Barren Wasteland and Spiritual Growth - Painting

I do hope my stories of miraculous healings, and how they came about, plus some metaphysical meanderings as well as my daily life, will fill your days with hope, healing, creativity and the Great Mystery
Cheers, CMW
 Australia`s beautiful richly clad Outback takes your breath away whilst it serves up much wisdom, and spiritual growth, for those that are open to expansion of the soul. The silence and vastness encourages contemplation and the possibility of inner work as well as clarity about the future.
 
                                              Over barren wasteland

                                              Rocky terrain

                                              Aware of the journey

                                              Growth becomes you

Aware of the Journey

I was inspired to paint this painting after much journeying around Central Australia as well as within myself!
In 1998 I had been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer and given only a few weeks to live. When I painted this painting I was running a Quality of Life Resource Centre in Far North Queensland and had a lot to do with the suffering and sickness of many people.
There is always a positive in everything that we experience, it`s just sometimes very difficult to see the 'light' in amongst the darkness, or should I say barren and emotional state. Fear is a killer!!

                                        Lighten up your day with knowingness
                                        And darkness cannot interfere with play 

Whilst traveling over barren, and rocky, emotional ground if we were to view from an unattached perspective we would be able to see that there is growth (the trees in the painting = growth ahead) right there in front of us; yes, spiritual growth. Suffering and hardship somehow leads us to look at a bigger picture and therefore attain more peace and true aliveness within each moment. Whilst things may look, and feel, grim why not turn the negative into a positive and use the time on your hands to go within?

Here`s to new growth
Cheers  CMW

Paper Cubby houses made to expand the imagination

I do hope my stories of miraculous healings, and how they came about, plus some metaphysical meanderings as well as my daily life, will fill your days with hope, healing, creativity and the Great Mystery
Cheers, CMW
I could`t resist sharing these photos with you

IMAGINATION DELIGHTS
One of the delights about being a mother, and grandmother, is that you are in a position where you can ignite the senses and the imagination of your charges! The joy expressed by children and adults alike, when the imagination flows, is incredible. Creation expands naturally as the soul is recharged.

Atto`s Cubby House Sensation

These amazing cubby houses were built by one of my daughter`s friends. They have been lovingly hand-made out of paper and bamboo and were made especially for my grandchildren. What a feast for the imagination!!

Close-up of Inside the Cubby (the roof)

By the way the cubby houses are also waterproof!

Parenting can be fun.The inner child can be released, and allowed to play, by using the imagination.

 We sometimes are consumed with worries and work so much so that we forget to have creative fun with them, yet this is one of the most emotionally stabilizing acts we can do for them! Soul food for the cherubs as well as us!
                                 Creative fun time together = Fun time alone
When the children were very little my daughter happened upon a huge cardboard box (I think it had contained a fridge).
She opened it up spreading it out, and then with the help of another couple of cardboard boxes stuck them together in the shape of a house. She then painted on some windows with curtains, a door and a little 'welcome' sign next to it. The walls and the roof were then painted. She, and the kids, had so much fun painting flowers around the base and finishing off the "cubby". It was a massive success, and a source of imagination and play, for a long long time. The children`s special place where teddies and friends could have fun.

Unleash the passion and awaken the inner child

Here`s to spontaneity and having fun

Cheers CMW

Venus transits the Sun

Venus Begins Crossing the Sun

Today, tomorrow and throughout the next seven days is the time to open your heart chakra more fully.
Meditate keeping the thought pattern of  Divine love on the inward breath, relaxing the heart region. On the outward breath be aware of your true self`s connection with the Divine and the spreading out of love back into the ether. Feel the hurts, and any emotional pain, dissolve and be transmuted, back into the higher vibration of love.

Energetically, let us look at the positive influences. These are what we can work with to help us become more whole, bring those out of control male energies into balance!
Venus is the planet of love. When love is fully experienced on a spiritual level then creativity fires up!
Venus connects with the feminine and spiritual part of us, empowering us to be more whole, especially if male.
The Sun is active male energy and is the ruler of life on Earth. Without the Sun we would die. The masculine energy is outgoing, active, intellectual energy.
Venus will be passing in front of our sun and therefore her energies will be strengthened and enlivened. The male energies of the sun will distort the electro-magnetic fields of Venus, but will also have the potential to heighten her energies at the same time. As with any energies or activities on Earth we have the choice of seeing, and going with, the positive aspects or the negative aspects.
Personally I`m one who wants to get in first and make sure I capitalize on anything and everything that creates more harmony and more empowerment, or balance, in my life and on Earth. I write this as some soothsayers call the transit of Venus a doom and gloom time. Why not over-ride any disrupting thought patterns concerning this transit with ones that are beneficial? Astrologers predict love and fun times for the next two days, but why not dig deeper, travel deeper into yourself, and bring more love into your consciousness so that you can live more fully in the future? A happier more peaceful you creates a happier environment for all.
We now know that one of the universal laws is LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE!

This world seems to either run on greed and control, leaving those less fortunate to battle with everyday survival.
More love is needed, so I for one have been meditating on being more open to love, Divine unconditional love. Tomorrow and the next few days I will also be bringing more love into my presence and spreading more love out. One simple, clear thought is felt across the Earth as it ripples out mingling with the Universal omnipotent mind.

These words are so very true:

                                              "One word
                                                Frees us of all the weight and pain of life.
                                                That word is LOVE"
    
                                                                                  -- Sophocles

Hope you are filled with the spirit of love as this once in a lifetime celestial event unfolds

In love and light  CMW