The Unending Search

What are we looking for? Why is this unending search such a mystery?
The unending search is not such a mystery. We have evolved from a pure and eternal spirit; from a place where space, time, and numbers do not exist; from the infinity of our souls to the finiteness of our bodies.
Talk about “sticker shock!” What are we spiritual or physical? We can see our bodies, we can feel pain, and we see loved ones die, so we must be physical. Yet, we know we are spiritual because we can think and thinking is the communication between God and us. So in reality, the act of thinking is what makes us a spiritual being.
The first and most important step on your success and happiness journey is to Love. God has made it easy for us. God loves us unconditionally and don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.
All of our waking hours are spent seeking Love, for we are lost without it. Who can explain the hurt we feel when we reach out for Love and are rejected? All the negative reminders of our Conscious Mind makes it feel like the rejection is permanent. If you have all the money in the world and you are not Loved, you have nothing.
Love never fails. Love is the cornerstone to this life. True love is something you don’t fall into. It’s amazing when two people say they fell in love and met their soul mate, yet, a few years later they are involved in a bitter divorce. To have the kind of Love we want, we must be worthy of this Love. There are no short cuts. You must believe that there is a force that created you out of Love and that you need to Love yourself before you can ever truly Love another human being.
Through the ages, some misguided religious teachers tried to tell us that God is vengeful, judgmental, and destructive. This is not so! God is Love, the purest love imaginable. God is infinite. God does not know vengeance, judgments, or punishment. Men and women who did not know love dreamed up these negative attributes. These teachings have ruined many people over the last two thousand years.
Point to any spot on the globe today and you will see people hating people for no reason at all. Did the Union soldiers hate the Southern soldiers during the Civil War? Did you personally hate the Iraqi people before we dropped the first bomb? The world needs Love more now than any other time in our history.
Today’s Exercise: Forgive one person that you think you hate.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: God Loves us unconditionally and don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.

Love of a Puppy

I’m sitting here with my nine-week old, four-pound, Boston Terrier, named Jack. It took me fifteen minutes to write this message between the licking, the chewing of my shoelaces, and every once in a while a disappearing act. It was fifteen minutes that I would not have changed for anything. How do you measure the love a pet gives to its owner? God created cats and dogs for only one reason and that reason is to teach us to give perfect love.
If you could duplicate the Love of a puppy, your worries would be over. As the puppy grows, the Love grows unconditionally. The bond becomes stronger and stronger. We can duplicate this Love for all humanity by being the first person to Love and not waiting for someone to love us first.
Be like a puppy and give unquestionable Love. It’s free, fun, and it’s the only way to live. As I have said before, Love, real Love, is the main ingredient for success in any venture. In your personal life, it is the difference between a happy and long lasting relationship or it’s a nightmare. True Love for another person can only be effective if you Love God and Love yourself. Without loving God or yourself, you will never satisfy anyone else.

Today’s Exercise: Look in the mirror and see the real you. Are you happy with what you see?
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Be like a puppy and give unquestionable Love.

Broken Heart

Who out there has not suffered a broken heart at one time or another? Some may have experienced it when they were teenagers; some while they were looking for a lifetime companion, while others experienced it at a time when they thought their love life was secure. Many of us get over a broken heart, but some choose to carry the scars with them, by closing the wound so tightly that Love can never enter again.
It seems so difficult for us to open our hearts to Love. We are constantly being reminded of feelings of hurt and rejection. We take advice from those who know less about Love than we do. We are so steeped in our own problems, failures, and Egos that we isolate ourselves from the world, neither giving Love nor accepting Love. We retreat into our shells like turtles and build our own protective walls to keep us from feeling further hurt, but far from protecting us, our walls, become a prison. We lock ourselves into solitary confinement, and slowly we die, physically, mentally and spiritually.
Open your heart and allow Love to enter. What does it matter if we hurt for a little while if it is a step towards happiness? Happiness can never really be achieved without Love. Life is for the living. How can we truly appreciate pleasure and joy unless we experience some pain and sorrow?
I like this poem written by Chalmers Smith.
There is no gain, except by Loss.
There is no life, except by Death.
There is no vision, but by Faith.
Love heals the body; comforts the lonely; lights the way; overcomes fears; brings prosperity and builds character. Most of all, Love reveals the meaning of life.

Today Exercise: Open your heart. Love yourself.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Happiness can be never really achieved without Love.

What Is Hate?

Hate is the absence and the perceived lack of love.
People have been accepting opinions that evolved during the darkest ages of humankind; when all things were judged by appearances. Men seeking power chose to use these opinions to place fear in the hearts of those they wished to dominate. Hate is the lack of Love and Fear is the lack of faith. This separation of humans and God was a deliberate attempt by power-seeking individuals to rule by Fear.
Human beings have showed hate towards other human beings for eons. War and conflicts have been waged on this planet every single day of its existence. Many people want us to believe that there are two opposing forces at work in the universe, God and the Devil. However, if God is good and everything that God created is good, where could the Devil and Hell have come from?
We no longer think Earth is flat. We no longer believe that the sun revolves around the Erth. We know this because it has been scientifically proven, yet, there are still those who believe otherwise.
If you consider yourself an intelligent being, you know that both God and the Devil could not exist at the same time. There can only be one Creator, God. God would not and could not make the Devil and the Devil could not make God. There is only one truth to the universe. That truth is Love. If you accept God as being the truth, then you perceive truth is beauty; that beauty is Love; Love is prosperity; and that all Evil is false. If you accept the Devil as being the truth you are forced to believe that hate, violence, robbery, murder, war, poverty, disease, and chaos are the truth and that all goodness is an illusion.
The choice is obvious. Evil is an illusion and you must not put faith in this illusion or it will materialize in your world. The truth about hate is love moving in the wrong direction. Didn’t Jesus say, “Love your enemies, turn the other cheek.” Love creates, heals, comforts, and grows. Humans who make themselves one with Love make themselves one with God and God works through them. The whole purpose of life is to let God work through you.

Today’s Exercise: Make your mind up today, right now, that there is no Hell, no Devil and no Evil to overcome. There is only love.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: This separation of humans and God was a deliberate attempt by power-seeking individuals to rule by fear.