Sunday, July 18th was the first public spiritual gathering for Suncoast Center for Spiritual Living. Here is a video of the message I gave at what we are calling our, “Sunday Morning M&M’s”. The M’s are for the music, meditation and message that make up the morning program.
Grace is…Do you Recognize It? from Alan Vukas on Vimeo.
Last Friday was my birthday. I turned 41. It seems like it was just the other day I was talking about how I would no longer be in my “20′s”. Here I am, now in my 40′s.
I was thinking quite a bit about this over the weekend - about how time has seemed to fly. I’m not begrudging getting older because I have a great life and it is always getting better. My thoughts about the years going by so fast have nothing to do with “getting old” but instead “Are the years going by in a blur or in focus?”
One of my current “Top 10″ songs is called “Blink” (I put a link below so you could hear it). Its lyrics expresses some of what I was thinking about.
The song starts out:
Teach me to number my days
And count every moment before it slips away
Taking all the colors before they fade to gray
I don’t want to miss even just a second more of this
Chorus:
It happens in a blink
It happens in a flash
It happens in the time it takes to look back
I try to hold on tight, but there’s no stopping time
What is it I’ve done with my life
It happens in a blink
One of my birthday wishes/intentions for this new year is that I “show up” to savor the moments that are showing up for me. I have been so blessed and continue to be blessed on a daily basis – I want to milk the next 41 years for all their worth.
While on the phone with a friend recently, she told me, “Alan, my wish for you is that you live as outrageously as you are outrageous!”
This went through my head for a few days making me wonder – What would my life look like if I showed up in my as who I really am? What would I be doing if I lived they way that Source see me?
In this latest talk, I tell a story of a time where I felt I had no other options but to do what was mine to do, in only the way I could do it. From that experience I share three steps to living outrageously.
This talk was given at Manatee Spiritual Center in Bradeton, Florida on June 27th, 2010.
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The theme at the Tampa Bay Center for Spiritual Living for the month of March was Prosperity. In this Sunday Talk, I share that we don’t make prosperity happen because it is already the natural order of the Universe. Is it possible that we are doing something that is pinching us off from experiencing all the good that Life means for us to experience? Sharing from my own experience, I tell a story that illustrates the power of FORGIVENESS and how it releases us to stand in the present moment and to move into our future to experience the flow of good that is already all around us.
This talk was given at the Tampa Bay Center for Spiritual Living on March 28th, 2010.
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Yesterday I shared about how starting the day with clear intentions has really made this conference even more meaningful. Eric, John and I sharing them in the morning and then in the evening reviewing how we saw what we were looking for through the day. It really does work!
My intention today was to be present…so that I would be open and receptive to the “possibilities” that would present themselves to me today. It was my desire to see them clearly – no struggle or strain to see my good, but seeing it everywhere I looked.
Today, my last day in Denver was another day of realized intentions. Many “aha” moments, answers to questions I had, clear insights into what was fuzzy… it was a brilliant day!
The Leadership Gathering actually ended last night, but today was a symposium at Mile Hi Church called, “Building Our Wealth”. It was a full day event that consisted of presenters offering various ideas regarding developing financial support for spiritual communities and ministries.
One presentation I found particularly meaningful was called… the Power of Intention! How appropriate since that has been a focus of my spiritual practice this week?
I wanted to share a couple of ideas that the presenter shared with us in some concrete ways – there was physical processes we did that really brought the points home. The fundamental idea was this:
Intention + Mechanism = Results
Using that formula we discussed how you ALWAYS get 100% of your results, but that you may not get 100% of your intention.
For example, if you had an intention of raising $5,000 but you only raised $2500. 100% of your results IS $2500, but those results are only 50% of your Intention.
We then had to discuss among ourselves what percentage of the mechanism and intention is required in order to get the 100% of our intention. Honestly, I got confused – math never having been my strong suite. But after our process it was clear…that the mechanism doesn’t matter…
If you want your INTENTION to equal your RESULTS, then you must be 100% committed to your intention! Here was the idea that wasn’t too comfortable for me:
Your results are a direct demonstration of your true intention!
If I’m not getting the results that I want then I need to look at my intention. Is it clear? Am I committed to seeing it in my experience or am I hoping that it might show up? If the farmer has a clear intention on planting corn then he will do everything in his know how (the mechanism – the how to get it done) to get it done. If he instead gets a crop of wheat – is the farmer going to argue that he didn’t plant wheat? We always get 100% of our results – which is the direct result of our intention. The seed (intention) planted in the soil (mechanism) produces a plant (results).
This question keeps coming back – what are my intentions? In my spiritual life, my health, my relationships, my ministry…if I don’t really know – I can look at the results which don’t lie, it may be a harsh wake up call.
Am I liking the results? Are you?
Tomorrow while travelling back home, I’m going to spend some time writing some of my intentions down in different areas. I’ll share some them soon.
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