In Quiet Rest

As I rise this morning of a new day, thank you for the light. Place in my heart the joy of now. Place in my spirit the joy of being. Place me in quiet rest.  As I open my heart, as I open my eyes, as I hear your voice, open in me the well spring of life.  Thank you for this day, bless this day, these hands, this heart. Open my hands to serve and to receive.

I pray this for me, I pray this for you!

One Word

Can you describe yourself with one word? When I say, yourself, I don't mean the surface you, the one out front that everyone sees. I'm talking about the true "you", the one that you keep pressed down, held back and locked away. Stop for one minute, take a deep breath and ask your true self  to step forward. Now, what is the one word you would use to describe the real you? Takes a bit of thought doesn't it?

My one word is amazing! I chose that word because when I  look at me, the real me, I can clearly see that amazing is stamped into my DNA. God designed me this way and I make no apologies for it! What a revelation! Now that I know my word I can go be

AMAZING!!!

So I ask you again, what is your one word?

Look Deeper

When your spirits are low, take ten minutes and stand in front of the mirror. Look beyond your face and into your own eyes. What do you see? Are you comforted by the reflection or are you grieved? Sometimes, the mirror reflects what we think, most often times, it reflects how we feel. Most of us don't look at our reflections long enough to see the beauty that lies within. We see imperfections and either turn away or immediately begin to criticize ourselves. This process of turning away or criticizing robs us of the opportunity to see what's really there, the beauty of you!

However, if you look past the imperfections and past the bad hair day hair, past the blemishes and the scars, if you look into your own eyes long enough you will begin to see the beauty that we were all created with, the beauty of your spirit! I hear you, "Ha, what beauty?" But it is there, don't turn away, just keep looking! Eventually, if you look long enough and deep enough, it will appear. At first, you may see just a glimmer, or just a flash, but then, as if by magic, your beauty will appear. It will smile back at you and say "you are beautiful and quite enough, exactly the way you are".

Get in tune with your spirit. It knows the real you! Look deeper and get acquainted with the real you. Not the one that you were told that you needed to be, but the one that you were created to be! The truth is, the same one who created you, created the sun, the moon and the stars. He made the flowers too, would He not make you beautiful? Your true beauty is who you are, not what you look like and it starts on the inside and radiates to the outside. In order for others to see it, you must first recognize it and give it permission to reveal itself to the world! Don't be afraid, look deeper!

One other thing, true beauty, when it radiates from the inside, projects that beauty onto everything it comes in contact with. It has the ability to change hearts, minds, intentionsand soothe the savage beast. Look deeper, it is there, in you and waiting to be revealed. Look deeper and you will see, you are beautiful and quite enough, just the way you are!

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The Power of Choice

In he biblical account of the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden,  the bible records the God breathed into the nostrils of Adam and he became a living creature. I believe that when God breathed the breath of life into Adam, he also breathed in the ability to choose.. God gave Adam life, but also gave him free will. We know from the story that Adam and Eve were faced with a choice in the garden, the choice to obey God's command to not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or to walk in disobedience and we know the negative outcome of the choice that they made, Adam and Eve were forced to leave their beautiful garden.

Adam and Eve had to face the negative impact of the choice that they and we have all, at times, suffered the consequences of making the wrong choice.  Dr. Wayne Dyer said "our lives are the sum total of our choices". But, there is good news! If you are not happy with your life, that is, even though you have made choices that may have negatively impacted your life, the power of choice is alive and well! And guess what? You can always choose again!

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Looking In The Mirror! Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Yes, I know, the bad hair day hair. Look past that. Yes, I know, the pimple or the blotchiness of your skin. Look beyond that. When you look in the mirror, do you see that you are fearfully and wonderfully made? Fearfully? One definition of fear is reverence or awe. Wonderfully? Definitions of wonderful are astonishing, marvelous, admirable, excellent, extraordinary! To sum that all up, you were created in reverence or awe and are astonishing, marvelous, admirable, excellent and extraordinary. That is the real you! Now, when you look in the mirror, what do you see?

Where Are You Today? Accomplished, Accomplishing or Send Help Now!

Where are you today? Have you accomplished your goals? Or are you any closer to accomplishing them than you were last year this time? If not, ask yourself this: what has hindered me or held me back? Once you discover what is was or God forbid, still is, for the remainder of 2013, work on banishing these things or people from your life for ever! If, by the grace of God, you managed to accomplish your 2013 goals, congratulations! Now look around for the one that is saying, "Lord, send help now", the one that is still struggling and for the next two weeks see what you can do to help that person cross off a few items on their to-do list! It will bless their life and yours as well! We still have almost three weeks left in 2013. There is still time, if you're willing. And why would you not be, willing that is?

Groundhog Day

Have you ever had one of those days when you had the uncanny feeling of having done all of this before? You know what I mean, like in the Bill Murray movie Ground Hog Day? In the movie, Phil Connors, played by Murray, finds himself in a time loop, repeating the same day again and again. The first time I watched this movie it blew me away! I said, "that's exactly how I feel, like I'm living the same stupid day, over and over again!" In the movie, Connors tries to take advantage of the situation to his own hurt, but for me, I made a decision, that everyday I would do something that I did everyday, in a different way. Basically, I broke my routine! You see, I had unconsciously fallen into a self imposed rut! I was on auto pilot and my life had become boring and mundane.  Once I became conscious about what I was doing! I was able to change my day and my outlook! Something as simple as changing the route I took to work, gave me different view and along with it, a different thought process.  How about you? Are you stuck on Ground Hog Day? Are you living a boring and mundane existence? Do you need help getting unstuck? Time to get "conscious"! Call me, I can help! I've lived this one already!