This
morning I wake up aboard the family yacht, "Lucky Penne," rocking
gently to and fro, and listen quietly to the sound of seagulls outside
as the sunlight begins to stream into the porthole. The kids are
sound asleep in the next cabin, and our wee one is snoozing on her own
little cot by our bed. DH & I relax together and talk about
our upcoming plans before getting everyone up & dressed to spend a
few hours at the CO-OP.
There's plenty of parking space
for our Club Wagon, so we head in to get breakfast going for the early
birds and accept delivery from the organic fruit market. Just handling
these beautiful specimens as we unpack boxes gets me to daydreaming
about the fresh, squeezed orange juice, smoothies and succulent melons
we'll enjoy after the dance session. Members begin to stream in
and the joint starts jumpin'!
We talked to Sara last week while she was living the high life in New York,
and invited her to come play with us here in the Great White
North. Last week the new signs arrived and are catching the
attention of every passersby approaching the building!! Inside, an
inviting "Friends" atmosphere with charm and style greets each newcomer
to the CO-OP. I can imagine my pal, BeBe and the Clam Daddy's
jammin' the night away at the D'Note, and that's part of the creative
mindset we've got going here!
Our oldest daughter leads
a beginners Bargue class in the conference room for local homeschoolers
and unschoolers from The Beach School. Other students from the
Academy have come down from the Studio upstairs to demonstrate their
skills, not only with their work on an original wall mural in the main
area and drawing scenes of the CO-OP in action for advertisement and
display, but also in creating culinary delights in the kitchen as the
aroma of fresh-baked muffins (Wally's *Secret* recipe) and bread fills
the air.
After a full morning, we head out to the park
with a picnic lunch, run and play in the sunshine awhile, then take a
siesta on the boat before returning to town for the evening's
activities. Bob and Gerry are here to give an introductory SGR
Club session for the public tonite, and explain how SuperNights
transformed into Terrific Thursdays and finally, WAM! They became
Weekly Action Meetings, jam-packed with great information and flexible
enough to meet everyone's needs, including the new City Leaders around
the globe :D
For
your exercise this week, go into the Silence and concentrate on the
fact that “In him we live and move and have our being” is literally and
scientifically exact! That you ARE because He IS, that if He is
Omnipresent He must be in you. That if He is all in all you must be in
Him! That He is Spirit, and you are made in “His image and likeness,”
and that the only difference between His spirit and your spirit is one
of degree, that a part must be the same in kind and quality as the
whole. When you can realize this clearly you will have found the
secret of the creative power of thought, you will have found the origin
of both good and evil, you will have found the secret of the wonderful
power of concentration, you will have found the key to the solution of
every problem whether physical, financial, or environmental.
The place you seek is seeking you, the place you need is needing you.
Divine Principle brings need and supply together for mutual good. God wisely,
intelligently, and lovingly controls, guides, protects, prospers, and blesses
this union of His idea (man) and this joyous activity, work.
The Divine and perfect law of adjustment, operating through the ever
present law of attraction is bringing to you all that belongs to you.
First of all, we must know that Principle and not man does the placing.
Paul says,"For in Him we live and move and have our being."
This knowing that man, God's idea, is already in his right place does the
healing work, for that place is in Mind right now, and therefore the need
is already supplied by Divine Love.
The
power to think consecutively and deeply and clearly, is an avowed and
deadly enemy to mistakes and blunders, superstitions, unscientific
theories, irrational beliefs, unbridled enthusiasm, fanaticism. - Haddock
COUNTDOWN!!! As of tomorrow, we are ONE WEEK away from fulfilling the DREAM of a LIFETIME!!!
John Mayer, Jason Mraz, and Michael Bublé will be joining Train at the Grand Opening, performing "No Such Thing," "The Rainbow Connection," "Home" and the CO-OP theme: "Get To Me"
:D And, of course, the other Michael B & Rickie B will be jammin'
on stage along with everyone else!! What a PHENOMENAL way to kick off
a worldwide movement!!!
[OOC]
Jump in and dream along with us, or role-play a storyline of your
own! The key is to put some descriptive feeling and graphic
detail into it, then release it to the Universe. Most
importantly, MAKE IT FUN!!!
Chapter 21 of Charles Haanel's Master Key System:
For
your exercise this week, concentrate on the Truth. Try to realize that
the Truth shall make you free, that nothing can permanently stand in
the way of your perfect success when you learn to apply the
scientifically correct thought methods and principles. Realize that you
are externalizing in your environment your inherent soul potencies.
Realize that the Silence offers an ever-available and almost unlimited
opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to
comprehend that Omnipotence itself is absolute Silence, all else is
change, activity, limitation. Silent thought concentration is therefore
the true method of reaching, awakening, and then expressing the
wonderful potential power of the world within.
“The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its
consequence eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their
thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to
chance.” - Marden
~~~~~~~~~~~ Designing the Dream Life ~ I AM! Your Secret Pal, Penne :o)
Treasure Hunt: Gifts of Gratitude sprinkled throughout my PI Page ~ HERE'S TO THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS!!! *Blinkie by Fawn@DuckDollz*
Open Mike Night was a blast with Bublé!
Whoopi and Bono dropped in to see how things are moving along with the
CO-OP, and I'm thrilled to say we're right on target for the BIG PARTY
this week!!! WOOHOO ~ It's True, For Me It's YOU!!! :DChapter 22 of Charles Haanel's Master Key System:
For
your exercise this week concentrate on Tennyson’s beautiful lines
“Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet,
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.” Then try
to realize that when you do “Speak to Him,” you are in touch with
Omnipotence.
This realization and recognition of this
Omnipresent power will quickly destroy any and every form of sickness
or suffering and substitute harmony and perfection. Then remember there
are those who seem to think that sickness and suffering are sent by
God; if so, every physician, every surgeon and every Red Cross nurse is
defying the will of God and hospitals and sanitariums are places of
rebellion instead of houses of mercy. Of course, this quickly reasons
itself into an absurdity, but there are many who still cherish the idea.
Then let the thought rest on the fact that until recently theology has
been trying to teach an impossible Creator, one who created beings
capable of sinning and then allowed them to be eternally punished for
such sins. Of course the necessary outcome of such extraordinary
ignorance was to create fear instead of love, and so, after two
thousand years of this kind of propaganda, Theology is now busily
engaged in apologizing for Christendom.
You will then more
readily appreciate the ideal man, the man made in the image and
likeness of God, and you will more readily appreciate the
all-originating Mind that forms, upholds, sustains, originates, and
creates all there is. “All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose
body Nature is, and God the soul.” Opportunity follows perception,
action follows inspiration, growth follows knowledge, eminence follows
progress. Always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the
infinite and limitless possibilities of achievement.
Imagine
a Christmas Eve at the CO-OP filled with music and merry-making as
friends come and go all evening, sharing their joy and multitude of
talents, and you'll have a mental picture of our festivities. The
decorative lights twinkling softly along the ceiling and windows,
giving off a magical glow and warmth throughout the entire room.
Smiling faces and cheery greetings abound until closing time when we
prepare to take the "Lucky Penne" out for the holiday water
parade! What a fabulous way to cap a marvelous week :D
[OOC] So many gems in this week's MKS Lesson, Chapter 23:
"This
is the science which embraces all sciences. It is the art which, above
all arts, is relevant to human life. In the mastery of this science and
this art there is opportunity for unending progression.
Perfection in this is not acquired in six days, nor in six weeks, nor
in six months. It is the labor of life. Not to go forward is to go
backward."
"We make money by making
friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them,
by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success
then is service, and this in turn is built on integrity and justice.
..."
"The forces of life are volatile; they are composed of our
thoughts and ideals, and these in turn are molded into form. Our
problem is to keep an open mind, to constantly reach out for the new,
to recognize opportunity, to be interested in the race rather than the
goal, for the pleasure is in the pursuit rather than the possession."
"What benefits one must benefit all."
"This
week, concentrate on the fact that man is not a body with a spirit, but
a spirit with a body, and that it is for this reason that his desires
are incapable of any permanent satisfaction in anything that is not
spiritual. Money is therefore of no value except to bring about the
conditions which we desire, and these conditions are necessarily
harmonious. Harmonious conditions necessitate sufficient supply, so
that if there appears to be any lack, we should realize that the idea
or soul of money is service, and as this thought takes form, channels
of supply will be opened, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing
that spiritual methods are entirely practical.
“We have
discovered that premeditated, orderly thinking for a purpose matures
that purpose into fixed form, so that we may be absolutely sure of the
result of our dynamic experiment.” - Francis Larimer Warner
Question. - What is the scientific statement of being? Answer.
- There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All
is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.
Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real
and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man
is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is
spiritual. RECAPITULATION, Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
[OOC] We made it!!Cheers to Sara and everyone who participated and/or followed along with the past 24 weekly segments of the Super Secret Sym as we worked our way through Charles Haanel's Master Key System!!!
Words of wisdom from Lesson 24:
Now,
the only activity which the spirit possesses is the power to
think. Therefore, thought must be creative, because spirit is
creative. This creative power is impersonal, and your ability to think
is your ability to control it and make use of it for the benefit of
yourself and others.
When the truth of this statement is
realized, understood, and appreciated, you will have come into
possession of the Master Key, but remember that only those who are wise
enough to understand, broad-minded enough to weigh the evidence, firm
enough to follow their own judgment, and strong enough to make the
sacrifice exacted, may enter and partake.
This week, try
to realize that this is truly a wonderful world in which we live, that
you are a wonderful being, that many are awakening to a knowledge of
the Truth, and that as fast as they awake and come into a knowledge of
the “things which have been prepared for them” they, too, realize that
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the
heart of man,” the splendors which exist for those who find themselves
in the Promised Land. They have crossed the river of judgment and have
arrived at the point of discrimination between the true and the false,
and have found that all they ever willed or dreamed was but a faint
concept of the dazzling reality.
That really says it all ~ and what a grand finale
to a PHENOMENAL year!! The perfect way to celebrate our progress
is with our New Year's Eve "Five Year Party" inspired by Jack Canfield's Success Principles. You're cordially invited to a Secret fantasy ball to be held in your honor! Here's to a HAPPY NEW YOU!!!
sara r
A NEW DAY DAWNING
Enjoy Life to the fullest ~ I AM!
Designing the Dream Life ~ I AM! 
