IMAGINATION

Good Morning Dear Students, 

Although I always remember as soon as I write that greeting that it is not morning everywhere students are reading this, depending upon where you live and what time you tune in. Today I would like to leave you with a word about imagination. It may be that you have read this before, since the angels often repeat themselves. They must! Because we do not listen! Even when we think we are listening, often we are not. If you have heard this before, imagine you have not! Imagine you are hearing it for the first time. Let your listening be new. And total. Complete listening. Listening without interruption, interruption from your thoughts, that is. Receptive listening. Let your listening be a meditation.

Please keep in mind that your imagination is working all day long, creating ideas and images. If the creations of your imagination are always uplifting, honest, and kind—if they have your best interest at heart—great! But if you sometimes struggle with an imagination that creates images that terrorize and paralyze you, you may want to open yourself to your playful child mode. You may want to teach the mind to work for you, not against you. You may want to begin where you are. Where are you? For the moment, you are here, right here—not wrong here—so the angels lovingly invite you to explore your playful childlike mode. 

Today make time to do something silly, wonderful, and fun. Step out of your stuffy grey suit (that means your stuffy adult mind) and into the wonderful world of imagination. Play! Skip stones across a lake. Skip rope. Blow up balloons and let them float around your house. Take a bubble bath. Or have a fairy tea party and invite your friends and all the nature spirits.

Whatever box (that means heavy serious thoughts) you find yourself living in today, step outside of it! Think new! Let the sun shine through! Have a new moment. Give yourself the gift of the present moment. Give yourself the gift of now. The gift of inner joy. Inner joy is always bubbling up inside us, no matter what the outer circumstances. Inner joy is always compassionate and intelligent. It always knows what to do in any circumstance. Heavy serious thoughts often tell us that they know what to do. They do not! They only know how to tell us to be heavy and serious. So be joyful and light. From joy and light flow compassion, wisdom, and the answer to every problem.