not always feeling like I'm accomplishing it! lol

In this artwork, there are a couple of references to scriptural content from the Bible. one is the story of Elijah the prophet, who broke the drought thru prayer ( energy intention) and he kept telling his helper to check the horizon coz he could 'hear the sound of heavy rain' long before even a cloud appeared. The phone ref "Mark 11:24" is about believing you have received, the numbers simply about 'operator: information get me jesus on the line' (888, hte biblical number for Jesus,and53787 the dialling of the name)
and the whole image of Willie being projected over an arid Ozzie outback with a storm brewing in the background.

So, it's all about KNOWING you've made connection and you're aligned and then staying focussed on your desired outcome!

MANY SIMMERING POTS

o , so I've got so many pots on the boil...almost
See, I just cannot stand WAITING for something to happen,or for someone to call, or for someone esle to make a decision about me and my life.

So, every time i light one burner, whilst I leavve to heat up, i'll go light others, and i just keep going until something starts to really brew and bubble...funny, then they all start.

So, even tho, not SO much seems to have been emerging yet into visible 'bubbles', I've been feeling the effervescence in the the great expanse of energy. ANd this has been what's kept me going, and why i keep looking to the horizon.

TIPS BREAK THRU

And now, I am seeing a bit more from that, with the request of a rep from http://www.artistpr.com finding my music on line and asking me to submit a song for 100 free airplays. If enough people listen and rate it well, it will be kept, they'll keep it in rotation, and play it to the people that specifically request similar artists and music.

maybe this isn't such a big deal...but it is a worthy one to be thankful for. It is progress and it is exciting,and more people than ever before will hear me singing my own song, than have EVER heard it before. I have had more people listening due to the growing network connections, but this is just that bit MORE special.
of course, this means, that to take advantage of such exposure , I need to have a few other things on ;place as well.

So one step in success always generates a bunch more work...and maybe that's why i've been scared of it for so long.
but I want to embrace it now.

MUCH is happening through my online networking, commenced in the last challenge. And i have found enormous favour with some astounding and outstanding individuals,all over the place. ( LOVE internet) i'm attracting such beautiful souls.

OFFER TO COMPOSE

I have also been asked to compose the lyrics and melody for a theme song for something really special. I'll tell you all about it soon. This too, is daunting...but OOooooooh EXCITING!

so there's a little bit of the latest. Gotta get moving on the day... :-)
Have a good onE! :-)

The Mirrors of My Life

hi wonderful people!

Just thought I'd let you know the way the path is unfolding...

GET PASSED 'GO'!!!
I've had a few frustrating days the past few weeks.
And it culminated in an internet banking episode yesterday, that when i saw it this way, made me laugh.

It has felt like everywhere I turned I was blocked, and prevented from access. Lots of energy went into getting singing work and connecting with people to build the speaking, and everything has felt promising and positive, but nothing substantial emerging. It felt like things were getting to vearying degrees in the process, and then , juts get suddenly shunted back to nowhere!

The only work i've been able to get is making phone calls fro a friend's company! ( The contractions are getting tight!!) breathe, release...Zero resistance.
There's so much more that I could say about all of this...so much more internal activity, about being grateful, about 'simply Being'...about understanding the benefits of where I am, why, and how I can receive all its aaspects as GOOD. however...I want to get to another point...

LIFE IS A PERFECT REFLECTION

Sometimes, when I see how perfectly, and ironically LOA works to reproduce in the physical what is thought/feeling energy...all I can see is God's sense of humour. Or at least, feel gratitude that we have one, coz you just gotts laugh!
I was SOOOOO frustrated yesterday. Perfect time for EFT. Everytimg I tried to do my banking, I'd get to various phases of the transaction, only at any point, to find myself back at the logon page!

"For security reasons, you've been redirected back to the logon page"
another message
"for security reasons we've diabled you BACK and FORWARD buttons" AAARAAAArrrrhghhhhh!
What the heck am i supposed to do!!!??? Just stay here forever?

talk about perfect reflection of how I was feeling!
(I'm even laughing as i write)

LESSON LEARNT

the beautiful part of this, is as soon as i saw the parallels...I just laughed!
(I'm even laughing as i write)
It takes so LITTLE for us to shift our vibration...remember "soar toSPlat!" and "splat! to soar". Flick the switch.

I could see the analogy fo what was going on...but look at the 'why'-for SECURITY reasons.

The door keeper of my heart is watching over my steps...

HOLD THAT THOUGHT

ok...now with all that in mind, consider this:
in so many others ways, the aligment and connection feel right..all other things are working on my internet ( in my life) but not all browing functions, and something has gone bizarre with the log in aspects. Yet the connection is intact.

I feel this way too.
But all this girding in about me, has manouvered me into a place of taking cetain types of action that I've been avoiding. Trying to find the 'easy way' into my destiny. A side door, where I don't attract so much attention maybe.
but every time it looks like that's gonna happen...something literally "PAUSES". IT feels like a strategic hemming in, with only one direction becoming obvious.

Wallace D wattles, author of "The Science of Getting Rich" tells the tale of a guy who sets up this mega deal, only at the last minute, have everything inexplicably crumble. he went about his way rejoicing and didn't let his gratitude slip. Sure enough, a few weeks later, an opportunity presented that was FAR better than his first plan, and he woldn't have been available to take it, had the other got off the ground.

Wattles says: "If you make a failure, you haven't asked for enough"

I keep wanting to go into this without being the spear head of it. It's not gonna happen.
So, I decided to take action on an idea that came to me, to run a series of complimentary one hour workshops to trial content, and sent out a request to lots of friends, family and business people to attend and offer feedback.
It means I organise my own events, not try and get booked by someone else for theirs. ( what i was tryong to avoid!)
And I'm already getting a favourable response and that means a commitment to do, on my part.

But I believe this is what I need to do.
all the other stuff will come along, I'm convinced, but it'll be AFTER i do this, coz this is what I need to do, to get off that damned "Log ON " page and get passed go!

That sentinal is there to keep me from going down an inferior track. I want to live to my FULL potential. My heart knows that and is working with me, and my lover Money, to get me there!

GOLDEN DAYS

Since the message of my personal alchemy ( gold sportscar Challenge #2), i've begun to find different ways to interpret the messages in my personal symbolism. I won't expound on this now, but it is bringing an entirely different slant to things..eg 'security reasons', I would have seen as a conflicting limiting belief that once filled a protective role...but now I see myself free of history, living NOW, and I see those 'security reasons' as my heart working WITH me in a forward way toward all I desire. Not in conflict. ( It always is really...but too big to explain here) And the only thing that makes life hard is my own level of resistance.
i'm not doing this justice here...but I'll get back to it.

For now...time to MOVE!

later...

Where You Least Expect It

The Gift of Love

I'm not touting any specific religion now, but I found this truth written here, so I'm quoting from this source.

In the Bible, there are several very well known and oft spouted verses from I COR 13:4-8. These verses describe the characteristics of AGAPE (uncondtional) love..or...the nature of God/Source...Who is LOVE.

But just before these verses, there are a few other, more rarely mentioned ones. i put them in a song like this:

"If I could speak in the tongues of men,
or have dialogue with the angels
If i have the gift of prophecy,
or can fathom all life's mysteries
and by faith, move mountains in the sea...
...but if I have not Love, I am nothing
If i have not Love, I gain nil
I can take all I've got , and give it to the poor
but if I have not Love- i need more.

I can surrender my body, to the flames,
But if I have not Love, it's in vain."

In other words, it's never about WHAT YOU DO. It's always about WHY YOU DO IT.

WHEN LOVE IS THE SEED
When Love is the reason WHY you do something, what grows is inkeeping.
You cannot grow an apple tree, from an orange seed. You cannot grow a plentiful AGAPE harvest, from an erroneous martyrdom.

Look closely at the base of this strange looking cactus, which I called "Gringo".
Carved into its base are the words " I love ( heart shape) U". One Christmas, when my resourceful young son was staying in Sydney for his holidays, and discovered this heart shaped piece of cactus plant. He determined it would make the perfect gift for me. So he engraved his heart onto the fleshy green plant, popped in it a pot full of Horsley Park brick clay, and presented it to me for Christmas.

I brought it back in the car to Queensland, and it travelled from home to home( 3 times in that following year). But come October, it sprouted a new shoot. One of the oddest looking plants to be sure-the Prickley Pear, but I was very attached to this one, coz it came with Love. When Matt saw what the 'heart' had done, he was dumbfounded.

It never occurred to him, that given a good bed of the right kind of soil, his 'heart' would put down roots, and actually grow. He had only thought it would be as a vase of flowers, and the message it bore, a transient note that would wither with time, having first delivered his genuine sentiment.

But...

LOVE NEVER FAILS

As those verses say (ICOR 13:8)
"Love never fails", passes out, becomes obsolete, fades away, or comes to an end.

Love doesn't die. Nor it's message ever become devoid of power or meaning.
Everything is energy. LOVE is that energy. IT cannot die...it simply changes form and expression.
Love produces fruit that will LAST. All that is of love will endure forever, coz it is already in its purist form. It is already fully "alchemized" ( my new word)

All that is not Love will fall away, temporal yielding to eternal.

SOW HERE, YIELD THERE

I just noticed something very interesting. We use the phrase "yield a harvest".
Even when I sow Love, I must learn to yield, in order to receive the harvest Love has for me.
I ALLOW my harvest to come to me. Not demand it in a specific mode. If I insist that it be a certain way, I could well REJECT the harvest the Universe intended to satisfy the cry of my heart.

If I remain open and yielded ( Zero Resistence), I will receive all I could hope and MORE. Coz what is of Love is of Life and will keep on growing.
Everything is ENERGY and WE ARE ALL ONE. We are one energy field.

It may look like we've been sowing our Love seed for all the right reasons in one corner, only to have it spring forth in a far distant, and unlikely corner. But when we consider that it is all ONE energy field...it isn't surprising at all. We are sowing Love,and reaping Love's fruit-where and how we need it.

JACK's MAGIC BEANS

Love's deeds are the the magic seeds to satify all my conceived needs...and deepest desires! :-)
It doesn't matter what I do. If I do it in the true spirit of Agape, all I could possibly hope for myself will be carried forth in and through it as well.

Whatever expression Love needs to take to bring its fulness into my life, is the form it will take to emerge into my experience.

Love will bring me ALL I need to utilize EVERY moment to sow and grow more love.
I will always have a pocketful of magical, miracle working beans...
or, as the case may be, the ability to embed my heart in a cactus, and bring forth a blossoming love life.

Thanks Matt ( my boy). Tags: agape, cactus, corinthians, gift, gringo, heart, love, magicbeans, why, yield

Time To Fly

This is my buddie, John Morrison (drums and production), and the demo we did in James Morrisons' new studios in Aug 08, was 2/3 original and we were joined by Matt Baker (piano) and John Conley on bass (both current members of GALAPAGOS DUCK).

You can hear these songs at
http://www.sonicbids.com/lisashah

I play piano on Bread of Angels

I am very pleased to say that John Conley (bass) is also playing with me at Noosa Jazz Festival in Sept(3rd-6th), along with Willie Qua (sax, flue, drums) and Will Sargison (piano), as well as a guest, Steve Hall (trumpet/congas)

Boundless Living Challenge #3

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Everything's Connected

INTRODUCING ROSIE



I wanted to share a little story with you.

A number of years ago, when I first moved into this house, I was exploring intentional use of the Law of Attraction. I feel like I've always been doing this, but this particular outcome was something that has stayed with me, as an eternal reminder of how we 'draw' our reality into being.

Firstly, my place, is three storeys high, with a big double garage and lots of cupboard space, but no yard. It's a terrace house. It was only 2 years old when I moved in, so it's modern, airy and...nice. It has two balconies. a squarish one out front ( where i often sit in the sun) maybe 8'x8'

The back one is double the length, but as I said, no back yard. So...no clothesline facility anywhere.

ROTARY ACTION

Well, Australian backyards usually boasted a HILLS hoist, rotary clothesline, as we grew up. And I had a great one when all the kids were little, lots of cloth nappies and clothes to wash. Those kind of clothesline actually had a nostaligc value for me, and hanging washing ( and folding it back into the basket when dry) almost became theraputic coz I associated it with quiet thinking time.

So, I wanted a rotary, PORTABLE line. I didn;t even know if such a thing existed. I just knew that was what I wanted.
All I did, was think about it. Not even an intentional thing.

30, 60, 100 fold...

First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear...

Sure enough, some store advertising "junk Mail" came and there was my rotary line! It was about $30, but it was at a store somewhere that I didn't normally go...off the usual track. I never got to it, but I didn't stop thinking about it, coz now I KNEW they existed!!

Not long after that, in another pamphlet, there was my desire again. This time it was dearer, and still in a part of the Coast that i didn't get to. There was delivery, but all up it'd cost $50. Not that I minded the idea of paying that much, but by this time, I started to realise that I might be able to have what I want.

Of course, yet another sale flyer, and there SHE is-Rosie...not 2 mins away...and only $25!!
She was Rosie the rotary clothesline from that moment,and I loved Rosie becasue of all she meant to me..the old associations and now, all these new ones!

A LITTLE SPINNY

So, now, I can understand why people think i'm a little 'out there', but I name a lot of my belongings and plants. in doing this, I build a snese of 'relationship' with these elements of my life and it leads to some very positive and powerful 'connections' for me.

Firstly, it constantly reminds me that animate or inanimate or inbetween, we are ALL connected. All things are LIVING in that all things are energy. All things are moving, vibrating and being. It's much easier to 'feel' this about everything, and every space between, when you give them names. Along with name comes nature and characteristics...it's just all part of 'knowing' and recognising.

I love doing this with my things/plants/furniture/shoes...shrug...I've been doing it a while! Personifying everything-wind, trees, piano...as well as the obvious...pets, nicknames of friends/family.

This 'naming' breeds attachment and appreciation-and i feel the CONNECTION It's a GOOD thing for me.

AND FROM THAT IS THE SECOND THING

As we are ALL one energy field...
I don't think it's possible to feel inadequate, or in enmity with any part of existence, AND know this state of connectedness at the same time.

I KNOW WHICH STATE I PREFER! And in making the above statement, I finally understand what has troubled me off and on the past week or so...an intermittent connection!

ROSIE TO THE RESCUE AGAIN!

But thinking about Rosie, the delightful way she came into my life, all the pleasure I felt from having her, and all the warmth of the memories she encapsulated for me, fixes any sense of disconnectedness.

It's really not hard to ALLOW myself to BE who I am... Replace resistence with gratitude in the smallest, simplest, and almost nonsensical places, and find yourself-right there! :-)

it feels sOOOO Good!!

Once the Flame Ignites

For more of my Music info go to
http://www.sonicbids.com/lisashah

I recorded this song for a friend this week.
It's written by Glenda Eaves, and Glenn Askew is on digital piano.
It was recorded in Ruwan Sena's studios Varsity Lakes QLD