Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Pay Attention” Joyce Johnson Rouse (Earth Mama), based on wisdom attributed to Chief Seattle):     Pay attention to the trees, pay attention to the river. Pay attention to the bees.  Pay attention to the weather.   Pay attention to the waters, to the dreams, to the forests, to the streams. Pay attention to the glaciers, to the breeze, to the frost line and the coastline and the coral beneath the seas.   Pay attention to the wisdom, to the brothers and sisters living close to the Earth. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We are just borrowing it from our children.     This we know: The Earth does not belong to us.  We belong ….to the Earth.

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Love Is Everything” by Denise Rosier:   Love is the power that moves like the mighty sea, the peace that brings wars to cease. Love is everything.   Love is the voice that calls us into being. It’s the joy that makes a songbird sing, the word that every language speaks, the Name that is above all things.   Love is everything.   Love can’t hide, be pushed aside, or be unseen.   It’s you and me.  Love is everything.   Love stands beside us.  It goes before us. Love is everything. It moves around us, it restores us.  Love is everything.

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Spirit Move!” by Denise Rosier: There is no holding back the power in this room right now, Rising up as a force of love so high it can’t come down. Every soul is a soul on fire Burning bright with the Light of Life Here we are open wide; there’s no place we can hide Like a river deep and, rolling out like a mighty flood, Love’s filling every heart and pouring out of us. Feel it breaking down the walls, building everybody up. It’s taking over now; there’s no way it can stop. Spirit move everything. Spirit move in the space between. Spirit move.

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Rise” by Faith Rivera – We rise as one! I close my eyes, I open my heart. I take a deep breath, let the healing start. I lift my hands. I plant my feet. I let love in, I feel the beat that’s calling us to rise! I ready my soul. I clear my mind. I’m here and now in present time. I feel the power of a thousand suns lighting up the dark. No turning back, onward to Promised Land! We feel the power of a thousand suns lighting up the dark. Love’s calling out my name. Love’s calling – that’s why we came! Rise up! Reach for the sky! Going up high, Love is alive. We’re bringing the light!

Leddy Hammock Inspired by an Irish blessing: May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. May the rains fall soft upon your fields. And, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Butterfly” by Jana Stanfield & Joyce Johnson Rouse Please tell me again, I’m gonna be alright. I can feel a change is comin’, I can feel it in my skin. I can feel myself outgrowing this life I’ve been living in. All of the things that we long for are born on the wings of change. Losses can lead us to blessings that we can’t explain. Butterflies remind us, there’s magic in every life.

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Amazing Things” by Megon McDonough and Jana Stanfield You will do amazing things with the choice each new day brings, And with every step you take, bless the progress that you make. Oh, the places you will go and the people you will know. Don’t worry when or where or how. You don’t need to know that now. You’re on the right track. No need to look ahead or back. Just enjoy what this day brings. You will do amazing things. Love your life, love your dreams. You will do amazing things.

Leddy Hammock Lyrics to “I Don’t Need To Know (for God knows)” by Daniel Nahmod   I don’t need a master plan. I can live here in the moment, for my life is in good hands.   I don’t need to know what the future holds, for God knows.    It comes so clear to me, that the minute I surrender, I’m as safe as I could be.    I can just let go, for God knows.

Leddy Hammock “When I was a [child] … we would go to church and pay attention … and everyone would kneel and bow. Today the only difference is, everything is holy now.” “When I was in Sunday school, we would learn about the time Moses split the sea in two, Jesus made the water wine. And I remember feeling sad that miracles don’t happen still. But now I can’t keep track, ‘cause everything’s a miracle.” “It used to be a world half there, heaven’s second rate hand-me-down. Now I walk it with a reverent air, ‘cause everything is holy now.” This morning, outside I stood and saw a little red-winged bird, Shining like a burning bush, singing like a scripture verse. It made me want to bow my head. I remember when church let out. How things have changed since then. Everything is holy now.

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Hold onto Love” buy Roger Tomhave & Dan Johnson: Live this love through all your days and make this world a better place. Hold onto love. Hold on. You can search for love; you can hope and pray. Love’s most easily found when given away. Hold onto love. Hold on. Let love be our choice each day. With these words we pray: Hold on to love. Hold on. Live through love, not through fear. Take a stand for all that’s right. Shun the darkness, be the light. Hold on to love. Hold on.

Leddy Hammock Highlights from “I Am the Place where God Shows Up” by Eddie Watkins, Jr.: “There is no spot where God is not. I am not alone and there is nothing I have to do on my own. I am the place where God lives and breathes and has Its being. I am the place, you are the place, we are the place where God shows up.”

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Look How Far You’ve Come” by Sue Riley: “Hasn’t it been great?… Let’s talk about the future. Let’s cool off with the rain.’” “We’ve come through the desert and now we sit here in the shade. Though we’re not where we were heading, just look how far we’ve come.” I now see the beauty in the days that have gone by. Each day, I remind myself to treasure what I have. Look how far I’ve come!

Leddy Hammock In the Silence, I trust in God.   I rest in God and I feel hope turning into faith.   I relax and rest, letting go and letting God.   In the waltz of life, I let God lead.

Leddy Hammock “Increase my faith in the things I cannot see, in the things I cannot prove, yet I choose to believe.” “I love my life, I love my dreams, and I will do amazing things.” “I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good I can do.” “I am brave enough to move ahead where true believers dare to tread, and never lose faith even when losing my way. What step will I take today? I am brave!

Leddy Hammock There’s peace in surrender, in just letting go. Trusting in Spirit when self can’t go on, I treasure the good in my life. It’s time to get centered, it’s time to just breathe. There’s change in the wind, start living again. If you want to find complete peace of mind, let go and Let God.

Dell deChant “A Child Would Know” by Leddy Hammock “How would you know?” a child was asked, “If while you were at play, With several children, new to you, you heard a whisper say: ‘One of these is the Holy child, the Christ Child, come again, To see if you would recognize your wise and gentle Friend– Who might appear as boy or girl, with unexpected looks, With hair and skin and clothes unlike the Christ Child seen in books.’ The child was still a moment, then looked up and smiled to say: “Of course I’d know the Holy Child. I’d know that right away. The way that Child treats others, taking turns and playing fair; The way the Child is kind and good–I’d know that anywhere. The way the Child would make me feel–I’d be so glad to show The Christ Child on the playground–someone any child would know.”

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics to “Search the Sky” by Sloan Wainwright:   Search the sky for that star of light and love, to guide believers from near and far.   Let the light of peace and love shine in every heart.     Let there be peace around our world, peace within ourselves.     Let Truth, love, and healing shine in all our faces.

Leddy Hammock Make of my heart a cradle, Lord, so love will come and lay there.   Make of my heart a shelter, Lord, so love will come and stay there.   Make of my heart a manger, Lord, where Love’s the only answer. Make of my heart a stable, Lord, glowing for light for miles in the darkness so Love will find its way there.

Leddy Hammock My roots are anchored in Truth. My soul reaches for the light. Shine down, shine down on me. Wash over me, chase away the shadows. Cast your light on me. Welcome to the coming light!

Leddy Hammock Inspired by lyrics of the song There Are Moments, by Sue Riley, Richard Mekdeci, and Harold Payne The first breath of the morning whispers in my ear: ‘You’ve got it all inside you.’ I open my heart and it appears! Even in an ordinary day in an ordinary life, there’s beauty all around me when I look up to see it. I don’t want to miss the rainbows! There are moments, there are moments, where magic happens unexpectedly. There are moments, precious moments, where the wonder of the world is all I see.