A Soulworker’s Companion: A Year of Spirituality Discovery
Betty Clare Moffatt
ISBN 1-885171-11-0
From Using Soulwork:
“This book is meant to be a companion to you along your soul’s journey. The heartfelt personal stories are designed to help you access your own inner story, your own connections to Spirit. It is your book. These are your soul qualities. You can approach it in an orderly fashion, working through each week of the year. Or you can dip into this book at random, allowing your inner self to guide you to what you need next in your soul’s progress. You can write it, question it, ruminate in it, and memorize its passages. You can use it as a daybook, or start all over with it the following year. This book is a gentle companion, a fellow traveler, a friendly explorer.”
The main body of the book is divided into 52 weeks. Each week uses one of the following subjects for the year.
Acceptance, action, balance, clarity, cleanliness, compassion, congruency, courage, creativity,
Devotion, endurance, enthusiasm, faith, fidelity,
Flexibility, forgiveness, frugality, generosity, gentleness, goodness, gratitude, harmony, honesty,
Hope, integrity, intuition, joy, kindness, learning, love, nobility, patience, peace, perseverance, power,
receiving, resilience, respectfulness, responsibility,
self-discipline, self-reliance, serenity, service, simplicity, solitude, talents, tenderness, tolerance, trust, will, wisdom.
A part of one of the chapters: from the chapter about forgiveness:
“Seven Steps to Forgiveness:
1) Recognition and acknowledgment
We recognize a problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion that alerts us to the need to forgive. We acknowledge the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion that needs forgiveness.
2) Desire, definition, and decision
We desire to forgive. We define the parameters of the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion. We then make a clear and conscious decision to forgive.
3) Meditation and prayer
We go within and with prayerful inquiry and an open, receptive mind, we ask for truth, help, and guidance in the forgiveness situation. We ask how best to proceed to heal the problem, situation, event, relationship, or emotion requiring forgiveness.
4) Inner and outer action
We act on the guidance we have received in prayer and meditation. We do what needs to be done to clear up the problem, (etc) that requires forgiveness.
5) Surrender and release
After taking appropriate action in the outer world, we release the
Entire the entire situation into the hands of our Creator. We ask for
Highest good of all concerned. We ask, “Thy will, not mine, be
done.”
6) Understanding and awareness
We look for an increased understanding of the dynamics that led to the problem, (etc) that required our forgiveness. We look for the spiritual lesson. We determine to go forward in forgiveness with
Increased awareness.
7) Healing and change
We accept that the situation has now changed. We accept that the lesson has been learned. We choose to look at the situation, and the world differently. We welcome healing and change through the process of forgiveness. We allow the energy of healing and change to spill over into other areas of our lives. We are changed. We give thanks.
Then, several questions for this subject are given. Also a quotation relating to the subject is included:
“Allow yourself to pray. Just as the many times human beings find themselves in circumstances where the hurt or the pain is so great that on their own power they cannot forgive, it is enough that they pray to be given the grace, the perception, the elevated Light that will allow them to forgive.” Gary Zukav (Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul)
