Today's Food for Thought (July 10, 2017)

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"You only see that which you carry in your heart.  What you see is how others see you.  When you love, love comes back to you; when you hate, hatred comes back to you.  You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.  Be your own looking-glass.  Reflect goodness and beauty and compassion.  When you perceive the world is kind, God reflects His image in you.  When you take a look in the mirror of His love, you will see how blessed you are."

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Today's Food for Thought (July 9, 2017)

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"What would friendship be if you don't give time and attention to your friend?  And how can you be best friend to God, if you don't slow down and make your best time for Him?  How can you call Him 'bestie' if you don't trust Him?  It is completely trusting that He'll turn everything beautiful for you no matter the messy situation.  However the pain, lay your heart open and share your pain with Him (because He already knows) and seek healing.  Know Him intimately to experience His love.  No fancy words, talk to Him authentically and ask Him, 'God, is there anything You want to say to me?'  Listen.  When you are in touch with Him, you can live in His peace and walk in peace with others."

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Today's Food for Thought (July 4, 2017)

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"There is no shame in not knowing. The shame lies in not asking. For to aim to know is a mindful experience that makes you grow . Learn a little each day to understand more each day. When you thought you really understand what life is all about and gained knowledge to help you grasp its meaning, you realize there is so much more to learn and so much more to understand. You realize you are simply an ordinary man seeking more knowledge, seeking more understanding. Grow in knowledge of God – He is at the heart of true understanding. And until you grow in and with Him, you will remain ignorant of many things."

Today's Food for Thought (July 3, 2017)

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"Whatever you think about, you bring about. By choosing your thoughts, you determine the quality of your Light. Let not junk thoughts dwell in your mind. Fall in love with your thoughts to find beauty and pleasantness and goodness all around you . Let them carry you down the same path your soul is directing you. Have a great mind – think only that which can be written legibly in your heart. Think in harmony with God. For as waves relentlessly seek the shore, good thoughts continually return to God like one perfect prayer."

Today's Food for Thought (July 2, 2017)

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"Heartbreak and sorrow are schools unto themselves. How you endure them teaches lessons of stretching or shrinking; lessons of faith and obedience, or lack of them. God does not allow you to suffer out of antipathy or indifference. He lets you suffer because He loves you. How long and how much – only He knows. Yield. For if you yield, He will not permit you to suffer one minute too long. If you rebel, He may have to reset the clock. Learn. Trust. It is when you accept life unquestioningly that He takes you out of the furnace and transforms your heartbreak into a source of good and joy and beauty and light. Perfect order strikes on time – His clock is never early nor late.” 

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Today's Food for Thought (July 1, 2017)

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"It's tough to enjoy life when you don't like yourself. Tougher still, when you waste your time comparing yourself to others. Learn to accept yourself so you'll be at ease accepting and getting along with others. Excel at doing what your passion is and focus on perfecting it. Love your own progress and praise others on theirs. Be your own loyal friend. For if you are not, how are you to look for loyalty from others? When you walk with your heart towards your authentic self, you are walking away from ego and into God. And to be into Him is doing something nice for the one you love – YOU."

Today's Food for Thought (June 30, 2017)

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"Always find new beginnings. Start over every morning with every new sunrise. It's your chance to be different, a chance to become the better version of how you were yesterday. Walk forward with a positive outlook and trust that God has a plan that is far greater than what was left behind. Look out to the sun and be reminded how He loves you and how He wants you to fulfill your dreams by giving you a new day. Celebrate your heaven on earth – live life looking for Him that is all around you and make every moment a prayer."

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Today's Food for Thought (June 29, 2017)

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"Losses be damned – you are here volunteering to grow. You cannot expect to grow if you are too afraid or unwilling to face challenges and take misses and losses. Make sense of them and decide to move ahead. It's not easy but you cannot stay long playing the role of a loser. Convince the universe that you are a winner and the universe will deliver. You are a winner because you have God. You don’t have to see or feel Him to know that He loves you enough to do what is good for you. He has a way of taking you through your losses; He turns things upside down."

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Today's Food for Thought (June 28, 2017)

"There will be days when life breaks you down. Days when you feel your heart cleaving in, ripping you open. Nothing and no one can completely protect you from this reality. Hold on and put up – your heart is stronger than you realize. It is ripped open to shake you awake so you can see that you are worth so much more than you are settling for. For it is when everything is painful and your faith uncomfortably strained that God's presence in your life is strongest. Tell Him your pain and feel His purpose for you. The pain that breaks your heart opens a passage for you to grow and contain more love than before, more understanding than before, more peace than before."

Today's Food for Thought (June 27, 2017)

"Be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Be willing to confront new and unfamiliar challenges. Be willing to wrestle with your calling blockers like pain and discouragement and childhood wounds. Let not fear hinder you from doing more and being more. For the more you focus on your fears, the less you focus on God. And the less focused you are on Him, the more you get stuck and resist to follow through your own calling. The more you ignore He leads, the farther you pull yourself away from experiencing the life He intends for you."

Today's Food for Thought (June 26, 2017)

There is no pause in living and to wake up each morning is a miracle. Fall in love with the moment – it's a gift. Let go of the past, it happened but you're still here and you made it through. Think not of the future – it's a finished work. God holds the future for you. He wants you to simply live gladly in the here and now and recognize the little moments He has given you. Find Him in the present and He will take you to your next moment, to your next hour, to your tomorrow.

Today's Food for Thought (June 23, 2017)

Take constant, diligent ownership and stewardship over your soul. Set healthy boundaries that tell those around you what is and is not permissible. It is not a sin to say NO when saying NO is protecting yourself from those who are crossing your personal boundaries in harmful ways. Reflect God in your boundaries. He has given you clear property lines – lines of ownership and responsibility in managing your soul. He uses these lines to teach you to take responsibility for your own life and to accept others as being different yet still valuable. Stepping over the lines brings consequences; living inside them brings you to His blessings.

Today's Food for Thought (June 22, 2017)

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching you that life may be harsh to you but you shouldn't be so to life. Adversities and difficulties are not sufficient reasons for you to suffer defeat. Know that God's will is behind every event. At times, what you consider to be a disaster is simply His hand rearranging your life. Keep the faith and conquer. For to conquer an adversity is to push back a boundary line in order for you to push ahead and overcome.

Today's Food for Thought (June 21, 2017)

"Learn some and think some and play and work every day some. Move and sit; sit and move. Balance to keep yourself from falling. While there is always plenty to be worried and sad about, there is equally plenty to be happy and be at peace with. Look not at the world through your head, but throughyour heart and know God. His creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. And He wants you to leave some of the problems of the universe for Him to worry about."

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