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Howdy Folks and Good Day!
I hope you’ve been enjoying getting acquainted with some of SFPNN’s features
over the past week. In addition to our
A-Muse-Inspirations Page and the Taking Care of Myself SFPNN Workshop 101, did
you know we have a Prayer Page?
I encourage all of our readers both to request prayer when needed and to visit the Prayer Page to pray for others. Whenever we focus on finding positive solutions (even if we don’t know how they’re possible other than a miracle) we direct divine energy to work on our behalf or on the behalf of those we’re praying for. Miracles can -- and do -- happen every day.
When it comes to prayer, there’s really no right or wrong way to do it. But we can create better results if we believe what we’re praying for is going to happen! One way to help ourselves really KNOW it in our heart is to give thanks as if our prayers have already been answered and walk in faith as if they really have been. This shifts our focus to manifesting what we desire instead of what we fear.
I’ll be updating the SFPNN Prayer Page as prayers come in, and every so often will clear it out. If you consider yourself a prayer warrior or are looking for a way to make a positive difference in our world, I invite you to visit the SFPNN Prayer Page when you can (maybe once a week or even once a month) to pray for those in need.
Thanks! And may God bless all of us with Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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Sir
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1.
What kind of day will today
be?
The
kind of
A little pro-active positive programming can go a long way
in creating our heart’s desires. All of
our thoughts have energy. Energy
attracts like energy. Think about your
desires for today. What would you like to experience in the next 24 hours? Allow yourself to see it manifesting in your
mind’s eye and feel it happening in your body so the energy of your thoughts and
emotions draws it to you. Affirm it on the lines below!
Today, I desire
and experience…
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I affirm the following positive reality:
“I am an open and clear channel for God’s
blessings.”
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2.
“Your true essence is your soul,
which is eternal and exists in an ocean of love.”
— © Brian L. Weiss, M.D. in Everyday Positive Thinking by Louise Hay
3.
Gratitude Verses Positive
Action
as a Path to Happiness
Gratitude is a marvelous practice, yet as a positive psychologist I have to share my clinical experiences. It is not an easy practice!
When we are down, whether we are grieving, sad, hurt, or maybe, unfortunately, a combination of these difficult feelings, we are not interested in running through a list of what has worked in our lives, or even how we have grown. I often suggest to people that during these times we try instead the mental health gift of positive action.
Whether we force ourselves to say hello to someone and admire their outfit or hairdo, or whether it comes easily to do a favor for someone, just giving out instead of going back inside of ourselves will improve our state of mind. It may not work instantly, but it will work.
Over the past few weeks, since New Year's, I've been
practicing saying, "Happy New Year" to strangers. They are pleased, although sometimes
surprised. Me, I have felt good many
moments when I might not have otherwise!
Try it, you'll like it.
— © Dr. Barbara Becker
In private practice since
1981, Dr. Barbara Becker
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Talk to her on her blog,
4.
“Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do
that.
— © Martin Luther King, Jr., Thanks to Mr. Positive (www.PositiveNews.Net)
5.
ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By Joseph Walker
THE FREEWAY SAMARITAN
There were a thousand reasons
not to stop.
I was running late for . . . um
. . . well, whatever it was that I was running late for that day. The freeway was busy and I didn’t want to
cause an accident. Surely the Highway
Patrol would be along soon, and it’s their job to help stranded motorists,
isn’t it? And I had on my navy blue
suit, with a light blue shirt and a silk tie.
Not exactly car-fixing clothes, you know?
Let’s see – that makes 1,004
reasons not to stop.
And here’s
1,005: I am the world’s worst auto mechanic.
Public enemy No. 1 on the AAA’s Ten Most Wanted list. Mr. WhatsaWrench. The first time I tried to change my car’s oil
myself I did fine – until I forgot to put the new oil in. The boys down at the garage had a big laugh
over that one. The next time, I
remembered to put in the new oil – only I put it in where the power steering
fluid goes. That triggered a letter from
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chryslers. They suggested I get a horse.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not feeling sorry for myself. God has given me other talents to use for the
benefit of mankind. But I’m not sure how
much it would have helped that lady who was stranded by the side of the freeway
if I would have pulled over and burped on cue.
So I didn’t pull over. I drove by, just like dozens of other drivers
on the freeway that day. And I felt
guilty about it. So I turned off at the
next exit and made my way back to see if I could at least give her a lift or
something. But by the time I got back to
her a Hispanic gentleman had pulled in behind her and was tinkering with her
car’s engine like he knew what he was doing.
“Is there anything I can do to
help?” I asked.
“No, thank you,” the lady
replied. “This nice man says he can fix
it.”
At that moment, a voice from
under the hood shouted: “OK, try it now!”
The woman reached for the key
and turned it. The engine started
beautifully.
“It was your serpentine belt,”
the man explained, wiping his hands on his pants. “It slipped off. It’s pretty worn. You want to take that to a mechanic, get a
new one put on.”
The woman tried to give the
freeway Samaritan some money, but he declined and waved as she drove off. It wasn’t until we started walking toward our
cars that I noticed he had five more reasons not to stop than I did; his family
was sitting in the station wagon, waiting patiently.
“Do you stop and help people
like this often?” I asked.
He shrugged. “Somebody has to,” he said. “What’s she going to do if nobody helps?”
And for him that was reason
enough.
In his final sermon, given the
night before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took as his text the
Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan.
In the story, a man is attacked by thieves and left by the roadside. Several travelers happen upon him, but they
pass by. Eventually someone does stop to
help, although it is the one person who might have had a reason not to. He is a Samaritan and the victim is a
Jew. Those folks didn’t get along any
better back then than they do now.
According to Dr. King, those
who passed by the injured man were asking themselves the wrong question: “If I
help this man, what will happen to me?”
The Good Samaritan stopped to help because he asked the right question:
“If I don’t help this man, what will happen to him?”
Dr. King spent a lifetime
asking the right question. If we truly
want to honor his memory during this time of year and always, then we need to
ask ourselves that question, too.
No matter how many reasons we
think we have not to.
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— © Joseph Walker
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E-mail Joseph at: valuespeak@msn.com
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