Be At Peace
Dear Spirit,
I am feeling a large range of emotions these days. Mostly, I do feel hope and joy.
I also have such a feeling of peace and that although my concerns are few that I shouldn’t give them a second thought. For the most part I feel gratitude for all the precious beautiful happy moments of my days.
I observe many people around me making changes and putting an effort into those changes. It is as though they are finally getting the fact that they are the co-creators of their lives. I know this is good.
What do you have to impart to me today. I am open for your words to flow through.
Oh, My Dear Ones…
Look outside at the frost crystals that cover everything and see the glory of creation.
You are one of those glories of creation. You are beautiful and perfect just as you are.
where will your path take you
This article may be a little uncomfortable. I feel that I must write it. It is time to remember time. Most of us don’t give a thought to time. We don’t realize what a precious resource it truly is.
You don’t have an unlimited supply of it while you are here on the earth plane.
Now it is true that you never die, spiritually…that is. The fact remains that your physical body is fragile and it can be injured fatally or age itself will call you home.
A grave illness may invade your life and send it spiraling out of your hands.
Time is like money. Spend too much of it and you have a wasted life…too little and you have experienced nothing. There is a way to spend your time account that will give you substance and peace. Your life will then have true meaning and you are not just a victim of circumstance. Sadly, many of you live your lives like leaves blown from a tree. Wherever the winds blow, you go.
Tags: being awake spiritually, being in the moment, death, key to life, last hour of life, peace, spiritual, spiritual masters
God Just Is
You may hear words from God but he speaks not in words nor in gender nor in another language. God speaks in everyway…in both genders…in all languages…to everyone. God speaks softly and to your heart…to your eyes…to your ears…to your mind…to your soul.
God speaks in the vibrations of everything…in sound and sight. In the caress of the wind through your hair…God is there. In the sound of a bird’s sweet song right out your window vibrates Gods voice.
Gods thoughts are pure vibration…the vibration of this divine thought swirls up and you catch a layer of the vibration and cut off a slice of it. How much of it do you wish to slice off for yourself? It is all available to you, all of it. Just as you know that God is real…know that this vibration of your chair…a rock…a tree…and yes, of course…YOU!
God’s energy is particles of moving energy dancing all over the place and in everything…indeed in the entire universe.
Scientists tell us there is no end to the universe as far as they in their advanced technology can determine. There is also no end to the vastness of God. With God you can hear without hearing…feel without feeling…see without seeing. Your connection to this incredible force is your mind and your soul which are one and the same. That is why it is so important to quiet the mind and go within in prayer and meditation to hear the still peaceful voice of God. There are no obstacles to hear this voice except for the ones you place there.
As you are traveling on your path to God, what blocks are you putting there? Do you think that these obstacles cannot be overcome? The creator is real.
God will appear to you in many ways. If you are comfortable in seeing God as a huge ball of light, then that is what you will see. If you see God as a man with a beard then that is what you will see. It makes no difference what you see or what name you give your creator…it is all the same. What is vitally important is that you make an effort to maintain contact in your soul with God.
It is not enough to believe…you must know in every strand of your DNA and in every cell of your body that God is real.
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty
Tags: evolving, God, God Speaks, life, mastery, new world, spiritual
There are none so blind as those who will not see
The simple times of many family farms and milk in a glass bottle delivered to our door is over. My world, your world, our world is changing rapidly.
Because I am a writer I do research all the time on a variety of subjects and I am constantly barraged through the computer about what is going on in our world. Some of what I am finding out is mind boggling. I am not even trying to find out these things but they are in my face so I check them out.
On every level there are things going on that boggle my mind and it gives me food for thought. Here are some facts to ponder.
Our country is closing in on a milestone that seemed unthinkable 25 years ago. Sometime in mid-October, we will become a nation of 300 million Americans. We will then embark on a relatively quick journey to 400 million. The target date for that is around 2040.That means is just over ten years we will increase the population of our country by 100 million!
Since 1972, some 64 million tons of aluminum cans (about 3 trillion cans) have been produced. Placed end-to-end, they could stretch to the moon about a thousand times.
It takes about 200 years for aluminum can to completely bio-degrade. Did someone say recycle?
On average, 13,000 earthquakes are located each year. I bet you didn’t know that did you?
On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day – although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself). The question is are you answering yourself?
If all of your entire DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Approximately two-thirds of a person’s body weight is water. Blood is 92% water. The brain is 75% water and muscles are 75% water. Being dehydrated just one percent can make you tired or give you a headache. Lack of sufficient water intake is the number one reason for fatigue. Next time you get tired, drink some water.
There are more than 600 million telephone lines, yet almost half the world’s population has never made a phone call on a land line. However, more than half the world’s population has made a cell phone call. There are currently 2 billion cell phones in use.
According to the US Census Bureau, 19% of our nations children live in poverty. This is one of the saddest facts because we are supposed to be one of the greatest countries in the world.
You’ll drink about 20,000 gallons of water in your lifetime. This is another reason to consider water conservation.
A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated. I wonder what goes through a persons mind during those eight seconds. Uh Oh!
To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth. Our honey bees are dying in droves and scientists are trying to figure out why. Since they pollinate our plants, what would happen if they went extinct?
Now, I am going to give you some more astounding facts, if you are really ready to feel the impact of it in your life and understand how incredible these facts are and should be to you.
You have approximately 60 trillion cells in your body?
That if you are one in a million in China then there would be 13,00 people just like you?
China will soon become the #1 English speaking nation in the world? That means that the United States is not number one! Why? Because, we have so many immigrants from other countries.
Did you know that one in 8 couples married in the US last year met online? By the end of 2010 it is estimated that that number will be one in four.
There are currently over 200 million users registered on my space?
If My Space were a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world?
The number one ranked country in broadband internet penetration is Bermuda?
#19 is the United States…#22 is Japan.
There are 31 billion searches on goggle every month? Just two short years ago it was 2.7 billion. To whom were these questions asked before Google? We are most certainly in an incredible information age.
The first commercial text message was sent in 1992. Today the number sent and received exceeds the total population of the planet?
The total amount of years it took to reach a target market audience of 50 million …radio 33 years…TV 13 years…Internet 4 years…I Pod…3 years…Face Book 2 years. Do you see what is happening?
There are about 540,000 words in the English language. That is about 5 times as many as during Shakespeare’s lifetime.
It is estimated that a weeks worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.
Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber. That’s 2,600 cd’s or 210 million phone calls per second. It is currently tripling every month and is expected to do so for the next 20 years.
By 2013, a super computer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain? I am still overwhelmed by this fact. It is amazing what computers can do already.
Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 dollar computer will EXCEED the computational abilities of the entire human species.
Did you know that global warming is real? Polar bears are drowning because they are swimming too far to ice floes and can’t make it to another one. Can you figure out what this means. The ice is melting!
Did you know that there are millions of firing neurons in the left frontal lobe of your brain alone. How are you using them?
Lastly…most of think about 60,000 thoughts a day!!! Most of those thoughts are thoughts in the past or the future and very few are centered in the present moment. We are thinking ourselves to death!
I am sixty years old and the changes in technology, science and medical breakthroughs in my life are off the charts. For my generation, many of us remember a time when there were no televisions or microwaves and push mowers cut the grass. I remember going to the movies when I was a child and paying a quarter to get in. Now the average cost is $6.00 for admission. Popcorn and a drink can set you back another $10.00. My last car was $38,000.00 new. I purchased mine slightly used. My parents paid 28 thousand for their first house.
I live alone with my dog Hector. The last time I went to the grocery store to stock up on needed items, it was about $150. That is considered low and yes I did use coupons. No wonder families with children are having such a tough time.
I remember when we put a man on the moon and it was so exciting as we sat glued to the set watching history. Then some years later, I sat glued to the television as September 11th unfolded in front of us. Now it seems that every day some kind of big history is being made somewhere in the world.
This time right now in our world, the energy is fast in every aspect. We can communicate with anyone anytime and anywhere. Remember collect calls?
Life was simpler and not so fast paced when I was a little girl walking anywhere I wanted to go without fear of predators. We could play after dark and walk to the corner store for candy and our parents didn’t worry about us. This is not the case any longer. In small towns people did not lock their doors at night. It is dangerous to do that now. Road rage is a common occurrence on our streets. You don’t dare make someone angry while driving in traffic.
You are probably wondering where I am going with all of this so I will get to the point.
We are living at the most exciting time in history. I would have never believed that I would experience some of what is going on now when I was a child.
For the sake of argument, if Jesus were to come to earth right now what would he do and what would he say to turn the tide and bring us back to our spiritual selves?
How would we treat him? Would we call him a nut case and put him in a white jacket and then in a state hospital? Would he wind up a homeless street person that everyone ignored? Would he be eating in a soup kitchen? I can’t imagine Jesus going hungry but, it happens in our country every day. In his time people were more willing to listen to what he was teaching. They didn’t totally get it but, they wanted to understand and make changes in their lives over two thousand years ago. What would he think of how many of his teachings have been ignored?
We have too much stuff and not enough love for each other. We are using all of our precious time to maintain what we already have or buying more. We are too much in our own little worlds and ignoring our families and our selves. One in five people are taking medication for depression. Our divorce rate is over fifty percent now. Our children are lost and lonely. Most of us don’t know our neighbors and we have lived next door to them for years! What in the heck are we doing to ourselves?
Now the good news is there is an inner urging all over our planet to make changes, big changes. The status quo is dead.
Spiritually, our creator is calling us to look long and hard at our lives and do something. Whatever you are dealing with is in your face right now and you know it. Pray, meditate and join a spiritual group and educate yourself. Start using your mind for the magnificent thing that it is. Spiritual visionary teachers and educators are all over the place right now. Have you noticed that? It is no mistake that we are here. It is a tough path for many of us but well worth the dedication that many of us put into it. Teachings about love, oneness, gratitude, staying in the now, non-judgment and awareness, ascension, is nothing new but you will notice that even that is evolving in how it is presented. With our evolvement, the teachings must also evolve. Grab the peace and knowledge that is being offered. It is time, way past time to make better choices and changes in our lives. The phrase that is going around about your individual carbon footprint is very popular right now. I would like to raise a question.
What is your spiritual footprint going to be?
This is just something to think about!
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty 2009
Tags: evolving, God, Jesus, life, mastery, new world, self growth, spiritual, world changes
Revenge can get very hot
It is said that revenge is sweet but I am here to tell you that it isn’t. My mother used to say that I didn’t get mad I got even and this was certainly true when I was a young girl.
Since there were five kids in our family and my parents had to scrape by to feed and clothe us, everything was precious to me. I didn’t take anything for granted. If we wanted anything other than the standards of living we had to work for it.
We would clean out garages, mow lawns, baby sit, bathe dogs and weed gardens to make some extra money to buy what our parents could not afford.
When I was ten there was a doll that I wanted Santa to bring me that Christmas. She was exquisitely beautiful. I wanted her because she was so perfect and dressed like an angel. The white dress was decorated with lace and seed pearls. Her hair was styled in a French twist and was as black and shiny as the oil that came out of the car after my father changed it.
She had pearl drop ear rings and even had stockings on with lace tops. With cherry red lips and blue eyes shadowed with long black lashes, she was everything I wanted to be. I was plain, skinny and wore second hand clothes. I desired this doll with as much passion and need as a ten year old can muster.
I don’t know how my parents did it but under the tree on Christmas morning was my doll. I was giddy with happiness. I gave her a name befitting an angel. I called her Angel.
The family that lived next door was a bunch of mean ill behaved kids. One put a broom handle through the fence and almost out my brother’s eye. Another threw a brick at me one day and I still have a moon shaped scar on my hand from that incident. The only girl of that family was called Mary. We had an on off relationship. She would steal something or use words that a little girl shouldn’t use and my mother would call off the playing together for a while. In fact all the kids were thieves and if it wasn’t nailed down, they would take it.
About one month after Christmas my doll went missing. Mary and I had just been swinging in the back yard. I had gone into the house to get a drink of water and when I came back out Mary and Angel were gone. I saw Mary later in her yard with Angel in her hand. I told my mother what had happened and she went to Mary’s house to talk to her mother. To my mother’s amazement Mary was defended and told that I had given the doll to her daughter. It was a lie of course.
The woman refused to tell Mary to give my doll back to me. My mother was helpless and explained that sometimes people do bad things and there is nothing to do but just accept it. I was heartbroken and very angry. I started planning my revenge.
Behind our house was a pepper bush. It was not just any pepper bush. My mother would put on rubber gloves whenever she picked them and pickled them. I pretended that everything was fine and invited her over for kool-aid and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I had previously used my mother’s rubber gloves to pick some peppers and carefully squeezed juice on Mary’s sandwich. It took a few bites for the special sandwich to hit her taste buds. She couldn’t talk and her face turned red and she ran home.
In about fifteen minutes her mother came to our door with Mary in tow. Mary had butter smeared all over her red mouth and blistered lips. She was crying and still unable to say much.
After telling my mother I needed to be whipped within an inch of my life they left in a heated rush. Mary’s mother was shooting daggers at me with her eyes.
I thought I would feel good. I didn’t. Despite what she had done to me, I shouldn’t have retaliated the way I did. I felt horrible. My mother said that was punishment enough. I have thought of that day since then when I am full of anger and want to strike back at someone who has betrayed me, lied to me or hurt me in some manner.
I know that my spiritual quandary is “two wrongs do not make a right.” If I know I have been wronged the best course of action is to forgive and walk away. No one ever told me that the world is a fair place. What I fed Mary that day was anger and revenge. It wasn’t sweet to her and believe me it wasn’t sweet to me. If anything I only perpetuated the negativity of this world.
Spiritually, I am called to spread peace and be peace personified. I work on that every day. To have peace you must become peace. To retaliate only carries all the bad stuff forward. I get it.
Mary, wherever you are…I am sorry. I really am.
From the desk of Rev. Diannia Baty © 2008
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty
No matter from whence you come to the stairs
and take
the first rung…your thoughts should not to be on
what is at the top of the stairs?
It is not important and this is
wasted energy on your path.
Each step is as important as the last
because they all lead to the same place.
All those souls that are aware are walking
to the same destination.
Each experience is another step
either forward or backward
through choices made
deliberately or unconsciously.
There will be many steps that you will repeat until
you get the fact that you own the steps.
They belong entirely to you
so… where you may finally arrive is up to you,
only you!
Mastery understands this.
The Light lives in all of us
Tags: mastery, self growth, spiritual
If a rose fails to bloom is that a bad thing?
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty © 2009
Failure
Just the word failure has negative energy.
When the mountain had its flanks carved by the water did it resist?
When the snow melted and became part of a lake,
Did it resist?
Did the mountain or the snow think it was a failure
because it offered no resistance?
Do not label your experiences as good or bad, fail or pass.
You do not need to qualify the experience.
You just need to have it
and own it.
To think you have failed…offers resistance to life.
There is no such thing as failure.
There is only resistance.
Mastery Knows This!
I think for anyone to understand about what the above title means. I think one must fully have a firm grasp of commitment and what that means.
In reality, I perceive that many people do not have a clue how to commit to anything.
Ask yourself how many cars you have owned in the last ten years.
How long does it take you to pick out clothes in the morning? When you order off the menu in a restaurant do you second guess your choice? Have you called over the server to change your order more than a few times? How many relationships have you quickly grown bored with? How many times have you moved in the past five years? The truth is that many of us don’t know how to commit or simply don’t want to.
To commit to something or someone is to have a shared vision of being in the space with that person or situation. If means you are on board for the long haul.
Committing is to grow as a spiritual being. It means to stay the course through thick and thin and it also means loyalty to something. You have decided to add your energy, thoughts and presence to what is present even if occasionally you may have reservations about it. You are open for change and new perceptions of what is. It means you have both feet in and are Not straddling the fence. You are in… not out!
COMMITMENT IS A DEDICATION OR ENGAGEMENT TO A LONG TERM COURSE OF ACTION.
There are many of us who can commit to something or someone for a lifetime but they are becoming the minority.
The path to extraordinary relationships, incredible prosperity and profound peace and satisfaction with your life is in commitment.
In particular I would like to address friendship. I have been vastly let down by what I had considered friendships in my life. I have been betrayed by some who I trusted my life and possessions with. My generosity has been abused by friends and family alike. Unalike family, our friends are chosen by us to be in our life. Most of the time we tell them things we have not shared with another human being. To trust someone we call a friend is like a religion or something. We watch their back and they are supposed to watch ours. When this supreme trust in another is broken it is almost impossible to make it whole again.
It is obvious that if you know without a doubt that you are being used and lied to it may be time to bail. What I am alluding to is, are you a convenience friend?
Do you call someone friend to their face but act like anything but behind their back? If they are sick, are you there with soup, a phone call or something? Are you on time when the two of you have planned something? Is everything you talk about a one way conversation? Are you jealous or supportive of their success? Would you pick up the phone at 3 am if they called? On a scale of one to ten where is your friend in terms of priority in your life?
My grandmother used to tell me when I was a young girl that by the time I was her age, I would be able to count my true friends on one hand. She told me to cherish my friends that they would be my only support system when I got older.
I know what she meant. I also know that no matter what I will always strive to be a better friend to others even if they are not to me. I won’t change who I am
by becoming bitter and closed off.
I do know that somewhere out there are people who wish they had not taken me for granted and had treated me better. There are also people I wish I had not taken for granted and had treated better. With that in mind, I do cherish all my friendships and the uniqueness and individual joys each one brings to my life.
I commit myself more to the friendship circle of life than I ever have realizing how precious each one is.
When I leave this physical form which ones will be at my bedside and who will sing my praises?
Who will weep? Who will grieve? Who will sing and write words about me when I am gone?
Ah, my friends, my teachers of life’s mysteries, thank you one and all, even the ones who struck at my heart and soul and left me wounded and gasping. I am what I am because of all we shared…all of it. To those I call friend now, you are in a special category because you have the tempered me, the softer me, the deeply spiritual me, the empowered me, the highest and best self that I can offer… the world I lay at your feet.
As I commit to you, I ask for nothing but the best from you in return.
Commit or turn away. I say this with love and compassion.
I have learned a lot about commitment through the years and the biggest commitment I have is to and with my creator. In the process of committing to my spiritual growth I have developed a close bond with God.
Commitment is a journey of discovery. There is so much to discover about you in the process. Take a look around you and if there is an unfinished project that is waiting for you, commit to finish it once and for all. Do you have some cards that you purchased to send out and they are still there waiting for you to put them in the envelope and mail them? Where is your spiritual growth right now? Have you been meditating or praying every day or just every now and then?
To become a great friend, you must first become one to yourself. This is just something to think about.
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty 2008
Tags: friendship
It is all in the way you think about it
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty © 2009
This has been a very interesting weekend. For starters there was a big storm
that came through a few days ago and dumped a lot of rain in this area. The result of that storm front was water in my basement studio and a subsequent broken toe and this morning my coffee maker stopped working. I had a moments irritation when I realized I couldn’t make coffee. I am a coffee person. I have a little sign in the kitchen that says, “just give me the coffee and no one gets hurt.” Adhering to what I teach I started practicing gratitude. I gave up being concerned about my coffee. Gratitude teaches you to think upon what you do have not for what you don’t have. I had tea and lots of it. I made a strong cup of tea with honey and am just fine now. I have noticed that every day you are given opportunity after opportunity to flex your spiritual practices and use your new found skill. The spiritual toolbox is yours to use.
Now, backtrack to the water in my basement. While it was raining all day and night on Friday, I decided to do some laundry. I will grant you one guess as to where the washer and dryer are located? There it was; water in my basement and in my art studio. There wasn’t a lot I could do until it stopped raining. The next day was beautiful…sunny and
cool with a soft breeze. It was perfect to start cleaning up the water and collecting my thoughts. It wasn’t that bad and I determined that I needed to get extenders to my down spouts and get the water farther away from the house during rains. I was led to buy some and put them on that day. I did just that. During the mopping and vacuuming that went on for a while I went into the kitchen and had no shoes on because I didn’t want to track water into my kitchen. I rammed my little toe into a chair. If I had worn my shoes it would not have happened. By the way, am I the only person who thinks that we don’t need a little toe?
I knew instantly that I had broken it again. This is probably the third time this toe and I have tried to part company. My consciousness immediately registered great pain.
I sucked in my breath and did not let it out for at least thirty long seconds.
I make a funny sound when I have hurt myself in some way and it is the only time I do it.
It is a clicking thing I do with my tongue. I sound like some kind of chicken that has gotten itself in trouble. My first thoughts were I had things to do and it would not hurt that much and it hasn’t. It looks terrible but it will heal. There is not a lot that can be done to heal a broken toe except to stabilize it and gimp about for a week or so. Practicing gratitude is not impossible at times like this. In fact, it is more important at these times of trying circumstances to use your spiritual practices and skills. All throughout the long hours of cleanup and limping around I practiced gratitude. I found many things to be grateful for. A neighbor offered to come over and help and I gratefully accepted. I owned a wet dry vacuum and I was grateful for that. I was very grateful I had not broken an ankle or worse. There was very little damage. I had put my art supplies on shelving that kept almost everything off the floor! I spoke the words that my foot will not hurt much and it continues to be almost pain free for the most part. I am so grateful.
My point to all of this is my stress level during all of this was almost zero. I felt closer to God when I was going though my little ordeals. I know that I am never given anything that is too hard for me to handle. I continue being tempered through allowing God’s grace to appear and fill me. I am filled with such gratitude. Truth is I wasn’t miserable. I am not complaining or thinking like a victim. I am at peace.
I used to be such a whiner and a cry baby when things went a little weird in my life. Most of my role models had been complainers when I was younger and I had followed the footsteps of how they lived their lives.
There is no benefit to complaining and thinking like a victim…none whatsoever. You only feel progressively worse and peace is far away. You push away peace when you think and act in negative ways. In the center of a hurricane is the eye of the storm. The eye is calm and all the fury stops for a while until the storm crosses the rest of the way over land. I become like the eye at the center of the storm. In the eye of the storm is God
calling you to take shelter.
I am reminded how some people handle losing their entire homes to hurricanes and in some cases their loved ones. They feel blessed that they are alive and start rebuilding their lives while they are grieving their losses. Now there is a role model for you. A little water in my basement and a broken toe was not a big deal and I knew it. How many of you would view such issues by ranting and raving about it for days?
Now dawns a new morning and I think it might rain today so I will be able to test out my theory with the downspout extenders. It has only been two days since I broke my toe and I continue to feel very little pain. I purchased a new coffee maker yesterday. As I limped around Walmart, I noticed a few people in those mobile carts that couldn’t walk and I was grateful that I could walk although very slowly.
When I got home I sat outside for a while and watched the birds and soaked up some sunshine and talked to God and was filled with happiness and peace that God is always with me and that I now know this without any doubts. I had become one of those people
that I used to scratch my head over. I was one of those people I thought knew some kind of great secret that I would never know because they were so peaceful. Now, I know it is no great secret at all. What I needed to know had been there all along and that is that God is with me every step of the way. I am not sure where he was when I broke my toe! I just had to find my path to the creator my own way.
He was there the whole time waiting! Imagine that! This is just something to think about.
The Love Of God Is Everywhere
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty © 2009
I wanted to express my thoughts on love and gratitude. It is my belief and experience that when we are expressing gratitude to our source.
We can suddenly be hit with a wave of emotion that can make us weep and feel euphoric. In that moment, it can be intense and so beautiful.
What we are feeling is concentrated focused love from our creator and the universal energy of all. We are feeling God’s heart. We are feeling bolts of love.
I have tried to describe this bolt of love to someone who is new in the practice of gratitude. I encourage them to practice gratitude until it becomes a natural part of their thought process. All I can tell them is…can they imagine feeling this incredible inflow of love often? It is not a rare thing. It can be something that sustains us and lifts us up long after the intensity of the experience has passed. Talk about basking in the glow. It is amazing.
There is no drug that exists today that can even come close to producing the experience of being one with God’s heart. For me it is an endorphin rush beyond anything I have ever felt. It is truly feeling washed with the Holy Spirit. I spiritually and emotionally crave God’s presence in my life and to know and feel it in a powerful way.
It is interesting to note that I have been receiving messages regarding gratitude my entire life. It started as a child when my mother told me to be grateful for the oatmeal I had for breakfast instead of complaining that we were eating it again. She said if I were starving I would surely be grateful then. Our spiritual teachers come in many ways and forms. Years ago, I had an old clunker of a car and it gave me a lot of problems. I was at the garage again getting ready to pay for repairs that I could ill afford and grumbling about it when the mechanic said I should be grateful I had at car at all. He was right. I was in a serious car accident and had been hit broadside by another car. My car came to rest two inches from a gas pump after my car spun around in the intersection. When the police officer arrived he found me very upset with the soda I had been holding dripping off of me. I had a scratch and a bruised knee. My car was totaled and I was whining about it. He said I should be grateful I was alive and the car could be replaced. He was right. It was an extremely close call. Then there was the time I had my heart seriously broken by a man I loved so much. He had betrayed me in a callous horrible way. I was pouring out my heart to a friend and she said that I should be grateful that he revealed to me what kind of person he was. Now I could go on and put it behind me after I healed. She was right.
Time after time, I am reminded that gratitude can be expressed no matter what has occurred in our life. I am so grateful for many things. It is the only way to start my day after I wake up and express my love to God and affirm that I know I am loved in return.
When I started my spiritual studies in earnest one of the first things I read about was gratitude and how powerful it was. Jesus talked about expressing gratitude.
In almost every ancient spiritual text there is something about gratitude.
There are 138 passages of scripture that deal with the subject of giving thanks.
When you start to see the good instead of the negatives in life you are half way there. The reasons may not be revealed to you right away but the blessing is always there. I am blessed to be able to convey my thoughts to you so that you can seek a few bolts of God’s love too! It is a funny thing about gratitude, the more you do it the more you want to do it. Expressing gratitude is addictive but this is an addiction that I welcome. We are sadly conditioned to concentrate on what we don’t have and don’t want. We should be putting our thoughts on what we do have and what we do want and being very clear about it. Every time we put forth thought and emotions it has a vibratory nature that shoots out into the universal quantum soup. All is energy. We are energy and thereto so is whatever we may consciously or unconsciously issue from our mind and lips. We are not an empty vessel. We are constantly in motion expressing and attracting.
Our Source, Creator, God, The All, I Am…charges toward you in a speedy way when you are expressing gratitude. It is a form of love and ergo it attracts it right back at you. You will find when practicing gratitude that there is no room in your mind for negativity. So, go ahead and be mindful of gratitude so you can feel some bolts of love sweep over you and fill you with sustainable joy and peace.
Do not wait to grow blind in order to appreciate your eyesight. Do not wait to lose your legs to appreciate being able to walk. Do not wait until you have nothing to appreciate having something. Be grateful now!
It is not enough to have free-will; the main thing is to use it well and in a deliberate powerful way.
Why not use it in gratitude?
This is just something to think about.
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