Stacey Emerald

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We are living in the time of Stacey Emerald.  She came to me in my dreams, and I immediately was repelled by her name.  It just didn’t fit.  (Seriously, say it aloud.)

That’s the challenge I feel now.  How to fit in the time of Stacey Emerald?  When we all need a little bit more Emerald, Stacey is holding on for dear life.

I’ve clearly been on a magic carpet ride for the last few weeks (months really).  I’m beginning to believe that it’s not all by chance, but for a much higher purpose than even I, who is a strong believer in life purpose, thought could be true.  It’s one thing to ‘believe’ that we are all here for a reason, and it’s another to know it.

If you’ve been following the launch of my coaching program Be@Home with Your Personal Power, you know that I’ve gone through some pretty tremendous personal transformations lately.  I’m living my dream of guiding people to change their lives and to live with personal power and integrity.  Even just writing those words gives me chills, and there is a feeling behind the words that tells me that it’s as real and true for me as the air I’m breathing.

How do we know when we’ve found it, our calling, our purpose in life?

It’s an age-old question that consumes many peoples’ minds.  For me, it was never like that.  I always thought I knew what I was suppose to be doing in life.  It was rare that I doubted myself and my outward actions.  In fact, I’ve always been someone that my friends would say what did I have to worry about?  I had it all figured out and did everything so well.

I’m realizing now that that can be the problem.  There can be a way in which life can just move along, some good things happen and some bad things.  Life just happens.

Looking back now at my own life path–comfortable jobs, making a relatively good contribution to the world, nice vacations, good friends and a loving family–I see that it’s these things that distracted me from noticing Emerald.

Who is Emerald?  My dream life helped me to see her.  She’s my inner beauty, the pulse of the universe that lives in me and the higher purpose that I have in this life.  Really, she is my 007 mission.  If I don’t complete that mission, I will self-destruct.

Fortunately, I stumbled upon her.  I didn’t go looking for her like so many people do.  She just kept popping up until the messages got louder and louder, and I could no longer ignore them.  They really were messages!  They came from people I met, lucid dreams I had and lots of coincidences.

When I read Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth, I loved that he said that all coincidences are for a reason.  I now believe that they do add up to something that is very real for each of us, and if we take notice of them, the mysteries to our life can be solved.

I know now that I was guided to write Be an Everyday Humanitarian.  The next step is what I don’t know.  But I’m finally, truly comfortable with not knowing the plan.  Like I said to an old friend I was visiting over Thanksgiving, I don’t know what I’m doing!

The key, I’ve learned, is to simply be open to the possibilities.  I’ve gotten myself to this point–a place that I never imagined.  I’m very comfortable with my present moment.

But what I am aware of is there’s a problem with Stacey.

Who is she?  She is Emerald’s other half or what I think is also a representation of our greater society.  We are in a great transition around the world and especially in the U.S.

We are transitioning from an old-way of being and doing to a new one that isn’t quite real yet or understood.  The work hard, get ahead model is dying; the violent, get what you want by force and egotistical power is waning; and yet, the next phase of our humanity is hanging in the backdrop of our reality.

Some of us know how to pull the curtain and reveal the beauty, abundance and new way of living.  But most don’t even see the curtain.

We are living in the time of Stacey Emerald.  She came to me in my dreams, and I immediately was repelled by her name.  It just didn’t fit.  (Seriously, say it aloud.)

That’s the challenge I feel now.  How to fit in the time of Stacey Emerald?  When we all need a little bit more Emerald, Stacey is holding on for dear life.

I keep coming back to what I know is true.  Time is a paradox.  It exists in our minds only.  The present moment is all there is.

So, my plan?

To call Emerald to live in my present moment.  I know that means everyone who is living with her, or at least has seen her, will be alongside me.  That’s how we not only live in this transition–it’s how we thrive in it.