Tap, Tap, Tap

November 20th – Day 20 – Mental Challenge and Journey of Gratitude

I dedicate myself this 20^th day to focus on all that is nourishing, advancing, and promising! PNS

On so many levels we are one with everyone we encounter.  If we begin the day in anger, we can set the tone for the rest of the day.  Just as spreading joy brings happiness to others.

“The moment you start watching the thinker, a high level of consciousness becomes activated.  You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

I remember the exact day, not the date, but where I was when I began to see from a higher view.  I was walking a par course near my home early one morning.  I had been questioning my faith, having grown up as a Christian in a mainstream protestant church.  Now in my forties, the world had evolved.  With great technology, cell phones, cable TV and the Internet my world view was changing.  I walked, thinking about my dilemma when suddenly I felt three hard taps on my left shoulder and then a whisper in my right ear.  I heard, “Christianity is only a tiny speck in my eye.”  Even now as I write this I get goose bumps and feel the love and warmth of hearing God’s voice.  It was then that I realized I could see beyond my circle of intelligence to the “vast realm” that Tolle refers to.  I trust this higher perspective and welcome it.

Fast forward another twenty-five years and I read this: “There is only One Infinite God and every time man speaks to this God, he receives a direct answer.  ONE! ONE! ONE! [My tap, tap, tap!]  “I am God and there is none else.” ~ The Science of Mind

J. Sig Paulson writes, “The finest help we can give another human being is to recognize gratefully his or her true identity.”  He goes on the say, “According to the Bible, all of us are made in the image of God.  Our exercise in gratitude begins with these words: "I praise and give thanks for God’s image in me.”  And then we use the same exercise when praying for others saying, “I praise and give thanks for God’s image in you.”  He concludes by affirming that this exercise “will often change another’s life for the better.”

 

“Give thanks to God and look at life with a thankful spirit.” ~ Martha Smock