1. What does the word Love mean to you?

It’s not so much what the word love means to me as much as it is the essence that I feel when I sense the word Love. For me it’s the energy that binds all matter, in all life, in all things. It’s who I am and who I believe everyone else is. It’s life itself. It’s a choice and it is not only what I choose, but how I choose to live my life in the world. It is the essence of everything!

2. Have you ever felt like love was missing from your life? (How do you handle these periods of time?)

Love is never missing from my life, it’s only the illusion of it missing that shrouds me in fear and separation. When I don’t feel love or sense love in the moment I first start with the awareness of love missing and choose consciously to reconnect. I do this through my passions which are meditation, the creative arts, expressing gratitude for my life and for all that I have and all who are here with me. I spent many years in depression and have created a critical care list of things I can do to love myself when I feel disconnected. These also include exercise, eating well, owning my power and remembering I am all that I am been looking for.

3. What is the biggest way you see that love (or the lack thereof) has impacted our world today?

The lack of love I see in the world is rampant. I see wars, poverty, pollution, disease and hunger, government control through fear, corporate irresponsibility, immorality and greed. I see love in the way we are responding as a community to the people of Haiti . Perhaps we as a world humanity are all ready to fall into each others arms!

4. What is the last extraordinary book you read and what impact did it have on you?

Fractal Time by Gregg Braden. This book makes it obvious to me that  humanity is at critical mass and must decide which way we choose to evolve. We are at choice point, Love or Fear what do you choose?

5. From your perspective, what is the most practical way to bring more love into the world?

First we must become aware that each and every one of us has free will, the ability to choose how we create our lives in each moment. Is it from Love or Fear? When we become aware that we even have a choice then we can begin to respond differently to what life brings to us. Practically the most important choice we can make for ourselves, humanity and the earth is to love ourselves in each moment and begin to awaken to our own internal journey and take action on the ways we can heal ourselves while reaching out to others. This will be unique for all of us and remaining true to our internal knowing is the key to reclaiming the garden within while we heal the garden without.

6. Is there a connection between love and inspiration? Who in your lifetime has inspired you the most?

Choosing love allows us to live and be in Spirit, inspired! Love fuels our passion and our purpose which in turns inspires us to be who we are in the world. There have been many who have inspired me on my journey. Nature has inspired me the most.

7. How do you incorporate love into your business or professional life?

I do my best to stay in integrity with myself and invite the same from those I come in contact with. I remain willing to own my shadow and grow from my challenges and speak my truth. Love is my business; I am here to inspire love in all sentient life.

Shawn Gallaway‘s mission is empowering people to take caring, positive action in their lives and in the world right now. He accomplishes this with resounding clarity through his music and art. As a multi-talented guitarist, singer-songwriter, and visual artist, Shawn weaves music, song, and painting into a richly textured experience that calls for enlightened activism.

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My son has always told me that he would love to fly....
Not in a plane....But by his own "power"....

He is absolutely fascinated with the following and I must say, so am I!!!

Talk about surrender.....

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Dear God/ess, Joan Adams and I are having a conversation about what interesting things we will do when I come to visit her in South Carolina in April. We spoke about touring Charlestown, but suddenly I remembered the “Angel Oak” that I heard Joan speak of many times.

The tree lives near Charlestown. That is as close to Charlestown as we are likely to get, because once we get to the tree, she will command our mindful presence, perhaps an hour long meditation.

The Angel Oak, pictured here, is 65 feet high and 25.5 feet around. She gives 17,000 square feet of shade. Her largest limb is 11.5 feet long with a circumference of 89 feet.

Now THIS is a tree with presence, an awakened soul. She is 1500 years old, reportedly the oldest living entity east of the Rocky Mountains. The oldest California Redwood is 2200 years young.

An old growth tree is one of the most precious living things to behold on this green earth. I used to work for the US Forest Service in Northern California in the early 1980’s and paused in wonder upon arriving to an old growth forest. These trees were in constant danger of being clear cut or destroyed by raging forest fire.

Old growth trees speak to us. They resonate a profound sense of root groundedness and also an alignment with heavenly influence. Coming away, we feel a deep sense of balance. We live in the Present Moment with the tree with a full realization that she has witnessed human celebration, tragedy, and floods, earthquakes and other natural catastrophe.

These trees are witness to earthly events but also to celestial magic, angelic protection, and the fairy, wind and gnome beings who industriously work on behalf of these trees to promote long, long life and a prosperity beyond comprehension.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, Tom gave me Doreen Virtue’s Archangel Oracle Cards for my Birthday last week.  I’ve always wanted these cards but never got around to getting them. Tom must have read my mind.

The card for today’s prayer reading is: Remember Who You Are. Archangel Michael says: “You are a powerful, loving and creative child of God. You are very loved.”

Alcoholic’s Anonymous always stresses to the sober (and non-sober) alcoholic that we are all God’s kids.

One of the thing I loved about the meetings is that you could be sitting beside a Doctor or Lawyer on one side of you, and a hardened criminal, a murderer even, on the other side. We were all on a level playing field. No class. No elitism. No one-up-man-ship. Just Recovering Alcoholics, trudging the road of happy destiny, said Bill W., intent on a spiritual sobriety that included all who joined us there in the rooms (of AA).

And the longer we all went without a drink, the happier we were. Yes, life still hands us challenges. Yes, sometimes these challenges make it difficult not to pick up a drink. Or not. The beauty is, everything is funny the longer you succeed in replacing Spirits with Spirit. The Comedy and Tragedy of life take on a meaningful significance.

Alcoholics Anonymous teaches us to revel in the love of our Higher Power and Spirit Guides and all of the angels and unseen energies that really do take care of us.

A woman I know has been struggling with her sister who is drinking herself to death. I said to her, “Don’t worry, God takes care of babies and drunks.” But we all know people who die of alcoholism, so I said those words carefully.

So this prayer is for my friend’s sister and for all the people who concern us because of their alcoholism or drug addiction.

They need to know that they are loved and they deserve all the love in the hearts of those who help them.

My friend’s sister is one of God’s kids. She needs to feel this from all of us reading this prayer today.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, I bought a new domain name for this Prayer Blog that will be active in a day or so.

It is: Pray To Heal. This phrase does capture the real name of this blog.

The whole of life is about recovery, healing and giving back what we learn when we heal.

We certainly heal when we pray, so it makes sense that we pray in order to heal.

Prayer is an act of doing. It is an action step. I used to think it was a passive activity and one does need quiet and a slowing down in order to feel as if the prayer has been effective: That it has gone out from the heart to lovingly caress all those who are receptive to the energy, and even those who are not.

Some people think prayer is Christian Dogma but I know that by practicing it, that it is not.

Prayer is Universal Language. It is the language of Love and Forgiveness. Prayers from all religions or spiritual traditions have the same calming and peaceful intention: to heal, be healed and to impart healing vibrations to all the Cosmos.

Plants, animals and babies respond to prayer. So do trees. So do falling leaves.

When one or more gather together to pray, miracles happen. Great peace accelerates the beauty of the present moment and we feel alive.

Nothing is impossible in the presence of the Power of a Prayer to Heal.

Om, Peace, Amen

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Dear God/ess, Writing these prayers is like having a conversation with God/ess every morning. Soon this conversation will be second nature and I won’t have to write them anymore.

But I am having a conversation with all of you, too, and I don’t want to give that up. Everyday, i am forced to go a little deeper into the mind, no mind, thought, no thought.

Mind is the vehicle through which Self-Realization is possible.

Who am I? I am that which existed before my parents were born, before I was born.

Who am I? I am that which presently exists, unchangeable and eternal.

Who am i? I am my mind, no mind, pure but not newly created, nor does it perish when I die.

My mind is neither male or female, right or left, up or down.

Is who I am simply a bunch of memories, thoughts and mental images? If yes, then who I am does not exist.

If who I am does not exist, then I was never born nor will I ever die.

Who I am has no limits.

It is time to relax into this boundary-less state. It is time to give up all the stories of my existence, and of yours, too.

It is time to relax into the not knowing of me or of you. No more assumptions. No more elaborate judgments or rigid pretenses.

It is simply time to be what I am: the unconditional essence of peace and safety and boundless joy.

Om, Peace, Amen.

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