Today I received an email – you know the kind – you’ll be blessed …. forward to those you know… and it had a beautiful picture.
The rest of the story goes: “This photo is a very rare one, taken by NASA. This kind of event occurs once in 3000 years. This photo has done miracles in many lives. Make a wish… you have looked at the eye of God. Surely you will see the changes in your life within a day! Whether you believe it or not, don’t keep this mail with you. This is a picture NASA took with the Hubbell telescope. Called ‘The Eye of God.’ “
Now I know what programs like Photoshop can do so being the skeptic – I looked this up. Here is the coolest thing – it IS a real picture. Granted it is a composit since it is about 700 light-years away and spans about 2.5 light-years across. It isn’t a once in every 3000 years kind of thing – it’s age is @10,600 (+2,300 or −1,200) years so it’s been around a while. In addition, it DOES make one think of the “Eye of God”. For more about the background on the image I’ve included two links – one is is the press release about the Helix Nebula and the other is details found on Wikipedia. Press Release and Wikipedia
In the end I wonder why people feel the need to make up “stories” to be amazed at the miracles around us every day.
When I look beyond my ego
I find a cause to sing
When I look around at the universe
I find joy in the tiniest thing
When I look within at the love I’ve known
I find the laughter that seems lost
When I look into your eyes my friend
I see a life worth any cost
by KPW
If we just take the time to open up, open our eyes, open our hearts and our lives we find there are miracles in every moment.
I just happened to be talking to my Chiropractor Dr. Alan Dubin about belief and how the smallest doubt can affect the outcome of a situation, when he mentioned that he had just started reading a new book. Our conversation led to my watching a lecture by Dr. Bruce Lipton. Presented in 2000 during a lecture to colleagues this video – over 2.5 hours – was amazing to watch.
If you have not had the pleasure of acquainting yourself with any of the works by Dr. Lipton – I assure you – you are in for a treat. In The Biology of Belief Dr. Lipton goes extensively into how your thoughts affect your genes (and you life isn’t about hereditary cause and effect). His extensive historical documentation, in-depth cellular research and ability to communicate the information so that even someone who didn’t particularly care for biology in school could grasp the wide reaching effects of what he was saying was impressive – to say the least.
Yes – it’s a pretty amazing universe and we have much to be thankful for so in the USA or any other county in this wonderful world – make it a beautiful day!
Do you know someone who…is often a question that I hear. And today the power of association was brought home when I was reading an email on a listserv from a wonderful group that I used to sing with a number of years ago.
The email directed me to a website with nothing more that the instructions that it was a powerful message from a powerful woman. After watching the video I agree it’s all of that and more.
The heart with which Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor shares her story and the simple truths contained within it are something that I believe everyone will benefit from so my friends I have added it here for you to watch and take in the power of choice. The power to “be”. If – for ANY reason you can not view it here feel free to visit Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of insite
TGIF normally stand for Thank God It’s Friday. I rather like the idea that just came to me as I wrote that sentence and realized that I’m feeling that way I “heard” the statement – Thank God I’m Forgiven.
The simple fact that I believe in God and His grace is an underlying power that helps me go through my process of forgiving myself when I screw up. It allows me to know – not just “believe” – that there is something much more powerful than this single, separate body here. It’s how I “know” things when I’m talking to people. It’s part of the intuition factor. It’s part of the ability to choose to move closer to Freedom or away from it.
Knowing that in the greater scheme of things, I’m already free, I’m already forgiven, I’m already loved helped me accept that I’ve only to find my way to do these things for myself. To find the source of the fear, the lack, that I carry which in turn allows me to release it. Imagine being chained in a prison then finding that the key was actually right there in the prison cell with you. You unlock the binding and walk away – free. You’re not going to go back and put it on. That’s how it is in life. We have the key with us at all times it just takes some of us a while to find it and then sometimes we don’t even want to believe it really is the key because we’re afraid to get our hopes up. I have seen the vicious circle in myself and others. I watch it still.
I keep going back to the affirmation based on the writings of Maryanne Williamson;
“I am brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous. I am a child of God. I was born to make manifest the glory of God that is within me. As I let my own light shine, I give other people permission to do the same. As I am liberated from my own fear, my presence automatically liberates others.”
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