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Howdy Folks and Good Day!
It’s hard to believe tomorrow is the last day of SFPNN before our Summer
Holiday. (We’ll return to regular e-mail
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It seems like just a little while ago we were setting goals for the new year and now here it is almost six months later.
So about those goals… How are you doing on them? Have you made as much progress as you hoped you would by now? Have you given up? Succeeded? Or maybe need a little jump-start to get going again?
When we really want to accomplish something, we have to stick to it. Of course there will be times when we get derailed. And that’s okay. In fact, it’s to be expected!
Getting derailed doesn’t mean we have to crash. It just means we got detoured, delayed, or temporarily stuck. We can get going and get ourselves back on track again!
Take some time to figure out what you’d like out of your summer and the rest of the year. Make a plan. Schedule some of the things which will get you moving. You’ve got a lot to look forward to!
With Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, and Prosperity…
Rev. Jeanette
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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:
“The gateways to wisdom and learning are
always open, and I am choosing to walk through them.”
— © Louise Hay
2.
“This is the power of the Divine
Source working through your soul – a force that you surely can’t deny is
there. This is the Source that
continually reaches out through you to touch and affect as many lives as It can. It’s part of
your purpose for being all that you can be and living a life of ultimate passion.”
— © Power of the Soul by John Holland
3.
"Bliss is everywhere. You just have to unwrap it." *
This is a wonderful comment and I would agree. There is potential bliss in so many moments of our lives if only we knew how to get there, instead of 'here'. 'Here' being somewhere that is less than blissful.
One way to get 'there' is to use our memories to retrieve old blissful moments that can be enjoyed for themselves and used to create new moments. I talk about this extensively in THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive Therapy. Sometimes these moments are our own. Sometimes they belong to someone else and we borrow them.
Yesterday I was talking to my mom's best friend from childhood. My mom, Bernice Becker is the author of FEEL GOOD STORIES. This book is full of great memories, but not the one that Betty shared. She told me about how they would spend the summers as youngsters.
There was no money for camp in either family but the two
girls had a great time roller-skating and going back and forth to the public
library. They lived in
How I wish we could all unwrap our bliss everyday! And I wish so much that could be true for my mom who is now in Skilled Nursing and those days of roller skating and even the pleasure of a good novel are so far behind.
*By the way I heard that saying on TV this morning. It goes with an ad for a new Hershey chocolate! I guess a good piece of chocolate is another way back to bliss! I could recreate a blissful moment right now by eating a chocolate. I remember how wonderful chocolate tasted when I was a girl, hungry in girl scout camp and we made Smores. Should I? Shouldn't I? Hmmm… This is a big decision.
— © Dr. Barbara Becker
In private practice
since 1981, Dr. Barbara Becker
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4.
“It’s about embracing life and
living as a soul, learning, growing, loving, sharing, and constantly evolving
during the time you have here.”
— © Power
of the Soul by John Holland
5.
ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By Joseph Walker
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF FREEDOM
Freedom.
The word fairly reverberated around my father’s old, beat-up, brown Buick as I drove south on the interstate. It was August, so the windows were rolled down (partly because I loved the feeling of freedom that it gave, but mostly because the air conditioning didn’t work) and the radio was cranked up:
Get your motor runnin’…
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Oh yeah. Steppenwolf understood freedom. And now, for the first time in my life, so
did I. Home, high school and constraint
were in my rear-view mirror as I drove toward college and the wondrous autonomy
that it promised. From this moment
forward I could do what I wanted to do.
If I wanted pie and Dr Pepper for breakfast, that’s what I’d have. If I wanted to stay up all night eating pizza
and listening to music, that’s what I’d do.
If I wanted to call girls on the phone after
I like smoke
and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin’ with the wind
And the feeling that I’m under
I was about halfway to college when I noticed something else in my rear-view mirror: flashing red lights. I glanced at my speedometer. Heck, I didn’t know the Buick could even go 90. I gulped and steered the car to the right side of the freeway and pulled to a stop, fearful that I might be celebrating my first day of real freedom by being arrested.
The highway patrolman paused
and looked in the back seat of the car, which was loaded with boxes and stereo
equipment. Neither one of us said a word
as I handed over my driver’s license and the Buick’s registration (yeah, I knew
the drill – it wasn’t the first time I had seen red lights in my mirror). He walked back to his patrol car, leaving me
to agonize about the awful possibilities.
What would my parents say? What
would my college dean say? What would
all those girls say if I called them after
The officer came back and leaned over to look me directly in the eye.
“You heading to school?” he asked.
“Yes, sir.” I said.
“First time away from home?”
Oh man – did it show?
“Yes, sir,” I said.
He paused, then said with a smile. “I remember my first time away from home,” he said. “I remember the feeling . . . the freedom. It was great!”
He got it! He understood – I was sure of it! From the look in his eye I could see that he knew what it felt like to feel the need to “go make it happen,” to “take the world in a love embrace,” to “fire all of your guns at once and explode into space!” He was, like me, a “true nature’s child,” and we were both “born to be wild!”
Then he handed me the ticket.
“Consider this your first college lesson,” he said. “Freedom is great, but freedom is also a responsibility. Use it wisely.”
I wish I could say that I accepted his advice and used my freedom wisely that first semester at college. My college transcript would suggest otherwise. But through the years I’ve learned, as I hope we all have, that “freedom isn’t free. You’ve gotta pay the price, you’ve gotta sacrifice for your liberty.”
And no, Steppenwolf didn’t sing that. But maybe they should have.
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— © Joseph Walker
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