ABC

On and off we can, just to remain focused on the good and positive, make some time to make it quiet within our mind, and then try to find three positive words, starting with A and then three for each letter of the alphabet. 

 

Below I list the result for myself, just now. The beginning was easy. But as I moved on, it became a bit more difficult. Try to create your positive list before reading mine :) 

Then we can end this amazing exercise by dwelling a bit in our mind on some of these fabulous words.

Adorable, amazing, abundance

Beauty, bliss, bounty

Cheerfulness, coziness, compassion

Dream, divine, delicious

Empathy, excellent, enthusiasm

Fabulous, fantastic frivolous

Great good grand

Harmony honesty helpful

Intelligence, inspiration, integrity

Justice, jovial, joy

Kindness, knowledge, kiss

Love, luck, laughter

Magnificence, magnanimous, marvelous

Nice, neat, noble

Opportunity, optimistic, open-minded

Positivity potential, peace

Quality, quaint, quiet

Ravishing, reason, relaxation

Serendipity, strength, satisfaction

Terrific, treasure, talent

Unique, united, upbeat

Virtue, verve, vitality

Winning, wisdom, warmth

Xenial (being friendly to strangers), x-factor,

Yes, yours, youth

Zappy, zeal, zest

Both had prayed

The man said a small prayer

he wanted to be shown the way

the way to a life of fulfillment

of peace of mind, simple happiness

 

Then he heard a knock on his door

It was a beggar who asked for some money

The man reached in his wallet

All cash in his wallet became the beggar's.

 

The beggar had prayed for a miracle

He wanted to feed his children.

With all the money from the wallet of the man

his prayer had been heard.

 

The man who gave the money 

felt a wave of peace and happiness

He felt a feeling of fulfillment

His prayer had been heard.

Locked up in paradise

 

I think many of us are experiencing a lock-down.

I am not sure why they call it lock DOWN and not lock UP.

 

It feels a bit like being locked up in our own place. 

But still, my friends we can really make the best of it. 

 

In the area around where we live, there may be a piece of beautiful nature.

Or maybe a few trees with beautiful crowns?

Or maybe just the amazing skies above our head. 

 

If we get a bit stressed out about being locked up or locked down,

this is exactly what can help us.

 

Just imagining a wonderful place in nature, and in our imagination,

not only seeing it, but also feeling the breeze and smelling the air and hearing the birds,

will give us an experience of peace and a certain happiness. 

What we imagine has the same or very similar effect on our moods like being there .

 

So let us keep looking on the positive side. 

We can take this as an opportunity to pray more, to meditate more, 

to strengthen our imagination, to appreciate the peace in our home

and around our home more, to love more, to send some lovely messages

to the people who may suffer more of the lock down than ourselves. 

We can this opportunity to to enjoy the beauty of our own surroundings, 

to really make our own garden or street pristine clean and enjoyable 

to develop creative approaches to many things. 

 

Imagine for awhile we are locked down, or locked up in paradise. 

And the time may fly faster towards the end of this pandemic. :)

A story of hope

 Dear Reader,

This blog is meant to inspire. And it is what it does best. 

A person with a disability of his legs, causing him difficulty to walk, has for a very long time had financial problems. I met him first many years ago in a charitable association for disabled people where he was doing a job for a salary that helped him sustain his small family. He is married and has three children. Then one day, he was sacked from that job, because it was discovered that he was 'doing' drugs. After that, it seemed that everyone knew about his drugs problem and nobody was still ready to accept him as a worker or give him any money. That is when my long term semi-problematic relation started with him. He had borrowed money from loan sharks. They threatened him and his family almost weekly. He could simply not pay them back. 

I started to help him financially, in the hope he could at least get rid of the loan sharks. He was getting monthly a small amount of money from the welfare department. I had long talks with him about being creative and perhaps start a small business. His wife was fully able. He came back first monthly and then more frequently with a lot of different reasons and stories to get more financial help. Sometimes I refused initially; it was almost impossible to believe his stories, but his persistence made me give in each time. People knowing him, thought I was crazy giving money to him. But he was in trouble. I wanted to see the best in him and was willing to believe he was no longer involved in drugs.  He had a family. 

Four days ago, after a long time not having seen him, he contacted me again. I had prepared some money to give, but this time he came with good news. His wife and him had started to sell online a kind of crunchy snacks. The business was small and new but it had been running for a while. I bought a few boxes of snacks and he gave me one extra for free. I was so happy!

In my heart I had prayed for him for a long time already. I truly hope his small business works out. Please say little prayer for him and his family too... 

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