The Gift!

“The more difficult it is to do something good, the more valuable the good we do.”

When we don’t feel well, it’s difficult to be thoughtful or nice.
When we are being treated poorly by life or a friend, it’s difficult to remain dignified; it’s a challenge to act our best.

Yet these difficult times are valuable opportunities to develop our best human ability—the ability to be kind and good.

Every life has struggle and challenge; every life has difficult times.
Yet struggle gives us the opportunity to get the most from life.

Struggle gives us the ability to find our best.

Difficulty gives us resistance that can grow the good in us
if we choose to respond with our best, to the difficult times of life.

To hate or despise is an easy reaction. For the best of life, love instead!

It is easy to criticize or dislike someone. Yet it’s better for ourselves, and all the world, if we love instead.

Can you love this cat?

To love is divine: it frees our soul and makes us healthy. Yes, healthy! Our body and mind work best when we are involved in love—thinking and acting with love by willful intent.

As we move our thoughts from hate and dislike, to a life of love, we feel ease and safety—a fullness of life. We feel ourselves again. Our thoughts and bodies relax. We become free to enjoy who we are, to appreciate each day.

Love is a choice, a direction to take. We can love every moment of the day if we choose!

Make the choice to love yourself, to love your life, to appreciate the world in which you live.

Find something good to love today! Love every chance you get—with every thought, word and action you make. Your life will improve.

Love is health.

To resist or not to resist, that is the question?

Of course we want to resist a virus or a disease; there are many things we
do not want or need in our life. We should resist temptations that could kill
us or do harm.

However, when do we really need to resist or defend? Most of life will go quite
well, if we do not resist the process of love in ourselves or others.

Much of our resistance may be unnessary, without reason and not helpful
to our situation?

Have you resisted the length of the day? Do you resist the morning
when you awake? Do you resist the sun when it goes down?

Do you resist the ride to work? Do you resist your life in any way?

Why not give in to the fact that we live, that we are alive? Why not give in to the fact
that we love and accept?

Resistance, as a frame of mind, is rarely required. Resistance to our nature of giving
can strangle our life.

Resistance to the love of our soul, mind and heart can make our life short and ill defined.

Why resist when resistance is not required?

Why not give yourself to love in an open way, not resisting who you are?

By nature, we are open, loving and giving… it is the way we are designed.

Give in to life and the best of who you are; why resist?

As we bring love into play, the world changes its way.

The way out of suffering is a spiritual path—a path that returns us to our origin.

We may question our pain, thinking we did not cause it, that the situation is not our fault? This may be true, but if we want release from pain, no matter how it began, it is our responsibility.

It is our problem and requires we take action. Our intent will be the gateway to relief.

Though our spirit may seem failing and uneasy, this same spirit will take us out of pain.

We must ask for help and share our suffering. This dissipates our pain and unifies our spirit with the world.

The world does not want us to suffer; it is not our design to be in pain. When we are at peace, and in agreement with life, suffering falls away. As we sense our perfect core and the love of life, healing takes place…

As we know we are made of love, we conform to our design of health. As we know and see our spirit in strength, our suffering will ease.

Healing may happen quickly, but also may take time. It may take time to heal a difficult situation? It is important, however, that we begin.

As we suffer, we may get lost and confused. And who among us has not suffered or been mistaken to some degree? We all have suffered; suffering affects our thoughts and will. Let us be humble and seek our core of love, and know the love of the world.

In love, all things recover—the world, our life and health. In love, there is no accident.

The way out of suffering comes by persistent effort, taking action toward our core of love.

We are not separate from the goodness of life. Love is with us, present as who we are. Feel the love of life; feel the cohesion. We belong.

The presence of love is composed as all things.

If we look, we can feel and see the presence of love–it is an everywhere bliss. The feeling of life is the presence of love, belonging to all of the world.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love”)

The spark feels powerful inside us. Its tune is love. This love can be soft and warm as a friend’s embrace, or strong and immediate, mending what is torn.

The spark lives on in everyone and everything. We may appear separate and apart, but we are united in our origin and unified by life.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love”)