The greatest thief of human happiness and abundance is ungratefulness. Any lack in our lives – whether in money, health, or relationships – is simply the evidence of a lack of gratitude. If you focus on lack you are not being grateful, and that will bring more lack into your life. Yet the simple state of radiating gratitude summons everything to you.

No matter who you are or where you are, you can change your life with gratitude, but you must feel it with your whole heart and radiate it from every cell. Gratitude is not a mental exercise, and in fact, if you simply use your mind for gratitude it will have little or no power. True gratitude comes from your heart! You must think gratitude through your heart, speak gratitude through your heart, and feel it intensely in your heart.

Then practice gratitude relentlessly. As you practice gratitude you will attract more thoughts and feelings of gratitude. In a short time your entire being will be saturated with it, and you will experience a happiness that is beyond what you can imagine. This is what is ahead for you when you choose gratitude as your way of life. And if you can really live in this highest state of gratitude, you will never have to ask for anything. Everything you want will be given to you before you even ask, because gratitude is the magnetic substance that opens every single door in the Universe.

Love

Bill Martuge

Yesterday is always near, its memories live inside me with joys that still can warm my heart and lesssons that still guide me.

Tomorrow always beckons, and its promise can inspire new efforts to achieve and grow, to aim forever higher…

But today alone is truly mine, with each and every minute awaiting my full energies to be invested in it…

My mind to be directed to meet challenges and duties, my senses to be conscious of unique and precious beauties, my heart to be devoted to each chance for warmth and giving…

Today alone is truly mine to fill with happy living.

Love

Bill Martuge

In my spiritual growth, I have learned a language of the heart. I know that at the core of my being when I receive a “yes” to some plan or a “no” concerning some project, its time to listen for His divine direction.

I am alert to the spirit of Him within me. When I feel a “no” arising from the depths of my being I know it is time to listen carefully for more direction. I listen closely for His divine plan.

I may feel the urging of His spirit as a “yes” about something of importance to me. Filtering out the clamor of my own doubts and the doubts of others, I let nothing interfere with the gentle message He is whispering.

 Love

 

Bill Martuge

“The world is just the way it is. The economy is just as it should be. The people who are behaving ‘badly’ in the world are doing what they’re suppose to be doing. You can process it in any way that you choose. If you’re filled with anger about all those ‘problems’ you are one more person who contributes to the pollution of anger.”

–Wayne Dyer, from Ten Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

Have you ever noticed that when you carry an empty lidded box into a sunlit room and take the lid off, even though the box is essentially filled with darkness, nothing much happens? But take a box filled with light into a darkened room, and the darkness instantly flees. That’s because light dissolves darkness, not the other way around. When we choose to recognize divine order and purpose are everywhere, even in those situations and circumstances we do not understand, we become much needed bearers of light, bringing a dawning to solutions, rather than joining those who would remind us that a dark night of problems has come.

May you always be willing to dissolve the darkness with your light.

Love

Bill

When my courage and energy seem to be in short supply, this is the time I need to be sensitive to the gentlest of sounds and thoughts and feelings.

The balmy breeze, not the howling wind, refreshes me. The peaceful thoughts I think are the ones that calm me and allow me to function best. The soft voice of encouragement I hear is His message of hope being whispered to me. And that whisper has the power of the Almighty behind it.

Out of those tender thoughts, feelings, sounds, and messages, I gain new purpose in living. I am the person I truly desire to be. He is gentle with me, and I am gentle with others. It is the power of the Almighty that I hear, touch, and feel as gentleness in my daily life.

 Love

 

Bill Martuge