We think finding our “purpose” will make us happy. What if we decided our purpose is to BE happy and BE love, and then prioritize our lives so that we are most often doing activities that allow us to express who we BE? How can it get any better than that?

You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you’re eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

— Abraham (Excerpted from the workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, November 4th, 2000 # 419)

For me, the key is deliberately focusing on appreciating, knowing that things are always changing, and choosing to believe they are always evolving for my highest good and greatest joy. Each morning during my sacred time one of the things I pray is that my Team (Angels, Guides and Loved Ones) will guide every aspect of my day to my highest good and greatest joy. I thank them for their love, support, guidance and protection. I shed a few tears of appreciation, and then get on with my day. It’s so nice to know I’m not in this life experience doing everything on my own.

She is a delightful person with an amazing website (especially check out the chakra and affirmation information at www.CinnamonCrow.com). What I want to share today is from an article she wrote explaining “I Am” in a way I had never heard it.

Everyone I know interprets the third commandment (about taking the name of the God in vain) to mean refrain from saying damning statements using “God.” But that is an incorrect interpretation.  When Moses was up on the mountain, he asked for the name of God and was told “I Am That I Am.”  The correct interpretation is to refrain from using “I Am” in a negative way.

From her article: “When you use negative I Am statements, you actually create these things, grounding them into physical reality.  This is the warning God gave Moses.  We are all responsible for the path our lives have taken.  No one else is to blame.  It is our choice.  We are all guilty of poor creation at some time in our life.  We create through low self-esteem and negative thoughts.  Pay attention to the casual way you use I Am.  You will be surprised at just how carelessly you speak.  When you find yourself using a negative I Am statement, make it a point to immediately change it to a positive.” (read the full article here: http://mysticlivingtoday.com/view_page.php?ID=483)

“Since you have the power to create through your speaking, and since your words are the basis for your experiences, speaking consciously and paying attention to what you say makes great sense. Every word choice you make influences and affects your attitude, your attitude affects your behaviors, and your behaviors and actions affect your outcomes.

In the beginning is “your word” and everything flows from there. What you say influences your experiences as well as your environment and the people in your world. By learning the root meanings of words and knowing how to upgrade into words of high energy, you gain power to choose consciously to create empowering energy with your communications.

And “with great power comes great responsibility”. You have the responsibility to think before you speak, to consider the impact of your words, to be accountable for the power of your words.”

Speak consciously!

On Friday I was strongly encouraged to set up a writing area so I can start receiving the books that are wanting to come through me. On Sunday I was prompted to move things around in the bedroom to create such an area. I put a beautiful table cloth over a small table that faces out onto the back yard and then moved Steve’s computer from the big desk he used over to the small table. It felt really good as I looked at the set up after I got it moved.

I had been asking Steve for about a week to send someone to take care of the back yard, which, after all this rain, was knee-high with weeds (we don’t have a lawn mower). No sooner had I finished admiring my new writing area when I heard a knock at the door. It was the guy across the street, whom I had never met, offering to cut my grass for $25. I know Steve sent him in response to my request, and sent him at that particular moment because he knew I had just arranged my writing area to be looking out on the back yard and wanted it to be pleasant to look at. When the guy finished and I was paying him I asked his name, and he said “Dusty.” I remembered that “Dusty” was Scot’s nickname when our youth group went to a dude ranch when we were dating.

I share this to let you know, once again, there is no separation. Our Angels, Guides and Loved Ones are right here eager to comfort, love and assist.

Signs and messages come in the form of seeing repeating numbers or number combinations, hearing a song or overhearing a conversation, drawing cards from an oracle card deck, and many, many other ways. In the show I did this morning I gave several examples of communication from the Spiritual Realm in my own life, the meaning of repeating numbers, and several resources about signs.  Listen here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/awakeninginaustin/2012/03/06/how-to-get-more-spiritual-signs

Every day during your meditation, and whenever you desire comfort, confirmation, or direction, ask your Angels, Guides and Loved Ones for help.  They are always right there with you, and they can only help you if you make a request.  Each morning I thank God for my Angels, Guides and Loved Ones and their assistance, and then request specific assistance for that day.  I request they let me feel their loving presence throughout the day, clearly hear their guidance, and see and understand signs and evidence of their work in my life. I invite you to do the same.

I mentioned in a previous Morsel how my Dad wanted to know how best to pray for me and I told him to always just pray for my highest good. To receive your highest good accept that everything you are experiencing is for your highest good at that point on your path. Each day, and even many times during the day, ask for situations to be worked out for your highest good, and express appreciation.

If you sometimes wonder how something that feels awful could possibly be in your highest good, ask yourself, “How can I add more love to this situation?” Here’s a quick exercise I’ve encountered several times and was reminded of today. Imagine the situation that is bothering you is in a ball floating in front of you at chest height. Breathe in deeply, imagining strength and love coming up from Mother Earth into your feet, up your legs and into your heart. Hold your breath for a moment and visualize the love expanding in your heart. Then blow the love on your exhale into the situation hovering in front of you. Now breathe in deeply, imagining wisdom and love from God/Spirit/Source coming in the top of your head and down into your heart. Hold your breath for a moment and visualize the love expanding in your heart. Then blow the love on your exhale into the situation hovering in front of you. Repeat two more times. Then, if you like, say “Angels, please handle this situation for my highest good. Thank you.” I guarantee you will feel better.

So here’s a little process for you. Get out a piece of paper and write out a list of each person in your lifetime that you know you have touched in some positive way, even in what you consider to be a small way. When you think you have run out of names, start searching your mind by categories (go job by job, city by city, school, church, etc.). I bet you end up with a much bigger list than you imagined. Now count the names on the list and write that number at the bottom.

Next, close your eyes and picture a stone being tossed into a clear pond—see the ripples go out and out and out. It’s the same with the number of people you have touched. Open your eyes and add 10 zeros to the number you wrote down. When you make a difference to one, you make a difference to thousands you will never directly know about.

And when you add to that the groups you send up a prayer for (all the starving children in Africa) or all the situations where you send compassionate thoughts (people you see on the news experiencing some natural disaster), then the number you have made a difference for grows even larger.

You are special, valuable and precious, and you have a light that shines like no one else on the planet. Who can you make a difference to today?

This morning when I got up I was prompted to write a list that began with this statement: I acknowledge and declare that, with God as my Source, money is constantly flowing to me in unlimited supply. With this unlimited money…and then I followed it with present tense statements of things I am already doing with unlimited money is some quantum field of possibility (otherwise I would be unable to imagine it). For example, With this unlimited money I have a space where I see healing clients that is serene and beautiful.

I encourage you to write such a list, from your heart, and then read it out loud every day, anchoring it in the physical plane. That’s certainly what I’m going to do.