Affirm: I'm Leaning on Love Today

'God, teach me to trust, and to wait for You to speak to me. Open me to Your Pesence in me, and to those around me'*, but don't let me lean on them. Don't let me lean on my own understanding, let me lean on You. Let me lean on Love. Knowing I can lean in, back, or side to side, and find You (t)here.  Leaning on Love, I find what I'm truly looking for, and I smile.    I Love you, Nik [email protected] *Assisi Institute of Tampa Bay   LOVE CHARGING STATION, Live, Daily, Group Practice-  6:30am ET (Spotify LIVE): ▶▶ https://apps.apple.com/id/app/spotify-live/id1517524960 Support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings GoOD Mornings merch: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings Weekly LIVE Meditation, Tuesdays at 7pm ET (FREE on Spotify) ▶▶ https://spotify.link/meditation _________________________________ Today's Quotes: "Those in whom the eternal Word speaks are delivered from uncertainty. From one Word proceed all things and all things tell of Him.  Love the Word better than the world." -The Imitation of Christ (remember the Word is the Divine Sound Stream) "As we pause on this second Sunday of Advent, let us be conscious that God is with us even as we "wait for the coming". God is close as the breath we breathe. We do not need to "get close to God"; we want to be conscious of how close God is to us. Isaiah, in the Hebrew scriptures, tells us, "By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies." (30:15) Prayer: Good and gracious God, teach me to trust and to wait for you to speak to me in the everyday events of my life. Open me to your presence in me and in those around me.  Amen." -The Assisi Institute  "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." -Prov.3 Verses 5 to 6  "When the Lord God, the Holy Spirit, visits us [he says] and comes to us in the fullness of his ineffable goodness, then we have to stop praying and refrain from prayer itself. The praying soul speaks and offers up words, but at the descent of the Holy Spirit it must be utterly silent so that it can clearly hear and truly understand the words of eternal life which the Spirit condescends to bring to it." -St. Seraphim "There is a silence of the tongue. There is a silence of the whole body. There is a silence of the soul.  There is a silence of the mind, and there is a silence of the spirit." -Abraham of Nathpar, Syriac Mystic "Go deeper ... Past thoughts into silence. Past silence into stillness. Past stillness into the heart. Let Love consume ALL that is left of you. -Kabir "We've all seen those time-lapse movies that show flowers unfolding, and blooming very quickly.  Sometimes when I was sitting with my guru, I would catch him looking at me in a certain way, and I could sense that he was watching this flower of my being unfolding, just like those." -Ram Dass (Ram, mentioned as a mantra or chant in this episode is a Name of God in Hinduism) Support the show Beginning Aug 7, 2023 - 'GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki' will host pre and post roll ads within the back catalogue.