I had lunch with two of my best and loving friends this past week. They are both highly respected and powerful women. Each has served hundreds, maybe thousands of people in their life time. They deeply care about people, live by personal values and their faiths. Each worships differently. When we come together we laugh, share and enjoy each others company. We trust each other when we share work and family situations. They both are a blessing to me and to the world.

I used the word “powerful” when talking about them. What makes them powerful? Not because someone gave them a position of power. Not because they were forceful in the workplace. Not because they put someone else down to rise up. They are powerful because they know where their power comes from, GOD! They are willing to serve God by serving others.

The powerful GOOD they do for people comes from a deep Faith in the Divine. ALL TRUE POWER comes from God Within. God leads us into our highest and best when we listen. There are always signals, and road signs. When we pay attention, we follow the direction our heart leads us.

Here are the three P’s for POWER

PRAY – and know God’s power is always within, available and working for your highest good..

PAY ATTENTION – When you ask in faith believing pay attention to what comes next; an idea in mind, a feeling “I have to do this” a knowing what needs to be done.

PROCEED – DO IT! Follow your God Power, that innate intuition which is the still small voice within you. Let go of the thoughts of, “Really?, I can’t do that. I don’t know how. What will people think? I am afraid”…. and so on.

If it is YOURS to do, God will open the way for you to do it. YOU have the Power. Walk and talk with God daily and not just in your morning meditation. God is available 24/7 and listening 24/7. For God within hears all your requests and is ready to give you much much more and even something better! Be open and receptive for your highest good.

Walking and Talking with God,

Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

I was preparing to sit in my favorite meditation chair and begin my morning spiritual practice, when I realized my mind was filled with swarming thoughts about the…

Past.                                                                                                                                   I should have taken a picture of the POINT meeting.                                                          I should have responded to a particular email, especially when the person shows up for the POINT meeting.                                                                                               I shoulda, I shoulda, I shoulda…

Future                                                                                                                                    I have so much to do later today.                                                                                      I have to get things ready for October events, meetings and travel.                                   I have to make another list…etc.                                                                                        I have to, I have to, I have to…

Does this happen to you? I am sure it does. Of course God in Its Infinite Wisdom directed me to a daily passage in the Science of Mind magazine.

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear-are caused by too much future and not enough present. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievance, sadness, bitterness and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough present” Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now.

I AFFIRM: Today, this moment in time, the PRESENT is a GIFT. I put my Trust and Faith in the Divine Presence. The Divine PRESENCE of God is taking care of the future ;and all unfolds easily. God, the Divine PRESENCE loves and forgives my past. The Divine Presence, is my Present, my Gift now and Divinely guides me. The NOW moment is my only moment. It is only in the NOW moment I can make choices. Today I choose God to handle it all, past, present and future.

Remember when your life gets hectic, bring your attention back to the NOW moment, the only moment and present that counts. Focus on the GOD PRESENCE and feel the peace that flows over, in and through your body. Notice the sounds, the scents, the beauty of where you are now. Gently love yourself and KNOW in this peaceful moment all answers are available, all future events are now Divinely Orchestrated, all past is the past. The only moment that counts is the moment with the PRESENCE of God, the Gift of Spirit.

I love to say, “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it”  (Psalm 118:24)

Living in the Moment,

Abigail and Steve

Dear Friends,

Have you ever had a moment when you just couldn’t figure out a problem or challenge? Have you ever thought your ideas were the best and only ideas for a given situation? We all have. I came across a beautiful prayer in the Science of Mind Magazine (August) which spoke to me and reminded me to Trust in God, Surrender to a Higher Way because “anything I can imagine is but a marginal possibility of what is true of the Infinite.”

“I SURRENDER TO TRUST”

“Dropping into that space, that space we know as love, dropping down into the heart, we become very aware that the beating of the heart and that the very breath we breathe is the heart and breath of God. In this awareness we feel the truth that this life, our life, is one life. That there is no separation. Only One.

In this space of one. I know that there is only good, and that this safe space is where I can let go and surrender into my highest good. This is my choice

to allow the goodness of God to take lead, knowing that it is in this allowance I co-create with Spirit.

To embrace the words that it is Gods good pleasure to give each of us the kingdom of heaven, today, right where we stand is to embrace the power and the wisdom of all ages. To honor this birthright is to honor the very essence of who we are.

I recognize that as an expression of this magnificence there is nothing that I set out to do that I do alone. That there is evidence that anything I can imagine is but a marginal possibility of what is true of the Infinite.

As I take steps toward the possibilities found within surrender, I completely trust the opening of my life to all that is good. I surrender also to sharing from the overflow of this good. I know that as I receive, I gain complete joy as I share.

I surrender to love. I surrender to God’s good expressing through me. I surrender to all of the possibilities that I had only imagined myself to dream about. I surrender to the complete trust, knowing that with Spirit all things are possible.

I place these words from a grateful heart into the law knowing that in the mind of God it is already done.

And so it is.”

-(Written by Sandra Reay, Religious Science practitioner)

Trusting Divine Love,                                                                                                 Abigail and Steve

September 3,2024

Dear Friends,

We have the great joy of making memories with our sweet granddaughters. Just recently I was with Bailey helping out while my daughter Tammy was working from home. We were playing on the floor with magnetic building blocks. I was just as fascinated as she was as they held together in a variety of ways. She loved looking into a mirror and seeing the “other baby.” We played patty cake and laughed. The next day our other granddaughter, Peyton, was at our house and again we were immersed in play. We played toss the ball while she was on the trampoline, hide and seek, then drawing people on a white board. After actively playing with us she was in her own imaginative world. She loves the animals and little people, little cars and creates stories as she has each one talking to the other. She loves to go into Steve’s office pick up the phone and have a conversation with someone (?) while she walks on the treadmill. We crack up when she calls Steve ‘Sir’, or says to me “What’s going on with you?”

One of the funniest things she did was notice I had post it notes in my office and she wanted some. I gave her a small pack and she wrote her name on each one and began sticking them everywhere ( on desks, photos, walls, books etc.).

The funniest thing was when I found a sticky note on the lid of the toilet seat in our guest bathroom the next day.

Why am I sharing these precious moments with you? Because there are times we just need to get on the floor and PLAY. If you have young grandchildren that is a given. If you don’t, play is till important for adults. We need time in the day to just let everything go and allow our imagination to take over. Give your mind a break. Take a meditative moment to imagine yourself at a place of JOY, a beach, a mountain top, a walk in the woods. And/or go for a walk, go to the beach, take a day trip to somewhere you love. We all need to unplug from our daily lives, our computers, our phones, the newspaper and TV news.

What if we woke up everyday with a sense of JOY and decide to find something fun to do or to see. What makes work fun? When I am at my computer I play music because it brings me joy while I work. When I walk I talk to the trees and bushes and stop for a moment by them, and watch the leaves flutter. I like to think that is their way of responding to me. We can make anything happier, more joyful just by our attitude and gratitude.

Today find ways to laugh, play and find joy in each moment. Do something funny. Put a sticker on your toilet lid. Every time you lift it up, I guarantee you will laugh!

Take time to PLAY,                                                                                                               Abigail and Steve