day 68 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron

Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting clarifies why most of our dreams have never materialized, why the majority of us have lived with all-too-empty bank accounts, tough relationships, failing health, and often spiritually unfulfilling lives.

Most importantly, in an easy-to-read style peppered with logical explanations, simple steps, and true-life examples, Lynn Granhorn shows us how to turn it all around -- right now.

The most unconscious thing we do all day long is what actually creates and molds every moment of every day of our lives. And what is this "thing" that governs us so forcefully? Feelings!

Grabhorn reveals how our feelings make our lives what they are -- not positive thinking, or sweat and strain, or good or bad luck, or even smarts, but feelings: good ones, bad ones, down ones, and all the ones in between.

Until now, we have run our lives on a default setting, manifesting experiences by happenstance rather than intent.

Now, with no effort other than paying attention to how we're feeling, the play becomes our own deliberate creation, and the world becomes our oyster.

What are you vibrating to the world today?

day 67 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron

Every single person on the planet and every single Consciousness in the Universe has the same experience of being here and having a desire to be there.


In other words, it is the promise of this eternal Universe that You are always, always, always going to be on your way to something more.


And when you relax and accept that you are on your way and stop beating up on yourself for not being someplace that you are not, and instead, start embracing where you are while you keep your eye on where youre going now life becomes really, really, really FUN.


Excerpted from an Abraham Workshop in Asheville, NC on Saturday, October 25th,2003

day 66 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron,

When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn’t feel good.

It’s just that simple.

Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and YOU be the joy-seekerthat you are.


Your ACHIEVEMENTS can be no greater than your PLANS are sound.

When creating or adopting a plan for success, it may be necessary to have several alternatives in reserve.

IF the first plan you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan.
IF what you are doing, does not work, try something else....and if that does not work, try something else.

Keep the end result in mind, and continue to try different things until you discover what works ... for you.

When making plans, keep these facts in mind.

Great plans help to create great achievements

The advantage of experience, education, native ability, imagination of other's mind...all are in harmony and alignment with the methods used by every person who has accumulated great wealth

The following will help you to create the best plans

Align yourself with a thoughtfully selected group who can illuminate ways for you to carry out your plans.

Maintain perfect harmony within your group

Meet your group at least once per week, twice is better


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day 65 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron

Those that are succeeding and are thrilled and joyful in the unfolding will often tell you, "I've dreamed this since I was little. I imagined it, I pretended it, I used to practice with the hairbrush pretending it was a microphone."

Purity is the alignment of energy.

It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks about anything.

It only matters what YOU think about it.

Excerpted from the workshop in St. Louis, MO on Tuesday, July 18th, 2000

For example, yesterday, I was listening to www.hayhouseradio.com while I was working.
On one of the call in show, the caller listed a LONG list of things physically wrong with her.
As she talked about it, I almost felt sick. This caller was so aligned and so identified with her illnesses... by name...like they were her PETS.

What has she been rehearsing??????

When you want to change things:

• STOP talking about the PAST
• STOP identifying with that old PAIN
• STOP bringing the PAST and the old PAIN into the PRESENT moment by talking about it
• START choosing PURITY in your alignment
• START aligning with what you DO WANT
• START identifying all of the time with the PLEASURES of what you have always wanted

day 64 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron

It is a well known fact that several lamps will provide more illumination than a single lamp.

The input of a thoughtfully selected group can enhance the output of a single man or a single woman.

• What if you were to create or be part of a thoughtfully selected MasterMind group to help your innerlight and your output grow stronger?
• List 3-5 people who you believe would have your highest and best good at heart and could contribute to your well being, prosperity, and success.
• The group should not outline or dictate how you should operate, so if you had the ideal group, ideally how would you work together to support each other to your highest and best good??
• Many times when a group first comes together there are questions/obstacles to answer/overcome.
• What THREE questions/obstacles might STOP your group from succeeding?
• What RESOURCES would you need to answer/overcome these questions/obstacles?

day 63 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron

MENTAL HEALINGS IN MODERN TIMES (part 2)

• Great and noble THOUGHTS upon which you habitually dwell become great ACTS.

• Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. Choose a certain plan, idea, or mental picture.

Mentally and emotional unite with that idea, and as you remain faithful to your mental attitude, your prayer will be answered in a manner that will serve your highest and best GOoD.

• Always remember, if you really want the power to heal, ypu can have it through FAITH, which means knowledge of the working of your conscious and subconscious mind. Faith comes with understanding.

• Blind faith means that a person may get results in healing without any scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved.

• Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your mind and your thoughts of health, vitality, and perfection operating through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and resurrected in the mind of your loved ones.

day 62 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron

You cannot restore someone to their Connection with Source by belittling them or by punishing them, or by being disgusted with them.

It is onlythrough LOVE that you can return anyone to LOVE.

And if you do not have a way of returning them to love, they will always be a problem to your society and circle.

Excerpted from an Abraham workshop in San Rafael, CA on Saturday, February 26th,2005

day 61 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron,

YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND AS PARTNER IN SUCCESS

• Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous, & doing what you love to do, you are successful.

• Find out what you love to do, then do that. If you don’t know your true expression, ask for guidance, and the lead, the impulse will come.

• Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else.

• A successful man is not selfish. His main desire in life is to serve humanity. For example, Larry Miller, owner of the Jazz basketball team (a very rich man) used to take his son out on a snowy day helping other shovel their driveways, get a ride after a snowy fender bender, etc.

• There is no true success without peace of mind. AMEN

• A successful man possesses great psychological and spiritual understanding.

day 60 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron

The BASICS of the Law of Attraction

1. It is easiest to sort out what you don't want often before you can determine exactly what it is that you DO WANT. Take a piece of paper out and sort...sort...sort.
2. Set your INTENTIONS. It is interesting how setting your intentions will bring up your STUFF or the counter-intentions.....those nagging little mental delinquents that are giving you the reasons that: I'm not good enough, I don't deserve it, If I really got what I wanted then what? And what if I try and my idea does not work--who will laugh at me?
3. Clear the BLOCKS. This is an inside job--no one is going to do this for you so get busy clearing out the clutter in your mind that holds you back. Clear out the negativity.
4. Assumptions harden into FACT. See~Hear~Feel your goal AS IF the end result is here now. What will you see? What would you be saying to yourself? How would you look? How would other look at you with this new self-completion? Likewise ask the same questions about what you will HEAR? and what you would be FEELING?
5. This last set is a 2-part step.

• Let Go of your FEAR (false evidence appearing real) Let Go and Let God
• Take ACTION everyday. Do something to further yourself toward what you DO WANT no matter how silly, crazy, or insane it might appear to others. This is your Dream, your Goal, and it is time to say this 10 word 20 letter mantra:
• IF IT IS TO BE IT IS UP TO ME

day 59 waking up to the miracles of your abundance rejuvenation prosperity by jane herron,

YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS & THE WONDERS OF SLEEP

· If you are worried that you will not wake up on time, suggest to your subconscious mind prior to sleep the exact timeyou wish to arise, & it will awaken you. it needs no clock. Do the same thing with all problems. There is nothing too hard for your subconscious.
· Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions. Forgive yourself and everyone else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much more rapidly.

· Guidance is given to you while you are asleep, sometimes in a dream. The healing currents are also released, & in the morning you feel refreshed & rejuvenated.

· When troubled by the vexations & strife of the day, still the wheels of your mind & think about the wisdom & intelligence lodged in your subconscious mind which is ready to respond to you... this will give you peace, strength, & confidence

· Sleep is essential for peace of mind & health of body. Lack of sleep can cause irritation, depression, & mental disorders. You need 8 hrs sleep...how are you doing?

. Medical research scholars point out that insomnia precedes psychotic breakdowns.

· You are spiritually recharged during sleep. Adequate sleep is essential for joy and vitality in life

· Your tired brain craves sleeps so hungrily that it will sacrifice anything to get it. Many who have fallen asleep at the wheel of an automobile can testify this.

· Many sleep-deprived people have poor memories and lack proper co-ordination. They become befuddled, confused, & disoriented.

· Sleep brings counsel. Prior to sleep, claim that the infinite intelligence of your subconscious mind is guiding and directing you... then, watch for the lead which comes, perhaps on awakening.

· Trust your subconscious completely. Know that its tendency is always lifeward. Occasionally, your subconscious answers you in a very vivid dream & a vision in the night. You can be forewarned in a dream in the same way as the author of this book was warned.

· Your future is in your mind now, based on your habitual thinking and beliefs. Claim infinite intelligence leads and guides you and that all good is yours and your future will be wonderful. Believe it and accept it. Expect the best and invariably the best will come to you.

· If you are writing a proposal, a novel, play, or book, or are working on an invention, speak to your subconscious mind at night and claim boldly that its wisdom, intelligence, power are guiding, directing, and revealing to you the ideal! Allow your subconscious mind reveal the perfect solution whatever it may be.

Wonders will happen as you pray/use your mind this way.

day 58 Understanding the Practice of Fasting during LENT

During the period of the Great Lent the awakening of the spirit of man comes about through inspiration from the Head of the Church, Jesus Christ. It is a time of self-examination and preparation, and of taking an inventory of one's inner life. He and Christ know his exact condition. At this time one sees himself in the mirror of the Gospel - how he looks. One finds the means and ways to correct and improve himself. Lent is a period of time when one delves into himself with the light of the Holy Spirit in order to rid himself of the impediments which hold him back. It is a period when one strengthens his faith by more prayer and devotional life.
Let us then examine the meaning of fasting, which became an Institute of the Church. Fasting means the total abstinence from foods, as the original Greek word in the Bible, nesteia, literally means. The word fasting today is used for selection of foods and a limiting of their quantity. Fasting also can mean eating once a day bread, salt and water, after sunset. Although the period of Lent appeals to the function of man as a whole in repentance, self-examination, almsgiving, relationship with people with whom one is at odds, attitudes toward life, the abstinence from foods plays a vital role in the life of the Christian. The quantity and kinds of foods selected for this period of Lent help control carnal desires and develop discipline and a pious life. Fasting from foods is not a virtuous activity in itself, but a means for its achievement. But it has a distinct place in the life of the Christian, especially during the Great Lent.
THE ORIGIN OF FASTING
One may ask how the Institute of fasting originated. Was it a tradition handed down by the Apostles? Was it determined as such by the early Church? Was the duration of fasting established from the beginning? These and similar questions require an answer.
Fasting before Easter was not determined by the early Church as such either in specific days or for certain foods. In the New Testament the word for fasting, nesteia, means abstinence from food entirely, and was originally a Jewish custom reluctantly practiced by the Jews, although it was not an official requirement. Bishop Irenaios of Lyon (192) wrote a letter to the Bishop of Rome that there is a great difference about the duration of fasting before Easter. Some people, he wrote, fast one day, others two, still others more days. Some of them fast 40 hours continuously, day and night, from all foods (Eusebuis, Ecclesiastical History, 524,12). Tertuuian, an ecclesiastical writer of the 3rd century, refers to abstinence from foods as being two days, Friday and Saturday. Some of the early Christians abstained from foods the whole day and ate only in the evenings, while others ate not at all, day or night, as did those who were fasting for 40 hours. Other Christians extended the period of fasting beyond the two days to one week (during the mid-third century),'but everyone was allowed to extend the duration of fasting as long as he wanted. Thus, these Christians added hours and days of fasting at their own will, beyond the customary duration of time (Dionysios, Bishop of Alexandria, P. G. Migne 10, 1278).
THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF FASTING
Over the years, the days of fasting increased to seven before Easter. These Christians ate in the evenings, and then only bread, salt and water, as recorded by Epiphanios in 403. The difference in counting the hours of fasting resulted from the different calculations of the time of the Resurrection of Christ in the Gospels (Matthew 28:1, before midnight; John 20:1, after midnight; Mark 16:2, at sunrise). The period of fasting before Easter was extended to 40 days without substantial evidence of any authoritative determination. The fact is that the 40 days of fasting was known to the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod (325). St. Augustine during the fifth century attributes the lengthy period of 40 days to the persecutions, 306-323. Others refer to the example of Christ fasting 40 days in the wilderness (Matthew 4:2); or to Moses (Exodus 34:28), or to Prophet Elias (1 Kings 19:8 - III Vasilion LXX) Probably the 40-day fasting period among the people was started during the persecutions, because the people took refuge in monasteries and followed the order of abstinence of the monks, which was very strict. Also hermits and other pious people of sobriety kept a fasting period of 40 days during the mid-third century, and this was handed down to the people. In reality, the 40-day practice for fasting before Easter was not a simultaneous practice in all the Christian lands, but a gradual process. Fasting as such was practiced by the people at the, very beginning for only two or three days per week, Wednesday and Friday and in some places Saturday (in the West).
In the course of time, a gradual increase in the number of weeks also took place. However, between East and West the number of weeks of Lent differed, with seven weeks being established in the East and six in the West by the mid-sixth century. The reason for the difference in the number of weeks between East and West was because in the West Saturday was a fast day along with Wednesday and Friday, while in the East Saturday was not a fast day except the Saturday of Holy Week, according to the Canons of the Church (Canon 66, Apostolic Fathers; Canon 55A Sixth Ecumenical Synod in 692 - Canon 18, Gangra Synod in 340-370). The adding of Saturday by the Church in the West as a fast day was related to the thought that the Body of Christ was in the tomb on this day. This innovation of fasting on Saturday was fought by Tertullian, Hippolytos (Ecclesiastical writer) and Bishop Jerome.
However, Bishop Inocentios of Rome (401-417) ratified the Saturday fast, and gradually this day became a fixed day in the West. In rebuke of this practice in the West, Bishop Ignatios of Antioch in a letter denounced this Saturday fast (ch. 13). During the seventh century, Bishop Gregory I of Rome added four days before the beginning of the six weeks of Lent, starting with Wednesday, known as Ash Wednesday. The Church in the East, on the other hand, added an additional week before the seven weeks, known as Cheese Week, to complete the 40 days of fasting in Lent before Easter, excluding the seven Saturdays and eight Sundays, which are non-fast days. The reason for the number of 40 days of fasting during the Great Lent is obscure. The famous canonist of the twelfth century, Balsamon, writes, "There is but a forty day abstinence, that of the Pascha, but if one also likes to keep the weekly fast for other feasts ... he is not to be disgraced" (Migne PG 138,1001).
Fasting from foods is relevant to the condition of the health of the Christian, however. Fasting is not for the sake of fasting alone:
"Fasting was devised in order to humble the body. If, therefore, the body is already in a state of humbleness and illness or weakness, the person ought to partake of as much as he or she may wish and be able to get along with food and drink" (Canon 8 of St. Timothy of Alexandria, 381).
THE MEANING OF THE FEAST DAYS OF LENT
Great Lent is a period of time when the people are more conscious of their spiritual character. The passages of the Gospels and the Epistles, the hymnology and prayers, the spirit of the Church - all endeavor to help the Christian cleanse himself spiritually through repentance. "Repent" is the first word Jesus Christ spoke in His proclamation to the people, as the epitome of His Gospel. Repentance is the main motivation of the Christian which acts to free him from sin. One's recognition of his sin, his contrition over it and lastly his decision to make an about-face change of his attitude are the steps of repentance. For one can learn to recognize iniquities from the Bible and the teachings of the Church. During the period of Lent the Christian is called to self-examination and self-control by the radiance of the Event of the Resurrection of Christ. This is why the Church designated such a period of time be observed before this great feast day.
Fasting in its religious setting is abstinence from food, always in relation to a religious event or feast. Fasting in itself has no meaning in the Christian Church, but has a role the attainment of Christian virtues. It is not to be accepted as a mere custom without a spiritual purpose. Fasting is understood as a means of temperance and sobriety, especially in relation to prayer, devotion and purity. It is also understood to be related to giving alms to the poor. The roots of fasting in the Christian Church are to be found in the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, both for certain days and certain foods. As a general rule, fasting precedes a religious feast. Many verses in the Old Testament refer to this:
"Thus says the Lord of Hosts: the fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore, love, truth and peace", Zechariah 8:18-19.
In continuation of the practice of fasting, the Christian Church determined the period of Lent to depend upon the great Feast of Easter, as set forth by the First Ecumenical Synod in 325. The Church determined the day on which the Resurrection of Christ would be celebrated, according to the conditions that existed at the time of this Event. Thus, the Synod set forth that the great Feast of Easter would be celebrated on: the first Sunday, after the full moon, after the Spring Equinox (March 21), and always after the Jewish Passover. Thus, this great Feast is a moveable date in the calendar. Therefore, Great Lent, which depends upon the date of Easter, also is moveable, each year being celebrated on a different date, (Sunday), depending on the above conditions.
The four weeks which precede Great Lent are considered preparatory, a forerunner to Lent. These four weeks, along with the eight weeks of Lent, are characterized by the Church as Triodion, meaning "thrice-hymns", a name which has no bearing on the substance of Lent itself:
The four weeks preceding Lent are known as:
Sunday of the Tax Collector and Pharisee (from the Parable),
Sunday of the Prodigal Son (from the Parable),
Sunday of Meat (the Final Judgment),
Sunday of Cheese (Adam's expulsion from Paradise);
The eight weeks of the Great Lent are:
First Sunday (Sunday of Orthodoxy),
Second Sunday (St. Gregory Palamas),
Third Sunday (Adoration of Cross),
Fourth Sunday (St. John of Climax),
Fifth Sunday (St. Mary of Egypt),
Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.
During Great Lent:
Every day the Great Compline is read,
Every Wednesday and Friday the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is officiated.
On four Friday evenings a fourth of the Akathist Hymn is read, with the entire Hymn read the fifth Friday.
A. THE FOUR PREPARATORY WEEKS
SUNDAY OF THE TAX COLLECTOR AND PHARISEE (John 1:43-52).
Arrogance is the perversion of the soul and spirit of man; it is the greatest weapon of the evil one; it is the mother of hypocrisy; it is the obstacle of spiritual progress: it is the degradation of civilization; it is the greatest enemy of man; it is the opposite of repentance; it is the corruption of the conscience of man. This is why the Church designated the first Sunday of preparation for acceptance of the Message of the Resurrection of Christ, with the Parable of the Tax Collector and Pharisee being read. The root of evil, arrogance, should be uprooted and replaced with the virtue of humbleness, which is the teaching of this Parable. The highest degree of man's arrogance is when a person speaks to God in prayers as did the Pharisee, who said, "God I thank thee", only for the opportunity to enumerate his achievements publicly, comparing himself to others who, according to him, were sinners, saying "I am not like other men, sinners, or even like this tax collector". He extolled himself saying, "I fast, I give tithe", which he did. But the more he boasted, the more he condemned himself through arrogance.
On the other hand, the tax collector confessed: "God be merciful to me a sinner". The repentance of the tax collector is the basis of Christian life; it is the passage into the Kingdom; it is the reestablishment of the image of God in the soul of His creature. Humbleness is the queen of all virtues. Thus, the first phrase of the hymnology of the day is: "Let us not pray pharisee-like. . . . Open to me the doors of repentance". The combination of almsgiving, prayer and piety, along with the intention of repentance like that of the tax collector, is imperative in the life of a Christian. The attitude of the tax collector made him a steward of divine gifts. Repentance and confession of faith is the same two-sided coin.
SUNDAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON (Luke 15:11-32).
This Parable relates to man's prodigality with the divine gifts to man. It is the consequence of arrogance. Prodigality is the unreckoning extravagance in sensuality. The prodigal is one who cannot be saved, whose life is dissolute, who squandered his father's property. Prodigality, then, is the second basic corruption toward which man is inclined. This is why this Parable is known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the subject matter of this week. Despite the characterization in this Parable, its main subject is the warm parental love of the Father. The father's love was unbroken and firm for his prodigal son. His love was shown more at the return of his son than in the beginning, despite the fact that his son squandered his "properties". In the end, however, the son exchanged his prodigality for repentance, and this is the crux of the parable. This moment changes the prodigal son into the prudent son, expelling arrogance with repentance. While the son was returning to his father, he kept rehearsing over and over again: "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you". But when the son saw his father's house from afar, his father saw him, and ran to him and embraced him warmly. Thus, the son did not have the opportunity to tell his father what he had been rehearsing. The son at the beginning said, "give me", but in the end he asked, "make me", which is the depth of repentance and obedience, the challenging factors of a Christian.
SUNDAY OF MEAT (Matthew 25:31-46).
It is a strong conviction and belief of the Church that Christ will come a second time into the world, not to save the world, but in "glory" to judge the world. In as much as God knew in advance the destiny of each man, why did He not prevent the non-believers and wrong-doers from being born and being condemned everlastingly, someone might ask. The fate of people is wrought on this earth, because after death, there is no opportunity for repentance in order to better one's state. Man's finite mind cannot comprehend God's love for his salvation and judgment for his condemnation. Yet, here is the center of the belief that there is a Supreme Judge for those who committed iniquities and wrong-doings without punishment or discovery while on earth. Approaching Lent and Easter, the Christian is admonished to correct his faults by fasting, praying and almsgiving, as recorded in the Gospel passage of the day. The Last Judgment will be made according to the good works of each person as a result of his faith in and worship of God. These good works are directed to the "least", those in need, as Christ Himself says, "as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me", (v. 45). This Sunday is the last day before Lent that the believer eats meat.
SUNDAY OF CHEESE (Matthew 6:14-21).
The theme of this Sunday refers to the expulsion of Adam from Paradise. Adam in Paradise misused his freedom by allowing himself to be persuaded by the evil one to disobey the command to not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The evil one convinced him that by so doing he would know more than God. The Church in its hymnology presents the condition of Adam outside of Paradise as weeping and working hard for his livelihood. The Gospel passage of the day refers to the manner of praying, fasting, almsgiving and all good works. These are to be done in secret, without boasting. The meaning of this Sunday is the condescension of God to the human weakness, "for if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses" (v. 14-15). This is emphasized in the Lord's Prayer.,The week (six days) preceding Sunday of Cheese and after Meat Sunday, is the addition to the period of the Great Lent which completes the forty days of fasting (excluding Saturdays and Sundays). The name of this Sunday, "Cheese", implies that the fast of this week is the gradual transition from eating meat to the strict fast of Lent, which starts the next day, Monday, with the first Sunday of Lent at the end of the preliminary seven days (Sunday of Orthodoxy).
B. THE SEVEN SUNDAYS OF THE GREAT LENT
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT - SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY John 1:43-52).
This Sunday commemorates the return of the Icons into the churches, according to the decision of the Seventh Ecumenical Synod (787). The Church determined that this celebration would take place each year on the first Sunday of Lent, as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, starting March 11, 843. On this Sunday every year the triumph of the faith of Orthodoxy is celebrated with ceremony. The Icon of Christ, according to St. John Damascus, is a distinct affirmation and a reminder of the fact of His Incarnation, which has a vital significance for the salvation of the faithful, an affirmation which prevails to this day in the Orthodox Church. The celebration of the day includes the procession with the Icon of Christ around the inside of the church with pomp and reverence. The Sunday of Orthodoxy calls upon the people to rededicate themselves to the deep meaning of their faith and to declare in unison, "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all".
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT - ST. GREGORY PALAMAS (Mark 2:1-12).
This Sunday commemorates the life of St. Gregory Palamas (14th century). The Church dedicates this Sunday to St. Gregory for his orthodox faith, theological knowledge, virtuous life, miracles and his efforts to clarify the orthodox teaching on the subject of Hesychasm (from the Greek, meaning quiet.) Hesychasm was a system of mysticism propagated on Mt. Athos by 14th century monks who believed that man was able, through an elaborate system of ascetic practices based upon perfect quiet of body and mind, to arrive at the vision of the divine light, with the real distinction between the essence and the operations of God. Gregory became noted for his efforts to explain the difference between the correct teaching and this theory. Gregory was dedicated to an ascetic life of prayer and fasting, which are practices of Lent.
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT - ADORATION OF THE CROSS (Mark 8:34-38; 9:1).
This Sunday commemorates the venerable Cross and the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Cross as such takes on meaning and adoration because of the Crucifixion of Christ upon it. Therefore, whether it be in hymns or prayers, it is understood that the Cross without Christ has no meaning or place in Christianity. The adoration of the Cross in the middle of Great Lent is to remind the faithful in advance of the Crucifixion of Christ. Therefore, the Dassages from the Bible and the hymnology refer to the Passions, the sufferings, of Jesus Christ: The passages read this day repeat the calling of the Christian by Christ to dedicate his life, for "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me (Christ)" (v. 34-35). This verse clearly indicates the kind of dedication which is needed by the Christian in three steps:
To renounce his arrogance and disobedience to God's Plan,
To lift up his personal cross (the difficulties of life) with patience, faith and the full acceptance of the Will of God without complaint that the burden is too heavy; having denied himself and lifted up his cross leads him to the,
Decision to follow Christ.
These three voluntary steps are three links which cannot be separated from each other, because the main power to accomplish them is the Grace of God, which man always invokes. The Adoration of the Cross is expressed by the faithful through prayer, fasting, almsgiving and the forgiveness of the trespasses of others. On this Sunday the Adoration of the Cross is commemorated with a special service following the Divine Liturgy in which the significance of the Cross is that it leads to the Resurrection of Christ.
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT - ST. JOHN OF THE CLIMAX (Mark 9:17-31).
This Sunday commemorates St. John of the Climax (6th century) who is the writer of the book called The Ladder (climax) of Paradise. This book contains 30 chapters, with each chapter as a step leading up to a faithful and pious life as the climax of a Christian life. The spirit of repentance and devotion to Christ dominates the essence of this book, along with the monastic virtues and vices. He was an ascetic and writer on the spiritual life as a monk-abbot of Sinai Monastery. These steps of the ladder as set forth by St. John are to be practiced by the Christian especially during this period of the Great Lent. Each step leading to the top step of the ladder, is the climactic essence of the true meaning of a Christian life.
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT - ST. MARY OF EGYPT (Mark 10:32-45).
This Sunday commemorates the life of St. Mary of Egypt, who is a shining example of repentance from sin through prayer and fasting. She lived a sinful life for many years, but was converted to a Christian life. She went into the wilderness to live an ascetic life for many years, praying and fasting in repentance of her previous sinful life, and dying there. St. Mary's life exemplifies her conviction about Christ, which motivated the changing of her life from sin to holiness through repentance. Her understanding of repentance involved not a mere change from small things in her life, but an extreme change of her entire attitude and thoughts. The Church commemorates St. Mary for her recognition of her own sins as an example of how one can free oneself from the slavery and burden of wrongdoings. This recognition of sin is imperative during Lent for the faithful as a means of self-examination and preparation for a more virtuous life in anticipation of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Christ.
PALM SUNDAY (John 12:12-18).
This Sunday commemorates the triumphant entrance of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. The people of Jerusalem received Christ as a king, and, therefore, took branches of palms and went out to meet Him, laying down the palms in His path. The people cried out the prophecy of Zechariah: "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel" (v. 13; of Zechariah 9:9). The celebration of the Jewish Passover brought crowds of Jews and converted Jews to Jerusalem. They had heard of the works and words of Christ, especially about the resurrection of Lazarus. All the events related to Christ had a Messianic meaning for the Jews at the time. This vexed the high priests and pharisees. As usual, Christ went to the Temple to pray and teach. That evening Christ departed for Bethany. The tradition of the Church of distributing palms on this Sunday comes from the act of the people in placing the branches of palms in front of Christ, and henceforth symbolizes for the Christian the victory of Christ over evil forces and death.
HOLY WEEK.
The period of Great Lent includes the days of Holy Week. This is the time when Christians who went through the whole period of Lent in prayer and fasting approach the Feast of Feasts to celebrate the Passions of Christ and His Resurrection. During the entire Lent the faithful try to practice and live the ideals and standards of this period in the light of Easter. This is why the Hymnology of the entire period of Lent, especially during Holy Week, refers to the Resurrection of Christ as the center of the Christian Faith. Each day of Holy Week is dedicated to the Events and teachings of Christ during His last week on earth. The faithful who participate in the services of this week are more conscious of their duties to themselves and to their neighbors through fasting, praying, giving alms, forgiving the trespasses of others; in other words, participating, day by day, in the spirit of the Gospel of Christ.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GREAT LENT
Great Lent before Easter is when the Christian participates fully in preparing himself to praise and glorify his God as Lord and Savior. Great Lent is like a "workshop" where the character of the faithful is spiritually uplifted and strengthened; where his life is rededicated to the principles and ideals of the Gospel; where the faith culminates in deep conviction of life; where apathy and disinterest turn into vigorous activities of faith and good works. Lent is not for the sake of Lent itself, as fasting is not for the sake of fasting. But they are means by which and for which the individual believer prepares himself to reach for, accept and attain the calling of his Savior. Therefore, the significance of Great Lent is highly appraised, not only by the monks who gradually increased the length of time of the Lent, but also by the lay people themselves, although they do not observe the full length of time. As such, Great Lent is the sacred Institute of the Church to serve the individual believer in participating as a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, and, from time to time, to improve the standards of faith and morals in his Christian life. The deep intent of the believer during the Great Lent is "forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus", Philippians 3:13-14. http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/ourfaith8126

Day 57 Preparing for LENT: 40 days/40 nights from Feb 25 through Apr 12

http://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/library_article/7/Forty_Days_of_Days_of_New_Life.html

In the English language, the special season before Easter is called “Lent.” The word comes from the “lengthening” of daylight hours as we progress from the darkness of winter to the new light of spring. But other languages, such as Spanish, have a name for this season that is derived from the word for forty.

LENT is the season of the forty days.

OK, we do penance for forty days because Jesus fasted forty days in the wilderness. But did you ever wonder why he was out there for forty days rather than seven or ten or fifty?

Think back to the Old Testament. Noah and company in the Ark watched rain fall for 40 days and forty nights. Moses was up on Sinai receiving the 10 commandments for 40 days. The Israelites wandered around the desert for 40 years.

So why all these forties? Probably because it is forty weeks that a woman carries her developing baby before a new life can come forth from the womb.

All these “forties” are a necessary and not-so-comfortable prelude for something new. In Noah’s case, it’s the rebirth of a sinful world that had been cleansed by raging flood waters. In Moses’ case, it was the birth of the people of the covenant. For the nomadic Israelites, it was the start of a new, settled existence in the Promised land.

And Jesus? What did his forty days mean? The birth of a new Israel liberated from sin, reconciled to God, and governed by the law of the Spirit rather than a law chiseled in stone.

But think back to the story of Moses and the Israelites. There was someone who did not want them to go out into the desert to offer sacrifice to their God. Pharaoh did not take the loss of his cheap labor lying down. When Jesus begins his mission of liberation, there is another slave master who is no more willing than Pharoah to let his minions go without a fight.

Since the sixties, it has been fashionable in some quarters to dismiss the devil as a relic of ancient mythology or medieval fantasy. The guy with the pointy tale and the pitchfork comes in handy in cartoons and costume parties, but how can we take such an image seriously? In the Bible, they say, let’s read “Satan” merely as a symbol of human evil.

Such a view is clearly at odds with Scripture, Tradition, and recent teaching of the Magisterium. Our battle is not against flesh and blood, says St. Paul. If you don’t know your enemy and his tactics, you are bound to lose.

The temptation of Jesus in the desert shows us the tactics of the “Dark Lord.”

Bread, a symbol for all that sustains our physical life, is a great blessing. But Satan tries to make material things the ultimate, distracting us from a deeper hunger and a more enduring food.

Political power and all leadership is intended by God for the sake of serving the common good; Satan twists things to make leaders self-seeking, oppressive tyrants like himself. The lust for greed, power and fame ironically leads not to dominion but to slavery to the Dark Lord (remember what happened to the Nazghoul in the Lord of the Rings). This sounds alot like the Credit Lords who had no conscience as their payday was all they considered!

Then there’s religious temptation, the trickiest of them all-- Manipulating God for our own glory, using his gifts to make people look at us rather than at Him. Sounds a lot like the Pharisees.

Jesus triumphs in this first wrestling match. He shows us how to keep from being pinned. Fasting breaks undue attachments to material blessings and stimulates our spiritual appetite. Humble service breaks the stranglehold of pride. The reverent worship of authentic faith breaks the full nelson of superstition, magic, and all arrogant religion. And the word of God is shown as the sword of the Spirit, the secret weapon that slashes through the enemy’s lies.

So our forty days?

LENT is a time to use the tactics modeled by our captain and break the strongholds through the use of prayer, fasting, humble service, the heavenly bread of the Eucharist and the Word of God. If we make use of them diligently during this season, pregnant with possibilities, we can enter into greater freedom.

During the time of LENT, darkness can give way to increasing light. And something new and wonderful can be born in us.

Day 56 The history of Mardi Gras

http://www.novareinna.com/festive/mardi.html

The history of a Mardi Gras celebration existed many years before Europeans came to the New World. Some time in the Second Century, during mid-February (usually February 15 according to the Julian calendar), Ancient Romans would observe what they called the Lupercalia, a circus-type festival which was, in many respects, quite similar to the present day Mardi Gras. This festival honored the Roman deity, Lupercus, a pastoral God associated with Faunus or the Satyr. Although Lupercus is derived from the Latin Lupus (meaning "wolf"), the original meaning of the word as it applies to Roman religion has become obscured over the passage of time.

When Christianity arrived in Rome, the dignitaries of the early Church decided it would be more prudent to incorporate certain aspects of such rituals into the new faith rather than attempt to abolish them altogether. This granted a Christian interpretation to the ancient custom and the Carnival became a time of abandon and merriment which peceded the Lenten period (a symbolic Christian pentinence of 40 days commencing on Ash Wednesday and ending at Easter). During this time, there would be feasting which lasted several days and participants would indulge in voluntary madness by donning masks, clothing themselves in the likeness of spectres and generally giving themselves up to Bacchus and Venus. All aspects of pleasure were considered to be allowable during the Carnival celebration and today's modern festivites are thought by some to be more reminiscent of the Roman Saturnalia rather than Lupercalia, or be linked to even earlier Pagan festivals.

From Rome, the celebration spread to other European countries. In medieval times, a similar-type festivity to that of the present day Mardi Gras was given by monarchs and lords prior to Lent in order to ceremoniously conscript new knights into service and hold feasts in their honor. The landed gentry would also ride through the countryside rewarding peasants with cakes (thought by some to be the origin of the King Cake), coins (perhaps the origin of present day gifts of Mardi Gras doubloons) and other trinkets. In Germany, there still remains a Carnival similar to that of the one held in New Orleans. Known as Fasching, the celebrations begin on Twelfth Night and continue until Shrove Tuesday. To a lesser degree, this festivity is still celebrated in France and Spain.

A Carnival season was also celebrated in England until the Nineteenth Century, originating as a type of "renewal" festival that incorporated fertility motifs and ball games which frequently turned into riots between opposing villages, followed by feasts of pancakes and the imbibing of alcohol. The preparing and consumption of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday (also known as "Pancake Day" or "Pancake Tuesday" and occurring annually between February 2 and March 9, depending upon the date of Easter) is a still a tradition in the United Kingdom, where pancake tossing and pancake races (during which a pancake must be tossed a certain number of times) are still popular. One of the most famous of such competitions, which takes place in Olney, Buckinghamshire, is said to date from 1445. It is a race for women only and for those who have lived in the Parish for at least three months. An apron and head-covering are requisite. The course is 415 yards and the pancake must be tossed at least three times during the race. The winner receives a kiss from the Ringer of the Pancake Bell and a prayer book from the local vicar.

"Shrove" is derived from the Old English word "shrive," which means to "confess all sins."
It is generally accepted that Mardi Gras came to America in 1699 with the French explorer, Sieur d'Iberville. The festival had been celebrated as a major holiday in Paris since the Middle Ages. Iberville sailed into the Gulf of Mexico and, from there, launched an expedition along the Mississippi River. By March 3, 1699, Iberville had set up a camp on the West Bank of the River...about 60 miles South of the present day City of New Orleans in the State of Louisiana. Since that day was the very one on which Mardi Gras was being celebrated in France, Iberville named the site Point du Mardi Gras in honor of the festival. According to some sources, however, the Mardi Gras of New Orleans began in 1827 when a group of students who had recently returned from school in Paris donned strange costumes and danced their way through the streets. The students had first experienced this revelry while taking part in celebrations they had witnessed in Paris. In this version, it is said that the inhabitants of New Orleans were swiftly captured by the enthusiasm of the youths and quickly followed suit. Other sources maintain that the Mardi Gras celebration originated with the arrival of early French settlers to the State of Louisiana. Nevertheless, it is known that from 1827 to 1833, the New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebrations became more elaborate, culminating in an annual Mardi Gras Ball. Although the exact date of the first revelries cannot be determined, the Carnival was well-established by the middle of the Nineteenth Century when the Mystick Krewe of Comus presented its 1857 Torchlight Parade with a theme taken from "Paradise Lost" written by John Milton.
In French, "Mardi Gras" literally means "Fat Tuesday," so named because it falls on the day before Ash Wednesday, the last day prior to Lent...a 40-day season of prayer and fasting observed by the Roman Catholic Church (and many other Christian denominations) which ends on Easter Sunday. The origin of "Fat Tuesday" is believed to have come from the ancient Pagan custom of parading a fat ox through the town streets. Such Pagan holidays were filled with excessive eating, drinking and general bawdiness prior to a period of fasting. Since the modern day Carvinal Season is sandwiched between Christmas and Lent, with Christmas Day being December 25 on the Gregorian Calendar as set by the Roman Catholic Church, this means that other Holy Days are "floating" in nature. Easter always falls on a Sunday, but it can be any Sunday from March 23 through April 25, its actual date being the Sunday which follows the first Full Moon after the Spring Equinox. Mardi Gras is always 47 days prior to this alloted Sunday (the 40 days of Lent plus seven Sundays). The beginning of the Carnival Season itself, however, is also fixed...being January 6, which is the Feast of the Ephiphany, otherwise known as Little Christmas or Twelfth Night. Since the date of Mardi Gras thus varies, the length of the Carnival Season also varies accordingly from year-to-year. The origin of the word "Carvinal" is from the Latin for "farewell to the flesh," a time when one is expected to forego earthly pleasures prior to the restrictions of the Lenten Season, and is thought to be derived from the feasts of the Middle Ages known as carnis levamen or "solace of the flesh."
In 1833, Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville, a wealthy plantation owner, solicited a large amount of money in order to help finance an organized Mardi Gras celebration. It was not until 1837, however, that the first Mardi Gras Parade was staged. Two years later, a description of the 1839 Parade noted that it consisted of a single float. Nonetheless, it was considered to be a great success and apparently, the crowd roared hilariously as this somewhat crude float moved through the streets of the city. Since that time, Mardi Gras in New Orleans has been an overwhelming success, continuing to grow with additional organizations participating each year.
The traditional colors of Mardi Gras are purple (symbolic of justice), green (symbolic of faith) and gold (symbolic of power). The accepted story behind the original selection of these colors originates from 1872 when the Grand Duke Alexis Romanoff of Russia visited New Orleans. It is said that the Grand Duke came to the city in pursuit of an actress named Lydia Thompson. During his stay, he was given the honor of selecting the official Mardi Gras colors by the Krewe of Rex...thus, did these colors also become the colors of the House of Romanoff. The 1892 Rex Parade theme ("Symbolism of Colors") first gave meaning to the representation of the official Mardi Gras colors. Interestingly, the colors of Mardi Gras influenced the choice of school colors for the Lousiana arch-rival colleges, Louisiana State University and Tulane University. Whe LSU was deciding on its colors, the stores in New Orleans had stocked-up on fabrics of purple, green and gold for the upcoming Mardi Gras Season. LSU, opting for purple and gold, bought a large quantity of the available cloth. Tulane purchased much of the only remaining color...green (Tulane's colors are green and white).
Today, Louisiana's Mardi Gras is celebrated not only in New Orleans, but also in numerous smaller cities and towns around the State and in the neighboring Gulf Coast Region. Similar celebrations are also held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro...arguably the world's most elaborate Carnival location with its Samba Dromo parades, which annually attract a huge number of tourists from all corners of the globe. Regardless of where the festivals take place, however, all share a common party atmosphere inherently associated with the celebrations.

Day 55: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

Nobody else knows your reason for BEING. You do.

Your BLISS guides you to it.

When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversations of joy, your feelings of joy -- you're on the right path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.

Follow your bliss.


Many of us do on follow our bliss because we do not feel worthy.

Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let that positive, creative Energy reach me, that natural all encompassing Energy reach me.

Worthiness, or unworthiness, is something that is pronounced upon you by you.

You are the only one that can deem yourself worthy or unworthy to get what you want in LIFE.
You are the only one who can love yourself into a state of allowing, or hate yourself in a state of disallowing.

There is not something wrong with you, nor is there something wrong with one who is not loving you.

You are all just, in the moment, practicing the art of not allowing, or the art of resisting.

All you have to do is look at your FLOW of LIFE to determine is you are allowing or resisting.

Which is it?

If you are allowing on day 55, GOoD on you (remember read the CAPS).

IF you are still in resistance on day 55, then maybe it would be a good idea to go back and do some of the exercises of past days.

Numerically, 55 is a powerful day of new thought forms. Be mentally active today.

Excerpted from several Abraham-Hicks workshop

Day 54 Formula to determine when EASTER falls in the calendar year

Have you ever wondered how to figure out when Easter Sunday falls into the calendar?
Well here is the FORMULA.

You find out when the first day of Spring is - This year it is March 20th.

Next, find out when the first Full Moon is after the first day of Spring. This year it is April 9th.

Easter is then the first Sunday after that Full Moon, which is April 12.

April 5- 12 is a 7-day stretch that will be a powerful time on a psychic level as well to --- get things done, get ideas formed, get ready to move to a higher place.

Last year was the earliest Easter Sunday since 1913, 95 years, and another early Easter won't happen again until March 2228.

There will be a time when Easter is even earlier. In 2285, 277 years from now, Easter will be on March 22.

This year, Easter is late.

The next really late Easter Day will be April 24th 2011


Formula: Determine the First day of Spring, First Full Moon thereafter, First Sunday after that Full Moon

Easter day falls on the first Sunday on or after the first full moon after the Spring (Vernal) Equinox.

Day 53 Urban Legends of Friday the 13th

I thought I would share some of the urban legends about Friday the 13th. Do you have a favorite you want ot add??
For me, I had always heard that Friday the 13th was the day that women who were HEALERS (they knew how to use HERBS and TEAS and SALVES and CHANTS/PRAYER to heal their loved ones) used this date to meet in a central zone in wooded areas to share their receipes with other women. There was great FEAR for women to demonstrate this sort of power as they were burnt at the stake for being declared witches. As a matter of fact, it is my understanding that 8 Million women were burnt at the stake during the Dark Ages for demonstrating any sort of personal power.
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http://urbanlegends.about.com

LEGEND HAS IT: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, one will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don't have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names). There are 13 witches in a coven.

Although no one can say for sure when and why human beings first associated the number 13 with misfortune, the superstition is assumed to be quite old, and there exist any number of theories - most of which deserve to be treated with a healthy skepticism, please note - purporting to trace its origins to antiquity and beyond.

It has been proposed, for example, that fears surrounding the number 13 are as ancient as the act of counting. Primitive man had only his 10 fingers and two feet to represent units, this explanation goes, so he could count no higher than 12. What lay beyond that - 13 - was an impenetrable mystery to our prehistoric forebears, hence an object of superstition.
Which has an edifying ring to it, but one is left wondering: did primitive man not have toes?

Life and death
Despite whatever terrors the numerical unknown held for their hunter-gatherer ancestors, ancient civilizations weren't unanimous in their dread of 13. The Chinese regarded the number as lucky, some commentators note, as did the Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs.
To the ancient Egyptians, these sources tell us, life was a quest for spiritual ascension which unfolded in stages - twelve in this life and a thirteenth beyond, thought to be the eternal afterlife. The number 13 therefore symbolized death, not in terms of dust and decay but as a glorious and desirable transformation. Though Egyptian civilization perished, the symbolism conferred on the number 13 by its priesthood survived, we may speculate, only to be corrupted by subsequent cultures who came to associate 13 with a fear of death instead of a reverence for the afterlife.

Anathema
Still other sources speculate that the number 13 may have been purposely vilified by the founders of patriarchal religions in the early days of western civilization because it represented femininity. Thirteen had been revered in prehistoric goddess-worshiping cultures, we are told, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364 days). The "Earth Mother of Laussel," for example - a 27,000-year-old carving found near the Lascaux caves in France often cited as an icon of matriarchal spirituality - depicts a female figure holding a cresent-shaped horn bearing 13 notches. As the solar calendar triumphed over the lunar with the rise of male-dominated civilization, it is surmised, so did the "perfect" number 12 over the "imperfect" number 13, thereafter considered anathema.

On the other hand, one of the earliest concrete taboos associated with the number 13 - a taboo still observed by some superstitious folks today, apparently - is said to have originated in the East with the Hindus, who believed, for reasons I haven't been able to ascertain, that it is always unlucky for 13 people to gather in one place - say, at dinner. Interestingly enough, precisely the same superstition has been attributed to the ancient Vikings (though I have also been told, for what it's worth, that this and the accompanying mythographical explanation are apocryphal). The story has been laid down as follows:

And Loki makes thirteen. . .
Twelve gods were invited to a banquet at Valhalla. Loki, the Evil One, god of mischief, had been left off the guest list but crashed the party, bringing the total number of attendees to 13. True to character, Loki raised hell by inciting Hod, the blind god of winter, to attack Balder the Good, who was a favorite of the gods. Hod took a spear of mistletoe offered by Loki and obediently hurled it at Balder, killing him instantly. All Valhalla grieved. And although one might take the moral of this story to be "Beware of uninvited guests bearing mistletoe," the Norse themselves apparently concluded that 13 people at a dinner party is just plain bad luck.

As if to prove the point, the Bible tells us there were exactly 13 present at the Last Supper. One of the dinner guests - er, disciples - betrayed Jesus Christ, setting the stage for the Crucifixion.
Did I mention the Crucifixion took place on a Friday?

LEGEND HAS IT: Never change your bed on Friday; it will bring bad dreams. Don't start a trip on Friday or you will have misfortune. If you cut your nails on Friday, you cut them for sorrow. Ships that set sail on a Friday will have bad luck - as in the tale of H.M.S. Friday ... One hundred years ago, the British government sought to quell once and for all the widespread superstition among seamen that setting sail on Fridays was unlucky. A special ship was commissioned, named "H.M.S. Friday." They laid her keel on a Friday, launched her on a Friday, selected her crew on a Friday and hired a man named Jim Friday to be her captain. To top it off, H.M.S. Friday embarked on her maiden voyage on a Friday, and was never seen or heard from again.
Some say Friday's bad reputation goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden. It was on a Friday, supposedly, that Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit. Adam bit, as we all learned in Sunday School, and they were both ejected from Paradise. Tradition also holds that the Great Flood began on a Friday; God tongue-tied the builders of the Tower of Babel on a Friday; the Temple of Solomon was destroyed on a Friday; and, of course, Friday was the day of the week on which Christ was crucified. It is therefore a day of penance for Christians.

In pagan Rome, Friday was execution day (later Hangman's Day in Britain), but in other pre-Christian cultures it was the sabbath, a day of worship, so those who indulged in secular or self-interested activities on that day could not expect to receive blessings from the gods - which may explain the lingering taboo on embarking on journeys or starting important projects on Fridays.
To complicate matters, these pagan associations were not lost on the early Church, which went to great lengths to suppress them. If Friday was a holy day for heathens, the Church fathers felt, it must not be so for Christians - thus it became known in the Middle Ages as the "Witches' Sabbath," and thereby hangs another tale.

Day 52: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron

MENTAL HEALINGS IN MODERN TIMES (part 2)

• Great and noble THOUGHTS upon which you habitually dwell upon will become great ACTS.

• Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. Choose a certain plan, idea, or mental picture. Mentally and emotional unite with that idea, and as you remain faithful to your mental attitude, your prayer will be answered in a manner that will serve your highest and best GOoD. (notice what you see in CAPS)

• Always remember, if you really want the power to heal, ypu can have it through FAITH, which means knowledge of the working of your conscious and subconscious mind. Faith comes with understanding.

• Blind faith means that a person may get results in healing without any scientific understanding of the powers and forces involved.

• Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your mind and your thoughts of health, vitality, and perfection operating through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and resurrected in the mind of your loved ones.

Day 51: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

MENTAL HEALINGS IN MODERN TIMES

• Find out what it is that heals you

• Realize that correct directions given to your subconscious mind will heal your mind and body.

• Develop a definite plan for turning over your requests or desires to your subconscious mind.

• Imagine the end desired and feel its reality. Follow it through, & u will get definite results.

• Discover what you believe. Know that a belief is a thought in your mind, and what you think you create with monotonous regularity.

• There are people who believe in sickness, poverity, and personal harm.

• Believe in perfect health, prosperity, peace, wealth, and most important divine guidance.

• GOoD on you today. Notice the caps in the good.

Day 50: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

In light of Presidents Obama's speech this week on the economic crisis in American, I found this quote from Abraham and added a little to it.

Every bit of LIFE is about economics. Every bit of it, without exception.

Everything about religion is about economics.

Everything about politics is about economics.

And everything about economics is about personal satisfaction.

Everyone is personally motivated to do the best that they can possibly do for themselves. This may require some NEW thinking, some NEW feeling, some NEW choices of action to create a NEW set of circumstance.

Day 49: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

YOUR RIGHT TO BE RICH (part 2)

· One reason many people simply make ends meet and never have enough money is that they condemn money

.what you condemn takes wings and flies away. (Love + Money)

· Do not make a god of money it is only a symbol

· Rembember that the real riches are in your mind, in your consciousness, in your thinking, in your words

· Don't make money your sole aim....make relationships your sole aim.....and one of those relationships is with money. You are here to lead a balanced life - this includes acquiring all the money you need.

· Claim wealth, happiness, peace, true expression, and love then personally radiate love and good will to all. As a result of this sort of consciousness, your subconscious mind will give you compound interest in all these fields of expression.

· There is no virtue in poverty. It is disease of the mind, and you should heal yourself of this mental conflict or malady at once.

· You are not here to live in a hovel, to dress in rags, or to go hungry. You are here to lead LIFE abundantly....I did not say opulently.

· Never use the terms "fifty lucre" or "I despise money." You lose what you criticize. There is nothing good or bad, but thinking of it in either light makes it so.

· Repeat frequently, "I like money. I use it wisely constructively, and judiciously. I release it with joy, and it returns a thousandfold".

· Money is not evil any more so than copper, lead, tin, or iron which you may find in the ground. All evil is due to ignorance and misuse of the mind's powers.

· To picture the end result in your mind causes your subconscious to respond & fulfill your mental picture.

· Stop trying to get something for nothing. There is no such thing as a free lunch and there is NO ENTITLEMENT.

· You must give to receive. You must give mental attention to your goals, ideals, and enterprises, and with that your deeper mind will back you up.

· The key to wealth is application of the laws of the subconscious mind by impregnating it with the idea of wealth.

Day 48: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe. What are you putting out there?

I had a guy at my house who has a good job and he does some construction on the side. All I heard in his words, his tone and his body language was boo hoo....the economy is so aweful.
What is he vibrating?

Who's Universe is this?

is a great question to ask yourself when you want to confront those mental deliquents.

Day 47: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

YOUR RIGHT TO BE RICH

· Be bold enough to claim that it is your right to be rich & your deeper mind will honor ur claim.

· You don't want just enough to go around.

· You want all the power you need to do all the things you want to do ... when you want to do them, so get acquainted with the riches of your subconscious mind.

· When money is circulating freely in your life, you are economically healthy.

· Look at money like the tide and you will always have an ocean of abundance.

· The ebb & flow of the tide is constant. When the tide is out. Aren't are absolutely sure that it will return?

• By understanding the laws of your subconscious mind, you will always be supplied abundantly regardless of what form prosperity takes.

Day 46: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

HOW TO GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT

· Mental coercion or too much effort, anxiety and/or fear will block your answers....so... Easy does it.

· When your mind is relaxed and you accept an idea, your subconscious goes to work to execute the idea.

· Think & plan independently of traditional methods.

· Know that there is always an answer & a solution to every problem.

· Lean heavily upon your subconscious and proclaim frequently that the Divine Right Action is taking place.

· The feeling of good health produces good health; the feeling of wealth produces wealth. how do you feel?

· Imagination is your most powerful faculty. It is in your imagination where you live out your Potential, which it is in your Memory where you live out the limits of your Past. Where do you LIVE?

· You avoid conflict between your conscious and subconscious in the sleepy state, so imagine the fulfillment of your desires over and over again prior to sleep and when you just wake up.

· Sleep n peace and wake in joy.

· Isn't it time for you to WAKE UP to the miracles of your abundance~rejuvenation~prosperity

Day 45: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

SUCCESS STORY:

The other day a friend told me that she wanted to increase her cash flow. She decided to set her intent to attract a certain sum to herself, which showed up just THREE HOURS LATER at her doorstep. The opportunity for the increased cash flow came to her in an easy, graceful manner, it literally came to her, because it was attracted by her!!! When I asked her what she had done to attract the opportunity, she told me that she gave herself the time to really set her intent. She sat down, closed her eyes and got very still, breathing deeply. She thought of things she was grateful for in her life and gave thanks for them. Then she imagined herself having the cash flow she desired and how her life would be like, followed by stepping into that picture and fully experiencing being there. Then she came back to full consciousness in the present and released the intent to the universe.

As I said, the opportunity for the increased cash flow showed up only 3 hours later!!!

Encouragement for practice: Lets model my friends strategy:

1. GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION - versus just having a fleeting thought of your goal, sit down for a moment, take 2 - 3 minutes to set your intent.

2. GET INTO A MEDITATIVE STATE - helps you to be present in the moment.

3. BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE - this raises your vibration.

4. IMAGINE YOURSELF HAVING WHAT YOU WANT - see yourself (for example on a movie screen).

5. STEP INTO THE PICTURE - experience having what you want.

6. COME BACK TO HERE AND NOW.

7. RELEASE THE INTENT.

Affirmation: "As I am open I am finding my way to communicate with the universe for my highest and best good."

Day 44: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron,

PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES IN MENTAL HEALING (CONT)


• Feel the joy and restfulness in foreseeing the certain accomplishment of your desire. Any mental picture which you have in your mind is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
• A mental picture is worth a thousand words. Your subconscious will bring to pass any picture held in the mind backed by faith.
• Avoid all effort or mental coercion in prayer. Get into a sleepy, drowsy state & lull yourself to sleep feeling & knowing that your prayer is answered.
• Remember that the thankful heart is always close to the riches of the universe.
• To affirm, is to state that 'it is so', and as you maintain this attitude of mind as TRUE, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, you will receive an answer to your prayer.
• Generate electronic waves of harmony, health, and peace by thinking of the love and the glory of God.
• What you decree and feel as true will come to pass. Declare and Affirm harmony, health, peace, and abundance.

Day 43: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron

PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES IN MENTAL HEALINGS

• Be a mental engineer

• Use tried and proven techniques in building a grander and greater life.

• Affirm: Better! Better! Better!

• Your desire is your prayer.

• Picture the fulfillment of your desire now

• Feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered prayer.

• Desire to accomplish things the easy way- with the sure aid of mental science.

• You can build radiant health, success, and happiness by the thoughts you think in the hidden studio of your mind.

• Experiment scientifically until you personally prove that there is always a direct response from the infinite intelligence of your subconscious mind to your conscious thinking.

Day 42: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance: by Jane Herron

• The Life Principle will flow through you rhythmically and harmonious if you consciously affirms: “I believe that the subconscious power which gave me this desire is now fulfilling it through me”. This dissolves all conflicts.

• You can interfere with the normal rhythm of your heart, lungs, and other organs by worry, anxiety, and fear. Feed your subconscious with thoughts of harmony, health, and peace, and all the functions of your body will become normal again.

• Keep your conscious mind busy with the expectation of the BEST, and your subconscious will faithfully reproduce your habitual thinking.

• Imagine the happy ending or solution to your problem, feel the thrill of accomplishment, and what you imagine and feel will be accepted by your subconscious mind and bring it to pass.


It is said that there are hidden qualities which is basicaly known to our subconscious.we can train our subconscious for our betterment, for example, if we train our mind at night to get up early at 6.00 in the morning.we wil be astonished to see that we get up at 6 automatically.

Practice this simple technique this week by telling yourself before you go to sleep the exact minute you would like to awaken, like 5:54 am. See for yourself how powerful you are in directing your mind.

Day 41: WAKING UP to the MIRACLES of Your Abundance, Rejuvenation - Prosperity

THE FIRST MIRACLE- UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

• Your subconscious mind controls all the vital processes of Your body and knows the answer to all problems.

• Prior to sleep, turn a specific request over to your subconscious mind and prove its miracle working power to yourself. I have found this is fantastic in solving problems, writing speeches.

• Whatever you impress on yourr subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as conditions, experiences, and events. Therefore, you should carefully watch all ideas and thoughts entertained in your conscious mind.

• The law of action and reaction is universal.

Your thoughts are action, and the reason is the automatic response of your subconscious mind to your thoughts. Sooooo, Watch your thoughts!

• All frustrations are due to unfulfilled desires.
If you dwell on obstacles, delays, and difficulties, your subconscious mind responds accordingly, and you are blocking your own good.

For the next 40 days and 40 nights we will be in the desert and negative thoughts will not be part of our experience.

• This is the time to WAKE UP to your abundance,
• This it the time to WAKE UP to the sense of renewal and rejuvenation that is possible in your life;
• This is the time to WAKE UP to understanding what prosperity is going to mean to you for 2009 despite the yack-yack-yack that you might see and hear everywhere around you.

Are you ready to commit the next 40 days and 40 nights to the process?