Reasons behind the Thank You
Good Friend God,
That we know and appreciate our many blessings,
thank you.
That we enjoy and celebrate your healing energy,
thank you.
That we rest and refresh our hearts in your passionate peace,
thank you.
That we express your power and presence as our ultimate good,
thank you.
That we can know the Christ Spirit we are
and that we can experience true heaven here, now on earth,
thank you, thank you, thank you.
And so it is.
Amen
What a gift…
I performed the pre-New Year apartment mega-clean this morning. I came across a small box of cards and photos that appeared after my maternal grandmother’s funeral. One item was the index card, neatly scribed by Gram’s hand…
A New Day
This is the beginning of a new day.
God has given it to me to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is important because I’m exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone foreger, leaving in its place something I have exchanged for it.
I want it to be gain, not loss; good, not evil; success, not failure –in order I shall not regret the price I paid for it.
(Heartsill Wilson)
As those words apply to each day, they apply as well to each new year. For sure, they applied to Gram and how she lived her life.
Happy New Year!
Make it easy…
Every morning I read the day’s vignette from Alan Cohen’s A Daily Dose of Sanity.
For this week between Christmas and New Years, the 12/26 piece encourages slowing down, looking in rather than out, catching one’s breath and possibly (slowly, gently) cleaning one’s clutter. I liked what I was reading.
So, I found it somewhat ironic that I immediately began to high-gear my mind, thinking of all the “OK, what sort of those look-inside, clean-out-the-closet stuff can I start doing right now?!”
Fortunately, I asked the voice in my head to s l o w d o w n.
I then remembered the beautiful set of prayer and scripture affirmations my sister Robin gave me yesterday. (Merry Christmas!) I took a slow, deep breath, and I just drew a card.
Help me, heavenly Father, to find the time this day to be alone with Thee.
Make it easy. Make this week a slow, peaceful blend of relaxing and refreshing, of reflecting and relating, of looking back with pleasure and looking ahead with prospect.
And thank you, God, for making it easy for me to make it easy. And thank you, Robin, for a wonderful gift!
One more Merry Christmas!
