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What are my expectations of God? I expect goodness and the best for my spiritual growth and upliftment. I expect God’s guidance, help, power, abundance, love, and grace.

So when circumstances appear to be less good than I think they should be and my ego starts moving into gear, I call a time out. I dwell on Spirit and look for the message Spirit is giving me and I seek to find the blessing in the situation. I remember that God has a divine plan and knows what It is doing. I relax into the peace of God.

Letting divine ideas fill my mind, I act on them with gratitude and enthusiasm, and my ego goes back to slumber mode once again. I’m in fit spiritual condition and fit for service to God. All is well.

Let unconquerable gladness dwell. – Motto used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from “A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors”, original source unknown.

The aforementioned quote was mentioned at Unity today. It was a delight to hear that a world leader had it grace his office, that he held such a philosophy and prayed such a prayer.

I can think of those words as a prayer answered – unconquerable gladness dwells – and look at everything as a blessing. No matter what the experience, the encounter, I get to choose my perspective, and whether I want “to be right or happy.”

Unconquerable gladness dwells and everything in my life is a blessing. So it is.

“I can’t believe it’s Friday again already!,” I say to Rog during our morning coffee vacation al fresco today. Two hours later, after being on the computer, I’m thinking it’s Saturday, then catch myself, remembering it’s ‘only’ Friday.

This time thing is really weird, and more so lately – as time passes.

It’s interesting though that as confusing as it can get, and as frustrated as I can be when I feel like there’s “not enough time,” or perhaps I didn’t “spend” my time as wisely as I could have, there’s a feeling that’s uplifting. That feeling often arrives when I look back at what has transpired and see that things unfolded perfectly. I then am once again reminded that God is in all of this, that God has a plan, and basically, that God is running the show.

No matter how crazy this thing called time is, when all is said and done, it matters not. All is well for God is with me past, present, and always – God is timeless. And, that’s what’s important.

My intention is to walk through this day consciously. I want to BE peace, BE love, BE patience, BE joy.

It is my intention to make this day one I enjoy (in joy) and in which I am relaxed as I provide excellent service to my clients, complete my tasks, take care of me, devote time to my personal relationships.

Spirit of the Most High –
Co-create a day with me in which I do Your Will, and all flows with ease and grace in perfect Divine Order. Fill me with gratitude at every turn. Thank You. So it is.

… to me!

Yes, it’s my birthday, number 54. Birthdays are like new years, a milestone of the calendar year to reflect upon my life.

Looking back over the last year, it’s obviously been a wild one of adventure, spiritual growth, shedding of the old and making way for the new. And, I had my beloved husband and life partner, Rog, beside me for the ride.

Once, when I was a young teenager and my mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I told her that she couldn’t give me what I wanted. That gift was my soul mate, the guy who would understand me, love me, be my bestest friend, and walk with me through all of Life’s offerings. I yearned in my soul for such a gift, which stayed with me throughout the years.

My mother could not give me that gift, but close to 4 decades later, God did. My twin flame (even more than a soul mate) and I were finally ready to meet in this lifetime, and Spirit arranged it just about five years ago.

Receiving Rog into my life then is a recurring birthday gift each year that I will cherish always.