Trusting.

This morning’s readings suggests the idea of climbing the ladder of life and trusting God to keep that ladder solid.

I have been climbing this ladder for 60 years.

I have struggled at times, I have stopped, I have simply stepped off the ladder and refused to get back on.

Obviously I did get back on and continued to climb this ladder we call life.

I find it easier to climb when I am grateful for life.

When I say thank you for my breath. Thank you for the many gifts in life.

Thank you for all the other humans who have supported me, taught me, cheered me on, booed me, and loved me.

Today I sit in humble appreciation for all of life, the good, bad, joyful, and painful.

May each of you find gratitude for your life.

You are Loved.

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This morning I am reminded to trust the intuition of God in all my dealings.

In my past I have labeled others through judgements based on my own insecurities.

During this journey I have come to find all beings are of God and are in my life as messengers from whom I get to learn more about myself.

When I begin my day with gratitude and acceptance, I find my perception of others is welcoming and friendly.

When I find myself returning to the old judgments, I stop, breathe, reset, and continue on with my day.

Today I intend to enter each experience with compassion, humor, empathy, understanding, acceptance, appreciation, kindness, peace and Love.

These are the characteristics I choose for me today.

May each of you find your leading today.

You are Loved.

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I have done this and ended up disappointed.

What I discovered is I need to feel as though what I want has already happened.

To live in complete trust, joy, happiness of what the Creator has in store for me.

To live out each moment with appreciation for the amazing life I get to live.

Maintaining gratitude for the amazing creation in which I live.

The more I focus on my appreciation, the more people, places, things, and situations I appreciate come into my life.

Joy is knowing that God has placed me in this life to live out fully, the gifts and talents I have been given in order to be of service to the greatest number of people.

May you live as though you are already living out your greatest life.

You are Loved.

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As I have gone through life, I have had many experiences which I believed told me I was a bad person and I lived in guilt and shame.

I would work really hard to be a better person and try to prove I was a good person.

I did do some things which looked good, yet I still believed I was not good enough.

During this journey I have come to find that it is my self-view not my deeds which dictates how I feel.

I can do every amazing thing but if my self-view still says I am not good enough I will never be able to do enough.

I learned how to take each experience, identify how I feel and why I feel that way and then replace the beliefs about myself behind each feeling of guilt or shame.

I am learning how to see my feelings and instructions.

When I feel bad, I check on the why I choose that feeling and change it.

When I feel happiness, joy, and peace I have nothing to change.

The two thought processes I work on consistently are acceptance and appreciation.

These have been two of the most instructive thought processes I have ever used.

When I live in acceptance that life is exactly as it is supposed to be in my life today, I can experience peace.

When I live in appreciation, I will attract more things I appreciate.

This process has taken me many years, and I continue to go through more changes today.

May each of you find your instructions for your responses to life.

You are Loved.

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The birther of the cosmos, that which breathed life into all creation.

It is through that connection that we receive the strength we need to grow into that which we were meant to be.

We are uniquely equipped to live in duality to create unity.

We are light and dark, happy and sad, angry and peaceful, frustrated and accepting, resentful and appreciative, and we are nothing and everything, no one and everyone.

We are the parts that make up the whole.

In this unity we are the strength needed to create a new world.

We are the ones to bring out the Love that is God to all of creation.

May you find your strength today.

You are Loved.

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During this journey, I have discovered how the game of guilt and shame is a trap.

It may have been intentioned get me to feel so bad that I would begin to obey some doctrine so I would behave but I turned it into a cycle of self-defeat.

In my recovery I have discovered how forgiveness is the destroyer of the self-defeating cycles.

After my first experience with the 5th step is when I first felt true forgiveness.

I remember feeling completely free and I felt like I was floating.

I had become willing to be forgiven and to be forgiving.

I had started a long journey of self-discovery, unlearning, and becoming honest.

I ebbed and flowed in this process, and I caused harm to myself and others, yet I remained willing to learn.

Today I no longer respond to life in a manner that causes harm to myself or others.

Today I remain willing to learn how to be the best version of myself and that include forgiveness.

May each of you allow yourself the gift of giving and receiving forgiveness.

You are Loved.

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I used to try and plan out how my life would work out. I even planned how I would feel when the plans worked out.

I would connive, lie, cheat, steal, and manipulate to make my plans work out.

They rarely did, and when they did, I did not feel as I had hoped.

During this road trip of awakening, I discovered a new way.

Trusting the nudges from the creator.

Through practicing daily appreciation statements and meditation, I get to tune into the frequency of the Divine Source and flow with the next right action.

When I step away from my ego-based beliefs and become the observer who holds no judgement of right or wrong every decision is an opportunity to expand.

In this expansion I get to discover the goodness of all creation.

May each of you find your connection to God and allow guidance.

You are Loved.

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Many practices call it Gods will.

I have gone through many experiences which brought me consequences.

Some consequences I preferred and others I did not.

After unlearning the guilt and shame response and replacing it with simple observations with no judgments of right or wrong, I get to discover what is for my greatest good and what is not.

My conception of God is that of Love which means I am loved so much that I get to figure out the Divine design for my life through experiences.

Today when I am living out compassion, empathy, acceptance, appreciation, humor, kindness, peace and Love, I am in the stream of good.

I appreciate feeling good and this lifestyle has allowed me more days of feeling good than not.

May each of you find your stream of good.

You are Loved.

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I need only to take the time to review my experiences and be willing to learn the lessons of each one.

This presents as impossible at the time of very painful experiences yet later on I can always learn the lesson.

The beautiful part is once I have learned the lesson and made my changes, I get to move on to a new lesson.

It is always the struggle that brings us the changes.

The Creator has granted us these amazing lives to experience so many awsome things.

May you allow yourself of learning and evolving.

You are Loved.

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Today’s reading reminded me this is about human relationships.

I can do all things in human relationships when I am tuned into the frequency of God.

Those I used to hate I can now appreciate.

Those who I feared I now accept as equals.

Those I thought were less than, are now fully respected.

It is in the judgement of self and others that I lose the abundance of Divine Love.

It is always available, yet my making judgements puts me out of tune with the frequency of God’s Love.

Today I practice living in appreciation, acceptance, understanding, humor, compassion, empathy, kindness, peace, and Love.

Beginning with me and expanding outward to all those who enter my experience.

May each of you find your abundance of Divine Love.

You are Loved.

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