FOCUS ON YOUR JOY
Tap into your inner joy today. It lives and breathes within you whether or not you are aware of it. Your joy can be found by simply looking in that direction. See it this way. Standing in the midst of a garden, you can see the flowers or the weeds. You can see a colorful array of many or place your vision on a single tulip. You can breathe in the mingled scents of all the flowers or smell one lovely rose. That’s how it is with life. It’s all in where you choose to place your focus. Today I will focus on your joy. Please join me.
IF YOU BELIEVED
If you believed in your own inner beauty and your own perfection, you would be incapable of fear, or guilt or judgment against another or of feeling judged or attacked by others. Because your own certainty of who you really are would only allow you to see God’s light in you and everyone and everything. You can give yourself permission to believe in the highest within you. In fact at some point, you must. Because it is the truth. We cannot live in a false world with false beliefs forever. You are God’s Creation. Because of this, all but your perfection is false. When you are ready you will see this for yourself. Until you are ready, I will hold your light, your beauty and your truth in my mind for you.
FOR JUST A MINUTE
Within each of us lives a beautiful child, free of fear and filled with joy. Spend a moment remembering the child you have forgotten and packed in a box and stored in the attic of your mind. Look at all the heavy stuff you have piled on top of that box. Stuff such as responsibilities, judgments, worries, fear and all sorts of other things that you allow to weigh upon you. Listen with your heart. Can you not hear that inner child banging on the box and crying to get out? Let your inner child grow wings like an Angel and fly free. Let all the heaviness, the responsibilities and the anxieties go for just a minute and be a kid again. Anybody can do this for a minute.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, live in the moment.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, be delightfully surprised and noisily joyous by the even smallest things.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, ask for things even though they seem impossible.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, look straight into the face of fear and see it’s not so serious.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, don’t be afraid to ask for help.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, share your thoughts and your heart with wild abandon.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, open your heart to others without fear of rejection.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, give of yourself without expecting anything in return.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, revel in good feelings without asking where they come from or being concerned that they won’t last.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, be amazed at the beauty of a butterfly, a star in the night, a lovely scent.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, do something you love without guilt.
FOR JUST A MINUTE, yell out, Thank you God! at the top of your lungs about nothing in particular.
IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE?
There are two ways of knowing; the world’s way and the True way. The world’s way will help you function day to day. You cannot exclude this way of knowing from your life. But in all things, even when you believe with all your heart that a thing is the way it is, if you just ask yourself, “Is it possible there is something truer than this? Even though I see and feel and taste and touch and hear and smell this, is it possible there is also something else? Something beyond the earthly senses?” Just that question, when asked with a true desire to learn, will open for you a tiny fissure into another world, a world of miracles.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Who knows you better than you? Your mistakes, your strengths …
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Praise your strengths and learn from your mistakes.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Forgive the past and the future. Be happy now.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Be patient, kind and gentle with yourself.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Be patient, kind and gentle with others.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Thank yourself for your loving heart and your generous spirit.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Hug yourself every day.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Laugh out loud a lot.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND. Gift yourself with a miraculous life, filled with beauty and joy and fun and know you deserve it.
LET’S TAKE THE LEAP
Today we remember yesterday. Tomorrow we will remember more. Our memories are infused with our own distorted vision of our past. Much denial, but with some facts mixed in. Today I am ready and able to choose the path of peace. The journey toward joy. I have paid my dues and so have you. And now let’s join hands, mingle our tears, smile upon each other, then take the leap and forgive the past together.
