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"Our Spirits Soar in 2004!" Thank you to all of you who continue to support Life Now and our ventures! If you prefer to read this online, you will find it as "December, 2004" Holiday Greetings! Here's hoping your holidays are a joy every moment! Here's my Christmas Greeting, especially for you! CONTEST for 2005! It’s “that time” again for finding a personal enrichment slogan for year 2005! Will choose a winner again this year who will receive a booklet I wrote, entitled, "Shortcuts to Awareness," and I will post all entries at my site. Contemplate a short phrase that rhymes with 2005 that gives a thought to ponder, such as "Enjoy being alive in 2005." Looking forward to your input! Send your entries - as many as you care to include - to lifenow@direcway.com - be sure and give your name and let me know if I can use your site url and/or your email address. This is one of the most important contests of the year because you will be seeing the winning slogan in each issue of Expansion Encounters throughout 2005! Driving to work on wintry days, if there is ice or snow, has been a constant frustration. It was becoming such an obsession that I began calling in to stay home from work if there was even one little drift of snow across our driveway. I listened carefully to see if school was cancelled. If school buses weren't running, I certainly wasn't going to! I gathered every excuse of inclimate weather to avoid driving in it. I even worried myself into any of it before it happened. I began dreading the oncoming season and complaining to everyone about me. That is now history. The Lord finally got my attention through a book I have been studying, the scrolls in Og Mandino's "Greatest Salesman in the World." This is the fourth or fifth time I have gone through the study over the past fifteen years. What I am discovering, simply by reading the scrolls as prescribed, is not only a release of the frustration but a new love for each day - each moment - for whatever it brings. There is no tension, no complaining, no over-concern. I do not know the "mechanics" of how this works because I have studied and prayed about this in the past but it didn't "click" until just recently. As Scripture relates, I don't know how it happened. "I do know that once I was blind but now I can see." My philosophy for many years has been to enjoy each moment to the fullest. Now, a bit deeper involvement, awareness, has surfaced that I am also loving every moment. I embrace this moment, enjoying and loving it... to the fullest. I greet this day with love in my heart. If you care to check Og Mandino's scrolls online, you can find them at Scrolls but once a year... or does it? We can experience the gift of Christmas every moment throughout the year! We can experience the gift of Love, Peace, Joy every day! Take it with you wherever you go! Pass it along to everyone you meet! You will receive a richer gift in return! Christmas isn’t just once a year! It is every moment! - copyright Dusty Reed Our guest poet this month is "Little Ma." She writes beautiful words from her heart! Silence is golden they say. A single prayer from the heart Can cause such an explosion. The quiet thoughts from the heart! God hears every thought and every Prayer, from the heart silent or not. Some spoken words can sometimes Be just too much. A whisper and a touch from the winds Do such wondrous things. To the child without a voice who was Born with no vocal cords, is always heard. The elder whose words are gone forever Taken by a stroke, are never lost . God hears and sees the whispers in the wind. Just "A Prayer From The Heart." - Copyright, Shirley Schwerdtfeger, 2002 Some sites I recommend: The Church Within And, for anyone who enjoys playing at ebay, I recently opened a Store there so lots of goodies are available at Dusty's eBay (`~`*`~`)`~`*`~`(`~`*`~`)`~`*`~`(`~`*`~`)`~`*``~` (`~`*`~`) You are welcome to forward this newsletter to friends who might be interested! If they would like to subscribe (at no cost), they can write to me at Dusty Thanx muchly! Working toward consideration and to better humanity, we want to encourage free enterprise, free speech. We are Life Now, a spiritual happening on and off the Internet. PATHWAY ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ LIFE NOW ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ |
