I Awaken To My Spiritual Magnificence

God is. I am. I awaken to my spiritual magnificence. As I live my purpose in harmony with the Universe, I help to create a world that works for all. I step forward and allow that greater idea of who I am to emerge. I AM divinely fulfilled in all areas of my life -- in loving relationships, in creativity, in abundance, and in health.  My actions, thoughts and feelings attract that good into my experience.

 I am emerging with a larger consciousness of my authentic beingness, of my purposes here on this plane of consciousness. As I live in a Universe of limitless possibility, I am harmonized and powered by Divine Love. I allow Spirit to express through me, as me, and for me so that the perfect actualized me emerges. I let go of anything that prevents my emergence into my divine purpose, into my authenticity, into my connection to Spirit.

With gratitude, I release my word into the Law of Mind, knowing it returns to me multiplied  abundantly.

And so it is.

Do The Impossible

Lately I’ve been feeling impacted by all the negative news. Paris. San Bernardino.

I wondered, where is the uplifting, the inspirational in this world of messed up conditions? Then I came across the Not Impossible Foundation and Not Impossible Labs.  According to their website, Not Impossible makes DIY, accessible, tech-based solutions for people around the world, and then powerfully tells those stories to inspire others to do the same.

Founder Mick Ebeling figures out how to use technology to solve absurd problems, and gives it away or finds affordable solutions. He takes action.
 

For example, he learned that many people in Sudan lost arms from war injuries. They can’t afford prosthetics, so the tasks of everyday living are extremely challenging. He decided to do something about it.

He flew to Sudan and figured out how to create 3D printed arms for a boy named Daniel. And then taught others how to do the same.

The mission of the Not Impossible Lab, is “Help one, help many.” By helping Daniel, and creating a video to tell his story, Mick helps many.  The video becomes a “not impossible” bug that goes viral. 

Reportedly, this is his process: First, start to believe in this mentality that nothing is impossible. 

This fits right in with Ernest Holmes who says: Limitless power is at our disposal. By thinking, we can bring whatever we desire into our experience.  But when we say, I cannot have and I cannot enjoy good things, we demonstrate limitation. 

How much can we demonstrate?  asks Holmes.  Just what we can believe, accept, and find in our consciousness that is NOT  repudiated by our denials.

So in Mick’s case, after believing that nothing is impossible, he looks for absurdities out there in the world, and thinks of solutions. He’s an idea machine.

Next step: disruption. He doesn’t just think about something...he disrupts. He doesn’t wait for permission...he takes action. That reminds me of our teaching that says, “Treat and Use Your Feet.” Be proactive.

Another seemingly impossible situation was that of Tony Tempt Quan, a graffiti artist living in a hospital, completely paralyzed by ALS, except for his eyes. He couldn’t communicate; he couldn’t create art.

Mick’s crew of hackers and artists created the Eye Writer, a low-cost pair of glasses with hardware that enables Tempt to both  communicate and create art, using only his eyes.

In his book,  Not Impossible, Mick talks about the conversations we have in our heads about what CAN’T be done.  Change your brain to anticipate the positive, he advises.

Sound familiar? “Change your thinking, change your life,” says Ernest Holmes. And for Mick, it’s not just changing HIS life, it’s changing the lives of others, and thus changing the world, one small step at a time.  “Use technology for the sake of humanity,” and “Help one, help many.”

And so it is.

I Walk In A Cornucopia of Good

As there is one Power and I am an expression of that Power, I know that my word has Power. I know that my thoughts have Power. I lift and shift my thinking to address the challenges in my life, as well as to change the conditions in my world.  I draw on the spiritual directive, the directive of belief, knowing the answer to my prayer is in the prayer itself.

I know there is a Power for good in the Universe, and I can use it to demonstrate good in my life, and in the conditions of the larger world. I know I am walking in a field, a cornucopia of good--the primordial essence from which all things are made -- and from which I draw my own substance and supply. I direct my consciousness toward expressions of love, peace, harmony and respect for myself, and for the conditions I want to see change in the world. I knock on Heaven's door, and I am heard. I speak my word to the cosmic Essence and experience the reply. There is only One Power, One Source, One Life, and that Life is perfect, that Life is my life now.

With love and gratitude, and from this cornucopia of good, I release my word into the Law of Mind, knowing it returns to me multiplied abundantly.

And so it is.

Happiness

I recently became a grandmama again, with the adoption by my son and his wife of a beautiful baby boy. Their journey to adding a child to their family has been long and challenging, and now their desire has materialized in the form of little baby Hunter. When I look at their gallery of photos posted on the Internet, I see tangible "happiness." They may be tired, but they are very, very happy.

So the subject of happiness is on my radar. What constitutes happiness? We all seem to want it, sometimes we search for it. It can mean different things to different people. For David and his wife, it's a new baby, and gratitude for this expansion of loving relationships. For others, it can be radiant good heath, close friends, success on the job, financial freedom, a burst of creativity, or a spiritual "aha" moment.

Recently I saw the film, "Hector and the Search for Happiness," starring Simon Pegg as a successful psychiatrist disenchanted with his life...which he perceives as humdrum. Although he is living a life of privilege compared to most of the world, his patients bore him and his long-term relationship with his fiance, Clara, is stagnant. He decides to throw everything aside and research happiness, keeping a journal of his findings. He wonders, Is there a secret formula for happiness?

After each adventure or misadventure, he draws conclusions in his journal, such as:  making comparisons can spoil your happiness; a lot of people think happiness is being rich or important;  avoiding unhappiness is NOT the road to happiness; happiness is answering your calling; happiness is being loved for who you are; fear is an impediment to happiness; happiness is feeling completely alive (this after barely escaping death at the hands of kidnappers); or happiness is knowing how to celebrate. Basically he is on a journey of self-discovery, learning who he really is.

His big aha comes when he is rigged up to a machine which visually shows, in real time, his brain and how it reacts to different emotions.  He realizes that unhappiness for him would be losing Clara, and happiness would be becoming the man she would love to spend her life with. As his emotions unblock, the machine reveals to Hector that happiness is everything, especially LOVE.

As Ernest Holmes says, " Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.”

And so Hector enters, realizing in the end he already has the key to happpiness. He simply lifts and shifts his thinking, or as Ernest Holmes says, "Change your thinking, change your life."

Even Abraham Lincoln said: “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” And from Dale Carnegie, “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” 

So for Hector, as well as for all of us, we can know this:  If there is a secret or key to happiness, it’s already in us, in our thinking, which we can change and thus change our lives.

And so it is.


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A New Life

The big news for me this week is that I'm a grandmama again.  My son, David and his wife, Rachel, just adopted a beautiful baby boy and they are now deep in the throes of parenting.

Their journey to parenthood has been long and challenging and it's so moving to see them with their new son.

 Last summer David came down from the Bay Area to visit me, and we went to a picnic held by the adoption agency with which they were affiliated.

It was wonderful to see all the couples with their adopted children, and to know that so many adoptions were successful. There were also couples who were aspiring to adopt, and had yet to hold a baby in their arms. Those with babies told their adoption stories ... sometimes of several failed attempts, and then final success.

David and Rachel had already experienced one failed adoption. They had been matched with a birth mother in Missouri, had made a trip there to meet her which had been promising. They went back for the birth only to have the birth mother change her mind.  What a disappointment!

But I knew the right and perfect baby would appear.  And it did. The birth parents...both teenagers...were sent a box of 100 brochures with profiles of the prospective parents-to-be, including  David and Rachel’s.

The profile resonated, a meet-up trip was taken to Oxnard, reasonably close this time, and all went well. They came down for the birth last week, stayed with our relatives in the area, and also spent a night with me.

That night was interrupted at 3 a.m. ... they got word that labor had begun and they were off to the hospital, where they had their own room and took care of the baby shortly after birth. With an open adoption, both families have expanded.

There are a number of poems on the Internet about this moment. There's one that I love, "I am so very special" by Karen Heeney at poemhunter.com.

Life is a gift.

And so it is.





I Choose the Right Path

God is. I am. I am an individualized expression of God in action here on this plane of consciousness. I am Spirit having a human experience.

I stop, I look, I listen at the crossroads of human events and conditions around me. I become aware of the power and presence of God leading me to the right and perfect decision, the right and perfect path through the maze of earthly conditions surrounding me. I know God as omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient -- the one Power -- and know that I am one with that Power, that All Good Power. As an emanation of Spirit, of that All Power, All Good, I answer the call to bring that Good, that Power, that Light and that Love to this plane of existence, and to be an agent for positive change here and now. I allow the Infinite Power to express through me one transaction -- one transaction of human interaction -- at a time. I am straight in my own consciousness. I practice the presence. I dwell in the secret place of the most high.

With gratitude, I release my word into the Law of Mind, knowing it returns to me multiplied abundantly.

And so it is.

Leverage

As I sat down to work on my Creative Thought recently, I did my usual rambling around the Internet.

I came across a young CEO, a high school junior and founder of TechnoAcademy, who admonishes young people: Leverage Your Youth. Use technology to start a business.

On going to the website, I saw that Technoacademy has a special program to bring the wonders of technology to senior citizens, with education programs offered free of charge to senior citizen centers, starting in the Atlanta area.

From there I came upon a TED talk, from 2011, by a young app maker, Thomas Suarez. At age 12 he had two published apps and a startup company.  Speaking for kids today, he said: "For soccer, you could go to a soccer team. For violin, you could get lessons for a violin." Parents have done those things, but what if you want to make an app? Parents haven’t made apps and he wanted kids to be able to make them.

So he created an app club at his school, put his apps at the Apple App Store, and offers his club as a resource for teachers who want to experiment with teaching high tech.

One app, Bustin Jieber, is a whac-a-mole game that replaces the mole with a photo of Justin Bieber’s head, for those who want to whack Justin Bieber.  I have no idea about that, but apparently middle school kids do.

Now age 15, he has a company, Carrot Corp, which says it creates apps for iOS, Android and Google Glass, and is also revolutionizing 3D printing with ORB.

The truth is, I’m not even sure exactly what an app is. I have one of those old school cell phones, where I  tape the numbers of important people on the back and buy my minutes for the year...$100 a year for 100 minutes.

 I now have 364 minutes. This tell you how far behind the curve I am.

So I am definitely a candidate for Technoacademy’s care package for seniors, or an app club once I figure out what sort of app I would like for my yet-to-be purchased smart phone.

But back to leverage. Yes, some seniors need to upgrade their technology skills. Like Robert DeNiro in the recent film, The Intern. He plays a 70-year-old widowed retiree, Ben, who has tried all the usual retiree pursuits...travel, golf, classes, watching the grandkids, tai-chi in the park, etc.

But he feels there’s a hole in his life. He lacks purpose. He learns of a start-up  which wants to expand diversity by offering internships to seniors...not high school or college seniors, but senior citizens.

So Ben applies and is selected. What Ben lacks in computer savvy, such as getting on Facebook, he makes up for in his business and life experience. With his old school approach of wearing a suit, dispensing down-to-earth wisdom to his co-workers and his boss, he becomes an indispensable part of the company. They love him.

I won’t go into detail about the film, but I wondered if any companies besides this fictional one were offering senior internships. I searched the Internet and the only significant thing that I found was the Encore Program in San Francisco, which, according to its website, has pioneered programs to tap the talent and experience of people past midlife as a human resource for solving our most vexing social problems.

The CEO, Marc Freedman, asks on the blog: What one policy should Washington pass to benefit older Americans in 2015?   A Legacy Corps -- to support and mobilize one million Americans in their 50s, 60s and 70s to dedicate a year of service to improving prospects for the next generation in such areas as early childhood education, literacy, and school to work transitions.

In other words, leverage the older generation to improve American society while seniors develop a sense of purpose.

This is an exciting time. Technology is creating opportunities for people of any age--from young people with fresh outlooks to senior citizens with their accumulated knowledge.

As Ernest Holmes says, Life lies open to us, full rich and abundant. We have only to open the portals of our soul and allow the infinite to flow to us, and through us and for us.

And so it is.