You will gain a huge amount of self-confidence and overwhelming joy when you internalize and practice the principle I am sharing today.
Allow me to illustrate how to recognize and appreciate mundane things around your life; things you may have taken for granted.
During the recent winter snow storm, not only were trees and bushes covered with glistening white crystals, but snow also piled up inches deep on the edges of my heated bird bath.
I had some concern as the water in the bath was rapidly evaporating into steam and the birds depend on the bath.
Normally the bath is filled from the kitchen, but the patio was waist deep in snow.
No way was it going to be shoveled so the bird bath could be filled.
Looking out I recognized that snow on the edges of the bird bath was melting and that melting snow, plus the falling snow, rapidly filled the bath to the brim.
I watched this little miracle day after day.
Once recognized, never forgotten.
A friend in North Carolina told me that I did not need to read more books and study for another degree.
He said all I needed to do was recognize that I am a master and to think about what that meant.
I followed his advice in leading guided meditations and discovered that words came to me easily and readily.
I only have to be open and receptive and Spirit speaks through me.
The same recognition is now guiding my life.
Opening to your higher power, whatever you call it, will guide your life in exactly the same way.
Noticing little things has become a pleasure-filled habit.
I find that people have been saying things to me that are genuine compliments and sincere affirmations of who I am.
Some of these people were struggling in their life and discovered that something I said gave them direction and a compass with which to steer.
Once they recognized their true greatness, the pathway to their success was recognized and never forgotten.
You have come many times in your life to a place that seemed challenging or disappointing.
You may have entered into a dark night of your soul and wondered if you would ever emerge.
In these difficult times you may have lost hope and plummeted into despair and depression at a time when life seems endlessly hard and futile.
Many of you have had this experience.
Some of you have recognized and never forgotten the triggers that launched that rapid fall from happier times.
Life changes are so often involved in those triggers.
A person you expected to be there for you was not.
A anticipated raise was replaced by the addition of more work without an increase.
Your employer started to downsize the company and anxiety became epidemic, sweeping you along with it.
You may have fallen into working longer hours and never getting enough sleep.
A friend of mine who has made several million dollars told me that he had forgotten how to sleep.
Last year he made 106 flights by airplane, more than most flight stewards.
He would leave on Sunday in order to be at a client for a six A.
M.
meeting on Monday.
His pace continued through the next Sunday, when he would arrive back home at1 or 2 in the morning too exhausted to sleep.
Life became a nightmare that never ended, an endless task.
Years ago I entered into a partnership with a highly successful and dedicated minister who had a reputation of not being able to work with other people.
We had become close friends and he invited me to come and work with him.
He said he wanted to step back and write books and then retire.
The ministry would become mine.
Despite hearing from people who had worked for this minister who had told me their grief when he had hurt them emotionally and ruined their careers, I thought that my friendship and years of good relationships would carry me beyond their unfortunate experiences.
I was wrong.
I am telling you about this experience because I made a classic mistake.
One that I now recognize and have never forgotten.
I believed that I could fix a situation that had adversely affected many competentteachers and ministers.
Worse, when things went south I did not leave.
and move on to a better situation.
I stayed and suffered.
I want you to remember that you always have a choice.
It may seem almost impossible to let go, but you can.
When you recognize that a life circumstance is not working, let it go and move on.
God meant your life to be filled with good and good only.
To avoid being sucked into a downward spiraling cycle, start now to notice what is right about you.
Begin your day saying "I am enough.
" There is nothing for me to prove to anyone.
"I am enough.
" "I am enough for God and what is enough for God is enough for me.
" Hold that thought and say it aloud several times.
"I am enough for God and what is enough for God is enough for me.
" Begin to notice the little things that are working just right.
Is it not amazing how plants in your home or office take in light and prosper.
Have you watched a flower open and give its beauty to anyone who notices? Is it not wonderful that a beam of sunshine coming through a window lights up the particulates that are floating in the air in your home..
You are an extraordinary person to breath that air and survive! Do you remember that you own a portion of the roads and highways and utilities and all other public facilities? Once you recognize God's presence and activity in your life; it can never be forgotten.
As soon as you consciously decide to be open to the flow of the universe, your life will be full of little things thatmake you laugh.
Your heart will sing with life, and not just in the shower.
When you recognize and make the divinity within you, life becomes a game that you always win.
You win every time you recognize and appreciate who you are and every time you help someone else recognize and remember who they are.
Trust me, once you recognize your true identity, it will never be forgotten!
Allow me to illustrate how to recognize and appreciate mundane things around your life; things you may have taken for granted.
During the recent winter snow storm, not only were trees and bushes covered with glistening white crystals, but snow also piled up inches deep on the edges of my heated bird bath.
I had some concern as the water in the bath was rapidly evaporating into steam and the birds depend on the bath.
Normally the bath is filled from the kitchen, but the patio was waist deep in snow.
No way was it going to be shoveled so the bird bath could be filled.
Looking out I recognized that snow on the edges of the bird bath was melting and that melting snow, plus the falling snow, rapidly filled the bath to the brim.
I watched this little miracle day after day.
Once recognized, never forgotten.
A friend in North Carolina told me that I did not need to read more books and study for another degree.
He said all I needed to do was recognize that I am a master and to think about what that meant.
I followed his advice in leading guided meditations and discovered that words came to me easily and readily.
I only have to be open and receptive and Spirit speaks through me.
The same recognition is now guiding my life.
Opening to your higher power, whatever you call it, will guide your life in exactly the same way.
Noticing little things has become a pleasure-filled habit.
I find that people have been saying things to me that are genuine compliments and sincere affirmations of who I am.
Some of these people were struggling in their life and discovered that something I said gave them direction and a compass with which to steer.
Once they recognized their true greatness, the pathway to their success was recognized and never forgotten.
You have come many times in your life to a place that seemed challenging or disappointing.
You may have entered into a dark night of your soul and wondered if you would ever emerge.
In these difficult times you may have lost hope and plummeted into despair and depression at a time when life seems endlessly hard and futile.
Many of you have had this experience.
Some of you have recognized and never forgotten the triggers that launched that rapid fall from happier times.
Life changes are so often involved in those triggers.
A person you expected to be there for you was not.
A anticipated raise was replaced by the addition of more work without an increase.
Your employer started to downsize the company and anxiety became epidemic, sweeping you along with it.
You may have fallen into working longer hours and never getting enough sleep.
A friend of mine who has made several million dollars told me that he had forgotten how to sleep.
Last year he made 106 flights by airplane, more than most flight stewards.
He would leave on Sunday in order to be at a client for a six A.
M.
meeting on Monday.
His pace continued through the next Sunday, when he would arrive back home at1 or 2 in the morning too exhausted to sleep.
Life became a nightmare that never ended, an endless task.
Years ago I entered into a partnership with a highly successful and dedicated minister who had a reputation of not being able to work with other people.
We had become close friends and he invited me to come and work with him.
He said he wanted to step back and write books and then retire.
The ministry would become mine.
Despite hearing from people who had worked for this minister who had told me their grief when he had hurt them emotionally and ruined their careers, I thought that my friendship and years of good relationships would carry me beyond their unfortunate experiences.
I was wrong.
I am telling you about this experience because I made a classic mistake.
One that I now recognize and have never forgotten.
I believed that I could fix a situation that had adversely affected many competentteachers and ministers.
Worse, when things went south I did not leave.
and move on to a better situation.
I stayed and suffered.
I want you to remember that you always have a choice.
It may seem almost impossible to let go, but you can.
When you recognize that a life circumstance is not working, let it go and move on.
God meant your life to be filled with good and good only.
To avoid being sucked into a downward spiraling cycle, start now to notice what is right about you.
Begin your day saying "I am enough.
" There is nothing for me to prove to anyone.
"I am enough.
" "I am enough for God and what is enough for God is enough for me.
" Hold that thought and say it aloud several times.
"I am enough for God and what is enough for God is enough for me.
" Begin to notice the little things that are working just right.
Is it not amazing how plants in your home or office take in light and prosper.
Have you watched a flower open and give its beauty to anyone who notices? Is it not wonderful that a beam of sunshine coming through a window lights up the particulates that are floating in the air in your home..
You are an extraordinary person to breath that air and survive! Do you remember that you own a portion of the roads and highways and utilities and all other public facilities? Once you recognize God's presence and activity in your life; it can never be forgotten.
As soon as you consciously decide to be open to the flow of the universe, your life will be full of little things thatmake you laugh.
Your heart will sing with life, and not just in the shower.
When you recognize and make the divinity within you, life becomes a game that you always win.
You win every time you recognize and appreciate who you are and every time you help someone else recognize and remember who they are.
Trust me, once you recognize your true identity, it will never be forgotten!