Volume 13, Issue 9 | September 2024

Hi!

Fall officially arrived this year on September 22, when the Earth's equator directly aligned with the Sun. It is a pivotal point in the year, with equal parts day and night, symbolizing balance in the natural world.

The autumnal equinox is an auspicious time to revisit goals and release what no longer serves us. It also invites us to take a look at balance in our life.

For me it was particularly timely, presenting a meaningful message from Spirit: I need to work on balance and harmony in my life, especially my physical body, a temple of the living Spirit.

In my August 2024 newsletter I (tried to) describe the spiritual shift I had experienced earlier that month, which was like a switch getting turned “On,” going from “blah” about Life to enthusiastic. I mentioned that I’d opened my heart and mind to the Infinite, asked for help, held an expectation for good, and my innate joy and life improved. I expressed gratitude. And, I wrote “The Adventure continues and only Spirit knows where it is heading…” How true that proved to be!

A few weeks ago, as I laid in bed in the evening, I felt a little bit of pain in the lower right quadrant of my torso. The pain was minor but persisted into the next day. Only because the pain was in the area of my appendix and I knew better than to mess with that, did I ask a friend to take me to the ER. The short of it is that the pain was not due to an appendicitis (yay!), but something else that requires my attention. My body needs to get back into balance, and Spirit got my attention in a way that I would “consent” to venture down the Western Medicine route to some degree as I moved towards balance.

My body needed a break and, for starters, I am now in the midst of a liver cleanse. It has been amazing and fascinating to see the intelligence and power of the body at work to heal itself when it is given the correct fuel. A skin issue has dissolved and my systems are working better.

This health adventure Spirit has me on now is filled with peace, as I know my body is intelligent and can heal itself with the right assistance and as long as I do not resist. I am surrendering to the unknown and I’m surrendering to Spirit. After all, everything is Spirit.

I’ve made sure to not isolate and try to do this on my own. Folks have been wonderfully supportive and kind. Ya know, I feel I can walk through whatever Life throws my way as long as I remember Spirit is with me in everything and, on the human being-ness side, I have caring, helpful people in my life. It is all a potpourri of demonstrations of Love.

“I release the past season of my life and open my heart to new beginnings. I take steps to restore equilibrium to my life.”

—Mary Davis, Science of Mind Magazine, Sunday, September 22, 2024

Wishing you good health in all areas of your life as you move into this beautiful, colorful season of autumn and all the gifts it brings.

Blessings,

Listening to this instrumental piece, "Autumn’s Matchless Splendor" by Tim Janis makes my heart feel light and soar. Enjoy!

Spirituality

A Season of Balance, Introspection, and Union

The changing seasons are key points in the cycle of life in Nature. Fall represents the harvest time of year, a time to acknowledge growth and expansion as a natural evolution of our organic being. Our lives go through cycles of growth, harvest, death, and rebirth just like we see in Nature.

Acting as the bridge between the joyful abundance of summer and the darker winter months, autumn is a season that is associated with great transition. It is the season that invites us to surrender to change as Nature descends into a period of rest.

Autumn is a time to honor the harvest of the months before, whether that be a harvest of that which is planted in a garden or the harvest of efforts and intentions for your life path that you set earlier in the year. It is a time of balance and also a time to take stock of the inner harvest you have reaped from your work over the spring and summer months. And then, to start preparing the next harvest to come.

“… perhaps as the autumn equinox arrives with its reminder about balance and union and reconciling opposites, we might take a moment to look inside so that we can take one more step towards the marriage of masculine and feminine within each of our hearts. We embrace both energies and know that with increasing inner balance we see through a cleaner lens of our loving hearts in the present moment.”

—Miguel Dean

Inspiration and Contemplation

Prayer for Balance

God of balance,

we ask your blessing at this threshold

when light and dark are equal.

Teach us to welcome both

into our lives, making room for joy and sorrow,

for sunlight shimmering and moonlight radiance.

—Christine Valters Paintner, “Equinox Blessings”

People—and Other Beings—Making a Difference

Volunteers Help Feed People After Hurricane Helene

Across the Big Bend (in the curve of Florida's peninsula around the Gulf of Mexico) volunteers from around the country are helping those affected by Hurricane Helene.

Numerous groups are helping with supplies while rebuilding homes and businesses.

Suwannee is one location where Operation BBQ Relief was handing out meals. The Kansas City-based charity brings BBQ masters from across the country to feed people affected by disasters.

Its founder Stan Hays said it’s what they can do to help brighten someone’s day during their darkest time.

“When it’s somebody’s worst day, or worst week of their life potentially, I can’t change that. But I can give them something, like good comfort food like BBQ is, to get them past the next 5 to 10 minutes while they’re eating so they can think about those good times,” Hays said.

May the beauty and colors of autumn warm your heart and soul.

Blessings,

Let Us Not Forget!

Joyce S. Kaye, MSW

928.301.7292

joyce@thecomputerspirit.com

You, Me, and Spirit

I was a devout atheist until 34 years ago when I "came to believe" in a Power greater than myself. Thanks to hearing the novel idea (well, at least it was to me!) that one could choose their own concept of God—and name too (Spirit, The Great Mystery, All That Is, etc.)—and the workings of synchronicity, I embarked on a new way of thinking, a new way of living, a new way of being in the world and with others. It impacted all aspects of my life and relationships.

Since that time of commencing my conscious spiritual journey, I have endeavored to remember The Presence in all that is, all whom I meet, and all that I do—including working with clients in my own business, academia, and the corporate world. I strive to be of service and to nurture the human spirit in all environments.