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Our greatest Divinely inspired power is our

creativity - where we are capable of harnessing

the connection of our consciousness with

the universal mind of God, reaching into a thought

and creating a new form, a new approach, a new 

solution, a unique work of art where none existed

previously.

 

The Affirmative  Thought below, titled Creative

Flow offers us a reminder that our conditioned 

response is not always the best response, and 

that living on our creative edge brings passion, 

enthusiasm,  and zeal for our lives. 

 

CREATIVE FLOW

Today, allow your creativity to flow without

constraint or critique,  pushing forward

to exhibit and live a life beyond the limits

or preconceived notions – free to express

your passion, your art, your new vision.

 

Today, allow your creativity to guide you –

inspire you – enthuse you as you tackle

the issues of the day, seeing each in a new

light, with a fresh perspective, knowing

you have the inner power to transcend

the mundane with creative confidence.

 

Today, allow your creativity to expand

the possibilities and potentials for your

life and the lives of those you love and

encounter – expressing your art and

talent for living, loving, and being

magnificent. 

AT BY G. 5.4.2012

 

WITH LOVE, G.  

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A major point of debate between modern

spiritual seekers and established religious

organizations often centers on where God

exists and in what form. As I work on Part

Four of The Finding God On The Train Story -

focused on God Consciousness and connecting 

with the divinity within, God is described as

a universal consciousness rather than an

entity and I realize this point of contention 

not only determines your belief but also your 

approach to spiritual life.

 

Case in point: when I am divinely inspired,

I believe that my personal or local consciousness, 

which resides in my mind - via centered prayer

and meditation  - connects with the Universal

God Consciousness  - non-local but accessible 

through my mind. 

 

This God or Universal Consciousness includes 

my personal consciousness, along with the

personal consciousness of every human being 

now existing, or who has ever existed, thus

including all other sentient life in the universe.  

 

The connection or gateway to this God or 

Divine consciousness within us is

often referred to as the Crystal or Divine

Self by my guidance on the train.  In fact,

I have started to believe that it is this

very connection that makes us distinctly 

human. 

 

So, I believe this divine wisdom is readily

available to anyone, everyone for the asking. 

Simply ask and we shall receive. From my 

perspective we are - by way of consciousness -

always connected with God, and as I will explain

in Part Four, with any and all sentient life 

that exits now or has ever existed. 

 

I say all of this as an introduction to the

Affirmative Thought below suggesting

that you, me, all of us should tap this

Divine wisdom. My Divine wisdom tapping

has changed my life over the past ten

plus years, and after transcribing five journals

of Divinely inspired guidance it thankfully

keeps coming. Ann says jokingly (I hope), 

that perhaps God thinks I need more help 

and guidance than most. She may have

a point.  

 

But my mission entails helping people

connect with God in whatever shape or

form they feel most comfortable with

believing. I believe God does not worry

about what religious or spiritual car we

are driving, if we stop, God is getting 

in for the ride.

 

TAP DIVINE WISDOM  

Wisdom is not what we think; it is

what we feel – arriving as requested

from our Divine center, our Souls,

to ignite the creative spark needed

to rethink the situation, discover the

solution, and progress.

 

Wisdom is the Divine inspiration –

the stroke of genius, the aha that

expands our tunnel vision into

a new vista of possibilities, carrying

us to a new conclusion, creating

new opportunities for living, for

thinking, for approaching our lives

with a fresh, creative perspective.

 

Today tap your Divine wisdom,

connect with the infinite intelligence

always ready to enable you to see

more, be more, create more, to

scale the mountain or traverse the

valley, in partnership with the Divine

in you and the universal creative

energy that is always glad to assist.

AT BY  G. 8.15.2012

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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Today, as I was preparing to begin my morning

ritual of spiritual reading and meditation, I decided

that I would reach into my archives of unpublished

Affirmative Thoughts and let the universe pick

the theme for today's post.  

 

I picked out the Affirmative Thought published

below titled Let Go And Let God. It is often

startling to see how the themes of the past are still

very much current today. I read it over and set it

aside to see what developed during my meditation.

 

A new addition to my morning devotion is to go

into one of my own journals, where I have

recorded the Meditation Guidance I received,

relating it to my life today.  I picked a journal

and opened it up to the Meditation Guidance below

titled The Way Has Been Prepared. 

 

I quickly realized that the randomly selected

Affirmative Thought and this Meditation Guidance

were related, with the  guidance presenting  

the problem and the thought offering the solution.

Both underscored my continuing challenge with 

this spiritual mission I have accepted and now live -

the feeling that I am often in this alone and have to

make it happen on my own.

 

I am grateful for the reminder that I need to dream

a better dream, have confidence in what I am doing,

trust in God that the way has truly been prepared,

and then to fully let go and let God. 

 

LET GO AND LET GOD

Today “let go and let God” releasing the reins

of control and asking God to assist with the

day-to-day issues you encounter – letting God

guide you and work through you, uncovering

the optimal solution for all involved.

 

Today “let go and let God,” asking God for

direction and listening for guidance in the

signs, sounds, events, and coincidences of

your life –watching as the doors open and

the opportunities are revealed.

 

Today “let go and let God,” surrendering the

need to go it alone and instead join forces

with your Divine assistance and begin again

to cocreate your peaceful existence, your

stress-free life, your heaven on earth.

Let Go And Let God!

AT  BY G. 7.26.2011

 

THE WAY HAS BEEN PREPARED

The dream you should be dreaming is one of strength,

one of courage, a dream reflecting your true nature –

your true potential. Cleanse and clear away the fear,

the doubt, the past mistakes, and replace it with the

joyous harmony of all that waits in possibility.

 

Know you have the power to dream this dream

for yourself and others, but instead,  you wallow

in the graveyard of the past, tossing the remains

around and looking for forgiveness. Know now,

today, and forever that you are and always have

been forgiven – forgive yourself. Learn to love

yourself more –completely - and then you will 

know what this means – what an expression

of love involves.

 

Stop working so hard at doing, and spend more

time dreaming, envisioning. Never attempt to force

the solution; instead, allow it to greet you when it

arrives. Your very actions spell disbelief – a lack

of trust in God’s effort on your behalf. Dream –

see it all, call it forth from your Soul, and

hear the guidance.

 

Find again the passion – the joy in simply being –

cocreating with God. Be willing to start small –

to fit into the future that waits and grow it with love,

passion, and enthusiasm. Offer your gifts, and they

will be received, trusting in God’s support and love.

The way has been prepared.

NOE G. 10.15.2011 7:00 AM 

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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EVER EVOLVING WHOLE 

We are each the individual expressions of an

ever evolving whole, creating and becoming,

forming new the energy of an expanding 

consciousness, breathing each breath –

formless – faceless but alive – always striving –

always conceiving – always being more.

 

Our acts of individual creation nourish

the whole - pushing our boundaries and

the limits of the whole. The power of this

creative force is love – the love of the

initiative – of boundlessness forever

reforming, multiplying the collective 

energy of all humankind – all existing life.

 

We are truly the living spirit of conscious-

ness – bursting forth in an infinite variety

of magnificence. We are one and living in

this whole – the true living spirit of God.

NOE By G. 10.2.2010  9:15 AM

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

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CREATIVE CONTROL

Today, let us realize that we are each

in control of our individual life creations –

knowing we have, through our thoughts,

intentions, and desires brought this life

we experience now into tangible form

and have the power to make adjustments

via the same creative process.

 

Today, looking at our creations, let us

assess what is now existing - determining

what works well and what may require

an adjustment or even a radically new

approach - knowing the skills to do both

exist within us all.

 

Today, let us open ourselves up to the

power of purposeful change that

we possess – the creative power of

our minds teamed with divine support.

AT G. 3.29.2012

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

 

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Sometimes my guidance leads me to a message

I have already received, recorded in my journal,

but have failed to notice or fully comprehend.

This is the case with the poem offered below from

November of 2014, which on the surface, at least,

provides a poetic description of the thought

based cocreation process.

 

THOUGHT INTO BEING

Tangible existence molded into form by firm

intention, powered by imaginative vision, 

a process of unfolding, being, total restoration

of a singular idea expressed, finding form, 

through conscious cooperation, the creator

and the creation, the baker and the oven,

the smith and the cauldron meet in perfect

harmonic unison, as the glass-blowers' breath

travels the tube, finding expression, breath

in the molten sand, the thick glowing liquid

expands, expiration intent on becoming, 

a life-giving way to what was not before,

yet now, in transparent splendor is viable,

intact, artful, thought bursting into being.

POEM G. 11.11.2014

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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AN ESSENTIAL NOTE

We are each a distinct, unique, and succinct

      expression of life – a leaf, a petal,

a magnificent wonder birthed

     in a moment of time to flourish and

shine – a vestige of a creative force

budding and blooming, reaching out

    to fuse its original destiny.

 

    In this presence, we singularly grasp

the torch of all existence surging forward

    with our soul’s strength to forge our

desired contribution, etching upon this

    eternity a lasting wonder – a flash

of beauty upon the retina of all existence.

 

Knowing all of this is a perfect moment

    never forgotten or erased, instead, an

essential note in the symphony of

    this perfect being forever pushing and

encouraging each tone, hereafter, to

    reach for timbre yet unheard of –

unimagined – reframing the sonorous

    song of perpetual becoming.

POEM G. 2.24.2013

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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It is often the rationality of the design beneath

even the most expected items of this world;

the morning glory blossomed blue – yellow -

white on the neighbor’s fence, the minnows

scampering in lock-step motion in the pond,

the bird chorus of high-pitched mating calls

harmonizing, the sheer complexity of a rabbit

popping up to survey the possibilities.

 

I have watched this excellence unfold daily,

even if, often, I have just taken it for a given,

failing to realize the enormous genius involved

in its formation, the sheer monumental energy

even one nanosecond of its universal becoming

requires; often unaware of its carefully crafted

and sculpted creations set to maximize even

the minutest presence, powering each form

forward and beyond what even now is considered

plausible, realistic.

 

I feel when we set out to understand the design

and the designer, stretching out, somewhere

in our reflection, a Gestalt takes place, then,

only then, for a moment, can we peer beyond

the artifacts into the very engine of creation,

then, only then, do we perceive the vastness

of the infinite, the magnitude of becoming.

 

It is in this vein I offer the poem/note titled

By Design, possibly to assist this sort of

spiritual deep consciousness diving, with

the hopes of piercing the source, or at least,

to gain a brief glimpse of the magnificence

behind the scenes.

 

BY DESIGN

There is, within this world, the repetition

of excellence, the continual unfolding

of a design that enhances what it supports;

as it encloses, fashions, and drives into

unique being – with its natural embodiment

providing the strong skeletal structure

individuated, leaving nothing to the randomness

of chance; rather preordaining, configuring

what was previously determined, sketched

through earlier contemplation, then pushed

to emerge as conceived - one blossom at

a time, one leaf, one twig, all prepared to act

as perceived; agreed upon by some earlier

intention, disposition: calmly and sincerely

becoming what is and will ever be the pursuit

of another iteration of the infrastructure

of creative divine striving, reaching through

the rich dark earth, fixed on the nutrients

of growth, sun, air, water, love – then bursting

out, layered pursuit presented, audited, then

again, until life arrives, formed and sentient.

POEM/NOE G. 6.2.2106

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

 

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constancy -  noun - the quality of being

            enduring and unchanging.

 

flux  - noun – a state of continuous

                      change.

 

God is the energy of creation within the fluid

flux of existence: the thrust that evolves us,

that improves us, that has taken us kicking

and screaming from our dingy cave dwellings

into an existence of continuously more profound

possibility; with a growing, expanding insight,

that allows us to push all natural constraints,

and, even as our repeated attempts may fail

at times, often at an incredible toll of human

life, this spirit of God born within us, wakes

our aching souls as it stirs our daunted desires,

inspires our muddled dreams, as we stumble

forward, humbled but wiser.  

                                                                                   

                 FLUID FLUX

        There is no constancy,

    only life in fluid flux,

        an ocean of possibilities,

        appearing, being, then

            fading; moments sought

            and then discarded;

     desired briefly, only to be

        repelled - as we in lucid

            stretches intend our destiny

                with passion embraced,

            knowing clarity melds reality;

           some faint semblance of order,

                    yet even in this turmoil

                springs a synergy of faith,

              knowing this continual

           birthing will spawn

                  a wellspring of new,

                       fragrant life,

                layer upon layer

              of potential being, until

           in moments unexpected,

               it takes form and becomes

                   a resemblance of our

                 most potent yearnings,

                   stark and appealing.

                POEM G. 9.13.2016

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

 

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BALANCED EXPECTATION 

We must each seek first a balance between

desire and possibility, realizing exact specifications

rarely fit the unfolding being, our concept,

our vision may ignite an immediate spark

setting our world ablaze or instead; just kindle,

smoldering until time, place, and purpose align

at some distant point, an appropriate flame.

 

Immediacy excites our desires as patience

is considered a retardant, slowing progress,

keeping us from our intended mission and

hoped for rewards, yet it is precisely at this

moment when we focus on the outcome

that we set our progress into disarray,

appeasing want rather than sound growth

and forward momentum.

 

Let us set our eyes and focus on the doing,

allowing the becoming to find its pace and

direction, to unfold with divine and universal

support into the essence of its very nature,

its true possibility, authentic and firm in its

construction, a complete vision of wonder

and magnificence.

NOE G. 6.15.2018

 

WITH LOVE, G.