Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Peace of Mind!:

10 days ago I flew to St. Louis to lead a wonderful retreat with some beautiful folks. I had a great time, despite the fact that I left my laptop on the plane on the way there.

I had a feeling that it would find it’s way back to me, so I didn’t worry. I had thought I might get caught up on some email during my down time, but that wasn’t really possible, so I had some free time and I rested instead. I was greatly helped by my friend Olivia who contacted Southwest Airlines on my behalf and filed the lost laptop claim. I enjoyed my opportunity to rest.

People who learned that I’d left my laptop on the plane kept telling me not to worry. Others expressed their condolences. My intuition told me that all was well and to totally trust that. It actually felt so strong and clear that it didn’t occur to me to even be concerned. I felt that it would come back this week and it did.

One generous person even offered to get me a new one if the old one wasn’t found.

On Wednesday last week, Southwest Airlines let me know that they thought they’d found a laptop that matched my description and on Friday Fedex brought it back home to me.

I’m so glad I didn’t invest any of my precious energy in worry. Worrying never helps.

When we can dare to believe that all things work together for our good, it’s amazing what transpires.

I invite you to consider if there’s anything in your life that you’ve been worrying about that you’d be willing to place on God’s altar and trust that all things are working together for YOUR good.

It’s a deep practice and the benefit is PEACE!!

Affirmation:

I AM at peace with what is!

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.

Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Having it All!:

When I was a teenager I had chores and responsibilities in my family. One time I forgot to wash the kitchen floor and my Father said “But you remembered to call your friends, didn’t you? You remembered what was important to you.” He was right.

My responsibilities in the family weren’t as important to me as my friends. My family would always be there, the chores would always be there, my friends were immediate, temporal, needy – and so was I.

To this day my Father’s words help me to remember what is important is not always the thing that I most enjoy doing and that I always prefer to make a conscious choice. If I choose from what I’m “wanting,” then I’m always left wanting and never having. I prefer to be highly intentional with each choice. I am training my mind to always see and choose the most loving choice. This has helped me to develop a joyful attitude towards the things that support excellence in my life and in this way I deeply and truly honor my Father.

When I began a practice of daily prayer and meditation it felt like a chore. Very often I didn’t want to do it. My teachers said how much they loved to pray. I didn’t get it. For me it was a task, a burden. It was work to get myself to be still, to take the time. I wasn’t feeling the joy. I wasn’t really receiving the benefits. It was like when I was a teenager. Yes, I “wanted” a clean kitchen floor, a high consciousness, but I also wanted to put my attention elsewhere. If I had not been committed to seeing the higher choice for Love, I’d still be wanting, endlessly wanting.

I see this endless wanting and in so many spiritual seekers. They “want” to be more loving, but they lack a sense of devotion. It’s like being the needy one in the relationship – taking, but never sharing.

I’ve learned that wanting and having are two different things. The one who is wanting is not devoted to having and being. Wanting never ends. The one who awakens from the dream of separation is committed to seeking the Kingdom first. This becomes their joy, their devotion and their passion. It’s not hard. It’s happy-making. Wanting is magical thinking. Wanting is thinking something is missing. Nothing’s missing. You must look where you can find it. And that requires devotion.

Think of this – if the love of your life was “missing” would you be devoted to finding them? Or would you simply “want” to find them? Look in your heart for the answer. That’s where the love of YOUR life is waiting for YOU! Get this – YOU are the love of your life. You ARE the love of your life. No one else.

Ramakrishna taught us, “Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.” Over the years I’ve continued to pray, to meditate and, just like with a daily yoga practice, I’ve become stronger, more flexible. I’ve felt the cleansing effects of prayer and meditation. The healing has taken over my awareness. Now, I cannot imagine getting out of bed in the morning without praying. I cannot imagine not going back to prayer again and again throughout the day. My practice is the embrace of my Beloved, the One TRUE LOVE of my life. The One who never tires of me. The one who always loves me and offers me the very best without restriction.

What a blessing is available for the one who is devoted!

Affirmation:

I AM devoted to God and God is devoted to me!

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.

Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Choosing Love!:

Here’s something you may find helpful:

I have had a few times in recent years when I was less than stellar in my loving behavior towards someone that I really care about. Sometimes the stuff comes up for healing and I can feel like it blindsides me. I always review my choices after the fact and make the commitment to do better. I also ask that the angels help me to have another opportunity to do better and heal the patterns of separation. It works.

I also ask the angels to help us so that we don’t hold onto the mistakes, but rather learn from them and are inspired and motivated to choose higher and heal the pattern. It works!

I have had so many demonstrations that MY willingness is what makes the BIG difference. I get to experience this healing and share the benefits with everyone so that all are lifted.

In this way my life is a series of beautiful blessings – learning from my mistakes and healing the past. Talk about a free BONUS! No extra charge to release the judgment, open my heart and choose again!

Affirmation:

I AM choosing love today, again and again!

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.

Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Self Worth!:

Is there any part of you that doesn’t feel worthy? Is there a place in you that feels unworthy of love, of peace, of prosperity? If so, then there is a place where you’re telling yourself a lie. Any lie contains violence and violence begets more violence. The truth is that you were born worthy. Does any child have to do anything to be worthy of love, peace or prosperity? Of course not.

The very fact that you are living and breathing means that you are worthy of God’s love.

Joel Goldsmith writes “If some night we could sit at a window all night long until the morning light breaks, and then with the coming of full daylight when the moon and the stars are no more but in their place is the sun, we might ask ourselves what part we have played in all this. What did we have to do with it? If we could watch trees or flowers blooming and when they are in full bloom, again ask ourselves what part we have played in this, whether we have earned it or deserved it or been worthy of it, we should soon find that God brought all of these glories to us without any question as to our worthiness or unworthiness.”

Today take a good look at an area of your life where it appears you may feel unworthy and ask yourself what the Truth is. Remember that Truth is true for everyone, all the time.

Affirmation:

I am worthy of love

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.

Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Living the Love!:

In our universe, there are certain laws that operate and you cannot circumvent them no matter how clever you are and no matter how ignorant you are – believe me, I’ve tried!

There’s the Law of Cause & Effect – which is beautifully stated in A Course in Miracles as “All thought produces form at some level.” When we combine our focused belief and our feelings together we call things into being. Each of us this proves it every day.

There’s the Law of Love which can also be said this way: “What goes around, comes around.” A Course in Miracles says “What I give my brother is my gift to me.”

As spiritual students we will all come to realize that the only way to truly have an awareness of the truth, to experience the fullness of our Divinity – to experience the KINGDOM and having ALL ELSE being added onto us is through our spiritual practice of healing and peeling, moment by moment and day by day.

It takes real practice and commitment to live in accordance with the Law of Love and this is why we cultivated devotion and find the freedom that lies within our pure intention and dedication to Love.

Our spiritual practice sets us FREE!

Affirmation:

I value my freedom more than my opinion!

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.

Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Going for it!:

Every day I consciously anchor into a deep intention to be the greatest expression of love that I can possibly be. Living inside this holy intention year after year, I’ve became keenly aware that I was resolving and dissolving old habits of separation that I couldn’t tolerate in myself any more. One habit that has been so strong in my mind is the habit of making negative meaning out of the interactions in my life that confuse me.

When I felt needy and unsure about a relationship and that person didn’t return my call, I would imagine a negative reason for why they weren’t calling. I’d think it had to do with how they felt about me or how much they valued our relationship. Several times I did this and later discovered that the reason they didn’t call was that something was preventing them. Something I never would have imagined – like a car accident or a lost phone. And yet I had spent hours and days in upset because I jumped to the negative conclusion. I was creating such suffering myself. Little by little I began to be willing to see that suffering is optional. I create it through thoughts of wanting, needing, grasping, hatred and judgment

People often rush to make negative meaning out of something and then cook up a big pot of resentment stew inside themselves. They ladle this stew all over everything they’re doing that day, that week, that year. When they finally connect with the person whose behavior is so hurtful to them they learn that it was all a simple misunderstanding. The entire pot of resentment stew has been labored over, cooked and seasoned for hours or days, months or years, now turns out to be completely fabricated. It was just a big waste of time and energy.

UNLESS, in that moment, of realization – when you see it was all a mis-take, a misperception, you forgive yourself and you DECIDE to harvest the learning and not allow yourself to do that again. You really can give up the right to make yourself miserable. It takes real focus and attention to unwind these patterns, but there’s a Divine Alchemy that’s yours for the asking. This is where your spiritual practice becomes your best friend.

Byron Katie tells us “Fear has only two basic causes: The thought that I may lose what I have or the thought that I may not get what I want.” To that I would add, all fear is really the result of thinking we want something other than Oneness of all life. If we value separation, if we think that we want something that cannot be found within and that we must have it, we will always be suffering.

We could solve the “world’s problems” if we all gave up making resentment stew. We could certainly have peace on earth if we decided to give up the habit of making negative meaning out of circumstances. Are you willing to give the Higher Holy Spirit Self the heavy lifting? Will you choose to discipline yourself to seek the kingdom first?

Today let us anchor peace and love in our experiences. Let us be determined to hold the high watch for ourselves and for those around us. Let us intend to do our very best to make positive meaning out of life’s challenges and uncertainties. Let us intend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, always. In this way our choices bring forth more love in the world on a daily basis and they truly do make a profound difference. Today we’re living in a new way in order to experience a new day and share it with everyone we meet.

Affirmation:

I AM the One!

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.

Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Being Generous!:

I used to have a skewed idea of generosity. I thought being generous had to do with things material. I thought I was generous if I was a big giver. As I became more in tune with myself through meditation and prayer and as a result of my practice of nonviolence and compassion, I discovered that I wasn’t always giving from a place of true generosity, but instead from a place of lack within my own self. I was giving to get a sense of self-worth.

When I got still with myself, I found that sometimes I was giving out of my need for reassurance. I had a need to be liked, admired and appreciated. I discovered that my need to be seen or felt was often a motivator for my giving and so I wasn’t really being generous at all. I sought approval as much as I desired to share my gifts and talents. I thought that through giving I could get people’s good opinion of me. Giving to get is the way of commerce, it’s the way of the world and I’d not seen that it was my way of living, and often my reason for giving, especially in my relationships.

I feel so grateful to have learned that true generosity comes from the Spirit. It comes from the heart and never the head. It’s the way of the Divine. True generosity is never a calculated expression that has to do with keeping score or getting something in return. Once I learned this, I began to see that when I am generous of my heart and my energy then I’m giving what people really like to receive most. Even people who feel destitute and seem to need money badly still can appreciate love, patience, recognition and encouragement FAR more than they do money. The destitute can tell us that the heart can die of starvation while the body continues.

“… to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness – these are the gifts which money cannot buy,” says Robert Louis Stevenson. Money cannot buy these gifts because they come through us from the Divine and we are given to so freely. It is my pleasure and joy, my imperative to let them flow through my life freely.

My soul yearns to be generous with Divine Love. My heart thrives when I’m giving away God’s love through my ability to be patient and caring. I feel all is well with the world and myself when I’m extending kindness and encouragement generously. It is my pleasure to be appreciative and grateful. I’ve learned that my experience of generosity begins first with loving myself generously. I’d like to be able to give from the overflow of love that the Infinite Beloved is always pouring through me. My generosity is increased by my setting the intention that everyone who gives to me will have the same energy of love and generosity returned to them magnified and multiplied. I am generous with Divine Love because the Divine is generous with me. In this way I powerfully contribute to a global experience of more peace, more love, more joy.

Affirmation:

I choose Love and Love chooses me!

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.

Click here to listen to the Prayer for Today – Tuning In!:

I have prayed and prayed and PRAYED to follow Divine Guidance when I receive it. I’ve always been intuitive, but as the years have gone by I’ve gotten profoundly more intuitive. The less I entertain judgments, opinions and attack thoughts, the more clear I am. It’s so helpful to tune into the clear light of truth.  The ego always leads to more suffering.  Divine guidance is always flowing in the direction of more Love, more peace, and more joy.

Inspiration is always available and I’m so grateful for it.  Any blockage you’re experiencing is an inside job. Even though the flow Divine Insight is always happening, I used to do something that was so frustrating for myself. I used to pray for guidance and then ignore it or discount it because I didn’t like it.  UGH!

Ignoring inspiration was one of the most egotistical patterns I’ve noticed in myself. I have to laugh at myself. It’s so crazy to think that I can hear so clearly divine guidance and inspiration and still choose to ignore it because I don’t FEEL like it. Isn’t that just how the ego can be? On a certain level this is the biggest challenge that we have in life.  We say we want more flow, more love, more good and then we block the guidance or ignore it when ti comes.  Sigh.

I’m retraining my mind to choose love at every turn.  It’s working.  Join me!  Seek the Kingdom first, above all else.

Affirmation:

I choose Love and Love chooses me!

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Finding Freedom 7-Week Spiritual Boot Camp

What can turbo-charge your spiritual growth and expansion in the most DIRECT WAY? Spiritual practices. You must DO spiritual practices to build your spiritual strength, just as you must work out to build your physical muscles. There’s NO OTHER WAY. That’s why I offer my Finding Freedom spiritual boot camp, which is like having a loving, authentic personal trainer for your spiritual life. I cannot do it for you, but I can do it with you – and I will if you’re willing. When you’re ready to go for it, you just know! Click here to watch my Finding Freedom video and see if this is right for you right now.