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I’m sure many of you have seen the e-mail claiming the U.S. government has removed “In God We Trust” from new coins.  The following article explains why you might happen to come across one of these coins – and that it might actually be worth around $50 as a result of a minting process error.  Rest assured, we still trust in God even if a few dollar coins were not created properly!  :)

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5100313

It’s interesting how quickly people are willing to believe our government is trying to remove us from a state of trusting in God.  The United States of America was created and founded to ENSURE OUR RIGHT TO WORSHIP GOD AS WE PLEASE.  It's in our country's contract!

I wonder if they decided to add a coin showing even greater faith in God if we would react with such swiftness to share the good news as we did believing in the worst?

Part of creating the kind of positive world we want to live in is being willing to trust in God, ourselves and each other… and hopefully our government, too.  It’s also giving people the benefit of the doubt and focusing on the good things.  I’m not saying we should have blind trust which could jeopardize our well-being but we must believe in the goodness of our world and each other if we want to create an even better world!

Skepticism and critical thinking can sneak up on us in very subtle ways.  Sometimes we’re not even aware we’re being negative.  Today, really monitor your thoughts.  Listen to and think about the words coming out of your mouth.  Examine your level of trust… in God, in your Self, and in others.  

Whom do you trust? Who are you suspicious of or believe they’re “against” you?  Sometimes our egos can even trigger these feelings of mistrust about our family and friends! 

What would change if you gave someone the benefit of the doubt for the next day, week or month?  If you’re fearful of this, try to visualize a positive outcome until you can actually see it in your mind’s eye and feel it in your heart.  What would happen if you went out of your way to compliment these folks or see the good in them? What if you viewed everyone in the world as a friend or as on your side? 

(Please note:  I am not suggesting to put yourself in the path of someone you know would harm you.)

Today, try to see everyone you meet as a friendly being who loves and supports you.  Know we are all connected on some level and are here to help one another.  View the world as a kind, gentle, loving place.  Take actions which will support you in this endeavor, even if it means not reading the paper or turning off the news.  Trust in God and believe others have faith, too.  Cherish Life. Cherish your Self.  Cherish everyone you encounter.

And have a truly wonderful day!

With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…

Rev. Jeanette

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Sir Froggie's Positive News Network:  Thursday, March 08th, 2007
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1.      Happy Birthday, Robin P.!

Have a wonderful birthday and a truly blessed year ahead.  May you enjoy the simple pleasures as well as the great adventures which are in store for you and continue to shine love on all those around you.



2.       (Fill in the blanks.) Today, I desire and experience…

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I also affirm the following positive reality:

“If God could tell me just one thing, it would be, ‘I LOVE YOU.’ ”

— JMP


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3.      “People are constantly changing and growing.  Don’t cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past.  See that person now.”

—    © Brian L. Weiss in Everyday Positive Thinking by Louise Hay




4.      The Enchanted Self     — by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

Looking for Small Miracles

One of the ways to be blessed with Happiness is to find the small miracles that surround us on a daily basis. 

Some of these miracles we just take for granted, like life itself.  But we can practice becoming more consciously aware of the events that are part of our lives which certainly have a feeling of a miracle attached to them. 

For example, I was just reading an e-mail about a Professor, Bernard Glick, who is interested in the study of Pirates.  He has studied and lectured about Jean Lafitte, who was a Jewish pirate. Lafitte became a pirate after he was expelled from Spain in 1492.  Here's the miracle:  Dr. Glick was sitting on a plane thinking about Jean Lafitte and whether he should talk about him at an upcoming lecture he was giving.   A man sat next to him and after much sharing of conversation, including interests and professions, it turned out the other man was a proud descendent of the pirate.  Dr. Glick said, "I was flabbergasted, not so much by the saga of Jean Lafitte as retold by a proud descendant, but by the fact that the two of us had met so coincidentally in the skies of Georgia. Melvyn Lafitte lives in Georgia and I live in Portland, Oregon.  These cities are 5,377 miles apart.

This is a wonderful example of a miracle taking place.  How delightful for both men and how inspiring for all of us. 

Now here's my Recipe for Happiness:

This week look for amazing coincidences in your life.  Perhaps as small as thinking about someone and the phone rings and it is that person.  Write to me on the blog and tell me what your discover.  I'm sure you will have at least one interesting occurrence to report.  Happy sleuthing!

— © Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein

In private practice since 1981, Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, psychologist and originator of The Enchanted Self, has committed to bring the keys of enchantment to the world.

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5.      “Asking is the beginning of receiving.  Through a simple believing prayer, you can change your future.  You can change what happens one minute from now.

— © Dr. Bruce Wilkinson in Everyday Positive Thinking by Louise Hay


 

6.      ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By Joseph Walker

SAVING DAYLIGHT . . . IN SPITE OF OURSELVES

As I understand it, the whole idea behind Daylight Savings Time is taking daylight from one part of the day (morning) and giving it to another part of the day (evening).

As usual, I don’t get it.

The way I see it, daylight belongs in the morning.  In fact, mornings are all about daylight.  When you think about morning you think about eggs, bacon and daylight – not necessarily in that order.  A morning without daylight is . . . well . . . night.

Evening, on the other hand, is all about diminishing daylight. That’s the very definition of evening: diminishing daylight.  When you take a walk in the evening you don’t think you’re going to need shades and sunscreen.  Evening is cool and dim.  You know – like some teenagers.

So I don’t really understand the reason for taking daylight from where it belongs and inserting it where it doesn’t.  It just seems sort of weird and unnatural – like we’re trying to control the rising and setting of the sun, or Britney Spears’ hair.

And has anybody considered the impact of all this extra afternoon sunlight on global warming?  Or is that just too . . . you know . . . inconvenient to consider?

According to my crack research staff, Congress originally established daylight savings time in the United States back in 1918, but it was repealed a year later when it proved to be almost as unpopular as Kaiser Wilhelm.  Will Rogers said that the only thing about which Congress could agree in 1919 was that they had messed up in 1918.  Most folks seemed to agree with journalist Robertson Davies, who wrote that daylight savings time was crafted by “the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.”

But evidently the pro-daylight savings time lobby is strong and persistent. Within 50 years we again had federally mandated daylight savings time, although nobody is exactly sure why.  A public opinion survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation indicated that people like daylight savings time because they like the long summer evenings it provides.  Personally, I think the best part of summer evenings is the part where it gets dark, and it would be great with me if we got there an hour sooner.  But then, nobody surveyed me.

This year daylight savings time is springing forward several weeks earlier than usual.  This is because Congress decided we could save energy by starting daylight savings time in March, although they did allow that we could return to the old daylight savings timetable if it turns out we don’t really save much energy by doing this.  In other words, they don’t really know if this is going to work.  They’re just shooting in the dark.  So to speak.

All of which means we’re going to have to be extra vigilant with our digital clocks this year.  Not only are we going to have to move them forward an hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 11, but we are also going to have to be aware that many of our computer clocks and cell phone clocks are already programmed to move forward on the first Sunday in April – the old daylight savings time.  So you need to keep a regular old non-computerized clock or watch handy, just in case your computer clock freaks out.  And if that sounds like Y2K revisited, so be it.

Meanwhile, we’re going to have this extra hour on our hands every evening for the next eight months.  Consider it a gift of time, whether you want it or not.  Use it wisely. Spend it well.  That late evening sunlight is great for working in gardens, playing catch with the kids or walking around the block and chatting with neighbors.  You’ll find that such pastimes can be a pleasant way to end the day.  And who knows?  They just might make you healthy, wealthy and wise.

In spite of yourself.

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— © Joseph Walker

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E-mail Joseph at: valuespeak@msn.com 

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