Irish Blessing

May you have warm words on a cold evening, 

a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.



- Irish Blessing -

Devotion

Four Stages

Just as there are four stages in man's life, boyhood, youth, middle age, old age, so too, there are four stages in his acquisition of wisdom :

1.  To be trained by parents, teachers, elders, being led, guided, regulated, warned, reprimanded.

2. To be eager to establish happiness and justice in society; to know the world, its worth and values.

3. To pour out energies to reform, reconstruct the human community.

4. The realization that the world is beyond redemption by human effort, that one can at best save oneself.

(Gems of Wisdom, The Teacher and Tomorrow, pg 195)

GEM 816

Consider all your acts as worship.  Duty is God.  Work is worship.  Whatever happens, accept it gladly as His handiwork, a sign of His compassion.

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

Divine Thought - 32

Indweller In The Heart

Myself

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)