Where Are You Moving?

August 10, 2024 Sharon Jacobson

With everything going on
and all the things one hears in the press
about what might happen,
what could happen,
So often what we hear and
what we are told,
makes us want to move
out of
or because of the fear.
Stop moving where the fear is leading you.
Move within,
towards the one who guides you.
Move towards the peace,
that place guided by an understanding
which comes from the Divine.
The place to go in times of fear,
is not towards the fear,
but the place where you have none
and it only moves you closer to
understanding the path you are to journey on.

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Feel It All

January 27, 2024 Sharon Jacobson

Feel It All

There are those feelings
I look forward to feeling
and those I prefer not to feel.
The reality is I have to
feel it all.
I can’t suppress one feeling
without suppressing others.
If I want to feel my joy,
really feel my joy,
I also have to allow myself to grieve
and cry
and feel the pain.
If I want to experience the wonder and
mysteries of life,
I have to also allow myself to
fear that which I do not want to feel.
I have to embrace all the feelings.
the ones that make me
jump with joy
and curl up in tears.
I have to find the courage
and the openness in my soul
to feel it all.

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Yak Yak Yak

July 21, 2023 Sharon Jacobson

Yak Yak Yak

Sometimes that is what
my brain is saying to itself.
Yak Yak Yak – absolutely nothing.
It is what happens when I allow
fear into my mind.
it starts creating stories
about stuff and tries to make itself
bigger and more important then it is.
Fear is nothing more then
false
evidence
appearing
real.
When the yakking starts,
I have to be intentional about stopping it
and turning my hearing towards truth.
I have to
face
everything
and
rise.
I have to rise above the yakking
and listen to the
wisdom and the truth
not the fear.

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Hatred

January 14, 2023 Sharon Jacobson

Hatred

Hatred
I grew up thinking this was the opposite of love,
then I learned the opposite of love is fear.
Hatred comes from fear.
It is an intense negative response to
that which causes us fear.
It can be a fear of people,
things,
or even ideas.
Fear comes from
false things or beliefs
which appear real.
As much as I hate to admit it,
there are moments I feel hatred.
However, as I was once asked,
what are you doing with it.
my initial response was
nothing.
but then I realized holding on to it
was not helping me grow or evolve.
Hatred is now an opportunity to evolve.
it is an opportunity for me to let go of
that which is keeping me in fear.
When I use this to help me grow,
I leave the hatred behind
and grow in my capacity to love.

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sons from the Darkness

December 9, 2022 Sharon Jacobson

Lessons from the Darkness

We all have those moments
where we feel overwhelmed,
scared,
frustrated,
and sometimes even angry.
We may feel like this is one of those
dark moments in our life.
I felt this way yesterday
and just wanted to cry, but then the lesson came
and reminded me this darkness
was a door,
a pathway to the next blessing and phase
in my life.
It was, and is, about to introduce me
to new people, places and things.
Was it as I or others planned? No.
But once I let the fear go,
and walked even closer with the one I trust,
I was reminded of the words from Psalm 23
Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[a]
    I fear no evil,
for you are with me;
    your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.
The lessons I am and will learn
are already comforting me
in part because the Ultimate is with me
teaching me
even from the darkness.

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FEAR

October 14, 2022 Sharon Jacobson

FEAR

Fear,
I can live with it or without it.
Fear,
I was told is,
False Evidence Appearing Real.
I was told the way through it is to
Face Everything And Rise.
Facing everything has meant
I have to open my heart
to new ways of being and seeing in the world.
it means I have to seek the real
and not let it constrain me.
it means I embrace living
and not let fear kill me.
Living with or without fear is a choice.
Each day I choose to embrace life,
I choose to release my fears.
What have you chosen?

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Opening

January 29, 2021 Sharon Jacobson

Opening

I strive to stay open
to new possibilities,
but sometimes I find myself
stifling myself.
Fear,
doubt,
closed-mindedness,
make me blind
to the openings before me.
Moving through them,
removing them,
remaining open
to all the Universe is offering me
enables me to grow,
evolve,
transform,
and embrace
all I have been given.
Staying open
allows me to be blessed.
All else,
blocks me from those blessings.

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Being Real

December 20, 2020 Sharon Jacobson

Being Real

Sometimes I get tired of looking like I have it so together.
I am like everyone else.
I have fears,
Issues,
challenges,
and struggles.
Having lost so many people to COVID,
and please don’t ask me what else was wrong with them,
I worry about dying unexpectedly.
I don’t so much worry about dying,
as much as I do those I love and
who will be there for them.
I worry about dying unexpectedly and
leaving papers ungraded.
I worry about my death being an inconvenience for others.
No I am not planning on dying anytime soon,
but I want things to be organized
I want to know that those I love will be ok
until we meet again.
Until then, I work on getting everything organized,
decluttering,
getting things in order
I pull on my strengths to face my fears.
I face everything and I rise.
I focus on being real with those I love
and providing a space for them
to be real too

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Free

March 27, 2020 Sharon Jacobson

We are in uncharted and
unprecedented territory. Right?
At the same time, we are not.
We are in the territory of fear.
We are in a territory which enslaves us.

What if we had a beginner’s mind
and we did not know we are supposed
to be afraid.
What if we saw this as an adventure?
What if we forgot we were
supposed to worry?

What if we freed ourselves
from worry
fear.
expectation,
prejudices
and concern.
What if we opened ourselves
up to faith,
trust,
love and adventure.

What if we took precautions
without worrying about
hoarding toilet paper.
What if we had faith we could
pay our bills in time.
What if we learned games
which allowed us to laugh
and play.
What if we found new ways of
relating and discovering
new things about ourselves
and others because
we set ourselves free.

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Courage

March 20, 2020 Sharon Jacobson

Scared,
nervous,
uncomfortable
all of the above,
however, in the midst
of the storm
I tap into my courage
I hold onto the one
who gives me peace,
joy, and
courage.

Courage
it is what inspires me
to step forward in faith.
Courage does not mean
I am not afraid.
It just means
I overcome it.
It means I master it.
It means I resist it.
It just means I walk in my
courage.

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No More Fear

July 12, 2019 Sharon Jacobson

Fear is like a fence
around my mind,
my body,
my soul, and
my world.

It restricts me,
my view,
my interactions,
my experiences, and
my life.

Fear looks like
its protecting,
providing safety,
security, and
peace.
in reality,
it is imprisoning,
restricting,
and limiting.

Today I live
without fear.
i know I have
nothing to fear.
I am embrace the
opportunities to grow,
to evolve,
and to be transformed.
This is why I live
without fear.

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Kitty Lessons

May 5, 2017 Sharon Jacobson

Dear God,

So today I want to thank you for the lessons that Dr. Wally and Mr Mittens have tried to teach me. Some of them I have mastered more then others, but at least they have tried. So thank you for sending them into my life. So here goes.

Lesson #1 – Never be afraid to step outside your comfort zone. Mr Mittens has taught me to be willing to explore what is on the other side of my comfort zone. He always tries to get through the doors that are closed and when he senses it is not where he needs to be he leaves and if he really likes it, then he stays. He has taught me a similar message to what I am reading about now in Kyle Cease’s book I Hope I Screw This Up. It is the same message my Bubby used to tell me, “She who fails to fail, fails to succeed.”

Lesson #2 – Take a nap. Cats seem to do this so well. Whenever they are tired, they sleep, which with them is about 16 hours a day. Working at home, I have the luxury of taking a nap when I really need one. Sometimes it is the way for me to quiet my brain so I can hear your ideas and inspiration coming to me. Sometimes it is just that my brain and body need a break. Even you took a rest from creating, so I should too.

When I was not enough

January 1, 2016 Sharon Jacobson

So I have had to laugh at this whole notion of hospitality. I have been intentional about creating a space here at Inspiritual and in our home where all feel welcome. We have done this in part because we have all know what it felt like when we were not enough of something or too much of something to feel welcome and accepted by a movement, community, or other group. Years ago, I wrote a poem called I am enough where I spoke out about all the areas of my life I had allowed myself to feel marginalized and excluded by others words and behaviors.

I knew I was never excluded by the one who created me and has loved me my entire existence, however, there have been times when other humans have reminded me that I am on earth and not in heaven. Sometimes the rejection, the inhospitality has come in the most unexpected of places.

Starving myself to health

August 16, 2015 Sharon Jacobson

Today I just want to thank you for helping me starve myself to health. For so long in my life, I have held onto fears which have contributed to health problems and eating issues. While I know you have been waiting for me to be ready to do the healing work, it was not until about a year ago that I was ready to tackle the hardest of the issues and fears.

That is when I had to be like a jaguar and stalk out the single biggest fear underlying my relationship with food. Once I pulled it out, root and all, I was able to starve those fears to depth. As I did so, it gave me new understanding of the Cherokee story about the two wolves. In most aspects of my life, the wolf of love and faith had prevailed.

To my birth father

October 10, 2014 Sharon Jacobson

Dear God,

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for blessing me with Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting through the Storm. I am not sure what I was expecting when I began this book, but I am so grateful for all that is helping me to release and the wounds that are being healed along the way. One of the things he pointed out was that whether we are physically connected to or want to be connected to our ancestors, we are. We need to heal the wounds we have inherited as part of our legacy. One of the things he suggested doing was writing letters as a form of meditational practice to our ancestors and parents. As I thought about this, I realized I had written letters to my parents before and after they made transition. However, never in my life have I written a letter to my foster parents or to my birth parents. Even though I will never meet them, at least not in this realm, I am still connected to them and in their own ways; we will always be connected. So today, I am going to begin with the one that might be the hardest, the letter to my biological father. I am not even sure how you write a love letter to someone you never knew and are not even sure you ever met or ever say me. However, I am going to do my best

My Umbilical Cord

October 4, 2014 Sharon Jacobson

The last few days I have been feeling as if I was entering a different state of being and have not been able to figure out where this shift is coming from. Then I remembered that this is October, the month where my body remembers to grieve the loss of my god-daughter, the leaving the adoption center, the birth into my family, the severing of yet one more umbilical cord in my life and the creation of another one.

Reading Thich Nhat Hanh’s book on fear has reminded me how you have always been my umbilical cord. When it was time for me to leave the safety of my birth mother’s womb, you were there to protect me. You brought me into your utero for just a moment while they worked on saving my human life and the life of my birth mother. Even when my spirit returned to my infant body, my umbilical cord to you remained attached. When I was moved to the foster home, my umbilical cord to you remained attached. When I was brought to the adoption center, my umbilical cord to you remained attached. When my parents adopted me, my umbilical cord to you remained attached.

Happy Valentine's Day to Me

February 14, 2014 Sharon Jacobson

Good morning and welcome to a new day! Happy Valentine’s Day. Have I told you yet how much I love you? Hmm. it feels good to be able to say that, smile, and feel the love radiating through my body. Oh, how far I have come. I can remember a time when I did not love myself, at least not completely, and definitely not unconditionally. I can remember a time when my sense of self was depending on others telling me I was ok. I can remember when I felt as if I needed to be with someone to feel lovable. I learned, however, that feeling lovable is not the same as being loved and that nobody can make me feel loved. I am the only one who can make me feel the way I am feeling about me at this time in my life. Happy Valentine’s Day to me.

Taking the Hogwarts Express

May 10, 2013 Sharon Jacobson

God has a real sense of humor. A few weeks ago, I talked about being released from fear. All I can say is that it was true for the moment. Since then I have had to face waves of fear that have risen from inside me. I had to look in what I call the mirror of truth and see through the fears, which have come rising to the surface. Sometimes it has felt like they were going, “so you thought we were gone, guess again. We’re back.” First, I had to work through my fears of anybody doing a healing on me. I had to face the fear that is within me related to “healings.” There was this immense power and clarity that came as I moved through that fear. The healing I had a few weeks ago, was healing and liberating. The other night the same person did another healing session on me and she said the energy was flowing more evenly. Hearing that news was not surprising, after all the first time my body was filled with fear about what might happen, what could happen, how I might respond.God has a real sense of humor. A few weeks ago, I talked about being released from fear. All I can say is that it was true for the moment. Since then I have had to face waves of fear that have risen from inside me. I had to look in what I call the mirror of truth and see through the fears, which have come rising to the surface. Sometimes it has felt like they were going, “so you thought we were gone, guess again. We’re back.” First, I had to work through my fears of anybody doing a healing on me. I had to face the fear that is within me related to “healings.” There was this immense power and clarity that came as I moved through that fear. The healing I had a few weeks ago, was healing and liberating. The other night the same person did another healing session on me and she said the energy was flowing more evenly. Hearing that news was not surprising, after all the first time my body was filled with fear about what might happen, what could happen, how I might respond.

Released from Fear

April 21, 2013 Sharon Jacobson

The other day I was going through some of my old poetry and found a poem I had written years ago, actually more like decades ago. I called it Afraid. I am not sure why it spoke to me. Perhaps it is because a friend asked me the other day what I am afraid of. So that question amongst others is what I have been meditating about this week. Sometimes I wish my brain would not be so deep and reflective, but that is how I am choosing to be at this time in my journey.

When the Worst Possible Thing Happened

March 22, 2013 Sharon Jacobson

I was writing about courage this morning for our April newsletter and I began to realize how courageous I really am. I remember that season in my life all too clearly. It was about two years ago, July 2011, when we received two pieces of life changing news. Zoe was diagnosed with breast cancer and I was told that we were no longer in the service area for LiftLine, all within a few days of each other. I knew that treatments existed that would enable Zoe to battle the cancer and she has and she is still in remission and for that I am grateful. Crazy as it may sound, while that shook our world, it was the notion of not being able to leave my home and go to campus to teach, meet with prospective clients, apply for jobs, go out with friends, or even go to my doctor’s appointment or the grocery store, which made me face my greatest fear. Here I was a fairly independent person with a disability and then with one phone call I was told I had “limited” service. What that has meant is that in the last two years of calling for reservations, I have gotten them twice.

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