The Shift Ezine

Breaking Rules

by Beca Lewis January 3, 2010

We were having lunch at a little café during a lunch break at a Utopian Conference where my dad was both a key speaker, and the founder of the conference. The waitress was either busy, or ignoring us. Either way my dad wanted more coffee and someone else at the table needed mustard. After a [...]

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Gifting Your Future Self

by Beca Lewis December 8, 2009

Instead of giving our future self a problem, wouldn’t it be more fun to give our future self a gift? Future self – as in tomorrow, later today, next year, or 10 years from now. We all do it sometimes. We make enough in one meal to have it later. We save some money to [...]

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Fire And Flow

by Beca Lewis November 24, 2009

During one of our early morning talks in the dark, Del with his coffee and me with my honey and vinegar, we sat watching the fire in our stove. The fire was doing something we had never seen before. It would quiet down so that all that we saw were very hot logs, and then [...]

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Listening To The Tree

by Beca Lewis November 13, 2009

Last summer, after we had moved into in our new home, my gardener daughter and I walked the property to see what plants already lived there, and to check on which ones seemed happy and which ones did not. In the back yard we both noticed a spruce tree that had a slight lean to [...]

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Leaves As Money

by Beca Lewis October 29, 2009

I stepped into the lovely fall day and was surrounded by leaves. Leaves on the trees, leaves falling like rain, leaves covering every surface on the ground. It was a stunningly beautiful sight! For the next few hours I blew leaves into piles, raked leaves into more piles, and carted leaves to the edge of [...]

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Cha-Ching Clarity About God

by Beca Lewis October 13, 2009

Have you ever had a cha-ching moment? It’s the moment when a new view of what has always been present becomes apparent to you; when something you have been trying to understand flashes through your thinking in an entirely different way and as it does so you “get it!” We have all had those moments [...]

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Sometimes You Gotta Cut Wood – And Take Out The Trash

by Beca Lewis September 29, 2009

Before we purchased our woodstove Del prepared a huge stack of wood to take us through the winter. Our original intent was to purchase a stove that took 18 inch logs. However, when we were unable to find that size we ended up with a smaller stove that takes only 16 inch logs. This meant [...]

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How Do You Do That

by Beca Lewis September 17, 2009

Once I asked a seagull, “How do you do that?” I was walking along the beach near Delmar, California and a seagull flew by. It stopped in front of me, hovered, and then flew on. I thought that was so cool that I called out to him, “Hey, how do you do that?” Its answer [...]

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There Is Always A Way

by Beca Lewis August 27, 2009

Every morning I have a drink that begins with a cup of hot water. One morning our microwave broke so I thought, “Well I guess I won’t be drinking that this morning.” It took a few minutes before I realized that a microwave is not the only way to heat hot water, just the one [...]

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Loved Ones May Leave, Love Remains

by Beca Lewis August 10, 2009

Sometimes loved ones appear to leave us by choice, either ours or theirs; or they leave when it is time for them to leave. They either leave to a place in this state of being called earth where it is possible to see them again, or they make a transition to a state of being [...]

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How Are You Known?

by Beca Lewis July 21, 2009

This is the first Ezine I have ever written that will not be read by my dad; instead it is inspired by him….. My dad passed away a few days ago. Asleep now to the worldview he is free to choose to be exactly what he is, and although I will miss him very much, [...]

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Re-Set Perceptions To Re-Set Your Life

by Beca Lewis July 2, 2009

Core values, family history, worldview agreements, and personal habits all entwine together to present a picture we call our life. Our lives are like a movie that goes on and on because we go on about it. We stand in the middle of this movie, like characters on the screen, and try to change it [...]

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The Ultimate Partnership

by Beca Lewis June 15, 2009

“Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe.” Mary Baker Eddy A step into a study of partnering becomes an exercise in an increased awareness of how we are all one when we begin with the ultimate partnership between [...]

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There Is Plenty Of Room

by Beca Lewis May 29, 2009

The dawn chorus of birds singing of their freedom and the beauty of a new day has begun outside my window. It fills the space with the songs of celebration of loving life. The trees are completely leafed out spreading out as far as they can reach, and the stream flows freely. This expansive outreach [...]

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The Illusion of Debt and Lack: A Star Trek Lesson

by Beca Lewis May 14, 2009

With a new Star Trek movie out I was reminded of a lesson I learned from Star Trek and how it relates to what appears to be going on in the world. It is the story of the power of illusion and how to see through it. Star Trek fan or not – yes I [...]

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