Moving Rocks

Author Unknown

A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him his box of cars and trucks, his plastic pail, and a shiny, red plastic shovel. In the process of creating roads and tunnels in the soft sand, he discovered a large rock in the middle of the sandbox. The boy dug around the rock, managing to dislodge it from the dirt. With a little bit of struggle, he pushed and nudged the large rock across the sandbox by using his feet.

When the boy got the rock to the edge of the sandbox, he found that he couldn't roll it up and over the wall of the sandbox. Determined, the little boy shoved, pushed, and pried, but every time he thought he had made some progress, the rock tipped and then fell back into the sandbox. The little boy grunted, struggled, pushed, and shoved; but his only reward was to have the rock roll back, smashing his chubby fingers. Finally he burst into tears of frustration.

All this time the boy's father watched from his living room window as the drama unfolded. At the moment the tears fell, a large shadow fell across the boy and the sandbox.

It was the boy's father. Gently but firmly he said, “Son, why didn't you use all the strength that you had available?”

Defeated, the boy sobbed back, “But I did, Daddy, I did! I used all the strength that I had!”

“No, son,” corrected the father kindly.

“You didn't use all the strength you had. You didn't ask me.”

With that the father reached down, picked up the rock and removed it from the sandbox.

Do you have “rocks” in your life that need to be removed? Are you discovering that you don't have what it takes to lift them? There is always someone such as a loved one or a friend available to us and who is willing to give us the strength we need. Isn't it funny how in life we often try so hard to do things ourselves, when all we had to do was ask for help?

Change what you dwell on.

©2007 Rev. David Ault

Instead of linking one worst case thought to another start to create a new dwelling place in mind.

Start dwelling on simple circumstances where things went right, people laughed, and activities flowed.

Start dwelling on which body parts ARE working and praise them for it.

Start dwelling on what bills you CAN pay and be grateful for what that service provided you.

Dwell on possibility.

Dwell on what HAS worked, who you DO like, who HAS shown up, and what GOOD is happening in the world.

Do that for a day. Do it for another. Then another. And before you may realize a collection of those deliberate dwelling days has become a month. A month has become a season and a season a year.

Our Manifesting Skills Are Accelerating

Tony Burroughs (March 26, 2008)

With the coming of this spring everyone who has been working diligently with the Intention Process, the Law of Attraction, the Laws of Manifestation, or whatever you choose to call it is finding that their manifesting skills are bearing fruit in seemingly miraculous ways. What this means is that those who are consciously giving a direction to their days, who are turning their doubts and unwanted thoughts around, who are grateful for their experiences, who are truly intending to serve others, who are doing what they love to do, who are lining up with the Highest Good, and who are trusting and open to receive will be receiving with much greater ease and much less effort than ever before. It's as if the doors to our greatest happiness and all that we have worked for are opening, never to close again.

This is the time we have been waiting for. The Lightworkers are coming into their power, and, from this point on, there is no stopping the forward movement that is taking us to our highest calling. As more and more of us shine our lights and set our examples of happiness, peace, and fulfillment for others to see, all of humanity begins to sit up and take notice. Indeed, we stand at the threshold of glory, our next step firmly establishing our limitless creativity.

For those who are new to the Laws of Manifestation, know this: with each day that you continue to let go of the old ways that have tied you to the mainstream status quo, you will be blessed. Influences that used to frighten or upset you shall no longer affect you as before. You will no longer be giving your power away to others who couldn't care less about you because you will have begun to realize that your internal world—what you think and how you feel—need not be dependent upon what is going on outside of you. The constant media hype, as well as its reinforcement by your unawakened friends, is put in its rightful place along with all the other excess baggage you've let go of. Your power and your inner peace take precedence now, instead of your reliance upon outside forces and farces.

A word to the wise must be noted here: Those around you who are not choosing to explore their highest potentials and have not begun to familiarize themselves with the Laws of Manifestation are in for some challenging times. Since they have aligned themselves so closely with the mainstream matrix and all of its trappings, they will be having to deal with greater and greater states of discomfort, and you will see this all around you. It is for you, however, to retain your poise and remain uplifted no matter what is going on in your external world. That is how you set an example for others to follow. That is your job in these most challenging of times: to stay positive, to shine your light, to bring others up to where you are.

And so...this is the year we graduate. No more wallowing around in the darkness and dramas. The door is opening, we are opening, and the light is pouring in. All that we asked for is coming to us. We've worked hard to hold the light, and now gifts are being given. This is your time. Congratulations are in order. You deserve it. You deserve it All.

Thoughts on Living with Excellence

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skill to do comes of doing. Do the thing and you will be given the power.

Unless you do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will not grow. We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or find it not. What you are comes to you.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

Put your trust in ideas and not in circumstances. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

I walk mindfully and enjoy every step.

Thich Nhat Hanh

I would like to speak a little now about walking. When you move from one place to another, please practice mindful walking, no matter how short the distance. Perhaps you have used a seal before. When you stamp a seal onto a piece of paper, you make sure that the whole seal prints on the paper, so that when you remove the seal, the image is perfect. When we practice walking, we do the same thing. Every step we take is like placing a seal on the ground. Mindfulness is the ink. We print our solidity and peace on the ground.

In our daily lives, we don't usually walk like that. We print our hurry, worry, depression, and anger on the ground. But here, together, we print our solidity, peace, and freedom on the ground. You know whether you succeed or not with each step. Bring all of your mindfulness to the soles of your feet and walk. Enjoy every step you take. Allow plenty of time to walk. Every step can be healing and transforming. Every step can help you cultivate more solidity, joy, and freedom.

Please enjoy every step you take. Every mindful step is not only for your sake, but for the sake of the whole world. When you take a peaceful step, all of your ancestors in you take that step at the same time. You also walk for your children, whether they are born or unborn. Do not underestimate the strength, the value, of one step taken in mindfulness. One mindful step can produce healing and transformation for many generations. I promise to do my best. Peace is every step. All of us can do it. By the third or fourth day, you will have seen the difference.

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