“Together, We’ve Got an Act”

September 20th, 2015

Perseverance FurthersI recently had the great honor of having my original artwork printed on the posters, programs, and T-shirts of the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival. As I walked into the festival, I stopped to visit with my dear friend Linette DeSano, who has a booth at the festival every year, and said to her, “Hey Linette, I’m so happy to be here, but I didn’t think to get organized to bring any cards or my jewelry to sell.” With a self-deprecating whine I said, “I need to get my act together!”

She looked at me and said, “Why don’t you go home and get your stuff and bring it back? You can sell it here”.

In that moment I had a realization. I said, “Hey, together, we’ve got an act!”

It was great to have postcards about my art available, as well as to have Linette sell some of my Unione Symbol pendants, making the weekend even more fruitful for me. But what excited me even more was the opportunity to again experience to reality of, “Together, we’ve got an act.”

I must admit I’m somewhat of a loner. I love to paint, generally alone. I love to write music, almost always alone. And I love to hike and bike, also often alone. But, over the past few years I have come to appreciate doing things with others and experiencing the extraordinary possibilities of working together with other people.

One of the greatest experiences of my life was creating a CD with some amazing musicians from my community in Lyons, and then performing with them at my CD release concert. That was truly the definition of, “Together, we’ve got an act.”

Another project I am currently involved with is the Clarifier Project in Lyons, Colorado. This is a mosaic art sculpture that has taken over 10 years to complete, with many hundreds of people working literally thousands of hours. This has been truly an experience of a community coming together with some amazing leadership to create an act of pure beauty and magic.

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The Clarifier Project came about as a few local artists saw the old abandoned local water treatment plant as a canvas instead of an eyesore. They began to solicit support and donations and got the town to give the building to a local art group, Confluence Community Arts (CoCoA), to bring the project into being. This project has become a beautiful example of how a few people with vision, commitment and know-how, can create a place for the entire community to participate – adding not only labor, but also opportunities to be creative within the project.

The project itself has a very long and powerful history, and I’m not going to begin to share it here. Please visit their website: http://clarifierproject.net/.

These are some high points of my life, but the true realization that we need each other came when I was trapped on literally an island with others in my community by a the devastating flood of September 12th, 2013. We truly needed each other to survive. I also found after the flood that I needed the help that came from friends, family and yes, the government.

It has been two years since the flood and there are many people who are still struggling to get their lives back together.  Some people want to come home. Others have gone on with their lives, and don’t want any more changes.  This has created conflict and division in our community.

I understand this perspective, as it comes from fear. People don’t want to loose what they have (perceived or real). There are many problems that we need to collectively address. We fear what we don’t know, and so we build walls to keep us safe. And then we distance ourselves from those who are different or may need us to give up something, and thus create the experience of separation.

But this is not how we are going to bring about critical solutions. To address all the problems in the world and turn them into opportunities, we need to unite. Not working together is self-defeating and self-sabotaging. I’m optimistic as I see this shift as part of an awakening in consciousness that is happening everywhere. When we expand our ability to be open-minded and open-hearted, we can see that creating separation is just an illusion. “They” become “We”, and we are all in this together.

I know everyone is valuable and everyone is needed. Everyone has a part to play and everyone has a gift. And when and where we realize it, we become the beneficiaries of those gifts. I am so grateful for everyone in my life and on this planet. As I have become more interested in collaboration and co-creation over my old habits of doing it alone, my life is definitely richer.

I am optimistic that this world can get its act together, because “together, we’ve got an act!”

DianeDiane Dandeneau is a spiritual teacher, recording and fine artist, author and activist. She is the author of the book, Journey to the Soul, Connecting to the Truth of Who You Are Through Journaling, and the upcoming book, The Year of Awakening. She provides private coaching and group programs, teaching people how to Talk to God AND Get the Answers for Living a Divinely Guided Life.

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Friday, September 11th, 2015

September 11th, 2015

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

September 9th, 2015

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Good morning God. I am loving the reality of being unlimited and knowing that anything is possible. I am writing and coaching and living the message you gave me a few days ago – living my life creating “beautiful works of art”.  This is beyond what I and most people think of as art. I love living in the place where everything – every expression is intended to be a beautiful work of art.

“Good morning my love. Yes!!! Life is a creative adventure or a dismal bore. It is what you make of it. You are realizing this more and more every day and are choosing to experience greater adventures than ever.  Yes, paint, write music, sing and play! See everything as your choice and what you have attracted and created. Now, write the script you want to play out now. Create beautiful art. Since you have the power of the universe in your hands, what will you create now?

Love, God”

Above is the Art of the Clarifier Project.  Check it our here:  http://clarifierproject.net/

 

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2015

September 8th, 2015

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Good morning God. As I’m focusing on our work, it feel like there is nothing else for me now.  I feel empowered and inspired.  I’m writing a lot too!

“Good morning my love. You have chosen to do what your heart is calling you to do now.  You are building your capacity for teaching what you have learned. Let this power grow and flow. Share your writing! It is coming through you. We have much to share.

Love, God”

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Monday, September 7th, 2015

September 7th, 2015

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“…Remember that everything is possible. Let the joy in your heart show you what to do and where to go. This is the path to being You.

Love, God”

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Good morning God. As I’m stepping into my new freedom, my mind is at a loss.  I’m not sure where to go as I am in an unfamiliar place that feels very new and different. So, I’m awaiting your guidance.

“Good morning my love. Welcome to the place where you are living with/from Me. This is where you begin to truly live a Divinely guided life. It is new and different, so please don’t try to equate it with anything you have experienced before. Relax and trust my guidance. Observe the visions and desires as they come and welcome them. Limit nothing. Allow you mind to expand to embrace them. Let you self grow in your conscious awareness.  Remember that everything is possible. Let the joy in your heart show you what to do and where to go. This is the path to being You.

Love, God”

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Sunday, September 6th, 2015

September 6th, 2015

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“…You are free to move about the cabin. In fact, you are free to fly the plane. What does that feel like? Where do you want to go? You are in charge now.

Love, God”

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Good morning God. I am seeing the greatest block to my power and am clearing it – my need to be seen.  This has shown up as waiting for others to recognize what I can give, to recognize my love, recognize me, in order to fully show up.  It has been like I have been living from a place of waiting for permission to share and be who I am.  As I have been working through this, doing forgiveness work, and realizing that this is my ego’s version of humility, versus real humility, I have become free to truly give from a place of authentic humility.  Thank you.

“Good morning my love. Beautiful. Now, you are free. You don’t have to wait to be seen or for permission to be you any more. Now you can go clearly and powerfully into this world and give from this place of humility. Your healing work is done (for now). You have nothing you need to work on other than giving your gifts. You are free to move about the cabin. In fact, you are free to fly the plane. What does that feel like? Where do you want to go? You are in charge now.

Love, God”

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Saturday, September 5th, 2015

September 5th, 2015

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“…Honor your gifts by giving them with all your heart. Follow the incredible joy that comes from living your truth.

Love, God”

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Good morning God. I love my new workday.  Meditation, hike, writing with you, making some sales calls, preparing materials for a workshop, practicing my songs, making lunch in my kitchen…  I feel relaxed, focused, productive, and on purpose! Thank you.

“Good morning my love. You are on purpose and you know it. Notice how you are feeling about your workshops and webinars – excited, confident and fearless. You are now completely aligned and ready to take our work to the next level. Your music is honed, practiced and solid.  Your voice caries the confidence that you have gained through your commitment to embodying me. Your message is from the truth of your Soul.  Honor your gifts by giving them with all your heart. Follow the incredible joy that comes from living your truth.

Love, God”

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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015

September 2nd, 2015

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Good morning God. Thank you for my freedom.  I’m stepping into the expression of me that wants to emerge now. It feels wonderful, and a yet bit awkward in my physical body and habitual thinking mind. It’s interesting to see my mind rather confused as to what I’m supposed to be thinking about.  Help me let go of the past and clear all the thinking and negative energy associated with it.

“Good morning my love. Your continued observation and self awareness is beautiful. You said it perfectly – your habitual thinking is the realm of lower levels of consciousness. A habit is made from a past decision and you can become a prisoner of your own past choice.  You have now chosen something different, but it is not a one time choice that you don’t have to think about, but the choice of complete freedom to choose what you are doing in every moment of every day, what you want to create now. You have had “jobs” in your life where you did not have the responsibility of deciding what you needed to do every day. You needed to do this to help you have space to heal and grow. And now you are back in the place where it is completely up to you.  What is wonderful is that you are more prepared, capable, and ready to be the executive of your own life than ever before. So with confidence and trust in your Self, who is now consciously working with Me, create your business. Commit to it.  Focus on it. Trust it will be successful at a whole new level, because you can make it so. You feel the difference now as you don’t have the doubt you have had in the past. And from here you can see how it all was important to bring you to this point of being ready… again.  You’ve done this before with different levels of success and outcomes. Use them all as your teachers.  Appreciate everything and everyone for bringing you here.  And from this place of love and appreciation, what do you want to create now?  This is what you must focus your thinking on.

Love, God”

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Tuesday, September, 1st, 2015

September 1st, 2015

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Good morning my Dear One. I’m so happy to invite you to join my upcoming free webinar: Talk to God AND Get the Answers, Thursday, Sept 3rd at 7:00 PM. Register HERE.

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Good morning God. Today is a new beginning! I have left the work I was doing with complete peace and knowing it was time.  I’m ready to serve in a new way. I’m here, trusting with absolute humility.

“Good morning my love. Wonderful. From this place of humility you can truly serve the world with the gifts that have been given to you to share. Remember that they do not belong to you – they belong to everyone. So now, focus on the gifts you have to give. They are right here awaiting your attention.

Love, God”

 

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Monday, August 31st, 2015

August 31st, 2015

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Good morning my Dear One.  I’m so happy to invite you to join my upcoming free webinar:  Talk to God AND Get the Answers, Thursday, Sept 3rd at 7:00 PM.  Register HERE. 

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Good morning God. One of your beautiful teachers left the earth.  Wayne Dyer was an amazing, articulate and inspiring teacher. I had hoped to meet him some day.  Maybe I’ll have a better chance to do that now on a different realm.

“Good morning my love. He is teaching a higher level now. He has re-merged with the Christ consciousness and is helping with the awakening from a whole new level. As great as he was able to teach and inspire on the earth plane, he will be able to do so much more from where he is.  This is why he left. He accomplished what he came to do and is now on to greater expressions of healing and awakening for him.

You are on a similar journey, though at the beginning.  You still don’t see your self as a teacher as you feel you have so much to learn and master. Yet Wayne was always the student and that never stopped him from teaching. You have so much to teach right now and there is no reason not to share it – nor anything else to wait for.  Focus on your gifts and prepare them to share. Make time to write our book.  Do only what supports this.  If there is anything that distracts you from your teaching, then it is not yours to do. This is your criteria (and the feeling of joy will be your indicator of this criteria). Focus on your projects and make them beautiful. Trust that those who need what you have will come to it.  Be patient. Create beautiful art.  This you know you can do.  

Love, God”

 

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Sunday, August 30th, 2015

August 30th, 2015

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Good morning God. Thank You (and Jan) for the book, The Way of Mastery.

“Good morning my love. You are becoming a Master.  As you come to Me you remember who You are. With this remembering comes the feelings of peace, joy and love and a shift in perspective. As you come here you can create from a whole different level.”

Yes, I’m ready to create a whole new experience of my life, so I’m here to co-create with you! While I’m writing this, there is a part of me that is raging inside – at unfairness, dysfunction and unkindness. I see her as a separate entity, yet she thinks and feels and is angry. I’m watching her like she is someone else who is living inside of me. Yet, I can feel her rage.

Talk to her. Tell her it is OK.  She can rest as everything is really fine. There is no rush.  She is impatient and believes that you are behind and that the world in conspiring against you both.  But, everything is in its perfect timing. There is nothing that she nor you need to rage at. All events are in the past and no longer exist. You can now choose to create a different future with a different decision.

OK.  I’ve decided: No-one can touch me. Nothing can harm me. I see life as unfolding perfectly and beautifully and easily no matter what others around me do or believe. I am a victim of nothing and no-one as I am free.  I am free.  I am free to follow what is joyful, just as I am free to do what is not. As I write this I’m feeling a release of this rage and another shift which is going deeper into what I sense is truth – the realm of the heart.

Yes, my love. This is the realm of your truth – your Self – your Soul. The deeper knowing of what will bring you the greatest joy and peace. It is beyond your fear and rage and by releasing your anger as you did just now, you are able to come here as it is the realm of truth beyond fear where your heart is ignited and engaged. This is the place you must live in order to create the life you want now. Welcome home. Coming here is all you have to do.  Now, from here, what do you know is the truth?

Love, God”

 

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Saturday, August 29th, 2015

August 29th, 2015

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Good morning God. I’m so grateful for everything and everyone in my life.  Things are changing and I have so many ways that I can serve showing up. I now need your help in deciding what I should do to bring me and others the greatest joy.  This feels like a great new criteria for me and my work.

“Good morning my love. There is nothing else for you to do now.  This is the criteria for creating beauty and bringing love.  Joy is the child of love.  Start with what feels loving to you, as you then allow what is loving to come through you.  You will see what you need to learn in this. Suffering is not required any more. As I told you the first day that I wrote to you:  ‘Focus on fun, joy, and love.  For your joyous action is my love in motion…’

Love, God”

 

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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015

August 26th, 2015

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Good morning God. Yesterday I explored my “need to be seen” as I rode my bike up the mountain. I could see the subtle (and not so subtle) truth to that – even as I also truly want to serve. I can see this need in just about everyone as well. Yet it must be the ego, because I know my soul has no needs. I continue to ask myself what I would do or care about if I didn’t have a need to be seen.  The answer to this was nothing less than complete freedom and peace. Oh, and thank you for the gourmet lunch you provided at the top of the mountain when I was starving and had forgotten to bring some food!*

“Good morning my love. Wow, you made some beautiful strides in this exploration! Like your painting, your bike is a place you find your Self and bring your body and mind into alignment.  There is a realization here for you to see – if you decide that you need nothing, then you make room for Me to bring you everything you could possibly want and need – beyond your wildest dreams. So, are you willing to give up the ego’s (the world’s) limited desires, for my infinite possibilities and magnificent gifts?

Yes!

“Great. Decide that you need nothing but Me, and watch the miracles continue!

Love, God”

*A note about the ride and the lunch.  I had a schedule change, so I had some time to do some self care. I decided to take a bike ride up the mountain from my house as I’m training for a Century ride in September.  I didn’t know how far I would go, then about half way up I decided to ride to Raymond where there is a store and I could get something to eat, as I was also getting hungry.  When I was almost there, I realized I was really hungry and starting to bonk.  When I got there, the store was closed, but in the parking lot was a bike tour van with an incredible spread of food for the people on the tour.  They said hello to me and invited me to join them!  It was one of the best lunches I’ve had in years!  There were also some racers from the recent Colorado pro bike race and some very cool people to talk to.  In the middle of no-where. It did seem quite miraculous.

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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015

August 25th, 2015

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Good morning God. I’m still struggling with the truth – accepting the truth. I need to leave a situation that I can’t help or change. It is not a good place for me to be. But, I keep thinking about how I can stay.  This has been a pattern for me through my whole life – not leaving situations that no longer worked.

“Good morning my love. There has been perfection in all of it and now you get to choose again. This is the opportunity for you to release your ego’s need to be seen and see how this situation is a mirror for that. Remove that need and what is left to want?

Nothing.

“What becomes your motivation?” 

Bringing real service – creating real value – for those who want it.

“Wonderful.  Go where you can truly do that. 

Love, God”

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Monday, August 24th, 2015

August 24th, 2015

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Good morning God. Well, I have made a decision to re-launch my spiritual teaching and coaching work and finish my book.  So what did I do?  I scheduled at art show for January, 2016! Somehow this makes sense, right?

“Good morning my love. You said it yesterday.  Your painting is the one thing you can do to show your self what it is like to be you. This is what all art is about. It is a unique expression and reflection of your soul that is visible to you and sometimes to others. Do this so you can do everything else. You feel the energy. Follow it! This is your key to being Me. This gift is welling up in you and is going to carry you home. Your art is beautiful because you are beautiful!  This is true of all art that comes from the heart.

Love, God”

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