the magnificence of a full moon, but
it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
~ Richard H. Baker
Perhaps we should start to try and fathom the beauty all through out our world.
Not the world our world. Yes there is plenty beauty.
Common people who the media calls 'layaway angels' that pay off layaways for folks and turn their Christmas and faith in man kind to a higher plane.
The person in the driveway of a Starbucks who pays for the drink behind him and only hopes that the person pays it forward, or backward as is this case and does the same. Then that person does, and the next and the next for an entire hour.
Thats the beauty that surrounds us. Fact is it is in every one of us.
So what surrounds you? Before you answer that question take a second, meditate on the question, maybe a full minute or two.
What surrounds you?
No matter what you answered the same thing that surrounds each of us is there for you too.
Things like beauty, majestic sunrises and sunsets, resources that allow us to live, nature that lives in harmony.
Emotions like love, joy, happiness, laughter, empathy, intense euphoria, peace, kindness.
They surround you as much as they surround me.
So lets focus on these things. Lets call them into our world, our perception, our focus today.
Tomorrow and the next day. Don't stop at just one day.
Tis the season to be jolly right?
Then live with that spirit in your soul. Look at the beauty.
Do we all get down at times. Sure we do. But it is how we bounce back, and how soon we bounce back that matters most.
We are all creatures of love.
We are all focused on something make that something that is worth your attention be that love, joy, kindness and goodness that can and should surround us all.
This weeks affirmation fits right here :
I live with an abundant attitude. I appreciate what surrounds me, I see love and possibility in everything that is presented to me. When challenges confront me, I welcome them because I see growth and opportunity. It is a new chance to share in my knowledge of appreciation and love. I am grateful for everything that brings me love and joy. Love surrounds me. Joy flows freely from my spirit. I am grateful! I appreciate and look forward to the new year and I will live in gratitude for all that I have.
Trust in these words this week, Say them, repeat them and each day watch the shift in your beliefs.
Words with power, with emotion and words that will help affirm your design of a better you.
Use your mirror time and face time each day to acknowledge that you are loved and that you are truly grateful for all that you have.
By your creator, and by the reflection in that mirror. You are loved. Take the time for you! It is within you right now to make your day more joyful, happier, and designed the way you choose. Its your turn to act!
Smiles as always sent your way. Today and always. : )
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On this day in history
1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1872 – Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
1883 – The first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army are formed: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment.
1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
1910 – An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
1941 – World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew.
1946 – An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.
1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
1967 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1969 – The Gay Activists Alliance is formed in New York City.
1969 – The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1973 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
1992 – A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
1994 – Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1999 – The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
2004 – Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today and all its majesty and beauty.
Thanks for the gift of our free will may we all choose wisely.
Thank you for all the abundance that I have in my life.
Help me to understand all the possibilities that come along with this abundance.
May I seek to explore and surround myself and allow it to flow freely from me.
May I seek to explore and surround myself and allow it to flow freely from me.
Help my free flowing spirit to feel your presence, your spirit, your love, your direction.
May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.
Guide my light to another whose light may be dim.
Help me to live a life by design that I choose not one that is chosen for me.
Guide me and help me to rediscover my inner strength. Help me to focus on love and sharing my love with others.
Help me to focus my strength on making a difference with the simple actions in life.
On keeping things more attainable and filling this time of year with the simple things of life.
Guide me and help me to rediscover my inner strength. Help me to focus on love and sharing my love with others.
Help me to focus my strength on making a difference with the simple actions in life.
On keeping things more attainable and filling this time of year with the simple things of life.
Giving thanks
Showing appreciation
Expressing the real reason for the season.
For the power of words and your words that you placed in the Bible.
Thanks for the gift of love may I understand that everything was designed with love and only man and his wrong intentions created hate.
Help all of us to become better givers of self.
Help us to become the gift that this world needs.
A bit kinder, more gentle, more in tune with the power and influence we really do all have.
To share to be that beacon of light.
To share a simple sincere smile.
To reach out with our hands and arms to help another person get a foot hold once again.
Help me to make a difference with a simple sincere smile, a kind word or even a act of kindness or love.
I give you praise and the glory for all of that
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Amen
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