The Daily Way

Distractions abound.  Watch a puppy, moving from one distraction to the next.  Wherever the attention goes, goes the nose.  Humans are also easily distracted.  What happens when you shift your attention from what is outside to what is inside?  Why, there you find a whispering, a rustling, a knowing quite [...]

Lyrics in a song.  They speak to you exactly when you need them.  How does that work?  You are Consciousness in expression.  Your very nature snags you.  Those thoughts in your head?  Are they only yours or of a higher awareness?  This Awareness sends a thought:  “Pay attention to what [...]

Sand dollars.  Why are they called such?  They do not look like a dollar bill.  They may look a bit like a silver dollar, but not really.  They are not worth a dollar.  This is what you have all agreed to call them.  You give a thing a label and [...]

Do not argue with reality.  Do you know what happens when you argue with anything or anyone?  You resist.  You insist, “I am right.  Things must go my way!”  And if they do not, then what happens?  You suffer.  There is no need to suffer.  The soul is not suffering.  [...]

Unused angels.  Yes, it is true:  there are more helpers than requests for their assistance.  Did you know that by asking for help with a very specific issue, you are opening yourself to the awareness of so much assistance?  In the asking, you automatically are drawn to what you need [...]

What does it mean to surrender?  Do you give it meaning, as in, “Surrendering shows weakness.”?  What if you knew that by surrendering all meaning, you are allowing in a Force that is all-powerful to guide you, lead you, show you the way?  What if in giving things no meaning, [...]

Caught in an eddy.  That is what it is like when you become stuck in the same patterns of thinking and behavior.  You are still an expression of the Source Stream.  Of this, there is no doubt:  You are the Light!  But caught in your own little eddy of light [...]

“I can’t take it anymore!” You cry.  There is so much stress that seems to go on and on.  You are like a pot that is boiling.  You simply need to take the lid off and vent in a healthy way.  Do you know there is something to your giggle [...]

How often do you try to control your environment?  Yes, you turn the heat up and down, you make yourself more comfortable in your surroundings, but how often do you try to control another?  Is it your place?  If you are uncomfortable, you might wish to examine why.  Would you [...]

Running away is not the answer.  Waiting for things to pass is not, either.  So, what is?  Running toward your thoughts.  Look at them closely.  They are telling you that things shouldn’t be the way they are.  And what is really happening?  Things are the way they are.  You are [...]

Picture an apple on the head of one across the room from you.  You pull back your bow and shoot an arrow at the apple.  A direct hit.  The one with the apple atop his head is quite brave, quite confident in your abilities, as are you.  If you falter, [...]

How often do you stop to test your motive?  It is a very good pause to take.  Do you do a thing for your own benefit or do it for heaven’s sake?  When your motive comes from an open heart, this shifts your inner space.  When you work and play [...]

Signs are all around you that all is well.  Where are you choosing to look?  Are you focused on the small patch of weeds or the incredible array of wildflowers that spring quite naturally season after season?  Are you focused on a dark cloud or the bright, blue sky beyond [...]

It is part of the human makeup to look out for oneself.  Self-preservation is built in.  But so is compassion.  So is caring. Your very essence, your true nature is awareness, so use that awareness to notice when you want another to do something for their own good or for [...]

Patience is required quite often in the human world.  Why?  For you have ideas of how things should go.  When another, be they human or animal, does not behave as you desire, you lose patience.  If everyone behaves as you believe they should, conforming to norms that may not be [...]

What goes up must come down.  Have you been a bit high lately for any reason?  Do not be surprised by the counterbalancing effect.  You will find it in equal measure.  Balance is the natural state of being.  Balance equals wholeness.  If you find yourself become a bit manic, you [...]

What does it feel like to be homesick?  There is a bit of a coldness in the heart ... an ache ... an emptiness.  Few do not know this feeling.  The good news is that this ache can be filled with awakening to the fact that you have never really [...]

You matter.  You count.  You exist because you are loved.  If anyone has ever told you differently, they were ignorant of the most basic fact of all existence:  All are special.  All are loved.  If you have told yourself anything different, then this is learned behavior.  You can unlearn poor [...]

If you desire peace, do not think in terms of us and them.  Think in terms of Wholeness.  Better yet, do not think at all.  Dissolve into the heart area and rest a while.  Looking about from a place of love, sense the wholeness.  Despite what you see around you [...]

How do you know what to believe?  It is not only that you cannot trust what you read or hear.  You cannot trust the human brain.  It looks for data that matches its beliefs.  That is how it operates.  Are you aware of this?  It will deny and block out [...]

“Was it me?  Am I the reason you’re upset?”  How often do you entertain these thoughts when another is out of sorts?  Do you know where this thought comes from that you may be the cause?  From fear.  The ultimate fear is that you will not be loved and appreciated.  [...]

So much going on.  So much to unsettle you ... if you let it.  Yes, you are in control.  Always.  It may not feel like it.  So many others seem to pull the strings, hold the power.  There is one thing you can control:  your focus.  You cannot even control [...]

Self-improvement.  It gives you the impression that something is wrong with you.  You look at your advertisements and see smiling faces when often smiling is the last thing you feel like doing.  That is okay.  Two days in a row we give you permission not to smile, yet we remind [...]

When you think you cannot go on, you do.  You may feel as if you have no desire to continue in this drama called life, but there is a reason.  You are here to shine like the sun. As you are well aware, the sun does not go out.  It [...]

How are you doing at playing your role, little soul?  Do you fall into judgment or remember the whole?  Life is full of up and down.  What you sow truly does come around.  But this is not as bad as it may sound. As you learn, the soul does grow.  [...]

Silver linings.  You enter into a project with one goal in mind, perhaps to help others.  What you don’t realize is you are helping yourself.  The greatest silver lining of any project is when it brings you to awareness of the greater Self.  This happens by default as your project [...]

Is your belief system exclusionary?  Must you believe this or that to belong to the club?  Groupings are helpful in many cases. When they are not helpful, they are out of alignment with the evolutionary impulse of life.  How can you make a difference?  Notice where and how you are [...]

So many viewpoints.  So many opinions.  As many as stars in the sky.  And do you know why?  For that is how you grow.  That is how I experience all that can possibly unfold.  And as you come to understand who this I with a capital letter is, you begin [...]

The body constantly tries to tell you things.  That ache there?  There is a reason.  That cough there?  Why is it so?  Pain and symptoms are indicators.  Just remember they are temporary visitors.  Do not give them the same attention you would give to family in your home.  They are [...]

Do not be afraid to ask others for assistance.  Do you not realize that people enjoy helping others?  Why so independent?  Give others the pleasure of serving, even if it is serving you.  You deserve it.  You need not work alone.  Open yourself to the gifts of others and in [...]