Simmply do this...

"Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God." ~ ACIM
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Miracles and Love's Presence

As she watched expectantly, I emptied her water bowl and filled it with fresh, clear, cool water. I do this each morning and evening for Sophia who has been my companion since I found her wrapped in a packing blanket and abandoned in a ditch along the road.

As I performed the ritual this morning, the thought came to mind of how mysterious this might appear to Sophia. A bowl with stale water miraculously is filled with fresh, clean, living water. A similar ritual on my part transforms the food bowl. Yet to me, there's little mystery. It's what I do because I love her.

As I went through this morning's ritual with this new thought, another thought came to mind: This is how it is with our Creator. What appears miraculous to us is just a part of our Creator's nature as each need we have is systematically provided as Love expresses Itself on our behalf.
May you be filled to the brim with the awareness of Love's Presence and the miracles that provides each moment of the day!

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Grief is caused by the disparity between what happened and what we think should have happened. The greater the disparity between the two, the greater the grief.

Now that the day is over...

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In theory, all of us are, at max, six people removed from any other person on earth. There's been serious research that seems to validate it. In my case, I'm literally, at most two degrees (two people, maybe only one) from the President of the  United States. In this case, I'm not speaking theoretically, I'm speaking literally. That would put me at three, maybe four people (degrees) from the world's top leaders. This validates something I believe deeply --- that we're all connected. I believe it's true spiritually and, in  a way unknown to us, physically.

Get up and Out.

In spite of our wish for it to be otherwise, on occasion, despair creeps in and we feel lonely and isolated. In truth, we're neither alone nor isolated. When this feeling creeps up on us, the very best thing we can do is to willfully move against the inertia by getting our bodies up and out --- anywhere and doing anything with anyone. It doesn't much matter as long as we keep doing something, anything, everything. Don't fight the feeling as that makes it stronger. Merely refocus your attention on getting up and out, in front of people, and before long, the miracle happens, we realize we're neither alone nor isolated.

Each doing what he can with what he has, we get there together.