On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

...that the gifts you have to give are multitudinous and magnificent -- and your time to give those gifts has only just begun.

The life events of this moment are being placed in your experience to provide you with a perfect context within which to experience the true wonder and glory of Who You Really Are. Honestly, without a lot of fluffy talk, it is time for you to know and to express the fullness and the richness of how wonderful, of how special, you are.

These events, the occurrences of these days and times, the challenges in your life right now, are designed by you (at a very high level) to give Little You a chance to experience and express Big You...right here, right now. Take a look at what you are facing in this moment, on this very day. Do you think this is by accident?

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
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....that love is stronger than justice.

Sting said that, and it is perfectly true. So if you feel that you have been "unjusted" and are looking for 'justice', you may be looking for the wrong thing. What would happen if you sought love instead? And what would happen if you gave love instead of seeking it?

This might require a bit of forgiveness. Yet if you start with yourself, if you begin by forgiving yourself for all the things you may have done that were not okay with another, you will find it much easier for forgive another for what was done that is not okay with you.
It's just a thought...

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

...that remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

H.L. Mencken said that, and he was right. Do not, do not, "put off until tomorrow what you can do today." And do not think that there is anything that you really want to do that you cannot do today. There is no reason to wait. None, save the reasons that your Mind gives you, none of which are valid, all of which you are just making up.

Quit it. Stop it. Stop the stopping. Start the starting. Really. I mean, really. Because you know what? Days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years so fast you will not know what happened. But you will know what did not happen. And you will feel true remorse. So let's avoid that, shall we? Get going.
Go for it.

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

..that fear in the face of the fearsome is what makes the fearsome fearsome.

Yet faith in the face of the fearsome removes the fear, and turns the fearsome handsome.

I mean, that which is fearsome can actually be good looking, if we are good at looking at it in a new way.

This takes a change of mind. It takes a new perspective. It takes a sense of wonder in life and an awareness that life itself is working with us, not against us at any level. Or to put it in somewhat more spiritual terms, God is always on our side.

The process of Mastery, then, is one of acceptance. It is a quiet embracing of what is. It is a non-resistence. It is a gentle walking into the moment, knowing that it holds for us, always, what is best for us all ways. Do you believe this? Then it is true.

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

..that you should never be content with so little when you can reach out for something big.

Charles L. Allen asked a question about that, wondering why so many people settle for so little. You do not have to place yourself among them. The world is an abundant place. Abundant with opportunity, abundant with good fortune, abundant with ideas, and abundant with love.

Reach into that abundance and take what is rightfully yours. It is your inheritance, gifted to you by God. Let yourself have it. Do not fail to reach for it for fear that it will not come to you. How can it come to you if you do not reach for it?
Do not be content with so little. Reach, stretch, for something big.

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

....that the worst predictions of those who say they "know" have nothing to do with Ultimate Reality.

Do not buy into what others are telling you -- even if those others are people in authority, people who seem to have all the information and all the understanding and all the answers.

Embrace, instead, the desires of your heart, and make those your experience.

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

...that you should never be content with so little when you can reach out for something big.

Charles L. Allen asked a question about that, wondering why so many people settle for so little. You do not have to place yourself among them. The world is an abundant place.

Abundant with opportunity, abundant with good fortune, abundant with ideas, and abundant with love.

Reach into that abundance and take what is rightfully yours. It is your inheritance, gifted to you by God. Let yourself have it. Do not fail to reach for it for fear that it will not come to you. How can it come to you if you do not reach for it?

Do not be content with so little. Reach, stretch, for something big.

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

..that all of life is animated by a single fantastic energy,
which is the essence of everything that is -- including you.

Isn't that amazing? Now, because this essence is who you are
and what you are made of, it can obviously never leave you.

Perhaps not so obviously, it can also be wonderfully helpful.

It can bring you peace in moments of stress,
strength in moments of weakness,
courage in moments of fear,
wisdom in moments of confusion,
forgiveness in moments of anger,
and love in all the moments of your life.

All you have to do is know that this is true,
and it will be true for you, right now.

I think that's terrific, don't you?
You already know the reason
that this particular reminder
came to you today...

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, Melodie, I believe God wants you to know...

..that you are a pure child of God, beautiful in your innocence -- and
that this is true no matter what you may have done.

There is no offense you could ever commit that can rob you of your
magnificence, or of the wonder of who you are. Gosh, Eliot Spitzer's
drama has brought up a lot of stuff for all of us, hasn't it? Yet who
among us hasn't fallen from the path, betrayed another, acted
unwisely, fallen prey to temptation, given in to a craving or addiction?

All of us are human. And in God's eyes that makes us perfect.

Really. Just the way we are. Like 3-year-olds, looking anxiously
up at some elder, wondering with quivering lips whether we'll get
a spanking for breaking the rules...

The 3-year-old is beautiful in her innocence. He is pure as snow,
and there is simply something that has not been totally understood,
or fully integrated into behavior yet. It's okay. We don't mean to
be "bad." And in truth, we aren't. Not a one of us.

We're simply, sometimes, mistaken. And God loves us anyway.

Immensely. Completely. Eternally.
Just as we are.

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

. and all will work out in the end. You may be facing a challenge right now, or perhaps an important question you've been pondering, but you're not facing this alone. You can ask God for help. You, too, can have a conversation with God. I promise.

So just take a breath right now and ask God to tell you exactly what you need to hear.

Then...listen. Carefully.

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

..that money problems can evaporate in the blink of an eye,
and that you are eternally abundant.

I know, I know...it sometimes doesn't seem that way, but the
truth is, you always have everything you need, right here, right
now. Do you know how I know? You're still here. If you hadn't
always been given everything you ever needed, you wouldn't
be here.

Now all that is necessary is for you to understand this deeply.

Then, stop worrying. You'll be okay. Wait and see.

Or better yet, don't wait at all. Experience this right now.

And remember it when things don't look so good
(in your imagination).

You already know the reason
that this particular reminder
came to you today...

Love, Your Friend....

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

..that you can make the end of this work week be the end of ‘work’ forever.

What we call “work” can, and should, be a joy. It can be that for you beginning now—no matter what you are doing.

Simply see the daily work of your hands as the pathway to where you want to be. Then, be grateful that life has given you this path.

Love, Your Friend....