"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
-Charles Kingsley

It's really the cat's house - we just pay the mortgage.
~Author Unknown

'May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.

"To think creatively, I need to be able to look afresh at what I normally take for granted."
~George Kneller

photo taken by Hal Emery


Light

"I am a child of the Light.
I love the Light.
I serve the Light.
I live in the Light.
I am protected, illumined, supplied and sustained by the Light
and I love the Light"
~Saint Germain

Today's Affirmation

The Light of God is always with me.
Today's Meditation
Dear God, Mother, Father, Spirit of the Universe

Thank You for the light of Your love which illumines my steps.
Thank You for the love we share freely with one another.
Thank You for providing all that I need to live.
Thank You for this incredible planet to call home.
Thank You for the wind and rain, fire and earth.
Thank You for early spring flowers.
Thank You for the Light which always shines.
Thank You!

A Miracle

When a miracle turns its face toward the Realm of Plants
Life flowers from the tree of its great good fortune.
And when a plant tastes grace and turns to the Spirit
It drinks it fill from the Fountain of Spring.
And when the spirit turns at last toward its Beloved
It unrolls its bed in Eternal Delight.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

photo from an email-unknown photographer

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety. While I measure my success in terms of my personal comfort and security the universe measures my success by how much I have learned. So long as I use comfort and security as my criteria of success, I will fear my own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs me into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.
~Caroline Myss

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

Earth laughs in flowers.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~William Shakespeare