1. Philip and Eric Tucker are here today.

2. I had a lovely birthday. I'm grateful for all the love, gifts, wishes, laughter, celebration and food that we shared. I'm 41. Some people on FB would add funny remarks to their Birthday wishes like ..."you're 25 this year right"? I don't wish to be 25 or 34. I hear people say once they get past a certain age "I don't have birthdays any more"...I will always count my birthdays. I've earned every one of them. I consider it a privaledge and an honor to grow old. I find a resistance to aging disrespectful to life. I'm grateful to have been alive for 41 fabulous years. Looking forward to another amazing year.

3. This advice in my in box from Mastin Kipp

Can You Handle It?
 
This life has an infinite number of potentials for you; we live in a made to order Universe. Whatever you believe is possible for you and take consistent action upon is what becomes your reality. If you keep telling yourself that your dream isn't possible, you will come to find that you are absolutely right.
 
But my friend, if you draw a line in the sand and tell the Universe that your dreams are a reality RIGHT NOW, and take action as if that were the case, you will come to find that you are absolutely right. The question is how long can you live in the fire of your dreams manifestation?
 
The price you have to pay to live your dream is facing your deepest darkest fear and the reward you receive from this courageous act is the realization that your fear was an illusion and that your dreams were always real.
 
So I ask you, my friend, are you willing to go there? Are you willing to sit in fire and sacrifice the comfort of your known world for the potential of something amazing, new and unknown? Don't you want to find out what's on the other side of your fear?
 
Living in fear is so last season, if you want to be happy and really live your dream you have to take a stand and just put yourself out there. You might fail, yes indeed - but, you might, you just might succeed too! Don't you want to find out? Either way your life will never be the same... Can you handle it?
 
Love,
 
Mastin

4. I got to see 3 girls I used to work with 20 years ago. Re-connected through Facebook. Facebook Blessing # 3,065.

Heather, Mary Jo, Heidi, me

5. It's been unseasonably warm for November in Michigan.

6. Meditation and conversations about Gratitude with my Yoga peeps. Wonderful.

7. Asking questions: Ask yourself three questions every day. A powerful way to cultivate gratitude is to focus on what is really happening in our lives, rather than falling into the traps of complaining and drama, The basic practice of Naikan, which translates to "inside-looking," consists of asking oneself three questions every day: "What have I received today? What have I given? What trouble have I caused?" While Naikan doesn't deny the difficult parts of our lives, it puts things into perspective. When you list everything you received and then everything you gave each day, what you have in the giving column is always so much shorter than what's in the receiving column. As we become aware that we've received so much more than we've given, not only does that cultivate gratitude, it also cultivates often a sense of wanting to give something back to the world.

8. The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.  ~H.U. Westermayer

9. Much Gratitude for people who are willing to freely share their gifts and talents with others.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving <3

By inadream39

"Now that we've got the earth and we've got the sky and the mountains and the rivers and the moon and the stars, now we will create man. Where shall we hide the truth of his being from him? One of them said, "Let's hide it on the highest mountain top." "No, eventually he will learn to scale the mountains, He will find it." God said. "Let's take it down to the very deepest part of the ocean." "No, don't hide it in the deepest part of the ocean. Eventually, man will learn how to go to the darkest, deepest part of the ocean. Don't hide it there." "Well, let's hide it on the moon, then." "No, eventually he'll go to the moon and get it there." Finally, they all knew…all at once, exactly where to hide the truth where mankind would never look for it, and that was within himself."

Upon the Earth today, one of the great requirements of everyone evolving here is to raise us out of human limitation, which we have drawn upon ourselves by our forgetfulness of Source, of our Perfection and of our Fulfillment.  The only way to permanently raise us out of limitation of any kind is to teach us how to transmute our “old” causes of distress and then set “new” causes in action which create different effects in this, our physical appearance world. 

No type of subsidy and no means of security is ever permanent until we understand how everything flows forth from our own individual consciousness.  So, to enrich our consciousness until we become Master of our own energy within ourselves and learn how we create causes which manifest as effects, the Elohim graciously chose to present to mankind the Science of Precipitation.” 

It’s this Science of Precipitation that’s been kept hidden from our awareness.  And in this Science, is the understanding of ‘karma’, of cycles, of patterns of cause and effect.  And how they are both changed and transcended. 

Simple cause and effect. 

But we have to be unafraid to look within us, in order to be able to see all the associations and correspondences.  And I know us, I know how doubtful we are about ourselves most of the time.  We’re afraid we don’t have what it takes to wrestle with our own demons. 

So I come along and say, instead of wrestling with them, how about we learn how to make love?   

Isn’t by definition “hell” a place where the Love of God has not entered?  So what makes a demon, a demon? 

If we want to rid our lives of our demons all we have to do is love them into non-existence.  Take the gates off Heaven and let Love flow forth unrestricted.  Take the gates off our Hearts. 

Different causes set up different effects. 

The key is not how we relate to “being good” but in how we relate to “being bad.”  The cause is not Imperfection but how we relate to it.   We’re scared of it and so long as we are, we won’t be addressing in how many ways it’s true.

We’re Ignorant, not Stupid.   One can be fixed, the other can’t.