Thought for The Day

​

What is natural to you is not normal,

and you would do well

not to confuse the two.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Let me reflect carefully and lovingly

on the message for today,

for surely I mistake what seems

normal for the truth at least

a zillion times a day.

 

I will step back and let

the light lead my way.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

It's not what you think

that matters. So don't waste your time

trying to think the right thoughts.

 

It's not what you feel

that matters. So don't waste your time

trying to feel whatever it is

you believe you are supposed

to feel.

 

Nor is it about what you do

that matters. For everything

in the world of form and phenomena

is impermanent.

 

It's the light that you bring

to the laboratory of your life

on a daily basis

which is why you are here.

 

For this is the meaning of life stuff

we are talking about.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I will step back

and let the light lead

the way.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Learn to recognize what ACIM

refers to as "delay mechanisms,"

actions pursued by ego which may

make sense logically speaking,

but do not stand the test of light.

 

The primary delay mechanism?

 

Wasting time trying to understand.

 

#1 You cannot transcend the mind

with the mind.

 

#2 While you waste time

trying to understand, trying

to make sense of it,

you are not actually living

your life.

 

#3 For it is in the laboratory of life

that we encounter the true meaning

of things through our direct experience.

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***

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Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for the childlike faith

which has captured

this heart.

 

It's great to no longer feel

the need to know

or understand anything,

to truly be okay

with not knowing,

not understanding.

 

It is enough to humbly trust

life's unfolding

as it is.

 

And I do trust the path

where life has placed

these feet.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

What could possibly be deemed

to be worth it all

if the price you pay for it

is your peace?

 

You just might want to remember

to ask yourself this question

the next time a so called opportunity

comes knocking at your door.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I love the life

which is mine to live

and thank my lucky stars

each and every day

for my great good fortune.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

You know that you have actually taken

all of your power back when you real eyes

that you are the only one on this entire planet

who has the power to make your life

feel safe for you.

 

Only you possess the power

to give yourself the love and belonging,

the acceptance, approval and appreciation,

the protection and security, and

the gentleness, kindness and care

you both yearn for and deserve.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me learn what it means

to be my own hero.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

of life for every single one of us

that who we are is a byproduct

of our childhood experience,

the truth of the matter is that

who we are is not defined

by that experience

in any way whatsoever

unless we actually choose

to let it define us.

 

It happened.

 

It's over.

 

Get over it.

 

Move on.

 

Take your power back.

 

Because who you are today

shines brighter than the light

of 10,000 suns

because it did happen.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

There is no question about it

that I am a better person

because of everything

I have experienced

in this life.

 

Every experience has been a gift,

each and every one of them.

 

I see that now

and with true humbleness

of heart and awe

I give thanks for this mystery

we call life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Life is not either/or.

 

It is both/and.

 

This is how you create the illusion

of separation in your mind,

mistaking either/or for truth.

 

What if the chaff is not separate

from the grain after all?

 

Watch yourself carefully

and lovingly today

and see if this is not so.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am the one who judges

my experiences and that of others,

critiques everyone's behavior

including my own,

analyzes, edits and censors

my thoughts and feelings.

 

Merciless, cruel, biased,

lonely and alone

in these evaluations.

 

But what if I were to consider

that it was not me who was

engaging with life in this manner,

but that it has been God

all along who was choosing

to experience the life

I have mistakenly called mine

in the way that I am

seemingly experiencing it?

 

No me after all but Thee?

 

Today I will step back

and let the light lead the way.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

You are doing a lot

and you are getting it done,

but you are giving yourself

no time to rest and recover

and that is not love.

 

Got that?

 

In fact, it could be said that

there is more fear and control,

rage and frustration,

and the compulsory need

to prove something,

in the so called acts you do

than there is love, kindness

genuine generosity or respect,

in the humble recognition

that respect for self

is respect for all..

 

Is not the problem that of who

thinks they are the doer of it all?

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am the allower and the observer,

the good and faithful servant

of love nothing more

than that.

 

Help me not forget that today.

 

And may one question

walk in the space before me today:

 

Dearest Love of my innermost being,

what would you have me do,

where would you have me go,

what would you have me say?

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

My role in your life

is actually quite simple.

 

I came into your life

at precisely the right moment

in order to save you time.

 

If you knew that hanging around

with someone, listening to what

they had to share with you,

perhaps even trying a few of the ideas

and suggestions they spoke of

could actually save you

decades of suffering, why wouldn't

you take full advantage of it?

 

Unless, of course, you actually enjoy

living a life which is devoid of any

consistent peace, or any real sense

of meaning or fulfillment, where misery

is the house guest that

you wish you could get rid of

but cannot.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you

for all of your helpers.

 

For you have filled my life

with so many

and I am grateful

for every single one of them.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

If it is coming from a place

of fear, control, resistance or dread,

it cannot be either

real or true.

 

Remember to ask yourself,

"Is peace in my awareness?"

 

If the answer is no, then it

most certainly is not

an infinite intelligence

which is peacefully and lovingly

guiding you, it is the ego.

 

Do you understand?

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

How clear is The Way

when we want to see it.

 

May I always want only this.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Dear one, can you not see?

 

We are the only one's

who can set ourselves free.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Hear, dear Universe,

my most solemn vow:

 

From this day forward

I am no longer interested

in sabotaging my peace

by behaving in ways

which are inauthentic

to my innermost being.

 

Support this humble

but forthright intent.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

I had a conversation via text yesterday

with someone most precious

and dear to my heart who has

repeated a pattern of avoidance

with me, breaking commitments,

and leaving people hanging in the lurch

when the prospect of coming clean

seems to require too much vulnerability,

self-honesty and the willingness to face

the difficult and challenging

patterns which are born

of childhood.

 

Something we can all

most certainly relate to

if we are honest with ourselves.

 

So how does one reconcile

behaviors such as this with the teaching

that you do not need to fix,

change, heal or improve yourself?

 

We begin by seeing and feeling

the difference which lies between

recognizing, accepting and loving

the self that we are as it is

and that of repeatedly acting out

unconsciously, allowing the patterns

to lead us around by the nose,

resulting in a loss of personal integrity

self-sovereignty and agency.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me begin to avail myself

of the grace which is

always available to me.

 

I have grown weary

of acting out the patterns

of my childhood unconsciously

on the world around me

every time I feel afraid or small.

 

Thank you for the clarity

and the courage

to face myself with tenderness,

kindness and love.

 

For I recognize that

the time has come

for me to grow up.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

You don't owe anyone

an explanation or an apology

for advocating on behalf of yourself.

 

Ever.

 

Got that?

 

Others may try to demand one of you,

or try to coerce you into participating

in something which does not feel right

for you, to be at their beck and call,

but don't make their fear and control

issues yours. Got that?

 

 

"No" is a complete sentence.

 

And that's why you've got this thing

called a voice and these things

we call legs.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

There is one within me,

who abides in my heart of hearts,

let me always be willing to advocate

on behalf of her.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

There is nothing that has ever

or could ever

be in opposition to the light.

 

There is nothing that has ever

or could ever

be in opposition to love.

 

There is nothing that has ever

or could ever

be in opposition to the soul.

 

If you believe that you

are experiencing distress,

if you feel that you are suffering,

it is because you are identified

with something which you are not,

believing something

which is not now

nor ever could be true.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Untethering myself

from every form of illusion

to which I have been attached

and misidentified.

 

The days of separation,

limitation and loss

are over and for this

I give thanks.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Valentine's Day

​

I like to publish the 13th chapter

of I Corinthians from the New Testament

on Valentine's Day each year.

 

Let's face it.

 

Regardless of your particular beliefs,

the religion you were raised in

or for those with no particular faith at all,

we all have a lot to learn about

what it means to be an embodiment

of transcendent love.

 

The Way of Love

 

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

 

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

 

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 

I Corinthians 13 ESV

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***

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Prayer for the Day

​

Mold me, dear Lord,

into one such as this,

for I am forever Thine.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

The best thing and the worst thing

that ever happened to you,

as well as everything that happened

in between, all served to make you

the incredible human being

that you are.

 

Allow yourself

to feel genuinely grateful

for all of it.

 

Everything is always in Divine Order.

 

Because of this, you can well afford

to trust the life which is yours

to love and live.

 

So take frequent pauses in your day

today to appreciate the miracle

you and your life

actually are.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for the experience

of me and my life.

 

I've got nothing but

trust and gratitude

for all of it.

 

What a ride.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

When you make peace with the fact

that you are always on your soul's journey

and so you cannot mess it up,

you find Eternal Peace.

 

Your life becomes a grand

and joyous adventure

from unknown to unknown,

birthed from a relationship

which is established in trust.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for my beautiful life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

What does projection makes perception

really mean?

 

Simple, really.

 

Seek the evidence of what

you wish to see and experience

in the world and you are guaranteed

to find it, but only 100% of the time.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Afraid or free, it really is

up to me.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Nothing has the power to either

ruin your day or mess with your mojo

if you do not give it the power to do so.

 

Do you live from the inside out?

 

Or do you live from the outside in?

​

For here is the real difference

made perfectly clear

between self-mastery

and the wanna-be's.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Can't touch this.

 

Got that?

​

And so it is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

The bottom line is simply this;

 

If you are not happy,

it is because you are not

being yourself,

you are not being

true to you.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me live this day

in complete alignment

with my own precious heart.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

You, my dear, are the one and only

authority for your life.

 

Don't ever wait for anyone's permission

or approval to be

who you came here to be.

 

And anyone who tries to tell you differently

is preying on your insecurities

whilst you give them your permission

to take advantage of you.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am infinite light,

infinite love and infinite presence.

 

That's who I came here to be

because that is who I am.

 

I came here to allow all of this

to radiantly shine through

all of my humanity

every single day

of my time here

on earth.

 

So you had just better watch out.

 

Cuz I am here now

and my eyes are open

and my heart is wide as the world

and no one...no one...

is ever gonna pull the wool

over my eyes ever again.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Every experience you have,

whether inner or outer,

was carefully architected

by none-other-than you

before you were born.

 

It was planned in its entirety

to be precisely as it is.

 

Every feeling, every thought,

every sensation, every reaction,

every form of resistance, every denial,

every avoidance, every joy

and every sorrow was carefully

and lovingly planned

down to the most minute detail.

 

Given this, can you now see

how fundamentally ridiculous it is

to struggle against who you are,

or how you are, to want a different life

than the one you have?

 

The only question then is,

how will you respond to you

and your world today?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Acceptance, acceptance, acceptance.

 

That's my practice today

and every day.

 

Help me surrender to what is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Some 23+ years ago I began

hearing an inner voice speak to me.

 

At first I thought, perhaps I

was going mad.

 

"Is this early onset schizophrenia?"

 

"Am I mad as a hatter?"

 

But over time I learned to trust

this voice implicitly,

for it was always loving, it was

always consistent, it was

always calm and reassuring,

and its guidance was never wrong.

 

This was the beginning of

the trust lesson for me.

 

I may not have trusted many things

in this life, but I was beginning

to truly trust this voice

and the guidance it offered.

 

I would often ask "Is this what I

would call physical or is it more spiritual?

 

And the voice would annoy me because

it always said, "Everything

is spiritual."

 

It took me more than 10 years

to see that everything in this life

is about how I am relating to myself,

how I am relating to others,

the thoughts, feelings, judgments

and meanings I give to every experience,

and how I respond to every element

of my life, in recognition that

this is the true path to peace and liberation

for all of us, for one's inner world

and the way that we relate to it

is the progenitor of the world

which we inevitably experience..

 

Whose voice was this?

 

In the beginning, I thought of it

as a guide.

 

Then it was the Holy Spirit.

 

In time, I began to understand

it as God.

 

But the ultimate realization

was the recognition

that I had actually been hearing

the voice of my soul

and I could no longer find

the line where God ended

and I began.

 

What but this relationship could be

the pinnacle of life, our raison d'être,

the way in which we relate

to ourselves and our world,

the fulfillment of a precious

human life?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Father, I thank you for the

spectacular act of grace

which brought me

into conscious relationship

with you and the ultimate

recognition of our union.

 

I love you, Lord.

 

I love you and I thank you.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Measure not your life by hours,

nor by days or weeks,

months or the years.

 

Count not but by the moments

of you life, truly living

each and every one of them

and you will find

you always have time enough.

 

For this is the measure of

a life which has been truly lived.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Captain, my Captain,

lover of my soul!

 

Lead me gently to Thy bosom

that I might rest with Thee

this day among the lilies.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

What if your life, exactly as it is

right now, in this very instant,

is as Divine as it gets?

 

Ever consider that?

 

What if it is all as simple as

how you are looking through

your own eyes?

 

What is guiding your vision,

the mind or the heart?

 

And what if you were to consciously

relinquish the notion

that it could or should be different?

 

And what if you were to accept and trust

the inherent organicity and perfection

of the Divine Plan

which is your life exactly as it is?

​

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me savor the moments

of this day and every day,

choosing to see the living presence

of God in all of its many disguises.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

You cannot nor have you ever

done it wrong.

 

Let that sink in for a minute.

 

Notice how it feels.

 

You cannot do it right either.

 

Let that sink in too.

 

Do you find this frightening

or is it a relief?

 

You have been working so hard

all of your life to keep all those plates

spinning and get it right.

 

But the simple truth is that you are on

your soul's perfect journey

for you.

 

You always are

and always have been.

 

Thus, every experience, whether

inner or outer,

was carefully and lovingly

planned for you.

 

Necessary, i dare say.

 

You can accept this or you can resist it,

but what you cannot do is change it.

 

resistance = suffering

 

When you catch yourself resisting,

can you accept that as part

of your soul's perfect journey

and settle into the acceptance of that to?

 

Thus, the acceptance of yourself

and your life exactly as it is

in every single precious instant

hallmarks the end of suffering and

the onset of peace.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Just for today

I will embrace the life

which is mine to live

in trust.

 

Today I will dare to believe

that life is on my side

and cooperate and participate

rather than resist what is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

Here is the simple although

inconvenient truth:

 

Every experience is manageable

and can be navigated smoothly

when you stop making it wrong

under the false notion

that it either could or should

be different than it is.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me accept the rightness

of every experience,

recognizing that I am not asked

to like it, only accept it as it is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for The Day

​

It only takes one spark

to start a fire.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Please give me

a complete system reboot

today, Lord.

 

For I feel as though

I am not sparkling as much

as I customarily do.

​

I know I cannot lose

my sparkle, but I can

most certainly lose

my awareness of it.

​

And I am feeling so dry,

dry as an old bone.

​

Renew my spirit,

opening it to

the awareness

of love's presence again.

 

Amen

***