Hi Rio

[Irinja]

Hi Rio

Thank you for your reply. I was so glad to get your response. It´s s nice to share with others.

I really liked the thought about a journal and a goal book, I feel like trying it out. Thank you so much for the inspiration. Also funny enough nutrition has been a little under estimated in my life, I kind of think what you wrote also is a hint about was is ahead for me. If you know what I mean.

You have made a great change in your life with your self-care program. Congratulations, it´s so nice to hear about positive changes. Keep up the good work.

Maybe my new goal book will need to contain a little more self-care than I thought. (Great). Anyway I got a nice haircut today, so I must be on the journey in some ways.

Right now I get much out of guided meditations, it really feels like it makes a shift for me. Staying in feelings of love, peace and so on. It really makes a big difference in my life.

Also I´m doing a little work, trying to get a stronger connection to people I can share my goals, doing, thoughts and so on with. If this supports something in you too please write again. No matter what take care and thank you for your reply.

Lots of love

Irinja

[Rioko]

Hi Irinja!

Happy for you that you went and got your hair cut! Change and pampering can be good for the heart, mind and soul.

Congratulations to you for picking up, dusting off, and keeping on keeping on.

I agree it's important to our self-care that we make an effort to stay in feelings of love, peace, grace and so on. I'm glad you feel inspired to journal and set goals. I'd like to hear more about your guided meditations. Do you use a book, or do them at a certain time of day? How are you working toward the goal of strengthening and building your connections with others?

It's truly exciting that better health, energy and fitness may lie in the path ahead for you. It was also an underestimated part of my life too, and I had no idea of how this affected my energy level.

Yet, after I'd done a lot of internal work and grown in ways emotionally, spiritually, and mentally, I felt something was missing in terms of my knowledge of physical health and fitness. The Holy Spirit guided me to check out some library books, and in just a short time, I have made some beneficial improvements in diet and exercise. I have more overall strength and energy now. Now I am setting some fitness goals.

Thank you so much for the support and sharing. May your day be blessed!

Rio

[Irinja]

Hi Rio

I must have been a little confused last I wrote, now I´ve finally found your response, thank you so much. I´m so glad you wrote back, it feels to me like we can share so many good things and inspirations.

Looking back I kind of understand, why I haven´t been my usual self.

You see: I just got married and I´ve been so happy and joyful and away on honeymoon and everything has been so beautiful and nice.

My husbands family have welcomed me with open arms and there has been so much love and sharing, that everything has almost been spinning around. I´m so grateful and happy and still everything is so new to me. It´s only been a week and a single day since we got married.

Looking back I know that things wouldn´t have been this way, if I hadn´t been on a jouney for quite some time. I´m so glad to have reached a place where I am ready to take in love and trust in all the good things happening.

I think it will take a couple of days before I will continue my thoughts and doing concerning spiritual development. I´m so much in the middle of celebration still. Ealier I always forgot to celebrate, but this time I love making room for it.

There is so much I would like to reply on from your earlier message, I hope it´s okay if I wait until my head is able to think straight again. It sounds so interesting and positive all the things you are doing.

I also felt so happy when I sensed that God has a place in your life too. Not being afraid to write about it. I would not have found my husband if I hadn´t asked the universe for love. Only nobody but my husband knows this. I asked for love more than anything else in the whole universe and I recieved it. I don´t think it was all just my own doing.

Once again thank you for your reply. I hope to stay in contact with you and share more concrete things as well.

Whatever steps you are taking right now - I wish you a lot of joy and love taking them. Have a beautiful day.

Lots of love

Irinja

[Rioko]

Hi Irinja,

Congratulations to you on your marriage! You sound really happy.

It's wise and positive that you're taking time to enjoy the love the Universe has sent you. I understand your gratitude at having had your prayers answered. When we love ourselves enough to ask for God to work His will and trust that He will provide what we need, we allow countless blessings to come into our lives. (Ask, Seek, Knock...Matthew 7:7 Holy Bible) Sometimes it's hard to wait on God's timing, but faith, patience and discernment is so key I think. So that's what I'm praying for in different areas of my life right now.

If you like, please share more about how you've come to this place in your spiritual journey to learn to trust in the love and good things happening. Have you come to understand why was that difficult for you to do in the past? I ask, because I have had similar challenges along the way...

Thank you for the spirit of love and support in your post. I hope your week is coming along great!

Rio

[Irinja]

Hi Rio

It´s been quite a while, but I thought I´d try to send you a message anyway. So many things have happend, but I hope your still around.

Something you wrote last time, has made me think about my life. Looking back on my life, I´m quite sure, that one of my lessons here in life is about love. Learning to feel love understand it and so on. It has taken me quite a while to understand that love can come from anyone. Not nessecarily those we expect it from. There are so many people around to give love. So much sharing can happen if you only reach out and don´t expect it to come from certain places. I´ve have much experience with hurt and misunderstadings of love in my childhood. But sometimes lack of things can bring us much closer to what we really want because it makes us keep searching and exploring things.

I think one of the nice things for me also is, that right now it doesn´t matter much to me what happend earlier. I´m just so glad to be where I am right now. The lack of love, the lack of joy and the lack of trust in my life, really has put me on a determined journey to create all those things.

Right now I listen very much to tapes with Sanya Roman, she´s channeling a guide called Orin. One set of tapes is called living with joy and it gives me so much wisdom and guidance.

Well enough about me. I hope you are still on a good road of exploring and creating the changes you wish in your life. If you still feel like sharing things please send a reply. I´d love to hear what you are doing and how things are going for you.

Lots of love Irinja

[Rioko]

Hello Irinja!

How are things going? Your last post sounded introspective.

I sense that although you have experienced much joy and love recently, you have some deep-down fear of losing the happiness because you may not trust it based on the past. Is that right? If not, please don't mind it. I think learning to just trust God to take good care of us--despite what harm others have done or do to us--can be challenging. If it were easy, we wouldn't need the Holy Spirit's help.

So, hang in there and keep focusing on finding strength by grace and by faith. God wants us to be happy ultimately, we can trust in that as we pray for guidance and take steps to create the happiness we want.

Thanks for the Sanya Roman suggestion. I've never heard of her but will keep her in mind for future audiotapes. Are you still working with the tapes and finding joy and comfort in them?

I'm happy to hear you are committed to creating the love, trust and joy in your life regardless of the past. I am working on the same kind of thing. In the Holy Bible (New International Version), 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13 (Love) and Galatians 5:16-26 (Fruit of the Spirit) have been among the many verses that have given me conviction and strength in that regard.

What you said about not "expecting" love to come from certain places is very wise. Also, it's good to remember that there is "family" of the flesh, but also "family" of the spirit. Sarah Ban Breathnach talks about this in her book "Something More," and you may find that book interesting at the point you're at right now. (I also loved her book "Simple Abundance.") The flesh vs. spirit concept is one explored throughout the Bible as well.

It is true that love can come from all sorts of places if we only open up to it. A joining of the spirit, or a spiritual connection, is one that is rooted in a godly love, and is one that we can experience with someone regardless of whether we share blood with them or not. This is the joining of husband and wife, but also mother and adopted child, friends, or even strangers whose paths cross with yours in joy and goodness if only for a moment in time.

It sounds like your heart is open and grateful. What I wish for you is other open-hearted, open-minded, appreciative souls to share in your journey. And, I wish you joy, smiles and comfort today. Take care.

Rio