If the year were 1763, you would have been told to hate the French, because we were in the middle of the French and Indian War. A few years later, because of the War of Independence, the French were our friends and you were told to hate the English. Later, we were told to hate Native Americans (Indians). It seems they, the Native Americans had the audacity to be living on land that the settlers decided they wanted.
Then, we ran out of countries to hate so, we decided to have a civil war. It was easy. Depending on which side of the Mason Dixon Line you lived on, you just hated the other side. It didn’t matter if your own mother lived on the other side, she was the enemy, and you had to kill the enemy.
Then, in 1917, we were told to hate Germans, because we were in the “War to End All Wars.” Ha! Twenty-five years later, we decided to hate the Germans again. This time we threw the Japanese in to make it more interesting. Oh, by the way we liked the English, French, Russians, and sometimes the Italians. Now, that the war was over we thought we could rest for a while. Wrong, now we hate the Koreans, at least the ones that live north of the 38th Parallel.
From 1951 to 1953, I was in high school and I had never heard of Korea. It’s hard to hate somebody you didn’t know even existed. What’s the deal? North and South Koreans look the same. You could end up hating the wrong one. Well, we got through that war and since we were pretty good at meddling into other peoples’ Civil Wars, we decided to try it again. This time, we go to Vietnam. We are now supposed to hate somebody named “Charlie.”
Just about now, we begin to think there is no one left to hate, but we decide it’s Russia’s turn. Then we began something called the Cold War. We spend billions of dollars making weapons to wipe each other off the face of the earth. Well, somehow we got through that one without killing anyone and turned our attention to the Middle East. Now here comes Iraq, with the third largest army in the world. Yes indeed, we hate those guys, go in kick their butt, kill a lot of Iraqi, and get out relatively clean. Later, junior comes along and says, “You call that a war dad, I’ll show you a real war,” and we are still there.
In my opinion, the next twenty years we will go full cycle and hate the French again, wait a minute; we already hate the French. Who are we supposed to hate now? We are supposed to hate HATRED.
Today’s Exercise: Do one act of kindness towards someone you would not normally look at.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: War is an excuse for fear. Fear is an illusion. War is stupid.
Bot Revolt
Monday, June 21, 2010
The Golden Key
From time to time in everyone’s life, we are faced with a problem situation or person that seems to dominate our thinking. It could be something very simple like an argument or more serious like a lawsuit. The situation eats at the very fiber of our being. We spend countess hours looking for revenge or sleepless nights trying to figure out how to strike back. Emmett Fox says it so well.
The answer is to LET GO AND LET GOD. It is the golden key
to harmony and peace in your hands. By letting go and letting God
work through you, you open the channel through which divine
intervention takes place. It is not our job to figure out how to solve
this problem. All we must do is get out of the way and let God’s divine
action take place.
The process is very simple and works every time for everyone. All you have to do is this: stop thinking about the problem, whatever it is, and think about God instead. This is infallible, God never fails. You must substitute thinking of your problem and think about God and nothing else. Your objective is to drive the thought of your problem out of your consciousness and replace it with your vision of God. Don’t think of God in the religious vein but think of God as beauty, kindness, love, goodness, peace of mind or anything else that warms your heart.
In order to “Golden Key” someone or a difficult situation, think “ I am going to ‘Golden Key’ (person’s name or that threatened danger)” and then proceed to drive all thoughts of the person or danger out of your mind replacing it with thoughts of God.
This will not be easy the first time you try it so I recommend you start with simple problems. Constantly reaffirming a statement of absolute truth such as: there is no power but God; God is good; I am surrounded by the perfect peace of God or simply God is with me.
Remember the law you decide the What and the Why and leave the HOW to God.
Today’s Exercise: Golden Key someone or something right now.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: You decide the What and the Why and leave the HOW to God.
The answer is to LET GO AND LET GOD. It is the golden key
to harmony and peace in your hands. By letting go and letting God
work through you, you open the channel through which divine
intervention takes place. It is not our job to figure out how to solve
this problem. All we must do is get out of the way and let God’s divine
action take place.
The process is very simple and works every time for everyone. All you have to do is this: stop thinking about the problem, whatever it is, and think about God instead. This is infallible, God never fails. You must substitute thinking of your problem and think about God and nothing else. Your objective is to drive the thought of your problem out of your consciousness and replace it with your vision of God. Don’t think of God in the religious vein but think of God as beauty, kindness, love, goodness, peace of mind or anything else that warms your heart.
In order to “Golden Key” someone or a difficult situation, think “ I am going to ‘Golden Key’ (person’s name or that threatened danger)” and then proceed to drive all thoughts of the person or danger out of your mind replacing it with thoughts of God.
This will not be easy the first time you try it so I recommend you start with simple problems. Constantly reaffirming a statement of absolute truth such as: there is no power but God; God is good; I am surrounded by the perfect peace of God or simply God is with me.
Remember the law you decide the What and the Why and leave the HOW to God.
Today’s Exercise: Golden Key someone or something right now.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: You decide the What and the Why and leave the HOW to God.
Love Dissolves Our Hidden Fears
Armageddon • War • Old Age • Loosing a Loved One
Hurricanes • Ghosts • The Dark • Ex-Wife • Unloved
Tornadoes • Electric Bill • Dentist Visit • Airplanes
How many hidden fears do we have? A few hundred or a few thousand? Psychiatrists say that our hidden fears go back to when the egg and sperm united in the womb.
These buried fears are so deep that in order to uproot them, expose them, and heal them, could be an impossible task. Actually, the time it would take to heal them could use up several life times. So, we ignore, them at least we think so. For each of us, those deeply rooted fears are waiting for the right time to explode at the slightest provocation. This paints a pretty dim picture of our future except for one thing, Love.
Love dissolves our hidden fears and love is waiting for us to ask recognition of its existence to deal with our hidden fears individually and en masse at the roots of fear’s existence. We can cast out all negative thinking, fears, and hate from the mind by choice; at the center of our consciousness. Love and only Love is strong enough to dissolve all discontent and fear.
Where do we start? We start with God, the Creator. God is Love. God loves you and all creation, for God created everything in the cosmos. You need not worry for you will always be loved. Wherever you look, you see God’s work. Wherever you look, you see but a reflection of yourself. All things then return your love, your prayers, and your wishes to move the very mountains of the world. God dissolves our hidden fears with love.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.
1. Love God with your whole heart and soul.
2. Love yourself.
3. Love your neighbor as thyself.
Today’s Exercise: Do 1, 2, and 3.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Love and only Love is strong enough to dissolve all discontent and fear.
Hurricanes • Ghosts • The Dark • Ex-Wife • Unloved
Tornadoes • Electric Bill • Dentist Visit • Airplanes
How many hidden fears do we have? A few hundred or a few thousand? Psychiatrists say that our hidden fears go back to when the egg and sperm united in the womb.
These buried fears are so deep that in order to uproot them, expose them, and heal them, could be an impossible task. Actually, the time it would take to heal them could use up several life times. So, we ignore, them at least we think so. For each of us, those deeply rooted fears are waiting for the right time to explode at the slightest provocation. This paints a pretty dim picture of our future except for one thing, Love.
Love dissolves our hidden fears and love is waiting for us to ask recognition of its existence to deal with our hidden fears individually and en masse at the roots of fear’s existence. We can cast out all negative thinking, fears, and hate from the mind by choice; at the center of our consciousness. Love and only Love is strong enough to dissolve all discontent and fear.
Where do we start? We start with God, the Creator. God is Love. God loves you and all creation, for God created everything in the cosmos. You need not worry for you will always be loved. Wherever you look, you see God’s work. Wherever you look, you see but a reflection of yourself. All things then return your love, your prayers, and your wishes to move the very mountains of the world. God dissolves our hidden fears with love.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.
1. Love God with your whole heart and soul.
2. Love yourself.
3. Love your neighbor as thyself.
Today’s Exercise: Do 1, 2, and 3.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Love and only Love is strong enough to dissolve all discontent and fear.
Friday, June 18, 2010
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.
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.
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.
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