Goodbye 2008!

Well, here it is the end of 2009!

I have many things to be thankful for this year but it also has been a year of struggle as well. I finally received my BS degree in Information Technology. My field placement is exciting and I am using the skills that I am learning both in school as well as with my job. The timing feels right this time around to go back to school.

I discovered blogging and the shutterfly community. I know…a bit behind but as I was dealing with some personal things, I turned to the various blogs and connected with some really cool people…especially FM, her amazing now defunct sites and Prof. C.I.T who has been so kind and encouraging to me. There are so many other as well…would be too long a list at this point to name all, but you know who you are!

Health wise, not so good. I want to say that a big part of this may be due to the crazy schedule I have right now.

Stress and anxiety are killers. It is amazing how this affects one’s body and mind. Getting enough rest and relaxation (the balance) back is rough. Thankfully, for the last 6 days, this is all I have been doing. Self care right??

So, if anyone is reading this, what are ways that you reduce stress and anxiety?

One thing that I did do is to balance my time management in doing my job, in the ministry and in school. This will free up some extra time for me in hopes of getting a wee bit more down time.

So, Happy New Year to you all and wishing you love and peace in the New Year.

...celebrate christmas!

Christmas is, & always will be, extra magical, during this time of the year, i tend to go all out to show my family and friends how much I care and appreciate them.

many people in my life mean a lot to me, but they may not know it because I don't say it enough ( don't we all have the same problem?) i can rattle off a whole list of names, but I just know I would ,miss someone out(..hmmm.. kinsa kaha!), I hope you guys know just how special you are to me.

You guys is one of the things that I truly feel passionate about. It is after all the evidence of my existence, as i like to call it, without you guys, I probably wouldn't have been motivated enough to push myself this far, ... thank you for being part of my life.

HAVE A BLESSED MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sharon's Favorite Quotes

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

God Is Everything

To me, God is not only the most beautiful Golden Being or Spirit; to me, God is everything. Anything that is God's creation embodies God. Anything that can be seen in God's creation is of God and for God. Anything that you appreciate here on earth is not only an embodiment of God but God Himself.

When we think of God in Heaven, we have more faith in Him. But God is also here on earth-inside me, inside you, inside everyone. God can be above in any form, or formless, as infinite Light, infinite Peace, infinite Bliss. Again, He can be inside our hearts, where our real existence is. And if we open our eyes and look at nature, at the mountains and rivers, that also is God.

So no matter which way we appreciate the reality or want to identify ourselves with the reality, we have to feel that we are appreciating and identifying ourselves with Divinity; and this Divinity we call either God or Spirit or Being. If you don't want to call it God, you are at perfect liberty not to do so. But you have to call it happiness. Happiness itself is God. You can appreciate the beauty of nature and if you are happy, then the happiness that you are getting is God. In one word, if God has to be defined, then I wish to say God is happiness.

You can forget the word 'God' and say 'Truth'. One of India's great politicians and great saints, Mahatma Gandhi, said: "If you say 'God', immediately some people will object to the conception; but if you speak of 'Truth', everybody agrees with you." So if I speak of Truth, boundless Truth inside nature, then I am satisfied, because this Truth is giving me happiness. So anything that gives one happiness is God. It can be nature; it can be a personal being and also an impersonal being. God is everything.