A funny thing happened on my way to hosting Glow With The Flow Radio Show on April 15, 2010.

I’m not.  And it’s all good.

My contract with the 7th Wave Network of VoiceAmerica Talk Radio has run its course.  If you’re interested in hosting a radio show on a professional platform, I give them the highest possible recommendation.  Everyone has been helpful, supportive, and kind.  From my heart, thank you Brandy, Randy, Ruben, Jeff, Michael, Chad, and anyone else I’m forgetting.

I’ve been blessed to have had incredible guests to chat with during my fourteen weeks on 7th Wave.  I’ve really enjoyed getting to know them or renewing my acquaintance with them.  I hope you have, too.  Thank you Stephen Edwards, Keith Varnum, Luke Robinson, Joe Nunziata, Jonathan Divine, Jenn Edwards, Judy Foster, Brian Lowney, Bob DeMarco, Adrianna Larkin, Don Shapiro, Heron Free, Joe Rumbolo, Bonny Cheryl, Gina Julie, and Douglas H. Melloy.  I’ve been inspired, amused, enlightened, and embraced by you and I look forward to continuing the connection in the future.

What’s next?

For the time being, I’ll get back to writing two books, guest blogging, and guesting on other people’s radio shows.  As a contributing writer for http://www. AlzheimersReadingRoom,com, I’ll be posting articles on keeping the love alive between caregivers and loved ones during the dementia experience.  As for the rest, I’m surrendering it to Spirit.  I love hosting radio shows and, if that’s to be part of my future, I trust it will show up in the perfect way at the perfect time. You might find me hosting a show every so often until I find another home.  If that happens, I’ll list it here.  C’mon down!

If you’ve followed my shows, you know my mother has dementia.  Although she’s fought a valiant fight for a long time, the dementia eventually wins.  I’m glad to be freed from my weekly radio responsibilities so I can spend time with her as needed.  It’s looking like that will be happening more and more.  I’m writing a book about our spiritual journey through dementia.  It was going to be called "Nine Roses for Eleanor: a spiritual journey through dementia," but as of this morning, there’s a new title.

I call my mother each morning to wish her a good day.  Although her deteriorating condition has changed the way we speak, I want her to feel that connection with me and I want to feel that connection with her.  Today is a sunny day here.  I asked her how the weather is where she is.  We dance that dance at least five times during each conversation as her short-term memory is failing.  It usually doesn’t matter what we say.  It doesn’t matter how she says what she says, which doesn’t always make sense to me. The vibration of my voice is healing for her and the vibration of her voice is healing for me.

Something magical happened today.  Several minutes into our continuing chat about the weather, I asked her if it is sunny where she is.  Her answer gave me chills.  She said:  "Yes.  The light is a thank you."

Wow.

I’ve sat with that comment for most of the day.  It’s the sort of comment her father would have offered up  After his career as a rabbi was stalled, courtesy of the Czar’s conscription law, he became a lifelong scholar and philosopher.  My mom has gone through her life with a different focus.  Let’s put it this way.  Two years ago, my friend Bonny Cheryl and her husband Ken came east and dined with us.  She listened to Bonny and me chat about how she’d asked for the parking angels to lead her to the perfect parking space on a busy Saturday night at an ocean community before turning to Ken to say, "I don’t know what the hell the two of them are talking about."

Her comment today was stunning in its deep simplicity.

What does it mean?

I think it’s up to all of us to figure that out for ourselves.

It’s going to be included in the eulogy I’ll be delivering when God calls her Home, and it’s going to be the title of the book I’m writing about her.

Thank you, Mom.  If you have other information to share with me, I’m ready to hear it.

And thank you for listening to my shows and for reading this post.

Til we meet again…….

Love and Blessings,

Sheryl

copywrite 2010 Sheryl Lynn .  All rights reserved.  Permission is granted to forward this writing only if the entire piece and this paragraph of credit is included.

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Dear Friends,

Have you ever discovered a word you sensed, even before you researched its true meaning, would change your life?

Today, for me, that word is ally.

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, my hometown, the Boulevard of the Allies connects Downtown with Oakland.  I always felt I was on sacred ground when traveling that road.  Its very name felt exalted to me.  I even paused when enunciating its syllables; speaking each precious segment of the lengthy name felt to me like I was paying homage. The road wasn’t named Allies Boulevard, not placing the type of road in front of the name the road was given as we do with most roads.  This road was the Boulevard of the Allies.  The use of the designation Boulevard evoked images of France, majesty, and graceful elegance for me.

I eventually learned that the Boulevard of the Allies was named for the Allies in World War I.  I’d wondered what an Ally was.  An Ally felt like much more than a Friend, but I didn’t know how or why that was.  What made an Ally an Ally, not a Friend?  I’d wondered about this for many years, but I didn’t understand until several weeks ago.

The word "ally" comes from the Old French word "alier" and the Latin word "alligare."  Alier comes from a slightly differentiated stem of the word "aleier," which is also the source of the word "alloy."  What is an alloy?  An alloy is made when two metals or a metal and something else are melted down and mixed together, thus forming a new entity combining the separate qualities of both ingredients.  The two parts have now become one.  And alligare means "to bind to."  Thus, the ally is much more than a friend.  The ally has bound to and become one with something else, forming a synergistic unit that is much more powerful than its previously individual components.

The ally relationship is a sacred relationship only entered into when both parties agree to become one.  How could it be otherwise when two elements are binding with each other and joining to become something greater than each of its parts could be on its own?

I have found that sacred relationships - ally relationships - have four common elements: transparency, trust, union, and loving completion. Without a mutual commitment to take down our walls in order to be transparent with each other from day one to completion, without a mutual commitment to only do things to build trust from day one to completion and without a mutual commitment to only do things to be worthy of that trust in return, without a mutual commitment to placing the union as a high priority in both lives and to only do that which continually builds union with each other, and without a mutual commitment to part ways with love and respect when one or both parties conclude that the relationship no longer serves their needs, the construct of the ally relationship is doomed to failure.

I have entered into an ally relationship that is teaching me, a little more each day, how to do all relationship. If you have never joined in an ally relationship, perhaps the following will help you understand how it works to be an ally.

I recently learned I have a health issue that requires me to choose each day between health and illness.  In order for me to continue to live, I consciously partner with my body.  I am a spiritual being having a physical experience in this lifetime; in order for me to express in this physical world, I need to have a physical vehicle with which to do it.  My body needs me to consciously partner with it, and I need to consciously partner with my body.  I choose new ways of living to support good health; the many lifestyle changes I’ve now implemented include new food choices.  My optimal diet has radically changed during the past several weeks.  What I used to eat to maintain health and what I now eat to maintain health are two very different diets.  If I deviate from the healthy diet, consequences arise that now make it impossible for me to function as I want to function.  But I still crave the foods I used to eat.

If I deviate from this diet, I am not treating my body as my ally.  If I deviate from this diet,  I am not in sacred relationship with my body.  If I stay on this diet, I am showing my body it can trust me to maintain its health, I am showing my body I love it so much I will not do anything to damage our union, I am showing my body I’m committed to helping it stay as healthy as possible, and I am showing my body that I am working to delay its demise.

I’d worked with my body before to regain and maintain health, but I’ve never before partnered as an ally with my body.  A series of major life stresses showed up during the past few years, especially during the past months, bambambambambambam, much like the final barrage of fireworks at a holiday celebration.  They collectively did a number on my health, and I’ve now pledged to become my own ally.  I closely monitor what I allow myself to experience in order to create the highest possible quality of life.  I stay connected to Spirit, I pay attention to what my body tells me as I go through my day, I do what my inner knowing tells me to do, I only align myself with people who cherish me consistently through their thoughts/actions/beliefs/words, and I look for and implement ways to place self-care as a lifetime priority.  If I can successfully do this, if I can successfully partner with myself, I live.  If not, I die.  It’s that simple.  It’s that loving,  And it’s that liberating.

I love being my own ally.  It’s a lot of work, that’s true, but the rewards that come from doing the work are well worth it.  I recommend it highly.  And I look forward to welcoming other allies into my world, people who also choose to live life as I now live it.  Together, we will create a mutually loving, mutually nurturing, mutually transparent, and mutually trusting union in service to Spirit.

Where in your life might you welcome an ally instead of a friend? Is it with your health, your job, your relationships, your home, your finances, or your family?  Is it with something else?

Is this the day you attract, or is this the day you become a sacred ally?

If so, congratulations.

You’re an ally in sacred union.  You’re an ally in sacred union with a united you.

Copywrite 2010 Sheryl Lynn,  Permission to forward this writing is granted as long as the entire piece including the credit line, is included.

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Dear Friends,

I remember attending spiritual channels many years ago and hearing how we humans were honored for choosing to be here at this time.  I had no idea what that meant until the last few years.

As I write this, friend A is freshly recovering from self-inflicted knife wounds, friend B was just rushed to the hospital in what I feel is the first stage of her departure from physical form, friend C is facing a jumbalaya of major life stresses that now include her mother’s (aka friend B’s) quick decline, friends D and E are reeling from the financial and emotional challenges that come from the unexpected passing of a family member and friend F is once more attempting to find a way to live with a child caught in the throes of addiction.  I’m going through my own increasing variety of challenges; perhaps you are, too.

Sound anything like your life?  Most people I know right now would say yes.

So how do we successfully paddle our boats through the rapids that have become our lives?

How do we have faith when life provides us with dozens of reasons not to believe that better times are coming?

How do we love again after our hearts have been shattered?

Many of us have become world-class snow shovelers this winter, but how do we begin to dig out of the avalanche of life challenges?

I’ve given these questions a great deal of thought, wanting to present an answer that is insightful and perfect. I’ve asked for guidance to assist me in doing this.

And here’s what I’ve come up with; we love.

By doing anything less, we lower ourselves and we limit our service to ourselves, each other, and the planet.

The vibration of love we send and the vibration of love we feel is our greatest gift.

So….

To those who betray us: love.

To those who abandon us: love.

To those who lie to us: love.

To those who do not see us: love.

To those who steal from us: love.

To those who break our hearts: love.

To those who project their fears and self-loathing onto us: love.

To those who break their promises to us: love.

To those who attempt to stop us from reaching our goals: love.

To those who disrespect us: love.

To those who speak words they do not mean: love.

To those who use and abuse: love.

To those who consciously work to bring harm to us: love.

To those who unconsciously work to bring harm to us: love.

To those who unconsciously work to bring harm to themselves: love.

To those who manipulate and control through what they call love but is really fear: love.

To those who cannot or will not love: love.

To those who treat us without love: love.

Why?

Because that’s who we are and that’s what we came here to do.

And if you allow ego’s siren song to stop you from being who you came here to be, how many people, and how many people who are connected to those people, have you harmed who you could have potentially helped?

Is it logical? No.

Do you have anything better to offer?

What’s stopping you from love?

copywrite 2010 Sheryl Lynn.  All rights reserved.  Permission is granted to forward this writing only if the entire piece and this paragraph of credit is included.

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Come join us on the 7th Wave Network of VoiceAmerica Talk Radio for the following shows:

My guests meet three criteria before I’ll bring them to you; they must be passionate about their work, they must speak from their hearts and be good presenters, and they must have something important to say. You won’t want to miss these conversations!

1-7-10 Author/Speaker Stephen Edwards, @SeeMiracles on Twitter, your quantumwealth.com
1-14-10 Author/International Seminar Leader Keith Varnum, @KeithVarnum on Twitter, thedream.com
1-21-10 Visionary Luke Robinson, @2dogs2000miles on Twitter, walking from Austin to Boston with his two dogs to raise awareness of/funds for canine cancer research, 2dogs2000miles.org
1-28-10 Author/Seminar Leader Joe Nunziata, whose latest book is Finding Your Purpose , jnunziata.com
2-4-10 Author/Teacher/Metaphysician Jonathan, @metaphysical7 on Twitter, metaphysicalsource.com
2-11-10 Stephen and Jenn Edwards (same as above), Let’s Start The Conversation About Love
2-18-10 Bob DeMarco, @ALZHEIMERSread on Twitter, alzheimersreadingroom.com
2-25-10 Owner/Director of Chelsea’s Legacy dog foster home network, Judy Foster, True Love Never Dies
3-4-10 I’ll be my own guest.
3-11-10 Singer/Songwriter/Author/Radio Host Adrianna Larkin, @adrilark on Twitter, adriannalarkin.com
3-18-10 Stephen Edwards (same as above), Let’s Start The Conversation
3-25-10 Author of Life Is A Fork In The Road Don Shapiro, @Donshapiro1 on Twitter, life isaforkintheroad.com and Writer/Artist/Therapist Heron Free, @authenticheron on Twitter, heronfree.com
4-1-10 Seminar Leader/Empowerment Coach/Radio Host Joe Rumbolo, @joerumbolo on Twitter, on Ascension 2012, healingtheuniverse.com and Psychic Medium Bonny Cheryl on Healing The Emotional Heart
4-8-10 Gina Julie, Adrianna Larkin, and Douglas H. Melloy (@dougieslap on Twitter) on Rising From The Ashes.

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As of January 7, 2010, Glow With The Flow; Your Guide to Survive, Thrive and Become More Fully Alive will be heard on the 7th Wave Network of VoiceAmerica Radio; we’ll go live from 6-7 pm Eastern Time on Thursday nights and via archives whenever you like.  We’re currently renovating our website and getting ready for this great opportunity to showcase new paradigm experts with a passion for life ready to share how to make daily living a more spiritual experience.  Here’s the lineup for January’s shows:

January 7:  Stephen Edwards, author of Communion-cating With God, http://seemiracles.com

January 14:  Keith Varnum, co-author of Living The Dream - It’s Time http://thedream.com

January 21: Luke Robinson, walking from Austin to Boston with his dogs for Canine Cancer Awareness http://www.2dogs2000miles.org

January 28: Joe Nunziata, author of Finding Your Purpose http://jnunziata.com

As we get closer to launch, we’ll share how you can find our show.  Until then, we wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season and a blessed new year.

Tags: 2dogs2000miles, Glow With The Flow, Joe Nunziata, Keith Varnum, Stephen Edwards