Memorial Day TributeWritten by Steven Boaze
Memorial Day is their day, is'nt it? It supposed to be  day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since revolutionary war.Or is it day beach resorts kick into high gear for summer season, day strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, day off season rates end and weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a hour wait. Or is it one of biggest shopping center sales day of year, a day when hunting for a parking space is prime sport for holiday stay-at homers? Or is it weekend when more people will kill themselves on highways than any other weekend and highway patrol troopers work overtime picking up pieces? I think men and women who died for us would understand what we do with their day. I hope they would, because if they wouldn't, if they would have insisted that it be a somber, respectful day of remembrance, then we have blown it and dishonored their sacrifice. I knew some of those who died and guys I knew would have understood. They liked a sunny beach and a cold beer and a hot babe in a black bikini too. They would have enjoyed packing kids, inflatable rafts, coolers, and suntan lotion in car and heading for lake. They would have enjoyed staying at home and cutting grass and getting together with some friends and cooking some steaks on grill too. But they didn't get chance. They blew up in marine barracks in beirut and died in oily waters of persian gulf. They caught theirs at airstrip in grenada in little war everyone laughed at. They bought farm in drang valley and on heartbreak ridge, phu tai and at hue. they froze at chosin reservoir and were shot at pusan perimeter. Guadal canal. They died in ice and snow of bulge and vosges mountains. They were at somme and san juan hill and at gettysburg and at cerro gordo and at valley forge.
| | The Law of AbundanceWritten by Judi Singleton
The Law of Abundance This universe that we live in is a place of abundance. Look around you and you will see abundance everywhere. I planted a couple little cherry trees last year, this year they are bent over with cherries. The Grass in my yard grows faster than I can keep up with it. It grows thick in places I don't want it and little fruit trees are coming up all over lawn. We too are abundant creatures we have been created with a multitude of ideas and talents to carry them out. There is a spiritual law that we must give to receive. It is in giving that things come back to us. So whatever you would increase in your life first give away. Yet when many people try to manifest prosperity, they don't achieve their goals. What happens? Now we can't give away what we do not have. So say you want to give love you must first love yourself. This sounds like a paradox it is not. We must be very thing we would give so to give love we must be loved and loving. This law works in reverse for us too. Say you are fearful that is just what you will give away and what you will receive back from universe. So we want to monitor our thoughts and see what we are sending out. If we are going to manifest true prosperity, we must first bring our consciousness into attunement with Higher Power. When we are aligned with our Higher Power we are at peace knowing that all our needs will be taken care of in Divine Order. When we reach this point we then are at a place to ask for guidance in silence. It then becomes easier to brings specific goals into manifestation. It is not uncommon for us to change our minds several times as we learn to listen to our Higher Power and begin to ask for our highest good and find it is not what we started out desiring. We create our own reality. We attract those things in our life (money, relationships, employment) that we focus on. I wish I could tell you that it is as simple as stating an affirmation, but no affirmation is going to work if your mind hought is negating positive.
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