Showing posts with label take inventory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label take inventory. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Looking through the glass

Day one ~ a new month, a new day, a new set of downs, just like football.   I wanted to sleep in today but I awoke with this post in my heart and instead of going back to sleep and catching some zzzzz's here I am typing it out for you to read now or many days later. (Its fun to type these out and know that anyone could read these, days, weeks, generations later.)

I like that, who needs sleep...lol.

A quote....

“Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."

I see nobody on the road." said Alice.

I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!”

― Lewis Carroll

Oh if we could see the future, if we could look down the road and see anything that would lead us, I guess that is why we have God and why we pray the Lord's Prayer....

'...And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.'

That will have to do....we have our heart, our feelings and our little voice inside that says 'wait, stop, think first'...sometimes we just don't listen or pray first.

Stop...Listen....Pray...Give thanks...Ask for wisdom.

Who does not love to go to the zoo or pet store.  All the cute, cuddly and you just want to love animals.  They put this glass many times in between us.  They even ask us not to tap on the glass...and what to almost all of us do...tap..tap, tap... What the animals on the other side must think.

My thought today is what if you had the chance to tap, tap, tap on our glass that surrounds your world.  What would you think about you? What would you say about now?

We all think in that world of me, our ego drives us to the next destination that it sees fit for us.  We go along, playing our song and sometimes on auto pilot we just do with out much thought. We just do....

Here is a thought, what if we slowed down just a bit, and took a small leap, for some a giant leap, outside our ego and tapped on our glass.  What if we asked these four little questions.

What are you doing?

What do you really want?

Are you on the road to getting there?

What would you do if you were free?

Think about it, during your next major event in your life, take sometime and tap, tap, tap....and look from the outside looking in at your event.

What are you doing?

Is it really in line with your goals, do you have goals written down? Do you think your on the right path and direction?

What do you really want?

A quick review of your actions, thoughts and feelings right now. What if anything is in conflict with what your really want for you.

Are you on the road to getting there?

A change of direction if needed?  A prayer to ask for wisdom?  A stop and lets slow it down a bit maybe sort of action.  If you listen and truly listen to that still soft voice from within you will make the right choice.  Oh it may not be popular with your ego self but it will be right.

Is it not what you truly want, to be right, to do right for you?

Last question as you tap, tap, tap on your looking glass.

What would you do if you where free?

Stop, your saying, what do you mean by that...I am free...right?

We all have things that bind us, slow us down, prevent us from unstoppable bliss.  Maybe its fear, the unknown, our health, our feeling of wanting more....  These things can bind us, slow us down, cause us to feel caged.

So what of it?  What if you where free of these things, what if you just woke up one day, one moment, one minute and said ....

I am free!

Free from fear.

Free from worry.

Free from taking care of stuff that I know pass over to God.

Lord give me wisdom, give me that wisdom in my interaction with others today.  Help me Lord, to leave any worries, any fears, any illness with your loving touch.

Help me Lord to make a difference, to shine my light, to inspire another to smile, to be whole again.

A simple prayer, but a prayer that in the end says I am now free.

Tap, tap, tap.....everyone should look through there own glass once in awhile.  You might just see what Alice in the quote from the start didn't see......seeing something is always better than not looking at all.

Dream ~ Smile ~ Laugh~ Love always

and as always smiles sent out to you!  : )


10/01/11

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Love, Gratitude and Action



If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so
— Seneca (8 BC-65 AD)
When we 'will' something to be so in anything with action, it is indeed so.

My your actions today bring the attitude of gratitude into your spirit and your daily walk.
May you first 'will' it to be so and it shall be. Smiles as always sent to thee.
Love perhaps on of the greatest gifts one person can receive from another.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous;
Love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly
it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take
into account a wrong suffered.
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things,
endures all things,
hopes all things,


Love never fails, But now faith, hope, love, abide these three;


but the greatest of these is love.



~ 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7, 13


Love, true unconditional love never fails.

You start each day with prayer, giving love and praise to God.

You then speak your gratitude for the love of what you have in your life.

You laugh with no fear that anything will impede on your love and gratitude and that all challenges have solutions.

You do these three things.

Love, speak gratitude from your lips and laugh.
Your onto something, I promise you.

Love with all your might what has been given to you.

Give thanks for what you have and don't focus one minute on what you don't have.

We all have plenty.  

Plenty of life, opportunity, and blessings from above.

We just need to act on these opportunities.  

Belief and action that we have all we need.  

Does that mean we don't strive for more?

Of course not, but when we set our goals, when we make our plan, when the results start to pour in and we re-evaluate our next steps and we have these things in our life, magic starts to happen.

We work on things out of love, not fear.

We share things based on how grateful we are and lack greed.

We make things happen because we believe and have no doubt.

Stay grateful today, speak it out to the world.

Love always, dream big and laugh freely.

Just a few thoughts today.

Smiles sent your way   :  )
09/13/11
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Taking Inventory of self


I send to you  a smile.   A smile to lift your spirit or take it higher.  A smile for you to enjoy but please pass it on.  Make a difference, be that light for another the one that simply states your light can shine as well.
A quote from James Lee Burke:
There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
Wow, so true that.
Rejection by our fellow man/woman can come in many forms.  From childhood someone is chosen last for that game on the playground.  Young men and women face rejection at the school dance.  We get laid off at work and time and time again we search for a job and we wait for acceptance.  We take inventory of our accomplishments and even reject our selves for not making or having enough.

How important to this world the word 'Gratitude'.  To teach our children that they are more than enough they are great, special and loved.  That they can love and be loved no matter what.

How important to have this foundational value in place and daily speak to the world that your grateful and content and open to make a difference for another.
You see when we serve we allow the energy of the world to flow through us.
Take inventory on what your grateful for.
Take inventory on the blessings God has bestowed on you.
Take inventory on the love that is there just because you are here.
You are loved.
You are special.
You are unique and designed and created in God's image.
What more do you or I really need to feel special or accepted.
We are all ready are both.
Smiles sent your way   :  )
09/06/11
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