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

...that your heart knows in silence
the secrets of the days and the nights.

Kahlil Gibran said that, and he was right. Listen, therefore,
to your heart. Cultivate the ability to do this.

Practice it. Produce it. Perfect it.

It is not that difficult. Just be quiet with yourself.

And for heaven's sake, stop listening to your mind.

You will not find the truth there. You may find the answer,
but it will not be the truth unless
it coincides with the answer in your heart.

You think there is more to know about life than this, but
there is not. Your heart holds the key.

Your heart holds the wisdom. Your heart holds the future.

Your mind knows nothing but the past. It imagines the future
will be just like yesterday, so it makes its decisions
based on that. Only your heart can see
beyond memory's horizon.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace said that, and he was right. During any time of
adversity, your genius will be revealed--as will that of all humankind.

We will find that there is another way to live other than 'dog eat
dog,' and another worthy goal other than
'bigger, better, more.'

See this time, then, as a challenge to your ingenuity
and an invitation from life to rediscover what is truly
important: love, family, friends, and...
the journey of the soul.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that you best serve humanity by getting out of the
coffee shop and the bookstore and into the street.

The world awaits your contribution; your city, your
town, your neighbor, your friend awaits that help
from you that will make everything easier. There is
more that you can do than you know. Just get out
there and look for it.

Of course, you already know that life is not about
what comes to you, but what comes through you.

So now decide to make this the year that this idea
manifests itself at the highest level ever.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that you cannot hope to solve any problem using the
same energy that created the problem.

Whether it's the endless wars in the world or the
unending quarrels and fighting in your own home, the
problem is the same: conflicting energy. If you want
to change the outcome, change the energy.

The extraordinary aspect of this solution is that you
do not have to wait for the other party in order
to do it.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that when regret is sincere, an apology to another
need not be accepted.

Seek to speak purely from your heart. When you have
made a mistake, erred as all humans do, admit it, feel
your regret as your inner truth, share it with those who
matter in the incident, and ask forgiveness. But do not require
it in order to move on in peace.

Another person's forgiveness is not what is needed.

Only your own. If the distress you caused was
unintentional, say you are sorry, then hold in a place of
love for those who will not forgive you. It may be a larger
hurt they are healing.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that peace cannot come to this world until you are
convinced that violence will never produce it.

Hurt does not heal hurt. Violence will not bring an end
to violence. Help the world to understand this by
reacting differently, responding newly, when anger and
a need to hurt you is sent your way.

You will have such an opportunity in your life. And
probably, more than once. Do not miss the chance
to humbly send a message of love.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that if a man does not know what port he is steering
for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca said that, and it is true. You have to know
where you are going in order to get there. This may
seem simplistic, but many people have no idea where
they are going in life--much less where they are
headed on the Journey of the Soul.

Yet these are things that have to be decided, not
discovered. Too many people are waiting to discover
what they should decide; to chance upon what they
should be choosing. Are you one of them?

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that you are not the things you do,
but the way you are being.

Your State of Being is the way you express your very
definition of self. This has nothing to do with what you
are doing, what you have done, or what you imagine
you will do in the future. It has to do with the quality
and the essence of the energy that emanates from you
right now. Is it love, or is it fear?

Everything you express emerges from one of these two
starting points. Yet you can return to love, as Marianne
Williamson famously wrote, at any time you wish.

For each day, each moment, offers a new beginning.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that you are loved on this day for all the wonder that
you bring to your world with the gift of being you.

Hard to believe, isn't it, that you are that special in the
eyes of God? Yet you are--and not because of what
you have done, but because of who you are. You are
God's own creation, an expression of Divinity
in human form.

The fastest way to experience this is to be the vehicle
through which others see it in themselves. Each person
is walking his or her path and doing his or her best. God
knows this and that is why God loves you all.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that embarrassment is a pointless experience.
You have permission to abandon it.

Replace it with self love and love of all others--and
love of the imperfections you imagine you see in both.

In truth, both are perfect in their 'imperfection,' for
'imperfection' merely means 'incompletion.'

So do not be embarrassed if you haven't completed
graduate school yet. Rather, look forward to the
adventure of doing it.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that a new world is upon you and all peoples of the
earth. A different tomorrow awaits.

Nothing is going to be the way it was before. Not your
finances, not your politics, not your work life, not your
relationships, not the way you experience your spirituality
-- all of it is changing...and is going to continue to change.

The only question remaining: Will you be part author
of those continuing changes, or merely one who is
impacted by them?

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that on this day will you have an opportunity to attend
your own campaign.

You are invited by life to elect yourself a Spiritual
Leader, and to take office today. What does a
spiritual leader say? A spiritual leader does not say,
"Follow me." A spiritual leader says, "I'll go first."

Decide today to take the oath: I promise to "go first"
in demonstrating forgiveness, compassion, understanding,
generosity, kindness, cheerfulness, positivity, and love.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that the future is brighter than ever. Not just humanity's
future, but your own, personally.

Things have shifted. The energy has been altered. You
can feel it if you deeply tune in. This shift is not your
imagination, nor is it merely on a national or global
level. There is a shift in you.

Feel it today, and use it to propel you to a wonderful
tomorrow. In fact, do better than feel the energy.

BE the energy. Be its Source.Then watch the conditions
of your own life change.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that when you see the light at the end of the tunnel, it
is not beneficial to go out and build more tunnel.

It was John Quinton who observed that politicians do
that. Maybe you've caught yourself doing it, too. Just
when things look like they're getting better, you start
seeing more things that "aren't right,"
or "could go wrong."

The Universe is essentially a friendly place.

So friendly, in fact, that it will give you
exactly what you expect it to.

Isn't that wonderful? Of course,
it depends on what you expect...

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that your contribution to this very day could set the
stage for an entirely different kind of year.
Funny how things work. Sometimes the smallest choice,
one that you might make within these 24 hours, can
set into motion huge energies bringing you great good
and enormous joy.
Watch the day, then, and watch how you move through
it. You may not know when you are setting those energies
into motion. But you are. With everything, actually, that
you think, say, and do.
So go out and make it a great day!

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that patience, above all else, is what is needed right
now. Do not let anxiousness or frustration take over.

Conditions on the exterior of your experience will
change, but your highest benefit will be achieved when
conditions in your interior remain the same. Hold to
your inner peace. Reclaim your identity. Trust your
higher wisdom. Look to the grander vision.

Do not agitate for a decision right now, nor seek an
immediate solution. Do not wish for an end to things as
they are. That end will come. Yet let it arrive naturally.

Do not push the river. Wait. The Right Time is at hand,
and resolution of this difficulty is on its way.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that God's light shines through you when your light
shines on another.
The darkness of the world can be illumined by your
glowing presence -- yet you must believe in yourself
as The Source of that light and that love.
All the world awaits your arrival today, shivering in
its sadness, looking to you for warmth. Can you bring
a radiance to those you touch today? Will you?
Your answer will determine more for you than it will
for them. In this is The Great Secret.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that getting down on yourself is not the answer. Why
would you do to you what God would never do to you?

The few things you do not "get right" (whatever that is)
cannot compare to the things at which you excel.

Do you know that? You are kind, you are caring, you are
generous, you are sensitive, you are compassionate, you
are forgiving, you are more accepting than you know,
and more loving than you will give yourself credit for.

Now...what else is there?

Try to understand this: You are doing just fine. Better
than 'just fine.' You are excelling. You are magnificent,
you are wonderful! And God loves you to pieces!

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that the struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

The search is over when the finding starts. And the
finding is not a finding at all, but a creating. You cannot
find what you have been struggling for, but you can
create it. And the jump-start of creation is gratitude.

Thank you, God, for helping me to know that all that
I seek is coming to me now. Thank you, God, for
allowing me to feel, right now, the peace that comes
with gratitude for what is, replacing the yearning for
what is not. Thank you for bringing me the understanding
that from the isness comes all that is now not, but will
surely be. Let me stay, then, in the isness.

You know exactly what this message is telling you today.

Love, Your Friend....

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

...that caution is natural, but fear is not. Do not give in
to fear, yet do not abandon caution.

It is a balancing act. Caution is what causes you to look
both ways before crossing the street. Fear is what keeps
you frozen on the curb forever. You know the difference.

You can feel it.

If you're "stuck" right now, you're probably into fear.

Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now
cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long
since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is
your own mind.

Love, Your Friend....