Observe the lessons Life is offering you.  Observe the people, events and situations of your life.  Is there chaos, or peace and harmony?  You’ve attracted it to learn from.  You’ve attracted it to grow from, whether you like it or not.  Observe, praise God for the lesson, and let it go.  That’s much more difficult than it sounds.  It takes a tremendous amount of strength and maturity not to be vindictive.  Don’t.  Don’t waste your time and energy trying to scheme, to get even with someone who may have wronged you.  The Universe sees it all.  Seek to be gracious and kind in all your affairs — and powerful — they are not mutually exclusive, just rarely portrayed in our society.   

Pray and meditate every day for peace.  Don’t beg or beseech God for that shows fear and a lack of faith.  God is All Powerful and can effect change all over the world.  God can touch hearts in any language.  Feel gratitude and thank God in your heart for prosperity and joy in all your affairs.  And go about your work, whatever that may be, with the calm assurance that all is well in your world.  We are creating miracles. 

Our consciousness is like a sieve, and we perceive everything through it.  That’s why one event may have so many interpretations.  Everyone filters his version of reality.  And there is much distortion, aided and abetted by hatred and prejudice.  A paradigm shift is needed in Humanity’s thoughts and attitudes and it has begun, as one reads and believes my words sent out to you, via cyberspace.  And when enough believe, our world will change forever and only for the better.  Thank God, because we deserve better than what we’ve created. 

The Universe operates on parallel tracks, all with lessons to learn.  But some learn them in peace and harmony, others in chaos and fear.  Yet the Universe is forgiving, as a wise parent should be, and all can switch tracks at any time, as their consciousness decrees.  For when one learns the rules of how the world operates, why would one choose war?  For war is simply a symptom of what we fear — not enough of anything — oil, food, or love.  Yet the Universe gives clues for those wise enough to learn.  War can end with new insights, with awareness and dues.  All one must do is seek new solutions from the Higher Aspect of man — his God Consciousness.  It is there, imbedded in all, waiting to be discovered, waiting to be uncovered and used.  Nothing random and all of it sent for man’s Enlightenment.  And it is time to switch tracks from hatred and war to peace and compromise.  It is possible as we are willing to accept that possibility.  For everything starts in the mind.  And if we can conceive it and believe it, it can be achieved.

What is focused on is created.  Focus on peace, not war.  Focus on joy and happiness, not resentment and malcontent.  Thoughts create things and thoughts have created our world in chaos.  And we can create joy.

Turn off the news.  Don’t fill your mind with the things they want to show us.  Twenty-four hours of bad news — at home or around the world — will only thwart our purpose.  And our purpose is to create a New World where Peace, Joy and Harmony flourish in the Sight of God.

Energy attaches to things.  That’s why a place, object, or a certain location, may feel better than another.  Sensitive people can look and perceive the energy in a restaurant, store, or home.  Everything affects everything else. 

Everything is energy and everything vibrates at a certain frequency.  Machines cannot always detect this, but auras, one’s energy field, is an example.  Some energies are dense and can be painful for those sensitive enough to feel them.  The energies of fear, hatred and prejudice fall into this category.  The energies of Love, Truth, Integrity vibrate at a much higher frequency and attract others who are also vibrating at a compatible frequency, even if subconsciously.  That’s why the old adage that “birds of a feather flock together” is so true.  People cluster around other like-minded people, in social situations and neighborhoods.  In political institutions and in cliques.  People tend to go where they feel comfortable, too often at the low end of the spectrum.  The Darkness, represented by innuendo, gossip and lies, attacks what it does not have, and frequently innocent people are hurt.  Envy and jealousy are often behind such behavior, or the low self-worth of a person who must harm another to feel important, or to attain one’s goals.  But everything has a consequence and eventually the Universe will right itself.  The innocent are vindicated, the accuser condemned. 

One must choose growth to raise one’s vibration into alignment with the Highest Good, with God’s Intentions of Truth, Honesty and Wisdom.  One can disagree and yet not attack another.  That is a choice we must all make.  To grow and change, our attitudes, beliefs and behaviors, or to stagnate.  To remain where we are or to evolve into more of whom we could be — healthier, happier, more respected and prosperous.  The choice is ours and always has been.  The Universe has prompted us to grow with frustration and pain.  The Light has been thwarted by the Darkness of man, the ego of sin and separation.  We are all One in the Love and Light of God.  It is our Highest Expression for ourselves and others.  And one day we will know it, and then we won’t tolerate the Darkness any longer.  And that is when corrupt governments will be overthrown and greed will end.  When people finally start to realize that what one person does affects us all in the Cosmic Realm.  Nothing is isolated and nothing unearned.  Good for the Good and Better for the Best.  The opposite for the others.  The Law of Cause and Effect, unerring, and a Learning Tool.  

There are some people in the world whose vibration is so low that I can barely look at them or listen to them speak.  Many have been politicians.  I pray for their healing.

There will always be the more powerful, the more wealthy.  Their purpose is to lead and share.  Their role is to help guide and teach.  Someday they will.

Some people are more intelligent than others.  That, too, is how it’s supposed to be, for we all learn from each other.  But everyone can be wise.

What can an intelligent person learn from those perhaps less so?  Many things:  Love, Compassion, Joy, Appreciation for the simpler things in life.  We have valued the intellect for too long, for it has its own shortcomings, condemnation and judgement of others have caused much pain.  The ego judges and condemns.  The heart loves and forgives.

Love refrains from judgement, but still sets boundaries for itself for what is and is not acceptable behavior.  For many think that Love is acquiescent in all things, trampled upon by the perhaps less loving.  It, too, is a process to learn appropriate behavior for oneself and others.  And the Universe will provide many challenges to practice doing things differently, until we have all learned Empowerment — owning our power and authority at the expense of no one else.  It is an ongoing process to become all one can be — unlimited.

There’s a lot of fear surrounding our economy right now.  Gas is over $4 a gallon and people are losing their homes and their jobs.  And it is temporary, for fear contracts and draws to itself that which is feared.  Love expands and grows — economies as well.  Faith, Justice and following one’s instincts will do wonders for our economy in the years to come.

Listen to your body.  It will tell you what it needs to be healthy.  It will tell you which foods to eat and which to avoid.  It will tell you when it needs to exercise and when it needs some fresh air, a massage or a colonic.  Your body has a wisdom of its own that others cannot discern, not the physician or the psychologist.  That is yours alone to do.  Just remember to be gentle with it, for it is a part of your soul, enveloped in it.

Allow yourself to own your feelings.  If depressed, accept it quietly, without telling everyone or wallowing in it.  It is energy that needs to be released.  Perhaps it has been repressed for years and now needs to find expression.  Get extra sleep and join a therapy group, if necessary, to help explore it and release it.  A Twelve-Step program can help and is the cheapest therapy.  It’s all part of inner healing.

Passive and peaceful.  What’s the difference?  Passive is feeling like a victim, or a martyr, hopeless to effect change.  Peaceful is a quiet countenance, without complaining, knowing that God is in charge.  One woman told me once that her friend died peacefully from cancer without fighting back.  She was horrified.  “What’s wrong with dying peacefully?” was my response.  Why must we fight everything?  Do what is yours to do with a calm spirit and let God do the rest. 

As long as there is a market for illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin, there will be drugs.  Eliminate the market and you eliminate the activity.  People focus on the wrong end of the challenge.  With healing and a sense of self-worth, the people will no longer drive the drug trade.

Gerrymandering is not democratic.  It is controlling, exploitive and manipulative.  It is discriminatory, and it needs to end.

The next Great Adventure is not in outer space but within the realm of our own consciousness.  We are unlimited because God is Unlimited and directs our path.  We just don’t know it — yet.  And we will. 

Hatred, violence and war is simply a symptom of our consciousness.  As we grow and evolve into who we are — Divine children of God, pure at our core — will those symptoms fall away, for it is incompatible with a true Being of God.  And we’re all Beings of God, we just don’t know it.  So on this holiday weekend, another 4th of July, let us celebrate our independence from the ego of man — the belief in separation, lack and limitation, scarcity and war.  For these beliefs fuel much violence and distrust of one another.

And are we really living the American dream — worldwide or at home?  Our economy is on the brink of shambles, its foundation is crumbling, built on the illusion of great wealth for the few, yet the masses, the quiet, unseen 80% of Humanity, is its bedrock, and they are drowning in debt, high gas prices and fewer jobs.  Are we really better off without God?