Question & Thought for November 28th, 2015!

Good Saturday Morning!!!
1. Question – Are you kind-of depressed you’re no longer “young?”
2. Thought – Looking at my peers, I’ve concluded that many of them are secretly thinking the same thing. Once we’ve accepted that life is not as fabulous in some of the ways that we thought it was, we realize it’s even more fabulous in ways we could of never known.
It’s not that you’re deluding yourself, refusing to gracefully accept that your youth is over. You accept the limits of age, but you accept the limitlessness of God as well. Something has ended, it’s true, but something new has also begun.
The generation now experiencing midlife cannot stand the thought that this was all for nothing. Dysfunctional, obsolete patterns of thought that blocked the pathway to your higher destiny are being interrupted at last. And while you might be feeling a bit depressed that you’re no longer young, you’re ecstatic that you’re no longer clueless. (The Age of Miracles by Marianne Williamson)

 

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And while you might be feeling a bit depressed that you’re no longer young, you’re ecstatic that you’re no longer clueless.

​” ​(Marianne Williamson)

 

rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for September 5th, 2015!!!

Aloha!!!
1. Question – Could this be one of the best ‘Best Man’ toasts?
2. Thought – Yesterday, I had the honor of hearing a big brother give his little brother and his beautiful wife a toast at their wedding reception. He said much more than the memorized paragraph below from Marianne Williamson. He said it to the newly weds with intension, love, brotherhood, respect and praise to the Lord! I saw many tears of joy. Enjoy:
 
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
 It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”    
When I see young people do the things I saw yesterday, it revitalizes me! Often we (I) get down about all the things gone haywire in the world. But, when you look at the foundation, the walls, the structure of church and the love these families put intentionally into their children

 

I believe these young newlyweds will: let their own light shine, &  unconsciously give other people permission to do the same!


​God smiles!​

 

rem – know the why or lose the way! 
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