Rev Martina Schmidt's Blog

This year has been such a journey for me- a wonderful, healing, piss me off and bring out the nasty in me (because that shit's got to go) kind of year. I just celebrated my 45th birthday.  It was insignificant in the grand experience of my life- and I am deeply thankful for that.  I actually had a calm, loving and peaceful day with myself and my husband.  Having used to be someone who really NEEDED my birthday to be a big deal- you know expecting everyone to send me a card, have a local parade & sing to me as I walk down the street- kind of expectation.  But, interestingly now, I don't feel that way anymore.  I am just really really happy to let it be simple.  I wish I could share some profound wisdom with you as to how this came to be- but I have no idea what the fuck happened.  I am just plain ol' happy I was born. That being said, this year has been filled with some serious "aha" moments for me.  As I have said in a few of my ...

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.