Confidence In Spirit

Namasté!

Good morning,

As I sit here at the computer from a very busy day and start writing, I say what a promise this is! As though Spirit were issuing a challenge to the human by saying, "Perhaps things are better than they appear to be. Have you really tried to have confidence in Spirit? Have you ever experimented with your own mind to see if you could come to a place where you truly believe there is enough good to go around?" My friend, it is as though the prophet were telling us that even divine bounty itself, lavish and extravagant as it must be, awaits our acceptance. So today, let me ask you this, are you holding your bowl of acceptance and your chalice of life upside down so that even the fruit and the wine of Spirit cannot be poured into it? Yet the windows of heaven must be forever open. Have a wonderful day.

In loving white light, my faith, love and magik...

Blessed be always,

~dyved...


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TREATMENT / PRAYER

"Today I open the windows of my own soul so that the windows of heaven may pour into my experience of blessing greater than I am able to receive. Nor would I withhold this blessing from others, for as surely as it comes to me, just as surely shall it go forth multiplied and increased, to heal and help, to bless and enrich and gladden others. My faith, my hope, my expectancy looks up and out and beholds a limitless abundance present everywhere, flowing through all things, a limitless love giving of itself to everything, and infinite peace enveloping all. Behind it all, around and through it, a joy forever sings a song of happiness and fulfillment. This is my day, this is my heaven, this is my life, this is my God. In God will I put my trust and from God Shall I receive blessings that fill my cup of life to overflowing. Amen."
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Change is a prelude to growth.

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"Humor is the great equalizer. When you make someone laugh, you make them feel good. When they feel good around you, they tend to feel good about you. When they feel good about you, they want to do business with you."
- Joe Heuer, Humorist and speaker

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"On those gloomy days, hitch a ride on your secret angel's wings. You'll be lifted high above the clouds."
- Suzanne Siegel Zenkel, "Your Secret Angel"

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Love seeketh not itself to please,
nor for itself hath any care,
but for another gives its ease,
and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
- William Blake

You see now, lying alone on the blistering sand, feeling the feverish abscess of despair, that when you think yourself to please, love displeased, vanishes into thin air.

Love, which seeketh and asketh nothing but to be; love, which comes and goes unbidden, that finest and most privileged mystery.

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Our speech stems directly from our thoughts, and in addition to right action and right speech, a maturing spirituality cultivates awareness of right thinking. When we catch ourselves thinking belittling, judging, cynical or snide thoughts, we are on the way to surrendering old habits of mind and planting the seeds of kind, encouraging thinking. Awareness of our thought habits and the intention to change them is an important aspect of cultivating kindness.

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Follow Your Bliss

1. Begin to tell the truth to yourself about what heals you and what hurts you. Take a piece of paper and draw a vertical line down the middle. Above the left half write, What I really love to do. On top of the right half write, What I really don't enjoy. Fill in both halves as completely as possible. It is extremely important that you do not censor or judge your responses. Write as if no one else will ever see your paper. Do not list what you believe should make you happy or what others tell you should hurt you. Record the things you honestly love to do the most and least.
2. Take action-steps to build self-nurturing activities into your schedule. Set up a weekly appointment for a massage. Contact a travel agent to explore the kind of vacation you've been fantasizing about. Send for a brochure about a school that teaches the course you would like to study. Bring your joy from the wish-level to real expression. You will be amazed at how much more alive you feel when you take even a little step toward actualizing your dreams.
3. Consider ways to minimize activities that disempower you. Do you really need to work on that committee or continue taking care of that person you feel you have to save? It may be easier than you think to stop doing those things. You have more of a choice than you may have realized. At any given moment you are contributing to your freedom or your imprisonment. To disengage from that which does not serve your highest self is to make time and energy available to manifest what you truly desire. Take some action steps to cut yourself free from activities that leave you drained and depleted.
4. Make a list of the talents or activities for which you are most acknowledged and rewarded. For what do your friends praise you the most? For what skills and services does money come to you most readily? These rewards are messages from God, reminding you that if you give, life will take care of you spiritually and materially. Discover the obvious.
   
5. Make choices on the basis of the peace they bring. If something is for you, it will feel like it fits. You will be able to breathe with your choice and sleep peacefully at night. If it's not, don't try to stuff yourself into an outfit that is a mismatch for your soul. When you are faced with a challenging decision, close your eyes and imagine you have just committed to choice A. This commitment will evoke a tight heavy, and deadening feeling. Or it may feel enlivening, exciting, and stimulating. Then try alternative B on for size. Imagine you have just committed to that choice. This will also evoke a particular response within you. One alternative will probably resonate in a more healing place within you. It will bring a feeling (or even a little hint) of lightness, relief, or confidence. This is the direction to take.

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Something now to chuckle at!

The Darwinian vs. God Contest

One day a group of Darwinian scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one Darwinian to go and tell him that they were done with him. The Darwinian walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost." God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the Darwinian was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this? Let's say we have a man-making contest." To which the Darwinian happily agreed. God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam." The Darwinian said, "Sure, no problem," and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt. God looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt."