Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
I get the Daily Word delivered to my e-mail everyday. You should consider signing up for it if you haven't yet. It's always very inspirational and a great way to start your day. Below is today's and I found it to be so thought-provoking today that I expounded on it a bit. Hope you enjoy!
DREAM
I reach for the seemingly impossible, knowing that with God, all is possible!
I reach high with my ideals and acknowledge my dreams as an understanding of blessings to come. God’s guidance moves through me with a certainty that leads me to new, refreshing revelations.
As I relax, I allow myself to go with the flow of ideas. With a clear, expanded vision, I recognize possibilities with enthusiasm and see new ideals manifesting in unique ways. I move forward with what may seem impossible, knowing that with God, all is possible! Dream by dream, my ideas become reality.
I give thanks for my ability to dream and achieve and for all those whose dreams and accomplishments have come before me.
“He came and said to me, ‘Daniel, I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding. At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision.’”—Daniel 9:22-23
MY THOUGHTS:
I received this great “Daily Word” today and I felt like expanding on it a bit and passing it on to whomever may need an extra blessing.
In the above scripture God was actually speaking to Daniel, but I believe this scripture illustrates how God speaks to all of his children, every one of us, without exception. It is the law of attraction in action in the bible. No exclusions and no separation or judgment. Every one is special in the eyes of God. He loves us all equally and unconditionally. God says, "at the beginning of your supplications (or prayer) a word went out and I have come to declare it for you are greatly loved." In other words, instantly when you asked for it, I granted it to you because I love you that much. Ask and it is given.
If you want to be blessed and inspired instantly, take the above scripture and replace Daniel’s name with your own. Then read it and feel the power of what God is really trying to tell you. Do you think God has favorites? No, he loves you as much as Daniel or anyone else for that matter, and we are all his favorites. What he did for Daniel he promises to do for you and I. Insert your name below and be grateful for the promises of God and you will be blessed. It’s God’s promise. Go on, try it.
"He came and said to me, "'(Your name), I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding. At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision.'"---Daniel 9:22-23
I get the Daily Word every morning in my e-mail and it is part of my morning devotional/meditational routine. Today's spoke volumes to me and I felt led to share.
I love you guys! Let's all have a blessed day! :)
DREAM
I reach for the seemingly impossible, knowing that with God, all is possible!
I reach high with my ideals and acknowledge my dreams as an understanding of blessings to come. God’s guidance moves through me with a certainty that leads me to new, refreshing revelations.
As I relax, I allow myself to go with the flow of ideas. With a clear, expanded vision, I recognize possibilities with enthusiasm and see new ideals manifesting in unique ways. I move forward with what may seem impossible, knowing that with God, all is possible! Dream by dream, my ideas become reality.
I give thanks for my ability to dream and achieve and for all those whose dreams and accomplishments have come before me.
“He came and said to me, ‘Daniel, I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding. At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision.’”—Daniel 9:22-23
MY THOUGHTS:
I received this great “Daily Word” today and I felt like expanding on it a bit and passing it on to whomever may need an extra blessing.
In the above scripture God was actually speaking to Daniel, but I believe this scripture illustrates how God speaks to all of his children, every one of us, without exception. It is the law of attraction in action in the bible. No exclusions and no separation or judgment. Every one is special in the eyes of God. He loves us all equally and unconditionally. God says, "at the beginning of your supplications (or prayer) a word went out and I have come to declare it for you are greatly loved." In other words, instantly when you asked for it, I granted it to you because I love you that much. Ask and it is given.
If you want to be blessed and inspired instantly, take the above scripture and replace Daniel’s name with your own. Then read it and feel the power of what God is really trying to tell you. Do you think God has favorites? No, he loves you as much as Daniel or anyone else for that matter, and we are all his favorites. What he did for Daniel he promises to do for you and I. Insert your name below and be grateful for the promises of God and you will be blessed. It’s God’s promise. Go on, try it.
"He came and said to me, "'(Your name), I have now come out to give you wisdom and understanding. At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision.'"---Daniel 9:22-23
I get the Daily Word every morning in my e-mail and it is part of my morning devotional/meditational routine. Today's spoke volumes to me and I felt led to share.
I love you guys! Let's all have a blessed day! :)
Friday, August 10, 2007
A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne, Creator of "The Secret" "
How do I stop my negative thoughts?" - is a question that I have been asked many times. If you have ever asked this question then you will feel such enormous relief in knowing the answer, because it is so simple. How do you stop negative thoughts? You plant good thoughts!
When you try to stop negative thoughts, you are focusing on what you don't want - negative thoughts - and you will attract an abundance of them. They can never disappear if you are focused on them. The "stop" part is irrelevant - the negative thoughts are your focus. It doesn't matter if you are trying to stop negative thoughts or control them or push them away, the result is the same. Your focus is on negative thoughts, and by the law of attraction you are inviting more of them to you.
The truth is always simple and it is always easy. To stop negative thoughts, just plant good thoughts! Deliberately plant good thoughts! You plant good thoughts by making it a daily practice to appreciate all the things in your day. Appreciate your health, your car, your home, your family, your job, your friends, your surroundings, your meals, your pets, and the magnificent beauty of the day. Compliment, praise, and give thanks to all things. Every time you say "Thank you" it is a good thought! As you plant more and more good thoughts, the negative thoughts will be wiped out. Why? Because your focus is on good thoughts, and what you focus on you attract.
So don't give any attention to negative thoughts. Don't worry about them. If any come, make light of them, shrug them off, and let them be your reminder to deliberately think more good thoughts now.
The more good thoughts you can plant in a day, the faster your life will be utterly transformed into all good. If you spend only one day speaking of good things and saying "Thank you" at every single opportunity, you will not believe your tomorrow. Deliberately thinking good thoughts is exactly like planting seeds. As you think good thoughts you are planting good seeds inside you, and the Universe will transform those seeds into a garden of paradise. How will the garden of paradise appear? As your life!
Rhonda Byrne--"The Secret"... bringing joy to billions.
How do I stop my negative thoughts?" - is a question that I have been asked many times. If you have ever asked this question then you will feel such enormous relief in knowing the answer, because it is so simple. How do you stop negative thoughts? You plant good thoughts!
When you try to stop negative thoughts, you are focusing on what you don't want - negative thoughts - and you will attract an abundance of them. They can never disappear if you are focused on them. The "stop" part is irrelevant - the negative thoughts are your focus. It doesn't matter if you are trying to stop negative thoughts or control them or push them away, the result is the same. Your focus is on negative thoughts, and by the law of attraction you are inviting more of them to you.
The truth is always simple and it is always easy. To stop negative thoughts, just plant good thoughts! Deliberately plant good thoughts! You plant good thoughts by making it a daily practice to appreciate all the things in your day. Appreciate your health, your car, your home, your family, your job, your friends, your surroundings, your meals, your pets, and the magnificent beauty of the day. Compliment, praise, and give thanks to all things. Every time you say "Thank you" it is a good thought! As you plant more and more good thoughts, the negative thoughts will be wiped out. Why? Because your focus is on good thoughts, and what you focus on you attract.
So don't give any attention to negative thoughts. Don't worry about them. If any come, make light of them, shrug them off, and let them be your reminder to deliberately think more good thoughts now.
The more good thoughts you can plant in a day, the faster your life will be utterly transformed into all good. If you spend only one day speaking of good things and saying "Thank you" at every single opportunity, you will not believe your tomorrow. Deliberately thinking good thoughts is exactly like planting seeds. As you think good thoughts you are planting good seeds inside you, and the Universe will transform those seeds into a garden of paradise. How will the garden of paradise appear? As your life!
Rhonda Byrne--"The Secret"... bringing joy to billions.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Was The Devil A Creation Of God?
There are two basic emotions that shape what humanity perceives as good and evil. Most may assume these two emotions are love and hate. But in reality, it is love and fear. Hate is actually a byproduct of fear.
Do I believe in some evil force in the world, i.e., the devil? No. I believe humans need something tangible to assign to the fear-based emotion of hate. They need a scapegoat. Something to hang blame on for the unspeakable deeds this hate, which is really the absence of love, is capable of producing. Where there is no love, there is fear. Fear, which manifests itself as hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice, resentment, anger, violence, loneliness, and a hoard of other dysfunctions, produces lives full of despair, unhappiness, misery, discontent, dread, and suffering. Now, doesn't that sound like a list deserving of a big old mean devil?
How about this instead? God created man in his image. Life is the process through which God creates himself, and then experiences the creation. God or Spirit is pure energy. Relativity and physicality are the tools with which God works. He gave us physical bodies in order for us to experience the ecstasy and agony of the polarity of existence in a physical realm. For example, the good and the evil. The up and the down. The hot and the cold. Good does not, cannot, exist experientially without its opposite. Nothing can. There has to be pain in order to fully understand joy and vice versa. If everything were mediocre, we would be robbed of experiencing the extremes and all the in betweenness. If there were no up and down, there would only be the middle. If there were only warmth, there would be no choice of cold or hot. We need variety, choices, and polar opposites and all that lies between in order to fully experience our physicalness, and we need our physicalness in order to experience life as God intended it. Along with this, God gave us free will. Evil just comes as part of the package of emotions that comes from fear that comes from the absence of love. That, my dear friends, is a decision made by man. Not God. God created us in his likeness as extensions of Him; He loves and lives in each and every one of us. It is we who choose to acknowledge or deny him. When we deny him, we separate ourselves from him. That creates fear, which then opens the door to all the aforementioned byproducts of fear. We do that, not God, and not some big bad devil. Therefore, in answer to the question, "Was the devil a creation of God?" Nope. Man did that one all by himself.
Do I believe in some evil force in the world, i.e., the devil? No. I believe humans need something tangible to assign to the fear-based emotion of hate. They need a scapegoat. Something to hang blame on for the unspeakable deeds this hate, which is really the absence of love, is capable of producing. Where there is no love, there is fear. Fear, which manifests itself as hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice, resentment, anger, violence, loneliness, and a hoard of other dysfunctions, produces lives full of despair, unhappiness, misery, discontent, dread, and suffering. Now, doesn't that sound like a list deserving of a big old mean devil?
How about this instead? God created man in his image. Life is the process through which God creates himself, and then experiences the creation. God or Spirit is pure energy. Relativity and physicality are the tools with which God works. He gave us physical bodies in order for us to experience the ecstasy and agony of the polarity of existence in a physical realm. For example, the good and the evil. The up and the down. The hot and the cold. Good does not, cannot, exist experientially without its opposite. Nothing can. There has to be pain in order to fully understand joy and vice versa. If everything were mediocre, we would be robbed of experiencing the extremes and all the in betweenness. If there were no up and down, there would only be the middle. If there were only warmth, there would be no choice of cold or hot. We need variety, choices, and polar opposites and all that lies between in order to fully experience our physicalness, and we need our physicalness in order to experience life as God intended it. Along with this, God gave us free will. Evil just comes as part of the package of emotions that comes from fear that comes from the absence of love. That, my dear friends, is a decision made by man. Not God. God created us in his likeness as extensions of Him; He loves and lives in each and every one of us. It is we who choose to acknowledge or deny him. When we deny him, we separate ourselves from him. That creates fear, which then opens the door to all the aforementioned byproducts of fear. We do that, not God, and not some big bad devil. Therefore, in answer to the question, "Was the devil a creation of God?" Nope. Man did that one all by himself.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
MY EARLIEST MEMORY
My mother used to have a cabinet with several shelves that brimmed with trinkets. Each item had some kind of nostalgic significance. Perhaps it had been given to her by her mother or sibling or she had bought it on some special trip or occasion. The monetary value of these items was not over a couple of dollars each, but the sentimental value was priceless.
One day when I was four years old I was helping my mom dust the trinkets. I used to love to handle each little object and examine it as she would tell the story behind it. I was about to be the flower girl in an upcoming wedding for my mother's sister, my Aunt Pat, and it was obviously weighing heavy on my four-year-old mind. On this particular day, we talked as we worked, and I can still remember the salty taste of my tears streaking their way into my mouth as I pondered growing up and leaving her someday. How could I live without my mom’s sweet hugs and precious moments such as this? It was impossible to imagine ever, ever wanting to leave her. I wanted her to tell me that I didn't have to go, that we'd never have to part if I didn't want to. I felt completely devastated as she tried to explain that I would actually choose to go away. She wiped the tears from my eyes and hugged me as she tried to make me understand that I would eventually grow up, fall in love, marry and have children of my own.
I truly don't remember how that temporary trauma of my otherwise happy little-girl world resolved that day. It fades in my mind like the day turning into night, disappearing into nowhere the same way I remembered it.
The significance of this tiny slice of my childhood has eluded me for many years. I spend most of my time nowadays trying to prove my independence and strength. I am still not sure if that is good or bad—it just is. Though I still love my mother dearly, of course, sometimes I catch myself taking her for granted or even allowing everyday stresses to irritate me to the point that she catches the sting of my frazzled nerves. Perhaps my subconscious mind is trying to remind me of the precious bond my mother and I once shared and that it is okay to miss the days when I had nothing to prove, the days of following her around like a puppy, probably more in her way than anything and loving just being in her shadow.
This poignant memory is deeply embedded and stored in the warm and fuzzy file of my mind. I may not be able to remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but when I recall that day the emotions I felt all those years ago come flooding back. It brings a tear to my eye and a lump in my throat. And for just a moment I am four years old again, begging my mother to please let me stay with her forever.
One day when I was four years old I was helping my mom dust the trinkets. I used to love to handle each little object and examine it as she would tell the story behind it. I was about to be the flower girl in an upcoming wedding for my mother's sister, my Aunt Pat, and it was obviously weighing heavy on my four-year-old mind. On this particular day, we talked as we worked, and I can still remember the salty taste of my tears streaking their way into my mouth as I pondered growing up and leaving her someday. How could I live without my mom’s sweet hugs and precious moments such as this? It was impossible to imagine ever, ever wanting to leave her. I wanted her to tell me that I didn't have to go, that we'd never have to part if I didn't want to. I felt completely devastated as she tried to explain that I would actually choose to go away. She wiped the tears from my eyes and hugged me as she tried to make me understand that I would eventually grow up, fall in love, marry and have children of my own.
I truly don't remember how that temporary trauma of my otherwise happy little-girl world resolved that day. It fades in my mind like the day turning into night, disappearing into nowhere the same way I remembered it.
The significance of this tiny slice of my childhood has eluded me for many years. I spend most of my time nowadays trying to prove my independence and strength. I am still not sure if that is good or bad—it just is. Though I still love my mother dearly, of course, sometimes I catch myself taking her for granted or even allowing everyday stresses to irritate me to the point that she catches the sting of my frazzled nerves. Perhaps my subconscious mind is trying to remind me of the precious bond my mother and I once shared and that it is okay to miss the days when I had nothing to prove, the days of following her around like a puppy, probably more in her way than anything and loving just being in her shadow.
This poignant memory is deeply embedded and stored in the warm and fuzzy file of my mind. I may not be able to remember what I had for breakfast this morning, but when I recall that day the emotions I felt all those years ago come flooding back. It brings a tear to my eye and a lump in my throat. And for just a moment I am four years old again, begging my mother to please let me stay with her forever.
Monday, February 12, 2007
The Holy Experience
About ten years ago, I began my true spiritual awakening by reading Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God trilogy. Those books completely opened my eyes and spoke directly to my heart. Talk about life changing...wow! It is so fitting that one of my favorite people on the face of this earth and the truest version of an "angel on earth" (in my eyes) handed me the book and said she thought I would like it. Boy was that an understatement.
Well, fast forward to now and I have read so many spiritually enlightening books and added a multitude of authors to my favorites list. Somehow Neale kind of got forgotten over the past couple of years. But, he has resurfaced for me and his website is wonderful, so I want to point you in that direction. He offers a free e-book called THE HOLY EXPERIENCE that is as remarkable as his writing always is. I am about to finish it up as we speak and so wanted to share it with you. It is rare to get things as precious as this for free these days. Thanks Neale. I am so glad I have rediscovered you. I feel ya brother!
Please, do yourself a favor and go to his website at http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/ and check it out for yourself. And if you haven't done so yet, read his Conversations' books. They are as relevant and breathtakingly poignant today as they were the day he penned them. Just keep an open mind and be ready for a life-changing experience. :)
Well, fast forward to now and I have read so many spiritually enlightening books and added a multitude of authors to my favorites list. Somehow Neale kind of got forgotten over the past couple of years. But, he has resurfaced for me and his website is wonderful, so I want to point you in that direction. He offers a free e-book called THE HOLY EXPERIENCE that is as remarkable as his writing always is. I am about to finish it up as we speak and so wanted to share it with you. It is rare to get things as precious as this for free these days. Thanks Neale. I am so glad I have rediscovered you. I feel ya brother!
Please, do yourself a favor and go to his website at http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com/ and check it out for yourself. And if you haven't done so yet, read his Conversations' books. They are as relevant and breathtakingly poignant today as they were the day he penned them. Just keep an open mind and be ready for a life-changing experience. :)
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Hay House Radio is the coolest!
Man, I love it when this happens. I remember a long time ago thinking how much we need an ALL-SPIRITUAL radio or TV station, and just today I discovered that one exists and it is totally cool. You have got to check this out: www.hayhouseradio.com It is the best! The only problem is I will never want to turn it off. So, I just wanted to announce this for anyone who hasn't already found it. I lalalalalove it! Okay, I will stop holding back and tell you how I really feel. Have I mentioned I LOVE IT?!?!
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