The Shift Ezine

Remove Rocks, Cultivate Gratitude

by Beca Lewis January 17, 2011

Where we live, the ground is hard and filled with rocks, not the kind of ground in which you can throw a seed and expect it to grow. Work is required. A garden is so much like life. Sometimes life can feel hard and filled with rocks, and nothing we do seems to take root. Work is required.

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Stop Responding To The False Appearing Real

by Beca Lewis January 11, 2011

We have the courage, strength, foresight, intelligence, and principles to not be swayed by lies. We can pause, listen, and investigate before acting or believing. We can choose to not participate on the side of violence either in words or in action.

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Are You Growing Under The Snow?

by Beca Lewis January 6, 2011

Last week we had a brief “warm” spell that melted the few feet of snow that had been covering the ground since the beginning of December. I took a walk around the yard and discovered something wonderful. Beneath that blanket of snow there had been a lot going on.

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A Popular Year-End Bad Habit

by Beca Lewis December 30, 2010

At the end of the year, we all tend to indulge in a bad habit. No, it’s not what you think. Actually, it is what you think. We have a bad habit about what we think about as we review the past year. We review what we did wrong, and then make goals to change [...]

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The Personality Package

by Beca Lewis December 22, 2010

Have you ever been stuck? Have you ever tried and tried to change your behavior, or habits, or thoughts only to find yourself back in the same cycle repeating itself over and over again? Of course, we all have, but that’s because we begin the desire to be “unstuck” from within the personality package and [...]

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Are You Ready To Receive?

by Beca Lewis December 6, 2010

Imagine that the best gift ever has arrived at your door, but it comes with a condition. You can only keep it if you have room for it now, not in the future, now. Exclaiming with pleasure and delight you jump up and start searching for a place to put it. Opening drawers, closets, and [...]

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That There May Be Equality

by Beca Lewis November 21, 2010

For the winter, I stuck a branch into the umbrella holder and hung the suet feeder from it so that it is only a foot from my office door. This makes it easy to change the suet. I just open the door and there it is, no need to walk out into the cold and coming snow!

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Broken Perceptions: Or Does Everything Hurt When You Poke It?

by Beca Lewis November 9, 2010

We can tell we have a broken finger by the pain we feel, and we can tell a broken perception in the same way, by the pain we feel. It is not necessarily a physical pain, although that can be a symptom, it is also emotional pain. We all have both of these kinds of pains at least some of the time.

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Let Go And Rise, Continue And Leap

by Beca Lewis October 26, 2010

My imagination took off as I thought of how the tree must feel to be free and clean to begin again, to be able to lift itself up higher into the sunlight. As the trees let go, the display of beautiful color and raining leaves is stunning. It’s not a sad time, it is a season of harvest and abundance and …. rising!

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In The Beginning Was …

by Beca Lewis October 10, 2010

Let me tell you two stories. You have heard them before so I’ll give you the cliff notes. One story is finished, the other one, well, we will each write the end of it in a manner and time of our own choosing.

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The Grocery Store Of Life

by Beca Lewis September 27, 2010

Standing in the grocery store aisle staring at the shelf, I couldn’t find what I wanted. I tried another aisle, then another – still nothing. Finally, I did what I should have done in the first place; I shifted my point of view. It was easy really, I simply said to myself, “What I am looking for is here.”

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A Magical Mystery Ride

by Beca Lewis September 16, 2010

I would like to take you on a train ride, not just any train, a Magical Mystery Train, a journey of perception. If you will come aboard, prepare to step off the train with an altered state of mind and point of view. What’s delightful about this train is that all you have to do [...]

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Plug Into Power

by Beca Lewis September 2, 2010

Where we live, we have many little spurts of power outage. That means while working at my desk computer I used to experience multiple cases of “you’ve got to be kidding” as the computer shut off in the middle of writing something. Finally, after the outage where I reacted with an almost equal reaction, we [...]

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Is Spirit Calling Your Name?

by Beca Lewis August 24, 2010

We were at the local corn fest, and had arrived just in time to hear the raffle announcer say, “Coleen Springer you have won the bike”. It was a cute little bike; I am sure Coleen would have loved it. They kept calling her name, and when she didn’t answer, they said they would draw [...]

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God’s Economy Is Thriving

by Beca Lewis August 16, 2010

The question is – are we participating. First, let’s discuss what we mean by God. On the other hand, perhaps we first should start with the opposite economy from God’s, the worldview economy, and then come back to what we mean by God. The worldview economy doesn’t just refer to how many people are out [...]

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