Choose joy today Dear One, every chance that you get.

• Choose to think joyful thoughts
• Choose to speak joyful words
• Choose to want, do, and plan for things that will bring you joy

Be vigilant about it.

Practice it, a lot.

Practice it until you get really, really good at it.

Practice it as if your whole life’s future happiness depended on it.

Because it does.

Yes, it is true, you are a student Dear One.

There is still much that you don’t know. There is still so much more for you to learn.

But don’t let this knowledge distress you.  Don’t let the fact that there is more for you to know make you feel badly, frustrated or ashamed of where you are now.

Why?

When you begin your formal education in grade school, are you any less valuable, any less significant, any less important, or any less divine on your first day of class than you are on your last?

Of course not.

Your education, your learning, your knowledge does not increase your value, your importance, or your significance in this world Dear One. Regardless of what you know, you are and always will be divine.  It simply changes, enhances, and expands your experience of it, your interactions with it, and your conscious influence on it.

You are not here to become anything Dear One.

You are already everything that you are ever going to be.

You are divine. You are powerful. You are limitless. You are eternal.

You are here to remember that.

And we are to help you.

Let us.

No one has it all figured out Dear one.

No one.

Not even us.

So let yourself off the hook today and stop trying so hard to be the one to do it.

Why pray for, hope for, speak of, seek out change Dear One, if at every possible opportunity to embrace it you choose that which is known to you, that which is comfortable, that which is familiar, that which feels safe, over that which is new, different, unknown, uncertain or unpredictable instead?

Praying for, hoping for, talking about change is a  good start, but it’s not enough.

If you really want it, you’re going to have it prove it, to both the universe and to yourself.

And the only way you can do that , is to choose it.

So why not start by choosing to believe that everything is going to be okay, and act accordingly.

Because the truth is Dear One, that it really will be.

If you come across an opportunity to be kind today Dear One, take it.

If you come across an opportunity to be gracious, take it.

If you come across any opportunity in your day to be compassionate, generous, forgiving, loving, supportive, encouraging, or strong Dear One, we implore you to please take it.

Why?

Because it is the very best way we can think of to demonstrate to you just what a powerful creator you really are.

You cannot control your feelings Dear One.

But you can choose to think a different thought and change them anytime you would like.

Some may call this a denial of what is.

But we would call it, getting yourself into a better feeling place so that you can more effectively deal with what is.

There is no rule anywhere Dear One, that says that you have to feel badly when dealing with a difficult situation.

You do not need to choose to acquiesce to every single whim of the ego Dear One – the ego that is working so diligently to capture and keep all of your attention away from your heart.

It knows that the wisdom of the heart will always overshadow it, will always eclipse it, will always raise your awareness to such a state that the wining, yielding, forceful, frightened, mocking voice of the ego will no longer be heard.

When you listen to your heart, the voice of the ego will disappear into the background. It will become nothing more than noise to you – a reminder of just how far you have traveled from where you once were.  It will become nothing more than a point of reference.  And before you know it, it will disappear completely.  And it knows this.  That is why the ego will do all that it can to capture and hold on to your attention.

It is not doing so to harm you , but only to try and ensure its own survival.  But fear not – no harm will come to it, no pain will come to you, if you allow the voice of the ego to dissolve.  It will simply vanish and melt back into the energy of all that is.

It will be fine Dear one, but more importantly, know that you will be fine without it.

And all of this will begin to happen as soon as you remember to connect to your heart, start listening to it attentively, and allow yourself to feel and receive all that it has to offer.

Allow yourself to relinquish control Dear One.

Allow yourself to bond with your own heart.

Allow yourself to feel its beating.  Allow yourself to feel its wanting.  Allow yourself to feel its passion.   Allow yourself to notice its subtleties – when it is happy, or glad, or giddy, when it is questioning, when it is certain, when it is emotionless, when it is filled with joy, filled with regret, filled with sadness, filled with love.

Allow yourself to feel it all Dear One.  Allow yourself to want more for yourself than just the absence of discomfort, the absence of pain, the absence of desire.

Please do not make it your hearts ambition to feel as little as possible Dear One.

For that would be as great a loss as choosing to close your eyes forever after witnessing only one sunrise.

There can be no brighter future ahead Dear One, if you don’t allow more light into your present.

The very best thing that you can do to create a better tomorrow for yourself is to find something to be happy about today.