Tag Archives: Writing

A Christmas Eve Miracle

24 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by in Heartbeams, Uncategorized

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

, , , ,

Christmas Eve 2015

As I sit here on Christmas Eve it is always a moment when I reflect on a miracle in my life.

Many do not believe that Jesus is real or is the Son of God, nor that miracles happen such as the virgin birth. I know many of us are not sure if the birth of Jesus really occurred on December 25th yet that is when we celebrate it. All our trying to figure it out is really quite fruitless and truly an argument within ourselves.

This character Jesus, the Savior born in Bethlehem, be He a fable or a truth has assisted humanity in some way for over 2000 years.

My story is about Christmas Eve in 1991.

The quick version is that I was an alcoholic who had a Near Death Experience and still refused to stop drinking 2 months afterwards.

I had been invited back into the family of the woman I loved, to share in her Christmas Holiday. As I was still drinking, of course the evening progressed to a quarrel with one of her sons.

I got up to leave and aroused everyone in the household including her 80 year old mother who was now in the midst of this chaos, of not letting me leave and drive drunk to my apartment some 2 states away.

So as I was surrendering to their pleas, more hurt about failing them rather than myself, I remember crying out to Jesus. Whether out loud or in my head I can’t say for sure but the prayer or plea was as follows.

“Jesus this is your birthday and if you are real please take this alcoholism away from me! If you can’t, then take me out of this world for good because I can’t do it any more.”

I went back up the stairs, went to bed and passed out… another drunken Christmas Eve and the one I loved broken-hearted again.

Well now that my public confession is over the real story begins.
I have not had a drink of alcohol ever since. No hard cravings, some physical withdrawal but not enough to cry about. A miracle that has now lasted 24 years tonight.

So my friends never underestimate what you can’t verify by scientific or logical deduction. Always leave the door open, for you never know when you might need a miracle from this being called Jesus.

As for me I Believe… Merry Christmas

Unity at Christmastime

24 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by in Artwork, Heartbeams, Morning 1st Glance, Museography, Musings, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , ,

Xmas 2015

As we share the energy of this day of reflection…
Let us have welcoming hearts
Let us be thoughtful and kind
Let us be Peace, Light and Love

May each of you rekindle the fire
by which we have all sat
in joyous communion with each other
without judgment or disparity

Let us unite and remember
who we truly are.

cRb

Tatami

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by in Heartbeams, Morning 1st Glance, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , ,

Tatami

From the fields in which we toil
or pass by without a second thought
there arise exceedingly strong grasses

Able to withstand high wind and rains
from which we seek shelter inside
yet upon entering we find them again

Those which are now beneath our feet
remind us of service in its many forms
and we take off our shoes in respect

They now reflect our outer world
woven over time by intention and skill
being transformed to grace us
with comfort and respite

And now in gratitude
I bow to you
sweet grasses of the world
for your service and your strength

cRb 12.23.15

Synergy Happens

22 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by in Artwork, Heartbeams, Morning 1st Glance, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , ,

Butterfly 7.20.15
Don’t know if I have lost myself
or found myself.
I must be somewhere in between
shadow and illusion,
and the Real and Unseen.
-Linda Mottet

First, I wish a Happy Solstice to each of you.

Many times we are just in the moment and everything just flows without our really exercising much thinking… anything can happen.
Synergy is the effect of two or more, in this case Humans, interacting and creating through synchronous cooperation “a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effect”. (dictionary.com)

This morning I answered a challenge on facebook to post one of my favorite nature photographs for 7 days. Normally I don’t do this but since I love to take photos of nature and being an amateur I felt comfortable in committing myself to the challenge.

I posted the picture of this butterfly and a friend Linda Mottet replied that she thought it was beautiful. Well, her book of poetry, “What Dragonfly Knows” sits on my desk and I often pick it up and randomly read her words with much delight.

Her words above resonated with me and brought a new dimension to the picture which delighted both of us.
Then in the delight of her response I wrote…

Hearts a fluttering
Synchronistic thought patterns
Miracles abound

So as we embrace each other, whether in cyberspace or the world we call reality…
May we always stay open to those moments
which the Sun standing still
allows us to reflect on.
The Light shining
into the open chambers of our hearts
encouraging us to be
all that we can possibly be
And allow Synergy to happen.

You Are Fabulous

19 Saturday Dec 2015

Posted by in Artwork, Heart to Soul Talks, Heartbeams, Museography, Musings, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , ,

Fabulous

When we are asked to describe ourselves and our purpose here, there is always a moment of disconnect. A place we find that is filled with uncertainty and of doubtfulness.

Yet it is a question that many of us never have to answer in public, to an audience which you may never meet, yet will take your answer and reflect it upon themselves. Somehow they will be seeking their own meaning which may not be anything like the one they just heard.

I will be re-introduced tomorrow to an Internet Radio Audience on which I have appeared several times over the past year or so. The world has heard me speak much as I write as Charlie Riverman Bergeron, an Earth Angel.

I found these words I wrote some time ago and a picture of flowers in community at various stages of their existence, much like us.
Can you begin to imagine yourselves as Earth Angels or is that too far from your perception of being realistic.

Each of us are unique…

Just beginning to open
Young and beautiful
Older and a bit tattered

Let’s rewrite
the meanings of our words
to encompass and reflect
who we truly are

Fabulous =

F riendly
A ssertive
B ubbly
U nusual
L oving
O ptimistic
U nderstanding
S ouls

12.19.15

Unfolding Journey of an Earth Angel on Circle of Hearts Radio with Allayah Frisch – OMTimes Radio

The Edge of Transformation

16 Wednesday Dec 2015

Posted by in Morning 1st Glance, Museography, Musings, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ 3 Comments

Tags

, , , ,

Bunny's Pond

This morning I was reminded of how each of us are always flirting with the edge of the unknown as we move through these tenuous timelines of our evolution. Running up to it and looking to see if our fears are justified and withdrawing not quite ready to leap…

Yes… come to the edge
for the transformation
begins here
let go of all the fears
for they
are what make you fall

As I thought of finding a picture to express this I was reminded of this one taken by a woman whose young daughter was taking her last breaths and this was a quiet pond at the hospital.

My words then are perhaps applicable too …

drifting slowly
through the reflected vision
each and every moment
precious to behold
two worlds revealed
could there be more
yes dear child
as many as the shapes
and patterns before your eyes
each one a lovingly
part of the other
wherein if we let go
we become another

cRb

(Thank you Bunny and SB for allowing my heart to resonate with yours if only for a short while.)

After The Rain

15 Tuesday Dec 2015

Posted by in Heartbeams, Morning 1st Glance, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , ,

2015_12_15_0929_cRb

How sweet a moment
when the rain has gone
the clouds are moving
and the SunLight reveals
the diamonds and jewels
left behind

cRb
12.15.15

Rejoice In Divine Love’s Presence

13 Sunday Dec 2015

Posted by in Artwork, Heartbeams, Morning 1st Glance, Museography, Musings, Photography, Poetry, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, , , ,

Love Divine Radiating

May Sweet
and Divine Love
flowing forth
and entering into
all that is an extension
of the Heart
which is Eternal
dance and sing
within and from
your ever-expanding
Presence

Herein
lies the Soul
which cannot
be destroyed
nor feel pain
and suffering
eternally present
yet hidden
within the Light
it emits
into all existence
in this moment

For it is only
One Moment
a fractal
of never-ending bliss
that each of us
express as movement
throughout
time and space
So let us Rejoice

cRb 12.13.15

Doors – Past and Future

11 Friday Dec 2015

Posted by in Heartbeams, Morning 1st Glance, Photography, Uncategorized

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

, ,

xmas door

The New Moon and 12:12 are inviting us to reflect on where we have been and where we are headed. Perhaps they are like those double doors I built almost 30 years ago.

We never truly know what we are going to be called to do in life and yet we somehow set our intentions to walk through them, like doors.

At first they stand almost as a barrier. We vision what lies beyond them and hope we are correct in our decision. These are the New Moon doors which must be opened in order to walk through and embrace the manifestation of our intending and all that is in alignment with our hearts.

Then we have the doors of 12:12 which appear to be guarding the way to something Grand and beyond our comprehension, beyond which all possibilities are unobstructed from view.
A portal rather than a doorway to our inner self where we are no longer defined by what is around us but who we truly are.
Master Builders of great edifices which have contained the True Essence of our Souls

The message they have brought forth in me is to remember, to throw the doors wide open, letting ourselves pour forth into the world around us without restrictions.
All that we did not think we could accomplish, now stands as a testimony of our abilities to create beauty and welcoming in the lives of others.

And I am reminded…
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you”

May each of you receive this into your hearts over the next few weeks and truly experience it for the rest of your lives.

Doors and Photo – Trinity Episcopal Church, Haverhill, MA – cRb

Returning To Life Messages

10 Thursday Dec 2015

Posted by in Heartbeams, Uncategorized

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

,

Bumper stickers

This is a collage of the messages I was given shortly after my NDE by those at the time I called my Angels. I had no money, no steady job and was on the dole, yet I was guided to create bumper stickers with them.
A recovering alcoholic who had just been homeless after being married for 20 years and ending up divorced and bankrupt.

Somehow it happened and of course everyone thought I was crazy. That was 24 years ago!

I had produced a few and went about trying to get small shops to take them on consignment; obviously there weren’t many takers. Yet in one small bead shop I met a woman named Crowfeather who told me to come back and speak to her friend and partner Greywing.

Greywing eyed me over and asked me to hold out my hands and for Crowfeather to place hers on mine. She then introduced me as Riverman whom she had been waiting for, to appear to her. I didn’t really understand this at the time but she continued to explain… feel the energy that flows like a river from his hands and do not be afraid.

I still have some of the originals and as I look at this collage my emotions are charged with the Love I have for those wonderful beings who guided me through all the changes.

It is part of the story of my return to Life

Black are our total neglect of Spirit
Red are our grounding floor level
Green are the path of opening our hearts
Blue are acknowledging our Divine Self

The last one that was produced is my calling card…

peacelightlove