The GPS on the car dashboard proves that there
is more than one route to our goals.
–Robert J. Bannon   

Dear Friends,
We were attending an interfaith community’s event this past weekend and I was talking with a gentlemen about Visioning, and Seeing the Goal. We talked about how we feel God is Divinely Orchestrating our lives and even when we get off track, we somehow, through many life experiences, seem to get back on!  This was a wonderful conversation with a person whose faith is different than mine.  He told me a story about driving his car and  when he took a wrong turn the  GPS would revise/reconstruct his route. Eventually he got there.  He said that is just like GOD. We may get off course from the Divine Plan of our lives, and yet God gently (and sometimes not so gently) revises the plan and direction so we will eventually get to the Divine Goal/Good.  I loved that illustration of God continually guiding us and still giving us our free will to make mistakes and take the wrong turns. The beauty is, we will arrive! It may take longer than we had intended, however we will arrive!

Travel with Trust!

Summer is here and many of us are planning vacations. Hence, we plan, we pack,      we travel.
In our planning and in our packing think about the words stated above.  “How LIGHT do you travel?”  And I don’t mean clothes…. Pack these LIGHT ideas into the suitcase of your heart and mind.
L – Life is an adventure. Laugh  and be Light hearted in all situations.
I – Invoke the Presence of God .from start to finish.
God goes before me and makes my way easy, effortless,
and Inspiring.
G –  Be Grateful you have this opportunity to travel. Many people do not. Be a Gracious Guest wherever you are and see the Good in all people and in all situations.
H – Help another traveler on the way. What goes around comes around.
T – You are on a Tremendous Adventure.
be Thoughtful and allow enough Time wherever you go.
Happy Travels

Dear Friends,
What does it mean to be FULFILLED? Does it mean you have everything you want? No, because we as humans always seem to want more!  Being fulfilled in the moment is taking the time to say, “Right here, right now I am happy. I have everything I need. I am fulfilled.”  Choosing to be happy is a moment by moment decision.  Just take a walk down your street and look at LIFE as you have never looked at it before. Find something new you have never seen before, a flower blooming, a bush growing, a tree swaying and lifting up towards the sky and say THAT makes me happy.  I am so grateful to be here at this time and day to see these beautiful God creations. Continue on your way and look for more things that make you happy, a puppy coming up to you to be petted, a bird singing just for the joy of singing, joggers running past you with a feeling of  health and well being. That makes me happy.
Happiness and fulfillment in everyday events is a choice. We can see the JOY around us, the Merriment of Life, the Fulfillment of God in everyone and everything.  The more you say, I am happy, I am fulfilled with the feelings of gratitude, the MORE Happy and Fulfilled you will be!  You are raising your vibration to the highest level and sending out the magnets of magic that will bring back to you even more JOY.

“I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.”
–Oriah Mountain Dreamer
I love this statement from the book The Invitation.  JOY, is the highest vibration of our soul and what we  long for in our Divine Purpose and Life Plan.  I believe it is OURS to have now and forever.  We can find JOY in the most ordinary moments of our life when we stop and recognize them. It is dancing in the living-room to music you love.  It is singing at the top of your lungs to a song that speaks to your soul.  It is jogging, walking, skiing, surfing and feeling the wind tousle your hair and the way it makes you feel when you are done – exhilarated.  It is sitting at the table with your loved ones contented. Joy is seeing a baby wrap its little fingers around yours and smiling up at you. Joy is when we are with a group of friends and we feel we belong. More than that, we feel we can be truly ourselves, transparent, showing all sides of us.
Think back to a moment of JOY in your life. Didn’t you just Love it!?  LOVE and JOY go hand in hand, so what do you Love?  I used to tell my children, “Do what you LOVE and LOVE what you do!”  It is the only way to live. When you Love what you do, you do it well! Never apologize for being GREAT at what you do. It is God’s Greatness within you that does the work and  always says YES.  There is a place and a purpose uniquely carved out of time and space  for you.  It calls you.  For it is GOD CALLING YOU to be JOYFILLED in this earthly life.  It beckons you- so invoke it, call it forth and let go of what no longer serves you.
Be Happy, Be Merry, Be Joyful!

“You are joy, looking for a way to express.  It’s not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager. That’s who you are.” – Esther Hicks

Dear Friends,

It’s May, It’s May, the Merry Month of May! This month we will be exploring the High Vibration of being Merry, being Joyful, being Happy, being Fulfilled.  JOY is an attribute of the Divine, Our Source and Creator. YOU are JOY in Expression. As Ether Hicks, author of Ask and It Is Given, says ” YOU are JOY.”  According to Esther’s Emotional Scale, JOY is at the TOP along with Knowledge, Empowerment, Freedom, Love and Appreciation. Think for a moment of a time in your life that brought you absolute JOY; so much JOY you were bursting at the seams. Take that FEELING and just Be with it, Live it again. Keep up the high vibration and IMAGINE your deepest heart felt desires. Feel the Joy in the creation of your dreams. Remember Mind does not know whether you are making it up or it is ‘real.’  JOY attracts JOY. Ester says….”the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies begin instantly to orchestrate the manifestation of your desire.” Right now let us LIVE in JOY, as JOY, because we are JOY.  ***

I AM going to step out on a limb and let GOD grow a tree under me!                         -Rev. Edwene Gaines

Dear Friends,

We just returned from an amazing ANTN Conference in Atlanta.  We Played and Prayed in the  Divine Nature of the beautiful wooded area of Simpsonwood Retreat Center and were Sacredly Awakened every day to the truth of our being.  The Chattahoochee River ran next to the retreat and we enjoyed early morning walks on the trails and the 11 circuit labyrinth. Our guest speakers were over the top GREAT! We were inspired by Rev. Mark Anthony Lord,  Rev. David Ault, Rev. Edwene Gaines, and Bishop Rev. Dr. Barbara King.    This week we are focusing on our God Power of Abundance. Today I want to share the wisdom of the Prosperity Queen, Rev. Edwene Gaines, author of many prosperity books including The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity.

Here are wonderful words of truth she shared with us.

• God is your Source! (not your boss or job)
• When funds seem lacking ask, “How can I give more, serve more, love more, not how can I get more.”
• The best time to “give” and/or tithe is when you feel unsafe financially. Totally TRUST in God!
• All financial debt is about forgiveness. Debt is a way to punish ourselves. Start a forgiveness journal and write in it twice a day. Remember to forgive yourself. Ask “Have I put anyone out of my heart today.”
• Tithe! “A tithe is 10% of all you receive given where you receive your spiritual food (church, faith center, minister, teacher, friend…etc) Its purpose is to acknowledge God as the Source of your good. The promise in Malachi 3:10 is that when you tithe, the windows of heaven open for you.  It is important to pray believing as you tithe, clearly stating in what form you want the windows of heaven to open for you.”

Dear Friends,

This month we are exploring the God Powers within us. This week we will activate the  HEALING  power within. We are created out of the very essence of God, so we inherit these beautiful sacred wonderful powers.  As we align our heart, mind, and consciousness with the Truth of our Being, our body responds. We are  expressions of God so Spiritual wholeness is ours forever.
Two of my favorite meditations by Dr.Ernest Holmes in the Science of Mind text pg 508 are as follows:

He is Mighty Within Me to Heal
God within me is mighty to heal.
He healeth me of all my diseases and removes all fear from me. My God within is now healing me of all sickness and pain and is bringing comfort to my soul.
God is my life, I cannot be sick
I hear the voice of Truth telling me to arise and walk,
for I am healed.
***
I Do Not Inherit Disease
There is no inherited tendency to disease of ill health.
I am born of Pure Spirit.
False ideas cannot be transmitted from  one to another, and I am free from (human) race suggestion.
My Life is from Above, and I remember that I was always Perfect and Complete.
An Inner Light shines forth and frees me from the bonds of false belief.
***
If you are experiencing any dis-ease, say these beautiful affirmations over and over until you feel re-aligned with the energy and vibrations of your God Self.

HEALING is your Powerful God Quality. Activate it !
Health and Wholeness are Yours NOW!

“According to Buddhism, all beings are imbued with a spark of inner divine light…. The Jewish mystics use similar words when they speak of the inner spark or the spark of God. The Koran, referring to man, talks about the little candle flame burning in a niche in the wall of God’s temple. Almost inevitably a spiritual search becomes a search for divine or sacred light. By cultivating our inner core, we search for this light in ourselves as well as the divine.” – Lama Surya Das http://www.adishakti.org/his_light_within.htm#sthash.0vM1bI4m.dpuf

Dear Friends,

In the early morning, while still a bit dark, I was sitting quietly in my favorite meditation chair. I asked what message I need to hear today and all of a sudden I saw a tiny shadow at the window. I looked more closely and saw it was a moth trying to come in. It was so attracted to this soft Himalayan Salt lamp I have on my meditation table and persisted for quite a while. This reminded me of how we are ALL attracted to the LIGHT, the Light and Glow of God. Each of us in our own way are seekers of the Light. We each seek to become a true expression of God. As a New Thought minister I believe God’s Call is always here and available and we as human spiritual beings are continually attracted to the Good, to the essence of God. Even the plants and trees we see raise up towards the sunlight.  We have even seen the tiniest weed and flower grow through a crack in the cement, finding its way towards the Light. As our souls seek the Light of God we come to realize the Light has always been there for us because God’s Light is in us.  Once we awaken to this Truth that the Light is within, we know it is in everyone and everything.   There is only God being God in all, through all, as all, even in and as the tiny moth.

 “I realize that I am one with the eternal newness of life. All that Spirit is creates in and through me. My body is alive with the life of God.  My body is illumined by the light of God. There is no darkness of discouragement, despair or defeat. My mind is refreshed in that One Mind that eternally gives of Itself to its creation.”                                             – Dr. Ernest Holmes, Founder of Religious Science

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. Proverbs 16:24 ESV

WORDS.

Words are so important to us.  They communicate our thoughts and feelings in many different ways such as; speech, pen, hand motions and computers etc. What would we do without them?  When learning a new language we must memorize 1,000’s of words just to feel adequate in a conversation.  Knowing the meaning and nuances of words is essential to our life.  Science has created ways to show how words vibrationally look on a screen. Harsh, loud,angry words have a very jagged look while words of love, joy, & comfort look smooth and easy.  We as energetic spiritual beings truly FEEL the vibrations of all the words we use and the words we hear from others.  Some vibrational words come at us like a hurricane, and others like a gentle floral breeze.  How are you using your words today?  Be the gentle breeze that uplifts whomever you meet. All that we say, the way and how we say it, goes forth and affects others, then circles back and affects us as well. Speak in a circle of love my friends.