Happy Sunday everyone, I trust your enjoying this Labor Day weekend, the cookouts, the parades and the celebration of the American worker that makes this country grow. Enjoy the day and always share a smile along the way.
Last Friday I spoke of my theory that we have control of now and our future by what we focus on. I mentioned that the 6 circles of influence that affect our life and how if we focus on them and their individual qualities we can control our joy, happiness and with a plan destiny.
The six circles stack in three columns two high are as follows:
Spiritual, Intellectual, Emotional
Love, Gratitude, Mood
Today I wanted to go into the Spiritual Circle and over the next 6 days cover each in more detail.
Monday we will get into the Intellectual Circle.
We all have a sense of spirituality, we all can sense that we are a part of a greater whole. Even the agnostic has a belief in something even if it is his belief in nothing. You often hear stories of in our greatest need our first words are to cry out to God, we often pray for something, a solution in our greatest need.
If only we prayed daily, not just when we were in need of something but just to have a closer conversation, a stillness with God.
“Prayer is when you talk to God;
meditation is when you listen to God.”
~ Diana Robinson
When we talk with God, do we give thanks, do we share gratitude and when we listen are we still, silent and attentive.
The circle of influence is often defined as what we can control in our life that can improve upon our present moment at any given time.
The circle of concern a much larger area, an area where we worry, play with stressor's and allow a multitude of possibilities to effect our thoughts.
When we focus on God, our faith and spirituality will define that circle of concern into smaller reality size chunks that will fit into that circle of influence.
We all have been created with free will and we all have control of our actions. When and only when we start to focus on what gifts God gave us and begin to use those gifts for the common good and not just for trivial matters, then and only then will we take better control of our life and start to make a difference for ourselves and our loved ones.
We can focus on what good there is in our world.
We should trust in our ability as stewards of this planet to make a difference.
We must believe that one person can make a difference and that one person is you.
Combined and with faith these one individuals can change this hurting world.
From the Make ME Smile Online Mission Statement
......the simple yet powerful result of happiness the "Smile'
can change the broken hearted, the lonely, the sad
and help to change not only their world
but the world of others.
One Smile at a Time!
Our goal to develop an online community to help
and conquer the stress that this imperfect world produces.
The human spirit that we know can and will produce idea's, inspiration
and energy that will carry it through these tough times.
One Smile at a Time!
Spirituality is defined as:
an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live"
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”.
~ Mother Teresa
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“Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret.
That is the mystery of life.”
~Christine Anderson
Be still today, listen, pray, give thanks!
Understand that faith in something is crucial to the belief in anything! We have been created to serve.
Two hands ready to work
Two legs ready to walk
One heart ready to dream
One voice ready to sing
What dreams are you going to dream today?
What is your spirit yearning to soar to this day?
Some thoughts on a Sunday
Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.
Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.
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