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I have the pleasure of working my ass off as Dorothy!  Please join me as it all pays off on stage.  Here is the official announcement & invite:

You are cordially invited to “Ease on Down the Road” as Center for Spiritual Living presents another fun summer series.  Dorothy awakens after an earthquake to find that nothing is as she remembers it – nothing except her bossy, over-bearing sister, “Negative.”  Journey with Dorothy as she tries to find her way home and along the way meets a variety of L. Frank Baum’s most beloved characters, including Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion – all with a modern twist, of course!  The Wizard of SOM begins June 21st for six consecutive weeks leading up to a beautiful finale on July 26th.  Each musical vignette will be performed at both Sunday services, followed by Rev. David’s fabulous message; so whether you attend the 9:30 or the 11 AM service, you won’t miss out on this delightful trip down the yellow brick road!

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]]> http://www.cassandrarae.com/are-you-ready-for-laughter-and-music-and-cheers-oh-my/feed/ 0 http://www.cassandrarae.com/my-notes-after-a-love-meditation/ http://www.cassandrarae.com/my-notes-after-a-love-meditation/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:58:52 +0000 Cassandra Rae http://www.cassandrarae.com/?p=812 I’m taking the Foundations Class at the Center for Spiritual Living and one of our assignments was to do a guided meditation about love for a week. Here are some of my notes from what I learned through the experience:

• Focusing on love is easier with practice!
• I learned very young that it was not okay to love
• Today I gave my very young self permission to love her mommy
• She loves her mommy so much.
• She feels safe in her arms and she loves to cuddle
• She loves that her mommy is a big woman with brown hair
• Her mommy is soft and sweet
• Love feels tingly in my hands and arms – sometimes in my feet too
• Today love was not about sex, which was very nice
• Love is an emotion, sex is a physical act
• Love and sex are related and not exclusive
• It feels amazing to love
• It feels incredible to share my love with the world
• I did an exercise where I imagined my love growing from within me all the way through the stretch of the entire plane of existence – even to places I’ve never seen or can even comprehend right now
• And then I practiced shrinking the love back into my body
• It was a fun exercise that I enjoyed
• I also imagined loving all parts of myself from babyhood through childhood
• It gives me chills to imagine hugging my college self
• Oh this loving stuff is getting easier and easier!
• I’m so grateful for this exercise and that I am committed to it for every day this week
• The foundation of my day is love
• The foundation of my life is love
• It’s okay to love openly
• I’m free to love deeply
• Love is not going to kill me
• It’s okay to be vulnerable
• Life is better when you love openly
• I am strong and vulnerable
• It takes great strength to be vulnerable
• Love is our natural state of being
• Humans are loving machines

Wow this is cool!