GFP Newsletter - 4/8/2014

Focus on writing your own life story, your way.

Remember that every moment counts.  Every second matters.  Honestly, whatever is given is a gift.

So don’t be so satisfied with the success stories of others and how things have gone for them that you forget to write your own.  Unfold your own tale and bring it to life.  You have everything you need to become what you are capable of becoming.  Incredible change happens when you decide to take control.  This means consuming less and creating more.  It means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and deciding for you.  It means learning to respect and use your own ideas and instincts to write your passage.

A selection from the article, "A Tiny Miracle":

That [snow]flake that I watched, that touched me so deeply, was there for less than a minute and it changed my perspective. That’s all it took to shift me.

It didn’t need years and years. It didn’t need a big, grand entrance. It didn’t need money or flashing lights. It just was there for me to witness and learn from.

Maybe the answers to our questions aren’t supposed to be in letters, psychic readings or in big, obvious tones. Our prayers can be answered by looking at a tiny occurrence from a new perspective.

Read the full article here: http://cosmicmessages.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/a-tiny-miracle/

God said:

Hold no grudges. Not against a person, yourself, the world, or God.
 
This is the same as letting the past go, even the past of yesterday. Every day starts with a new slate. This amounts to not collecting the old. You don’t want to accumulate it. You are not meant to be a hoarder of hurts, a hoarder of wrong-doing, a hoarder of insults or anything you don’t want. Nor, beloveds, are you to be only a collector or recollector of all the good that you have received. You are to live in what is called the present.
 

Oh, my love; if you could only see what I see in you. I celebrate your accomplishments, support you when you feel no one is there and love you more with every step you take in your Earth-plane existence. You are magnificent! ~ Creator

http://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/every-step-you-take/

I'm going to share something that's helped me immensely with understanding spiritual writings: don't believe everything that you read. I highly recommend approaching it from the understanding that the person who wrote it is very much a human being, and still growing in their personal understandings. They're still developing, and they likely have plenty of their own illusions that they're not yet aware of. What they tell you may even be 95% accurate, but there's still that 5% to watch out for.

20 years after the genocide in Rwanda, reconciliation still happens one encounter at a time.

Last month, the photographer Pieter Hugo went to southern Rwanda, two decades after nearly a million people were killed during the country’s genocide, and captured a series of unlikely, almost unthinkable tableaus. In one, a woman rests her hand on the shoulder of the man who killed her father and brothers. In another, a woman poses with a casually reclining man who looted her property and whose father helped murder her husband and children. In many of these photos, there is little evident warmth between the pairs, and yet there they are, together. In each, the perpetrator is a Hutu who was granted pardon by the Tutsi survivor of his crime.