Rev Martina Schmidt's Blog

Yesterday as I sat in my seat as "spiritual counselor", coaching another client on the road of life, I was struck by the urge to shake him and say, "Do you know how f*cking amazing you are? Why do you continue to settle for so much less than you deserve? Get over her and move on!" Doing the work I do as a healer and counselor, I see what I call "switches" inside each and every beautiful Soul, that have been turned off by pain and rejection. Switches that need to be turned back on for that person to be happy and productive in their life. Switches that say, "I am a miracle, I am a gift, I am enough, and I can!" So on this day, I wanted to run through the halls of his heart, flipping switches like a crazy warrior.  Screaming, "Damn them all!  You are amazing and worthy and lovable!" But, I didn't. Instead I sat, listened and reflected back what he needed to hear to flip a switch for himself.  I loved him gently and passive...

Meditation's Gift Today I choose to listen. I choose to sit quietly with myself and to open. To stop running to the phone as sounds it's tiny alarms,  pulling me from my Peace, or the computer that hums a song of wasting time. Today I choose to listen, to the voice that remembers why  and what my Soul wants to share. Today I choose to listen. There's a voice weeping softly deep in my belly,  that I will not hear when I am moving and rushing to "get it done". Today I choose to listen to her wanting and her tenderness,  which reveals my deepest self. Today I choose to listen, to LOVE as it whispers words of healing, and kindness to my heart. Today I choose to listen, and KNOW my own essence as beauty and fire and water. What is your Soul asking for you to hear? Only the Silence can show you.