I dedicate myself on this third day to focus on all that is nourishing, advancing, and promising!
Yesterday, I failed in the nourishing department. Leftover Tootsie Rolls from the over 200 "trick or treaters" were too much of a temptation.
While crocheting a prayer shawl for a dear friend whose grandson is in the hospital fighting cancer, I came across this Jewish Shawl Blessing:
Bar-chi naf-shi et A-do-nai.
Praise the Eternal one, O my soul!
O God, You are very great!
As I center my thoughts on loving others, I remember these words:
"You shall love your neighbors as yourself. There is no other commandment greater."
~ Mark 12:31
From Silent Unity: "I envision and affirm peace for the world."
Over the years I have met older people who find themselves returning to the church to be closer to God. Because their mortality is in question, and fear of not much time left, they want to leave this world, "in good standing," as some have said. I have compassion for this need "to meet God." But, I am, however, comforted by the words of Jesus when his disciples asked him, "What is God's relationship to the dead?" He replied, "God is not a God of the dead but of the living, for in His sight all are alive." For me, this means that we clearly live in a spiritual universe where our human forms change but not our spiritual forms. My thoughts, my body, my life all live so that God can live through me.
Tomorrow is not meant as an escape from today. Being grateful for what I have now only increases and supports the abundance that surrounds me.
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