Weekly Spiritual Food Archives
from Vina Franklin
Today, Happiness is Yours
I am Okay Right Now
My True Potential - February 5, 2001
Relationships - January 23, 2001
True Family - January 15, 2001
Grievance or Miracle - January 8, 2001
Eyes of Innocence - January 1, 2001
True Love - December 18, 2000
Necklace of Flowers - December 11, 2000
Attention - December 4, 2000
Encouragement - November 13, 2000
Risk Vs. Retreat - November 6, 2000
We are One with Life - October 30, 2000
Love is Free - October 16, 2000
Do It Anyway - October 9, 2000
Honoring Your Process - September 25, 2000
Awakening - September 18, 2000
Childlike Heart - September 11, 2000
Today, Happinesss is Yours
"I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are."
--Nelson Mandela
"The light in you is what the universe longs to behold. This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world."
"Who walks with me? This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. God speaks for you in answering your question with these words: I walk with you in perfect holiness. I light the world."
--A Course In Miracles
Right where you stand does the Truth exist. It doesn't get better, no need to wait for the future to be happy. Today, happiness is yours but for the taking.
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
I am Okay Right Now
"If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased."
--Katherine Hepburn
"Instead of chasing your passion, let it absorb you."
--Unknown>
Dear Heavenly Father,
In all my seeking, what I really seek is Your love. I am learning that the things of time will ultimately never satisfy me, and so in this moment, I gladly forget them all. I come to you, needing only Your smile to fill my heart to overflowing.
I know that only my belief that I am unworthy of Your love keeps me from enjoying it in every moment. Your love is never lacking. Today, I choose to allow myself to bask in it, relax in it, and be sustained by it. There is truly nothing else. Therefore, in Your love, I behold not only your glory, but my own as well, for love is what I am. And, so it is!
Affirm at least once daily:
I am OK right now just as I am. In this moment, I deeply and profoundly accept myself with all my faults, problems, fears, needs and also, the greatness of my life.
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
My True Potential - February 5, 2001
"There is more to heaven and earth than meets the eye."
-William Shakespeare
"I heard about a man who lived in Kansas all of his life and had never traveled more than a few hundred miles from his home. When Joseph was 85 years old, he took a trip to Oregon and saw the ocean for the first time. Joseph stood on the rugged, windswept beach for a long time, breathing deeply and contemplating its majesty. Then he walked back to his friend and told him, "I had no idea it would be this beautiful. I had to see it to know it."
Many of us have lived for a long time in a world much smaller than the one that is available to us. We tread the familiar path, settle into routine relationships, and find security in the known. But to settle for what has been is to miss out on what could be. Imagine that there is an entire unexplored world available to you if you were to reach even a little bit beyond the familiar. If you open your consciousness, the universe will rush to show you what is truly there.
When I first stepped onto the beach in Hawaii, I was moved to tears. The rugged green mountains towered over the azure sea as the warm waters lapped over my bare feet and washed away years of East Coast insanity. Everything I beheld spoke of beauty, aliveness, and abundance. I had no idea that such riches existed on the planet. Egotistically, I believed that I had seen most of what there was to see and knew what was available. But I didn't. What I thought was available was only a small portion of the good that awaited.
There is an entire unseen ocean waiting for you to explore.
Show me the life that is available to me, and let me live it. I am willing to be wrong about what I thought were my limits.
Affirm: "I step out beyond the known to claim the riches of my true potential."
--Alan Cohen, A Deep Breath Of Life
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
Relationships - January 23, 2001
"Don't be sloppy in your behavior with your partner. Don't close your eyes and go unconscious. The beloved deserves your full attention." --Paul Ferrini, Silence Of The Heart
"Low-level, neurotic relationship dramas do not support our own, or the planet's, movement in the direction of God. Their prevailing characteristic is the way they always circle back upon themselves; the pain of the relationship never seems to get ultimately resolved. In that case, although one can certainly understand why Spirit would have led you to reveal each other's deepest wounds, it doesn't appear as though, at this point anyway, one or both people are ready to turn a wound into a sacred wound and make the relationship a holy environment. In those relationships, there is more judgment than forgiveness, more attack than sharing, more defensiveness than taking of personal responsibility. Hanging around for an endless repetition of the same cycle is not loving, but merely dysfunctional."
--Marianne Williamson, Enchanted Love
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
True Family - January 15, 2001
"When you enter the moment as it is arising and you are one with it, so are you full, so are you complete, so you are healing. What could be missing in a moment when you are fully in it? When you are fully present in a moment, what is lacking?"
--Diane Shainberg
"I didn't want to go to Auschwitz with the Zen Peacemaker order to do a retreat. I didn't know much about the Holocaust. What decided me to go was unknown. Then one night, I saw with blazing clarity the concentration camp I had built inside my mind. Now twenty years later I still was imprisoned by ideas of how a family was supposed to be, and how mine wasn't. I was behind the barbed wire of my judgments, my rigid, insane ideas about my family and trying to prove something - to avoid freedom, to deny love, to live with ideas of right and wrong. I saw how I always felt I wasn't enough.
On the night I got up to speak, I was choked up. I spoke of how I had done violence my whole life inside the concentration camp I had built in my mind. "Not good enough" was the verdict, and I had exterminated my loving heart, along with the freedom to be me.
Sitting in the falling snow the next day as we said our prayers, waves of light poured from the sky. I saw that love is everywhere. I sat with my heart broken open. From the depths of human violence had come forth joy and ecstasy in me and a realization of the true family we are in as human creatures. I saw that no matter what happens, there is this light, this breath, this life force, this love that unites us all. Without any ideas, we can love each other just for being who we are. I had been invited to Auschwitz. I had accepted the invitation and had found the family I had been searching for my whole life."
--Diane Shainberg, Chasing Elephants
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
Grievance or Miracle - January 8, 2001
"The first requirement of positive intent is acknowledging gratitude, and the second thing is to abandon grievances of all kinds. Grievance comes from the ego. There's a beautiful passage in A Course In Miracles which says, 'Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle.' Try to remember that."
--Deepak Chopra, SynchroDestiny
"What we have not forgiven will be drawn to us by our negative emotional attachment until forgiveness is complete." --Vernon M. Sylvest, The Formula
"People mirror back what is within us because subconsciously, we are calling it forth from them. That's why certain kinds of people and situations keep showing up in our lives over and over again. The miracle occurs when you truly own and embrace an aspect of yourself. At that point, the person who is serving as your mirror will either stop acting out the behavior, or you will become able to choose not to have this person in your life. When you unplug, you no longer need another to mirror your shadow back to you. Because you'll accept your own wholeness, you'll naturally gravitate to those who reflect it in you. If our soul's purpose is to recognize our completeness, we'll continually call forth what we need to see to be whole. As we own more of ourselves, healthier people will show up in our lives." --Debbie Ford, The Dark Side Of The Light Chasers
Vina
Eyes of Innocence - January 1, 2001
"Grand adventures await those who are willing to turn the corner."
--Chinese fortune cookie
"Make clean my heart, make clear my mind, make new my life."
--Marianne Williamson
"In the film 'Clean Slate,' Dana Carvey portrays a man named Pogue who has an unusual type of amnesia--when he goes to sleep each night, he forgets all that happened to him before that time. A woman who had once manipulated him asks, "Can you ever forgive me for what I did to you last week?"
In an utterly childlike way, Pogue shrugs his shoulders and answers, "Sure!" Of course he can--he doesn't have the slightest clue what she did to him. As far as he is concerned, nothing ever happened; his relationship with her is as new as the current day.
As you enter this new year, nothing in the past has any power to affect what you do now. You are an entirely new person, never having lived this year before. No matter what has happened before, you have the power to create this year as you choose. You have never had the consciousness you now have. You are setting sail on a great adventure determined only by how grand you are willing to think. This year, think big thoughts to create miraculous results.
Devote this year to gratitude, blessing and celebration. Greet it with a sense of joyful anticipation. Honor those who have loved and supported you last year by thanking them in your heart and with your words. Do you realize how much grace you have received and how loved you are? You deserve the very best that life has to offer, because you are the very best.
Affirm: Today I start over. Thank you for the chance to begin anew. I see through the eyes of innocence."
--Alan Cohen, A Deep Breath Of Life
Blessings & Peace to you all. Let us manifest all our heart desires in 2001...
Vina
True Love - December 18, 2000
"We will experience forms as unreal, as transparent and will mentally look past them to the light of holiness."
--A Course In Miracles
"Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word."
--Robert Herrick
"I love the sea, the blue and the green and the wet and the cool. If I have to choose between the sea or you, I take you, but with sadness. My favorite thing is to swim with you, to put the crown on my head and spray water in your face, to see you when you laugh like that, and pretend I'm a little girl. I love to see that look on your face when you register that I'm not. I know, I know, they always ask that, 'Who are you, exactly?' I just laugh and then I dive down deep, to find more pearls on the ocean floor. I will bring them back to you, my love. I will always bring them back to you.
True love answers our need for adventure, for meaning, for magic, and for deep and soulful connection with another. It answers our spiritual as well as our emotional cravings. It is to grown-ups what the entire inventory of a toy store is to children. It makes our eyes grow large and bright the way theirs do when they have seen Santa Claus. In a very real sense, it is Santa Claus!"
--Marianne Williamson, Enchanted Love
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
Necklace of Flowers - December 11, 2000
"You are God's messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you and sees His message on your happy face." --A Course In Miracles
"God offers us in our relationships, the perfect opportunities for maximal learning, but whether or not we choose to take advantage of those opportunities is completely up to us. A holy relationship is one in which both people understand the cosmic game being played: 'Hi, my weaknesses see your weaknesses. Want to dance and grow strong together?' If there is not that conscious context, that sacred environment for the issues which emerge, then unconsciousness and ultimately pain, will dominate our interactions with the beloved.
It's helpful when we're trying to forgive, to remember she's known as much pain as you have and he's as scared as you are. Until we share mutual compassion and acceptance, we will always be tempted to attack. I remember saying to someone once, 'To attack me is to attack us.'
No one brings out the attack dog faster than your loved one. You remind me of my parents, therefore, psychically, I must kill you off. You remind me of someone else who loved me, but then they humiliated me, therefore, psychically, I must kill you off.
What walls we built around the moat we constructed around our wounded hearts. And even when our prayers were answered and some sweet prince or princess made their way past the wall, beyond the moat, and almost into our hearts, we sent whatever sentries necessary to shoot an arrow right into them to stop them short of their intended goal. Our slogan in love became, 'Man the walls!'
But there's a mass exodus now from behind the castle walls. Rapunzel's prince did fall from the tower and go blind. Rapunzel did lose her long hair and spend years in exile, but ultimately they refound each other. Her tears gave him back his sight. That's part of the story we can witness to now, that our tears might turn into balms with which we heal and comfort each other, after so many years of getting it wrong.
Okay, so I have a gift for you. It is a necklace of flowers. One is the flower of forgiveness, two is the flower of my understanding, and three is the flower of my challenge to you. What challenge, you ask? To show yourself to me. But will you still love me then? Oh yes, I will love you even more."
--Marianne Williamson, Enchanted Love
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
Attention - December 4, 2000
"I have accepted fear as part of life--specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back..."
--Erica Jong
"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are--not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."
--Oprah Winfrey
"You are encouraged to accept without judgment, your life, abilities and vulnerabilities. You are being guided to seek to know yourself without fear or resistance to your shadow side, the energy of the night, because it is only the complement to the day and the light awakening within you. This time is about freedom, release, and redirected inner energy meant to help you heal emotionally and grow spiritually; by encouraging you to value the meaningful experiences in your life while being mindful that each physical lifetime is over all too quickly. This is powerful for transformation and change, and you are being shown the means to absorb old emotional energy and convert it into spiritual energy.
While you are in physical life, your shadow side is only half your total being. You are well aware that you have an enlightened side that you seek to expand and share with the world. But aspects of your personality that emerge from fear, greed, jealousy, anger or resistance are often pushed aside in the hope they will disappear on their own, or will be healed through emotional or intellectual practices. You may spend a great deal of energy avoiding and periodically confronting these undesirable personality traits before discovering you can release them only when you love them. No fear is too large to be transformed by divine love. Keep your attention this day on your shadow self and/or the shadow qualities of those you love. In your prayers and meditation, bring these into the light, with love. You are being guided to believe in yourself and know that all aspects of your life are capable of being transformed through love." --Meredith Young-Sowers, Angelic Messenger
Affirm: Through Spirit, I easily remove any blocks that keep me from knowing the truth... I am already full of love.
Sending you the light of my love,
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Encouragement - November 13, 2000
"It is time to reinforce the belief in yourself and your ability to change and heal your life. You may feel as if the old fears and obsessions are gaining strength again because your inner assurance and self-confidence may be slightly shaken by some recent event.
This is a time when you may need to face the transforming of your old patterns by yourself, since friends may be withdrawn into their own concerns. You are being guided to understand that you can do whatever is required to heal because you have invoked divine love to help you begin a new life. You are ready for improved physical health, for relationships with people who are themselves healthier and more capable of sustaining a relationship with you, and for the means to be of service and to value yourself.
Transformation is the process of healing your separation from God. and although you think your problems stem from rejection, abandonment, or trauma at the hands of other people, you are actually facing your desire to release fear and accept love from yourself and from God. Encourage yourself in your efforts to persevere with these positive changes. Continue your meditations and empowering inner work, and you will come into the safe and peaceful waters of divine love.
You might wonder why you are experiencing resistance to the positive changes and repatternings that you are trying to affect in your efforts to heal. The resistance comes from working to abandon your fears rather than continuing to fear being abandoned. Your outer mind, your rational self, has served you well in the past by helping you put aside the memory of painful experiences so that you could meet new people and try again to find love. But this mental programming is presently sabotaging your efforts to reawaken these old feelings in order to heal rather than erase them.
You may have decided to love yourself, all of you this time, even including the parts that lay deeply hidden. You may be deciding that even the fearful obsessions and inner anger is only your small child inside crying out to be loved and held. So place your arms around your body and feel the love from Spirit, which understands your pain and also seeks your healing. You are needed on the Earth, and you have the ability to heal through love."
--Meredith Young-Sowers, from Angelic Messenger
Sending you the light of my love,
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Risk Vs. Retreat - November 6, 2000
"You cannot take your ego into the unknown where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain and the ego craves certainty. You will have to surrender to another and the ego prizes its own will above anyone else's."
--Deepak Chopra, A Path To Love
"Make of yourself a Light."
--Buddha
From Deepak Chopra's "A Path To Love," the discussion of 'risk and retreat,' is interesting. The theory can apply to any aspect of our lives, but consider the example of a romantic relationship. Two people are attracted, fall in love and decide the 'risk' is worth it. When the going gets tough and fear buttons are severely pushed, one or both may decide to throw in the towel; hence the 'retreat' mode comes into play.
They may retreat back into their shells to hide and nurse any perceived wounds. Count on the ego voice playing words to the effect of, 'What a fool to believe you deserve love and happiness!'
Perhaps after a period of down time, partners may decide it's safe to 'risk' their hearts again and embark upon another relationship; thinking this time it surely will be different. But what we see outside is only a reflection of what we first see within our own minds. "If you don't go within, you will go without."
Along the path, we as human beings may not realize that Spirit is helping us to heal, each and every time we offer up our 'little willingness' to surrender our fears or feelings of unworthiness. Each moment we open our hearts to forgive, to allow and to accept our beloved unconditionally, we are building a house of Light and Love.
Gerald Jampolsky, author of "Love is Letting Go of Fear" offers: "Let go today, if only for a moment, of the belief that anyone has the power to hurt you. Instead, say to whomever you feel threatened by, I see you joined with me in the light of God's healing Love."
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
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We are One with Life - October 30, 2000
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything."
-- Katharine Hepburn
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Being what you want to experience is the door to Heaven."
-- Unknown
We are One with this thing called life and it is truly amazing, just like us. Being able to choose what we experience is an awesome Gift from God, and we are very entitled to all His wondrous Gifts.
That is the great news. Viewed through the human experience we're all having right now, however, there is also a flip side. We must unravel, or remove whatever parts we perceive as blocking or preventing us from our good - that which keeps us from fully accepting our Gifts (joy, love, light, peace, abundance, strength and happiness), and living the life we deserve.
Anyone who has experienced a 'dark night of the soul,' knows first hand there is no warm, fuzzy feeling involved in this process! But as we know, we never walk alone and Holy Spirit waits patiently for us to ask for help. So, just for today....let's not forget to ask:
"Father, Your Kingdom is within my heart and within my sight..a Kingdom where no one will suffer loss. You alone are my hope. I give praise for the strength you have already given me."
--2 Corinthians 12
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
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Love is Free - October 16, 2000
"He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self. And I am lost to all reality."
-- A Course In Miracles
Through meditation, the following guidance was received: Love is free! The dawning occurred to me that, up until now, I have believed love must be bought or traded. This may seem astonishing to some, but I didn't know I had no power or influence over other people, places or things. My ego has held steadfast to the false belief that I'm the most powerful person on earth. I didn't know my ego had been behind the scenes, orchestrating and designing my life around this mistaken notion. I forgot my teaching that the ego is like a puppeteer, controlling the strings to me, the puppet! My ego has believed it is God, and I must've went along with it. Of course, this belief has been as a deep root within me, being instilled from long ago.
My parents didn't know to help me learn any differently, because they weren't able to be there for me in a healthy aspect; being too busy nursing their own 'wounds.' Now, I know Spirit is here, and has always been here, to guide me to my love. Now, I hold the key to my freedom.
To reinforce, I am doing some mirror work, to where I look into my own eyes and affirm: 'In this moment, for right now, I deeply and profoundly accept myself, with all my fears, problems and greatness.' And, I can know the truth now. I can see, hear and feel it, knowing I am safe and that I am loved.
It may be helpful to ask ourselves, 'What spiritual truth am I interested in learning now?' I must remember to ask what instead of why. What is the meaning of this that is occurring? What am I learning? I know what I believe in my mind, but what about my heart? The universe is opening up the gates of heaven for me to discover what I am inviting myself to learn in this lifetime.
The false idea I've believed is that I'm not good enough to spend time with or be with, or do anything important with. It is time to replace any negative with positive affirmations, in order to release the mistake: Others decide all on their own to spend time with me. I have nothing to do with it. There is nothing I need do for others to love me. What others think has nothing to do with me. I don't need to think anything is wrong with me. Others are drawn to me because my essence is love.
I am learning how to take life the way it is. It is healthy and loving for me to stand on my principles and my word, based on truth for me. This is where faith comes in. I know by my word to myself and by my action of letting go and having faith. I trust this is how the universe works. To be free and experience continued peace, I must be willing to totally let go and risk anything. Once I've expressed what I desire, I must trust that God will take care of me. I'm not going to get involved in it after that. Otherwise, I'm feeding the fear each time I go back to it. It will grip me again and again, keeping me stuck.
The truth that I am love is not a debatable issue! That I am love is changeless. And, so it is.
Sending you the light of my love,
Vina
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Do It Anyway - October 9, 2000
Do It Anyway
By Mother Teresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Affirm: I am as God created me and am entitled to God's gifts.
Have a beautiful, blessed day!
Love, Vina
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Honoring Your Process - September 25, 2000
"The worse people act, the greater is their need for healing."
- A Course In Miracles®
"To trust in God means to move ahead with your heart when your head says it can't be done."
- From "God's Little Answer Book"
Have you ever experienced trauma and shame? How deep has it gone? Can you imagine how freeing and light you can be, as you release the old patterns that may have followed in your family? If you meet resistance, know you're onto something. Dig deeper. In an appropriate family or environment, you don't have to be afraid. Fear, at times, can seem to have more power than we do. Let it be a signal to you that there's somewhere deeper you need to go. You're striving for an authentic relationship with your Self, because that is the only person in your life who matters.
Rosemary Catchcart says there are two ways to live in this world: from an outer directive, which focuses all on looking outside, judging and having an opinion about others; always trying to fix others, or you're the one who can guide somebody, or looking outside of yourself for the guidance you need. The other way to be is to be an inner directive individual, literally inwardly spiral, going deeper within yourself. Doesn't matter what others do, you may hope and pray your spouse does xyz, but all that matters is what you do with your life. If we are to grow and evolve, we must become as inner directive as possible, to have a Plan each moment of the day, and stick to it.
Affirm: All things are good and for my healing. Forgiveness provides me with relief and release. Love heals all things.
Sending you the Light of my Love,
Vina
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Awakening - September 18, 2000
Viva Franklin
"You do not have to kill the dragons which you thought pursued you. Nor need you erect the heavy walls of stone and iron doors you thought would make you safe."
- A Course In Miracles®
Prior to going to sleep last night, I had a disagreement with someone. Upon awakening this morning (notice the symbolism), I was aware of just having experienced a 'bad' dream. A wonderful blessing has been harvested from it. As I share Holy Spirit's message to me with you, my hope is that you will also rejoice in the victory, as 'when two or more are gathered in my name...'
In my righteous indignation, I felt justified to blame.
After all, they did it to me. Isn't that why I felt shame?
A gentle voice intervened through my pain, and spoke:
'My dear One, there is no need to fear or be sad...NO!'
Now, that Voice sounded familiar, but today, touched me deeply.
But, I argued, he did this, and he did that; that's why I'm weeping.
'My precious child, you are so sweet,
Come to me now, rest awhile at my feet.
You see the truth is there are no demons here,
There has never been, nor will there ever be a need to fear.
Aren't you tired of carrying those old burdens around?
Be honest with yourself. Don't you want to wear a smile, instead of a frown?'
He began to smile and I felt He knew, but I wanted Him to continue.
'Did you see the truth in the gift I gave you, your dream?
There was not one bully, dragon or demon, not two or three...
There is only You, and you are free!' He sensed my hesitation.
'Look back once more, just to be certain.
Yes, as they all meld together, it is done.
As the tears began to flow again, I wondered why.
He said, you're just so used to carrying the burden around, you still think you have to try.
But, alas, there is nothing to do, no thing to prove. All there is is love, and my darling, that is You!'
Affirm: All obstacles to my peace have been removed. I rest in a sea of Universal Love, Understanding, Oneness and Light.
Sending you the Light of my Love,
Vina
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Childlike Heart - September 11, 2000
Vina Franklin
"Miracles arise from a mind that is ready for them." - A Course In Miracles®
"The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle." - A Course In Miracles®
There is a debate among Biblical scholars as to whether God actually parted the Red Sea for Moses and the Israelites, or if it just happened to be low tide when they arrived. Was the occurrence natural or supernatural?
It doesn't really matter - it was a miracle, nonetheless. If you showed up at the Red Sea with Pharaoh and his army in hot pursuit, and you were able to get across by the hand of God, low tide, or the Staten Island Ferry, you would be elated to escape, and you'd thank God for the gift of freedom, no matter how it manifested itself.
While many miracles occur through inexplicable, supernatural means, many come about through seemingly mundane "coincidences." It is not so important how miracles happen, but that they do happen. Meeting the right person at the right time for the right purpose is just as valuable as if God plunked the person in front of you. While the reasoning mind wants to analyze and question, the childlike heart accepts blessings as gifts. When we habitually doubt, we paint ourselves into a corner and miss out on the greatest joys of life.
A Course In Miracles® suggests that each day be devoted to miracles. Keep your mind, heart and eyes open for events that override the expectations of the fearful mind and demonstrate that we are loved. The more we look, the more we will find.
Help me to be miracle-minded. Give me a childlike heart, that I may recognize You in all.
Affirm: "I create miracles because I look for them."
- Alan Cohen, A Deep Breath Of Life
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