In the UK, Easter time generally equates with a full on four day weekend. In America, it appears that simply we send children on a hunt to find hidden eggs filled with either money, candy, or a combo for both. Some people can finally indulge in whatever was given up for lent. This may be meat, chocolate, alcohol, cursing, or whatever vice was in your life in March. The forty days are over. Rejoice! Perhaps some people go to church or have a nice brunch, but is our personal spirituality explored at all?
I wanted to offer you an Easter Egg Hunt. The search is for you to take the opportunity to allow the divine to unfold within you. For you to discover the divine exists within. This is the real treat, that is more satisfying than chocolate.
For your Easter Egg Treats, I am offering you the gift of two forms of media that can assist with the hunt. The first is a youtube clip with Tosha Silver, entitled Dying to Love. Tosha is an astrologer, author, and spiritual teacher, and although was raised Jewish, she describes being polyamorous when it comes to her spirituality. She takes knowledge and stories from various religions, and interweaves them in her own life. In this piece, she shares the story of Jesus and the metaphor of how we can utilize this in our own lives. It is our egos that must die to be resurrected to the higher self that exists within. When we offer our deepest desires to the Divine, we are letting go of our attachments to results to allow the higher order to prevail. I have listened to this youtube clip repeatedly the past couple of weeks. Going through difficult times, when we give it all up to a larger power, we can let go and know that what is for our highest good will prevail.
The other egg I am sharing is a podcast I listened to yesterday. And then I listened to automatically again. It is from Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday with Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith. He explores the spiritual journey in four steps. It’s completing amazing and transformative. I couldn’t not help but share this. Below is a quote from this piece.
So as you have your Easter roast and eat that chocolate Cadbury egg, take time out to deepen your hunt for something richer. Happy Easter.
“The spirit trusted you so much that it placed all of it’s power, all of it’s intelligence, all of it’s love, all of it’s beauty. It placed everything within you. The presence is everywhere. It is fullness and it is places within you. That in this presence may come into it as you own life. You will wake up with a sense of gratitude and thanksgiving for the existence itself and your existence. Asking what can I share today, what can I give, how can I be more of myself? How can I be a magnificent change agent, bringing heaven to earth every single day? You ask that question to the universe and it will be answered.” -Michael Bernard Beckwith
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