Generously, lavishly, lovingly appreciate, praise, rejoice.

Glorious and wonderful in all ways!  This is you; this is who you are.  Seek first the Kingdom …

According to the Gregorian calendar, this begins a new year.  What does this mean to you?  Celebration?

You are a magnificent Being, striving to know God and be at peace.  Do you doubt it?  Why?

Your awareness of some “thing” determines your experience of the “thing.”  Easy to prove.

Look around you.  Can you find a reason to rejoice, praise, appreciate, feel good about?  If you can, then focus on how blessed you are, now and always.  You are not “here and now” by accident or random chance.  You count, you’re important, you have a mission of value.  “Beloved, now are we the sons of God.”

Can you refine your thinking?  This means forgiving all negatives and fears and self-doubts.  God is good; and you are a child of God.  How can you rightly hold a negative?  It’s not natural to you.  Flood your beautiful mind with gratitude that this inspiration has come to you.

It is said we are on a “journey of no distance, to a place we never left.”  Maybe it’s a journey of self-recognition.  Who are you?  We live and move and have our being in Spirit.  Deep gratitude, praise.

Are you committed to better days and events?  Do you think it’s possible?  Many believe that there is no chance for improvement;  that what is manifest is all there is.  Yet, the Scriptures tell us life is endless, eternal.  Open up.

The remembrance of the birth of the Prince of Peace is honored today.  A world tradition.  A treasured Teacher of Truth and Love whose life changed the earth.  Praise, indeed.