music for your spirit's journey

Summer Solstice 2010

a small ship with a “P” on its prow turns and sails away.  It moves quickly.  Things are being thrown overboard.  It moves safely by rocks.  the waters get choppy.  the ship encounters some unseen resistance. It pushes. It can’t move.  It turns and sits in an area of stagnation.  I feel frustrated.  Just sitting there . . . wide open vulnerability under a yellow sky in the hot sun.

then

Love fills my heart

and the ship’s sails billow

for the first time

a new direction: Toward

the P, no longer leading, dissolves from view

slower pace (my mind tries rushing but to no avail)

Love’s direction

Love’s purpose

Love’s timing

Post-concert notes

I included four songs in my concert last night that have yet to be included on a CD collection.  For those of you who bought a CD and are scratching your head, trying to figure out how you can hear these songs again, I'll include them here.

1. "Hot Cup of Miso" was the toning we all did together at the beginning of the second set; it first appeared on my facebook page in April, 2010. 

A Hot Cup of Miso on a Rainy Night

2.  I first shared "Healing Prayer" with e-zine list members and facebook friends in April 2009.  

Healing Prayer

3. I had originally intended to share "Wake UP!"  on the album "Born to Live in These Times"  After some good feedback from my beta-testing team, I decided that it belonged with a different collection of songs.

Wake UP!

4.  "Peace Now" was first introduced at Unity Center of Columbia's Christmas 2009 concert, then offered again at the World Peace Day celebration on New Year's eve with Raven Wolf C Felton Jennings II and Margaret Waddell.  It has appeared twice on this blog already, so instead of re-posting the song link, I'll share the YouTube video.

they're here!

 How exciting to receive 1000 new CD’s on my front porch! Born to LIve in These Times is now officially released.

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This music is about life work and spiritual activism; about releasing the illusions of control and separation, accepting our true power to honor & flow with love — to allow ourselves to be filled to overflowing with the gifts necessary for making a positive difference on the planet.

an image of gentle and powerful shift

Last night I had a vision that I felt carried a message for us all.  I saw the body of a great green serpent with a copper colored mane.  it was in a tangled writhing mass.  This was not an ordinary snake but a monstrous creature.  Its head was hidden within the tangles.  When I looked further for its head I saw it: a gaunt, blackened (as if burned) face.  It was clearly in great emotional pain.  I felt moved to give it some living water.  Two draughts and it lowered its head gratefully and began to disintegrate.  In the place of its ringed body I saw people, individual people emerge, and begin to move autonomously.

When i see this, I understand that the serpent represents the unconscious, unsatisfying, unsustainable, monstrous way of life we've collectively created that seems impossible to break out of -- everything seems tied up with the need for money (green and copper).  You'd like to step out of the cycle but there's no clear alternative that isn't somehow negatively impactful too.  

Once I see the head of this creature I understand the pain it's in -- I feel moved to give it my gifts, pure gifts of Spirit and it is grateful and can rest now.  In the place of its tightly held & organized scales come people, a multitude of people, now individual and autonomous.  

In this I see that as we can look deeply and see the source as it resides in our own minds . . . as we behold with compassion, we are moved to offer our true gifts to the world that is thirsty for them.  And as we do, it becomes clear to us that what once seemed an impenetrable monster is just people -- people now free to be just who they are.  When we seek, we find that we are not dealing with a faceless impersonal machine but the suffering of all humanity.  And that giving the gifts we each bear is the medicine that we need to set all of us free.

In love and peace . . .Trina

who teaches the teacher?

This song was created for a service at Unity with the same title. 

It is for anyone who chooses to reach beyond their local definition of themselves . . . into that endless reservoir, for resources that transform, uplift, heal, nourish, sustain.   

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who teaches the teacher?

who teaches the teacher?

who opens the eyes

to whom do I go when I’m hoping to show

how to walk in a way that is wise?

who mothers the mother

when the days are so long?

who strengthens my pace when I’m holding the space 

for generations to come?

come

back to your source

there’s just one force

in all we are looking for

here 

deep in the heart

miracles start

just open the door

who heals the healer,

who fills the well?

my soul knows the answers

when I listen she tells

I can search the whole world from mountain to sea

but she brings me back home again to me

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com

the giving prayer

an affirmative prayer about being in that timeless space where giving & receiving are one continuous flow . . . I call it heaven . . . 

xoxoxo

Giving prayer (click here to listen)

I didn’t know it was there until you asked me and now 

see what comes forth from me

the gift of life is in the giving

life’s richness found within the living

the gift is in the giving from the giver within me

I never know what i have to give until I start giving

All that can be missing in a moment is what I have yet to give.

I give myself freely,

I am free

I open to my life eternally living

I am a gift eternally giving

I give my life freely

I am eternally flowing I am alive

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com

Merry Christmas!

Here are three songs for you celebrating the rebirth of the light within all hearts.  This collection includes a new recording of "Peace" which appeared in an earlier post. these songs are good all year round -- not just for the holidays.  Many blessings to you!!

Love

Peace

Joy

Love is born 

Love lay hidden behind my busy mind

but today all that began to unwind

all the judgements that I held so tight

began to dissolve in love’s pure light

love is born in me today 

love is born in me today

it was always there beyond time

gave the gift of life before ideas of “yours” and “mine”

opens doors I never knew were there

as I gently, gently, gently become more aware

 

I am born in love today

I am born in love today

alleluia

as I awaken now I see

all the love that shines here in me

Lights up the world and makes it new

I am love, and so are you

we are born in love each day

we are born in love each day

alleluia

we are born in love each day

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com

happy birthday Tami!

For some weird reason, I have traditionally had a hard time remembering whether my sister's Tami's birthday falls on the 18th or the 19th of December.  Each year, for the weeks preceding I try to remember, then on the 18th I look it up and on the 19th I celebrate it.  I have decided that henceforth it's okay to celebrate both days.  Heck, she's definitely worth celebrating 365.  Happy Birthday Tami!! I love you!!!

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Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, we love you
Happy Birthday, and may all your dreams come true
When you blow out the candles, one light stays aglow
that's the lovelight in your eyes wherever you go

this song was given to me by Ardella Nathanael in 2007.  I don't know who wrote it.

Peace Now

Peace is what happens when I pull my attention and energy from a vanished past and an imaginary future, to reside fully in the now.  The more of my awareness I bring into the present moment the more I know peace that passes understanding, allowing me to see through appearances to what is real.

(click below to hear song)

Peace2

Peace Now

peace in and all around me

peace beyond my mind

I feel the earth rejoice

the peace of Love prevails

awaken now

gaze into the face of Love

I know

Know we are one

together through eternity

walk with me now

make a home for peace

peace on earth, peace now, 

peace on earth, amen, 

peace on earth 

peace on earth 

amen, amen

amen

all people

all of the nations

this is my prayer for the world

all beings 

all of creation

this is my prayer for the earth

amen

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com

The Best Gift

My brother-in-law's young son died on Thanksgiving.  this song is for both of them, Mark and Ryland Ort, and for all of us. 

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the best gift

I’ve had dreams that taught me how to die

surrender it all, go back to the light

but what I need right now is to know how to live

with these feelings I have, how to forgive

well, maybe life’s no different from dying

maybe there’s no other place I’m going to

maybe surrender’s how I live life free

cause I never left home and there’s nothing to forgive

I’ve had times when it was all I could do

to drag myself through a day or two

what I need right now is to know how to live

to find something real of myself to give 

maybe the light also shines in me

maybe day by day is how I find my way

maybe surrender’s how I live right now

and to be the best gift that I can give

©2009 Trina Brunk and Laughing Turtle Publishing, all rights reserved.  If you choose to share this music, please link back to me at http://trinabrunk.com