Today's Angel Message

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Dear Ones,

As your calendar turns another page, many of you find yourselves viewing the coming year with some trepidation. The past year has been difficult for the world and for individuals. It is easy, then, as one considers the trials of the ending year, to view that which comes as a continuation of unhappy trends.

But it needn't be so. Dearests, such a way of thinking is a far greater catastrophe than any you have experienced thus far, for your thoughtforms create and fear-based thoughts create fearsome events. This is an important recognition for you: fear-based thoughts create that which you fear.

If this is true, then it's opposite is true as well. Comforting thoughts create comforting experiences. Even in the midst of pain and loss, dwelling on ideas of peace and comfort create the experiences of peace and comfort.

Consider one who is facing the trials of her homeland's devastation. With her town destroyed, so many of her family and community gone, she is in an extreme condition. Of what good to her is, say, a blanket? But as she wraps its softness around her, perhaps it brushes her face and for a moment, its soft warmth brings her a measure of peace, a reassurance. If she allows herself to enjoy that warmth more fully, she may find respite from the difficulties which surround her and return to the tasks before her renewed and strengthened.

How many times have you seen or read of someone in dire straits receiving the gift of a blanket or even a stuffed toy and responding with joyful appreciation to such a small thing? Appreciation changes their experience. Such changes are often short-lived, as the trials and struggles of such a one's life reclaim his or her attention.

But if we lived in appreciation always – consider how your lives and your world might be changed! Not only would your experience of the difficulties of your life be transformed, your very life circumstances would change as well. Think of it, dear Ones: your very life circumstances would change as well.

How you struggle to craft affirmations that your heart will not reject, the better to call happy experiences into your reality. You search for the words, the works which will transform your world, exploring many spiritual traditions and esoteric doctrines. Dear Ones, the answer is before you now.

Look around you: there is so much to appreciate! Yes, the gift of life, but so much more. The clutter you sigh over is a sign of the abundance with which you have been blessed. The extra pounds you long to lose are signs of the plenty you enjoy in life. The job you curse, the car are eager to replace, the home in need of repair – all have much to appreciate, despite those facets of each which cry for improvement.

As you turn your thoughts to the good contained in each aspect of your life, you will find yourself feeling more bouyant, happier. Your uplifted mood will create a shift in how you think and act, and these changes will create new, more joyful experiences in other aspects of your life. As you observe and delight in these, still more will be created. When such appreciation becomes habitual, you find your life transformed.

Yes, but the situation in the world is so difficult. How can we transform it? In the same way, beloveds. Is it peace you long for in your world? Appreciate the peace that exists now, and more peace will appear. Appreciate the peace in your home, and even more peace is created. When thousands of you do this, that vibration of peace is strengthened and magnified.

Ah, but it seems so simple. Yes, dear Ones: its very simplicity is the reason you disregard this secret of transformation. We urge you to cast aside your doubts and worries, choosing instead to appreciate all that comes your way with a grateful heart. In this way, you may transform your lives and your very world.


				*Today's Angel Message*