The Daily Way

Doubt is the opposite of trust.  It comes from placing your focus on perceptions which validate belief systems in opposition to that which you hope to achieve.  What if you were to place your focus only on the prize?  What if you did not allow doubt to enter the picture?  [...]

Pause for just a moment And hear your every word Notice how they hold you down Instead of soaring like a bird They keep you moving backwards Or perhaps hold you in place Until your words and inner thoughts You take the time to face   It's the thoughts that [...]

What is a breakthrough but a sudden leap in understanding.  Your soul’s evolution has these at times.  You either earn them or they are gifts of grace.  Whatever the case, they result in growth and great joy.  Intend your breakthroughs.  Know that growth is why you are here.  If you [...]

A parent wishes to hold onto its child.  “But I need you!” the parent thinks.  “How can you leave me?”  And then the child leaves.  Did it abandon the parent?  Not at all.  Each has a role to play.  If the child does not go out into the world on [...]

You are not growing unless you are shaken up a bit.  Why?  Because it is far too easy for you to fall into torpor—a somnambulant state in which you glide through life on automatic, reacting robotically to your programmed beliefs.  If something did not come along and stir your emotions, [...]

Elucidation … shedding light on a topic.  Allow us to elucidate on the topic of love.  You think there is not enough of it in your world.  You see others treating others with a lack of love, and you assume that love is missing.  It is there all the time, [...]

You dredge up memories and it is as if you have lost your loved one all over again … Do you see what the mind does?  Not only does it create visual images, but it recreates the same emotions.  These are caused by chemicals secreted in the body in response [...]

You think that you must try ever harder to “get somewhere,” be that spiritual enlightenment, material success, or whatever your goal.  This is the great paradox.  It is only when you cease striving that you get exactly what the soul is seeking underneath all of the striving:  peace.  In the [...]

Bravery comes in many forms.  It is not always a life-defying act.  (That would be impossible, you know, for your life is eternal).  It takes courage to step outside the box of accepted behavior and thinking and follow your heart.  Do you have what it takes?  Yes, you do.  You [...]

You have your traffic rules.  One of them requires you to give way to another where two or more may interact.  If one does not yield, suffering of some sort may occur.  Is not life like this?  How often do you fail to yield, convinced that you should go first [...]

“Oh, but I don’t want him or her there!” you cry, and this is understandable if that one’s energy is so very dissonant to yours.  If you are unable to see from your soul’s perspective, you will spend your time together focusing on how your two vibrations grate against each [...]

You do not have to do it all alone.  In fact, it is when you think that you act alone that your choices do not come from the highest place.  How often do you stop and acknowledge that you are connected to higher consciousness?  How often do you pause in [...]

When you are dealing with one whose actions are difficult for you, step back and breathe.  Get some distance until you gain perspective.  Another who displays a great need to control is actually quite insecure emotionally.  Any resistance or pushing back on your part will cause their insecurities to peak [...]

Never assume that you know it all.  Even if you did have all knowledge and wisdom, your world is ever expanding.  Consciousness is unlimited.  You are one cog in a self-informing system.  As you learn, you grow, and the growth continues eternally.  With so many conscious beings—all individual aspects of [...]

So many light workers.  In a company you have many levels.  You have the worker bees, without whom nothing would get done.  You have the managers and clerical personnel who take care of the day to day operations.  You have the public relations people and the sales people who take [...]

Prepare to be surprised. All manner of blessings come to those who surrender and allow themselves to be God-guided.  When you find the trust to let go of the thought that things must go exactly as you had planned, then they often go far better than you had imagined.  Yes, [...]

When you let adrenaline and emotion take over, you cease being guided and you cease listening.  It is then that you can easily be thrown over the handlebars.  Yes, all of life is a lesson when you pay attention.  This is what we are asking you to do now and [...]

When one you love is in denial Look upon them with a smile They are as a child in need So now our message please do heed Sit back and watch their role unfold The little child do not scold They hurt enough--it's why they do The things that most [...]

When you are aware that you are in this world but not of it, you have greater freedom.  You become aware of your ability to choose what role you will assume from moment to moment, for that is what you are doing, you know:  playing a role.  And so, you [...]

Ty and I are really looking forward to our summer tour.  One of our stops is a return visit to Unity on the North Shore, located just outside of Chicago.  I just learned that the church is using my book, “Messages of Hope,” and the Messages of Hope documentary for [...]

A baker’s dozen … this is when you receive more than you asked or paid for.  It is a special treat given out of kindness and generosity.  You receive that extra something and feel as if you have won a lottery of sorts.  How easy it was for the baker to [...]