Dear Friends,

I know there are days in all our lives when we feel we just didn’t do that job well, or speak with a person in the best way, or just feel not good enough.
Life can throw us curved balls and sometimes we hit them and sometimes we don’t. The one thing I always try to remember that even in the midst of challenges,
trials and situations, I AM ENOUGH! Sometimes I do go to the “woulda, coulda, shoulda” mentality, and when I do, I think of the things I have done well,
the people I have helped and my internal goodness as an emanation of God.

During my morning meditation one day, I pulled out my basket of “Affirmation Rocks,” which I give freely away at our labyrinth walks. They make me smile
and remind me of my truth, I am a spiritual being living in a human body, here to learn and grow. The one that makes me laugh is “YOU ROCK!”
I decided to carry that with me all day. Every time I see it, I smile.

I also thought it would be fun to create my own “Affirmation Cards.”
I have lots of cards, Tarot, Angel, the Four Agreements, Nature etc. I decided to just create my own. I printed “I AM ____” on slips of paper taped to the
back of a deck of cards. Perhaps that would be a fun activity for you. On days when you feel a bit lost, lonely, sad or not enough, pick one and say the
affirmation to yourself 20x and really FEEL that truth about yourself.

As the quote above by Nathanial Brandon says, Feeling ‘I Am Enough’ still means there are lessons to learn and things to achieve. It also means I accept
and love myself with all my qualities and faults, the light and the shadow.
I look at who I am and know I AM LOVED. I recognize places in myself that need some work or change. It is all good. It is all part of the process and
journey in this earth dimension.

Accept and enjoy the journey and know in ALL of it, YOU ARE ENOUGH!
Always have been and always will be, because you are created out of GOD.
The Divine is internally YOU. Remember your HOLINESS and your GREATNESS. REMEMBER your SPIRITUAL MAGNIFICENCE.
I AM, WE ARE ENOUGH,

Abigail and Steve

Again, we are saddened and heartbroken by the horrific acts of violence in Buffalo, New York and Laguna Woods.
The All Faith Center and Friends stand together to continue to promote interfaith education, awareness and understanding
in order to change the consciousness of people who do not realize, when they hurt another person, they hurt themselves.
We are all in the web of life and when part of the web is pulled, torn or shattered, the entire world is affected.
We must continue to spread the news of our ONENESS, and how we value ALL people. Everyone has the right to live, work and pray in freedom and joy.
All faith traditions have the basic humane value at the core of their religion – LOVE. When love, caring and compassion is not shown to another individual,
that person is not practicing his or her belief system.
Let us model LOVE in our thoughts, words, and deeds on a daily basis.

Here is a beautiful poem I read on Rev. Dale Suggs Facebook. When the world seems like too much, read it and visualize the beauty of the lake.

The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Dear Friends,

I love the quote above. We know water, in its gentle easy flow and in its fast and furious pace, will in time change rocks, mountains, and the earth’s surface. With erosion, the ground around a river changes. The ocean waves change the seashore. Water is persistent, never failing to know its purpose.

I believe prayer is like water. The continuous prayers we say, no matter how hard or resistant a situation or person is, will change the outcome. We must never lose hope or give up on our prayers and affirmations for the world, for ourselves, family, friends and others. The human condition is inherently resistant to change of any kind, yet change is a given. We may not see results of our prayers, however outcomes are always in the NOW of Spirit. We must trust the Divine Timing and Outcome of God. At the end of our prayer treatment we always say, “This or something better.” We, from our point of view, may not have access to the BIG picture, however God does. Once a prayer is said or an affirmation made, the mold is formed and what ever action needs to take place is doing so and flowing behind the scenes.

Prayer is also like a theater production. Before the audience sees the end result on stage, the writer must come up with an idea, propose the idea to producers, find the right director, actors, musicians, and then practice the performance. Your prayers, visioning the outcome, and keeping the desire in mind, helps to continue all the action behind the scenes.

Stand firm in your prayers. Don’t give up. Know God has already set in motion, like water, to create the highest and best outcome for all involved.
“Waiting is not God’s denial.” – Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith
“Sometimes a prayer takes time to manifest, and sometimes the universe has a slower pace than you or I.” – Deborah Perdue, RScP
“Hold steadfastly to the thought that all of life is in a state of eternal flow.” Dr. Ernest Holmes
( Quotes from the Science of Mind May Magazine)

Be prayerfully patient and know God works everything together
for Good!

Prayerfully,
Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

“I am standing strong on my mountaintop of all good, giving and receiving all the abundant blessings of life, including peace, joy, prosperity, health, love, creativity and harmony. This mountaintop is on a bedrock of faith and trust with a gentle breeze of grace and ease blowing.” –
Emma Curtis Hopkins (May Science of Mind Magazine)

I loved reading this quote and read it several times to fully embrace the meaning. I was looking out over the hills in the back of our house and imagined standing on the hills and looking over the countryside. I did feel a sense of peace and all was right with my world. Reading this quote and affirmation truly states how we all can feel and be when we just allow our faith to be strong and stand on our belief in the Universal Life Principles (love, joy, compassion, peace, oneness, unity) which never wavers regardless of human thought or action. GOD, Life, Universal Energy is always working FOR us , not against us. The Universal God, Spirit, Holy Mystery is always GOOD – GOOD and very GOOD. That is the energy and vibration I choose to live in and with whether I imagine myself on a hill, mountaintop or here on level earth going about my daily purpose.

We can read the paper and get upset, angry, irritated , fearful, OR we can read the paper and see an opportunity to Bless people, see the good in them, know they are God’s children living life from a different point of view….
Those who appear to have lost touch with their God-ness, need prayers to help them remember who and what they are.
Spiritual Beings having a human experience.
People rise to the level in which we see them.

Today let us be and give goodness to all we meet. Let us accept goodness from all we meet. Let us know we are already filled with abundance, peace, health and prosperity. As we give, so shall we receive ( smiles, kind words, actions, tithes, donations to our spiritual centers & charities).

Bring people with you on your mountaintop so everyone can be the best
and see the best view of the world.

We know there is POWER in Prayer, POWER in intentions, POWER in action.          This Saturday at the Labyrinth Walk we will be gathered in a sacred circle
to raise the consciousness and vibrations of the world through prayer. We will be connected to the collective of all Labyrinth walkers that day
and others praying and affirming Divine Intervention, Divine Peace and Justice throughout the world. With all of us in the ONE MIND, we can
shift the consciousness of the planet. Prayer with intention is “Purposeful action.”

An Old Chinese proverb says,
“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.
If there is harmony in the nation , there will be peace in the world.”

PEACE IN THE WORLD,
BEGINS WITH THE LIGHT (PEACE) WITHIN EACH PERSON!

“Today I remember that nothing is greater than God, the one presence and power in the universe. I pray that I may know this great power
as my own, as part of my divine birthright. I use my power wisely to speak up for what I believe is right, to be strong for someone who
feels weak, to be brave when others feel afraid. I draw my power from a deep well of faith that the nature of God is all good and that
adversity will wither under the light of truth.
My power keeps me strong in God.” (April Daily Word).

Peace and Light,
Abigail and Steve