Yes Speak to Our Hearts, Holy Spirit: Through Our Daily Practice of Listening, Recognizing, and Using Your Unlimited Gifts and Power

By Hadiah SetepenRa

Hadiah knows for sure that with our daily practices of listening, recognizing, and using the unlimited gifts and power from the Holy Spirit morning, noon, and night that are available to us in various tools like prayers, songs, chants, yoga , stories, nature, and meditation, we can connect and reconnect wherever and whenever our energy fields become blocked, drained and out of balance.

We must use whatever gifts we have that will guide us back on our spiritual paths - a path that the Holy Spirit is speaking to us in order to draw us closer to fulfilling the purpose of being and doing His/Her will with us and for us. Are you listening, recognizing, and being ready to discover or rediscover all the hidden treasures that lie within?

If yes is your answer, let the journey within begin , for you are only a breath and page away from a healthy , happy , and holy life. Let it be so; and so, so it is!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503551442

Hadiah SetepenRa

Hadiah is a teacher and student of life. She believes and is witnessing the African-proverb that states that: “Everyday school is everywhere and everyone is both a student and teacher of life.” Hadiah knew very early on in life that her purpose and gifts were in the fi elds of teaching and healing. All of her lessons and experiences thus far in her life have led her to be the owner and director of Hadiah’s Holistic Haven, L. L. C. www.hadiahsholistic.com. Her training and certifications are in the areas of: Child Development and Nursery School Education, Early Childhood Education, Mega Skills Leader Mentor Workshop Facilitator, Touch Th erapy/Reiki 1, Acupressure, Sunday School Teacher, Youth Leader, Homeschool Teacher, D.C., Public School Parent Aff airs Workshop Facilitator, Yoga ed., Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, and Radiant Child Yoga teacher. She is also a Substitute Teacher at local charter schools in Washington, D.C. and Hadiah holds her Bachelor’s Degree in Holistic Th eology from American Institute of Holistic Th eology. Hadiah is a member of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA). Hadiah enjoys RVing and learning about “self”, reading, writing poems and stories, and just being receptive to the creative energy that fl ows through her vehicle. She feels and knows that she is many diff erent things to many different people, but the most profound and everlasting one is being a child of the “Universe” and being present and open to all the lessons and teachings that are in store for her to learn, share and evolve from.

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Copyright © 2015 by Hadiah SetepenRa.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Welcome!

Introduction

How to Explore the Pages of This Book

Story: Finding My Way

Morning Awareness:

First Things First

Self and Self

My Sacred Creed

Thankful

Coach Me, Spirit, Coach Me

Mellow Dew

Rising

Thank You

To Be

Story: What Does the Cat Do?

Sunny Delight

Awakening

The Call

Kamania Adia

Story: Call and I Will Answer

Dancing

Time

Waiting

Joy

Silence

Zeal

Slow Me Down, Lord

Use Me

Delight

Friends

Noontime Awareness:

Story: The power is in your hands

Tuning Fork

Embodiment

As I Move About

Give

The University of Life

All of Me

Inside

A Note for My Sisters

Story: Bakari Sheikh’s Gift

Fifteen Gifts

Living

A Time to Rest

Fresh Start

Invitation

Goodness

Power

Nighttime Awareness:

Story: Channeling

Be Still and Know

Giving Thanks

Blessings

Chill

Help Me

Resolution

Finding You in the Center

Let’s See

Energy

Story: School Days—The Mystery Does Unfold

Anytime Awareness:

Soul and Spirit

Divine

African Proverb

We Are Always Creating

POWER, FOCUS, SHARE, TEARS, EASE

My Calling

Peace

My Lifestyle

Divine Energy Is All Around Me

Observing Nature

God Is … Goddess Is …

Reflection

Pain

Trees

Story: Guidance

Teacher and Student

Power of the Breath

Story: Ashaki Mwanze’s Awareness

In Good Company

Insights

Retreat

Names and Words

Searching

Meditations in Motion:

Heart Center and Thymus Gland

Let My Breath Speak To Me and Through Me

Chants:

Being Like the Universe

Be Happy

Belonging

Spirit

Ashé (I Share)

Mudras:

The Gifts of Communing

Rainy Days

Until We Meet Again

Glossary

Resources

I dedicate this book in memory of my loving father, who was always there for me morning, noon, and night with his very wise spirit and his words of encouragement. Thanks, Dad, for always showing up with a helping hand and a giving heart.

In memory also of my phenomenal momma, who taught me how to be a mother and a grandmother with her gentle spirit and her loving heart. Thanks, Mom, for sharing your copy of The New National Baptist Hymnal with me after listening to me read the early creations of this book to you.

To the Holy Spirit for always being only a breath away from me as You constantly lift me up where I belong. Holy Spirit, You never cease to amaze me; and for this and more, I am truly happy, grateful, and I am forever yours.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to all my teachers and students/clients—past, present, and future—who have/or will allow me to grow by sharing my gifts in ways that will open them up to recognizing their own divine gifts while creating a wider lens for us all.

Thanks to my beautiful siblings (James Jr., Edward*, Kenneth*, Donald*, Irving, Russell*, Michael, André Hawkins, Helen Stalberg*, Barbara Sullivan, Doris Hawkins-Whitehead, Constance Hawkins, Juanita Hawkins, Denise Mitchell, and Reneé Glascon) who have shown me not only my light side but also the shadow side of myself. I’m feeling y’all with much love and appreciation.

Thanks to all my friends who have taught me lessons along the way, especially Kay Phillips and Jacqueline Turner. Special thanks also to a friend whom I have known since grade school, Debra R. Plummer. We keep each other laughing and sharing almost daily.

I am grateful for the times with my circle of sacred sisters, especially Linda Lee, Asma Rahman, Shrima Su Meri, Kiona Cloud, Nia Onyenolachi, Tammy L. McLeod, and Ayanna Cook Amen.

I give lifelong appreciation and amazement for my three gifts, my children, Týease Tabia, Jahi Atiba, and Jawanza Kalonji SetepenRa for choosing me to be their opening into this world. I love ya’ll deeply. And Tý, thanks so much for all your technical support in guiding these pages back in order again and again. Jawan, thanks for taking and organizing my pictures in one central place. It made my life even sweeter. And Atiba, thanks for recognizing and asking for sessions that always bring balance back into your life.

I thank God also for my three grand gifts, my grandchildren, Bakari, Ashaki, and Kamania, whose presence always light up my world and keep me using my gifts from God.

I also would like to thank everyone at Xlibris Publishing Company.

Much gratitude to Dr. Muata Ashby and Dr. Karen Djar Ashby. To my guardian angel and my abundance of other angels. To my spirit guides, helpers, runners, and the ancestors who want only to see me experience joy, happiness, and truth—and for this, I give thanks.

Last but hardly the least, my soul mate, my husband, Jahi Molefi, who has always given me much love and the platform to create and follow my dreams, my passions, and my purpose. I love you with my mind, body, and soul; and for this, I’ll be loving you always.

And I ain’t kidding either.

*Living in the spiritual realm

Welcome!

Greetings, everyone. It’s so nice to connect and reconnect with all of you! I am delighted that we all are here.

Come and take a gentle journey that will allow us to unlock the hidden treasures that lie deep within our beings.

Discover or rediscover our gifts, our passions, and our purpose for this lifetime.

Feel the fire burning within our bellies. The fire that is ready to move us closer to our greatness.

Let’s move into the deep waters of our souls as we actively participate in the life the universe has in store for us.

Dig and search in the rich soil of Mother Earth as She holds, grounds, and protects us as we take this spiritual journey into ourselves.

Many hearts are beating as one.

Hadiah

God’s various gifts are handed out everywhere; but they all originate in God’s Spirit. God’s various ministries are carried out everywhere; but they all originate in God’s Spirit. God’s various expressions of power are in action everywhere; but God himself is behind it all. Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people! The variety is wonderful: wise counsel, clear understanding, simple trust, healing the sick, miraculous acts, proclamation, distinguishing between spirits, tongues, interpretation of tongues (1 Cor. 12:4–10, The Message-NKJV Parallel Bible).

Introduction

Bless this house, O Lord we pray, keep it safe by night and day—this was the reading on the light switch cover in our dining room.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want …

The Lord is my light and my salvation …

Our Father, which art in heaven …

Now I lay me down to sleep …

God is good, and God is great …

Lord, bless this food we are about to receive …

Graces, music, songs, prayers—along with the love for the Creator, self, family, and friends—are my earliest memories of the best gifts my parents, the late Rev. James B. Hawkins Sr. and the late Deaconess Gladys L. Hawkins, could