Trust Your Intuiton

Many years ago I learned something. A prayer is us talking to God, and often it's through our intuition that it is He talking to us.

We all have answers to our prayers. Sometimes we're not silent or aware enough to recognize them though. Very often, we simply ignore the promptings of our intuition, or dismiss them as foolish thoughts, reasoning upon them too much.

So continuing from yesterday, the third part of being prepared for abundance is learning to listen to your own intuition: That little voice within you that is speaking. Trust it. It can bring you to the place you desire to be, and it can keep you from harms way if you but pay attention to it.

Be aware of signs and circumstances that happen around you, too. It could be a phone call from out of the blue, or a new person that comes into your life that can lead to answers you've been seeking. It might be a magazine that happens to be open to a certain article with information you need. There are so many occurrences throughout our lives that shouldn't be ignored. Your answers are all around you.

We all can have revelations, illuminations, and inspiration. Those are not just for a few chosen elect, but for everyone, for we are ALL Children of God.

Life is exciting-embrace it,
Donna

Thought for the day:

Don't chase after the butterfly. Be silent, and allow it to gently land on your shoulder.

Visualize and Feel Your Dreams

With the average person who has thought in terms of lack for such a long time, it often becomes very difficult to think in terms of a rich consciousness. However, just as an architect first mentally sees in every minute detail the building he wishes to erect before he draws it out carefully on paper, we have to mentally see our dreams in order for them to be fulfilled in our life.

Continually prepare yourself for abundance. First, watch your words. Don't get lazy and say just anything that pops out. Remember what Helen Keller said, "I jealously guard my thoughts." Your thoughts lead to what you say verbally as well as what you say to yourself silently. They are a doorway to what occurs in your life.

Second, live in expectancy, and become as a little child and use your God-given gift of imagination. Imagine that you already have what you desire. Little children do that at Christmas time. Their hearts and minds are filled with expectancy. They have no doubt that what they've wished for from Santa will come. Do likewise even if you're 94. Get into a childlike state of believing with all your heart and soul. Feel the excitement even though your desires are "not yet seen." That's what faith is. Miracles will happen.

Love to all,
Donna

Thought for the day:

"Imagination is man's workshop, the sizzors of the mind, where he is constantly cutting out the events of his life!" Florence Scovell Shinn

Law of Abundance

Continuing with the posts before our new grandson was born---

You know, my Friend, the Law of Abundance is as definite as the Law of Gravity. It's the kin to the Law of Attraction and works as unerringly. If it's not being demonstrated in your life, it is possibly because your holding back and still under the bond of mental limitation.; however, just remember, there is no lack in "Him in whom all fullness lies."

If you pinch your supply pipe with fears, doubts, the terror of coming to want, or a "what will I do" anxiety mindset, you are limiting the supply of abundance instead of allowing the inexhaustable flow you might have. It's the dwelling on the thing whatever the problem may be; fearing it, worrying about it, expressing anxiety over it, or terror about it, that attracts us to it and it to us.

There's no limitation with God! We just tap into the spiritual supply pipe with a miserable little hole of faith.

However, if you have the faith that creates, the faith that believes the best is coming to you, you can reach out mentally into the Great Stream of Plenty. The supply is there. It rests with you to make the connection that will draw you into the life of abundance; wholeness of mind, body and estate.

Once again, Hebrews 11:1--Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, though the evidence is not yet seen. BELIEVE!

More next time...

Love and joy,
Donna

Smile Away

It's a beautiful Sunday. The sun is shining, and I hope that you are enjoying life today with family and/or friends.

I have a lovely poem for you.

Smile Away

The thing that goes the fartherest toward making life worthwhile,
That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow man,
Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the sun again;
It's full of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent---
It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.

There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile;
It always has the same good look---It's never out of style;--
It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue;
The dimples of encouragement are good for me and you.
It pays a higher interest for it it is merely lent--
It's worth a million dollars, and doesn't cost a cent.

A smile comes very easy--you can wrinkle up with cheer,
A hundred times before you can squeeze out a soggy tear.
It ripples out, moreover, to the heartstrings that will tug,
And always leaves an echo that is very like a hug.
So smile away. Folks understand what by a smile is meant,
It's worth a million dollars, and doesn't cost a cent!

Love and joy,
Donna

Friendship Is Precious

I have been spending time with my daughter today helping her with her new son and two little girls 5 and 3. We were watching children's videos together that the girls love, and they put in the Disney DVD, The Book of Pooh, that I spoke about in a previous post.

It's delightful as I said before. Quite often the children's DVD's bring out points that adults can learn from, too. There are wonderful little stories about acceptance and friendships that we can all take to heart.

One in particular featured Rabbit who can be a bit stuffy and all knowing, and Tigger who is, well, Tigger. After being annoyed and frustrated with Tigger in trying to teach him to grow a garden, Rabbit comes to understand that Tigger, though unlike him, had special qualities of his own that could be appreciated and looked upon with fondness and love.

Everyone has special qualities that can add to our lives. Be a friend and you'll have friends. Just love, be non-judgmental, and enjoy the people you call a friend because "Friendship is Precious."

Love to all,
Donna

A New Life; New Baby

My oldest daughter had her third baby, first boy, a couple of hours ago so this post will be short. What a miracle a birth is! Watching that new life be born is awesome. And, he's so beautiful.

You are awsome, too, my Friend. This world is a beautiful place. Soak in the wonders of your world, and enjoy life, play with children, enjoy your friends, and make new friends. Love, laugh, and be glad to be alive!


Love,
Donna, AKA Nana

Stream of Plenty

It's a beautiful sunny day here in the midsouth. It's wonderful to see the sun shining and feel its warmth again.

I posted yesterday on attracting prosperity. Prosperity is an "inward consciousness" of spiritual opulence, completeness. We can't feel poor when we're enveloped in the all-supply, know that God is our partner-shepherd, and truly believe "we shall not want."

There was a story told many years ago about a poor woman who had all of her life lived in the country. She moved to a progressive little village, and to her surprise, she found that her new home had electricity. She knew nothing about electicity, had never even seen an electric light before, and the little 8 candle power electric bulbs with which the house was fitted seemed very extraordinary to her.

Later, a man came along one day, selling a new kind of electric bulb and asked the woman to allow him to replace one of her little bulbs with one of his new style 60 candle power bulbs just to show her what it would do. Well, she consented, and when the electricity was turned on she stood there in amazement. It seemed nothing short of a magic that such a little bulb could give so wonderful a light. "Almost like sunlight," she said.

She never dreamed that the source of the new flood of illumination had been there all the time. The enormously increased light came from the same current which had been feeding her little 8 candle bulb.

We smile at the story since we are so used to the wonderment of the electric supply to our homes in this modern day. However, the majority of us are far more lacking in the knowledge of our own power than she was of the electric current. We go through lfe using the 8 candle power bulb, believing we are getting all the power that can come to us, all that we can express, or that destiny will give us, believing that we are limited to the 8 candle bulbs of life. We never dream that an infinite current, a current in which we could be perpetually bathed would flood our lives with light, with a light that is inconceivably brilliant and beautiful if we would only put in a larger bulb, make a larger connection with the infinite supply current to our lives.

We seem to think that our source of supply is limited. It never occurs to us that the trouble is not in the current itelf, or that there is limit, but it is in the small bulbs we are using. How do we unplug the source to the "stream of plenty?"

More in my next post...

Love,
Donna

How to Attract Prosperity

There is the infinite, never-failing Law of Attraction. It is as strict as that of mathematical laws. Opulence follows the law as does poverty. If we obey the law we get the opulent flow. If we disobey, we get cut off from the flow.

Fears and doubts repel prosperity. Abundance cannot get to a person who holds such a mental attitude. Things that are unlike in the mental realm repel one another. Trying to become prosperous while always talking poverty, dreading it, or predicting it by flippingly saying such phrases as the one I mentioned a few posts ago, "Money talks, and it always says good-bye to me." How often do we make jokes or remarks about money or our health that are negative? Remember your words are a force.

This will cause you to visualize circumstances, picture lack, and keep you from that which you desire to have-wholeness. Nothing can attract prosperity but that which is expressed in prosperous thought, conviction, faith, words, and ambition.

Most of us tap into the the great life supply with a tiny pipe, and then pinch off the the flow even further with fears, doubts, anxieties, worry, and uncertainties. There is no lack in "Him in whom all fullness lies." The pinching, the limitation, is in ourselves, "for He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with every good thing."

More next time...

Have joy thoughts,
Donna

The Path to Greater Things

Dream constantly of the ideal; work ceaselessly to
perfect the real.

Believe in yourself; believe in everybody;

Believe in all that has existence.

Give the body added strength; give the mind added
brillancy; give the soul added inspiration.

Do your best under every circumstance, and believe
that every circumstance will give the best to you.

Live for the realization of more life and for the
more efficient use of everything that proceeds from
life.

Desire eternally what you want; expect eternally
what you desire; and act as if every expectation were
coming true.

Picture courtesy of www.geekphilosopher.com

Conversations with Children-Cont'd

To continue my posts of a few days ago---

Our conversation should always deal with the strong points of children's character. Take time with them. Find their talents. Discover their strong points and concentrate on those. Everyone has strong points. Frame our conversations with children to focus on those points. Anyone can find faults and weaknesses. To discover the hiddent talents and bring those out is the special gift we can give our children.

We have 6 children who are all grown now. But each one is very different. They all came for the same mold, so-to-speak,; however, they're all as different as night and day in their unique talents. To expect one to be like the other or like ourselves is only building up wall that can become immovable.

Our conversations with them should have an optimistic tendency and an uplifting tone. It should deal with those things in life that are worth while, and it should always give the ideal the greatest prominence. Weaknesses should be recognized as little as possible and should seldom be mentioned.

When people engage in destuctive, negative conversation around your family, endeavor to change the subject by calling attention to positive subject matter-the better side. There always is another and a better side. Thoughts are things: Words are a force. So any conversation around your family should be uplifting and positive.

Admirable qualities exist everywhere in everyone, and it will prove profitable to give these undivided attention.

Love and joy to you,
Donna

Something Each Day

Hope you are doing very well today. Just as a butterfly lands gently on a flower, our words can be a gentle touch on someone's life each day.

Many have expressed to me over the years that they don't have anything to offer anyone. I've just reassured them that they did have something very valuable: their words, their encouragement, a kindness done. These have more worth than anyone can imagine.

Here are a few wise words from a magazine published a hundred years ago. Hope you enjoy.

Something Each Day

Something each day---a word.
We cannot know its power;
It grows in fruitfulness
As grows the gentle shower.
What comfort it may bring,
Where all is dark and drear!
For a kind word every day
Makes pleasant all the year.

Something each day--a deed
Of kindness and of good,
To link in closer bonds
All human brotherhood.
Oh, thus the heavenly will
We all may do while here,
For a good deed every day
Makes blessed all the year.

"Picture courtesy of www.geekphilosopher.com"

"Be Not Anxious"

"Be not anxious for your tomorrow.." -- Matthew 6:34

It's a great scripture. You needn't be anxious-another word for worry-for anything. God is greater than anything that can possibly happen. Have faith. "Faith," the Bible says, "is the assured expectation of things hoped for though the evidence thereof is unseen."--Hebrews 11:1.

Even though you do not know, not see, the outcome of a circumstance, TRUST, believe. Have the "assured expectation," or deep-down feeling, that all you have hope for shall be manifested, and it will be, "according to your faith."

Till tomorrow...

God bless,
Donna

Breathe in the Moments

"Breathe in the moments." - Great line from a movie I recently saw. What a shame it is; what a waste of precious time not to do so.

Live in the now. When you get right down to it, that's all we have. If we live in the past or worry about the future, we may just miss the great "moments" of the Nows; the Todays.

Live in joy filled Moments,
Donna

You and Today

With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.

The past has shrived and buried deep
All yesterdays--there let them sleep.

Concern yourself with but today;
Woo it, teach it to obey.

Your wish and will, since time began,
Today has been a friend of man.

But in his blindness and his sorrow
He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.

You and today! A soul sublime
And the great pregnant hour of time.

With God between to bind the train
Go Forth, I say--attain, atain.

A Poem: Words

I love writings from long ago. One of my favorites is this little poem.

"Words are great forces in the realm of life.
Be careful of their use. Who talks of hate,
Of poverty, of sickness, but sets rife
These very elements to mar his fate.

When love, health, happiness, and plenty hear
Their names repeated over day by day,
They wing their way like answering fairies near,
Then nestle down within our homes to stay.

Who talks of evil conjures into shape
The formless thing and gives life and scope.
This is the law; then let no word escape
That does not breathe of everlasting hope."---
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When you inwardly feel what you say, you give spiritual power to your words. So speak only that which is good and that power will produce good and bless your life.

Joy to you today,
Donna

A Loving Word

"Take the time to speak a loving word
Where loving words are seldom heard;
And it will linger in the mind,
And gather others of its kind,
Till loving words will echo where
Erstwhile the heart was poor and bare;
And somewhere on thy heavenward track
Their music will come echoing back,
And flood thy soul with melody,
Such is Love's immortality.

Say loving, kind words to all you meet,

Donna

You Are a Magnet

You are either a magnet that attracts all things bright, desirable, healthy, and joyous---or one that draws all things disagreeable, glomy, unhealthy, and destructive.--Dorothy Quigley

Have joy, gladness, and kindness in your eyes, your step, your smile, your thoughts, and your words, and you will live in joy and prosperity (wholeness).

Best to you today,
Donna

Some Wise Sayings for You

Are you happy now? Are you likely to remain so till this evening, or next month, or next year? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery which may never come at all? Every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of those shadows are of your own making.--Sydney Smith

Things without remedy,
Should be without regard:
What's done is done. ---William Shakespeare

Have a beautiful day,
Donna

Have a TIGGER Day!

Hope you are having a great day. The rain has been coming down very hard causing flooding in our town as it is in many parts of the U.S. We have flooding in our own home. Because of this, I'll be deviating a little in the next few posts so I can take care of the household things at hand.

However, I was curled up on my living room sofa this morning taking some time out with my sweet 2 1/2 year old granddaughter who came to visit us from 300 miles away with her parents and baby brother two days ago. We were watching a delightful "Winnie the Pooh" DVD which is one of her favorites, and one of the stories was about Tigger teaching Piglet how to bounce.

Tigger sings a song in which he says in part:

"If you want to bounce the bounce,
If you want to pounce the pounce,
You have to have a Joyfuliffic Tiggerish Mental Altitude..."

What a great song/saying from this wonderful children's movie and exactly what I needed as we are facing quite a clean up in the next few days. Sitting with my adorable little angel, watching her giggle at the movie, being around my family who we haven't seen in several months, all I could think was that, "All is well," as the scriptures say.

Look beyond your circumstances in everything, and know that, "All is well."

Stay dry and warm, and may you have a "joyfuliffic" day, as Tigger would say,
Donna

Note: Reference was made from The Book of Pooh-Stories from the Heart by Disney-I would highly recommend it. It's delightful!

Instructing Children in the Positive

Your conversation around children has such an exceptional value, and in many instances your words alone may change the destinies of young minds. To properly train children, their attention should always be directed as much as possible upon those qualities that have worth. The way they are spoken to will largely determine where he or she is going to direct their thoughts and give the greater part of their attention.

To scold and yell at a child is to remind them of their faults and ends up demeaning them. His good qualities are thereby made weaker while his bad qualities are made worse.

It's not possible to improve the mind and the character by telling him constantly not to do "this" or "that." As a rule, it will generally increase his desire to those things you tell him or her they shouldn't. Isn't that what usually happens?

When children are warned, they either enter a state of fear or one of curiosity. And, while in those states, their minds are so deeply and so easily impressed by that which is being warned against, that their whole attention is upon it. The result is that they think so much about it that they get almost completely absorbed in it; carried away, so to speak, not way from the danger, but right into it.

More on this next time...God bless the children.

Love & joy,
Donna

Thought for the day:

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." --Charles Dickens

Magnify the Good

How do you reprove wisely and constructively? Magnify the good; emphasize that which has worth. To advise or reprove someone in reminding a person of their faults will cause them to become more keenly conscious of those faults. They'll think more about them and so they'll be more likely to focus on those faults. Will that help them become better? Most likely not. Weaknesses of human nature should be recognized as little as possible, and should seldom, if ever, be mentioned.

To help our friends, spouses, and especially our children, we should never mention their faults. Our conversation should focus on the strong points in their character and their greater possibilities. There's enough people in the world that will cut them down and belittle them. We should frame our conversation so that we tend to make everybody feel that there's something of worth in them.

Use an optimistic tone. It should deal with those things in life that are worth while, and always give the ideal the greatest prominence.

Listen to them. Perhaps the problems they have are routed in frustration or feelings of inferiority. There are "neggies" floating around us all the time. You know, there those people who rain on everyone's parade. People who seem to take joy in making sure those around them feel as bad about themselves as possible by saying things that are just destructive. That's the power of words and emotions. Those neggies can make people-children-feel so bad that it causes anger and destructive behavior.

When someone needs to be reproved, you get a lot further with love. Rather than say, "That was just stupid. What were you thinking?" Find out the why's, really listen to them, and make constructive suggestions without belittling. Most of all, be patient. Sometimes it takes time.

We all have worth. We are all unique, special, creations that have never-ending potential and gifts. Find out what strengths are within everyone with whom you associate. By doing so, you'll discover the beauty within them and how special they are.

Next time, more on children...

Love & joy to you,
Donna