We are often fixed upon quantity but there are no more blessings needed for our day than it has been filled with. Would a tree flourish if it received one month’s supply of rain in a single day? Of course not, for in nature, just as in our lives, more is rarely better. This should give us great comfort knowing our life is bathed in mercy. Not that our choices are limited but within each and every one is the seed of grace. Nothing we can choose is void of the potential for good because if it were, it would not be available to us. In our pain and suffering, we may often think of daily living as a punishment or a trial. However, life in the earth is neither, it is an experience, and we may choose the form the experience will have. However, life is God, and God is love, therefore we can choose an incredible variety of ways to experience Love. 

Evil is the result of choice that leads to discord, resulting in a painful experience. The experience is no less valuable to each of us than if it were more pleasant or agreeable. Life flows continuously from our Lord, and whereas we may experience it in whatever form we wish, we cannot remove the potential for grace from it. This then is the sufficiency of the day, whatever we experience, is how we have chosen to express that living love we call the Infinite Spirit of God. 

As we go out into this day let us remember it contains all we need. All that is necessary to make a blessing of the day is imbued in the spirit of our experience and nothing more need be added. What we have chosen to do with our God unfolds as the circumstances of the day, and what have we to fear from our Lord? Life is often a challenge but it is abundant in grace. 

Above all, let us keep the faith in the perfect mercy of your Lord, and be well grounded in our daily doings. 

May God bless you with the knowledge that you are the medium, the source of the blessing in your activities.

Our lives may be filled with trials and pain. For a while, at least, it may seem the darkness has overcome the light, but this is the result of the pain of the moment. When we persist we will surely pass through the darkness into the light. Then, in our surrender to Life, Light and Immortality we may find our God is truly everywhere.

 However, it is important to consider God is abundant in the seemingly small things. If we search for our Lord in the agony or ecstasy of our daily affairs we are likely to miss Him entirely. In a simple smile, a soft voice, a helping hand, our Lord is fully present. In the sweet perfume of a flower, the beauty of a sunset, the rhythm of the ocean waves, the smell of the new fallen rain, we can sense the angels singing of the glory of God. What do we require of our Lord? Do we need for the heavens to fall upon us as a demonstration of His compassion, or simply to receive His tender kiss? Let us then resolve to long for His embrace throughout our day and to shower everyone we meet with that loving kindness that reflects the presence of our God.

 May God bless you with the knowing that He is in all things, and may His indescribable grace heal you in every way.

We are told God is love, also that God is perfect. From this we can conclude God is perfect love. We can experience perfect love in many small ways, thus experiencing God. The more often we experience perfect love, the greater will become our ability to do so in an increasingly creative fashion. We need not become perfect in our application, simply persistent, for in persistence (long suffering) we are inevitably transformed. If we wish to change the patterns that fed by our old habits, we may begin by no longer responding to occurrences, but instead, by consciously acting on them. This presents us with opportunities to act in newly creative ways we may not have previously considered. Perhaps it would be helpful to slow down, to do only one thing at a time, and to pour our heart out into what we are doing. Perfection or quality is not found in volume but in application, and in persistence we perfect that which we have chosen to experience. Love is an abstract principle until we choose to experience it. The more ways we experience love in our lives, the greater becomes our ability to do so constructively, thus, the greater becomes our capacity to experience God on a personal level.

 God is expressed in our lives through us. This is grace, that we may express the infinite in a finite world in many small ways. In this way God will have a greater presence in our lives and the lives of those around us. If our goal is to express God, it may be helpful to end each day questioning not how much of God we expressed this day but how well did we do it. In perfect love there is no failure unless it is the failure to try, for perfection is the mother of persistence. What else can possibly be more important in our lives than expressing that which we understand to be perfect love? We are divine in nature and part of that infinite loving kindness we call God.

May God bless you with wisdom and mercy, and may his loving kindness pour out from you upon all of those you love.

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Yes they do, in fact we can say that an angel is the embodiment of a single emotion. This is not to say angels are not sentient, highly intelligent beings, but they are dedicated to a single emotion. If we doubt for even a moment how incredibly gifted angels are, entire dimensions of reality are comprised of condensed angel thought. Angels are ministers, given their marching orders by arch angels, and dedicated to the service of all that has been placed in their care. Angels, an incredibly high order of life, are kind and caring; they are dedicated and never judgmental. They are the perfect companions and guardians of mankind who have indeed been place in their keeping.

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Absolutely we can think things in to existence, for thought are things. They are the nucleus of all things material, which derive their spiritual energy from thought forms. However, thoughts do not become material by their own accord for they need a medium through which to materialize. Here we are; the medium, the means for mental reality to become physical. When we act on thought forms we build materiality around them, subsequently, the thought absorbs the matter and a matter absorbed thought form exists. We prefer to think that thoughts reside within matter but this presumes matter can exist independent of the thought form. This simply is not so, and in the end we bring in to existence matter permeated thought forms.

As we lie in the embrace of our bed it may be well to ask before rising, “What have I been renewed to experience this day? What battles may be fought, what victories may be won that are worthy of the majesty with which I have been filled?” Then we may withdraw from our storage place those worries we set aside so we can experience them anew, not as fears but as challenges. We may do this fully cognizant that in the heat of battle will come that which we need to be victorious. All too often we are so focused upon the outcome of events that we lose the joy of the battle itself. We may not realize how exhilarating a real battle can be when our perception is clouded by our intense focus on the outcome. It may at the outset escape our notice, in our entire lifetime, those threats we fear the most have never done us in. We may too often lose sight of the fact that we are essentially warriors, and it is for the glory of the battle we have awoke in flesh this day. If our fear of the outcome dominates our hearts we will surely lose not only the battle but the joy of meeting life on our own terms as well.

Our choices call to the forefront our experiences, and this becomes the field upon which we have chosen to do combat. Let us consider that we may not be in the world to overcome our challenges, but simply to meet them, and make victory a process rather than a conclusion. This is the joy of the battle, and this is where we may truly become heroes in our own sphere of influence. All that is necessary is the courage to engage life and to stop our soul numbing preoccupation with the outcome of things.

Let us each resolve to be willing participants in our own lives, that we may meet those challenges we face in such a way that our encounter becomes its own victory. We have all that is necessary to be triumphant if we focus upon the challenges at hand. It is the spirit of fear that paralyzes and saps us of our energy when we are preoccupied solely with the conclusion of events. However, it is the spirit of faith that sustains us, and allows us to keep our focus upon the grace and glory of the battle itself.

The stature of a society is measured not by the amount of freedom it possesses, but by how its freedoms are expressed. When we perceive a freedom is being used destructively, it is not the freedom that is at fault but its expression. We can, of course, eliminate the freedom when harmfully used, but the result would simply be to inhibit our growth. Instead it is more helpful to consider ways to experience our freedoms in a constructive fashion.  How would we, in the exercise of our freedoms, guard against their destructive use? The ideal, of course, would be to be the example to inspire balance in the various ways freedom is expressed. In the absence of change sponsored by inspiration, we are left with the protection offered by legislative balance. It is important to understand balance is rarely so to all individuals; it is alternately helpful for some and hurtful to others. Balance is not the middle ground, it is instead like the acrobat on a wire, leaning no further in one direction than he or she can compensate by leaning in the other. The sun does not shine on everyone at the same time, but some of us are in light of day while others of us are in the darkness of night. This then is the only way we have a balanced day, and this is the way the laws of nature provide balance for us all.

Inspiration is preferable to legislation, while manipulation is the least desirable way to bring about change. The corrosive effects of manipulation in all forms are eventually destructive to any system because it eliminates freedom, replacing it with repression. Repressive behavior does not promote freedom, it is the antithesis; the real enemy of liberty.

Every law we pass limits us as a society, and it is not in our best interests to be so weighted down that we completely surrender our potential to extend for a moment our place in the sun. Also, when any of us selfishly manipulate the rest of us we do great harm to each other specifically and to freedom generally. If we truly wish for the best for our society, we should do all we can to inspire those in our lives to, in their application find the balance, and in this way to ensure the majesty and glory of freedom is truly experienced by us all.

We presume that more information makes life easier. As a result we regret not remembering the fullness of our experiences, and look upon this as a handicap. However, we may wish to consider, recollection of those experiences will not add a single inch to our stature, but what we do with regard to what we are aware of will make an aspiring soul soar. We often evaluate our life by the quantity of our experiences when the true measure of success lies in how we choose to live them. We have all that we require to experience the next moment in excellence, and that may well be all we really have need of this day. If our focus is on the experience at hand, not past or even future events, it becomes easier by far to concentrate on the quality of our response. Our gracious Lord, who is the perfection of mercy, has promised we would never have to deal with more than we already have the ability to handle well. How much more do we need? If we do not already believe the promises of Infinite Loving Kindness, no hindsight or foresight will change this. 

Each and every one of us has the ability to act in accordance to that pattern of perfection we call God’s will, imbued within all of our experiences. Here, the answer resides within the question, the solution within the problem. This is God’s promise to each of us; that within everything we face is the pattern for the perfect response. And, this pattern we call God’s will, is tailor made for each of us. If we wish a life lived in excellence we must first desire this above all things. For only such dedication will supply the energy to carry us through the storms we call our challenges. Next, we must believe our infinitely loving God, and take Him at His word. If we cannot believe our Lord, what else is trust for? Finally, we are to focus on where are, and what is at hand; not allowing forgetfulness to enter in when our attention wanders.  

We are indeed all that we have ever been; the product of all of our experiences, and whether we remember it or not in no way changes who and what we are. When we meet life’s challenges, let us look to our hearts for direction and to our minds for application. If we are clear, if we desire God’s will in our activities, if we believe in God’s promises, and we do not allow our attention to wander, we have set the stage for excellence in our lives. 

May God bless you in every way, and may your trust in Him rise ever closer to His trust in you.