Look Where You Would Walk

One of my favorite photos on the way to the Grand Canyon.

"We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being." ~ Mary Baker Eddy

Letting go and letting God...we're all familiar with that phrase, but it's often more challenging than we'd like. We usually want to see our life in outline form...with clear goals and directions before us.

I love the above quote from Mary Baker Eddy. It gives new meaning to the idea of letting go. Instead of mindlessly wandering in the wilderness of confusion and hope, waiting for some divine guidance...we are divinely empowered to take the steps we need to with the sweet promise of finding what we desire on our journey, even our perfect bliss.

How often do we act as having all power within our grasp, within our divine, creative being? And do we really look in the direction where we want our lives to go? or do we timidly look back at our past achievements or past relationships to discover ways to keep doing what we've always done?

I invite you to look where you would like to walk...today!

Working in Sunshine and Storm

A thumbnail work in progress...pastel.

The entire purpose of true education is to make one not only know the truth but live it– to make one enjoy doing right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the storm, but work midst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy hate; and wait on God, the strong deliverer, who will reward righteousness and punish iniquity. "As thy days, so shall thy strength be." --MB Eddy

One of my favorite quotes that has been around my desk since high school. While I haven't always enjoyed the challenge of working in sad times vs. glad times...I'm learning to truly appreciate it now. If you can't do what you love through thick and thin...you haven't really learned to love what you do.

Reality Check

Looking Out from the Rabbit Hole

This time of year we all tend to get a bit introspective. We examine our achievements and judge whether or not we are reaching our goals, becoming successful or in need of an over-hall, at the gym, in our relationships, at work or on the mountain top. I found this article on choosing priorities a helpful reminder...and a good reality check into my own!

"Success in life depends upon persistent effort, upon the improvement of moments more than upon any other thing. A great amount of time is consumed in talking nothing, doing nothing, and indecision as to what one should do. If one would be successful in the future, let him make the most of the present." --Mary Baker Eddy

"Choose Your Priorities" by Ralph Marston

Your priorities are not determined by what you say they are. Your most genuine priorities are expressed by what you actually do with your life and your time.

Look around you, and you'll see very clearly what your priorities have been up to this point. Those priorities have brought you to where you are right now.

If something is truly a priority for you, you absolutely are able to find a way to reach it. If it's not a priority, it's probably not going to happen for you.

You can set your priorities and you can change them at any time to be whatever you choose. But merely wishing for something does not make it a priority.

The priorities that are really priorities are the ones that dictate where you focus your awareness. The priorities that truly matter are the ones in which you invest your interest, your attention and, most importantly, your action.

You can follow whatever priorities you choose, and in every moment you are constantly choosing. Remember, as you go through each day, to choose those priorities that will bring the special joy and fulfillment that is yours to live.

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