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Go for the Big-time

Dream big.  Believe big.  Pray big.  Make room for God to do something new in your life.  Joel Osteen

Stop and think about this:  We live in the Kingdom of Heaven.  Everything here is here for our benefit.  It's like having a buffet of goodies.  What are we choosing?  Steak or weanies and beans?  The price is the same no matter what we choose, so why not go for the biggest and best we can imagine.

We need to declare what Joel calls, "our best life."  Here is an example of my declarations:  I call in great health, tremendous abundance and prosperity, relish restoration and healing.  I am living all of my dreams now.  I am a magnet for great blessings that are explosive in a huge way.

I accept God's dream for me.  All in my life is a gift of great magnitude.   I am open and receptive to all of God's ideas and I act on them immediately.    Creativity flows for me all of the time.  From now on, I am permanently slim, slender and healthy.  My good surrounds me and I take advantage of all the new opportunities immediately.

All declarations are in present time, positive, and ready for my best life now.  

While on my road trip, I listened to Joel on the radio, and got inspired to revise my dreams, update them, and supersize them.  Since God always says 

"yes" to all that we call for, why not go for the very best at the size all of us can accept in the moment.  

We are created in the image and likeness of God, which means we are all masterpieces in the eyes of God.  I don't know about you, but I am stepping into my genius now.  My feeling is that since I have an idea about something, God placed the idea and with it, the ways and means to bring it about.  

I am making more room for God to do something new in my life.  Join me?

We are of God

We all are a fragment torn from God.  Epictetus, a Greek Philosopher

Being fragments of God means that we are exactly as God is.  Makes sense since the Hebrew Bible tells us that we are made in the image of God.  Hence, we have the same nature as God and we have all of the same qualities of God.

Deep thinking about that can give great comfort or as me, when I first read it, scared the bejeezus out of me.  ME!  THE same as God!  That means that I can create, demonstrate, and manifest exactly as God.  Since I am God, who am I asking for what it is that I want to experience in life?  Am I asking myself or God?

Since I have the same qualities as God, then all I have to do is speak my word or declare what it is that I want to experience in my life.  I have the same Power as God.  One thing I do know that in order to attract the good things of life, I have to, HAVE TO believe that I am blessed with a Divine Nature and that I am worthy of receiving all that this Kingdom of Heaven can provide.  

The great shift for me was realizing that I am precious, important and loved by God.  Something inside changed for me.  All of us are created for a specific purpose and I realized that there wasn't a way to get out of that purpose no matter how much I denied the urge to do so.  

What again changed for me was that I got busy doing what it is that I needed to do in my life.  Suddenly, I was experiencing peace, pleasure, and plenty in all things.  Stuff just started showing up.  Ernest Holmes teaches us that, "By thinking, you set in motion a Power that creates.  It will be exactly as you think.  You throw out into Mind an idea, and Mind creates it for you and sets it on the path of your life."  It truly is simple, fun and easy.

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Honoring Dreams

There is within you a spark of the Divine that is capable of great things, greater than you ever imagined.  This "spark" communicates with you through your desires.  Dr. Deepak Chopra said that our desires are Life's attempts to move us out of our limitations, to move us off our current position, into new and exhilarating experiences.  Beginning this moment, honor your dreams and accept that you can do what you choose to do.  The urge to live a more expansive life is not only coming from within you, but it supplies the power to implement the necessary action for your desired accomplishment.  Dr. Ruth Wilkerson

The key to the above statement is "it supplies the power to implement the necessary action for your desired accomplishment."  That spark within us gives us the desire, the dream and then supplies all we need to get it done.  

Most of us think that when we get an idea, we need to get the whole, complete plan for the idea.  I have found that normally I get the idea and when I start on the idea, step by step, I get more of the plan or more ideas to carry out the plan.  Rarely do I get the whole process at one time.  I think if I did, it would overwhelm me and I wouldn't even start the process.

Most of my lessons come from what I do in my daily life.  Ordinary things open up for me.  For example, I love to knit.  Right now I am working on a project that I have never done before.  It is a sweater with a front pocket and hoodie.  I am working on the pocket and the directions don't tell me how to attach the finished product to the front panel.  I know that when I slide my hands into a front pocket in my other jackets, there is no space open to the inside.  But, as I was working on the pocket panel, and thinking about the process, an idea came to me and I thought, "check out 'You Tube' for more instructions."  

There is always an answer or solution to every desires accomplishment as long as you are open to receive an answer.  Thank you Divine Spark within me for supplying me with a solution.  IT always works.  And I make sure IT always works for me.  Make it your Divine Solution too.

Say "Yes" to all of Life

There is a Power operating through, a Presence inspiring, an intelligence guiding, and a Law of Good sustaining you.  Upon this Presence, this Power and this Law you may place complete reliance.  Because you live in a this Divine Presence and because It is in you, you may know that the creative Law of Good, which is infinite, and which has all power, can do for you or bring to you, anything and everything necessary to your complete happiness.  Its whole desire for you is one of freedom and joy.

Ernest Holmes and Raymond Charles Barker

What a gift and blessing the above is when you think about it deeply.  We have the power within us to bring to us whatever our heart's desire.  Our desire is God's desire for us.  

Several days ago, there was an article in the newspaper about a man who was 107 years old.  He lives alone, mows his own lawn with a push mower, volunteers at his church, and served in the military through several major wars.  The reason for his longevity, he says, is to always look forward to something new in life.  

This man got me to thinking.  Sure, I am retired, but based on me living beyond 100, I have more than enough time to create a new career and to be able to finish it - if there is such a thing.   What "something new" would I like to get involved in and what would bring me huge amounts of satisfaction?  Right now, I am not sure, but, based on having a Power, Presence, Intelligence, and Law of Good within me and sustaining me, I am sure I can get some new ideas for my new career.  This is a very exciting prospect for me to even think about.  What would be the most fun?  Work has not always been fun for me, so just this idea of what would be the MOST fun is very intriguing.  I am looking forward to this process just to see what comes up.  I am already smiling...

State Your Desire

You have the Power within you to confront any situation with assurance and certainty.  You are here to experience the type of life you desire.  You can be healthy, happy,  free, and abundantly supplied simply by knowing that your life is the Life of God.  Dr. Ruth Wilkerson

Dr. Ruth goes on to say that, "You have every right to feel good about yourself because you are good.  The Power of God is your Power, and as you accept that It responds by a support that exceeds any need."

Knowing that the Power of God outmatches any problem and can erase it completely all the while replacing it with a perfect solution is very comforting.  Think about it.  All we need to do is place the issue into the hand and heart of God and allow it to be erased, replaced and solved.

What's left?  Perfect Life.  All we need to do is remember to do what needs to be thought about and turn it directly over to the Principle of Life.  We are all a "fragment or spark of God" and as such I know that we are precious and important to our Creator.  God would not create such magnificent creatures such as we are and then pull the rug out from under us.  God does not operate that way.  In fact, every spiritual teaching tells us that God is good and that that goodness flows to each and every one of us as we allow it into our lives.

I know that I want more "permanent" good of all kinds to flow to me or show up on the path of my life.  Each of us gets to define what our "good" is.

I think it includes radiant health, infinite wisdom, fabulous substance and supply, abundant prosperity, increased order and harmony, deeply abiding peace, grace, and well-being.  Along with all of that, I want serenity and security all around me so that I can feel and operate with the wholeness of life.  All of this translates into the highest and best I can imagine for myself at this time.  I love knowing that the Power of God is within me and I can use it for my pleasure for whatever I think I need that this time.  What's on your buffet?

A Time for Remembering

The time has come in our evolution when we should awaken to the recognition that behind each one stands the Eternal Mind - that each has complete access to It; that each may come to It for inspiration and revelation - that that surrounding all is a Divine Law obeying the dictates of this Eternal Mind.  Ernest Holmes

Several blogs ago, I wrote about my friend who is experiencing Stage IV

cancer and she is now in Hospice.  When I talk to her, her voice is very weak and I can barely understand what she is saying.  Sometimes her sentences are disjointed and don't many any sense.

When speaking with her this morning, I told her that I would love to know what she had learned through this experience and she replied, "I haven't learned a damn thing." That came through loud and clear.  It made me laugh again.

That is what I miss about her more than anything.  We use to make each other laugh and we talked about things that were silly and we were able to laugh all the more.

I remember in Ministerial School, we were suppose to MindMap the next Sunday's sermon and submit it with part of our weekly assignment.  The next Sunday was Easter.  I got to thinking, how much can an Easter service change from year to year?  I called my friend and said, lets MindMap last year's sermon, and play hooky on Sunday and go to Great America as this will probably be our last Sunday to all play together before we started our new careers as ministers.  Most of our class was ready to play at an amusement park and we did go.  Had a wonderful time.  My friend and I laughed about the experience for years to come.  The problem with it was that every Easter since that time, all I wanted to do was go to an amusement park.  I wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel and release balloons from the very top and watch them float away again.

She is one of the greatest blessings of my life.  I miss her already.  God, surround her with comfort, courage, peace and release as she gets ready for her next journey of life.  

Remember

We are guided daily by Divine Intelligence into paths of peace, where the soul recognizes its Source and meets It in joyful union, in complete At-One-ment.  Ernest Holmes

Since being on a spiritual path, one of the hardest things I have had to remember is that "the whole of God is present at any and every point within God."  I forget that I am a spark of God, that I have the same power within me as God, and that I need to recognize it and use in order to create what it is that I experience in this life.  

Ernest Holmes taught that, "First realize that Divine Power is; then unify with It; and then speak the word as "one having authority," for the Law is "the servant of the Eternal Spirit throughout all the ages."  All I have to do is align with the power within me and use it like I mean it for whatever is needed in my daily experience.  

When I have remembered "who" I am and come into that authority, all goes well in my life.  Even when the "stuff" hits the fan, I can go through it with

equanimity and realize that no matter what, all is still well in my world.  

My secret is, to remember!  Dr. Holmes goes on to say that, "Man (you and me) would have no burdens if he kept this "High Watch toward The One" - if he always turned to God." 

Let us remember to include God in all of what is going on within, without, and around us.  I am ready for an easy life, which what I think about when I think of having a "burdenless" life.  I don't mind the challenges, the issues, the situations, as long as I know that I can get through them with ease, with a sense of calm and peace.  

The Course of Miracles tells us, "If you knew who walked beside you..." I am ready to remember more of my spiritual intuition.  If you remember with me, I can remember easily and with greater succession.  I will help you, you will help me and together we will help the world around us to remember.  All manner of things are well.  Let it be done.

12 Laws of Karma

1. The Great Law - Whatever we put into the universe will come back to us.
2. The Law of Creation - Life does not happen by itself, we need to make it happen.
3. The Law of Humility - One must accept something in order to change it.
4. The Law of Growth - When we change ourselves our lives follow suit and change too.
5. The Law of Responsibility - We must take responsibility for what is in our lives.
6. The Law of Connection - The past, present, and future are all connected.
7. The Law of Focus - We cannot think of two different things at the same time.
8. The Law of Giving and Hospitality - Our behavior should match our thoughts and actions.
9. The Law of Here and Now - One cannot be present if they are looking backward.
10. The Law of Change - History repeats itself until we learn from it and change our path.
11. The Law of Patience and Reward - The most valuable rewards require persistence.
12. The Law of Significance and Inspiration - Rewards are a direct result of the energy and effort we put into it.

My Ideal Merges Into the Real

We know that the Principle within us guides us in the way and the performance of Truth.  Whatever is for our benefit is already provided.  It is all One Presence, operating through One fundamental Law, therefore, everything necessary for our well-being is brought into our experience.  All good, all substance, all supply, all activity, all opportunity for self-expression is ours now!  Ernest Holmes

When "stuff" happens to us, it is hard to remember that it is part of our good.  It is hard to remember to see ourselves as God sees us, free and filled with vitality and sufficiency for every occasion.  We forget that the way to access Spirit is through our breath, which is why at the beginning of every prayer, meditation or even just a contemplation, it is suggested to "take a deep breath as you release all of the cares of the moment."  

For myself, I have to remember to go to that place in my mind where I have created a room where I feel loved, nurtured, blessed, respected, filled with wisdom, strength and love.  This is my place of deep connection with Spirit and where I can feel a profound shift in my consciousness for healing, or deep thought, or getting ideas, or needing transformation or a shift in thinking.  

Everything has already been provided for our benefit.  Step into that space in consciousness.  Make it part of your conscious daily environment.  Pay attention as to how your life changes because of this change in your attitude.  I am willing to see for you that not only do huge changes take place for you but that you experience more good, substance, supply, activity and opportunity.

Ernest Holmes said, "By thinking, you set in motion a Power that creates.  It will be exactly as you think.  You throw out into Mind an idea, and Mind creates it for you and sets it on the path of your life."  Throw into Mind the biggest ideas you can possibly imagine and watch the good, substance, supply, activity and opportunity show up on the "path of your life."  

Life can be a glorious, fun-filled experience.  Join me as we make it even better.

Great Aspirations

Know today that within you is a Power and a Presence.  Whatever you might need is always right there, at the right time, in the right place.  Think great thoughts, abundant thoughts.  Add to your thoughts strong feelings and convictions that the universe is always in perfect agreement with your richest aspirations.

No matter what it is that you are thinking, the universe is always in agreement with you.  If you think you are right, you are.  If you think you are wrong, you are.  Interesting how that works.  And how hard that lesson is to learn in life.

When we learn that the subconscious mind is the builder with us, we can learn to give it an idea upon which to work and release it to produce the manifestation in its own way.  It can build and rebuild our bodies.  It can heal our wounds of whatever nature.  It can take our ham sandwich, digest it, and move the nutrients to any place in our bodies that need it.  It can do the seemingly impossible when it is teamed up with clear and conscious direction.  It does not initiate.  We direct the conscious mind and the subconscious mind will take what the conscious mind provides and work it out in detail.  The subconscious mind does not question.  It simply acts upon what it is given.  

We can give it the greatest aspirations we can think of, and the subconscious mind will go to work for us and create it to the best of its ability.  It is our internal Infinite Treasure House.  All we have to do is take the time to figure out what it is that we want to create in our lives and allow our minds to fulfill our heart's greatest desire.  Can you imagine?

Anything!

We need to fill our subconscious minds with the most prosperous, healthful, and constructive ideas that we can possibly think of for our minds to work on while we sleep, while we meditate, or while we are working on other things.  Then we need to just release it all and watch what shows up on the path of our lives.  What fun!  Join me?

Infinite Supply

Supply and demand:  If you knew there was infinite supply, you would have no need to demand.  Alan Cohen

Ernest Holmes tells us that, "Somewhere there is already provided a lavish abundance for every want - a supply equal to any claim that can be made upon it - BUT THE DEMAND MUST BE MADE! "As you believe."  Each as the power to demand his share of the gift God has provided of health, wealth, and power.  Each is supplied AS he believes."  

Demand and believe may not be the right words.  I think that the word "know" applies in both paragraphs.  Think about this.  Elsewhere, Ernest Holmes tell us that we the incarnation of God.  Each of us has the Presence of God within us.  Other books tell us that we have the "spark" of God within us.  Other mystics tell us that we have the same powers that God has.

Since that is the case, I think we need to move beyond "believe" and move into "knowing" that our power is equal to whatever our prevailing consciousness is at the time that we need it to accomplish whatever we want to experience.  I use the word "prevailing" because there are times when it is easy for me to manifest what I want and others when nothing seems to work.  I know it is based on my "prevailing" consciousness.

The prevailing consciousness also needs appreciation, gratitude, and thanksgiving, which again, according to Ernest Holmes, is the motive power which attracts and magnifies the hidden potentialities of life.  

When thinking about the lavishness of nature and the abundance that nature provides, I remember my Mother growing cucumbers every summer that she would can.  And every once in a while, she would miss one and it would grow into enormous proportions.  Potatoes, tomatoes, corn and other vegetables were the same way.  

Try counting the blades of grass growing in your lawn.  Or the leaves in just one small tree. Or rain drops or snow flakes or clouds in the sky or stars at night.  We can't.  There are too many.  

But somehow, we can't equate that "too many" into the abundance that is available to us.  Why not?  You know what?  I am going to think about that this week and figure out how I can translate that abundance into my life.  I am so ready!  Are you?

Make It Permanently Worthwhile

Because thought is made of the stuff that forms the universe into definite creation the Law is charged with the power that we give it.  It molds our ideas and beliefs into visible form and casts them back multiplied.  The only concentration necessary in the best use of Mind is specific mental attention and complete mental acceptance.  You make up Its mind for It.

Ernest Holmes

My suggestion is to astound yourself in the process.  As Dr. Holmes tells us, we make up God's mind for our use, we may as well make up the most incredible thing we can think of and stick with it until it becomes a reality in our lives.

Dr. Holmes goes on to teach us that, "To learn how to think is to learn how to live, for our thoughts go into a Medium that is Infinite in Its ability to be and to do."  Whatever is going on with us, if we don't like certain aspects or situations, all we have to do is think again.  We forget that we are living in an Intelligent Universe, which responds to our mental states.  By learning how to control our mental states, we learn how to control our environment.

How cool is that?

Each of us has the right to choose what its that place into Mind.  We forget that we have the power to do this.  It is so much easier to complain about what it is that is on than it is to think about what it is that we want in life.  

Why is it so difficult to remember that a "Certain, specific, intelligent idea in Mind, will produce a certain, specific, concrete manifestation equal to itself?"  I have read that quote by Dr. Holmes numerous times and each time I tell myself I am going to memorize it and yet...somehow, when things get difficult, I forget what I am suppose to do.  This time, I am going to make it a permanent memory.

More than anything, I want my life to be worthwhile, to mean something to me, to have more than one purpose, to truly astound myself several times in the process, and to allow myself to be surprised by the Universe.  How about you?

Take Time To

In order to create balance in our lives, we need to Take Time to 

Work - it is price of success

Play -  it is the secret of perpetual youth

Think   it is the source of power

Read - it is the fountain of wisdom

Pray - it is the conversation of God

Laugh - it is the music of the soul

Listen - it is the pathway to understanding

Dream - it is the hitching your wagon to a star

Worship - it is the highway of reverence

Love and be loved - it is the gift of God.

Taken from a postcard - source unknown

When I feel my life tilting off balance, I realize that somewhere along the line, I am missing something important and it usually something from the above list.  Added to the list I have included journaling, contemplating, keeping in touch with friends, prayer partners, hugging pets, exercising, bird watching, catching sun rises or sun sets, teddy bears and cabbage patch dolls.  Add whatever is important to you.  You may want to think about your creative endeavors such as coloring, music, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, woodwork, and playing musical instruments.  Anything that feeds your soul creates balance.  Whatever makes you  happy is important no matter show insignificant it may seem.  Richest blessing on your balanced journey this week.  

Increasing Consciousness

If you think of Life as always bringing to you everything you need, you will have formed a partnership with the Invisible which will prosper you in everything you do.  Ernest Holmes

Stop and think about the implications of that statement.  How much more can you handle in your life?  How much richer do you want your life to be?

No matter how we already have, there is so much more for us.  We need to

open our minds to the possibility and opportunity for more.  How much can we handle?  

The whole mental process and scope must be broadened and deepened, the whole expectancy must reach out to more, the whole imagination must lead its feeling to grateful acceptance and joyous recognition of what is surely possible in life.

For me, this has been a step by step process.  One of which has been exciting, terrifying and satisfying in various degrees.  At some stages, it has taken extreme courage and, others, a cheerful step forward.  At times, the less thought I have put into it, the easier it has been.  Others, I should have given it more thought.  Hindsight is always 20/20.  But whatever sight, it has brought me to where I am right now.

Yesterday has been an excellent example of some of the experiences of late.

Recently, I had a bone graft placed in the lower area of the front of my mouth.  When the damaged tooth was removed, the oral surgeon discovered lots of bone damage and so decided that I needed to have some bone replaced.  He added cadaver bone and covered it with a membrane to hold it in place and put  some stitches in it.  The stitches were self-absorbing and were gone in a short period of time.  The membrane stayed for two months.  

I stressed about having it removed.  My prayer partner reminded me that the "hand of God" would be removing the membrane and that "it would be easy, comfortable and I would be at peace."  Well, not only was it comfortable, I didn't feel it coming out and when he removed several what he called loose pieces of bone, I didn't feel those either.  Truly, the hand of God was at work.

The lesson again for me is that in my partnership with God, not only do I have all that I need, but I am given what I need in the moment of stress and distress.  Life is what I desire it is for me - simple, fun and easy all the time.

Spirit is my Invisible Powerhouse always ready to assist in times of need and otherwise.  How conscious are you of your Invisible Power?

Safe and Secure

I am not alone, for a Presence goes with me and daily accompanies me on my travels.  My ways are made straight before me.  Ernest Holmes

Several weeks ago, I was traveling to Corpus Cristi for business, and while I was passing an 18-wheeler truck, one of his tires blew out and I could feel the force of the blow-out force my car left.  Next, I notice that the truck is drifting into my lane.  

Yikes, where do I go?  As I steer left, I drive over that portion of the asphalt that is chattered to let you know that you are about to drive off the road, and I can feel my car dragging into the meridian and I cannot hold it on the road, so I just allow the car to drift into the ditch.  I slowly brake and stop.

Taking deep breaths and willing my heartbeat to slow, I look up and there is an overpass about a quarter of a block in front of me and I am headed for one of the concrete supports.  I look out my window, and I am window deep in tall grass and weeds.  Well, I drove in here, maybe I can drive out of here.

My car sounds the same, so I slowly start forward and up.  As I get closer to the road, the traffic behind me is slowed down considerably because of the debris of the tire that is scattered all over the road and I easily am able to come up on the road and get back up to speed.  After going under the overpass, I see a fence divider in the center of the meridian and I wonder, was there one where I went down?  Where was it?

I pull off the freeway at the next exit and gas station to use the restroom and to walk off the rest of the adrenaline rush.  Whew!  More deep breathing.  I walk around the car to see any damage and there is none other than the fact that I picked up a lot of vegetation.  My poor car looked like it had been driven straight off a farm.  

Continuing on my journey, I remember that in my treatment work that morning, I remembered that I had declared a "safe and secure journey."  That is what I had.  Albeit, a bit of an adventure driving down a ditch, missing a fence, a concrete support, flying tire debris, but...safe and secure.

I got what I asked for.  Thank you, God.

Fasten Attention on Possibilities

Face your negatives and then lift your consciousness to that Mind in which there is no problem to be solved, no person to be pacified and no debt to be paid.  God knows you aright, even though you may not know yourself aright.  The universe believe in you, appreciates you and gives its all to you.  Raymond Charles Barker

Can you imagine being in a place where there are no problems to be solved, issues to deal with, challenges to overcome, health issues to medicate, or dealing with difficult people?  That would be my Nirvana.  There have been times when I consciously put myself in just this present moment  that I have experienced this precious consciousness.  

Realizing that on a daily basis, I need to always upgrade my thinking and feeling to always say yes to all that intrigues, inspires and helps me to grow mentally allows my consciousness to move into that place of pure bliss.  

In order to move into greater good, it means thinking in terms of a greater God.  And then thinking of my own spiritual nature in equally larger terms in that I am deserving, worthy and have the possibility within me to achieve all that I have ever wanted in making my grandest dreams a reality.

Recently, I have discovered the power of "permanent."  My health is permanent.  My financial freedom is permanent.  My good increases incrementally permanently. I am able to appreciate my blessings and always think in more, getter, bigger and better permanently.  Divine Ideas are my impelling force for my greatness permanently.  Divine Order and Harmony are my expression permanently.

Since God only knows Itself as us as perfect life, we need to know ourselves as perfect life.  I will be spending some time thinking and journaling about what "perfect life" means to me and how I want it to show up for me.  I invite to join me and lets see where it takes us.  Underlying it all, we need to remember to enjoy all of what life is to us.  

Experience is the Key

We already are in a Perfect Universe but It needs to be mentally seen and spiritually experienced before It can become a part of our everyday life.  Ernest Holmes

Early in my classwork with Dr. Robert Scott, he told us that we needed to keep a "Results Journal" of the wonderful things that happened to us as a result of taking classwork, of doing spiritual mind treatments (prayer work), and the improvements we could see in ourselves while reading, studying and implementing what we were learning.  

Unfortunately, my Results Journal was started with a Pen-Tab 100 sheets college ruled notebook that is now tattered, somewhat torn, scribbled up, and falling apart.  In looking through the early days of my ministry in San Francisco, CA., one of the most astonishing "results" was a copy of a money order issued by Safeway Stores.  Whenever possible, I kept copies of checks, pictures, etc., to have a visual of my demonstrations.  This particular day, I was telling God on the way to church that we needed money to take care of some bills and that it was necessary that they were paid immediately or the telephone or heat or whatever was going to be cut off because of lack of payment.  The mail man came and slotted the mail through the door and when I picked up the envelopes, there was one with no return address, no stamp but just our address on the front.  When I opened it, it had this Safeway money order for $500.00 with no signature but it was made out to Church for Today.  I remember looking at it and thinking, "I wonder if this is a "good" check."  I didn't even know Safeway issued money orders.

I deposited it.  It was good.  Yeah!  I got my demonstration and it was just enough to cover what was needed to keep us open for another month.

God experienced creates a feeling of increased faith when needed for the big stuff of life.  My Results Journal is filled with my experiences of God fulfilling something that I asked for, got as a delightful surprise and lots are of new ideas, new angles and new perceptions that came to me while reading or thinking about what I was learning or teaching.  My tattered journal is a treasured gift from the Universe and God.  I encourage you to think about starting one.  It is great fun to look back and see all of the wonderful experiences that fill it up.

Power Is Where You Are

God in the midst of you is right intention, clear in its motive and urging you to act with integrity.  Moving in God's direction you use greater wisdom, clearer thinking and you seek to love more greatly.  Power is where you are in what you think.  Love awaits your distribution of it.  There are no hindrances to self-advancement save those which abide in you, through your own wrong acceptances.  God wants you to be what you want to be.  Raymond Charles Barker

The majority of Metaphysical students are seekers rather than practitioners.

We need to practice what we know and when that no longer works, practice something else that we know.  We keep thinking that there is something "out there" that is the answer for us.  We forget that we have the Presence of God within us and that we are of God and we have the answers in our own minds.  Our minds are the Mind of God.  We forget that our endowment by God is permanent.  

We are alive because God or Divine Intelligence needs us as a vehicle of its own greatness.  God needs us to experience the world as it is today.  Because of the Divine Plan (remember Florence Scovell Shin's sublime Divine Plan of health, wealth, happiness and perfect self-expression) we were endowed with at birth (or maybe before) we were fully equipped to bring about all that we needed to accomplish with ease.  We forget that we are geniuses at best.  We need to know and believe in our own abilities and capacities to accomplish all that we have ever dreamed for ourselves and more.  Affirm for yourself that your divine plan for your life is manifesting now, quickly and in peace.  

No matter what age, your divine plan can re-manifest itself for you.  You are fully equipped and equal to any situation as it arises in your life because what God has given to you is permanent from birth to beyond.  We know that with God all is possible, to ask for the "impossible" to manifest for you now - no matter what it is.  The Bible states that God said, "Prove me now."

To ask for what it is that you want.  Write it down so that you don't forget what it is that you asked for.  Watch what shows up and how quickly is does.

I remember when my former husband made his transition, I decided that I would "mourn" for one year.  After that year, I was in Mexico for a minister's gathering and for most of that week, I spent it writing in my journal remembering the good times we had, thanking Bud for all of the gifts he gave me and all that I learned from him.  I also remember telling him (in my journal) that I would always love him but that it was time for me to move on and I wanted to meet someone new to partner me for the balance of my life.  I asked God for someone new.  This was April 7 of 2011.  On April 15, I met Alan.  We dated, bought a house on June 15, got married on July 15, moved into our new house in August and honeymooned in England the following spring.  When I think back on that experience, it takes my breath away as to how quickly my dreams came true.  

Yours can too.  Divine Plans can certainly move up several notches during the course of a lifetime.  Allow yours to move up exponentially.  The rewards are well worth the effort.  

A Great Reminder

Intelligence created you to live in these times because you are equipped to meet the challenges of these times.  You are the right person, in the right place, to create a right world for yourself.  All the resources of the Infinite are already yours.  They need you as a means of self-expression.  Raymond Charles Barker

It is easy to forget that we were created from Intelligence and sometimes I do not want to accept that I am responsible for my own mental actions.  I forget that I can create my own heaven right here on earth and that I have the ability to think up all that I need in order to experience something bigger and greater than I now have.

We just got back from an extended trip through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the surrounding area.  On one drive outside Gatlinburg, through the Roaring Fork area, there were small farm buildings still standing from years ago.  This area was a huge eye opener for me.  First of all, it was a mass of rock formations and all of these rocks had to be cleared in order for anything to be grown.  My own childhood on a North Dakota farm consisted of "hauling rocks" every spring before the planting could be done.  Most people don't realize how hard the work is just to keep food, shelter and clothing available during four seasons.  The farm I grew up on had a well for fresh water, we had rural electricity, coal for the furnace, chamber pots for the winter and an outside two-seater for the spring, summer, and fall.  I never could quite figure out the two seater arrangement as I always insisted on "privacy."  Our farm house had four bedrooms upstairs and one down with the living room, dining room, and kitchen.  Pure luxury, I found out.

One of the farm houses on the tour in Tennessee had two rooms - a living area and a kitchen.  In this building, Mr. and Mrs. Bales raised (are you ready) nine children.  There couldn't have been any privacy at all!  Wonder where they all slept?  How did they keep warm in the winter?  Snuggling with siblings?  Most of my siblings bickered, so I know I would not have wanted to be close to them - plus the fact that most of them were so much older than I was.  I realized that we have more luxury in our motor home than they did in that little house.

This trip was a great reminder for me to appreciate what I have and what I have created for myself.  No matter what, I have the capacity to create even more because I have the power of the Infinite within me.  It was a reminder for me to always come up with new ideas as to what I want to experience next, how I want life to enrich my intelligence, and how prosperous can I be in this life.  My decision is to live fully healthy, wealthy, happy and creative.  Life is wonderful and I now experience more of it.  Join me?

Gentle Reminders

I now establish myself in the consciousness of God and I watch the whole universe move to flow into me its great abundance of life, substance, and supply.  Eric Butterworth

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.  Mister Eckhart

I am here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.  That is how important I am.  Eckart Tolle

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story.  It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.  Pena Chodron

Enough said.  These are for me to remember this week.  I invite you to join me in the journey of remembering who we are and that the purpose of life is to enjoy what shows up for us.

Time to Take That Step Forward

Every grief or difficulty means the time as come to go a step higher.  A problem is not a barrier.  It is important to take the attitude that your spiritual promotion has presented itself in the guise of a problem or difficulty, and you are to take another step forward.  And this calls for effort.  If you want to go higher, you must climb the steps.  Emmet Fox

The above quote was the answer to several prayers that I have been struggling with the past several weeks.  I realized that with my friend who decided that she didn't want to see during her final months of cancer, it wasn't my story - it was her story.  I needed to honor that.  But I couldn't understand that.  Now I do.  The above quote is part of my story - not hers.

(See my previous blog for the story in reference.)

This is a huge sigh of relief for me.  I get it.  And once again, I have the lesson of separating the action from the person.  I can still love her through her experience even though I can't see her.  I can still love her for what we had over the years and respect that she doesn't maybe want me to see her in the state she is in now.  I really get that!  

I know that the medication she is on is affecting not only her pain tolerance but her mental capacity.  It changes how one thinks about what is going on and her reactions are different that what I was use to getting from her.  Something else I have to respect about her.  She has decided to go through Hospice at home and go through the process of releasing without the addition of chemo and all of the cell changing chemicals the medical authorities now use to prolong the lives of cancer patients.  

She has all of my love and compassion.  

So, my prayer for her is to encapsulate her with the love and power of God to assist her in her experience in order for her to endure to the highest and best of her ability to live day by day in order for her to complete and get ready for her new experience in making her transition into a new life.  I bless her on her journey and know that all is well with her.