Tuesday: His initial reaction to his situation is completely understandable. Yet this need not be his final reaction. Miracles happen. A miracle may take the form of a physical recovery, or it may be that he learns to live happily with his circumstances. His friends and family can only offer love and support.

Please keep our friend and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

http://brainking.com/fr/Board?bc=1&plla=1000159

TJ: It's a very nice bag.  People should know that you have to enter one of those character codes (to prevent automatic voting by computer, I suspect) before your vote is final.

I say this because I clicked on the "submit"  button and then went to another tab in my browser.  Some time later I saw that there was another screen I had to complete before the vote would count!

Best wishes in this season of renewal!

Pbarb2:God bless.

I have recorded a guided meditation for healing which is freely available for download ... The text is at Healing Meditation and the mp3 download is at this link.  Note:  the mp3 is 30 megabytes. 

Dark Vamp:Your mother is a beautiful person and a perfect child of God.

baddessi: I pray for her and her family to be comforted in the assurance of eternal life.

Summer Flame: What a blessing to live in a time when such treatments are possible! God bless you both!

Tuesday:My answer would be to look into your heart and give what you can out of love, not out of duty or a need for approval.

Mousetrap:  I think we may have wandered back on topic ;-)

I would say it's more than just getting more out of giving than receiving -- it's that the benefit of giving is felt in an entirely different way than the benefit of receiving. 

Tuesday: The question is off topic IMHO.

Stardust:Amen.

Please also remember in your prayers my friend Jack who is undergoing triple bypass surgery tomorrow.

SANDALS:Dear friend, God, the loving Spirit of the Universe, holds us all dearly close at all times.  God cannot "take" what it already owns . . . let go and have faith that whatever the outcome, your brother will be safe and loved.  We will pray that his surgery will be successful.

nancylen:Peace and blessings to you all.

Radiant2008 :-):  May your path be straight, and may you find peace :-)

TigerCat:  Please encourage your aunt to think positively and to believe she can beat this -- with help from the doctors and from God.

Artful Dodger:  She'll be missed, but she's got her priorities in order.

Ewe:  >>Make the most of everyday & love each other.

That should be part of everyone's philosophy :-)

Ewe:  It should be comforting to know that the apparent finality of death is only an illusion.  It is due to the limitations of our earthbound perception.  Death is more like graduation -- a transition to a higher plane.  God bless your family.

Transition

Bubbles Pbarb2:  Take care.

Bubbles Pbarb2:  Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Barb.

srnity:  I was singing that song to myself all morning!  Let Peace begin with me is the greatest message of all.  Let 2008 be the happiest most loving year ever.  Best wishes to all.

PS every Religious Science church service ends with that song!

srnity:  I have no knowledge of her politics, and this would not be the place to comment on them if I did.  However, violence is deplorable in any context, and I am saddened by her death.  I can only hope that others will be inspired by this event to work harder for peace and justice on earth.  I pray that the souls of those who died have found peace.

    I won't take up board space with it, but you can read my hymn for the season in my blog:

The God In You

srnity:  How's he doing now?

You are a perfect child of God, and all your needs are provided before you ask.

God's love enfolds you now, warming your soul and permeating your body,
softening and driving out any appearance of negative thoughts,
energies, and emotions.

God's light glows from your center, and its rays emanating from you
shine forth in purity and power. No shadow of illness or infirmity can
exist in the presence of this brilliant illumination.

God's peace is in you always, soothing and calming whenever you turn to it for comfort.

We are God's perfection manifest in physical form. We are one in God
and God is one in us. This is the one Universal Truth in this moment
and at all times, in this place and everywhere.

By the power of God in you, you are whole.

And so it is.

Jules:  There are no parts :-)

Jules:  A beautiful thought, which reminds me of this quote from Rabbi David Cooper:

"there are few, if any, fully enlightened people, . . . but there are untold numbers of enlightened acts."

Pbarb2:  Sorry, I couldn't get rid of the formatting marks and I got frustrated and deleted it.

Let's try again.

New Life

When Life begins, God is there.
Life coalesces in the field of unversal energy.
Life from Life, joy from joy!
Each being throughout eternity
Shares itself when Life is needed
And draws Life in return.
New Life, new strength, new joy!
Joy is energy, energy joy.
A new heart beats at the frequency of the Universe.
There is One Life, timeless and Universal.
Atoms touch across imaginary light years.
Energy pervades time, unites all Life and matter.
Every born and unborn wave and particle
Harmonizes in the Song of Life unending.
New Life yet not new,
Organizing ageless atoms in new forms.
Particles appear and fade,
Now light, now matter,
Now you, now me,
And always God.
Child of Light, my soul embraces you,
Sings your Song,
Warms to your vibration,
Sees your energy swirl
Like a galaxy of a trillion suns.
Sharing songs that will be new
When all these stars are dust.
We resonate with energy of far souls,
Sending messages that arrive at once
And are answered before they arrive!
Time and space do not constrain our energy and joy.
Joy wells unsummoned, pervasive and intangible.
Joy is God, God Joy.
Bathed as we are in the depthless field of Joy,
We share and grow together.
You and I are one with all Creation and the Uncreated,
Sharing Love, sharing Joy, sharing God.
I bless you and receive your blessing,
Touch you and absorb your touch,
Join you in joyful meditation
With God the Universal soul,
Mindful in ecstatic peace.

Pbarb2:  Thanks .  I didn't proofread it very well, did I!

Pbarb2:  There's another, not too different, that I wrote when I learned my first grandchild was expected.

New Life

Pbarb2:  Of course I'd be delighted :-)  All the best.

Tigger:  Congratulations :-)  I wrote a poem for another newborn that you might enjoy:

For a Newborn

Oceans Apart:
You're welcome

Oceans Apart:  Blessings on the departed and on those left behind.

 Transition

srnity:  May he have strength, wisdom, and serenity.

Tuesday:  God bless you and Wanda.

ScarletRose: It's wonderful that your daughter can see the positive side of things. Blessings on all of you through this difficult time. His infection will heal and so will his body.

Pbarb2:  Blessings on you both. 

I have heard of at least one case in which a patient with early prostate cancer believed he was helped by reciting the mantra "Om arkaya namaha" (in addition to standard medical treatment).  The mantra is said to help in removing afflictions of any kind.  It is customary to recite a mantra 108 times at a sitting.

I am in love with Life and with this Universe, with every being and every soul within it. I have a covenant with the Universe; a covenant of love. I share the glow of my spirit with everyone and everything that I encounter, and the Universe offers me its glow in return. When I offer the world my soul’s unconditional love, it returns to me burnished and enhanced; the Universe absorbs and retransmits it amplified a hundredfold. There is no limit to the power of this love. It brings me comfort, accomplishment, and joy, just as it contributes to the development of those attributes in those on whom it falls.

I keep this covenant by dismissing all selfishness, all jealousy, and all rancor. The body and the thinking mind urge me to take advantage of the open givingness that my love engenders in the world around me. They want me to hoard the joy the Universe freely offers me, to gather it unto myself and shield it from others. They do not know that love and joy exist only in the measure that they are shared. Any happiness that I take away from another being is a subtraction from my own; any love that I withhold evaporates from my being. I pursue only those pleasures that promote the ease and happiness of all.

My love is innocent and untarnished. Its light surrounds me; my aura is enhanced by it. Those I meet respond to its warmth in kind. My covenant extends to every other soul, to keep this purity intact. I wear visibly the knowledge that all is safe, that the Universe is good, that each of us is God’s perfect child; and everyone I meet is warmed and reassured by it. I draw in the boundless loving energy of Spirit, cleansing and renewing my physical and energetic selves. With the miraculous power of my energetic self I return to the Universe more cleansing energy than I absorbed.

And so it is.

Foxy Lady: No editing necessary! Thanks for sharing it.

Foxy Lady: Who are the "right" people? This message should be shared with everyone! Christians and non-Christians alike can appreciate the lifting of the burdens of this world that occurs with the realization that the Universe is filled with love and forgiveness for anyone who cares to accept it. Indeed, the Universe is love and forgiveness, anything else is false and transitory. "Only Love abides." God blesses us all without reservation or judgment. Our part is to stop judging each other and ourselves.

In the US, today is Rosh Hashanah and tomorrow is the first day of Ramadan!  Blessings to all in this holy season.

Gentlegiant101:  Don't let your fear of religion keep you from experiencing your spirituality.  God bless you!