MESSAGES FROM SPIRITLIGHT AT HOME
DECEMBER 2003 and JANUARY 2004
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
January 2004
Welcome to the fifteenth issue of Messages from SpiritLight at Home offering monthly inspirational thoughts, insights into new, useful, fun, sometimes unusual and interesting ideas and some of my favorite links on the Internet.
"Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, but the glad young year comes merrily in tomorrow." – Emily Miller
A MESSAGE FROM DEIRDRE
My Dear Ones,
The door to 2003 has closed, but, like me, have some of you left it ajar with things left undone; messages unanswered, loved ones to catch up with, letters to write, phone calls to make, bills to pay and newsletters to send! Frustration reigns! Lord help us!
May days late and many dollars short, it is still with joy and finally a sense of peace that I come now to wish you all a blessed New Year.
What does the New Year mean to you and me? I know what it means for me. It means new people are about to enter my life. New doors are opening. New experiences will be cast upon me. And new paths will be shown to me.
Conversely, I am carrying with me into this new year, old habits, old lovers, friends and family, old patterns of living, and the road I've been traveling on that faces m y back as the old door closes. Wonderful memories - sad memories. It will be up to me whether that door slams shut, or if it closes slowly and steadily behind me, and the key of the year 2003 finally locks it all away. In the locking of that door, all of us will have infinite new choices to make. And those decisions will affect not only us, but those around us. It is not by mistake that the world is a circle. Our lives are circles and we walk together forming an even larger circle. What comes to you, even tually goes, and what goes, eventually returns. What we have left behind, we will be sure to meet again at some point in the future.
So, will we try to put behind us the pain of yesteryear? The failures - those things we will consciously choose to forget? Can we forgive ourselves for any misdeeds, thoughtlessness, digressions that we are carrying into the next phase of our lives? In order to successfully leave behind all those things, we really do need to remember them, learn from them and then cast them a way at the doorstep to be locked up tight behind the closing door to our past. To consciously remember all those hurt feelings, those painful moments, that time in one's life when it was much easier to turn our backs and walk away instead of dealing with t he problem head on. So that when we reach the same part of the circle again, we are wiser and more equipped to handle them. It is all part of our learning process. The old adage of 'Let bygones to be bygones' is so true, but the statement forgets to add ' But learn from them.'
And so, what about our successes? The accomplishments - those things we might unconsciously forget, but need to remember? It is always easy to carry over the misfortunes and to leave behind the accomplishments. And so necessary to re member to do the exact opposite. Can we rejoice in our kindness, the love we have shown to someone when no love was guaranteed in return, or the little things we did for others that nobody ever knew about?
As it follows then, it is just as important to c onsciously remember all the good things. So having stored away all those hurtful things, we can then move on. For it is only the good things that should be packed and ready for the journey into the next year. These are the experiences that will hold us in reserve as our new and emerging lives begin as the year 2004 unfolds. If we throw out the negative and replaced it with the positive, we will have made the room necessary in which to grow. \par \par There are many this year, in particular, who will traverse slowly into this new year. They will bring with them tremendous burdens and heavy hearts. They will shed tears of loss for their loved ones who made a very special journey - one that took them back home. But be assured that those we have lost are not really 'los t .' They are whole again, they live again, and they are at peace. I pray for their spirits to be lifted high and that their loved ones will have the knowledge that all was not lost when they departed. For our loved ones live on in another world, a parallel universe, one that is very close to us, side by side. Remember the miraculous ways about them, and eventually, those memories will sustain you.
So, my dear friends, in this renewal at the beginning of the year 2004, be patient with yourselves and be kind to each other. Walk into the new year, hand in hand, with heads held high, a heart full of love for all mankind, and truly experience the hope for the future that awaits us all. And remember -- all things that are still left undone are not important in the grand scheme of things. We will always have things left undone. That is what it is to be human. What is surely important is that we just do our best to fulfill the very best in each of us.
My wish for you all is that:
I hope that you all had a joyous Christmas and Hanukkah and I send you blessings of this magical season.
With light and love as always,
Deirdre
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them." - Marcus Aurelius
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INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS
Brought to you from various resources around the Globe. We embrace all religions at SpiritLight at Home and will endeavor to bring to you inspirational stories that can be applied to your own beliefs. This story about her father is told by Danielle, a 14-year old. I relate it to you unedited so that you may receive the flavor in which it was written. The power of prayer......
A Broken Neck - Not Broken
"It all started last year when my mother got a call from my father's working partner. He was calling from the hospital to tell my mother they had been in a car accident. We rushed to the hospital and there we found friends of my father and his partner in the waiting room.
My father's partner explained to us what had happened. They had been sitting at a stop light in front of a Mobile station when a car watching a tractor trailer had gone out of control. They rushed my father to the hospital and at Dorchester General Hospital his neck was pronounced broken. At this time I went to the church with my grandmother where they were having play practice to tell my aunt we were driving to Baltimore.......everyone gathered in a circle and we prayed.....this prayer was carried out for the good part of 15 minutes by Reverend Paul Miller.
After this prayer took place, we went back to the hospital and they told us they had flown him to Baltimore Memorial Hospital where they would take more test in a few hours. While the tests were given, my father's mother, my mother's mother, my father's sister and brother and friends were at the Baltimore Memorial Hospital with us. The doctor came out and started explaining what had happened and what would be done to help this situation.
My grandmother, a very impatient person (who died 1 month ago), was asking the doctor question after question. The doctor told my grandmother that the neck HAD been broken but was NOT broken this time. The doctor asked my grandmother if the neck had ever been broken. She told him "no" a number of times and the doctor could not figure out exactly how the neck had been broken. So, in fact the neck was broken 2 hours before the last test was taken.....but then pronounced not broken.
I don't logically understand and can't explain what happened. However, I do think that right now - at the age of 14 - this is one of the things I don't need to understand. And right now I am just happy with the fact that my father had an angel from God that night. That's all I need to understand for right now..........
Source: http://applecity.com/Inspiration.htm
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action." - Mahatma Gandhi
DEIRDRE'S FAVORITE LINKS
(Just favorites in my bookmarks - no profits made here. Any advertising (if any) is placed at the end of the newsletter.)
1. EA Games - Free Games. My favorite - Word Whomp! My addiction of the new year! Click here: http://www.eagames.com/home.jsp
2. Do Not Spam Registry - A spoof on the Do Not Call Registry (which is legit) -- Just some fun, appealing mostly to a little off-center and cynical minds! Click here: http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2003_spamregistry.html
3. The Slip Ups Archive - Amusing accidental bloopers or mistakes that weren't caught, and made their way to the viewing public. Click here: http://www.slipups.com/
4. The new "Emissary of Light" web site - Their goal is simple – to help millions of people around the world enjoy the experience of deep inner peace, and to offer a variety of programs for extending that peace into the world. This spiritual organization, The Beloved Community, touches the lives of over 100,000 people every week with Internet courses, feature films, The Seminary of Spiritual Peacemaking, sacred site tours, and through the books and CD’s of James Twyman. They are also committed to helping the "Mystic Children" (AKA Indigo Children) share their messages of peace through two international conferences each year. You will find information here that will touch your life and help you claim your own role of being an Emissary of Light. Join the Mary Magdalene Experiment - an ecumenical experiment using Spikenard Oil. Click here: http://www.emissaryoflight.com/
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life." - Leo Tolstoy
HUMOR OF THE DAY
From the above link: http://www.slipups.com/
Here are a few quotes from "Dubya" the greatest orator of our time.
"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me." Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." Reuters, May 5, 2000
"I think we agree, the past is over." On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California." Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink." Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual -- are going to undermine his campaign." New YorkTimes, March 4, 2000
"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
"I understand small business growth. I was one." New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" Explaining the need for educational accountability, Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher." South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people." Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000
"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth." Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins, New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News, Jan. 30, 2000
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." Speaking during Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself." At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan.14, 2000
"There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country." Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999
"The important question is, How many hands have shaked?" Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in NewHampshire, In the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
"Keep good relations with the Grecians." Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is." – Francis Bacon
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work." - Charles Sawyer
Bless you all and have a great month. Happy New Year and see you in February!
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