Forgiveness

This week we will be working on forgiving. The art of forgiving is very difficult for many people. Many people believe that they have to forget in order to forgive this is not true. You may not forget the wrongs done to you, but you can forgive the wrongdoer and you can stop dwelling on the wrongs you believe have been committed against you. When we work to forgive we open our hearts to love.

This week’s tasks are:
1. Forgive others when they wrong you, say a prayer and let the wrong go.
2. Forgive yourself when you do something wrong against others and especially yourself.
3. Accept that your God has already forgiven you.
Each day practice forgiving others and yourself. At the end of the day, evaluate how your day went. Thank God for the day, let it go and start a new fresh day tomorrow. Remember that yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery. Live each day in the present.
God Bless

Change

Are you ready to change your life?

 

This is a great time and opportunity to change your life for the better. Beginning on Sunday we will begin working on making changes in our lifes. We will spend a week looking at and working on areas in  our lifes that could be changed and living life in a more mindful way.

 

What do I mean by this?

 

Well each week we will work on an area that we will pay more attention to. We will begin on Sunday with forgiveness. For the following week we will pay attention to forgiving ourselves and others. Each day we will look for areas to incorporate forgiveness in our lives and consider each day how we did. We will begin each day new, not worrying about how well we did yesterday or how well we will do tomorror. Remember the saying, Yesterday is history and Tomorrow is a mystery. Our goal is to work on each day and stay in the present.

 

Our goal is to balance our spiritual and material worlds to live and work in balance. We are working on releasing our Ego and becoming one with all that we are and that God intends us to be. It is not about denying who we are, it is about excepting who we are, are good qualities and our faults. It is God’s desire that we be happy and happiness comes from being able to accept that we are human, and that God loves us and that we need to loves ourselves.

 

Are you ready to take this adventure with me?

 

We are headed towards living a life of fullness and joy.

 

God’s blessing to all.

Letting Go

This time of economic turmoil is a prime opportunity to let go of behaviors that have lead us into the personal crisis that many of us are experiencing.

It is no surprise that when things are going bad in people’s lives they turn to God and when things are going great we move away from God. During good times God gets edged out and the ego rules our lives.

So now we are turning to God for help, praying for salvation. But are we taking the time to make sure that we do not end up in the same situation again? Are we learning the lessons that we need to learn, to keep us from falling prey to our egos again?

I admit, there are some things that are out of our control, especially at times like this. Your job has laid you off and you are behind on your mortgage. Yet when times were good, how much money did you save? Financial Advisors have been telling people to save at least a year’s expenses for a rainy day, yet only 1% of Americans actually did this. Could you be in a better financial position if you had put some money away or did you chose a big screen TV or new car instead? How much responsibility are you accepting concerning your current financial condition?

While we can not do anything about yesterday, this is a prime opportunity to let go of ways that could lead you to financial disaster in the future. If the economy suddenly picked up and your life improved, would you go back to your old spending all you make ways? Would you be more careful about the choices you make in the future to prevent you from falling into a crisis if the economy soured?

The ego works hard to tell you that you need things you really don’t need. A big house you can’t really afford, a fancy car, fancy clothes, Starbucks everyday, because it leads you to believe everyone else has these things. Could this be a perfect opportunity to stop letting your Ego be in charge of your life?

This I believe is the perfect time to let go of the Ego and get more in tune with the God you are praying to for help, but not for the short run, for the rest of your life.

Are you ready to really change your life?