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FOR THIS MOMENT NOW

            
​BURNISHED LOVE

Where there is great love there are always miracles. Willa Cather

Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dear Beloved,

Here we are together, love-light streaming across lifetimes and through galaxies and celestial bodies. We dip and burst, spin and bounce, unfurl and swirl. Delicately, intricately bound. Splendidly woven. Connected. I have always been with you. You are my dearest companion. I will continue to be with you – in sickness and in health, in goodness and in grace, until forever and beyond eternity.

“Why is this so?” you ask. With a love like ours, nothing is impossible. With a love like ours, new worlds are constantly being born. With a love like ours, healing is always happening.  With a love like ours, everything is possible. This is a marvelous thing. We are unified in our glory and truth. We are converging into a new entity, a new way of being. I burnish you with my love, smoothing and polishing the edges – from alpha to omega – with the precision of an exacting sculptor. I then exhale into you, and you remember: every dawn’s first light, every moon, togetherness, me, agape love.

Perhaps you believe that if you believe in me, I will gift you the unattainable. The truth is it matters not how you feel about me. It matters most how you feel about us: If you remember our connection, if you pour your energy into seeing our oneness, if you dare to dream and affirm who and whose you are. Then you will manifest, thrive, heal, reveal, revel. You are my beloved in whom I am well pleased.

Now what will you do with this eternal life? Will you spin it into a web of brazen grace? Will you sing so boldly the birds flock at your feet? Will you kneel at the radiance of your inner light? Will you love infinitely?

Love,

God in You and As You
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Affirmation: I stand at the precipice of a magnificent love and honor the love that I am. I love life!

InnerVisions
​February 1, 2025
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A MARVELOUS BOOK—A journey into selfhood and spirituality and all the challenging and beautiful minutiae our experiences in this plane have to offer.
AMANDLA STENBERG
Actress 


​SACRED LANDSCAPES of the SOUL
is like a spirited choir singing the wisdom of the ages. It is grounded in intelligent thoughts from the great spiritual writers and song-makers and offers inspiring and transformative guidance. Read it to have your mind and heart opened up. Use it as a contemporary, unaffiliated prayer book or meditation guide.
THOMAS MOORE
Author of Care of the Soul and ​Ageless Soul


​SACRED LANDSCAPES ASSERTS ITSELF among the proverbial books for the ages. Filled with spiritual insight and wisdom, it beautifully evokes the peace and comfort readily available to us just by our mere acknowledgement. Master Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner Karen Brailsford's inspired messages and affirmations light the path on our journey towards, and through, eternal peace. 
MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH
Founder & Spiritual Director, Agape International Spiritual Center
Author of Life Visioning and Spiritual Liberation


THIS HEALING, strengthening, empowering collection of wisdom is exactly what my spirit has hungered for. SACRED LANDSCAPES of the SOUL sits with my journal, ready for my morning inspiration and my evening reflection.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
New York Times bestselling author of Shout; Speak and Chains, National Book Award finalists


CALLING IN MAELSTROMS of emotions and heartache, shadow and light, spiritual practitioner Karen Brailsford offers a banquet of meditations and images to awaken, calm, challenge and excite soul, mind, heart and body. Plentiful food for all the hungry—indeed starving—souls in our chaotic world today!
REV. MATTHEW FOX
Author of Original Blessing, Christian Mystics, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times


​I WAS SURPRISED BY THIS BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL BOOK, which I will from now on keep by my side for comfort and inspiration. As a long time Buddhist, terms like "God" and "soul" are not so usual, but Karen's use of them in harmony with sayings of great mystics, West and East, gives them new life. And it is especially her eloquent affirmations of the divine as the life force and love force within oneself and every being that resonate with the buddha essence and the diamond clearlight of freedom that sustains our infinite lives. Enjoy this daring book of affirmations—once you get over worrying about feeling way better about yourself, you will find yourself happy at home in it!
PADMA SHRI DR. ROBERT THURMAN
Author & Translator
Professor Emeritus of Indo-Tibetan Buddhology, Columbia University
Co-Founder of Tibet House US, the Dalai Lama's Cultural Center in America
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  • Home
  • I am
  • Praise
  • Inspire
    • Sacred Landscapes (excerpts) >
      • Spiraling
      • Sacred Landscapes of the Soul
      • Go Directly to Jubilee
      • Bring the Party
      • A Life Is God Writ Large
      • Soot into Soil
      • In the Here and Now
      • Creation Story
      • In This Skin
    • Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit (talk + guided meditation)
    • Omega Institute Workshop
    • Inner Visions >
      • Burnished Love
      • An Appreciation
      • Forward
      • Life As We Know It And See It
      • Precipice and Presence
      • Sentient and Prescient
      • The I Am of Resonance
      • The Glass Is Always Full
      • You Will Know
    • Talks >
      • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (recitation)
      • Knowing the Soul (conversation)
      • God's Love Keeps Lifting Us Higher and Higher (talk)
      • Go Directly to Jubilee! (talk)
    • Paintings
  • Agent
    • Aevitas Creative Management
    • Writer's Digest
    • His Name Is George Floyd
    • Kamala's Way
  • Write Volumes
    • Short Stories >
      • In the Eye of the Beholder
      • It's Time
      • It Takes All Kinds
      • All is Nothing
      • Ever After
      • Dinner Parties
      • Shades of Love
    • Essays >
      • Mommy, Still
      • Floating Like Butterflies
      • Feast
    • Poems >
      • Initiation of the Disembodied
      • Covid: Covert No More
      • Harriet and Me
  • Unity
    • Daily Word Magazine >
      • My Journey to Yes
    • Spirituality & Health Magazine >
      • Amandla Stenberg Channels The Force
      • Marianne Williamson: Evolving Out of Darkness
      • Lee Harris: Channeling As a Transformational Tool
      • Deva Premal & Miten: How Mantras Heal
      • Sharon Salzberg Cultivates Loving-Kindness
      • Kate Bowler Shows Grace in Gravity
    • Unity Magazine >
      • Smells Like Teen Spirit
      • From Grief to Grace
      • Rising in Joy
      • Blessed by a Dress
      • This Is How You Pray
      • For A Reason, for a Season, or for a Lifetime
  • Media
    • Download Kit
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      • The Peace Studio Summit 2021
      • The Jenny McCarthy Show
      • In the Flow With Rev. Skip
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