I believe we can live our lives by design. We have been born with amazing capabilities to create life through our thinking and our speaking. I want to challenge each of you to dedicate this week to God. Decide that you are going to have a wonderful week full of love, peace and joy.
You can do this by starting each day in prayer and medication focusing your attention to Love. Begin to imagine in your mind the kind of week you want and begin to speak it out loud. Be specific, feel the emotion attached to it, write it down, read it aloud and thank God for it being granted. Our words give power to our lives. Therefore remember to speak only what you desire to see manifested in your life. Purpose in your heart to remain in Love’s space...that’s where God lives.
I want to warn you, however, that the very moment you decide to do this, everything that is not like love will surface. But you can choose to take the high road when a co-worker says something that is untrue about you. You can choose to embrace your husband and kiss him on the forehead when he doesn’t take the trash out once again. Choose to remind your child how magnificent he is when he is acting like a fool. I am not telling you to become a door mat, but what I am telling you is to refuse to see the illusion of evil around you and choose to see the Love of God that is everywhere.
We do have a choice to see life differently and when we do, we will speak and make choices that support our new reality and vision of life.
When you choose to love instead of hate, when you choose to give instead of take, when you choose to laugh instead of cry this week, you will have designed your week to be what you desire. We are co-creators with God and we have the right and the privilege to be happy, joyful and free on any given day we choose. Dedicate this week to God; to Love and have a Love filled week. You deserve it!!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
What is Stealing Your Peace?
It’s the middle of the work week and by now you have had numerous of opportunities to have your peace stolen. What has tried to steal your peace this week? Was it someone on your job, your children, your mate, or the bank teller or the driver who pulled in-front of you? Whatever it was, it came to disturb your peace. When I was searching for a definition of peace, I found this: “Absence of mental stress or anxiety”; “harmony and tranquility.” Even reading the definitions made me want to work even harder to remain in peace throughout my day.
But how do we achieve and remain in peace, in a world that seems to thrive on conflict, war and confusion? We simply decide and choose how we will respond. How other people behave doesn’t have to determine how we respond. When someone comes to me with a situation that could take away my peace, I ask myself this question, “Will I react or will I respond.” When I choose to re-act, and sometimes I do, it almost always brings about more dis-comfort and dis-cord. But when I choose to respond from a place of love and peace, I find myself open to new possibilities and solutions. I am able to do this when I remain focused on who I am. I have learned that what others think about me is none of my business. I get my opinions of myself from a Loving God. I know that everything I think, say and do is a statement of who I am. Therefore, I must choose to behave with dignity, grace and poise even when others decide to behave unkindly.
When they say things that are un-true about me, or do things to me that are unfair, I have learned to remain true to who I know that I am, or shall I say, who God says that I am. This keeps me in perfect peace. It no longer becomes about what is happening outside of me, but what is going on inside my heart. Inside my heart is where Love resides, where God resides and it is where I can live and respond from. I become a better me when I do this. So just remember, the next time someone comes to rob you of your peace, you can thank them because they are really causing you to become a better you. And when we understand what peace really is, we will do anything to remain there.
But how do we achieve and remain in peace, in a world that seems to thrive on conflict, war and confusion? We simply decide and choose how we will respond. How other people behave doesn’t have to determine how we respond. When someone comes to me with a situation that could take away my peace, I ask myself this question, “Will I react or will I respond.” When I choose to re-act, and sometimes I do, it almost always brings about more dis-comfort and dis-cord. But when I choose to respond from a place of love and peace, I find myself open to new possibilities and solutions. I am able to do this when I remain focused on who I am. I have learned that what others think about me is none of my business. I get my opinions of myself from a Loving God. I know that everything I think, say and do is a statement of who I am. Therefore, I must choose to behave with dignity, grace and poise even when others decide to behave unkindly.
When they say things that are un-true about me, or do things to me that are unfair, I have learned to remain true to who I know that I am, or shall I say, who God says that I am. This keeps me in perfect peace. It no longer becomes about what is happening outside of me, but what is going on inside my heart. Inside my heart is where Love resides, where God resides and it is where I can live and respond from. I become a better me when I do this. So just remember, the next time someone comes to rob you of your peace, you can thank them because they are really causing you to become a better you. And when we understand what peace really is, we will do anything to remain there.
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