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J-1 Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

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REFLECTIONS OF A DEEPER SONG
An Inner World Exploration

J-1 – Foundation For The Journey Within –
Create Your Sacred GArden

Within the inner world of your invisible self is a personal place of power and healing. It is a sanctuary for guidance, introspection, and spiritual deepening.  It is available to everyone.

Your Sacred Garden in your personal sanctuary. It is a place of self-healing. It is the starting place for meditation, for shamanic journeys.

It this episode, Cara Lumen, spiritual explorer and founder of the Deeper Song Community, leads you on a guided meditation to create this inner sanctuary for your own spiritual practice.

Using the ancient introspective method of shamanic mediations called “journeying”, Cara guides you to the inner realms where you create your personal place of refuge. Everything you find in your Sacred Garden is an aspect of you, a symbolic, metaphoric message from your inner self.

Whether you want to mediate for self-healing, a deeper understanding of your soul purpose, the well-being of our world, or insights and wisdom for your daily life, you begin your meditative journey in the sanctuary of your Sacred Garden.

In this episode. Cara will guide you in building a transpersonal bridge between the inner and outer world and help you uncover the treasures of your inner self.

In this episode: 

1. Discover the purpose of Your Sacred Garden. What is it, why you want to use it, how to create it.

2, Journey to your invisible worlds to create this sacred inner retreat.

3. Learn how to immediately add the Sacred Garden to your own spiritual practice.

Resources: 

Drumming Recording: For your personal practice, this drumming tape by Shamanist Sandra Ingerman will help you move gently into a receptive state for your journey. Your journey can be as long or as short as it turns out to be.

In this episode Cara use a Tibetan Hand Bell / Meditation & Prayer Bells / Dorje / Vajra – Medium.  There is a variety of these available.

Further Study: If you want to learn more about shamanism I suggest you begin with the book Awakening to the SpiritWorld, the Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation by Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wesselman, both of whom I have studied with.

You can also take courses from both Sandy and Hank at The Shift Network.

THE JOURNEY TO THE INNER WORLD SERIES

The first three podcasts should be listened to in order.  They lay the foundation.

J-1 Foundation For The Journey Within – Create Your Sacred Garden

NEXT: J-2 Connecting with your Power Animal

Listen to Earlier Podcasts of
Reflections of a Deeper Song 

Nurture the Garden Of Self

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Nurture the Garden Of Self
An Inner-world Exploration

Our strength comes from within.  Our ideas come from within.  Our entire life expression comes from within. Within you, accessible by your imagination, there’s a Garden of Self and we are each responsible for planning, cultivating, and harvesting our own crops.  

Intention plants the seed

Starting your Garden of Self is as simple as setting an intention.  

Today I plant the seed of Serenity in my Garden of Self and I will water it with patience, nurture it with silence, and harvest it throughout my day. 

Well, wow!  Let’s do more of that.

Today I plant the seed of Wisdom in my Garden of Self.  I nurture it with contemplation and mindfully harvest it throughout my day, picking one succulent berry at a time and savoring it.

More?

In my Garden of Self, I planted an acorn called “Cara” and it immediately grew into a giant oak complete with a bird’s nest, a rainbow parrot, a squirrel and a bunch of acorns that are future Cara trees.  

It’s a mature tree, as I am mature, but it has a lot of life and a great deal still to offer. Insights, wisdom, hope.

What will you plant in your Garden of Self?

The Fountain of Love

In your Garden of Self create a water source.  In the Sacred Garden where I begin each shamanic journey, I have three separate water sources:  a reflecting pond, a bubbling brook, and a waterfall.  So I was surprised to find a different water source in my Garden of Self, which is down the road from my Sacred Garden.  But a fountain showed up, a happy, bumbling, spray-sharing laughing fountain. It is from this Fountain of Love and Joy that I am to nurture the crops I plant.  

Build the support you need

You may need to provide a trellis for some of your crops.  A support system that encourages growth and the space to expand or elevate above the ground.  What in your life needs support?

You may need to prune a plant in your Garden of Self in order to encourage the growth of one strong central plant.  Don’t be afraid to prune and let go. It will make the core stronger. 

My Cara tree has obviously been around for a while. Do I need to prune it?  Support a branch here or there?  Drop a few more acorns of wisdom?

Cultivate, encourage and support whatever you grow in your Garden of Self. 

Share your harvest

In the Garden of Self, you plant the things you need in order to elevate the vibration of your Body Suit.  

At some point, you are going to share your harvest.  Perhaps you will share a little.  Perhaps you will share a lot.  Who will you share it with?  How will you take it to market?  Who needs what you have to offer?

I’m dropping acorns of wisdom like a wild woman. Sometimes the wind helps me and carries them farther afield.  Sometimes they just drop to the ground and take root.  Sometimes they go to feed a bit of nature like a squirrel.  I just keep dropping seeds of Insight and Wisdom and let them fall wherever they may. What seeds are your sharing from the plant that is you?

Allow the cycles to unfold 

Gardens go through cycles.  Their needs change.  Sometimes they take.  Sometimes they give. It’s all part of the process of nature’s cycles.  Know where you are in the cycle and what you need to do/provide next. 

You may need rest in order to restore. You may be harvesting the best crop you ever produced.  You may be simply looking over the seed catalog to see what you want to plant.  Each stage is perfect.  Immerse yourself in it. 

Plant some experimental crops

You won’t know whether you like the crop until you harvest it and put it to use.  You don’t have to grow a lot of an experimental crop, but do plant enough so you can understand its needs, its demands, its preferences and how the final harvest nurtures you.  Even planting one seed and following it through its process can provide the information you need to make a decision on whether or not to plant more. 

Keep the Garden of Self nurtured

What does our Garden of Self need right now?  Where are you in the cycle? Not all crops will be in the same stages of readiness.  Give them what they need.  And remember one cycle leads to the next. So while one field is allowed to lie dormant in order to restore and replenish, another will provide multiple harvests.  Be aware of the difference and honor the process and the cycles.  

Intention provides direction and growth

Each day, pause to consider the intention you have for your Garden of Self.  That pause to balance and gain awareness will help you set an intention that will carry you forward in the most positive and productive manner.  Set an intention and let it unfold. Then follow the path that opens up. 

Deeper Song Affirmation

I tend my Garden of Self with conscious intention every day.

Deeper Song Process

  • In a state of meditation, journey to find your Garden of Self and begin to explore.
  • See what crops need to be planted.  What do you want to grow and encourage in your garden of Self?
  • Plant some staples, but perhaps start a few experiments crops.  
  • Tend your Garden of Self every day.
  • Harvest when ready and share what you have grown.
  • Look over the seed catalogs and plant some experimental crops….!

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

What Seeds Do You Allow to Grow in Your Garden? 

What Seeds Do You Plant for the Future?

What are the Foundations Stones Upon Which Your Build Your Life?

The Power of a Releasing Ceremony

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers
raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively,
can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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The Secret Garden

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As we begin to expand our inner work, this exploration of our Invisible Self, the Great Mystery, we want to create a launch pad, a Secret Garden from which we begin our exploration. It is part of our inner world, our Invisible Self.

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher, explorer, map-maker and founder of the Deeper Song Transformational Community help us sing a deeper song.  In this episode she explains how to create and use a secret garden of your imagination as a safe space for contemplation and exploration.

Everything in the universe is within you.  Ask all of yourself.  – Rumi

(7:35) In this episode we consider: 

1 – The Purpose of the Secret Garden

2 – The meaning of the elements in the Secret Garden

3- The Sacred Garden and healing

For Deeper Insights Consider:

Deepening Our Connection

How to Find Your Spirit Guides

Power Journaling

Your Body Suit and Invisible Self

Important Links & Mentions From This Episode

“Awakening to the Spirit World, The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation” Sandra Ingerman and Hank Wasserman

Members of the Deeper Song Transformational Community are Light Holders, Hope Shiners and Gatherers to our heart. Will you join  us?

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

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Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We are so much more than our physical plane expression.  We, as transformational leaders, are to raise our vision and listen to the guidance of the 95% of the world that is unseen.  That is our job  To listen, to hear, to bring back what we learn and teach others.  

There are Metaphorical Messengers in the Unseen World ready to guide us and inspire us and yes, motivate us to new actions here within our planetary persona.  

We have only to listen…

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

(10 Minutes)

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Important Links & Mentions From This Episode:

Begin your
Exploration of the Unseen World
with  these two foundational steps:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection (12 Minuates)

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star (16 mints)

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

The Space of Inner Knowing (16 minutes)

How to Hole High Watch for the Planet  (16 minutes)

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work(16 minutes)

Can You Experience Your Boundlessness??  

How to Partner with the Energy of the Universe

TrANSCRIPT

Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

95% of the world is unseen.  But it wants to communicate with us here in our physical container.  How do we contact it? How do we understand it?  Is the Unseen World an “it” or a” we” or a “them”?

I have used the meditative form of a shamanic journey for a number of years to explore the Unseen World. And the more I listen the more I hear. The Unseen World speaks in metaphors and we must learn to interpret them. 

I think of them as Metaphoric Messengers and I value their guidance. 

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community. I am acosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song. Thank you for being a part of this journey.

Our inquiry in this episode is  about Metaphorical Messengers and the Unseen World

The first time I tried to take a Shamanic Journey I only had the sense of sitting around a campfire with others but I could not see them.  I just knew they were there.  It took me several journeys before I began to recognize the metaphoric messengers that were to be and are my guides.  They bring me answers and insights and nudges from the Unseen world. You have your personal Metaphoric Messengers waiting for you too. 

The unseen world needs us to do their work. We need them to point out the way we are to move forward. We need each other to communicate. We just need to be observant. 

So immediately we have a few questions

  • Why do I want to explore the Unseen World?
  • How doest that change my experience here my planetary experience?
  • How do I access this Unseen World?
  • Let’s get to it.

Why do we want to explore the Unseen World? What’s in it for us?  We’ve got enough going on here on the physical plane…

We are in an unprecedented period of change.  What better time to access the overview, the guidance we need from the Unseen World. It Is 95% of everything so surely there are some helpful insights and guidance available there and a whole lot of overview….!

We search for an answer in the unseen world. We search for guidance and clarity and insights we don’t even have the questions for. 

Here’s the challenge – and the opportunity.  When we receive this guidance from the Unseen World, we have to be willing to examine our past choices, develop new approaches, and recreate ourselves to respond to the new message. Perhaps choose a new platform, a new form of service, even a new foundation.  We are creating our future in the here and now and our choices in the present are molding what we manifest in the future.   We need to make thoughtful choices.

That’s why we want to explore the Unseen World – to get guidance and insight and overview.

So if we go exploring in the Unseen World and gain new insights, what does that change in the present?

You know how limited we are here in our physical presence with the restrictions of our emotions and mind.  When we begin to open ourselves to the unseen world it begins to raise our energy into a higher vibration that enables us to live in and manifest higher good, greater clarity, more compassionate choices. We become a raised vibration that will positively and consciously affect our entire planet. 

That sounds rather good.  Exciting actually. So how do we access this Unseen World?

We access the  Unseen World in meditation. We begin by setting up our Transformative Shield and Connect to our Gaia Gate and our Soul Star. Then we set an intention in the form of guidance we wish to receive and go to our Sacred Garden and wait.  Your Sacred Garden is a metaphor for you.  Everything in it is you and when something in it changes that is a change within you. 

The Metaphoric Messengers shat show up are just that – 

they have meaning to you and they bring messages only you can interpret. If you don’t understand the message, simply ask for clarity.

Accept whatever Metaphoric Messenger shows up. It may be a guide or a guardian, or simply an awareness you need to experience. 

It may be an animal or a place in nature or a person.  What does that image mean to you right here and now and what is their message? See what message is given just to you – only for you. If you need more clarity ask for it.  

I have a fairly wide variety of helping spirits. Many are animals but there are people-shaped metaphors too. Trust that what shows up is an insight you are ready to receive.

Now that you have messages from the Unseen World, what are you going to do with this powerful awareness? 

Each time we visit the Unseen World the vibration of our body energy is raised. Our light increases.  Our effect on the collective continues to expand.

We become a bright light of Being. Our vibration raises and we experience new responses from those around us. We become more aware of the subtle nudges of the Unseen World that come in the form of thoughts and unexpected awareness. A knowing.  As we expand our journey practice, we visit the Unseen World more easily and our answers and insights become clearer and more profound.

Our raised vibration becomes a bridge, a bridge from our physical pane expression to the higher vibration we all share.  Our awareness increases.  Our sensitivity expands. We are in deeper connection with the Unseen World more of the time. And the messages we receive place us in deeper and more profound service. 

This inner work places us in the space of our Soul Star where we exchange messages with the Unseen World.  Where we hear the messages of agreements that were made before we came to earth.   Messages of our Soul Star.  Guidance from our Soul Sta.  Insights from the overview of our Soul Star.  Messages from the Unseen World in the form of metaphors we alone are to interpret.

Take time to seek your metaphorical messages each day.  Sit quietly with a question or an intention and then journey to your Sacred Garden to gain deeper clarity and guidance. 

The Unseen world awaits us  Will you open up to the Metaphorical Messengers that are ready to guide and heal you?

When?

CALL TO ACTION 

Think on that and see where it leads you.

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect, and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast. 
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive weekly posts and the Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

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How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

An Exploration of the Unseen World

We have access to an unbelievably vast world of knowing.  The Unseen world makes sup 95% of everything.  there is great wisdom waiting for us.  How do we reach it?  How do we tap into its depth of wisdom?

We connect from within and learn to interpret what we are shown. We build a launching pad that propels us to the deer work we are to do, the deeper wisdom we are to understand. 

Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community is a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. She shares what she learns and guides us to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  

In this episode we explore

How to Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

(16 minutes)

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Listen to
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To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

How to Create a transformative Energy Shield for Protection

The Gaia Gateway and the Soul Star 

The Space of Inner Knowing

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

The Power of your Imagination

What Core Beliefs are Guiding You Today?

How Effective Is Your Spiritual Practice?

How to Weave the Sacred into the Ordinary

Transcript

How to Build a Launching Pd for Your inner Work

95% of the wold is Unseen.  Think how much we have to learn when we figure out how to go exploring there.  

We can, you know.  We can go exploring, we can learn, we can bring back ideas that will enrich our planetary life.  

We do that by developing a platform of listening, a foundation for understanding and a launching pad for  exploring. 

If you want to understand the increased creative power that lives in the unseen world, you need to build your own launching pad Then you can go exploring.

Welcome to Reflections of a Deeper Song.  

I’m Cara Lumen, spiritual philosopher and founder of the Deeper Song Community I am a cosmic explorer who consciously travels into the unseen world to serve as a bridge to help us expand our relationship with the spiritual world. I share what I learn and guide those who are ready to the next level so we can sing a deeper song.  Thank you for being a part of this journey.

In this episode, we’re going to explore ‘How to build a Launching Pad for your Inner Work.”

I learned Transcendental Meditation in my 30’s. (I’m 87 now.)  Yes, I did it because the Beatles did it, but it was a rather amazing experience.  That was probably my first foray into the Unseen world.  There have been many since then.  

The more I explore the Unseen World, the more I am shown.  I think we are taken to the next step when we are ready.  But here are several steps you can take to build your own launching pad for exploring the unseen world. I have a few easy ones to begin with. 

Because working in the inner world is unseen work, we can’t exactly make any plans.  We must simply learn to open ourselves up to unexpected possibilities.  We can develop techniques to take us on the inner exploration but where we go is, well, simply where we go.  Our job is to stay open and learn as much as we can when we do journey to the unseen world.

First, we have to build our launching pad.

There are three foundations steps

1- Deepen your roots for stability.

2- Broaden your horizon by expanding your awareness.

3 – Listen to your inner guidance

Roots hols us in place 

Roots are our foundation.  We get to build roots, but we also get to examine what we already have in place to be certain they are creating the foundation we want and need.

So how, exactly do we Deepen our roots for stability?

Let’s begin by seeing what foundation you are standing on.  Take a close look at your personal spiritual belief system.  Have you gradually and organically developed your own spiritual belief system based on an exploration of – whatever spiritual practice called to you?

Or are you are still caught up in what you were taught by someone else along the line that were really their beliefs, not ones you want to embrace

Question your beliefs. See what core beliefs are guiding you today and if, in the light of where you are in your life at this point in time, they are still valid. Release those no-longer-true-for-you beliefs. Question all of them. Expand your beliefs as you expand your consciousness. 

I took a comparative religion class in college.  I had never heard of many of the ones we studied. I came away wondering how am I to know if what I believe (as a presbyterian encouraged by my mother) is right?  It’s a question I’ve been exploring all my life  The answer is there is no right – there are only variations of our human core longing for oneness. 

I have built a strong foundation in metaphysics upon which I have layered Taoism and Shamanism. Each one of those conscious explorations has given me insights and tools for inner growth.  I have adapted and selected what called to me, what I wanted and needed. I continue to select and adjust every day as my awareness of the unseen world expands. 

You deepen your roots by examining your spiritual foundation and making certain it is relevant for what you feel and think today.

The second step is to broaden your horizon by broadening your awareness  

Look up . Look out  Look under.  Look over…Keep looking. 

First, you have to believe there is an unseen world and then you have to believe you can get there.  

Affirmative prayer was one of the first tools I used to have a conscious effect on life.  I spent a lot of time taking the negative thoughts and beliefs out of my vocabulary. It made a big difference.

Along with that was added a deep awareness of the power of my own words and thoughts.  One of the most life-changing phases is “you get what you believe you deserve and what you believe is possible.” 

Change your thinking, change your life.  Change your words, change your life.

I retrained myself to speak and think in positive phrases.  It transformed my life. 

So one of my early awareness was that my words and thoughts and actions created my life experience. 

That was a form of working with the unseen World but at that time I did not see it as that. 

The launching pad for work in the Unseen Word that I currently use is shamanic journeying. It is a form of meditation – visualizing, intuitive, receptive meditation.  

From a still and contemplate place within, I create a Sacred Garden where everything is a metaphor that only I am to interpret.  And everything in the Sacred Garden represents some aspect of me. 

When you ask questions of the Unseen World, you get answers. Some very obvious, some rather subtle. 

I journey with a specific intention and interpret whatever metaphors show up – a guide, a protector, a helping spirit, an object, an element – that is meant for only me to interpret.  The unseen world speaks to me through my meditative openness.

The amazing power of what is thought of as “Energy Work” is in direct contact with the Unseen World.  

The foundation I’m building includes an expanding use of sound healing and deepening my Qi Gong practice so I can create a strong launch pad on the physical plane for these inner explorations.

You deepen your roots by creating ceremony and ritual that speaks to you, that centers you, that deepens your connection with the unseen world 

So we’ve deepened your roots for stability by expanding our connection with nature.  

We’ve broadened your horizon by deepening your awareness and connection with the Unseen World.

Th this step is to listen to your inner guidance and learn o interpret what you discover in the Unseen World. 

What do you want to explore in the Unseen World?

Your mind can’t tell you what you want to explore because, well, the unseen world is invisible and our mind is simply our physical planetary mind, stuck in its humanness.  

To access the Unseen World all you have to do is be willing to explore. 

Set an intuition, go to your Sacred Garden, and ask a question.  Then see what shows up.  

You may know what you want to learn or you may need to ask your helping spirits to guide you.  I spent many journeys asking how to raise my vibration in order to help lift the vibration of the physical plane planet. You know – a small project. 

Once you ask a question simply listen to your inner guidance.

Once I ask a question, the answers begin to appear. Show me. Guide me. How can I?  Please make that metaphor clearer.

Trust what shows up.  Trust that it’s the perfect message for you.  Trust that you’re interpreting it in the most supportive manner. Journal what you discover in order to give yourself more clarity. I sometimes draw a picture of the journey that helps me understand the message and serves as a reminder of what I learned. 

I get an unexpected compelling idea and go exploring in a journey and that gives me a response that – of course – raises more questions or offers a wider variety of solutions.  So I choose one aspect and keep ongoing. I can also come back and explore another path.  

I journey every day. 

How do you interpret what you learn in the invisible world?

That’s up to you and what’s calling you.  I explore an idea that calls to me, figure out how to apply it, and write my ideas in posts and podcasts and my newsletter.  

Sometimes I don’t have a complete answer, I simply have a new step to take which invites more questions. 

Begin by exploring.

Begin with a simple meditative journey.  Set an intention, close your eyes, listen to a shamanic drumming track if you like, and see what shows up. Journal what you experienced and perhaps draw a picture. 

Repeat as often as you like. 

Explore your ancestors.  Explore your future self.  Explore nature and learn her lessons. Explore your Soul Star.  Explore the Unseen World. Trust what shows up. Trust that the lesson, the ideas for usage are just for you and it is time for you to hear it and understand it. 

Deepen your inner work and go exploring in the Unseen world. 

What’s your foundation? 

What’s your spiritual launching pad?

You’re already a launching pad for your inner world exploration.  Know that. 

Deepen your intuitive foundation and take off. That’s how you build a landing pad for your inner world 

DEEPER SONG PROCESS

  • What is the form of your current exploration of the inner world?  Meditation, visualization, shamanic journeying, writing, singing? There are many ways.
  • Can you identify a question you would like to explore in the invisible world?
  • Go explore that.
  • Journal what you discover and create a line drawing of what you discovered.

DEEPER SONG AFFIRMATION

Each day I expand my ability and my willingness
to explore the unseen world.

You are now well on your way to exploring the Unseen World. 

CLOSE

Think on that and see where it leads you.

  • I hope I brought you some new awareness, deeper ways to connect, and insights and encouragement for your next steps. 
  • Pause to be with what we have explored.  See what portals have opened up for you.  Where you will go exploring next.  This is a Journey of Discovery and we walk this part of the path together. 
  • Ashe, The creative in me honors the creative in you. 
  • To join me on further explorations I invite you to subscribe to this Reflections of a Deeper song podcast. 
  • I also encourage you to join the Deeper Song community at www.deepersong.com to receive my weekly Deeper Song newsletter.
  • Until next time, this is Cara Lumen inviting you to Come Sing a Deeper Song.