tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post4678594864174298145..comments2023-09-15T05:44:11.537-06:00Comments on thought gently whispers...: "Oh, I've been travelin' down this road too long..."Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929053604299123547noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-77831735916229128652010-02-21T12:36:13.884-07:002010-02-21T12:36:13.884-07:00hi I'm from saudi Arabia and I'd like to t...hi I'm from saudi Arabia and I'd like to thank you very muchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-56246348296449296762009-03-27T18:24:00.000-06:002009-03-27T18:24:00.000-06:00hi Sue...so good to hear from you...yes, of course...hi Sue...so good to hear from you...yes, of course i remember you fondly. I'm heartened to know that these stories have touched your heart...they certainly are dear to mine - but isn't any experience that shows us our Father-Mother's presence in our lives...always with Love, KateKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05929053604299123547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-85985571185245206152009-03-27T16:11:00.000-06:002009-03-27T16:11:00.000-06:00Hi Kate...Hello from Westport Ct and Sue Silverste...Hi Kate...<BR/><BR/>Hello from Westport Ct and Sue Silverstein-Solomon who you so lovingly prayed for last summer. I am the friend Nina referred to above and our lunch brought me on a path back to your blog that was so inspiring and uplifting when I first reached out to you...lunch was about banishing the false ego, mine, and the journey I have taken over the past months...and continue. Going back over your past few blogs provided a gift, that understanding that I need to cherish the journey and time with God rather than be so focused on figuring out and resolving the challenges in career I am facing. With gratitude and joy for God's directing me back to you and your wonderful inspired thoughts...I am grateful...SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-39900181769891758312009-03-26T18:06:00.000-06:002009-03-26T18:06:00.000-06:00Dear Nina...I am honored to have you read this blo...Dear Nina...I am honored to have you read this blog and find it helpful...please extend my warmest wishes to your friend...I have so enjoyed meeting so many readers from around the world through this blog and my website...we are truly part of a global community of spiritual thinkers...from so many different backgrounds, cultures, and faith traditions..."God is All-in-all"...what an extraordinary gift this phrase was from a woman who truly loved humanity...with Love to you and to your friend...KateKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05929053604299123547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-64864494276809321242009-03-26T17:26:00.000-06:002009-03-26T17:26:00.000-06:00I am a first timer to your beautiful and inspiring...I am a first timer to your beautiful and inspiring blog. Another fellow Christian Scientist told me aboutyour website and blog when we had lunch today. Banishing the false ego and letting go the past ("dead and gone") is exactly what we were discussing today. Your blog brought so much clarity and, of course, Reality. Thank you!! I will be a repeat user of your blog, for sure!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-60040944171333784872009-03-25T17:08:00.000-06:002009-03-25T17:08:00.000-06:00Dear Anon...I am so touched by your follow-up note...Dear Anon...I am so touched by your follow-up note...what a lovely sense of peace and joy it resonates...love you...KateKatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05929053604299123547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-65311977597948698182009-03-25T15:09:00.000-06:002009-03-25T15:09:00.000-06:00I NEVER would have even dared to imagine when I co...I NEVER would have even dared to imagine when I commented yesterday that today I too would be able to confidently say, "the old me is dead and gone." Through pondering your post and comments I realized that for months I had tamped down great sadness and then when it exploded into an angry outburst I went into "hate and dig" mode. Yesterday with the help of your prayers and words something clicked for me. Today I indeed feel like I've walked off a stage or movie set leaving the character I'd been acting out behind,ready to be the happy, peaceful me God created. I am so grateful to you and God. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-28640660366435547262009-03-24T16:43:00.000-06:002009-03-24T16:43:00.000-06:00Dear Anon...I do understand how you feel... do you...Dear Anon...<BR/><BR/>I do understand how you feel... <BR/><BR/>do you remember that piece I wrote a while back about a time in my life (about 22 years ago) when I saw a young family - a man, his wife and their child - and initially old feeling of jealousy (why can't I have that kind of life..etc) flooded in and tried to take me down that road of sadness, envy and regret, then self-condemnation for the jealousy and for what a spiritual failure I was, and that maybe I didn't deserve all that goodness, and finally being so sick of those feelings that I plopped myself down on the steps of the Mother Church and refused to leave until God took those feelings away once and for all...and then, out of the blue, hearing His voice in my heart saying "if you are aware of how good that is, then it is a part of your consciousness and if it is a part of your consciousness it is already part of you...it is yours...appreciate it wherever you see it...appreciate that you appreciate it, and it will continue to appreciate...grow in value...in your experience...your consciousness of it will construct a better body of experience...in your own life.<BR/><BR/>dear friend, never allow that false ego to convince you that because you feel something unsettling or uncomfortable... when you see something beautiful or good...that it is jealousy (because of a perceived "absence" of that very thing in your life)...it is not...that feeling is active spiritual vitality in seeds of hope and birth awakening in you...stirring up the soil as they sprout new tender roots...and push deeper and deeper into your being while sending strong shoots of life towards the sun.<BR/><BR/>but over and over again we misinterpret that feeling and destroy the roots...because we don't understand those unsettling feelings. We either hate ourselves and dig around in the soil to destroy those feelings we don't understand, or we hate the feeling so much that we just tamp everything down into such a state of smoothness on the surface that the hardpacked soil lacks oxygen and the seed can neither breathe, find loose ground in which to send out its tender roots, orthe head room needed for bursting through the surface to reach for the sun...in order to produce the necessary chlorophyl for continued growth and giving birth to new strong stems, leaves and branches....and eventually a flowering, fruit- bearing tree. Let those unsettling feelings bring you great peace today...they are the presence of life-filled hope giving birth to itself.<BR/><BR/>I love you,Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05929053604299123547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-40237904621314874312009-03-24T16:07:00.000-06:002009-03-24T16:07:00.000-06:00It’s hard to read your recent posts and not feel a...It’s hard to read your recent posts and not feel a bit jealous. I too want to feel like God is with me, that I'm loving the journey, that old selves are dead and gone. But right now that reality seems so distant. No matter how hard I try, I sometimes seem so far away from the me I want to be. However, I am appreciating your post’s reminder that each moment I can choose to reject whatever script is being thrown my way. I'm NOT going to give up. Thanks for posting this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14060533.post-68690161494791939222009-03-24T06:58:00.000-06:002009-03-24T06:58:00.000-06:00desperately needed to hear this today. a heart ful...desperately needed to hear this today. a heart full of thanks. cAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com