What do you think the chances are that everything will go according to plan today, that everyone will behave exactly as they should, that everywhere you go you will find exactly what you are looking for, and that every new day will better than the one before?

Whatever your answer is, Dear One,  you’ll be right!

If you want to know what’s wrong with the world, Dear One, and your response to the anger is anger, to the outrage is outrage, to the violence is violence, and to the hatred is hatred, you should know that regardless of how good your intentions are, that you need not look any further than yourself to find the answer.

Make all of your decisions today, Dear One, as if there was someone standing beside you, holding your hand, encouraging you, supporting you, loving you, adoring you, believing in you, cheering you on every step of the way.

Why?

Because there is.

You have no idea just how big of a support system you’ve got working for you behind the scenes.

Please remember to use them.

The next time you are feeling lonely, alone, or disconnected, Dear One, instead of feeling badly about it, instead of focusing on those feelings of loneliness, isolation, or sadness, which will only serve to exacerbate them, use it as an opportunity to grant yourself permission to use that time to go within, to listen to your heart, and connect.

When you do, you just may get a glimpse of the eternal, sacred, divinity that lives within you, that connects you to everyone and every other living thing in your world.

And once you see that, once you are able to feel it, even if only for a second, it will be difficult for you to ever feel lonely, alone or disconnected again.

Truly, the only way that you can fail, Dear One, is to not try.

Everything that you are wanting, Dear One, is available to you in the present moment – joy, health, love, laughter, change, abundance, freedom – all of it.

Choose it in the moment and it will be yours, right now.

Continue to choose it over and over again, and it will be yours forever.

Raging, fearing, criticizing or whining about what is, Dear One, is about as useful as shaking your fist at the rain during a rainstorm is.

No matter how much effort you exert, no matter how much you wish it wasn’t so, no matter how unjust you think it might be, there is really nothing that you can do to stop the water from falling from the sky.

But what you can do is choose how you are going to react to it.

You can stay inside if you want to. You can go outside with an umbrella, a rain coat, rubber boots, or all three. You can run around the block without your clothes on, or you can choose to go out in your favorite suede coat. You can dance in a puddle or take a walk with a lightening rod.

You can’t stop the rain, Dear One, but you can choose how you are going to experience it.

Gratitude is more than a feeling, Dear One. And it is more than an attitude too.

It is an act of creation.

When you are grateful, when you are feeling gratitude, you are in the process of creating more of, you are in the process of inviting more of whatever it is you are grateful for into your life.

Yes, being grateful does feels good, Dear One, but you should know that it is a really good investment of your time as well.

• Whether you know it or not…
• Whether you believe it or not…
• Whether you acknowledge it or not…
• Whether you choose to consciously participate in the process or not…

You are still the creator of your world, Dear One.

You are still the most powerful force influencing your reality.

You are still the one responsible for determining all that you are, all that you have, and all that you are capable of.

In fact, you are doing it right now.  The thoughts that you are thinking, your actions, your words, your beliefs, and your attitude are creating your reality right this very minute.

Release your expectations of them, Dear One.

Let them follow their bliss, and you follow yours.

Because in the end, your happiness is not determined by what they think, what they say, what they do, or what they choose next.

It is determined by how you do all of those things.