Tom's Blog

It’s so important to love and respect yourself. This does not mean some type of self-absorption where you feel the world revolves around you. It means being kind to yourself because you are a child of God. Take care of yourself, and don’t slay the God within you. Allow yourself the opportunity in your daily life to let the Christ within manifest itself. This is what is meant when it is said that you must love your neighbor as yourself. When you love peace of mind, love doing the right thing, and love living according to divine law, then you can love and respect yourself for the person you are.

White Eagle

When things don’t go according to your plan, do you get irritated and stressed? When your will and your desire has been thwarted, do you get all out of sorts? Remember that expectations bring about disappointments. Don’t expect for things to always go your way. And don’t expect too much out of other people. After all, they’re just human. This doesn’t mean that you should let go of your responsibilities nor should you stop making plans. The problem is that you may think you’re in full control of your life; but you’re just an actor in a play, and you didn’t write the script. Remember, when you have done all you can according to your power to make something work, then take your hands off, and leave the outworking of your efforts in God’s hands.

The Daily Word yesterday ended with the question, “What do I need to do to get it right this time around and do what is expected of me?” The answer is:
1. By being gentle and kind to every person and tolerant to every circumstance and condition in your life;
2. By being calm, no matter what happens, yet strong to aid your weaker brothers and sisters, strong enough to speak the right word, to take the right action, and become a tower of strength and light for others;
3. By being a conduit to allow God’s love, light, and holy spirit flow through you and out to others;
4. By facing injustice and unkindness with a serene spirit, knowing that all things work out in time for good, and that justice is always eventually triumphant;
5. By having patience to await the process of the outworking of the Will of God in your life;
These are the qualities of a person who is approaching the top of the ladder of enlightenment.

Let’s just assume for the purpose of our thought for the day that we’ve all lived many lives in the past. And that each life we do a lot of good, but we do a lot of things that make us fail to reach the expectations of the Supreme Being. So, after each life, we’ve been sent back to try to perfect the wrong-doings from our past lives. If you can accept this assumption, ask yourself am I getting it right this time? Am I fulfilling the expectations of the Divine God? Am I righting the wrongs of my past lives? What do I need to do to get it right this time? Is it too late? I personally believe it’s not too late. We still have time to straighten out our lives and do what is expected of us. Think about this thought as you go about your daily tasks today, and do everything you can to get your life in order to make it pleasing in the eyes of God.

You long to do something to help others, and that is good. But the greatest work of all you can do is to work on developing the Christ Light within your soul. For the Son is born in you, in all humanity; and your special work is to learn how to project that light into the darkness of this earth.

White Eagle

There comes a time in our lives when we must take stock of where we are in life’s journey. It’s a time when we need to re-evaluate our human material needs with our souls purpose for being here on this earth. Why are we here? It’s not a monopoly game where the winner has the most money in the end, as our society might have you believe. The purpose of our existence is for the growth of our soul, our spirits. We need to see our lives as a great opportunity for learning. And our soul grows by overcoming hardships and negative emotions. You will realize how much your soul has grown when you recognize a universal bond between all people–when you have complete openness and acceptance of others no matter how different they may seem on the surface–when we realize that the same spirit is within others that is in ourselves, which binds us all together as one.

If you’re searching for the truth amidst all this chaos, you must maintain a clear mind. You don’t want a cunning-type mind, but a mind that is open and capable of looking at things without any distortion or prejudice. Your mind needs to be as innocent as a child’s, completely vulnerable. If your mind is totally filled with all kinds of knowledge about things, then you’ll never be able to perceive the truth when you find it. A mind has to be capable of receiving and learning. Learning is not necessarily just the accumulation of knowledge and facts. But learning is being able to successfully move from one moment to the next as you walk along the trail of life. And, in order to do that, you must always keep an open mind.

There are three ways in which consciousness can flow into what you do and, thus, through you into the world. Those are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant at all times to make sure that one of them is in operation whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all–from the most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you’re probably creating suffering for yourself and for others.

Eckhart Tolle

Has it ever occurred to you that you do not always practice the kind of behavior you expect from others? We have a tendency to make all sorts of excuses when we do not behave in the manner we should. You were so tired–you cheated somebody because you were really hard up for money–what you promised to do for someone and haven’t done is because you have been so busy–if you only knew how irritating that person can be, you would not question the way I treated him or her. The question is why we would hold a higher standard for others than we do for ourselves. The fact that we have a conscience, we cannot bear the fact that we have shirked our responsibility; therefore, we try to shift the responsibility to some other source. Humans have this idea that they must behave in a certain way. But even though they know it, they don’t do it. These two facts are the foundation of how we behave, as well as the universe we live in.

C. S. Lewis

People who spend too much time watching news on TV, listening to news on radio, or reading it in newspapers or internet are generally having an influx of negative material flowing into their brain. When you dwell on unpleasant things, you have a tendency to enlarge them by reaching into your past for similar thoughts. As these negative thoughts pour into your mind, they can get larger and larger, gaining momentum and power. Remember that your thoughts are powerful magnets, and you have the power to focus only upon things you want to attract into your life. Those who dwell on sickness have it, those who dwell on poverty have it, those who feel lonely have it, and those who feel unhappy have it. Realize the power of your thoughts and practice thinking good thoughts about yourself and others. You have the power to make yourself healthier, more vital, more alive and more prosperous.