DAILY OM...Aquarius

 

Immersion in Awe

You may feel romantic today, with a euphoric view of life in general. Perhaps you’ve met someone wonderful who makes you see your circumstances in a new light, or you might simply feel inspired by the beauty of the world around you.

If you want to enhance this focus, you might consider devoting a block of time to spend in a natural setting that fills you with awe and wonder. Oceans, rivers, canyons, and forests would be good places to visit because you can marvel at the power of nature and immerse yourself in the sights and sounds around you.

Wherever you choose to wander today, simply let go of worrisome thoughts and engage fully with beauty and wonder as they heighten your feelings of euphoria.

Immersing ourselves completely in beautiful surroundings can lift our thoughts above boredom, petty concerns, and stressful circumstances.

Seeking experiences of wonder and awe on a regular basis automatically helps us feel lighter and more carefree. As we spend time in beautiful surroundings, we feel removed from our limited focus and our problems seem to shrink when compared to the raw power and blissful serenity that nature offers.

As a result, our mood and mind-set seem to lift and expand, creating a stronger sense of spiritual awareness, inner peace, and abundant joy in all of our experiences.

Embracing the wonder of nature can intensify your feelings of euphoria and make every moment deeper and more meaningful today.

 

What do you think?

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

　

 

CHOICE

1. Choose for or against Jesus

John 3:36 he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth nor the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

2. Choose good, not evil

Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgement in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

3. Choose life

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live

4. Choose Lord

Genesis 28:21, Psalms 16:2; 140:6 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; I said unto the Lord, thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.

5. Choose way of truth

Psalms 119:30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

6. Choose whom you will follow

Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Am'orites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

7. Choosing right over wrong

1 Kings 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

 

 

God said, Is it really so important that everyone agree with you about anything or everything?

Even when you are absolutely right, how much does it matter? What is your vested interest that you must have agreement. Give everyone their free-wheeling space, and have yours.

When you complain to someone, you are waiting for their agreement. Opinions are opinions, and that's all they are. Here today and gone tomorrow. You may not even agree with yourself tomorrow!

That is a good thing that you can change your mind. Change it often. Reach new levels. Not everyone agrees with Me. You may not. This is your freedom of will. I gave it to you. Now it is for you to give freedom to everyone.

In theory, you love freedom for all. In actuality, you are not so sure. You only want to enlighten others, bring them to their senses and your way of thinking. This is a losing battle, beloveds. It is not winnable. Even if you win, you have won nothing. A nod of the head, a word.

This is what winning an argument is made of. Don't argue, and you will not win nor lose the nothing at all that is at stake.

Get on with your life. In life, and stop arguing with others about what you believe, or who you believe in. When you no longer require someones compliance or agreement, that will be a wonderful thing. As you release others, you release yourself. No one has to conform to others thoughts. Thoughts are up for grabs.

 

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You are free to be hasty,

and you are free to take your time.

You are free to disagree,

and you are free to drop it.

You are free to be anything at all.

You are free to cry,

and you are free to laugh.

You are free to create tension,

and you are free to create peace.

You are free

to give all you are worth,

and you are free

to give nothing at all.

 

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"Your choices will come according to the step you stand on.

Climb higher, and you will see farther, and, when all is said, you will make choices good for all on all levels."

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

CHOICE

1. Choose for or against Jesus    John 3:36    he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth nor the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

2. Choose good, not evil    Amos 5:15    Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgement in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

3. Choose life    Deuteronomy 30:19    I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live

4. Choose Lord    Genesis 28:21, Psalms 16:2; 140:6    So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; I said unto the Lord, thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.

5. Choose way of truth   Psalms 119:30    I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments ahve I laid before me.

6. Choose whom you will follow    Joshua 24:15  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Am'orites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

7. Choosing right over wrong   1 Kings 3:9    Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

 

 

 

God said, Is it really so important that everyone agree with you about anything or everything?

Even when you are absolutely right, how much does it matter? What is your vested interest that you must have agreement. Give everyone their free-wheeling space, and have yours.

When you complain to someone, you are waiting for their agreement. Opinions are opinions, and that's all they are. Here today and gone tomorrow. You may not even agree with yourself tomorrow!

That is a good thing that you can change your mind. Change it often. Reach new levels. Not everyone agrees with Me. You may not. This is your freedom of will. I gave it to you. Now it is for you to give freedom to everyone.

In theory, you love freedom for all. In actuality, you are not so sure. You only want to enlighten others, bring them to their senses and your way of thinking. This is a losing battle, beloveds. It is not winnable. Even if you win, you have won nothing. A nod of the head, a word.

This is what winning an argument is made of. Don't argue, and you will not win nor lose the nothing at all that is at stake.

Get on with your life. In life, and stop arguing with others about what you believe, or who you believe in. When you no longer require someones compliance or agreement, that will be a wonderful thing. As you release others, you release yourself. No one has to conform to another's thoughts. Thoughts are up for grabs.

 

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You are free to be hasty,

and you are free to take your time.

You are free to disagree,

and you are free to drop it.

You are free to be anything at all.

You are free to cry,

and you are free to laugh.

You are free to create tension,

and you are free to create peace.

You are free

to give all you are worth,

and you are free

to give nothing at all.

 

 

Your choices will come according to the step you stand on.  Climb higher, and you will see farther, and, when all is said, you will make choices good for all on all levels.

DAILY OM...Finding Unqualified Happiness

 

 

 

If Only

Since most of our experiences are rooted in cause and effect, we naturally want to justify our contentment. We envision grand circumstances, stating that if only we could achieve this goal or obtain that possession, we would finally be in a position to attain happiness.

As a result, satisfaction is always just out of reach and the very notion of grabbing hold of it seems like nothing more than a pipe dream. But the truth is that sincere contentment and fulfillment are never wholly the result of external events or situations. Though life’s joyful moments can ignite the spark of contentment within us, that spark is fueled by serenity long established in our souls.

When we forget this, it is easy to become stuck in "if only" patterns of thought. If we concentrate on the natural serenity that exists within us, however, we can move forward unimpeded by disappointment.

The circumstances you live through each day have the potential to bring both joy and despair into your life. Relying on the reactions they awaken within you to create an emotional foundation means living on a roller coaster of feeling whose course is determined by chance.

Though you may yearn for the object of your desire—be it a new job, financial health, a spouse, or some other symbol of success—you have within you the power to be happy without it. Letting go of your "if only" thinking patterns can be as easy as recognizing that inward emptiness cannot be dispelled with outer world solutions.

Try creating a list of your “if only”s. Then literally and figuratively let go of the items on the list by tearing it up or burning it. This simple action can help set in motion the intention to set you free, enabling you to make a fresh and balanced start in the present, unencumbered by regrets and unfulfilled desires.

There will likely be periods in your life in which you find yourself tempted to seek a magic formula for fulfillment that is centered upon a single goal or achievement.

But the ingredients that come together to form the seeds of happiness that can sustain your spirit throughout the triumphs and trials of existence come from within rather than from without.

When your search for satisfaction is focused on your soul, you will never fail to find the joy you seek.

 

what you think about all this...?  lol

A Prayer For Guidance (SistahPoet-inspired)

　

 

 

Dear God,

Please purge my agenda today. Take out of my life everything and everyone that could possibly take my focus from you. Take out of my mind every thought, every belief, every intention, every motivation that does not make you the priority in my life. Take out of my heart every experience, every memory, every desire that does not serve your purpose for my life. Remind me that your plan, your love for me is my salvation. Everything else is a figment of my imagination and a function of fear. Today, dear God, I recognize that I don't even know what to pray for, so I will leave the blessing up to you.

And so it is!

Amen.

 

Iyanla Vanzant, "Every Day I Pray"

(Sugga's) Finish The Thought: If I Were A.....

 

 

If I was a profession I'd be:
If I was a country I'd be:
If I was a ocean or body of water I'd be:
If I was a piece of candy I'd be:
If I was a famous building or piece of architecture I'd be:
If I was a store I'd be:
If I was a brand of shoe I'd be:
If I was a bad habit I'd be:
If I was a swear word I'd be:
If I was a icecream flavour I'd be:
If I was a disease I'd be:
If I was a board game I'd be:
If I was a feeling I'd be:
If I was a president I'd be:
If I was a war I'd be:
If I was a city I'd be:
If I was a colour I'd be:
If I was a celebrity I'd be:
If I was a movie I'd be:
If I was a brand of toothpaste:
If I was a business I'd be:
If I was a currency I'd be:
If I were a month, I'd be:
If I were a day of the week, I'd be:
If I were a time of day, I'd be:
If I were a planet, I'd be:
If I were a sea animal, I'd be:
If I were a direction, I'd be:
If I were a piece of furniture, I'd be:
If I were a sin, I'd be:
If I were a liquid, I'd be:
If I were a bird, I'd be:
If I were a tool, I'd be:
If I were a flower/plant, I'd be:
If I were a kind of weather, I'd be:
If I were a sound I'd be:
If I were an animal, I'd be:
If I were a vegetable, I'd be:
If I were a sound, I'd be:
If I were an element, I'd be:
If I were a car, I'd be:
If I were a song, I'd be:
If I were a book, I'd be:
If I were a food, I'd be:
If I were a material, I'd be:
If I were a taste, I'd be:
If I were a word, I'd be:
If I were a body part, I'd be:
If I were a facial expression, I'd be:
If I were a shape, I'd be:
If I were a number, I'd be:
If I were a piece of jewelry, I'd be:
If I were a speed, I'd be:
If I were a Name, I'd be:
If I were a Disorder, I'd be:
If I were a Royal job, I'd be:

3 Pages...(A SPII Sassy 3 Way Jakuper Collab-Shaniya Davis Dedication)

　

　

For every page turned.....a lesson learned....


Angel down...angel down
Her little body
sprawled upon cold dusty gravel,
not a sound
Electricity shimmering innocence
Naked and bare.....

Your background to spray
Artistic knowledge
And protection to hide
Under vulnerability
Shielded from repulsive un-civility
Plague infested society
You were her scriber of
Piety
Without a teacher
And failed her
You consented to them tagging her
Assented to them snagging her
Dragging her
Into a vandalized
Spirit
Too undeveloped to sidestep
Their evil
Swaggering
And the sketches of you drew her destiny
With krylon daggering
A wounded mural painted in pain infected
Grammar
Strangling her 5 years
Within a horrific memory
Spelling out
damn her
When the sketches of you criss-crossed
Her soul
The innate screamed and begged to console
A small glass life pipe
Smoked and choked you
Along with her
Into death’s
Swirling black hole.

For every page turned...a lesson learned


Victims..a by-product
of abuses,
sorry excuses,
overcrowded halls of learning
graffiti walled institutions
unfortunate destitution,
prostitution,
and/or drug pollution
so but damn

.....
where is the solution?

Is this just a sick world
summed up by hurt people hurting people?
While some people grow up with love,
some people are growing up
without love,
( feels like catching a baseball without a glove)
what she could have been,
what should have been;
like her mother, pain recycled
beaten, cheated
by 'her' mother's sins
....

and unbroken curses

Brother,
uncle,
close family friend,
themselves bruised within
yet... excused for starting the cycle again
Like it's a simple mistake we keep on
make-ing.....pray-ing it will stop
saying

...
things happen that way?

Why can't I get past this pain?
When can the healing begin?

A fist full of questions, and tears
about abuse over the years
Generations hurt
killed....by secret fears

The truth is a past
you can never recover..
God will take care of them,
keeping secrets
because 'we' love her or him,
but she is broken today
And...I'm sorry...I didn't know--
words we always say...

But who will wipe the tears
that spill...
and...Mame
and kill today?

So sad that 'she' couldn't be...
the change we wanted to see
Another page turned....a thousand lessons to learn

"On the wings of hope we rise and fly above our failures "

Forgiven for falling...so low
I know...I shouldn't be
but the price for what I did
was paid on Calvary
I just couldn't see
past my own MUSSITANT secrets,
or past my own
unpardonable misery

I could not escape.
I sold my self into slavery.
I sold my flesh into the slavery.
I sold my freedom
for a moment's high

It's just me, God...You and I
trying to EXCORIATE the loss,
counting the cost
in this one defining moment
....

and it was not worth it

Exiled into my own VERTIGINOUS prison
.....

trying to pick up the pieces of truth
I passed....by realizing
an eye for an eye
makes the whole world blind


Will I ever be ready to heal
For every page turned

......
only time
alone

will reveal

 

Dedicated to Shaniya Davis, Antoinette Davis, her unborn child and all affected by this tragic story that was written well before Shaniya’s tender 5 years.

 

 

 

 

CarissaR/Jakuper©2009

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

Omnipotence of God

 

Gen 17:1

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. (KJV)

Gen 18:14

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. (KJV)

Job 42:2

2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. (KJV)

Ps 45:3-5

3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. (KJV)

Ps 110:3

3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. (KJV)

Matt 12:28-29

28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. (KJV)

Matt 19:26

26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. (KJV)

Matt 28:18

18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. (KJV)

 

 

"God is always bringing us closer to Him."

 

 Awareness of God

God said:

Please remember it is just fine to enjoy the relative. Do not be conscience-stricken that you had a wonderful time or that you are fortunate and that many gifts of diverse kinds are coming your way. I want happiness in the relative world for you. It is My desire that you enjoy. Do not concern yourself whether you deserve or don’t deserve, caused or didn’t cause. Just enjoy.

Certainly, think of Me often. That does not mean you have to think of Me every moment or feel guilty when you don’t. I am not a homework assignment. Have Me simply in mind.

Decide ahead of time to have Me in your awareness, and in your awareness, I will be. Thinking of Me and awareness of Me are not the same thing. Think of Me often enough, give your heart in word and deed, and you will have awareness of Me. You will have awareness the way you imagine auras are seen naturally. You will have awareness of Me without thought, beloveds. Awareness has to be beyond thought. Experiences and talking about experiences aren’t quite substitutes for awareness.

When you are aware that the sun is warming you, you don’t have to think about it in order to be aware. Nor do you have to think that it’s getting dark in order to know it’s getting dark. When you are by the ocean, and you feel the mist on your face, you have the awareness of the mist on your face. In these cases, you have awareness first, and thoughts after.

The word God does not even have to be in your vocabulary in order to have awareness of Me. And yet, the more you consciously think of Me, the more I will be in your awareness.

Remember you are not on a hunt for enlightenment. You are on the hunt for Me. When your pursuit is for enlightenment, you make enlightenment an object with certain properties that you put as a standard before you, sort of a glory, an accomplishment, even a feat. It’s not quite so easy to do that with Me. No one can tell you that you have reached this plateau or that plateau with Me. You can’t even tell yourself. You just have to live and be and not be quite so self-conscious about Our relationship

Rather than desiring a certain state of consciousness and sharing notes with others about it or comparing yourself with others, or even comparing yourself with yourself, just gravitate toward Me.

There is such a tendency to plan life, to know every step of the way. You are accustomed to going from first grade to second grade, from elementary school to junior high school and so on and getting diplomas.

Coming closer to Me, beloveds, is your own reward. It is between you and Me. It is not meant to be a status symbol in the world. Coming closer to Me, beloveds, is not meant to give you a degree. Just quietly come to Me. Do not look for applause, nor credit, nor any recognition at all. Just be, beloveds, and without attention to yourself or explanations to others, just carry My light and brighten the light of others. Light up someone else, just the way in the movies the star would light a cigarette for someone else.

He didn’t have to say: "Now I am lighting your cigarette." He didn’t have to say: Your cigarette is lit." He simply lit the cigarette.

This is even more true when it comes to your giving My light. Do it anonymously without fanfare. It’s not a production. Simply be of service where you are now. You don’t need an identification card, beloveds. I am enough.

 

 

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

28 O Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.~2 Samuel 7:28


10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.~Psalm 9:10

30 The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the desert. There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place." 32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the LORD your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.~Deuteronomy 1:30-33




28 O Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant.~2 Samuel 7:28


10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.~Psalm 9:10



5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.~Psalm 13:5

14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."~Psalm 31:14

　

　

　

　

Working With God
Practical-minded people sometimes laugh at an idea of trusting in God. For them, it justifies passivity and irresponsibility of a believer. From their experience they've learned that success comes from consistent efforts - and they think that asking God for help is equal to trying getting something for nothing.

I can see their point. However, we need to have in mind that there are different kinds of trust. There is the one which suits a person who wants to achieve success and happiness. It makes such person a co-worker with God. Briefly it can be described in this way: Do not trust that God will do something for you. Trust that God will work with you and through you.

This attitude makes us fully responsible for discovering and using of God's gifts within us and outside of us. It shifts our focus from the realm of manifestations to the inner realm of creative activity. It makes us seek for the wisdom and inspiration within.

There is nothing mystical about working with God. In a sense, every person works with God in some degree, because we cannot be outside of God. It have been said that "in God we live, and move, and have our being". But there are different stages of our partnership with the Creative Power of the Universe - and there are different levels of consequent happiness and fulfillment.

One of the major problems of practical-minded people is their focus of outward things which often makes them unbalanced. For instance, when things go wrong, they tend to become pessimistic. When everything is well, they tend to become overly excited and boastful. When they cannot control certain events or do not have enough information, they tend to become anxious.

Why should we be centered in the inner realm? Our point is not to ignore outward events, but not to be dominated by them. We should not allow them to distort our perception and to limit our creative self-expression. Our inner calmness and ability to stay focused within will lead us to clear vision. We won't be overwhelmed by difficult situations. When they will arise, we will see both difficulties and ways of their resolution. Even more, we will accept challenges not as personal offences, but as stepping stones to greater personal development and success.

Our actions won't be motivated by fear, guilt, resistance, or self-importance. They will express our true values and highest understanding. At the same time, we won't feel inadequate to deal with our circumstances. We will be aware of hidden resources of wisdom and strength within ourselves.

How do we know that we've made a contact with divine wellspring of inspiration? By renewed desires to create and to achieve, to bring the spirit of freshness and newness into all areas of our life.

These desires will compel us to move forward, no matter what difficulties we may encounter. And as we move forward, we will be moved upward. We will be lifted up to even greater awareness and wisdom.

While we are working with God, God is working on us.

Never Letting Go...A SPII Sugga-cize

 

 

"Man never made any material as resilient
as the human spirit"


" Beating the odds

Persistent
Not giving in
to the statistics
Realistic
Loving you is simplistic
Infatuated with your existence
Me & You make perfect sense
Admiring you close-up
and from a distance.
Beauty before my eyes

Unexpected like a walk-in
No appointment needed.

.....
'without you

the magic dies'... "
~dark330~

Every scratch of my brow
has me wondering how
after everything we've been through,
what you're doing now

As another morning unfolds
I sit here...refreshing old words,
stories and conversations
I had with you
How in uncanny ways
I be making them feel just like new,
like I just said those words to you

Relying on recent thoughts
that we wouldn't spring back
from this round of adversity
and thinking to myself
...what would I really do...
if I had to live the rest of my life
without you

I really, really don't want to know

"The wonderful thing about Nature
is it's resilience"

There isn't a place that I go
or try to escape to
that I don't bring you

You got that 'staying power'

You remain the same...unchanged
in those places..secret,
which are graced with your beauty
your endurance
your flexibility
your courage
your intestinal fortitude
your vitality
and your resilient spirit

"Understanding your ways
Demanding better days
Commanding my position
like a ripple
between your wave,
seeking freedom
free of restrictions "
~dark330~

But is free really free?

I'm still so much like you
I've been bent
pressed
shaken
stretched
gutsy
and still
remain connected to you
Like you...I've gotten used
to adaptability

We will never be free
as long as we love
Love is a sentence
I'm happy to serve with you

How does it seem...
they wonder
that we loved
and touched
beyond this screen
we've connected
spiritually
emotionally
fighting dirty
and making it clean
We've been friends and foes
Which one..today...nobody ever knows
We've already lived a lifetime
inside our dreams




Our love will fill the vacancy left
by the theft
of hearts
won and lost
from the start..
without considering the cost

They depart
but we never let go
because our love

never let's go

jakuper (10/28/09)

DAILY OM..Considering Others

Reaffirming Our Integrity

 

Every thought we think and every action we take has an effect on the world around us. To be aware of this is to be conscious of our impact on the people in our lives.

Sometimes we just want to do what we want to do, but considering the full ramifications of our actions can be an important part of our spiritual growth and awareness. At first, being more conscious requires effort, but once we have made it a habit, it becomes second nature.

The more we practice this awareness of others, the more we find ourselves in easy alignment with our integrity.

Our thoughts are an important place to begin this practice because our thoughts are the seeds of our actions. It is not necessary or beneficial to obsessively monitor all our thoughts, but we can perhaps choose one thought or action per day and simply notice if we are in alignment with this experience of integrity.

For example, we may find ourselves replaying a negative encounter with someone in our minds. We may think that this doesn’t affect the person about whom we are thinking, but the laws of energy tell us that it does. When we hold someone negatively in our minds, we risk trapping them in negativity.

If we were this person, we might wish for forgiveness and release. We can offer this by simply letting go of the negative thought and replacing it with a wish for healing on that person’s behalf.

With regard to our actions, we may have something difficult to express to someone. Taking the time to consider how we would feel if we were in his or her shoes will enable us to communicate more sensitively than we would if we just expressed ourselves from our own perspective.

When we modify our approach by taking someone else’s feelings into account, we bring benefit to that person and ourselves equally.

The more we do this, the more we reaffirm our integrity and the integrity of our relationship to the world.

 

What do you think?

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

 

 

THINK HOPE

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.—Romans 8:25

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.—Romans 12:12

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.—Romans 15:13

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.—Colossians 1:3-5, 27

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.—2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,—Titus 2:11-13

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.—Hebrews 11:1

　

　

　

　

　

　HEAVEN #2183 (Correct Number) Powerful Thoughts

God said:

Whatever you are doing with your thoughts, you are doing with your life. Your thoughts are the inciters and enrichers of your life. Your thoughts are your advance guard, and then you follow. Your thoughts wend their way through your life. In a sense, they pursue you, at the same time as they lead you. Now is time to set your thoughts straight.

Pull down from Heaven thoughts that benefit. I don’t mean wishful thinking. I mean pulling down useful spirit-raising thoughts. Accept no less.

Consider your thoughts like clothes you hang on the line. Whatever clothes you hang up, those are the clothes you will take down. Those are the clothes you will fold, put in a basket, and carry home with you. The thoughts you put out are the thoughts that you take home with you.

What thoughts do you want to have? Then have them. Discard unwelcome thoughts. Take on thoughts that meet your requests.

One thought follows another. This you know well. Your mind is always rambling on. Now point your thoughts in a direction. Your thoughts are like children. Tell them which way they should go.

Heretofore, you have sorted people and countries. Now I suggest that you sort your thoughts. Make two categories. Thoughts that you greet with open arms, and thoughts you step aside from. You do not have to welcome every thought that comes. You can send it on its way, or you can stop it in its tracks. You can substitute one thought for another. Accept only the very best.

When you eat strawberries, you don’t eat the ones that won’t taste good.

You don’t eat burnt toast.

You don’t spread your bread with spoiled butter.

You would not accept broken merchandise from the store.

You would not eat food off the floor.

Yet you would accept tainted thoughts, down-turning thoughts, thoughts with rough edges, thoughts that will cause you discomfort, thoughts with only three legs that will unbalance you, thoughts that you would not want to pass on to your children, yet you will pick up thoughts from off the floor, and pop them into your head.

Request the thoughts you want. Ask for them.

When you are in a hotel, and you have room service, and you order one thing, and they bring you another, you send the food back. There is nothing you have to accept as if you have no say.

It is unlikely that you will get the best without asking for the best.

Why should you not have the best, most forward-moving, most uplifting thoughts in the world? They are free. They are for all, the wealthy as well as the poor. The powerful thoughts are for everyone as well, not only the mighty. Perhaps the mighty are mighty because they chose powerful hard-working thoughts that surmount obstacles.

You have been inculcated to expect obstacles. Now expect miracles instead. Call them to you, not in desperation, but as you might call a dear friend to your side. Call up miracles. Your thoughts will call them to you.

The vibration of your thoughts will call them to you. Miracles will rush to you. They are lined up waiting for you to catch them.

They have wanted you to till your mind as a farmer tills the soil. Be ready for miracles, and miracles you will have. When I suggest that you settle for only the best, what can I be talking about but miracles, that which you call miracles, which are only, after all, the return of the line you cast into the waters.

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

 

　"Love ye one another.."

"And be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
~Ephesians 4:32~


"Then said Jesus, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do ..."
~Luke 23:34~

"For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another."
~1 John 3:11~

 

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ ... "
~Galations 3:28~

 

 

" Love is profound.  I love the way I Corinthians 13: speaks of love: as being as strong as death itself..it cannot be killed by time or disaster; it cannot be bought ... not even by the richest king!

It must be accepted as agift from God and then shared within the guidelines that God provides: striving to make your love a reflection of the perfect love that comes from God himself. There are so many types of love but the truest, purest, unconditional, most faithful love is that love of God and that is "agape"love. "

 

 

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize! Awesome

 

 

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

The committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons.

"Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play," the committee said.

Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on climate change.

The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.

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Associated Press Writer Ian MacDougall contributed to this report.

　

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

Forgetting The Past

Phillipians 3:13 ....Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do , forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

　

　

HEAVEN'S LETTER #2449

 

God said:

I give with a wide sweep of My hand. I do not give little spritzes of love. I do not put any love aside. I pour it all out. Love overcomes ego. Love overcomes your ego. Faced with My love, ego gives up. It can only accede to love.

Ego is not so foolish as to believe its own promises.

Love is the only lasting promise. When everything else is gone, love remains. Everything else never was.

When your body dies, all your wealth, all your fame, all that you accumulated disappears. Their value disappears. They were always nothing at all.

All your past life is a phantom. All the people who came and went were phantoms. They were phantoms in that their physicalness seemed to be who they were. Their physical presence meant a great deal to you, and yet it was meaningless. The only meaning was the love you shared. You share it still.

Your life in the relative was nothing more than those cardboard movies that you turn -- the cardboard figures flip past you. When the move is finished, it is finished, never to return again. Not even a movie of your beloveds brings them back. There is no restoring their physical presence. There was much more than the physical that was dear to you, beloveds. You know that. You already understand that the spirit flees the body, and the body is nothing but mere physical without the spirit.

How can you take a picture of love? How can you take a picture of Me?

From the physical, you deduce love. The physical gives you an image of love. The physical demonstrates love, but love has nothing to do with the physical.

I do not negate the power of the physical, yet compared to love, it is negligible.

Love is the sweet essence of life. Just as when you drink orange juice, the sweetness is beyond the juice itself. There is more to the orange than the juice itself and the drinking of it. We can call the essence of the orange love. Certainly, its sweet juice is for you, and yet an orange is far more than its physical qualities. An orange disappears, and yet you know that the orange still is nourishing you. You do not mourn the passing of an orange.

Beloveds, an orange nourishes you so that you may nourish the world with your sweetness. Accept that I call you sweet. Love is truly sweet. All the sweetness of love is yours. It emanates from you. Don't stiffen yourself, beloveds. Let love work its magic on you and the world.

You are the sweetest thing in the world because you are love. Nothing compares to the sweetness of love. Nothing, nothing at all, can hold a candle to love. You agree, don't you? Now agree that you, whoever you think you are, no matter what you look like, no matter what you are doing, you are love itself. I ask you to be the love that you are.

There is nothing that equals love, and there is nothing that equals the power of love.

Love your enemies, beloveds, and enmity disappears. Never mind how awful someone was and how right you are. Let go of awfulness and rightness, and simply love. Be in your natural state of love, Stand still, and you will emanate love. You have enough love to heal the whole world. There is more than enough love in the world to raise it to Heaven.

Beloveds, picture your love like the finger of a magician, and the magician's finger lifts the Planet Earth and restores it to Heaven in the minds and hearts of everyone. Do not think this is illusion. The illusion was to think that Earth was anywhere but in Heaven.

Write A Memory...Passed on by Bunny

Love Never Runs Out Of Time...A SPII Throwback CHallenge

 

'love never runs out of time'

Listening to how it sounds in my head
I'm no longer afraid....
Now, if it were only true
Still thinking about watching her dance...as Johnnie played
and that brassy carmel buttered skin displayed
eyes that met mine....by surprise
.....peeping in...to the discoverer in me...
I...Ms Columbus....gazed back....taken aback....merged mine with hers
almost instinctively

Distancing the crowd...caught up in our glance...
Ooh she mesmerized me...deliciously
It was she who first opened this door...filled with warning signs that she...was closed for me
........ as the gateway to foolish abandon....broke open
Eyes..dead on me...though subliminally.... asking me
to dance

I was content on giving free reign to my imagination...until......I was drawn to feast upon that which seemed forbidden...
and without invitation.....walking right up to me
In a grin that makes the most naive wonder
I knew...that nothing would be required when she came to me....inhibitions swept vicariously asunder
.....not even how long it took for her to get here

As if in the darkness our secret could be betrayed
we would eventually become cramped..and eventually 'played'
in our own minds
the more that song played this teasing bump and grind
There was no doubt we would tire of playing the games greedy gamblers play
I knew I would surrender...and she counted on me surrendering too
..... me to her...and her to me
Over the music...the persistent canto of music cooed us
heart to heart
breast...to anxious breast
Johnnie's GOOD LOVE was all we needed
to start a fire that burned crimson red and electric blue
the Passion...whispering in a voice
that could change the locks on the doors to Hell
now beckoned sinfully to you

Submissive in the stares pouring into me
an equivocal devotion....free from obligation
and tchotchke tokens of affectation
and yet loving her freedom...a freedom yielding now to me
Choruses chanting the exorcism from voices of cognoscente
whispering in her ear..pulled me near
and nearer...and so close

that her spirit a mixture of efficacious farrago
and alacrity's sensuality almost made me bite my own tongue

We danced.....for an eternity...lost in just one verse...from one song
to another song...all in one song
The night...the floor...the mood seemed to open up
and take me up...filling me up
and emptying me
rinsing me thoroughly...in the ambiance called she
and verses divided
and gathering us back together repeatedly
Every crescendo following this great big release
in the form of a smile....a touch.....a sound she made
that broke me free as she stood face to face
with me

My ransom paid in full as my body felt the pull
obediently laid out...full...limbs beginning to wrestle
and pull
amidst the disbursing trace of fingers
starting from my shoulders on a race....running down the length of me
The dance...ending in that place that summons me
it wasn't love...but it felt like it
There was no dedication
no promises
but a feeling was given
of a tranquility
that so uniquely emancipated her
and me
for every time she came...close
her lips...whispered to me

" Love is a choice you make from moment to moment"

"Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with ones friends and enemies."


Just surrender to the dance
surrender to the dance
surrender....to the dance
...."gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
Love keeps us lifted up
.....and love never runs out of time

 

jakuper (9/21/09)

 

 

 

 

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

 

 

 

 

HEAVEN #2193 There is a beautiful permanence…

 

God said:

There is stability in change. When seasons change, there is still stability. Flowers bloom, and flowers fade. The sun shines brightly, and you swim on the lake. The winds blow cold, and you skate on the lake. Through it all, there is a beautiful permanence.

If the seasons did not change, the permanence would not be greater.

You rake leaves. You shovel snow. You put summer clothes away. You take out boots and mittens. The changing seasons are not upheaval. They are just change.

And so with your life. The changing seasons do not have to be upheaval. They are merely changes. Childhood flies away. Hair grows gray. Husbands and wives come and go. Death of the body consumes your loved ones, and one day your body takes its turn. Permanence is still permanence. Stability has not gone.

Changes in relative life, like the seasons, are to be expected. Changes are not fatal. They are merely changes.

Must you turn over every change like a jeweler a diamond? Must you examine every nook and cranny of change and exhume it? Autopsy it? Let the body of change lie where it is.

That life changes is permanent, beloveds. Do not mind it. Breathe it in, and breathe it out. It is a guest who stays for only a short while. Change does not wreak havoc. It is a small thing that you make big, as if it were once in a lifetime, as if change were not the subject of life, or as if change were an imposition, something in your way. Rather, change paves your way, beloveds.

Change is like the set director of a play. He gets the stage ready for you. Or like the costume designer who gives you new outfits to wear depending upon what act you’re in. Must you be overpowered by change?

Start welcoming change. Consider it as something good that comes to you. Desired or not, it has arrived. The guest, wanted or unwanted, has come. Make a bed on the couch. This guest of change won’t stay long.

Change stretches you, beloveds. You are supposed to be stretched. You are not to stay so comfortable. Perhaps the world has made comfort its ideal. But that is fantasy. Change will disrupt comfort. Comfort is not meant to stay. Yes, meanwhile, put your feet up and relax. You will have to get up soon enough.

Will you learn to relax even through change? Does it really have to be momentous or tragic or a wall to butt your head against? Will you develop a more friendly feeling toward change? Will you embrace it? It may not have been your idea, but change has found its way to you. It has come like a UPS delivery. You have to open the package to know what is inside. Sometimes the gift within is wrapped in many layers of tissue paper. Sometimes you throw the wrappings out too soon, and haven’t seen everything that was in the package for you.

Anyway, another package will find its way to you.

Are you sad at the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace?

Accept the winds that blow, beloveds. Remember the willow tree and the oak, and which is mightier.

When you play baseball, you don’t win every game. Beloveds, when you lose, what have you lost? You have only lost that which is not lasting anyway.

You are on your way to the rainbow. You have to keep walking. Whatever twists and turns, you have to keep walking. That is the case, would you agree? Since this is so, keep walking with alacrity. Why frown, stamp your foot, pound your pillow? All you have to do is keep walking.

Be a good sport, beloveds. Don’t be down in the mouth. Put your shoulders back, and hold your head high. You are merely walking through change. You will get to the rainbow. Just keep walking. Keep looking where you are going, and soon enough, you will have traversed the miles of the universe.

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

Agape Love

 

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

Proverbs 15:17

A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate

Proverbs 17:9

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Song of Solomon 8:7

Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

1 Corinthians 13:1-8a and 13

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

　

　

　

　

HEAVENS LETTER #2177

God said:

From beauty comes beauty. From beautiful thoughts come beautiful thoughts. Beauty is conceived, and then more beauty is received. What you look at is given to you. What you give is returned. You set your own stage, and then the props naturally follow. Sooner or later, this is the case, beloveds.

I understand that you can give a kindness, and it may not be returned to you right then. You may even get a slap. This is one of the hardships in life, that beauty, kindness, and generosity are not always recognized at the outset by those to whom they are given. Never mind. I have noticed, and you have noticed, and the universe has noted.

Of course, you know by now to give because it is in your heart to give and not for any reward, not even for a courteous thank you. The act of giving is a great reward you give to yourself. You see a need and fill it. What more can you ask of life, beloved?

How fortunate you are to be blessed with the capacity to give. Use this talent. It is God-given. All I give is given through you or one of your brothers or sisters. No matter what hand hands you a gift, the gift is from Me to you. And when it is your hand that gives, it is also a gift from Me that you are entitled to give.

Your paycheck comes with your employer’s signature, but know Who gives you the check. And when you are the employer, know I gave you the pen so you may sign checks on My account. I have signers all over the world. Everyone is in My employ. There is not one of you who is not. Whether you know it or not, whether you acknowledge it or not, I signed you on long ago. You are conscripted into My service. You might as well comply.

Whether you are the waiter or the diner, you work for Me. Both roles are important. I do not make one more important than the other. In the eyes of the world, well, that is another story.

The silliness in the world is well-known. And all that silliness comes from the distinctions that are made. Just to think of all the sorting out that is done in the world is enough to make you dizzy.

Which color of the rainbow is more beautiful than another? Who would make an argument about which color is holier? Who would make a war over it? Yet wars are made.

Remind yourself that all on Earth are equal in their meaning to Me. Whatever clothes they wear makes no impression on Me let alone any difference. Let them wear crowns or be shoeless, their value is the same to Me. I see to the heart of the matter. I do not get tied up in distinctions.

The love I AM knows not distinctions. You have My same capacity. The way it is, however, if love were a flashlight, you would turn it on and off depending on what you saw. You would try to save the battery and not waste it, but then, you would be wasting love. If love is a light, then you are simply to shine it. No questions asked. No form to fill out.

If you are to bless the world, then you are to bless it. Not just some parts of the world. The world. Bless the valleys and the mountains. Do not be particular. You have been led to believe that particular is good. Universal is better.

Daily OM (yesterday)......A Softer Touch

 

 

Apply Gentleness to Everything!

 

Throughout life we must cope with blockages that impede our forward momentum. Whether these obstacles are of a personal, professional, or societal nature, our first instinct may be to push against the obstruction.

But the simplest way to alleviate resistance is to approach it gently, with a soft manner and kind intentions. Struggle and strife can find no foothold when confronted with mildness because conflict can only exist when fed by two opposing forces. So many areas of our lives can benefit from the application of gentleness.

The beauty of gentleness lies in its multifaceted nature. It is part love, part compassion, part patience, part understanding, and part respect for others.

When we move through life gently as a matter of course, we naturally attract these wonderful elements into our lives.

This does not mean that gentle people are by nature passive or meek. Rather, their copious inner power is manifested in their gentleness and their choice to move with the flow of the universe instead of against it.

You can make use of gentleness in your own life by applying it in situations where you feel challenged by your circumstances or by people in your environment. As you move forward gently, the energy pervading your life will likely shift and, consequently, the blockages before you will vanish.

Cooperation progresses smoothly when approached gently because all parties involved feel confident that their needs will be met. And quarrels are easily quelled with gentleness because the dualistic concepts of losing and winning are made moot by our willingness to exercise infinite patience with those whose values differ from our own.

Gentleness must be practiced, as we are inadvertently encouraged to act competitive in certain phases of our lives.

At first, your established habits may make being truly gentle challenging. Yet after a time, if you commit to consciously applying gentleness to all areas of your life, whether by collaborating rather than competing or yielding graciously to the impassable roadblocks in your path in order to seek a new road, you will find that you begin to act gently habitually.

Your patterns of thought and behavior become ever more peaceful, and you will discover that you encounter far less impassable resistance on your individual journey.

What do you think about that...lol

A "Dear Jane" Finish The Thought

 

 

Dear Joyce,

I _____ you. You have an amazing______. You make me _______ when you __________. You should _______. Someday I will ______. You + me =________. You remind me of a __________ I once _______. When you _____, I cannot stop _____________.

If I saw you now I'd __________. Remember that time we _______? I would

_______ just for you. Sometimes i just want to__________ you because ____________. I wish ____________ forever and ever. If I could sing you any song it would be _________.

We could __________ under the stars. Ohh how I want to ____________.

Love,
_______________

(P.S. ______________.)

 

 

Finish this thought, and if you like, I will reply to yours...either on your page, or here...

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

* A beautiful email, because I was not in town this morning...I hope you pass this prayer on

Happy Sunday!

 

 

Father, in the Name of Jesus, bless me even while I'm reading this

prayer and bless the one that sent this to me in a special way. Open

Doors in our lives today, Save and set free!

Give us a double portion of your Spirit as we take back everything that

The devil has stolen:

****Emotional Health

****Physical Health

****Finances

****Relationships

****Children

****Jobs

****Homes

****Marriages

I cancel every plot, plan and scheme the enemy has devised Against us in

The NAME OF JESUS. And I declare:

NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US WILL PROSPER. I speak LIFE into every dead

situation. And, I thank you that nothing is

over until YOU say it's

 

Over ! Speak prophetically into our lives and to our situations:

****our households are blessed;

****our health is blessed ;

****our marriages are blessed;

****our finances are blessed;

****our relationships are blessed;

****our businesses are blessed;

****our jobs are blessed;

****our children are blessed;

****our grandchildren are blessed;

****our parents are blessed;

****our siblings are blessed;

****our ministries are blessed;

****our decisions are blessed;

****our friends are blessed.

****Mortgages are paid and debts canceled; our hearts' desire is on the

Way; According to YOUR perfect will and plan for our lives.

YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORSAKE US! IN JESUS' NAME!

AMEN!



Say this prayer, and then send it to EVERYBODY YOU KNOW.

Within hours countless people will have prayed for you, and you will

have caused a multitude of people to pray to God for each other

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

 

WORKS

 

Romans 1:28....And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose

Psalm 19:1....For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

1Peter 1:2.....Who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance

Phillipians 1;6.....Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Collossians 3:23..... Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. 

Genesis 2:15.....The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 

Ephesians 3:20.....Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us

 

 

 

God said:

Let Me just enfold you in My arms. Stay with Me today. Take ten steps with Me today, and then you will take more and more. Keep Me with you today. Think of how happy you make Me. Think of how loved you are, and what you mean to Me. You are an expression of Myself. I am enchanted by you. Think of Me.

I do keep My eye on you, and you are My delight. You always make Me smile. I am either responding to your smile, or I am smiling affectionately at your foolishness. In any case, I exult in you, My happiness.

I am never alone. I always have you in My awareness. I take you everywhere with Me, even though I go nowhere. It seems like we go someplace. It seems like We dance on the top of a mountain or on the top of a pin. It seems like We dive into the Ocean of Love, and yet how do We dive into the Ocean when We have never come out of it? We are square in the middle of the Ocean. We can only dive deep into the depths of Our One Heart, the One Heart that you think is manyfold.

We are singularly One.

Beloveds, you have never been adrift on the surface of the Ocean. Waves come and go, yet you are immovable in the Ocean. The Ocean stirs, and yet the Ocean is still. You ride on the shoulders of the Ocean even as you are at Its depth. You swim, you dive, you cross-crawl without moving away even one inch from My heart. I would not have it any other way. The flow of your swimming or coasting on your back is the flow of My heartbeat.

In a way, you show off for Me. You show Me what you can do. "Watch me," you say. And I, Who hold you in My arms, I answer: "I am watching you. I see you. I see what a good swimmer and diver you are." And, all the while, I hold you fast in My arms. I secure you close to Me. I am indeed your Security, beloveds.

Now, this is not to make you beholden to Me. This is not for you to clutch hold of Me because there is no alternative or because you think you'd better get on the good side of Me. You are already indisputably on My good side. There is nothing for you to gain by being close to Me but your awareness of Our closeness.

What a wonderful thing your awareness is, most especially your awareness of Me. Be aware of Me, as I am aware of you. There is nothing to it. It is perfectly natural. You were born for this, beloveds. You were born in order to find out how intimate We are. You were born in order to find out We are One, and then to exult in this Oneness of Oneness. We were never twain, beloveds. We were always One, and there is nothing else you can be or I can be but Oneness.

We are the Oneness of Love that can only be Itself. Love is all We are and all that We know to do. We can't help it. When love bobbed to the surface of the Ocean, it was still love. Love cannot stop. We have loved forever, and Our love never wears out.

Our love is the adventure of a lifetime, rather, the adventure of Eternity. Here We are, and there is nowhere to go. We are love on love, love layered in Oneness.

We are like cloth that is white on white, and that is the whole cloth, and that is the whole story of Who We are and What We are to each other.

There is no away-ness, beloveds, only Awareness.

　

SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

 

Apologetics

1. Be light o the world    Mathew 5:14    Ye are the light of the world.  A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
2. Be ready with answer    1 Peter 3:15    But, sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:  and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
3. Be salt    Matthew 5: 13    Ye are the salt of the Earth:  but if the salt has lost its savor, where with shall it be salted?  It is henceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men
4. Contend for the faith    Jude 3    Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
5. Paul reasoned with the Jews and the Gentiles    Acts 17:2; 18:4,9    And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scripture.    And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.    And he came to Ephesus, and left them there:  but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

 

 

 

When you have a decision to make, know that what you decide is not monumental. Here is some monumental advice, however: Do not make decisions from fear, nor make decisions to prove that you are not afraid. Do not try to prove anything.

Do not be afraid in the first place. And do not promulgate fear. Be careful about warning others about what you fear. Fear promotes fear. Remember the story about the little red hen who sincerely thought the sky was falling. Do not be a fear-monger.

When you see a fire, yell “Fire!” and run for the exit. Do not yell, “Fire!” ahead of time. This is what you have often done. All the terrible things that could happen. There could always be a fire, beloveds.. Come from the predilection of No Fire.

Are not your thoughts powerful? Negative thoughts carry their seeds with them. Positive thoughts as well. Remind yourself to carry powerful high-vibration thoughts and abandon powerful low vibration thoughts. You shudder to think of impending doom. How do you feel when you think of Heaven and Me? Pretty good, I would say. Place your bets where you want them to be.

You have a choice as to which end of the pool you dive in. You have a choice as to which chair to sit in. You have a choice to lead your thoughts. They don’t have to lead you.

Beloveds, when all is said and done, you are responsible for your thoughts. You are not a weather vane that blows in the wind. Be more like an anchor. Anchor your thoughts where they work well for you.

You do not choose for yourself alone. Your thoughts are not secluded. Your thoughts are like a computer key that you press, and your thoughts are impressed upon the universe. Voiced or unvoiced, your thoughts are impulses of electricity that reach far. You are a wireless, beloveds. Do not just pass on messages that are given to you. Originate healthy messages.

What message do you send on the airwaves today? If you were given the privilege of standing on a mountain top and saying something for the whole world to hear, what would you say?  Would you say, “Watch out!” or would you say, “The blessings of God are upon us.”

Perhaps you would say: “The sun is shining.  Join me on this mountain top. The view is marvelous.”