Day-Words Make Your Day

MAGNIFCANT - MONDAY
TERRIFIC - TUESDAY
WINNING - WEDNESDAY

THRILLING - THURSDAY
FANTASTIC - FRIDAY

SENSATIONAL - SATURDAY
SPLENDID - SUNDAY

From the forthcoming book

Downloading The Creator: Bits and Bytes

Yep

There’s a lot to be said for “yep.” It implies a simpler time when we were more prone than not to give the other guy a nod regardless of his opinion. There didn’t seem to be a need to be on first in order to make ourselves look better by putting someone down or arguing the point all the way to a bloodbath. How are we ever going to qualify for first place if we don’t get own acts together and learn how to say “yep” with a nod and mean it.

Stuck Energy

We toss out the word "forgiving" as if it's easy to do or necessary if we want to be "good" about the whole thing. But it doesn't quite work that way. Forgiving as some very insightful person said once, is "for giving up." That means whatever happened is no longer attached to us any more than a movie is when we leave the theater.

A guest on Oprah said it best, "Feelings are time travelers." When we can't put a hurtful incident to rest it follows us, it shapes us, and it pains us. Unfortunately, we even take it with us into another lifetime.

Evil

Evil would not exist if we didn't participate.

True or False?

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." Henry Miller, a controversial author and painter, December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980.

A Perfect New Year's Wish

Today is January 3, 2008, the beginning of a new year. This thought from Alan Watts is a perfect idea for every parent on earth. If put into practice, it would change the world.

He said, "The Book I would pass to my children would contain no sermons, no shoulds and oughts. Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt."
Author and philosopher - Alan Watts 1915 - 1973

Christmas Magic

Today is Monday December 24, 2007. And although my posts on this blog cover inspirational thoughts over many years, a touching story happened yesterday that is worthy of sharing.

I arrived early at Sunday’s service so I could sit on the front row a mere foot from a towering and beautifully decorated Christmas tree. There are only five seats on this row but when I arrived, two were already taken—the isle seat and the second seat next to it.

Excusing myself as I passed the two men sitting there, the young man in the second seat gestured with a slight hand movement for me to take the empty third seat. Since sitting under this massive and magic Christmas tree is personal, I nodded with a thank you opting to sit in the forth seat leaving an empty seat on both sides.

His brief gesture allowed me to observe a twenty-something angelic face that quite honestly resembled what Jesus may have looked like at his age although his clothes betrayed his personal presence. They resembling those of a homeless person more so than a spiritual power, a thought I quickly dismissed. It’s wrong to “judge a book by it’s cover.”

The first row is also first to receive the collection plate. But when the young man passed the velvet-covered collection basket to me, I couldn’t help but notice his angelic smile and the quarter he had carefully placed there. His gratitude was over-flowing and obvious, far greater than mine. It was a Christmas lesson leaving me to wonder who was he really?