Peace of Parenting-Thought for the Week
March moves us into the promise of spring once again. We might notice how the entire period of childhood resembles this changeable and inspiring season ... of new developments, new characteristics, first-time understandings, renewed efforts, directions, attitudes and behaviors. Every moment is an opportunity to take the better part of what our children present to us us and strengthen this!
Express appreciation for that part presented, give your expression the time and space it deserves so that its strength takes root in our children's awareness. As a privileged guide for each child in your charge, allow yourself the time and space you need to ensure that your words and actions truly reflect the good you believe can flourish.
This week make space and time throughout the day to pause, breathe, vision such good. Redirect yourself, selecting the posture, facial expressions, movements, and thoughts in alignment with this good. Elect to be this good in the space and time surrounding the children in your life here and now. Notice how your being matters for good for you and for them.
With gratitude we enjoy this greater good multiplying beneath the surface of all that is visible, the fabric of our eternal spring!
Professing for Parents and Teachers,
Heidi Bach, Ph.D.
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The Dalai Lama reminds us ...
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Thought for This Week "in loco parentis"
Dear One,Where ever you find yourself in the day or evening, remember that now is your time for being fully alive, fully present to both yourself and the process of educating our young. Pause.
Breathe richly inward. Release any thoughts constrict or limit your fullest sense of Being. Continue the ebb and flow of breath and release. Draw sacred nourishment deeply within. Allow that Spark of Presence -the One who is you- to fill the space of your awareness.
Allow growing awareness of who you intend to be through those essential qualities of wisdom, order, and strength. Experience how your qualities can harmonize and balance the world around you here and now. Bring this way of Being into the world of children learning now the ways of the world, Breathe this very way of Being into the world children inhabit ... that of classrooms, schedules, curriculum, and standards. Know that your True Present Being becomes the way learners may well experience their wholeness above all else that might seem diminishing, illusive, of ignorance, error and discouragement. Know that one secure presence is all it takes for a child to sense the greater truth available in the world inhabited in any here and now.
In gratitude now, relish your adult capacity to Be the One Present. Enjoy such presence, moment to moment. Your eyes, your smile, your firm and caring tone, your hands, and your movements are all ways you express such presence. Know this and rejoice. And so it is!
With love,
Professor and Friend - Heidi
drheidibach@gmail.com
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The Dalai Lama reminds us ...
"Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together."
Labels: child development, children, education, parents, teachers
"Consciously Tapping Our Local Resources" A CFC Message from the Midwest, USA
The library. One of the simple pleasures in my life. It's peaceful. It's warm in the bitter Wisconsin winter, cool in the suffocating summers. A sort of shelter from the storm. I am a mother of two. One of the many women in the United States of America who tries so fiercely to have it all - - - to achieve the delicate balance between family and career. And on the days when I am at home with my kids, I consciously and endlessly try to provide my kids with fun, stimulating, economical activities. I am a master of economical activities. So when we need a change of scenery, somewhere welcoming, somewhere soothing, we go to the library.
I am blessed to live in a community where libraries are plentiful. We know the Brookfield branch, the Elm Grove branch, Oconomowoc, Wauwatosa, and Milwaukee, to name a few. But our most favorite is the one just 2 miles away. We play with the puzzles, lounge in their kid sized chairs, read books on their cozy benches, play hide and seek in the rows and rows of books, pick out new music, rent Baby Einstein DVDs, movies on My First Ballet . . . I could go on and on. It is such a gift to have all of these resources FREE at our fingertips! Was the library a place where the idea of recycling first began? Please don't get me wrong, my kids have shelves upon shelves buried in books we own, but there is just something so wonderful about borrowing a book, and then returning it. Pass it on. You pass on the pleasure. How many little boys and girls have shared this same Olivia. Goodnight Moon. Corduroy. Harold and the Purple Crayon. Many, as I can see from the well loved pages.
We live in a disposable age. Or at least we have been living in a disposable age. While some of us have always leaned more towards the "frugal" side and managed to reuse every scrap of paper twice, I see many others who take delight in buying every book they ever had even the slightest interest in. I look at the financial situation this country is facing. I look at many of my friends who buy buy buy, charge charge charge. Where has it gotten us? Nowhere. This life isn't about who can own the most. It's about being the best person you can be, and as a parent, guiding your children to being the best they can be. Not achieving. Not owning. But living consciously. Caring. Caring about our earth, caring about our neighbors, caring about those who are NOT our neighbors, caring about the creatures who share this space with us.
So next time that shiny new hardcover is calling your name. Stop. Think. Every time you buy it, you remove one more tree from this earth. You displace one more creature. You use natural resources. Try the library. I promise you'll lose hours there. :)
Amanda Clark Krause
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Let's keep the lights shining!Welcome to our annual exercise of spiritual democracy! One of my favorite quotes is from the Dalai Lama who said, "The world is a spiritual democracy. You vote with your life." So here we go! This year's campaign is dedicated to raising the consciousness of stewardship. Whether the human race is aware or not, we are stewarding our earth and its creatures. The question is at what level and from what foundation of consciousness. It is all too easy to be silent, discouraged or complacent in the face of energies that appear to dominate the scene. When I tune into the plight of the polar bears who die swimming trying to reach a melting ice mass, I am faced with a pivotal decision. I can drown in my sadness, refuse to bare witness-or I can pull up my spiritual bootstraps and declare, "Not on My Watch!" The power is in our hands because power resides within! In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Great men are they who see that the spirit is stronger than any other material force." Let us never forget that our vision is stronger than any current appearance. I am continuously inspired by the power of conscious individuals like you. Commitment to use your power to create through visioning, demonstrates that a new paradigm is here now manifesting itself as a new earth-a world that works for all. There is absolutely more than enough divine intelligence popping up all around us~ Airports like Denver International going solarHomes popping off the grid through innovations producing excess energy for othersPioneering families turning their rooftops into grocery stores Individuals neutralizing their carbon footprint What initiative! If change doesn't come to the people; the change comes through the people. Soular power, baby!Erin from the Garden StateLabels: affirmation, animals, consciousness, earth, environment, meditation, new earth, new thought, planet, unity
Welcome to Campaign for Consciousness 2008!
for more details visit www.campaignforconsciousness.org and post your name
Spiritual Social Action Focus: To actualize the stewardship and well-being of our sacred Earth and its diverse inhabitants through our collective vision of a new consciousness.
Together let's affirm throughout the world--September 10-October 19, 2008!
We believe in the power of Life. It expresses itself in myriad ways and is sacred in all forms. Our unity and interdependence evidences itself as the diversity of life, intelligence, and substance. We seek to understand divine design. Immersed in the growing consciousness of our true nature, we align our desires, actions, systems, and vision with the principles of universal law.
Ideas of entitlement, domination, profiteering, exploitation, and hierarchy are now erased from human consciousness. We atone for the senseless neglect, misuse, and abuse of our mother earth and her majestic inhabitants. Ideas and ideals of collaboration, innovation, sacred awareness, and discernment replace old ways of being as we collectively establish dominion over obsolete, limited, and myopic perspectives.
As ambassadors of wisdom, we steward our earth and all of its living inhabitants. With spiritual integrity, we embody compassion acknowledging that animals are worthy of each dignity we seek for ourselves. From the core of the earth to the expanse of our atmosphere, polar regions to national parks, waterways to farmlands, marketplace to dining table, we consciously create a world that works for all. Harmony is our intention, wisdom our currency, discernment our path, integrity our foundation, and unity our inheritance.
We immerse our word in gratitude as we release it unto law.
Amy Gillespie, TIOS' Executive Director interview with Colorado Public RadioWhile in Colorado Springs this January Amy Gillespie sat down with Colorado Pubic Radio's Eric Whitney to discuss the ongoing health crisis in Africa. Amy has dedicated the last three years of her life creating life saving, life improving programs for orphans in Mozambique. Her 3rd and largest Skills Center in Chimoio, Mozambique serves over 200 children a day.Eric Whitney is uniquely qualified to understand the challenges facing TIOS. Eric spent most of 2003 living and reporting in Cape Town, South Africa before becoming KRCC's News Director, the NPR Affiliate in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Eric is currently the Health reporter for Colorado Public Radio. The interview is scheduled to air between 6:45 and 7:00 am, and repeat between 8:45 and 9:00am MST on Monday, Feb. 18 on Colorado Public Radio. You can listen online at kcfr.org, the story should be archived and available on demand by the end of day Monday or shortly thereafter.Colorado Public RadioTIOS
About TIOS
Amy Gillespie left "corporate" America five years ago to follow a calling to help children in Africa. As she found herself struggling with the local language, with "seed capital of $150.00", she developed a new HIV/AIDS training program that bypassed the language barrier and is now being recognized as an innovative and successful way of reaching African's with the facts of HIV. The program has been so successful; it resulted in her recognition as a top 20 finalist for CNN Heroes.
TIOS / AIDS Orphans Skills Centers' unique "Five Components of HIV" program has been recognized or adopted by Columbia University, Peace Corp, JICA (Japanese Development Corp), Church World Service, ITC (International Trade Cooperative), OSEO, US AID, and The National Council to Combat AIDS in Mozambique.
"In addition to the unique HIV/AIDS training program; what impresses me is TIOS emphasis on survival skills training for children. It is not enough to protect them from HIV/AIDS as many children die from preventable injuries and illnesses," commented Dave Bryan, TIOS/AOSCI Board member.
"Due to the dynamics of the local culture, we emphasize income generating vocational skills for undereducated girls, as they are typically the care-giver for the family and have limited access to education and job opportunities. We teach trade skills to older girls that they use to make educational products that facilitate better HIV/AIDS programs," states Gillespie.
TIOS/AOSCI is a 501©3 non-profit NGO, registered to operate in Mozambique under the name TIOS (International Training for the Orphans and their Survival). Amy Gillespie is the founder and Executive Director.
Donate to TIOS
TIOSAmy GillespieFounder & Executive DirectorAGillespie@TIOS.US011.258.825.192050
TIOSDave BryanDirectorDBryan@TIOS.US719.499.3283
Breakthrough Experiment: Compassion to Action Program
May 15th through the 29th, 2007
CommonPassion.org, in cooperation with the Association for Global New Thought and many local and global groups, is orchestrating the world's largest interfaith global meditation and prayer event ever performed. This will be a series of meditation and prayers for community and global peace in which it is anticipated that over a half million people will participate.
Our goal for the NEW THOUGHT community is to increase that projection by 100,000!
www.CommonPassion.org"If you are able to participate, the process is very simple. This Sunday, May 27th, in spiritual services throughout the world, communties will focus in prayer and meditation on any or all of the following: Global Peace, Iraq, Jerusalem, Darfur, Sudan, New Orleans.
"Concurrent with the prayer-meditation practices we will monitor crime statistics, emergency call data and other social indicators to ascertain change as a result of this peace-creating program. Results of this two week long experience will become available to you after the event so you can see for yourself, and share with your community, the power of this collective enterprise.
This universally relevant experiment is tied to a breakthrough technology. For the first time, we will enter the domain where it becomes possible to measure and direct our collective energetic field. As these new methods become more and more precise, we will begin to have the capacity to make conscious choices about using prayer and meditation to concretely affect world problems. Visit
http://www.commonpassion.org/events/ events.htm"
ALSO THIS SUNDAY IN NEW JERSEY
Securing A Legacy of Peace
New Jersey State Campaign for a Department of Peace
In Honor of Memorial Day, Support the Department of Peace Campaign!
Join Us for An Inspirational, Informational, and Musical Fundraiser this Sunday, May 27, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Where: Unitarian Church of Montclair-67 Church Street, Montclair, NJ
FREE ADMISSION - DONATIONS ACCEPTED
Featured speaker: Dot Maver, Executive Director of the Peace Alliance
Music by Carly Goodwin, Folk singer
