I’d recommend to every leader, at whatever level, and anyone who aspires to become one, to set aside one hour a day to meditate.  Build it in to your work day, if you can.  Let your employees know what you are doing — setting aside time to contemplate how to do a better job, to gain insights and ideas about how to run your business, or country, better.  Then sit down with a journal or pad of paper before you.  Pray first to help you connect with your Higher Source, whatever you wish to call it.  God will know who you mean.  After praying, focus on your breathing to keep your mind off your thoughts and to relax.  Eventually, you will be able to fall into the Silence, which is very soothing and very nurturing.  Sometimes you will hear messages, or insights or wisdom will just pop into your head.  Sometimes you’ll get a feeling about what you should do in a particular situation.  The Universe has many ways to communicate with us, and we are all different.  Write down messages and insights so you won’t forget.  Write down the steps you are given to take.  Write down your impressions and gut feelings without analyzing them.  Your mind will be tempted to discount them, especially if this is new to you or it seems to suggest the opposite of what seems logical.  God does not work in logic.  God transcends it.  Keep the pages.  Keep them away from others who may not be supportive of these new ideas or messages.  When you read them back later, you may be tempted to discount them because they don’t seem right to you.  Don’t.  It is your ego-mind trying to control you, to dominate your thinking.  You may not want to act on everything immediately.  You may need to bask in this new awareness until you feel comfortable implementing it.  That’s all right.  God knows that.  Do what feels right to you when it feels right to do it.  That, too, is the Universe guiding you.  After awhile, you’ll gain confidence in yourself and your Higher Power, and you’ll notice how much more smoothly things are going.  Continue to meditate daily, even on weekends and even on vacations.  Always carry your journal or pen and paper.  Keep them available at night, too, because sometimes God will wake you up in the middle of the night to give you important messages, because you’re less distracted then and it may be easier to get through to you.  If that happens, just relax, write the messages down so you’ll remember them in the morning and go back to sleep, calmly assured that God is working with you in your life to create peace, harmony and your heart’s content.  You can create anything with God guiding you, much more than your ego-self could ever create alone.  And you will enjoy the process.  It is a gift from the Universe to help you create joy in your life.  Be grateful, praise God, and all is well in your world. 

Faith, patience and acceptance.  This, too, will create miracles.  Faith in God to have your best interests at heart, patience with His Timetable, and acceptance of your present circumstances with as much serenity as possible.  And simplify in all areas of your life.  This, too, will help change lives.

Women are not chattel, regardless of how poor or how disenfranchised they may be.  It is a travesty what has occurred to women over the years — and what still occurs.  Rape is a sin against Humanity.  It is violence and it is perpetuated because it is condoned.    It is ignored and in that is the sin of omission.  They are God’s Servants, here for a mission.  To help show the world its violence and corruption.  And it must stop.  Men must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.  Rape kits must be processed regardless of the expense, for to do nothing is implied consent to the crime.  It is treating women as second-class citizens and perpetuating the myth    of inferiority.  We are not inferior.  We are Divine, here for a mission and a purpose.  To hold up the mirror to man’s insensitivity and callousness, their false sense of superiority and right.  It is time for women of the world to unite in our power, for there is power in numbers.  One person becomes stronger when supported by the voices of millions.  It is time to band together, husbands, sons and fathers to end the discrimination of women.  To share in the power, lest it destroy you.  God seeks equality in the home, the work place and the world.  And God will not be denied. 

Align with God.  Don’t lie, cheat, steal or swindle.  Be honest and kind.  Work hard and be generous to others.  Smile and be grateful.  Have faith.  Write down goals and dreams and focus on them daily as you quietly do your work in excellence.  Don’t criticize, condemn or complain because it drains you and everyone else.  Laugh.  Be cheerful and love.  Others as yourself.  Others as yourself.  And your world will change forever.  We live in a flexible, changing Universe and our thoughts help create our reality.  We are responsible for ourselves and our families, and we can create greatness.  It is within each of us and only needs to be recognized and cultivated.  God is working greatness through us.  It is a time for healing and miracles.  It is a time for prosperity and joy.  It is a time for Redemption.

Organized religion has perpetuated the illusion of separation, of prejudice and pride.  It has corrupted and it has sullied the birthright of our nations and our civilizations.  And it is now time to transcend religion.  It is time to touch our Divinity within.  It is time for us to know ourselves and our God — Divine, Kind, Loving and Powerful, the Creator of the Universe.  As within so without and around us.  As Above so Below.  It is time to create Heaven on Earth.  It is time to seek the humanity within us all.  It is time to end the violence and to end the illusion of separation.  We are One, and as we harm one, we harm each other.  As we violate one we violate ourselves.  One cannot defile another without defiling themselves, and as we raise others up, so, too, are we raised up.  It is a Law of the Universe.  Like attracts like and fear repels.  Love draws to itself and hatred rejects.  Let us grow and evolve to become all we can be — all we are meant to be.  There is no lack.  There is no separation for we all swim in the same sea of Humanity.  Clothed in different skin, cloaked in different ways, yet all the same, with beating hearts and loving hands.  We will decide which course to take.  We can continue to travel the road we are on and create more havoc, death and destruction.  Or we can forge a new path, one that God Himself holds out before us.  We choose.  As always, free will it is still called. 

God affects our physical world, our circumstances, for many reasons.  To draw us closer to Her, to teach us lessons, for us to grow in faith.  Nothing is random in God’s Economy, all perfectly planned for the Enlightenment at hand.  We just must believe to receive, and do things differently, from our hearts in gratitude, love and obedience.  And the best results will be when we all act in concert together, God’s Will to be Done.