HEART DIARY
the seed of love
Where Love begins, fruit’fullness’ abounds.
Look for Signs of Love today.
**making applesauce from the bountiful apple trees this season – this sign of love surprised Carol Thompson!
Well – second thought, she sees so many signs of love, I don’t think any would surprise her!!
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loving you,
Theresa
off the coast of Mexico
Love – great Love.
Signs of Love in courageous times.
I had just spent two full weeks on a Spiritual Quest in the mystical Teotihuacan Pyramids outside of Mexico City. Because I came having invoked an intention to be born into a new life, I immersed myself deeply – in faith, trust and complete surrender – to the present moment of that experience and all it brought. It took courage I didn’t know I had, grace I didn’t have, and a release from burdens I wished to no longer carry.
We had opened, and closed, our ceremony at the Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Mexico City where the Divine, Holy Mother appeared in apparition to a peasant man. She left her image on a lowly peasant’s tilma (outer wrap worn by men, much like a blanket-type covering), and that tilma still hangs, unchanged since her appearance in December 1531, in the Basilica. Science has disproved all the false allegations of its being phony. http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/meditations/samaha7.html
So it remains a mystery – as the Divine intends herself to be. I was profoundly inspired and unfailingly led by Our Lady Guadalupe.
Once the Spiritual Quest was officially over, I spent another week with the leader of our group and two other members of the Quest in a coastal city to integrate the deep and intense work that had been done. I knew I was not the same person I was when I came.
It became apparent the very first day in our new surroundings that the others weren’t there for integration in the same way as I. Partying on the beach had no appeal for me. I found myself justifying why I didn’t want to join them. That made for disagreements. There were many lessons for me in that week, but it began to get lonely.
One morning I agreed to go with them to an island beach with the group where I felt I could participate, yet integrate as I felt I needed. As I was wading in the warm, shallow surf I found my gaze traveling through the clear water along the sand where my feet were stepping. Suddenly I felt a warm rush of loving affirmation wash over me as I reached down and picked up the gift waiting for me there – a perfect, white heart made of coral.
There is no coral growing in that protected inlet – it had washed ashore from somewhere far away and was no longer sharp as knives because it had surrendered to the experiences that smoothed its edges. I recognized it as a gift from the Divine Mother and the Universe –acknowledging my commitment to the intention to live a new life; honoring my surrender to every experience that stripped away everything but what was true; a symbol of the great love held for me by the Divine, no matter what. My heart opened in deep gratitude.
**by Deonne Wright – RN, international aromatherapist, sound healer
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loving you,
Theresa
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this spud’s for you
There is Love in everything!
May a Sign of Love surprise you today.
loving you,
Theresa
**peeling potatoes and look what showed up! Theresa Gooch www.lookforsignsoflove.com
not what I wanted
Sometimes Love is where you least expect it.
Look for Signs of Love today.
** this avocado orchard is a very special place to me – during Jo Dunning’s retreat in Ventura, California there’s a chakra path winding through this orchard creating the most sacred, loving space. This year I found myself searching for branches that might have curved into a heart, or a heart opening through the leaves – or some exotic display of love. Every day, I passed over this heart that was quietly dried in the center of a huge avocado leaf. I was hoping for some other ‘sign of love’ to show up somewhere else . Alas, this is what the avocado orchard had to share…love is everywhere, even in the places we judge otherwise. Theresa Gooch – www.lookforsignsoflove.com
loving you,
Theresa
the heart of Hawaii
Your heart is beautiful.
You are a Sign of Love – thank you for touching my life.
**It’s Thanksgiving here in the United States – the day we mark to pause and give thanks.
When this was the photo I intuitively drew for this day – I wondered how it would weave itself here.
What rises from our hearts the instant we are filled with gratitude? – but Love itself.
The exquisite beauty, loveliness of the anthrurium – and what I’ve heard called the ‘queen of flowers’ and often called ‘the heart of Hawaii’ – reminds me of your heart. ‘Thank you’ from my heart to yours.
(photo taken in Ventura, California at Jo Dunnings retreat; retreats that change my life – every time.)
loving you,
Theresa
www.lookforsignsoflove.com
the inside story
Love is at the center, of heights we rise to.
Surround yourself with what you love -they are all Signs of Love.
loving you,
Theresa
**Photo taken in Eugene, Oregon by Carolyn Denton, interior designer – ‘creating spaces you love, with what you have’. www.crdentonconcepts.com
loving you,
Theresa
from the Cayman Islands
Love is pure acceptance.
Let go, and a Sign of Love will greet you.
**photo taken by Jan Kinney – a beautiful pure white heart coral found while walking on the beach in the Cayman Islands.
loving you,
Theresa
the nature of love
Love is kind.
Show kindness today, it’s a Sign of Love that will heal a bruise.
**Wanda Curtis, in Medford, Oregon was cutting the bruise from her apple and it happened to come off in a perfect heart! She says, ” May we see the heart in all our bruises of life “:
loving you,
Theresa
teardrops of Love (remarkable story)
Love holds you – always.
Look for Signs of Love today.
**Tears were streaming down my nose as I lay face down in prayer, feeling so unseen, scared and overwhelmed. I desperately wondered if there truly was a greater power that saw me, saw my pain and how I need answers and direction.
Deep down I knew God was there for me, but in these turbulent last few weeks I couldn’t feel that connection. It seemed as though I was being tossed in a tempest of circumstances, reactions and blows I didn’t expect or could handle.
I’m a single mom raising two beautiful children. It’s not easy filling in all the gaps, bringing home enough so they have all their needs met and giving them the nurturing time my mother heart wants to give them.
This morning, it was too much. All I could do was cry, and cry for help. I surrendered all, and I could faintly hear the music playing in the background – singing, that God is good. Tears flooded and I let them come until I felt a great relief.
As I rose, I saw my tears had puddled into a heart!!!! The heart was just for me to see, and the song playing now sang the gentle words that God loves us… just for me to hear.
Tears poured again in such gratitude for this simple but solid and beautiful sign that I am loved, and I am seen.
Theresa
www.lookforsignsoflove.com
Love is mushrooming
Love expands and increases everything good.
Be a Sign of Love today – live from your heart.
loving you,
Theresa
**I saw this mushroom growing at the base of a tree stump on a hiking trip this summer at Sahalie Falls, Oregon.
Theresa Gooch – www.lookforsignsoflove.com
