Ready, Willing And Able!

Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.

- Louisa May Alcott

This seems an especially appropriate time to prepare myself for the wonder and opportunity ahead.  And one of the best ways I can prepare is through prayer :

"God, I am ready to carry out Your divine plan for me.  Excitement about the adventures that await me builds so that I am filled with great expectation.

"God, I am willing to follow Your guidance.  I look forward to what I will be experiencing with eager anticipation.  I listen for Your guidance so that I am where I need to be, doing what I need to do.  I am able to accept each blessing because I am prepared to be blessed.  I am spiritually awake - open to all that You have to offer me.  I joyously embrace life and all its wonders."

I am ready, willing, and able to be blessed by God.

(From : 'Daily Word' magazine by Silent Unity, a world wide prayer ministry) 

Every Wrong

Corrective Punishment

Suffering and misery are the inescapable acts of the Cosmic drama.  God does not decree these calamities, but man invites them by way of retribution for his evil deeds.  This is the corrective punishment by nature, which induces man to give up the wrong path.  All this is part of the grand synthesis in which the negatives serve to glorify the positives.  Thus, death glorifies immortality; ignorance glorifies wisdom; misery glorifies bliss; night glorifies dawn.

(Gems of Wisdom, Suffering, pg 170)

GEM 815

Body attachment gives rise to ego in man.  Success eludes one who is egoistic.  Egolessness is true humanness.

(From : Garland of 1008 Gems, Bhagawan Shri Sathya Sai Baba's Sayings)

Faith

A 'devotee' wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and 

complained that it made no sense to go to the Temple . 

'I've gone for 30 years now, he wrote, and in that time I have heard 

something like 3,000 mantras. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. 

So, I think I'm wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving 

services at all. 

This started a real controversy in the 'Letters to the Editor' column, 

much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone 

wrote this clincher: I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my 

wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot 

recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know 

this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my 

work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically 

dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I 

would be spiritually dead today! 

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the 

invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! 

Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!

- Author Unknown -

Be Blessed - 39

Q528

Does Grace of God confer all one needs?



The most desirable Aishwaryam (prosperity) is Easwara anugraha (the Lord's Grace); that is to say, the most desirable form of wealth is the Grace of God.  He will guard you, even as the eyelids guard the eye.  Do not doubt this.

(SSS Vol 4, pg 264)

The Joy Of Living

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what-next, and the joy of the game of living.

- Samuel Ullman -

愛LOVE愛 Speaks - 20

Final Death