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Howdy Folks and Good Day!
How are you doing with opening your heart this week? Have you tried any of the techniques we’ve
shared over the past few days? How are
they working for you?
It’s really important to keep trying. Like any skill, the effectiveness of intention, sending love, and shielding increases as you continue to use them.
I’d like to share an experience I had a few weeks ago which speaks volumes on the power of opening our hearts fully and coming from a place of love. It truly can transform us.
My husband and I were hosting a
When Mark returned he brought back the most gorgeous bright yellow Gerbera daisies I’d ever seen. The flowers literally glowed they were so fresh! The stems were healthy and over a foot long each. And there were ten of them.
Part of me was ecstatic!
They were so beautiful! Part of
me panicked.
I grabbed the first vase I thought would work. And for the first five stems it did; the rest, however, would not fit. So I tried vase number two. This time the vase was too wide and the flowers stretched out almost three feet in diameter, much too wide for the space we had allotted for them. So down came vase number three and an attempt to cut the flowers a little shorter—without much appeal. Next came vase four along with a swell of anxiety looking at the clock and my to-do list and still not being able to arrange the flowers in a way which matched their beauty! I was now so stressed out I had completely shut down and was not allowing love and my creative intuition to flow.
Unusually upset over the flowers, I put vase five out on the table and was almost in tears because I felt like I couldn’t give these precious master pieces what they needed and deserved. As I told my husband, he had brought me something which emanated a beauty the caliber of Michael Angelo’s David and I chopped them into a characture of Phyllis Diller!
I don’t know why I was so overwhelmed and stressed out over these beautiful flowers. (Mark thought it was because my blood sugar had gotten low and that probably did have something to do with it.) All I know is I had suddenly shut down. Completely! Nothing was getting through. Not creativity. Not logic. Not even the kindness of Mark’s reassuring words telling me the flowers were just beautiful the way they were. I simply couldn’t see beyond my stress.
Then Mark did something he had never done before in this kind of situation. He took me aside, looked in my eyes and began to dance with me. My first instinct was to think, “What are you NUTS?! Do you know how much we have to get done and how little time we have to do it in?!” But before I could speak those words, Mark was sending love directly into my heart.
His love was so intense, so tangible, I could FEEL it. Not only could I feel it coming at me, but I could feel it opening my heart and washing over my entire body, dissolving the stress and anxiety I felt before. It was like dropping into a bathtub of love and being enveloped by its warmth and calmness. It was amazing. And truly transformed my entire being; body, mind and spirit.
That incredible experience took place because, fortunately
for me, Mark has learned to open his heart and live from love—even at time when
I was under stress and had shut down.
The love he sent allowed me to open my heart again and simply enjoy the
moment… and the company of our
One of the really neat things about living with an open heart and from a place of love is we can always start over again! None of us is a perfect master of love, yet we can all make a positive difference. When we get off track and discover the “closed” sign on our heart, we can choose to flip the switch, turn on God’s Light and come back to the “Open” place of loving again. If we’re lucky, we’ll even get a little help from those we love.
Here’s to opening our hearts with love today and every day!
And here’s to Mark for opening his heart. Thanks, Sunshine. I LOVE YOU…
With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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PROGRAM YOUR
A little positive
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Today, I desire
and experience…
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I affirm the following positive reality:
“As I send out Loving Kindness, all those
around me are affected.”
— © John Holland
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“Loving ourselves as well as
others can be a powerful force. It comes form the deepest part of us and is part of our true
essence.”
— © Power of the Soul by John Holland
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Treasures in
"An old woman in a house Is a treasure in a house."
— from the Talmud
What a simple Recipe for Happiness that so many of us no longer know how to cook up in our culture! In order to achieve Happiness and what I call the Enchanted Self capacity, one must not throw away the valuable ingredients. Nothing is more valuable that the wisdom, humor, compassion, and appreciation of the small things that one can learn from an older person.
Do you have a story about what you have learned from a senior? Please comment and share it.
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“We are, and always will be,
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ValueSpeak
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HOW’S YOUR “TECHNICAL” TRACK RECORD?
Not too long ago my friend – we’ll call her Geri – finished taking her final college exams. She’s earned her degree one or two classes at a time. Her grandchildren are very proud.
That’s right – grandchildren. Geri is 61.
“I may be the only graduate who has to use a cane to walk across the stage to get my diploma,” said Geri, who, if the truth is told, is probably further away from using a cane than I am. “But I am going to get it. Finally.”
And if you think that sounds as though Geri just
scarped by in her college studies, think again. Her college transcript looks
like a “
“Twenty out of seventy-five.”
Geri was stunned. She couldn’t remember ever missing 10 questions on a test, much less 20. “I can’t believe I missed 20 questions,” she said.
“You didn’t miss 20 questions,” the teacher said. “You got 20 out of 75 correct.”
Geri was speechless. She had never performed that poorly on a test, and she knew that she was well-prepared for this one. She looked at her professor, numb and dazed.
“Don’t worry,” he said. “I think I know what happened.”
He pulled out her test paper, which was one of those computer-scanning, fill-in-the-little-circle-with-a-number-two-pencil jobs – you know, the kind where it takes longer to log in your name than it does to fill out the entire test.
“You see,” the professor continued, “you got the first 20 question right, and then right over here . . .” He pointed to a place on the test form “. . . it looks like you skipped a row. From what I can tell, it looks like you got the right answers, you just put them in the wrong places.”
“So what does that mean?” Geri asked as thoughts of one more semester to re-take a failed class flashed in her mind.
“It means that, technically, you failed the test,” the professor said. “But I’ve been looking at your previous work, which has been excellent. There is no reason to believe that you would be any less prepared for your final than you’ve been for every other test and assignment, so as far as I’m concerned…” He took out a red pen and wrote a big “A” on the page.
So Geri graduated because her track record made it possible for her teacher to give her the benefit of the doubt. But what if she hadn’t had that kind of track record? What if her college career – especially her experience with that teacher – had been riddled with mediocre effort and a litany of excuses? My guess is her final test score would have reflected that history, regardless of how accidental her final mistake may have been.
And that makes me wonder how I’m doing, track record-wise. I mean, stuff like that happens. We give our best effort to Something Very Important – a project, an assignment or maybe even a relationship – only to find that a simple mistake or misunderstanding somewhere along the way has undermined our success and made our best effort look bad. We get on the wrong line, we take a wrong turn, we mark the wrong box, we push the wrong button and all of a sudden we’re feeling like Geri: stunned, speechless and confused.
Technically, like a failure.
But it seems to me that if we’ve established a personal history of integrity, honesty, hard work and fair play people will tend to give us the benefit of the doubt when we occasionally fall humanly short of perfection. We may not always end up with an “A” as Geri did, but at least we won’t feel so much like a failure.
Technically or otherwise.
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