I was the first client at my nail salon this morning.  The owners are away.  I noticed their little dog, running to the door every time one of the employees showed up.  He barked excitedly and danced around – yet he kept watching the door.  I thought “Oh poor doggie, he’s waiting for his owners.” And as I had this thought, he turned and looked at me.  I suddenly realized that for him, everything was the same, yet everything was different.  His surroundings were the same. Most of the people around him were the same, yet his life was different.

I remember feeling this way when my Mother died.  I came back to Hawai’i after the funeral surprised to see that there were rosebuds getting ready to bloom, weeds to pull, household chores needing to be done. Life had gone on while I was away, and that was mindboggling.  Life would continue, but it had all changed in some way. 

Many people are feeling this way today.  Changes are happening.  Savings, homes and jobs have been lost. Everything has changed, yet life goes on.  This feeling is not safe, not comfortable.  

There is, however, one thing we can count on never changing - Principle.  It is always going to respond to our thoughts and feelings – it can not stop. That is Its nature.   It is more important now than ever before that those of us who consider ourselves metaphysicians, do the work we have been trained to do.  Maybe this is why we were drawn to this teaching.  For this moment in time.  To be able to stand in Truth, regardless of appearances, and stem the flood of fear. 

First we have to stem it in our own lives.  Let me tell you this – the worst is over.  Do not get mesmerized by the media.  Start declaring you live in a friendly Universe, and It is continually conspiring for your greatest good and highest joy.  Be really grateful – for everything you had (even if you don’t have it anymore), for everything you have now – and everything that will have.  Do everything you can for the people in your life, starting with knowing the Truth for them.  Make a daily practice of knowing the Truth for our world.  Even thought it might look like everything is falling apart, the Truth is, everything is falling into its right and perfect place.  Smile.  Smile at everyone and smile at your reflection in the mirror.  Life is getting better every day.

This is not airy-fairy.  This is using Principle.  God in us as us, works through us.  Let’s make it a good working.

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

I recognize the powerful Presence of Life in and as all.  I know It is love and law.  It is infinitely intelligent and unconditionally loving.  It is everywhere, including within us.

I now declare we live in a world that works for everyone.  The shifts taking place in every corner of our world, and our lives, are sacred shifts.  Our intentions for a peaceful world, a world without lack and limitation, a healthy world, are manifesting right here and now.  Regardless of how it looks, this is what’s happening.

I choose to stand in the Truth.  I will not let anything shake me off Center.  I have the Power of the Universe behind me as I make these declarations.  And this is good, very good.

Gratefully I release these words, knowing the Law works!!  I am happy that it works so well, and I am grateful to be a conduit of Good.    And so It is.

Yesterday I had sort of a Twilight Zone experience.  I was in the front of our building, and my neighbor asked me if I knew who had a small orange cat, and as she was asking, my cat, Romy, came running around the corner.  “That one,” she said, pointing at him.

I told her Romy was mine, and she told me he shows up every morning at her back door, meowing. She lets him in and he runs to her daughter’s bed and has a nap with her!  My neighbor has been calling him “Morris.”   I asked her to please not feed him, and we both laughed.  Romy loves to eat!!

As I went back to my townhome, I marveled at the ‘second life’ my cat has. 

I think I know him pretty well.   To me, Romy’s daily routine is: Wake up Mom at 6:00 am, get fed, go outside, come back in at 10 am, get lots of pets and cuddles, curl up on sofa until 2 pm, go outside, back in at 4PM for dinner, play “I’m escaping thru the front door” when it opens because cat door is locked, sleep on the basement couch ‘til 9 PM, come upstairs and bug Mom to play with toys, sleep on her bed.

He’s very friendly, showing up during people visits to greet everyone, and playing with the dogs I take care of within a few hours after their arrival.

Yet here’s a whole new aspect of him I didn’t know.  I’ve also seen him coming home from the direction of the house opposite our building – I wonder if he has another life there?

When my roommate arrived home, I thought about how I think I know who he is – and yet he has another life outside the home as well.  That made me wonder how many assumptions have I made about people because of my limited association with them?

There is one thing I can assume and be right every time!   No matter who it is, human or animal, (or mineral or plant), it is God in form.  God is so much more than we could possibly ever imagine – and so are we!

This Easter, join me in removing the preconceived ideas we’ve had about how Life works in our experience, and bless it all by knowing the Truth!!

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

Spirit is alive and aware in me, as me.  It is the Lifeforce within me, and the things my Lifeforce interacts with.  It is my feeling nature, It is my thoughts. It is absolutely everything. All there is – is God.  This is my Truth. 

From this moment I release myself from judgment and see Life as it actually is.  I know It is beautiful.  It is kind.  It is loving.  It is generous.  It is nurturing.  These are the things I want it to be, and so It is. 

I declare my eyes are open to the greater Vision that is present.  My heart is open to greater Love.  My Mind is open to new ideas and concepts to live authentically.  God in me, as me, is living a great life.

I celebrate this Life with every fibre of my being.  God is good.  And So It Is.

Here’s an example:  “I want to go on the trip with you but I don’t have the money.”

Here are some possibilities of what is being said:  The person has the money and doesn’t want to go on the trip.  The person doesn’t really want to go on the trip, and doesn’t have the money anyway.  The person wants to go on the trip and wants you to pay for it.  The person wants to go on the trip, doesn’t have the money at the moment, and isn’t willing to do what’s necessary to acquire the money.  The “lie” is that the person lives in a limited universe.

For me, the use of the word “but” is a signal that the speaker is going to argue for their limitations. Many of us do this, including me!!  The Truth is, we live in an unlimited universe.  The only limits we experience are ones we accept for ourselves and our world.  In our teaching anything is possible if we believe.  I personally know that if I really want to do something, everything necessary to do that shows up.   

Notice when you argue for your limitations – are you being honest with yourself?  With your Self?

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

Today I remind myself of an essential Truth: There is only God – the One Life that is the source and substance of all there is – including me.

I now choose to set up a “witness” in my mind to gently, and with humour, remind me of when I am arguing for my limitations.  In Truth there are none, and this is where I choose to be. I declare I am living in an unlimited Reality filled with creative potential.  I open my heart and mind to my authenticity.  I tell the Truth.  I am filled with Love and Light.   I know nothing is impossible to those who believe!

The desires of my heart are now manifest.  This is good, very good.   I am so grateful for this teaching, for being able to recognize when I am off track, to be able to bring myself back to Centre with ease.  I am living in Grace.  

I release these words to the Law of Mind, knowing they are already done.  And so it is.  

My friend Nancy sent me this note today:

“I work in the sewing room at Hilo Medical Center.... The other day one of the physical therapists came in and asked me to stitch something really fast on a couple of wrist splints.
My scissors fell of the table....as I reached down to pick them up she said " An absolutely brilliant tool.....scissors" and smiled.
It was an "aha" moment of sorts. After she left the room, I looked at my scissors and was grateful for them.
Who-da thought?”

Wednesday night our Centre community gathered to celebrate the Earth, and as we drummed and sang and prayed, it became all about gratitude. I read a quote from the Catholic writer Ernesto Cardenal from Abide in Love who observed: "Everything in nature has a trademark, God's trademark: the stripes on a shell and the stripes on a zebra; the grain of the wood and the veins of the dry leaf; the markings on the dragonfly's wings and the pattern of stars on a photographic plate; the panther's coat and the epidermal cells of the lily petal; the structure of atoms and galaxies. All bear God's fingerprints."

We began to acknowledge patterns:  butterfly wings, spider webs, the glistening of snow in the moonlight, the rainbow effects of oil on cement, the ripples of a drop of water, the feathers on an eagles wing, the petal whirls of flowers, the threads in the carpet beneath us and the cellular structure of our bodies.

I noticed none of us shared “big” things … and the phrase ‘it’s the little things that count’ came to mind.  And there are gazillions of little things making up the place you are sitting right now.

Stop reading and look around you.  Let yourself have an open eyed gratitude meditation …

I am grateful for my chair, the table I am sitting at, pens, paper, my computer, the printer, my camera, the phone, and all the cords that help them work, my journal, my coffee cup, the table cloth, my warm fuzzy slippers and robe.  Each one of these I can follow deeper, finding even more things to be grateful for – like the electricity in my home and the recycled pop bottles that are now the fleece robe I am wearing. 

Our lives are made of little things…. And Gratitude – it’s the key to being happy.  

Blessings, Rev. Angelica

SPIRITUAL MIND TREATMENT

Gratefully I acknowledge God in the details of my life.  This reminds me God is absolutely everywhere.  There isn’t a place where God is not.

My life is made of little things.  I open my mind to see them.  I open my heart to appreciate them. In my mind’s eye, I see a web of ‘little things’ connecting everything and everyone together.  I am so grateful to be an essential part of this web of Life.  I am grateful to be able to recognize my value in this web.  As I recognize the little things, I am honuring their purpose.  As I see all these little things as expressions of the Divine, I am honouring my purpose.    

God is absolutely everywhere – and where ever God is, all is well.   I know this is True, I claim it and I accept it, and this is good, very good.

I release these words with a full heart.  And so it is.