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Be conscious of your gratitude more often. Look for little ways you can do it. I'm looking down at my shoe right now and I'm grateful for the shoelace. If I can do it like that, I bet wherever you're sitting or listening or watching, you can also do some gratitude.

There are two truths: an outer truth we call objective truth, and an inner truth we call subjective truth. The inner truth may represent a greater truth than the outer truth because the outer truth is usually in a constant state of change, while the inner truth may be in a state of movement, but not necessarily change.

Positive and negative. Two extremes. Two poles of a battery. When positive and negative are in a relationship to one another, they supply an energy. They supply a charge. I think that in human beings, it is the proximity of both the positive and the negative and their relationship that creates a kind of charge, a tension that propels us through our life and through our experiences. Did I always laugh when my childhood best friend hit me? No, sometimes I responded with anger, and sometimes I hit back. Sometimes I felt hurt or betrayed. But sometimes, there would be that spontaneous presence of -- something I didn't have a word for -- that would provide perfect protection from harm and hurt. I remembered this experience. During times when I could not or would not find that presence within me, it nonetheless remained in my memory as a reference point. Similarly, the prodigal son in the Christian Bible story, when his fortunes in the world were failing and times were difficult, might have had a reference point of being safe in his father's house, and he might have remembered that there was a place within him that was safe from harm and hurt, no matter what the outer circumstances were.

The world gives you every opportunity to grow. Opportunity knocks and knocks and knocks and knocks until you answer. Sometimes it hits you in the head! It's just trying to get your attention. So if you're sensitive when it just knocks a little, you'll say, "Okay, I'll serve." You can do it lovingly and joyfully because you have that choice inside. Service is what you do that you do freely, without expectation of return.

The energy of the Light is the spiritual force that is present within and that activates all things. It is everywhere to a greater or lesser degree. The Light is more active in a tree than it is in a rock, and it is more active in a deer than it is in a tree, but it is present in all of them, although they may not be consciously aware of it. The presence of the Light is most active within the human consciousness, and the human consciousness is unique in its ability to be consciously aware of the Light and to work as a co-creator with the energy of Light.

Spiritual exercises (s.e.'s) are designed to awaken you to the Soul. They provide the Soul with a vehicle through which it may come more fully present in this environment. In that respect, they are like no other activity in this physical, material world, and no other activity replaces spiritual exercises. S.e.'s have been designed not by the Traveler, but by Spirit, which says, "This is the way set up to reach Me. There will be various ones who will keep coming forward with that message. They are the direct representative of the Sound Current." Through the Light and Sound of God, true knowledge is available.

God is your partner and that means it's always your move as God's will is done. Your move just might be to completely let go, relax, and enjoy the luxury and good tidings that your patience brings to you with fresh new ways of looking.

Forgiveness has an emotional quality. But there's one a little higher, and that's called forgetting. When you've truly forgiven somebody, you forget it. Too many of us have said, "I've forgiven my mother and father for beating me almost to death when I was three years old." No, you haven't. "Yes, I have forgiven them. I remember the stick they used." Forget it. "No, no way am I going to forget that." There's no real forgiveness until there is forgetting.

There are a lot of ways to dismiss the past. One way is to say, "I didn't know what was going on then." That doesn't excuse you from anything, but it may help take a little of the pressure off. Another way is to remember that from where you are in this moment, in this time and space, you are doing the best that you know to do. If you could do better in this moment, you would do better. If you are not doing so well, something is not allowing you to see completely your ability to do better. Something is blocking you. That doesn't excuse you, either, but it might allow you to be a little easier on yourself.

God has allowed us the position of co-creators and thereby given us the opportunity to learn responsibility to the Light within us. God has given us these beautiful realms of physical, emotional, mental, and unconscious existence and has supplied the magnetic light of these levels to give us infinite opportunity to create. We can create many things, and God has instituted the law of karma so that we will always be made aware of our creations. It is feedback so we will know how we are doing.