Gratitude in advance

Five more sleeps until Christmas day and the gathering of the family and the sharing of gifts. 

Something to think about "feeling gratitude in advance, before you even receive, as if you already had, whether for direction or abundance or anything else, opens the floodgates of joy".

Choice

To make hard tasks easy, mountains molehills, and challenges simple, you can opt for one of two paths. 

• You can be still, wait for guidance, and expect spontaneous enlightenment.
• Or you can just roll up your sleeves and get busy doing what you can, with what you've got, from where you are.

May I suggest the second choice? It's usually much faster. And if you believe in divine intervention this choice makes you a lightning rod for divine guidance and spontaneous enlightenment.

Fear

When fear speaks,  it's always wrong.

Shine on harvest moon

Life is wonderful, full of love, laughter and joy especially at this time of year. But for many, this time of year is a time of darkness and pain. This is the time of the year that those of us who have light in our lives want to reach out and help those who are in pain. 

Some people welcome the help while others reject the help. I wondered why and then I realized that in the short run, there are two types of people who live in darkness:

1. those who are desperate to emerge
2. and those who are desperate to stay.

Our role is to reach out to those who are desperate to emerge from the darkness. By helping to shine your light for the first type of person you will enable them to move out of the darkness. 

It may be hard, but we have to stop worrying about the second type of person and what they may say or think. Shine your little heart out for those who want to emerge into the joy and wonder of life at this time of year. One day those who are desperate to stay will become desperate to emerge and you will be there for them as well.