“My Gift…” Blog #152
Where should I start becoming healthier?
How can I find my own way out of “darkness”?
When will I have the strength for new challenges today?
So Christmas has come and gone. There are some people in my life that will always
disappoint me if I allow this to happen. I continue to say I am not judging others, yet…. I
know in my heart this is what I do. Probably the biggest marker of awareness is my own
“disappointment” because others DO let me down.
Today I am going to be aware of just 4 days left in this year. What exactly do I want? If I
can be honest with myself, the biggest gift I can give to myself and to others is
“BEING PRESENT IN THIS MOMENT”. My gift to myself and others is MY HIGHER SELF.
I remember looking back on years gone by …. always so very busy. I always had so much
to do. Even when in the “Presence” of my children, my family and my friends. Where
exactly was ME? When have I been ABLE TO APPRECIATE OTHER PEOPLE IN MY LIFE FOR
EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE AT TOO?
So today, it starts with Mindfulness. I can beware of being with whoever I am seeing and
listening to where they are at. l can contribute something healthy, positive and loving to
my conversation with another person. Above all I can turn off my “racing mind” and just
listen to where another person I am going to be with, is at. I WILL LISTEN/not judge. A
beautiful gift I will give to myself today its SELF CARE. I will eat some healthy food. I will not
take in pills or drugs or drinks that sabotage my thinking. I will find a way to get some
physical exercise and I will find someone to laugh with. How can I do this? I have decided
to take life more LIGHTLY. I must see regardless of the situation in front of me: THIS TOO
SHALL PASS. So for where I am at today and where I have come from, I now accept
whatever comes into my life, I WILL HANDLE LIFE EACH DAY. MY GIFT TO MYSELF IS MY
CONFIDENCE IN THE CONFIDANTE OF JESUS. I will share anything I want to, I can give all my
trials and all my worries and fears to HIM BY DOING THIS, IT REMOVES ALL OTHER PEOPLE I
DO NOT NEED TO GO TO TELL MY TROUBLES TO. MY BEST FRIEND HAS BEEN A GIFT TO ME ALL
ALONG.
As I open my gift to myself carefully today, I start with prayer in the morning. Then knowing
that my Body is the Temple of God - I REFUSE TO PUT DARKNESS INTO IT. I am careful. I drink
lots of water for hydration. I say powerful positive affirmations throughout the day. I look
at each situation that comes into my life and I pray,
“HELP ME WITH THIS SITUATION JESUS, knowing no-one on earth has my unique talents, I
Immediately find Peace.“
Above all continuing to reflect on the three gifts Jesus has given me because I asked,
Discipline . Discernment. Detachment. I discipline my life in a healthy manner.
I discern what is good and what is not good. AND THE KEY……. “I DETACH”. I continue to
remember I can only help others who ASK for my help. I let all worry go. Understanding
now every NEW day is My Gift to myself from my LORD to start over. Knowing the love of
Christ surpasses all earthly knowledge, I do the best with the gifts I have been given. I am
right where I am suppose to be, learning, loving and leaving all darkness behind. “I say to
myself Thank you Lord for all the gifts I have been given to heal my life and I go forward
knowing this will be a Happy New Year 2025.
“Can I accept my gifts to my Higher Self and work with them today?
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“Christmas Rules” Blog #151
“Can I ask myself a new healthy question today”
Is my mind calm and relaxed regardless of what’s out there?
Do I push away depression when it appears suddenly?
We are days away from a most holy and revered time of the year - Christmas.
There is only one reason for Christmas - The birth of God’s only Son. HE was a man who
walked among us and truly lived his life by example. What example am I talking about?
LOVE. To love one another as each of us would want to be loved. How many people out
there do not feel loved? This is the key to life and living life feeling loved. I feel HIS love
embracing me now. Looking back on my own life, I realize I felt scared all the time, I did not
feel loved. I was raised in an abusive, alcoholic selfish family. There were no rules.
Ironically, because I was able to visit my grandpas’ house often, I was able to gleam a
different, healthier, more loving side of life. However, as I grew up, I buried away my
resentment for the family who treated me so indifferently. When parents are absorbed
with their own addictions, children grow up “on the outside looking in”. All I ever wanted to
do was make money “so I wouldn’t have to live like that!” Yet, never did I look inside me at
my own lessons. That is not until the universe sent me a powerful message with such loss
in my life - it got my attention big time. I HAD to start searching. Instantly, I felt differently. I
believe “Hope is healing”. What do I mean by this? Hope brings in something better.
Hope for a healthier way to view my life. Hope believes things really can get better.
Jesus Christ is all of those things.
When I realized this person came to earth and grew into a man who knew all the while
what his own destiny was, it was astounding to me. Most of all I accept how difficult just
maneuvering each day is. Imagine having the power to overcome any adversity, bring
miracle upon miracle into someones life, and change darkness into light. Imagine
spending three years day and night, walking and talking with his twelve disciples, only to
have them turn their back on him! Only to have all the good, all healing, all the miracles
proving who he was - DENIED! All the while people were turning against Jesus , he could
have called a legion of angels to save him from anything. Yet, he refused to use his
divinity, instead he chose to remain human to the core. This is my definition of LOVE
personified at its GREATEST for Mankind.
Christmas Day was when Jesus was born, Kings traveled far and wide to bring him
Frankincense, Gold and Myrrh. They were told a “Holy King” far greater then each of them
had been born and was waiting in a manger. It has always puzzled me to hear people
deny Jesus lived when they accept all the other Roman Rulers and famous people who
lived exactly during this time period!
Christmas Day is the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ who lived every day with internal
Rules and purposeful Intent. I choose to follow HIS rules. HIS number one rule -
“Love God with all my heart and all my soul and all my mind.”
The next rule is to .love my neighbor as myself. If I cannot be around someone because
of their toxic behavior, I can pray for them from a distance. No one can fix another person
I accept this. Christmas Rule number three: “I let go and let God”
I let go of anger and pray to learn something new each day to improve myself. These
Beautiful Christmas Rules help me to walk in light each day. Walking in The Christ Light, I
learn to ignore the darkness. One day I heard a teacher explain the way boundaries and
rules work. She described an experiment in which teachers removed from a school
playground all of its fences, leaving the playground open. At the end of the playground
field was the street, and traffic whizzed by day after day. The school principal took notes
and watched in awe as the children were set “free” to do as they wished. All of them
congregated around a small area and did not venture into the open field. When the
playground fence was put back up, the children ran freely and creatively, coming up with
new games that took up the entire playground area.
Everyone needs Christmas Rules. When we have rules in our lives, our life runs smoothly.
When I wake up in the morning and tell myself I am not going to listen to a negative
person. I am not going to listen to dark music. I am not going to go on my phone or
computer or iPad and search up Tiktok, or Snap or FaceTime just to spend idle, dark hours
in tempting moments of illusionary fun. My life is too valuable. My time is precious. My
days are filled with rules that allow me to learn to love myself more.
Now I understand the people I bring into my life are those people who I will learn valuable
lessons from - am I ready? I will write down today Christmas Rules helping my life run
better. Rules bring in balance. I am in charge of me and I accept My Body is the Temple
of God. I will not abuse my body in any way. My mind is centered in truth. Therefore I feel
loved by Jesus Christ who was born on Christmas Day.
The Christmas Rules are actually all wrapped up into one: For Jesus replied,
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
AND love your neighbor as yourself”. No more fear, for HE is here!
.Can I write a list of Christmas Rules for myself now?
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“Flush Fear Fast” Blog #150
What am I worried about right this second?
Are my priorities consistent with my highest health?
Can I get out of my way today and let HIS light take over?
When it comes to disciplining my life, that’s where I truly need help the most. If I can
recognize my own weakness, I can learn to love myself right where I’m at. Why am I even
talking about discipline right off the bat? More than anything else what do I fear day in
and day out? Discipline in my life helps heal my life regardless of who I am concerned
about, regardless of what else is going on, regardless of setbacks.
By disciplining this moment, then comes the hour and the day and the week. Suddenly a
month of discipline and finally a year! I cannot hide behind other vices any more. Maybe
fearful of something happening in my family, maybe there is a health issue, maybe money
problems every where I turn. Yet, do I choose to hide behind the fear of pills, drinking,
drugs, self harm? Am I ignoring to pay my bills, refuse to start a budget therefore I will
keep falling behind? So continue the saga of sadness I absorb the “illusion of fear”. FALSE
EVENTS APPEARING REAL. Immediately I can turn this around.
If someone I know is ill, I can show up with my best attitude and live “for this day”, not just
for me, but for them! Realizing I don’t have yesterday and tomorrow is not here yet, I only
have this beautiful day. IF there are financial issues, I tell myself, “I will find a new way, a
new opportunity, a new direction to go.” I must remember to keep instructing myself over
again.
“THIS TOO WILL PASS. GOD REALLY DOES HELP WHEN I TRY TO HELP MYSELF.”
So often getting caught up in the “What if”....what IF this happens and I can’t fix it? What IF
a person close to me is suffering and I can’t help them? What IF everything around me is
caving in, and I don’t know what to do? Well, I DO KNOW WHAT TO DO…. I START WITH THIS
MOMENT. FLUSH AND DISCIPLINE ONE THING AT A TIME. I PRAY FOR HELP AND GUIDANCE. I STAY
QUIET IN SOLITUDE AND LISTEN TO MY HIGHER SELF DIRECTION. So often the “lower self me”
(the little me) refuses to climb up inside me. I must climb up internally to the “Higher self
me” WHO wants and knows and must be in charge!
Many, many years ago I was alone at Easter time. I was feeling sorry for myself and the
more I thought about how bad my life was, the worse it got. My mind was racing and I
went from one terrible scenario to the next. I was convinced the universe had it in for me
and just when I walked into my kitchen for some water, I looked out my back window.
Witnessing my entire stone retaining wall had collapsed, I stood frozen in fear. Rain, mud
and dirt were flowing toward the back of my house and into my window wells! At the end
of the rain storm, there lay a massive stone retaining wall completely collapsed with mud
and dirty water all over my backyard. Water had also seeped down Into the lower level of
my house. I was alone at the time and did know what to do. My profession was in real
estate at the time, and had also just lost a big sale on a house where I expected to receive
a big commission. I remember looking up at the sky and saying to myself, “what’s the use…
everything is caving in around me, why does it matter?” I went up to my bedroom and laid
on my bed and cried. Filled with rage, I screamed out to God, “why, why do you have to
have it in for me?!”
Then a very strange event happened. I looked over at my white wall and I could see a
vision. I felt this amazing presence of love in my room, so overwhelming. I saw a beautiful
white vision and was suddenly acutely aware of angelic energy and a voice in my room
softly speaking these words:
“What goes around, comes around…be strong for there is no other good choice.”
I immediately felt a sense of relief regardless of what was ahead of me. I now knew this
situation in my life as a teaching moment and I was not to give in. Selfishly, I wanted to
hang on to this moment. I felt so safe. Regardless of what had happened, a peacefulness
came over me. I was allowed to detach from my present struggles. I sensed such love
around me and began to feel strong and acutely aware of truth. I was in tune with “the
higher self me”. It was not like anything I’d experienced before.
As I look back I remember another strange thing happening. A day or so later I was
leaving for my office and there were some workers doing yard work at my neighbors
property. I stopped to ask if they did repairs on retaining walls. Ironically, that was their
forte. Less than a week later, I had three strong young men repairing my wall for a fraction
of the normal cost. I also was more relaxed and decided to hold an Open House and met
a couple who not only listed their home with me, but wanted to buy a larger home as well!
I am not saying all my problems were instantly erased. What I am saying is from the
“vision in the room”, I flushed my fear fast. I relaxed. I prayed. I accepted the light of
Christ and felt at peace.
How often my mind had raced from one thought to the next. How often fear crept its ugly
head in and tried to cause havoc. Too often it was so easy to give in to a desperate, dark,
dismal moment. Yet, this is what darkness wants! Worry, stress and fear have to be
flushed from my mind with discipline. Quickly I put my hands together, “Help me Jesus”.
Quietly I begin to hear:
“You know, you’ve got this!” You can handle this moment IF Y O U truly trust!
I will NOT give up or give in or quit. Flushing the fear, I find determination for courage. With
faith I say to myself after prayer, “I did hang in there!” I will not fear my challenge.
Overcoming each stressful situation brings greater meaning to my life.
Focusing on one thing at a time, I feel protected. I trust in HIM. Worry ends where MY Faith
begins!
Can I face what I fear and choose to discipline my day?
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“Birthday Gone?” Blog #149
Do I understand I can never go back?
Can I find strength to start a “new page” today?
In my mind, will I substitute darkness for light now?
Today is my daughters birthday. She would be forty four years old today. Yet, she is not
here anymore. No matter how much I justify, rationalize or invent reasons to make life
different. Truth is truth. The cold, raw, honest truth stings….so I pray.
I understand less than I ever thought I did about life. I have many issues with family
members and those who I hold close in my heart, who are now so far away from me.
Labels we attach to people are what hurts. Yet, my own person feels needed strong
awareness of what I must address before year ends. This takes courage.. It’s time now,
time to start over and find a way to pick up premier pieces in my life. It is time to be
brave. Time to decide not to be with this person or that person who may pull me down.
Time to take the reigns and steer myself on to higher ground. So many of my own
birthdays now are gone. So many opportunities though, to see life differently. What have I
been absorbing about myself each and every day? There must be forgiveness for
myself first. Taking off the rose colored glasses, I see how critical it is to embrace painful
parts of my life where healing is needed. If I am truly in a place wanting to heal, then there
are absolutely no conditions. There is no area set aside for blame. There is no place for
the “what if’s”; no place for “only looking at it my way”.
I must start there. Each one of us, want to be loved, appreciated and respected above
all. Then God must fight my battles of unfairness, not me. Understanding this, I accept
eagles fly higher than crows do any day. Only a fool wants to continue to argue and
ignore peace. Even IF I am convinced I AM RIGHT, it’s better to seek peace. So on this pain-
filled birthday gone, I reflect for a moment.
I spend a paragraph on the daughter I loved with all my heart. My daughter who chose
darkness over light. I too was in darkness thinking I could help her, fix her, heal her. I
watched her go from one dilemma to the next, all the while, ignoring the giant elephant in
her daily life. She did not and could not and refused to see the light of her five year old son
and the light of her eight year old son. Rather day after day she chose drugs and alcohol.
In the end, she died alone in a hotel room of toxic alcohol poisoning. Three and a half
years ago, I remember going there on a sunny June afternoon, like it was yesterday. Her
beautiful sons are left behind to a life with one remaining parent who also has these same
dark choices to deal with daily.
Yet, truth is funny in an ironic way. IF I promise myself from this day forward I will only
speak the truth, am I prepared for repercussions? Rather, I dare pray for discernment.
How many people will be hurt and refuse to listen and strike back when truth is told to
them with only honest intent? Seldom does it work. often, the truth hurts too much.
People do not want other people telling them the truth about themself.
A great awareness this year. Sometimes the Universe wants us to just stay still. Know
when statements should be withheld. Discernment is critical to every day awareness. I
am going to pray today for three things in my life:
Discipline
Discernment
Detachment.
I now want to discipline my life with “Higher Self” awareness today. I pray for discipline in
every part of my life today. I choose to want to do “the right thing daily”.
I pray for “Discernment”. I desire the ability to discern. all situations. I want to view my
life with spiritual guidance and an understanding heart.
Lastly, I desire to have detachment. To be able to detach from emotional situations.
Sad things are out there I cannot fix, they wear me down. Although I need to see and find
and accept my lesson in these situations, I desire to be able to “look at my life through
“Jesus Eyes”. I want to turn off the emotional draining and view my life from a distance of
higher self perspective, awareness and love. I accept my first love is for my Creator, my
Lord Jesus. Then I do not become disappointed when earthly things let me down. I push
myself today to rise above my darkness.
We are in the Season of Advent. The first week of Advent reflects a great emphasis on
waiting. Waiting for the Birth of Jesus Christ: the main focus. Waiting each day in ones life
can be very draining or it can be healing. Someone might be waiting for that healing
telephone call from a family member. The waiting may go on for an endless amount of
days, weeks, years. I can call someone else who wants to hear from me. I can reach out
with love to another soul.
Someone may be waiting for an apology that may or may not ever come. Someone may
be waiting for their health to change for the positive. Now that is something each of us
can have some control over. Each day I must try my best to fuel the body with the
“Highest energy possible”. I have learned many ways and have access to many internal
tools. However, it can be a punch in the gut, a set back out of nowhere. If suddenly
another person is angry, hostile, unloving, what is hurting me the most right now? I step
back, take a breath and see this as a critical time. I MUST NOT GIVE IN. Using every higher
self tool, I PRAY 24/7 for courage, strength and the light of Christ to guide me.
IF I am waiting for others to change….God is waiting for me to change!
So with deep breaths coming and going, with prayer in place, I feel love in my heart. I go
forward…..I take on my NEW day. I send my daughter silent birthday wishes wherever her
soul may be. I say, “Happy Birthday honey, I will always love you. Your birthday celebration
may be gone from earth but your memory remains in my heart.”
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Can I look at birthdays’ gone and find new awareness now?
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“Truly Thankful?” Blog #148
Still dealing with personal pain?
Do I ask “Why did this have to happen to me?”
Am I learning the lessons that I have been given?
Thanksgiving has come and gone. When I look at my life, I have to say now, what am I truly
thankful for? So very many parts to my life have been overshadowed with heartache,
sadness and lots of pain. Ironically, I would not want to be the person who I was before my
major heartaches took place. I look at my life and I am still thankful. I look at my life and I
feel truly blessed. I look at all of my sorrow and loss of those people who were so dear to
me. Yet I am thankful for the good memories we shared.
There is not a singe person alive who does not experience some sort of pain and
heartache and sadness. I look at my father who was a tyrant in our family, a very real
mental and physical abuser and I might ask, “Why, why did I have to be born into this
family?” Yet - quietly, softly but firmly the universe answers back, “these are your most
important lessons to learn from”.
WHAT, I scream inside me…
How can there be any lessons here?
The universe once again speaks out softly, quietly but firmly.
“You are to learn many great lessons from this father. First and foremost you are to see all
the tools he used to destroy his life.” I saw immediately how the choices he made were
dark and dangerous and dismal for us children. However, as I grew, these too became my
choices. Choose good or choose bad. THIS IS HOW WE GROW INSIDE. Along the way
there are many detours, many escape routes, many dark tempting flags. I look back on
my own life and see my young brother, intelligent, funny and so kind…..barely out of high
school and smoking and vaping and damaging his mind and his body. No one could help
him. No one could rescue him. NO one could save him. The darkness and drugs had
taken over. First a little here and a little there, then suddenly the darkness hooked him. All
of his twenties wasted away. Yet, I am thankful for the early years. The memories I had
when he was healthy. I am thankful for all my remaining children who are scattered
across the country and hopefully will choose wisely. We live in such darkness now. All
around us are stores on every corner selling “bad things for the brain”. There is a very
powerful person who is out there right now in our country and I must say I really respect
how he raised his children. His belief was to tell them this:
“I will support you at every turn but you must promise me you will never smoke, never drink
and never take any kind of drugs. Then you are ready to take on the world”. All of his
children have watched him and listened to his advice and passed these words of wisdom
on to their children. This is my belief completely. Daily now I can only insulate myself with
good tools to take on my day. I try hard to live by example. I pray for strength love, and
light to engulf my family. I pray for them to have courage to “JUST SAY NO” when
temptation is their greatest. I am thankful for goodness, love and healing that comes to
me daily when I pray for it. Mostly because I know this - I believe LOVE is the strongest
force in the universe. Nothing is stronger. Love will defeat evil at every turn. When I don’t
understand “why this is happening now”, I quickly put my hands together and say, “Thank
you Lord for this lesson that is being given to me to learn from”. What matters most
regardless of my age, right now, is this:
“What am I learning about myself today?”
I am going to play a little game for a moment and ask myself this question:
‘What IF everything that happens to me in my life - is there TO TEACH ME THE LESSON I
NEED TO GROW FROM RIGHT NOW?
No one ever said life is suppose to be easy, working hard on self brings success.
I might have a family member who moved away from me, what is my lesson to learn?
Well, there are a lot of messages here. “Tough love” for one of them. Forgiveness and
fortitude for another. And above all unconditional love.
Every person is in charge of their own being. Each person is given Free Will. I have free will
to build myself up or to tear myself down. It’s completely up to me. I can try my best to
show my children good habits, honest intentions and to be goal orientated. Yet IF there
are vices along the way that keep them stuck. We…
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink!”
Life is all about learning every single day ONLY what I am open to learning about my life. I
believe if I have a health problem there is much to learn about. What is going on with my
body? Am I eating the right kind of food? I need to not just survive but to THRIVE? Am I
getting fresh air to restart and “refresh my entire being”? Do I pray daily for help? In order
to become truly thankful I must always ask, “What am I suppose to be learning from what
just happened to me”? Then I go quietly inside of myself and ask this again. How can I
grow from what has just happened to me? Every time I do this, I grow stronger and
stronger and stronger. I then become aware of my “true self” and my real power surfaces.
For added empowerment when I sit quietly I see myself surrounded by a brilliant white
light. I ask again, “Why is this situation happening to me? Suddenly my anxiety turns to
peace. I feel peaceful without questioning. For I know in my heart, this too, shall pass.
So as today comes to a close, I remind myself of what I am truly thankful for, My life. For
learning lessons will never end. If I am alive, there is a lesson to be learned. I trust in my
higher self. There is no one else on this planet like me. Every soul wants to at long last be
found. I thank JESUS I am finally finding myself. I can stop looking back, stop blaming and
stop being angry at other people. I can say this time and mean it, “As each day goes by, I
am thankful for the lessons I have been given”
“What am I choosing to be truly thankful for today?”
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“Lifetime Rules” Blog #147
When Belief goes out the window, doubts and cynicism rush in…so watch out!
Do I doubt myself in all the good things I could accomplish today?
Have I sabotaged myself into thinking ”what’s the use”?
How much fear do I face each minute and not even realize it?
One of the main reasons so much crime is created in our country today is because of the
lost belief in the “ONE who created us”. Pessimism is rampant, despair is everywhere, and
people continue to refuse to have faith. We live in the afterglow slowly fading of our
forefathers faith as it rapidly diminishes. Ironically every dollar bill and every coin traded
for goods has the explicit words written, “In God We Trust”. Why can’t we understand this?
Being a Christian in the U.S.A. up until just a few years ago, was taken for granted. As
recently as the 1990’s 90% of adults in the United States identified as Christians. But today
huge numbers of adults are switching out of the religion where they were raised to be
“unaffiliated”. Whatever that means! Why bother going to church when it is an
inconvenience and there are better things to do, right? The biggest problem with this
rationale is church continues to be a powerful place that brings a person into harmony
with Jesus. Daily living in ones home and outside the home have too many escape routes,
too many diversions, too many ways to avoid finding personal faith in Jesus Christ. That
being said the number one rule for my life is making HIM my main focus and number one
priority, day in and day out. Then I commit one hour a week to going to church because I
feel it brings balance into my life. I will add in an old saying here, “try it…..you might like
it!” As the calendar clicks off the days of the month, we are coming up on the last six
weeks of this year. I would like to incorporate some of the most important rules for my
lifetime of living now. I have put together twenty four of my rules and today I will focus on
twelve of them:
MY LIFE AWARENESS LIFETIME RULES
Daily I ask God to Forgive me for anything and everything I have ever done to harm any one in any way. I forgive all others for hurting me in any way.
I will try to love myself and others unconditionally today and going forward.
I control my own life. I will never turn my power over to another person or let another person control me.
Every day I learn something new. Learning brings me awareness, power & insight.
I let myself be loved by those who care. I allow love in and feel love each day.
I bring balance into my life daily. I give my body balanced activity daily.
I go easy on myself. Every day I set realistic goals that I can succeed at.
I create my own life. I can ask for help, yet, in the end I listen to “my higher power”
I seek to find work that satisfies me and rewards me and challenges me.
I live in the present moment. The past is gone. life is lived in “light of God only”.
Bringing new healthy experiences into my life is something I aim toward.
I keep moving forward regardless of life challenges, I stay Christ-centered.
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These are my important lifetime rules which I have incorporated into the very
fabric of my being. In doing so, I feel safe. In memorizing these rules, I feel
balanced. I stay on track with a daily plan; I feel energized. So today I
leave you with this last comment about lifetime rules, “don’t ever quit”.
Never, ever, ever. DO NOT QUIT LIVING A HEALTHY, HONEST, CHRIST CENTERED LIFE.
Here is a wonderful favorite poem I share with you now.
“DON’T QUIT” BY Edgar Guest
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
when the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
when the funds are low but the debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
when care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must…but don’t you quit!
Life is strange with its twists and turns,
as every one of us sometimes learns,
And many failure turn about,
when we might have won, had we stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,
you may succeed where ever you go.
Success is failure turned inside out,
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
You can never tell how close you are,
it may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
Its when things seem worse that you must not quit!
CAN I FOLLOW THE RULES AND ASK FOR HIS HELP TODAY?
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“Health ALERT!” Blog #146
Can I clear my head and sit in silence today?
Does my body and my mind crave discipline?
Am I alert to living a holistically healthy life?
The other day I went in for my annual physical and something my Doctor said has stuck
with me. He said, “I see so many people every day who are on a myriad of medicines, over
weight and daily depressed.” He said, “yet….they eat poorly, they do NOT exercise and they
have no plan to change how they live, so I can’t help them with that!” I listened quietly and
agreed with him. Thinking about this more I feel I am of this belief: “it is not how long I live
that matters, but the quality of “how“ I live my life each day that matters! Then peace
of mind will come naturally.”
Somewhere in the world right now, there is a small town with a few thousand people who
have pretty much figured out the secret to living a balanced life. Here, in this town,
hundreds of individuals have already reached the ripe old age of one hundred! They walk
around and live life looking like they are sixty and feeling healthy too! Sickness is rare.
Stress takes a back burner. The sun shines more than it does not and the main staple of
food for these people is rice, beans and corn tortillas. Oh yes…. and exercise daily with lots
of walking. Now working well into a persons nineties is just something that is taken for
granted. Most of the people who are approaching one hundred, look forward to each and
every day. There are no televisions, radios or cell phones. The average home has a few
rooms. The average family has a mother, father, their children, grandparents and great
grandparents, all living together happily under the same roof. People who live in this town
go to bed when the sun sets and rise when the sun comes up. There is a lot of fruit grown
and a lot of fruit eaten. A couple times a month a chicken is butchered to add to the rice
and beans and tortillas. Dinner is eaten late in the day and many stories are told as the
day winds down before the sun sets and the last hammock has stopped rocking. People
in each family care about one another and the wisest words of wisdom are shared by the
elderly and revered by the young. This is a place where all is right with the world. There is
little to worry about and less to fear. Here the people are healthy, happy and content in
their small town of Nicaya, Costa Rica. The people who are already one hundred years old
and beyond are treated with overwhelming kindness. There is little stress here, and most
of all people share a beautiful secret, these people live lives with a strong sense of
purpose. Feeling needed, they want to contribute to the greater good of each of their
families. They also drink a lot of hard water that has high concentrates of calcium and
low rates of heart disease! These people eat light dinners very EARLY IN THE DAY and then
relax.
Elderly not only live with their biological families and extended family but they get frequent
visits from their neighbors who story tell with much laughter throughout the day. They
believe the more a person has possessions in life, the more a person has to worry about
and watch over them. In so my words, a simpler life is an easier, less stressful, healthier life.
Now if I were to decide to incorporate even a few of these great “life lessons” into my own
life, I could and would and should be much healthier.
People who live in Nicuya are a quiet, reserved faith based people. They do not talk about
it but they live it. Believing in a higher power (God), they love their neighbor as themself.
They work hard each day for the meager food they eat and are so thankful for everything
they have. No one takes their health for granted, but seem to automatically understand
that “less is more”. There are so many lessons we can take away from the Costa Rican
culture of the people who live in Nicuya. Scientists and researchers have studied these
amazing people who live on a tiny little peninsula in the Northern region of Costa Rica. Still,
after many years, there are so many mysterious parts to their culture. Yet one thing is
sure, with no radios, no televisions and no cell phones, they keep themselves busy without
boredom day after day and live to be very old and very healthy. There is much
opportunity to find stillness and in the quiet of ones’ heart, one learns about what is really
important in life. Perhaps the takeaway I leave you with today is how easy is it to simplify
our eating and living habits. It’s important to learn about what resides in my heart. These
people have more time for quiet solitude and in doing so, discover untapped potential in
the very core of each of our beings. Jesus Christ has given me a unique character with
opportunity and intelligence to become all that I can try to be regardless of my age. I
pray, asking for direction now. Immediately feeling the hand of God rest quietly upon my
heart. I know HE helps me, shows me and guides me in the highest divine direction. I am
at peace.
Mother Theresa said it best when she stated:
“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered, forgive them anyway. If you
are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives - be kind anyway. If you find
serenity and happiness, they may be jealous, be happy anyway. The good you do today,
people will forget tomorrow. Do good anyway. “Give the world the best you have, and it
may never be enough. Still, give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see in the final analysis, it’s between you and God, It never was between you and
them anyway.
Is there a health alert I can correct with prayer today?
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“Afraid of….?” Blog #145
What scares me today, can my brain figure it out?
Can I stop being a coward and have compassion for myself?
How do I learn about “being afraid” and change it into courage?
Experts suggest that the human mind thinks any where from 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts in
any one day. So if that is true, how do I STOP sabotaging all my good thoughts and where
do I find myself getting courage to try anything new?
Years ago a famous movie came out called “The Wizard of Oz”. This movie was all about
Dorothy. Dorothy is caught up in a tornado in Kansas and hits her head and falls into a
deep sleep. She is a young girl who was trapped in a “dream state of mind” and loses her
way home to Kansas. In her dream, she learns quickly about good and evil. For she meets
the Good Witch of the East who tells Dorothy she must go to the Emerald City of Oz to find
her way home again. Dorothy meets up with three friends all of whom are lacking
something important in their lives.
She travels with the Scarecrow who needed a brain and wants intelligence! She travels
with the Tin Man who was made of metal and has no heart and so lacks compassion.
Then there was the Cowardly Lion who just wants to be “brave” and needed to get rid of
his fear and find some courage! Yet, the best part of the entire movie was toward the end.
Dorothy and the scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion all go to Emerald city
to find what each of them feels they are missing. When they finally got to Emerald City
they had to over come their fear and face Oz. Dorothy managed to pull back a curtain
(this is a great metaphor for the “curtain of life which is often so deceptive). She pulls back
this huge curtain and finds a little man who “appeared to be’ a frightening, fearful,
dragon-like monster and yet was nothing more then a “made up machine orchestrated
by this little old man! The entire showcase of fear based sensation was all a ruse! Nothing
more to it than a made up machine. How much of our fear is actually like that as well?
This movie was made in 1939 = over 85 years ago and the message is still loud and clear
FACE YOUR FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY. F E A R. FALSE EVENTS APPEARING REAL.
Now what do you think the point of the whole movie is?
“Use your brain and care about yourself to have compassion and inner courage so you
can overcome your fear”…this was the message!
Dorothy was to meet the Good Witch and take on the Bad Witch. That’s enough for me to
know this suggests there are good angels and there is darkness. There is good and bad
and I always know that nothing can harm me IF I do not allow it to. I will always choose
good in my life. At the same time, part of my being afraid can come from over-thinking
situations as well. Going over and over something in my head until I manage to jump to
all kinds of unpleasant outcomes, all kinds of conclusions, all because of being afraid to
see something in a different “light”. So many times what I am afraid of never does turn out
to be what I thought it was going to be! Plus it’s time now to let go of all the things I could
not possibly “fix”, let go of whatever I was afraid of. It’s all okay. Today ls filled with brand
new opportunity to choose “Not to be afraid….”
There is always something challenging each one of us. We must face each and every day
with an inner calm and decision to do this while being “unafraid”. Some people are afraid
to meet new people. Some people are afraid to try something new. Some people are
afraid to travel. The biggest step forward is in MY CONTROL. I can make a “step by step
plan”, and then I can practice “mindfulness”. This is grounding myself with deep breaths,
put myself in the present moment by walking through the entire situation. Maybe I can
find a person to trust and share “what am I afraid of….”. The more I face what I am afraid of
today, the healthier my life becomes with strength, purpose and clarity.
It takes discipline to listen to myself talk about “what I’m afraid of…?” When I am able to
acknowledge this. My life gets more relaxed, easier to deal with each day. Every person at
one time or another imagines the worst about a situation, yet usually somehow those
fears never really materialize. More often than not, things turn out much better than one
would expect.
For setbacks are unavoidable, but “giving up” is unforgivable!
I have said many times in the past - I remember to rely on my internal weapon of
strength. this shows me how to face “me” and be unafraid - So prayerfully, I speak,
“help me now, Jesus”. Immediately, I am lifted into a higher state of mind. Daily now I
continue to pray for courage, clarity and compassion for myself and others too.
“Can I identify what I am afraid of today?”
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“Angel Help?” Blog #144
Will I be able to navigate for myself when the “unexpected” happens?
Is there a lonely part in my heart, that waits for HIS light to come in?
How do I know I have a Guardian Angel that is just for me?
Today is “All Saints Day” (Celebration of all the Saints known and unknown). Isn’t is ironic
how All Saints Day follows Halloween?! Saints and Angels are all over us today. I believe
the most fascinating stories of miraculous encounters have to do with angels. I also
believe every person has a Guardian Angel and they only have to sit quietly for a
moment, reflect, pray and ask, and then most often, the Guardian Angels name will come
to them! My guardian Angel is with me always and when I need help the very most -
miracles occur. First and foremost, we have to admit we are totally surrounded by
miracles we cannot see. So many people do not realize when their Guardian Angel is
trying to get their attention and they come to them in dreams. Dreams can be in-depth
conversations with your angel or visions of past situations and even warnings. For as long
as we existed, it is a known fact that children and animals are likely to see a spirit guide.
Then as we grow older and hardened, we dismiss any idea of something that we cannot
concretely see with our own eyes. It is important to pay attention to your “gut feeling” pay
attention to your “Intuition”. These resources tell a person IF it is right or wrong to go
forward with the next plan of action. On the flip side of that, ever have something happen
that makes the “hair stand on the back of my head and I say to myself; “that’s a bad idea!”
I believe that when I get a stronger relationship going with my Guardian Angel, I can begin
to hear the “voice of reason” so much more clearly. One of the most beautiful parts to a
Guardian Angel is they have access to the Akashic Records. This is a library of vibrational
energy going back to the beginning of time. We are here on earth to learn our lessons
and to help other people. So often we get side tracked. So often we feel isolated. So often
we feel we are all alone with no help out there. This becomes a lonely arena inside my
own heart. Most of the loneliness comes from resisting the help of Jesus Christ. There will
always be a price to be paid for going in our own way. We are then constantly tested.
Constant setbacks. Continuous unseen ways to try to get our attention to “turn around
and make the choice for HIM”. We have it all at our fingertips. Yet for some reason the
pride takes over and the inner conflict and refusal for HIS help is put in place.
In order to get in contact with Jesus Christ and my Guardian Angel, I need only sit quietly,
put my hands together and ask for help - now. It is so important that little children are
listened to when they want to tell their stories about heaven that they remember. For, if
they are not guided and helped to incorporate Jesus into their daily life - it becomes too
late. By the time they are five or six years old, they forget.
One of the greatest questions people want to ask their Guardian Angel is this: “How can I
be happy on this earth?” Very quietly the voice of reason speaks internally and says: “You
can be as happy as you want to be”.
A fascinating true story was told about little three year old Johnny: His young mother
states, “I was putting my three year old son to bed, when Johnny asked for a good
bedtime story. For many weeks we had been reading adventure books about colonizers
and soldiers and great warrior leaders. As I started to read another book, Johnny stopped
me and said: “No, tell me a story about Grandpa Robert.” I was really surprised because
this was my grandpa! I had never told him a single thing about this man. I could not
imagine how or where he had ever heard his name and he was only three years old. On
top of all this, my grandpa had died over twelve years before I had even married, so his
name had never come up in our home. I said to my son: “How do you know about
Grandpa Robert?” My son smiled up at me. “Well Momma”, he said reverently, “He was the
one that brought me to you on earth”.
Babies and little children tell beautiful stories about the heaven they came from, when we
are open to hearing them. These beautiful stories about angels are real and waiting for
us to believe them.
Angel help is overflowing with unconditional love for each one of us today.
Every day we can ask for help with absolutely anything and angel will do their best to steer
us in the right direction - always whispering help IF we are open to it. However, remember
the Caveat, We came to earth with our own Free Will. God and all HIS angels will never
interfere or intervene in our life, unless and until I DECIDE TO ASK FOR HIS HELP.
I have many of my own stories that I know are miraculous in nature. I have felt the Holy
Spirit come right through me and knock me over. I have met ordinary people who I
happened to meet “by chance” and now know they were angels walking on earth at that
exact moment to help me in my time of need. There have been amazing sightings and
situations and stories that have happened “out of the blue” when I least expected it, yet,
now looking back, I always had prayed for HIS help first and no matter what, ANGEL HELP
SHOWED UP.
Can I take a moment and ask who “MY Guardian Angel” is now?
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“Key to Life” Blog #143
More heartache happen?
Feeling weak, filled with fear?
Standing on the brink of sudden sadness?
I decide to pray and internally, quietly hear, “don’t just go through it, grow through it!” Put
those shoulders back and hold that head up high. You are not a quitter. You are not
created to just be defeated. You are created to overcome all your difficulties! Now feel it!
Feel the most powerful force in the universe warming up inside of you. For I, Jesus Christ,
AM right here by your side and I AM not leaving you, ever! ANY problems you face, we face
together.
It’s just ME giving you the power of “choice to choose”.
DO YOU GIVE IN or, DO YOU CHOOSE TO GROW?
When I heard those amazing words, I knew I am always protected.
Still, living day to day, I am beginning to see that I do not grow when I complain about
things in my life. However, lately there has been a new growth level to each situation I
encounter. I AM NOW AWARE. I look at my life with out the “poor me glasses on.” Instead, I
feel incased in a “power-filled, insulated armor of spiritual steel protection”.
MY INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMS SHOW ME HOW TO GROW POWERFUL INSIDE ME.
I keep remembering over and over - I do not grow in the good times. I only grow in the
difficult times when I am challenged to push myself and understand that I AM SO MUCH
BETTER THAN I REALIZE I AM. I AM SO MUCH STRONGER THAN I FEEL. I AM SO MUCH MORE
COURAGEOUS THAN I BELIEVE.
By staying with HIM in the worst of times, the darkness will not stop me. So mentally it does
not matter if someone is angry, tries to hurt me or darkness surrounds me, I can face my
fear head on with a spiritual spine of steel. I will get through this and there will be a better
tomorrow. I am becoming mentally productive.
NO MORE POOR CHOICES. POOR CHOICES KEEP ME STUCK.
For Jesus knows everything I am going through. There is nothing wasted in my life. All the
good, all the bad, all the sadness, all are needed for my internal growth. This brings me
day by day closer to HIM. This is where I find the KEY TO LIFE.
I call HIM - JESUS shows up.
There may have been times when I want to throw in the towel, but I see now that my
problems I managed to solve, took me up and over the darkness and they will again! Just
going through that bad break, or horrific set back and so much sadness have shown me
an internal integrity I did not know I have. My set backs no longer define who I am, they
have helped me grow strong. I see know that as long as I am alive, there will be days with
problems.
However I have found the KEY TO LIFE…JESUS.
“MY problems have strengthened me. By praying and staying with Jesus in the worst of
times, HE has brought me through all the darkness. HE will never leave me. Only Jesus has
the final say to my life. For HE holds the KEY to my Life.
Can I pray for an understanding heart today?
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“Don’t Give Up!” Blog #142
No person feels more alone in life then when darkness fills every thought.
All around can seem hopeless, empty and worthless… yet this is MY signal!
At the darkest time, comes the greatest growth, IF I open up to it.
Did you know that our world generates about a billion tons of garbage every year? Every
day about three million pounds of solid waste garbage is dumped into Cateura. Many
families exist out of pouring through the garbage to find food to eat. There is a place in
the world called Cateura, Paraguay. In Cateura the children are so poor, they have to play
in garbage dumps to get their entertainment daily. This is a true story about a people
who turned trash into music for everyone to hear about all over the world. These are the
facts about the garbage picker, a music teacher and a group of children who didn’t give
up but desperately wanted to learn, even though they lived in a dark, desperate
Paraguayan slum of poverty, waste and pollution.
These young children had a man who helped them learn beautiful music. Now they were
a testament to the transformational power of music and the resilience of the human spirit.
This true story was made into a documentary, “LANDFILL HARMONICA”.
Truly a remarkable group of young people who found a way to transform garbage into
musical instruments. When their story went viral, their orchestra became a global
sensation overnight. They suddenly were transported into a new phenomena of arenas
and “sold out” concerts all over the world! Favio Chavez, guides the recycled orchestra of
children. These children play instruments made entirely out of garbage!
Fifteen year old Tobias plays a saxophone made from a drainpipe, melted copper, coins,
spoon handle, cans and bottle caps. A young teen girl plays a violin made out of wooden
spoons, bent forks and old cans. Their cello has an oil drum for its body. String pegs are
made from old cooking utensils and even the heel of a worn out woman’s shoe.
As the children became more and more famous around the world, they have become
respected and that is everything, said their conductor. “They now need to get an
education because along with self respect, that is something sacred.”
Isn’t it amazing how something “triumphant can be made out of trash?” One persons
garbage is another persons treasure! How inspiring it is to see trash turned into music
and now played for people around the world. All because someone cared enough to
make a difference.
Today is the day to see my life differently. To see all the sadness, all the pain and all the
set backs as growing opportunities to be all I can be from a higher self perspective. Today
*I AM no longer intimidated by MY past. I am no longer afraid of the future. So that brings
me directly in place for the perfect present moment. Therefore, right now I am going to
play a game with myself for this next week. I am going to tell myself that every single
thing that happens to me is FOR A PURPOSE OF GROWTH ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. KNOWING I
ALWAYS GET TO CHOOSE A CARD. WHICH CARD WILL I CHOOSE. “The poor-me” card or the
“grin and bear it” card? Keeping that thought in mind, there is a way to keep out intrusive
thoughts by telling myself “nothing can ever harm me if I don’t allow it to”. So quickly I
surround myself in the Light of Christ. Then I add the powerful affirming statement.
“I will be in the world, but not of the world. I am discipline, discernment and
detachment”
Now There is nothing against me, I hold ONLY to truth. All things happen to me today for
my higher good.
I feel Jesus is here with me at this moment.
HE waits for my words to share my greatest need. No plans of giving up, or giving in, or
staying stuck. I think, “Lord you know what’s in my heart, you know where I struggle and
you know where I need to be pushed. Help Me. I will not give in, I will never give up, never,
ever, ever.”
Can I take this moment and speak honest words I must tell HIM now?
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“Defy Darkness” Blog #141
What sneaks in and depresses me now?
Do I “just settle for whatever” today?
How CAN I find a “higher self” mentality?
From the time I was a little child, I knew the difference between right and wrong. I
definitely had examples given to me. Yet, in the people around me - I see now, how I
continued to make excuses for choices I made. How can I better myself? Years ago I
remember being in junior high school. I lived with my Grandpa and Aunts in a big old
house that felt safe. A couple of blocks away lived an Italian family with three sons and a
daughter. I became really good friends with the daughter. In fact, I envied her because
she dressed so well, had gorgeous black hair and perfect skin. Always thinking she was
favored as the only girl in the family, I was shocked years later to discover the truth. This
girls father would only spend time with his sons. Regardless of what his daughter did, she
was ignored in the family. He also was known to be a tyrant. Shortly after high school I
heard she moved out of the house to work and live on her own. Sadly, she got into the
wrong relationship and became abused by her boyfriend. People say she just wanted to
fix him. Nothing she did could prove herself worthy to her father. So she poured her heart
into her boyfriend and he started to abuse her. Petrified of what her father might do, she
moved out of state with her boyfriend, only to have the abuse intensify. After a few years
of such a horrific relationship, he cast her aside and she moved back to the only city she
knew bruised and forlorn. Talking to other friends, I discovered this decision cast a black
cloud on her life and she went from one abusive relationship to the next. I remember also
liking a boy who was extremely good looking, athletic and kind. He seemed to be fairly
smart in class when he was called on. In tenth grade he started to notice me and told me
one day he had discovered something that made him feel “on top of the world”. He
walked home from school with me and we talked. He shared how his parents traveled a
lot and then left him alone to figure things out. We talked about why he was choosing to
smoke weed and how nothing in his life gave him such a good feeling as being high. He
had given up football and had different friends now. Later in life friends shared with me
how he died tragically of drugs at a very young age. I remember many of my own
choices growing up and people I brought into my life. Now looking back, I see various
people I chose to get close to had huge problems that did not seem to matter to me. I
also felt drinking, smoking and partying were a big part of life.
Sometimes it does take an event of such magnitude in ones one life to want to go in a
different, healthy direction and bring positive change. However, it also can be a simple
choice of “wanting to live healthy, safe and at peace. Through prayer for me, an
awareness comes into place and a new direction is ahead. Simply said, “Help me Jesus,
please”
One of my most profound teachers in higher self awareness showed me an important
truth. He was an amazing older gentleman who was a therapist by profession. He told
me, “Normal people are boring to you, it’s the excitement of the the dysfunctional roller
coaster that keeps you going back to these people.”
In my world at the time, this was “jaw dropping”. I had parents whose only priority were
themselves and seeing to their daily addicting habits. Because of this, they failed as
parents. They did not give their children a healthy, moral, safe upbringing. We owe this to
our children if we are parents. For twenty five years, until I was married and out from
under, I swore to myself that I would never have people in my life like that. But even then,
did I really believe this? NO, my internal attitudes my personality and desires for what I
“Felt” were right choices, had already been formed. Some things have to be unlearned.
When we are so set in our ways that we have blinders on - WE CRASH.
How true is the statement, “You can run, but you can never hide from yourself”?
Whether I moved to the East coast or the West coast, it mattered not. I still always had
choices to make for who I felt needed to be in my closest inner circle of influence.
Three quarters of a century have come and gone and I am still here, trying to figure out
life day by day. If someone asked me “what is the greatest lesson you’ve learned”? I
would say “I seek Jesus daily. HE shows me my Body is the Temple of God, so be kind to
it - be kind and non-judgental to other people, learning my lessons daily”. I have no
need for drugs, smoking or drinking. I try to find ways daily to be the best version of my
higher self. I can hope to be with no regrets when I leave this earth. Every person comes
into someone else’s life for a reason. This may be good, or it may be a test. Yet, it is
always up to me to find my “higher self purpose” now.
IF I am depressed, sad or lonely regardless of my age, I can reach out to someone less
fortunate. How can I do this? By giving of myself. By showing love to another less
fortunate human being.
Today I was in the store getting a pair of shoes for my son. My husband was with me and
started talking to a man waiting patiently next to him. This man had just lost his entire
home, all his belongings and everything he owned in a house fire. Up to that moment I
was caught up in the material world of “what to buy for my son”. My husband reached out
to him and we both felt better. Reaching out to someone who is isolated, alone,
compromised by health issues. Reaching out to a person in a nursing home, ask for those
who are alone - reaching out to foster care child, even with sending a letter. Asking to
pay a visit. This past summer I visited a nursing home where some of the people living
there had never got a single visit or call from any family member. Every person wants to
feel needed. Each of us want to know someone cares. There is so much we can do IF we
really want to stop thinking just about ourselves. I can defy the darkness around me by
focusing on another human being in desperate need! When I choose to do this, a dark
veil of depression is lifted. Years ago Mother Theresa was approached on a NYC street by
a journalist. He asked her, “How can you keep doing all this when all around is more
misery, killing and disease? Don’t you somehow find it so futile?” Mother Theresa was a
tiny little elderly nun by now. Her kind searching eyes smiled up at the gentleman and
said,
“One person at a time”
When I am kind to myself and others, I feel the hand of God gently holding my hand.
Can I do something for someone in need today?
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“Prepare…How?” Blog #140
One question today: “What AM I prepared for?”
As I look at my life now, I suddenly realize here I am in a world filled with constant change.
Everything around me changing, quickly. Whether its world chaos, health situations or
personal decisions to make. I AM in charge of me all the time. Internally I ask, how can I
prepare for today? Where can I find courage to deal with whatever comes my way now?
More than anything, what does “being strong look like?
To be so strong internally so nothing can disturb my peace of mind. That is the kind of
strength I am talking about. I believe anger has something to do with this. Real, authentic,
internal anger at myself when I let myself down! All the platitudes, all the sayings and
“help quotes” take a back seat to “JUST DOING IT”. To go into my mind, change my mind
and put in place courage must be a “want to.”
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. CREATE GOOD MENTAL HEALTH INSIDE ME. DECIDE TO PRAY.
So the most important thing I go back to is where does internal strength come from? My
strength comes from Jesus. When I decide to get rid of all the little “lower self me” issues
and excuses and blame for “Why- does- this -happen -to-me- attitude”, THEN strength
begins to creep in. Each and everyone of us have different challenges to deal with
constantly. This is because it is in THE CHALLENGE OF PAIN (should we choose to accept
this challenge), that we GROW STRONG INTERNALLY!
Two cases of using “life situations” to change and two people I knew, I use as examples.
My Grandfather (ON MY MOTHERS SIDE) and my Father. My father lost his own father to
drowning when he was a young boy. My grandpa almost drowned as a young boy and
lost his eye. My father was raised in a family with many children, yet faith was not
important. My grandfather was raised in a family with many children and faith was all
Important. As an adult my father had many talents and found a job where he made lots
of money fast. However, he then chose to gamble and drink it away. This was all before
he met my mother. As I grew up, I watched as my father consumed a case of beer and
two packs of Camel cigarettes daily My mother worked around the clock. My father
seldom worked. While smoking and drinking habits consumed him, my father used the
vices of life to hide behind. In the end, my father developed mass amounts of tumors in
his mouth and throughout his body. He was in agony until the day he died at fifty two
years old. Almost half a century in age before my grandpas’ age at almost one hundred.
My mothers father; my grandpa was a man also raised with problems. Yet, this man
worked at something until he was almost ninety years of age. My grandfather believed
work keeps the mind healthy, alert and active. A kind, encouraging man, he found an
amazing attitude to living life to its fullest. Faith was private but guided him in every
aspect of life. I was fortunate to be in the same house with him. At almost 97, Grandpa
came down to breakfast on his last day, looking fresh and ready to take on the world.
Neatly pressed dark pants, crisp white shirt, a smile shown on his face as he passed my
chair. The aroma of Old Spice cologne hung in the air. My aunts were incredible cooks
and waited on his every need, for he WAS the Patriarch of our family. What an amazing
breakfast of fresh fruit, hot cereal, fried eggs and homemade coffee, all presented on a
white linen tablecloth with homemade cinnamon rolls, hot out of the oven, awaited him.
This was the daily norm. After a stimulating conversation with many of his family present,
my grandfather decided to go upstairs and take a small nap.
A few hours later, leaving the pool and coming in out of the Arizona desert heat, I found
the house in frantic mode. Both my aunts were hysterically crying. I instinctively ran up
the stairs. With the sun shining in on his bed, my grandpa lay quietly on top of his cozy
white chenille bedspread. Hands folded over, bible open on the side of his bed, he had
quietly drifted off to sleep forevermore. I thought to myself what a peaceful way to leave
life. No horrific health problems. No addictions. Almost one hundred and still in good
shape. Here are two examples of men, two lives both of which had constant choice.
Where DOES courage to choose “the right way to live” come from? Not once did my
Grandpa ever tell me to believe in Jesus. Yet, he lived his life showing me and I saw first
hand the right way to live.
Whether I like it or not, someday I will have to face HIM head on. Jesus will say to me,
“What DID you do with your life?” I will have to answer HIM with truth. Without Jesus, I
become a slave to worry, fear and temptation. I choose now to push darkness away. I no
longer hang onto my pride yet admit, I cannot do it alone.
Can I put my hands together and ask for HIS help now?
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“Still Stuck?” Blog #139
Can I get past my own lower self feelings today?
Am I able to accept myself for exactly where I am at?
Where is the energy to help me change to “Higher Self” mode?
Someone once said, “whatever you have to give up to have a healthy, honest, happy
life……DO IT NOW”. Why? Because time waits for no one!” Every single one of us have
different situations to deal with in our lives. It’s easy to pick up the phone, call another
person and share all my problems and worries and concerns, then wait for them to give
me answers. Most often, another person does not have the answers to my problems! This
is because it is up to me to dig inside myself and find where I am stuck. What makes me
stuck? Is my mind racing too far ahead? “Slow down, I say” Fear of just doing the right
thing? Am I maybe stuck because I don’t want to know the outcome? So play it out.
Going the opposite way won’t help, ignoring my responsibilities just so I don’t have to deal
with things “for today”? Everyone of us have been there, done that. I used to have a
spinster Aunt who sat at the kitchen table for days, weeks and months, then finally years.
She sat there circling adds in the paper “always going to go get that better job. That is
until she got cancer from drinking and died. Every person alive has fear in their life of
something! If there is a positive outcome for disciplining myself to do something now, it’s
to say this, “feel the fear - do it anyway”. Maybe it’s school. Maybe it is a job opportunity.
Maybe it is a relationship. Maybe it is meeting new people. There is always going to be
“outside of my comfort zone, something different”! Here is a consideration. ask myself, can
I discipline myself to? - “FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY’’. DISCIPLINING MYSELF BUILDS
COURAGE. BUILDING COURAGE, BUILDS MY SELF WORTH = FINALLY I FEEL GOOD INSIDE ME.
CAVING INTO MINDLESS COMFORTS IS STALLING. Life has such beauty In it. We have only but
to look around. ALL the answers I need are within me. All around me waits for me to find
my true purpose.
Here is a fact of life, “NOT LEARNING, MAKES ME STUPID”. So I try hard to learn more about
myself and my life every day. IF I am stuck I must look at my daily habits Now, what are
they? I know some of us have health issues, however, there is always a way around this
too, even if it is isometrics, finding better food to eat, painting, writing and of course prayer
and meditation. Exceptionally long periods of time on the phone, gaming and watching
tv, these habits are only important to a person who JUST wants to be entertained, no
internal growth. No goals. I need to look inside myself and say, “That which looks like
something will break me, can actually make me stronger! Simply put, apply myself to
the task at hand; What is being asked of me today? Is it my job? Am I doing the best I
can and still not coming away content? Maybe it is the wrong job, so look in a different
direction. Is it a class I am having trouble with, there is outside help waiting for me. Is it a
relationship - Every relationship takes lots of work - however, basic premise is be kind,
honest and truthful always. Pray for discernment. It’s up to each of us to find people who
bring us up to our highest endeavors. In turn, we must help ourself find our “true place”.
Isn’t it fascinating how one good remark from a friend can empower and stay with us for
such a long time? There is no reason to be or feel stuck. I must not ever allow myself to
“stay stuck”. First, I ask Jesus: “help me”. I shared this little message awhile back, I share
it again now,
“Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet - Be easy
with me, and I will destroy you……. Who Am I ? I AM HABIT”.
Whether it is school, a relationship or a job or inner talent……Life takes discipline, work and
perseverance. Life happens even while I sit worrying about it. So I might as well give it my
best effort. I have only the greatest gain by trying to succeed. Look at so many things out
there that take endurance, time and effort. A college degree takes four full years, but
opportunity for great wages. Learning photography, writing a song, how to paint, how to
draw, calligraphy. Constantly continuing to reinvent myself, regardless of age! In order to
get unstuck, I need to create a new plan today. No one else will create it for me. For this
involves a paradigm shift. Do I help myself daily or hinder myself daily?
Two people stand in front of my mirror. MY LOWER SELF AND MY HIGHER SELF
Here is a way to find out which person AM I today? My lower self worries, my lower self
casts blame on other situations and people for me being stuck. My lower self says: “well,
I’m just not good at that”. Lower self lies. My higher self says; “I will pray first for help. I want
to try something new today’ ‘I will make a new healthy friend’ My higher self is kind to
myself and others. This is a measure of my soul.. I can create a daily routine mornings,
afternoons and evenings. A good nights sleep is healing, Then I plan (8 hours) That
leaves sixteen hours to create at my own will, a healthy routine for self. There is a good
kind of pressure. This Good Pressure asks me:
Will I BE All that I can be? I AM only stuck as long as I am NOT honest with myself. If I
refuse to live my life from a healthy point of view, so often, along comes that “curve ball”.
Something happens to pull the rug out from under me. It can be my job, my health, a
relationship.
When living life with a healthy perspective, I insulate myself in Jesus’ Christ Light of
complete Love. I am no longer stuck, but safe. I feel HIS Holy Spirit inspiring me to keep
going forward regardless of obstacles in my path.
Can I pray to Jesus today, “Help me get unstuck”.
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“Health Vibes?“ Blog #138
So where do I start inner healing for myself?
Is there a basic Vibration that wakes me up?
Why is “courage” critical to my thinking now?
I accept I am always able to start over today and change my mind. IT’S THE OLD
THOUGHTS, THE RACING THOUGHTS, ThOUGHTS ARE ALWAYS THERE THAT TRY TO SABOTAGE
MY HOLISTIC BELIEF SYSTEM. Today I understand the inner power of my awareness and my
capability to “close that worn out door” to all those “what might have been’s” and “If
only’s”. Regardless of age, it is my responsibility to own up to what is expected of me daily.
What is expected of me? TO LIVE TODAY WITH A TRUTH-FILLED HEART.
Internally I need an Understanding Heart as well. What is that? Internal vibrations of love,
forgiveness and understanding vibrate inside my being. Many moments of my past have
focused on what others have done, how they acted and how I felt about this! These are
wrong issues to focus my thinking on period! My energy field must vibrate positivity,
goodness, laughter. Love, peace and kindness. I must have forgiveness for myself for
where I have felt guilt. Maybe a letter is in order today to someone, somewhere? Will this
bring peace if it is sent? ONLY I would know.
I can lay out my day with a morning plan. Mornings, I wake up and pray first. As I get out
of bed MY deep breathing kicks in. REMEMBERING TEN DEEP BREATHS WHENEVER I can find
time for these deep breaths. They are cleansing, healing and bringing in “Healthy Vibes”.
Then, throughout my day I must EAT SOME FRUiT and DRINK MORE WATER.
I stated “COURAGE IS CRITICAL”. Why do I say this? It takes courage to change!
It takes courage to say this Affirmation: Vibrating these words throughout my being…..
“I AM present in this moment now.
I AM peacefully filled internally with the love of Jesus Christ.
I AM healed by the Holy Spiirit that is moving within me now
The presence of HIS light calms me throughout my day.” FEEL THIS VIBRATION NOW.
It’s pretty hard to be anxious after reciting those words over again. It takes a lot of
courage to try to be different today. I can’t just mouth the words, I have to bring these
ideas into my person, and feel the vibration of these different, powerful points of truth! I
believe every one of us is given different situations to live through. Yet, It is in HOW I handle
EACH SITUATION, and HOW I absorb THE SITUATION, then deal with THE AFTERMATH that can
bring healing into my life. ALL THE WHILE NEW ENERGY IS MOVING WITHIN ME AND
THROUGHOUT ME. WHAT KIND OF ENERGY DO I BRING IN NOW?
If someone were to ask me “Have you had an easy life?” I would say, “I have had a most
challenging life. Knowing, through my perils, grief and sadness, is where I have learned my
greatest lessons in truth, forgiveness and love. IF I ask, God always shows the way. It is
only when I refuse to pray, or listen to HIS direction, or turn my back on HIS goodness, that I
get stuck IN ANGER, FEAR, REGRET.
I leave you today with this fascinating piece of news:
‘THE OLDEST LIVING PERSON IN THE U.S. JUST TURNED 115. “Speak your mind,” says Elizabeth
Francis, who is a resident of Houston, Texas. Once she turned 115, she became the 4th
longest living person in the world! Doctors say she has done everything right. She eats
her vegetables, she eats healthy food, she never smoked and does not drink. She gets lots
of sleep and the way she manages stress? Laughter. She says exactly what the thinks
and doesn’t hold back”. Her family is important to her. She laughs a lot and watches old
television shows that make her laugh. Her advice to others: “Speak your mind - don’t
hold your tongue but try to love everybody and try to do the best things you can”.
Francis’ daughter, Dorthy, is 95 years old and lives with her mother. They are happy,
healthy and filled with peace.
I too, want to live life to its fullest. From this day on I refuse to walk in fear of the unknown
or what might have been, or hold on to past problems. Rather I choose to find ways to
help others forgiving, and help myself create a Christ -centered path.
One day at a time, I bring in positive energy, healthy vibrations and love.
I end my Blog today on this note. We are all energy fields. My body is composed of
energy-producing particles and they are constantly in motion. So knowing this, I see I
must put healthy words, music and ideas into my body every day going forward. I start
today thinking, eating and feeling healthy. I give back to someone in need. I forgive every
part of my past. I have a clean slate in front of me now. Every person alive owes it to him
or herself to think positive, live with forgiveness, and try to have an understanding heart. “If
you know the Art of Deep Breathing you have the strength, wisdom and courage of ten
tigers”. - Old Chinese adage.
“To keep the body in good health is our duty, or we shall not be able to keep our mind
strong and clear”. Buddha
“Can I accept that my Body IS the Temple of God?”
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“How to Heal?” Blog #137
What can make the darkness disappear, right now from my life today?
With such huge hurt inside of me, how can I possibly “turn the page on a new day?
When will I stop making excuses for myself and find a “healthy point of view?”
Twenty three years ago this year, was September 11, 2001. Almost everyone can recall
where they were and what happened, almost in slow motion. The saddest part to all of
this, was the part where over three thousand innocent people lost their lives in a senseless,
horrific, demonic tragedy. Early morning saw this day with not a cloud in the sky. It was a
beautiful, sunny September morning in New York City, when terrorists decided to hijack
airplanes and send them into the World Trade Center Buildings. Watching it unfold on the
television was beyond painful. Being there was living out the nightmare without escape
for so many unsuspecting souls.
Dennis Cauchon from USA Today writes this:
New York - “George Sleigh was a British-born naval architect, on the phone in his 91st floor
office when he heard the roar of jet engines. Looking out the window, he had time to think
just three things: the wheels are up, the underbelly is white and “man, that guy is low”. An
American Airlines Boeing 767 was hurtling toward him at 500 mph, loaded with 92 people
and 15,000 gallons of fuel. The jet exploded in the 93rd through the 98th floors of the World
Trade Center’s north tower with force equal to 480,000 pounds of TNT. It was 8:46 AM on
September 11th, 2001. The walls, the ceiling and bookshelves crumbled. George Sleigh; 63
year old Manager of Technical Consistency at the American Bureau of Shipping, crawled
out from the rubble. He looked up at exposed steel beams and the concrete underside of
the 92nd floor. He didn’t know it at the time, but that concrete floor was the bottom of a
tomb for more than 1300 people! No one survived on all the floors above him. But on the
floors below him, an amazing story unfolded, nearly everyone lived! The line between life
and death that morning was as straight as a steel beam. Everyone on the 92nd floor died.
Everyone on the 91st floor lived.”
No one person should ever take this day for granted. We know not how it unfolds….
Now, twenty three years later, there is no trace of jets crashing or buildings burning or dark
destruction. Now stands a “huge Memorial Building“ soaring upwards to the sky. People
go to the spot where it happened to remember, reflect and reminisce about their loved
ones. Somehow with Gods Grace, they have managed to move on in life. However, it has
been noted of those who remember and look back and were able to speak with their
loved ones on the phone, just before they perished……everyone prayed. Everyone spoke of
love. Everyone cherished the moment they were able to speak to their loved one before
they were gone from this earth forever.
How to heal from a painful moment, a painful memory, a painful situation?
JUST LET GO. LET IT GO. LET GOD HAVE IT NOW.
When I look at the “way I live”…. I have to ask myself, “HOW DO I LIVE?”
In the Big Picture, In God’s big picture…. what is really important to ME now?
There are so many opportunities I have to Change the Picture. What do I mean by this? IF
I keep hanging on to certain ways, attitudes, and beliefs from the past, how can I possibly
TURN THE PAGE and open a new chapter on my life today. I must INSTILL FORGIVENESS
NOW! Forgiveness for myself first and for those I have hurt as well. God will only help me
when I ASK FOR HELP and agree to HELP MYSELF “LET GO”.
What do I have to let go of? OLD BELIEF SYSTEMS! All my old ways of thinking have not
been working for me. (Keep doing the same things and the same things keep
happening). I agree with my Highest Self to abandon them now and bring in the new. I
am ready to TURN THE PAGE on a NEW DAY and invite the CHRIST LIGHT into my life.
Knowing this is not complicated thinking, I SEE it’s simple. However, I must do two things
first:
1. Now I let go of “Lower Self” EGO.
2. I stop believing MY WAY IS THE ONLY WAY.
Instantly, in comes the light of Jesus Christ.
The minute I get out of “my own way”, I make room for HIS truth. My life changes in a
breath. This is all it takes. Millions of other people attest to this. So can I.
Can I turn my back on old thoughts, and bring in the Christ light now?
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“Recipe for Me?” Blog #136
Why do I need a “specific” recipe just for myself?
What should I do with myself to BE more balanced and healthy?
Are there parts of me that I refuse to correct and keep slipping up on?
Here’s a basic premise I start my day with AFTER prayer. I believe the Serenity Prayer is
critical to keeping me In the world BUT not of the world,
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to
change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
When I pray in the morning, I ask for Discipline, Discernment and Detachment. This helps
me become aware of bringing more balance into my life immediately. Why is this so
important to me? Because life has drama! Life is busy! Life is people! IF I get caught up in
other peoples life as a “caretaker” and NOT a caregiver, I am headed into uncharted
waters that can engulf me! I have said many times, I believe we are, each and every one
of us, in charge of our own destiny. So when there are issues, and problems and situations
for ME to handle - it is up to ME to do this. Not up to me to take on someone else’s
problems, or judge them or criticize them. IF my body is not in balance, the WHOLE of ME is
out of shape. I must HELP myself to eat something healthy in the morning after I drink my
bottle of water. A piece of fruit, a slice of whole oat toast with honey, and a cup of tea with
a small bowl of Raisin Bran. Then I am able to take vitamins: Vit. C, Vit. B complex,
Calcium/magnesium, Vit. E. Everything I put in my being, my thoughts, my food, my drinks,
all affect how I feel and my whole body health.
Most recently I went to see an excellent movie “Reagan”. This was a true story about
amazing movie star turned statesman, turned politician then Governor and finally
becoming the 40th President of the United States of America. Ronald Reagan was
President from 1981 -1989. He did much for our country and for the world. He is best
remembered specifically for being in West Berlin and calling on the Soviet Union to
dismantle the Berlin Wall that separated West Berlin from East Germany. Ronald Reagan
was speaking forcefully when he said, “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!” He was a
wonderful President yet he retired early because he had developed Alzheimers Disease.
He struggled with this disease for ten years and then he quietly died.
I started doing a little checking on my own and found out that while Reagan was
Governor, he wanted to stop smoking so he started eating Jelly Beans. He began eating
lots of Jellybeans every day, all day long. In fact the company that makes Jelly Beans sent
huge amounts to the Governors Mansion and then to the White House for all the years
Ronald Reagan was there. They wound up sending over three tons of Jelly Beans to the
President at the White House. The Jelly Bean company even personalized Presidential Jars
to be given away to important people that came to visit the President. This went on year
after year after year. I looked up in Google, “High sugar intake contributes to Alzheimers
Disease, Dementia and so many others….”
Anyone out there may say “that just is silly”. However, I believe the old adage, “We are what
we eat”. I want to also add this about processed food, (these are all the foods that go up
and down the aisles of the store that EXCLUDE the PRODUCE AISLE)….this is from
Harvard.edu. “Processed foods have been linked to an increased of chronic inflammation,
heart disease, diabetes, inflammatory bowl disease, obesity and Cancer. “ AND THIS:
“Every 10% increase in consuming of ultra-processed foods was associated with a 12%
higher risk for Cancer in general….” Harvard.edu.
This is real. This is concerning. This is why its important I take my health seriously. So I go
about my day trying to remember two bottles of water early in the day and two bottles of
water later in the day. If I must have something sweet, only after I have eaten a healthy
meal first. For over thirty years now I have avoided meat and I seem to be not missing it at
all! I do eat fish occasionally, lots of salads, beans, brown rice, vegetables, and fruit. NO
peanuts ever! Almonds are excellent. Free range eggs once in a while. And my choice of
liquid on cereal? Oat milk or almond milk is best. Organic butter .once In a while on taost
with honey. Also lots of Epsom Salt baths for end of day relaxing. This may sound
repetitious and even redundant but it works for me! Also in the morning on my cereal, a
great time to add two heap. tsp. of Flax Meal. I get up each morning and I feel really good.
This is so important to state during a time when things around us are looking very bleak.
So I remember I can only work on a “recipe for me” and try to focus on today only. I do not
look too far into the future that I cannot control, fix or determine.
I thank the Dear Lord for all I am given today, and I leave it there.
Can I find a healthy recipe for me today and stay with it?
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“Empower Myself” Blog #135
Do I get down, am I sad a lot with my hope running out?
Searching inside myself, am I feeling no answers left?
How can I empower myself, when I just want to sleep away the day?
Every single one of us have been so sad, so lonely and so lost, there seem to be no way
out. Yet, I finally decided once I was there, this is an ILLUSION! Fear is behind it all and fear
is simply this: FALSE EVENTS APPEARING REAL. There is nothing at the bottom of my most
empty thought! So Now I pick myself UP AND START OVER AGAIN.
IT MATTERS NOT MY AGE,WHAT MATTERS IS MY WILL TO CONVINCE MYSELF TO GO ON…
Years ago during World War Two, Winston Churchill gave one of his most famous
speeches. He spoke of never giving up and he delivered this at Harrow School on October
29, 1941. This was a time when England was most threatened by Hitler. England was being
bombed again and again. People were losing hope. Winston Churchills speech is most
remembered for these lines that start, “never give in, never give in, never, never, never -
in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor
and good sense”.
Churchill gave this powerful speech to inspire people and remind people a nation and ITS
PEOPLE MUST FIGHT ON IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING DEFEAT! This is what I believe about
my OWN life regardless of what has ever happened to me to try to bring me down. IT
MATTERS NOT what happened to me yesterday , I HAVE TODAY. I will not just survive, I WILL
THRIVE. I have made myself a promise to get angry with “complacency, depression and
dread”. I can go forward because I have a BRAND NEW DAY IN FRONT OF ME. I AM LEARNING
TO LOVE MYSELF FOR WHO I AM, PERIOD. This awareness is brilliant because ONLY LOVE can
empower self.
There is something IMMEDIATE that happens to a person when one gets in touch with their
“INNER CORE CONVICTION, CONFIDENCE AND CLARITY”. BRAVERY SHOWS UP.
CONFIDENCE KICKS IN. INNER GUIDANCE SUDDENLY SHOWS A PERSON “LOVE IS THE
ANSWER”. Finding love inside me is powerful. The love I feel for myself FOR “KEEPING ON,
KEEPING ON”. My inner respect is building day by day. I am strong in the face of ALL
DARKNESS. I love Jesus Christ, my life has purpose. I do not fear being alone, for I am
never alone! I do not fear failing because Jesus shows me a new way daily! Regardless of
where I am at, my mind is guided by the LIGHT OF CHRIST I refuse to live in fear, remorse,
and darkness! In my life I look at all my DISAPPOINTMENT AS THE FUEL NEEDED TO DESTROY
SELF-WORTH. I am finally seeing the art of FORGIVENESS is so freeing! The more I forgive
others and especially myself, the more I find LOVE for myself and others. Forgiving myself
now, I see my life gets better. This then is the “Turning Point” to EMPOWERING MYSELF WITH
LOVE.
I believe one of the main reasons Jesus came to earth and became ONE of us was to
experience OUR life with HIS love, forgiveness and mercy for mankind. This fact alone
inspires me to want to become more humble. (Give those around me who I am so
judgmental of “a break”, stop judging!!) I am also going easier on “judging myself”. My
heart is opening faster and bringing in the LOVE I so desperately need for myself and
others. The more I learn to love myself, the more I empower myself!
Thus, it is my own HUMILITY I now feel. I can see this only DOOR where Jesus reaches my
heart, and comes through. As I ask for HIS help today, the Christ Energy pours down upon
me. Only HE gives me “an understanding heart” (I pray for this daily). Then little by little
more Christ energy to empower me and filling me up daily.
So It’s here - I stop for a moment to say a few words about “each of us”. I know life can be
so bleak it has appeared impossible to see the light. You might being reading this and say:
“You have no idea what I am going through….” I say, “No I do not”. I can only speak for
myself. I could sit here all day long and give examples of my terror and nightmarish
situations and dark paths I have traveled down, only because I insisted on doing it ALONE!.
Yet, this is where I MUST share a tremendous truth, EACH OF US IS GIVEN OUR OWN SET OF
CIRCUMSTANCES TO DEAL WITH AND LEARN FROM. FOR IT IS THROUGH OUR TRIALS AND
TRIBULATIONS GROWTH MIRACULOUSLY HAPPENS INTERNALLY. Each of us is GIVEN ‘FREE WILL’
SO WE ALWAYS HAVE CHOICE. IF WE DO NOT CHOOSE TO CALL ON OUR INNER WISDOM OF
CHRIST ENERGY, LIFE GETS TOUGHER. I FIRMLY BELIEVE EACH OF US IS HERE TO DO THE WORK
WE CAME HERE TO DO. YES, I AM EXPECTED TO ENJOY LIFE, YET IT IS ONLY THROUGH MY PAIN
WHERE I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE MOST GROWTH. I AM NOT HERE TO TRY TO TELL MYSELF OVER
AND OVER, “I will figure it out somehow ALONE”. Once again, I AM ASKED to embrace the
energy of Jesus Christ who waits inside each of us! I know through my pain came the
promise of HIS love, light and truth. I accept this, I do. I want to keep learning as.I know I still
have a lot of work to do.
Ernest Hemingway said it best when he wrote the lines for the following:;
“WISDOM”
Before you Act - Listen
Before you React - Think
Before you spend - Earn
Before you criticize - Wait
Before you Pray - Forgive
Before you Quit …. Try, Try, and Try again and again
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Can I decide today to Empower myself with Love?
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“Healthy Habits?” Blog #134
What are healthy habits I put in place for myself today?
Pretending to listen internally, can I find my “Higher Self”? or….
Do I give in to temptations around me, with little control over my life today?
I‘VE COME TO REALIZE MY HABITS DEFINE WHO I AM EACH AND EVERY DAY.
It’s important to look at my life thru “crystal clear eyes of truth”. I envision myself as a
human bank. What is deposited internally every single day? At a bank, there are deposits
and withdrawals. I must withdraw from darkness and bring in only light. How I feel about
myself each day matters. What I put into my mind and my body matters. What thoughts I
think about myself matters most. Inside me I must deposit constant “reinforcement
values”. I keep my distance from others who are NOT GOOD FOR MY HIGHEST HEALTH. I
MUST WORK ON ME. I WILL LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH. I WALK WITH POSITIVE, POWERFUL,
DISCIPLINED PEOPLE.
I go to my “Inner Bank” and count the good habits that help me daily. I wake up each
morning and there are healthy habits to start for myself. My first healthy habit before I
leave my bed, is prayer. I want to be protected all day long! I thank God for all I have
been given. I ask for protection for all my family and I ask Jesus to show me the way
today. Help me to do “HIS will and not my will”.
I awake and drink a large bottle of water and then I LEAVE MY HOUSE. I GO OUTSIDE. I GET
FRESH AIR EARLY IN THE MORNING AND EVERY EVENING. LIFE LOOKS DIFFERENT FROM THE
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN. I then walk as far as I can for fifteen minutes and then fifteen minutes
back home. Some may say, “that’s not much”. However, one half hour morning and
another half hour in the evening makes a full hour of walking! To do it every day fills a
goal. THIS IS A HEALTHY HABIT I BRING AND KEEP IN MY LIFE.
While I walk, I say my “Alphabet Affirmations”. Starting with the letter A, I only put in positive
ideas into my “Human Bank Account”. I start with, “I am aligned with love. I am activating
the Holy Spirit with in me, I am affectionate, I am amazing, ……I then I goon to the letter “B”
and after each letter I put ten affirmations with it. I keep this up all the while walking until I
get to the end of the alphabet. Coincidentally, this takes about thirty minutes! (Obviously
there are a few letter that do NOT have ten.) Then I come into my home and get some
nourishment. I eat a medium bowl of Raisin Bran w/ 2 tbsps. of Flax and some granola
and top it off with Almond Milk. I take a nice hot shower and stretch. NOW I am ready to
start my day. This entire process is vital to balancing out my day. Important Habits that I
am not willing to remove. I am very capable of adjusting my schedule to bring in more
“Healthy Habits”. I DO NOT SIT ON THE PHOHE AND GOSSIP with other people. If there are
friends to connect with in a positive way this is important as well. However, negative
conversations will bring a person down, so always I watch out for this and keep these
things at bay.
WE ARE IN THE WORLD TO SUPPORT, HEAL AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
In the book by Sean Covey, “7 Habits”, there is a wonderful piece entitled, “Who Am I ?”
I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push
you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the
things you do, you might just as well turn over to me and I will be able to do them quickly
and correctly. I am easily managed, you must merely be FIRM WITH ME. Show me exactly
how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it automatically. I am the
servant of all great individuals, and alas, of all failures as well. Those who are great, I have
made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures. I am not a machine, though I
work with the precision of a machine plus the intelligence of a human. You may run me
for a profit or run me for ruin, it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with
me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me and I will Destroy you!
WHO AM I ? I AM HABIT.
Isn’t that fascinating to see how the human mind can develop habits within a person that
can make them successful or bring them to ruin? Everything within me ONLY I CONTROL. I
can justify, rationalize, debate with myself all day long - but inside me, I know the truth,
Whether or not I am giving life my best!
Do I give my life the BEST I HAVE TO GIVE EVERY SINGLE DAY
Age has nothing to do with it. Attitude is waiting… waiting for ME to find the way today! It’s
time now to start my life with the awareness that nothing can shake my resolve to do my
best, think my best and be my best. No temptations of darkness can seap into my
thinking now. I am protected! I wear the armor of Jesus Christ sealing me in HIS profound,
divine, pure white light of heavenly protection. I will always remember and rely and recall
this truth, “Yes, I have Free Will, yet I turn my life over to Jesus Christ and let HIS will be done
in my life today with Healthy Habits. SO NOTHING CAN HARM ME IF I DONOT ALLOW IT TO. I
stand by truth. I am honest and I have healthy habits all day long.
Can I start my day with only Healthy Habits?
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“Prayed Up?” Blog #133
Do I want to understand myself?
Where does my own strength come from?
How can I feel total peace inside of me?
First, I look up, way up…..as far as I can see into this beautiful, bountiful, deep blue universe.
I take in deep breaths. I begin to relax. I can believe, all is as it should be. Creative,
constant change is out there yet peace-filled moments reside within me. This is where I
need to incorporate the belief “I am in the world, but not OF the world”.
Change is hard.
Courage is daunting.
Committing with courage to change my lower self habits can be overwhelming. However,
I must start now. It is time. I want to begin now. Inside my core I know this is so difficult.
My life is filled with rationalizing. Yet, it is all up to me. My hundreds and thousands of
experiences that have formed me in the school of life I attend, force me to come to this
sobering fact:
I have been given critical awareness to learn how to discern, discipline and detach.
I cannot fix, or manage or change another human being. I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR ME.
I CAN ONLY WORK ON MYSELF TODAY. NO MORE WASTING TIME. I WILL DO IT NOW.
I NOW LISTEN TO THESE HUMBLING WORDS OF TRUTH,
“I WANT TO BE THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE IN OTHERS”, and so I decide.
At the end of my day, what DOES bring me peace? PRAYER.
I believe when I pray, I pray for my highest good and the highest good of others.
However, there is no instant gratification that my prayers are answered NOW, according to
my time table. So frustrations creep in. The irony in all of this is this, WHILE I WAIT TO HAVE
MY PRAYERS ANSWERERD, TIME MOVES ON WAITING FOR NO ONE. THIS IS A MOST FRUSTRATING
PROCESS. So, frustrations build, anxiety abounds, nerves fray.
WHY AREN’T MY PRAYERS ANSWERED NOW? However, maybe IF I can change in my intent,
therein lies the key”. The first rule of thumb is HOW do I pray? I now start with these words:
“NOT my Will, but THY will be done in my life today Lord”
So with this prayer in place, No unrealistic expectations hanging around. When I pray now,
I agree to accept myself as a “Child of God”. for this is where I begin to see and accept “My
body IS the Temple of God”. I can feel I am now filled with the “Holy Spirit” of God and this
perfect premise brings every part of my inner energy into total balance with my Lord. I am
ready now, I can say any and all the prayers I want. For I see how easy it is to now have a
conversation with Jesus through out my day. It is in knowing this, that I have a total feeling
of peace come over me. No unnecessary expectations. No time tables that I demand
him to fill. Just an inner understanding that in my prayer, I have given it ALL to HIM to take
over. I feel peaceful and complete and full. I am now “All prayed up”.
Throughout prayer, can I let go and let God into my life right now?
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