β€œThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.”

- Albert Einstein

i have put love at the very center of my life.
love is the why of everything I do and it carries me.
through to completion when things get tough.
love is what compels and impels my life and
this love is the very essence of who and what I am.

love lights my way as I focus my attention on
the loves of my life – those people and things that
bring the most joy to me – music, art, friends, pets,
sunshine, children’s laughter, wildflowers –
I am guided, driven, compelled, and lifted up by love
today.

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affirmative prayer treatment 51
The I AM Meditations

"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

Henry David Thoreau

β€œOne day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, β€œWhat are you doing?” The youth replied, β€œThrowing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.” β€œSon,” the man said, β€œdon’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundred of starfish? You can’t make a difference!” After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. Then, smiling at the man, he said…” I made a difference for that one.” 

β€œI do not at all understand the mystery of grace. Only, that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us.”

~Anne Lamott

 

music as meditation