Snips

You are a once-in-a-universe kind of person. No one can ask God what matters to you but you. No one will receive the exact Guidance as you. And in accepting what may at first seem illogical or confounding, you open to a bigger space where God's love can move through you and benefit others in ways you cannot begin to imagine.
Mary Manin Morrissey

"Like a stone dropped into a lake, our acts of kindness can create a ripple effect. The long-term effects may be unknown to us, but the ripples of one wave creating another and another, to forever impact - that is a definite fact. Make your ripples today."
Susan Fahncke

Go easy. You may have to push forward, but you don't have to push so hard. Go in gentleness - go in peace. Do not be in so much of a hurry. At no day, no hour, no time are you required to do more than you can do in peace. Frantic behaviors and urgency are not the foundation for our new way of life.
Do not be in too much of a hurry to begin. Begin, but do not force the beginning if it is not time. Beginnings will arrive soon enough. Enjoy and relish middles, the heart of the matter.
Do not be in too much of a hurry to finish. You may be almost done, but enjoy the final moments. Give yourself fully to those moments so that you may give and get all there is.
Let the pace flow naturally. Move forward. Start. Keep moving forward. Do it gently, though. Do it in peace. Cherish each moment.
Today, God, help me focus on a peaceful pace rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. Help me let go of my need to be anxious, upset, and harried. Help me replace it with a need to be a peace and in harmony.
Melody Beattie ©

"Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit."
Wayne Muller

Heaven is accessible to us right here and now if we only step out of our self-made prison and free ourselves. We can create heaven on earth in our day to day experience, simply by reclaiming our right to freedom and happiness. It can be done slowly, little by little, if the shock of discovering your total freedom is too much to handle.
Marie T. Russell