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You may be wondering why I would call this article a Thankful Thanksgiving.Aren’t all Thanksgivings thankful? Unfortunately, no. Since I had experienced more than my share of Thanksgivings, I recognize that being thankful is something that we have to work at, even on Thanksgiving.
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The moment one gives close attention to anything even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself – Henry Miller
This week I invite you to slow down and be grateful. This month when thanksgiving is a way of life, find the joy within and shout out in gratitude for indeed, God is here, right here, right now, inside each breath, loving YOU. Allow yourself to feel it. There is a blessing within the process if we allow ourselves to see it. It gives us time to pay attention to the blade of grass or tree branches against the sky and thereby move within and find the joys of Spirit.
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Gratitude and thanksgiving are both necessary in demonstrating prosperity through divine law. Be grateful to the Divine and thankful to the friends and channels whom is used to supply you.
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Recently I spoke at a sweet sixteen event. The mother contacted me to add a bit of “spiritual essence” to this lavish occasion. As I pondered this moment I contemplated how much the rights of passage traditions are not practiced consistently in the western culture.
I would like share with you the speech I delivered in the hope that you would share this with every young woman and parent you come across in your own circles.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself – Joseph Campbell
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes – May Angelo
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“Let us live in the eternal presence of God’s happy smile…folded in the arms of Love forever” – Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes also said “the journey back (home) should be fraught with happiness and joyful expectation for we shall be met with a smile from the Universe and shall be folded in the arms of love forever.” I know that I am met in each and every moment with the open arms of God welcoming me home and I know I am home wherever I go. No matter how far I wander off from my center. How separate and apart I feel from the love of God I just turn my thoughts back to my heart, the home of God, my heaven in the midst of chaos and I know I am enfolded in Its loving arms.
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We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear, LOVE is our true nature. So where does our fears come from you might ask? Perhaps some of our fears are brought on by our own experiences, by what someone has told us, by what you’ve read in the papers. Maybe some fears are valid, like walking alone in a dangerous part of town at two o’clock in the morning. But once you learn to avoid that situation, you won’t need to live in fear of it. Do you?
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We continue to ponder the questions – Are you courageous enough to transform belief into realization during our noonday meditation and as with all these questions of Truth of questions that ask us to go deeper the answers reveal itself slowly.
Recently a pioneer in the human potential movement, Stephen R. Covey made his transition and for me he represented someone who did not run away from himself. You see most people seek safety and comfort in the outer world. Believing that if only they achieve that or had this relationship worked out maybe things would have been different and they would attain the safety and comfort that they seek.
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“If the mind wants to comprehend reality it will have to come out of the past and the future” – Osho
We spent some time discussing in our noonday meditation sessions on Tuesday what does it really mean to pray audaciously. We open the call with the quote above from Osho to really bring us present to the NOW moment. You see we cannot really begin to understand anything, and I mean anything at all, until we allow ourselves to release the baggage, burdens or thoughts that keep us bound to the past of future.
Are you courageous enough to transform belief into realization?
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It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace. – American Indian Proverb
Recently, I’ve been doing something on a regular basis that I never thought I would be doing – cooking. I have been using recipes and preparing meals for my wife and I that not along ago seemed complicated. I have been making different types of quiches, spaghetti, pasta etc. All these dishes involve different seasonings I am not familiar with, ingredients etc.
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