Questions:

     1.  How do you tap into the sea of your Universal mind?

C -  Stay in bed after I awaken to do my mediation and to mediate on my day ahead.

SH – I stop, breathe, especially through any chaos that might be going on.

CH – Sometimes my bedroom, but that is a push more than a relax into it.  It right now is perceived as a cacomb, but in reality it only feels like one because it is so warm and the only place I cane absolutely alone, if husband isn’t home.  Otherwise it’s probably in the shower daydreaming.

K – Meditation of coursse, shower; walking alone.  These are great places that just call me into meditation.

2.  What is your current prosperity prayer?

C – Christ within prospers me now.

CH – Divine Order is being established in my (H & my or our lives) life immediately gently and in peace.  [I mix it up.]

K – Thank you God for unseen abundance already on its way way to me now.  Life is to enjoy!  I now open my mind to prosperity now.  I am beautifully and appropriately supplied with the rich substantce of the Universe now.  Or almost any of the affirmations from this chapter.  They are great.

SH – Everything is in Divine Right and perfect order.  (It’s an improvement on my mom’s affirmation.)

K – Focussing on the money may scare it away.

C – If we do what we’re supposed to do then the money is a by product of our process.

K- I want to financially help my family.

C – Oh well yes the family is an important extension to this.

K – My Mom especially.  She has helped me out great deal, especially when I first moved here from my hometown.

C -  This chapter was awesome.  I decided to write up my intentions for my 5 minute homework.  My intentions list just kept gorowing.  For isntance I did different things from my initial list of our 5 minute homework.  If you look at p. 176, I need to call on my Divine Intelligence which I was a passage I initially missed when I read this section the first time.  Upon my 2nd reading I realized that I needed ‘to cast a definite hook’ out with my intentions.  Also from that reading, especially on page 179, which we all already know, but have to renew within our thinking is ‘Ideas are the beginning of all riches’.  We have to allow ourselves time to let the ideas flow into our consciousness.

C made up a song on the spot, since she likes to do that:

      It’s the study group, it’s the study group of Catherine Ponder also known to us as Cat Po’ Study Group.  We read her books and discuss them.  We do homework to keep ourselves prospered.  All our doors are now opened, all our channels are now freeee.  The whole world better watch out ’cause we are readddddy for theeeeeeeeee!

SH/K/C – Ha, heehee!  Very cool

SH – I realized and found out that I treasure mapped my bed.  You know I went to the store decided on the bed and knew what I was getting in September, but earlier I had picked out a picture, the price and hadn’t noticed the bedframe until I found it again earlier this week.  It’s the same bedframe that I ultimately got, not from Ikea even though in the picture it is from Ikea.  Luckily when I went into the Paramus store, the price for down $100 for that day.  In October the bed was delivered and set up in my bed frame.

C – Let me know when you two want to come my house so I continue to create a vacuum by releasing my china and flatware.

In 4TPhd, there was discussion about our Time (in relation to tithing, & treasure.  I think most of us in the last regular 4T finally got what the time aspect was  and we were so relieved, but when it came up last Monday in 4TPhD, there was a discrepancy in how P was teaching it and all the other written matter on it and the way B taught it to us.  There were several of us who were adamant about what time’s definition is, which was opposite of what P. was saying.

SH – I was beginning to feel uncomfortable, especially since we were all so clear and P. was seemingly making us unclear as to the meaning of the term.

C – I and few others were at odds at his understanding versus our revelation from our last class.  To say it went round and round for a couple of minutes would put it mildly.  What we learned was that the time was for us to replenish ourselves so that we could then go out and either tithe our time to an organization or to another person who may just need to vent.  Through mediation we are then filled up and can take on the world.

But P. was saying that Time is the when you go out into the world and help others.  But in the 4T book in the contract and on page   it say time is for replenishing yourself through meditation.

SH – Then C confused everyone when she started talking about airplanes and putting the oxygen mask on yourself first before putting it on the child.  P. was confused as well as some of the rest of us.

C – But you can’t help anyone else, if you don’t have yourself filled with air (or light of God within), right.  It only makes sense.  I think P. decided that we disagreed with him and we’d just move on from there.  His interpretation was definitely different from the book’s and what we just recently learned.

K – I always thought it had to do with helping others.

C – Yes, that’s what P. said, but then what is talent?  Talent is helping others, I think Time is for refilling or replenishment.

K -  What I sometimes have a challenge with is the full tithing.  Tithing is 10% right?  Well with an extra bill I don’t want or use, I sometimes can’t do a full  tithe.  I sometimes am in a quandry of what to do.

SH – Tithe what you can do, until you can do more.  I know that I had been holding on to a tithe, that I had marked out for someone and my money has been acting funny.  I know I have to release it, but for some reason, I haven’t been able to, but tomorrow, I will make it a point to fulfill what I have said I will do.

Homework due: 6 January 2010 

      Choose 3 items from  1st paragraph on p. 170 

K – Listmaking Affirmation, Picturing, Tithing

SH –  Tithing, Listmaking, Forgiveniess, Releasing

C – Listmaking, Tithe, Forgivenessness

Forming a vacuum:  Gave Diamond’s food, litter and litter pan away (to Shelia).  And will give her the sherpa carrier case.

Release:  Physically – Diamond, Next to mentally release him.  Mentally released him earlier today, so he go rest on the plane he is destined to and if/when he’d like to visit me he can when he’s ready.

Tithing:  As usual in church, plus on Monday in 4TPh.D on money received from Mother-in-Law.

Affirmations:  Have continued my affirmation- Divine Order is being established in my life immediately gently and in peace.

5 minute Action Homework

        K – I sent an email and called Prat.  Wrote the VA to have them send the correct monetary infomration to the school

                I decided to release or remove my weight from my body, rather than lose the weight, because when something is lost, then subconsciously your body is always looking to retrieve its rightful place.      

      SH/C – Yeah, that’s right.  That makes sense.

       C – Last night before I went to bed, I did some monthly recollections and then looked into my email where I’d received an Chambere’ gig from a woman tht  had hooked me up with the Women’s collective on musician and lyricist.  Intially I thought it was a gig for me, but in reality it was her asking if she could use of a couple of my songs in her act.  Totally blew me away.  It’s so great.  I ‘ve been trying to get my songs out there and they are getting distributed.  She was emailing to get my permission to use the songs.  I, of course, wrote back with the affirmative.

       I got an affirmation of doing 5 gigs at the Sugar Bar with firm dates.

       My intentionary statements include:  a) Before the end of the year my music is being placed in films and TV shows. b)  Email non-exclusive rights to a couple folks to use my songs. c) Do college gigs within collectives d) Make up tutuorial on the web: Poker Face – Lady Ga Ga to step up my Video Game, so I offered her the use of my music in your tutorials as background music.

       Quality is important, though along with presentation, so it won’t go out to just anybody unless I like their overall presentation.  Some people just don’t care what is in the background when they’re shooting and I can’t have that with my music.

     CH -  On Dec. 31^st  I went to Carol’s Daughter:  The Back Room for a luxurious mani/pedi.  Mmmh.

                Went to Jennifer Convertibles to look at sofas and get an idea of our new sofa in our new apartment.

SH – Before next group can we email each other our one definite item so we can see it our face when we are in mediation.

K – Easy and effortless money comes to me quickly and easily.

Check out WOWmobile, which another way for me to make money.  With this Master Cleanse and the Sea Salt Flush, I am feeling not only cleansed but energized both physically, and mentally and specifically my brain feels energized. 

HOMEwork:

     Page 179 is very similar to T. Harv Ecker’s book Millionaire Mind

                  a.) Speak your prosperity decrees daily.  b.) Take the time to go over your desires daily and mediate with pictures on desires .

      Also read It Works by RHJ

      What if you just had a moment today, a moment where really just the brilliant light of the love of God might shine through your life? The important thing is that when we hear Jesus speaking to us, down through the corridors of time, we are reminded of his words.

      Jesus said ‘Know ye not that I have said ye are gods? Know ye not that I have said you will do these things and greater things still?’

      Today we can bring one little piece of God into our day. Find a moment where the luminescence; the light of God might shine through our lives. Collectively we just might transform the whole world by a little more light.

     Fill in your name appropriately: 

2010 Customized Abundance Advisory and Relativity Alert for __________(shhhh…)

Soon, for you ________, hundred dollar bills in forgotten blue jean pockets will be as plentiful as singles are in your wallet today. Earning an extra five thousand for lending a hand will only be as challenging as earning five hundred, today. And then, before you can even ask, “Who let the bucks out?!” you’ll have as many millions in the bank as there are meters in a mile, popes in the Vatican, and stairways to heaven.

Yet still, you’ll be loved most for being a great friend.

That’s just how you roll,

    The Universe

And YES!  Be a cheerleader, but cheer more for yourself the loudest.  Go with God!  God bless you always and then winning becomes the norm, instead of the exception.

But if you take a few wrong turns along the way, be assured that you can always make a U-turn and try again, but when you try again, listen carefully and travel with your heart more, rather than with your brain and you will succeed faster than ever before.  If you’re troubled about anything, turn within to God and you will proceed in love and triumph.  So many things will happened to you during this next decade, I want you to go into it prepared to do your best, because in the end, at the end of 2009, you will know that you have done your best and life will just keep getting better and richer for it.  It will happen no matter how you proceed, but by putting your best foot and listening ears forward, the victories in your life will seem ordinary rather than conquering huge mountains every time. 
            No matter which roads you choose, think of this next decade as your training ground of the great things yet to process and progress in your life.  WOW!  After that, then just watch out what happens in your amazing life.  Looking back on it, you’ll hardly believe all the things you were able to accomplish in just 10 short years.  Why not enjoy the process along the way, too.

Go, go, go!

CharLena, from 2009.

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CH-    I wrote H’s angel to go to bed once he got home, so that he could keep his serotonin levels balanced, otherwise he gets really loopy.  Of late he’s been getting home late and then staying up surfing the Internet for items for his new business that he’s about to rebirth.

          So he came home, I left the room for a minute, ‘cause I was doing some cleaning and washing a few dishes.  I came back in the room, he’s already partially naked.  I said “Dag, I knew I should have asked you to help me before I left so you wouldn’t get undressed.

          “Help you do what?” he said.

          Me – Take out some garbage with me.

          “Garbage, hell no, at 3 f—ing o’clock in the morning, hell no, you better get to bed and get to bed now.  You’ll have to do that by yourself.  I’m not going.”

          Me – That angel writing really worked.  So I did.  Then when I returned, he was already asleep.  He was asleep and snoring.

          S – That’s why I always suggest fulfillment “gently and in peace.  B. said in a 4T’s that he did an angel writing, but later he remembered to add ‘in peace and gently, so he wouldn’t go through any drama.

          C – I’ve been trying to help G while he is going through some stuff.  He’s still slightly suffocating, and it is hard to do more than encourage someone who doesn’t want to pray.  But he has been going to church at M C.  But he hasn’t been getting all that he needs in their services.  He has been calling for prayer at their offices, but they have not responded.  I suggest he go to Unity and go to after church to one our prayer chaplins, but he wants to continue to try at M C.  I”ve been praying with him, but he needs more and someone separate from me, I think.

S – What does the leap of faith mean to you?

C – Taking a faithful risk toward what I want.  Taking a risk, it’s scary as hell.  I want it— and my dreams.

S – We know that, but tell me really what it means.

C- I’m moving into the step of faith and coming into my own. Risking what is in front of me, rather than waiting to see what will happen.  Believing that what I believe to happen will happen.

CH- I’ll give you a for instance . . ., I did the rest of my homework. 

SH – Well wait a minute, you’re going to my second question.

CH- I was trying to figure out who could help me sell my house.  So I called Unity of Phoenix.

C/SH – how did you decide to do that?  That’s a good idea.  What made you do it?

CH – I already knew Sunday morning that I wanted ask J A.

C – Why?  Why J A?

CH – She’d told me about her previous work experiences and one of them was dealings with real estate.  At her suggestion to call a Unity realtor in Phoenix, she suggested I call one of the Unity’s, so I’d already done some research the previous week and had found a rather big Unity spiritual center.  I called Unity of Phoenix, to see if there was someone who could find me some Unity members who realtors and call them.  I spoke to the Pastoral Care minister J S. who told me he was new to the valley by only a year, and he would take my number and call me back in the next day or so.  Well, he called me back within the hour.

S – WoW!  That’s amazing.

CH- Actually since I’d already done some research, I had looked at the realtor’s names, but nothing was hitting me or making me want to call them.  I think I was kind of was turned off by a couple of their websites.  One of them was obviously gleamed from pictures in public domain.  So it looked like it was a fly by night operation.  It probably wasn’t but I wasn’t getting a great vibe from any of them. 

I looked at their websites, but I still didn’t get a feeling as if I wanted to use them except possibly one of them, so I called one of them.  She told me what the price for houses like mine were going for nowadays.  Well, it was a hit in the stomach, like I never could believe.   When I got ready to come to our study group, I was still whirling with disappointment.  While I was waiting for the elevator, I kept saying C, com’on.  C, that’s her idea, that’s not God’s.   God after all put the idea in my mind to sell it.  He’s  my real realtor and he will sell it at the right time at the right and perfect price and perfect purchaser.

The amounts for houses are really low as at this point of in terms of selling, but I have to remember whose we are.  That is my leap of faith, that my house can sell at a great price rather than the realistic (pessimistic recession-talk).

So I asked H what he thought.  He suggested I call them and ask questions.   I then went online and researched questions to ask potential realtors.  I found a great website that had 10 questions to ask, including the numbers of listings made and sold in the last 6 months.  Also what community they usually sold their listings.  Then I found out the most sellingest real estate office in my neighborhood (Southwest Phoenix).  It was Century 21.  None of the people’s names given were members of Century 21, so basically selling my house would be outside their natural realm.

C – So G has been low, sighing a lot and somewhat depressed.  Things are alright in his life, but he’s just not as happy as he could be.  He needed someone to focus on praying for him, but he wasn’t getting what he needed at M C, yet he continued to go and call their offices to get their help.  He was continually running on empty, but didn’t feel any better.  I suggested he call someone at Unity, but he wanted to keep at M C.

SH – What does leap of faith mean to you?

C-  So he called me back gave me 3 names and their websites and telephones. 

SH- okay here is my leap of faith, I have to get my application in, but I don’t have  Word 2007.  I hate it, so I have been typing in Works and the library doesn’t have it what can I do to convert it.  I know I will get it in on time.

SH- You’re asking for something and it seems to manifest right away but if you get it right away or you ask and don’t get it, can you think of a time that it’s happened?

CH- Well yeah when I wrote H’s angel and he came and went right to sleep.

C- Getting this interim gig with A.  Checking out mentally about my clients with JP and then in the new year for A.  And then the renewal of UI.  It’s that my clientele and it is building.

SH- What about something that didn’t happen the way you wanted it?

C-  I got that.  It’s D it weird how we play off each other, but I like him as a friend.  He’s the most secular non-spiritual guy.  I just found out he’s set up a trust/foundation and given 95% of his 22 million dollars.  He put it on his website.   Some people were amazed and gave him props.  Then there were a few because of their own thought processes that “hey you mean you just wanted to get a tax break.”

And that just goes to show me that there are always people who are not going to be happy about anything you do.  Can’t please people, no matter what you do.

SH- What about you CH what about something you didn’t get right away?

CH- Usually, my tenants rent comes within the first 10 days, but it didn’t come.  I reminded  myself that it is coming, so went ahead and wrote out my tithe check.  Then I asked H if I could borrow a certain amount from and him, which initially he couldn’t, but when he got paid, no problem.   The next day he came through for me.  Then a 6 days later a letter and my tenants rent arrived.

SH- My acupuncture needles hadn’t come yet, so I was still waiting and waiting.  So I said, ‘okay God in your time.’  Then there was this guy at work named P, which I was interested in, but then I found out that he really acts childish.  We haven’t been involved or rather spoken in over a year, but he still thinks there’s a spark.

SH-What does the parable the fishes and loaves mean to you?

C- That we have enough to stretch.  That we have more than enough, more than we think. 

CH- No matter what people tell you.  You can’t do this or you can’t do that.  It’s based on your faith and reliance on God.

SH- You just don’t get it if your faith is short.  That is how HE was able to have and to share enough for everyone.  Believe in only what is in front of you, you will not be able to see the more that is in front of you, (until you are ready to see).

Which parable speaks to you most?  And why?  Which works best for you?

Turning lack into abundance.

CH- I am an overachiever, right?  So I read the entire chapter and then I did a PowerPoint presentation of all of the affirmations from the chapter.

C – Of course, you did.

CH-  The one that I like is Divine Order is being established in my life immediately.  That was after I found out the prices of houses in Phoenix, so I did that affirmation to help lift my spirits.

SH- I was about to pick Divine order, but then I decided that for work I wanted and liked . . . the blessing of my wallet or tithe.  Sometimes in church, I pick up my entire bag.

C-  I enjoy the power of command and positiveness.  The act of blessing is more the power. One of my favorites to use and the one that works best for me:   The 7th Step — ‘Do not take your hands off visible supply, but pour forth the increase fearlessly, then expect immediate results.’

SH- I did answer that one, the reason I use Divine Order sometimes is my mother used it whenever something was going on, so I use it too. 

C- I think our share time of 5 minutes should be an ongoing thing, similar to what  Mary Morrissey was saying she got from Henry Thoreau.  “Go constantly toward your dreams.”  Do 5 minutes of action, not meditation or PowerPoint, but ACTION! 

1.  Right before last week’s session, I did my 5 minutes and because I was so excited to get on the roll and did this week’s homework when I got home after last week’s session.  It was allowing me to get back into my mojo . . . .  one of my goals has been to be in a TV show and I saw an opportunity in which to fulfill that goal.  I got the ball rolling and I shall be in that show shortly. 

This opportunity reinforces my path to go toward my goals.  Then I received an email asking if I’d sent out the information.  This was an email which was a follow-up on whether or not I wanted do the show.  The organization was awaiting my information to come.

2.  Then I decided to do a catalog of ten songs with tempo information on each song with a description, so that others could understand what the song is about. 

I did all my homework, which I thank you ladies for helping me jumpstart my organizational goals within my life and business life.  Including doing the cleaning of my room, and organizing.  Then maybe one day you will see my room.

CH- May . . . be next week.

C- What?

SH- Oh she’s always doing that.  She said maybe we could come to your house next week.

C- Oh . . . well yeah, that might be possible.  It’s just not quite possible right now.

SH- Maybe a heavy cleaning?

C- No, it wasn’t that bad.

SH- Well you know I can’t talk.

CH- And you’ve been to my house, the house without silverware.

C- Oooh!  Okay, well you understand then and I’m glad there is no judgment.

Moving in with T, I was thinking it was just for a bit of time, I’d be there, but now it’s starting to feel like home and my office.  And I am very happy that I am single.

CH- I was at home about to leave to go to my friend’s house and I was trying to get stuff to wear or something just right.  Then I started singing.  I was singing a song that I hadn’t sung in a long time so it was lying in my registry somewhat low.  I couldn’t remember all of the words, so I was going over the words in one spot over and over.  Then I left.   As I was standing waiting for the elevator, (congratulating myself on how good my voice and its maturity had blossomed, I heard a door open) A came out, but I thought it was our neighbor with the little English bulldog, but there was no movement toward the elevator, so I turned around and A was standing at our door and then asked me if that was me singing.  I said, yes in the house a moment ago, it was.  He said, “WoW!  Your voice has really flushed out.   I am so proud, that was so beautiful.  Your voice has taken on a nice quality.”

“Tell me if you’d known I was here, would you have sung?  I said, I believed that I would, but he said he didn’t think I would have, but he was grateful that I hadn’t known that he was here.  He thought it was a real gift to have that time listening to me sing.

As I was singing I got this urge to ask C about whether or not she’d be willing to write some music for me geared toward my upper registry actually a sort of musical exploration of my voice if I commissioned her to write them.

C- Would you like New Thought and would you be willing to let others sing it as well?

CH- I think that I’d initially want to have the privilege of singing them.

C- Yeah, but later on could others sing it as well?

CH- Yes, definitely.

C- Then you wouldn’t have to pay me, I’d do that for you.

CH- Thank you, we’d of course have to set up a time to talk about doing that.  Cool!

SH- I was thinking about the application submission for the new business grant contest a lot but I fell asleep.  I will have to do a lot of cutting and pasting to get it right.  Presently I had to type in Works, but the library doesn’t have that program and I think for the contest I have to have it in Microsoft Word, but I hate MS Word 2007 so much that I refuse to buy it.

C- I do too.  I think though Word 2003 is still available.

CH-  I like it, but to rectify your problem, all you have to do is to do all your edits in Works, then save it to either Notepad or WordPad, which you can find in the Accessories.  Go into the Start, Then Accessories, the WordPad.  Paste it there, or do you  have a flash drive, to save your work onto?

SH- Yes I have a flash drive.

CH- Then you open in WordPad at the library, all computers’ base has WordPad, copy your work, then open MS Word and then paste it onto a  new sheet, save that one into Word, print it out and mail it out. 

C- Will you have time to do all of that?

SH- I should.

C- I’ve got an idea.  Why don’t you come to my house now and I’ll do the conversion so, that you can send it out tonight.  I’ll do the conversion, print it out, and put it in an envelope.  The only thing you’ll have to do is to mail it off.  I’ll even supply you with postage.  You’ll be good to go Mama.

Let’s go.

Food:           Carrot Top We all had their incredible $6.00 Chef’s Salad.  SH/C had Red Velvet Cake for dessert and CH had a chocolate chip cookie.

Homework:  Affirm “Thy Kingdom Come 15 times daily.

                     Do something toward your goal for at least 5 minutes.

Homework:  Practical mundane Earth bound – Take a definite step toward our good.  Be prepared to share.  5 minutes of action in direction of your main good/goal.

Questions:

1. 1.    What do you think is released by affirming the prayer “Thy Kingdom Come”?   Give examples.  -Release = Law of Command! 

CH – My house is sold.

C -    I am ready God, Bring it!  Send me!

S -    Fear is released.

2.    What does “Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven” mean to you?

S/CH – Heart = Heaven.  Brain = Earth

C -    Affirmation broken down.  Heaven; Dream = Kingdom of God within all of us.  Desired results:  Earth = See it in front of us – real life.

See p. 125 “It is man” . . . when you dare expands your good and abundance.  Heaven – Gk. = expansion.

1. 3.    Cat Po says on p. 125 that “it is man who is miserly in his limited acceptance of God’s universal abundance for him.”  Would you dare to expand your acceptance of this abundance, what does your life look like?

CH – I have it set up a presentation on my netbooks to remind me of what I want, complete with pictures.  Sell my house, own an apartment here in NYC; pay off my student loans, use my voice as a singer, actor and voice-over artist.

C -    Own an apartment in Inwood or Brooklyn.  Singing all the time because I want to.  Travel a little bit.

SH – Happily married, family happy too.  Business branches out to Brick and Mortar stores.  Home ownership; 600 acres; self-sustaining farm.

Continue Lip Glosser Write Sizers meeting and prayer call.

1. 4.    How does bread symbolize “the rich substance of the universe” in your opinion?

C  – Yeast rises.  Starts as one thing and becomes (in the way it is shaped or manipulated) something else other than what it started out.  Birds, (p. 125).

S  - Currency – Richness.

CH – All the needs that are desirous of living an abundant life.

1. 5.    How are you doing so far in your forgiveness and release work?

S – I am doing better than I was last week .  Once we are doing our release work I am doing well.  Sometimes I like to wallow in my own  little pity-party, but sometimes that is necessary for me to get to the good (reaction) place.

C- There was nothing to test it on the first time in 4T.  Daily release work – Encounters – but during the ongoing release I am forced to get rid of the bile I am hanging on to – So I can’t hang on to it.  Stay committed to my God. Release, let go and let God while I go free to my better good

The “G” episode took me into another direction.  4T and mindfulness – acknowledge [Forgiven with meaning].  “G” and “S” >>>> parallels me and “G”.  Honest compassionate, understanding is a testament.

CH – A burger, brought on resentment about the kitchen [I share with our housemate – “A”] when I got home to make it.  The kitchen was FILTHY with stains and smells of burnt food in the kitchen and on the stove.  Cooking in that environment of resentment and anger caused my stomach to become upset later and into the next day.

C -  Oh so you had the backlash from a “A” Burger.  Like the people in “Like Water for Chocolate, when the cook was crying into the dessert and then when it was served all the guests who ate it became sad and some cried as well.  Anxiety-free cooking is a must.

 6.    Describe a “testing period” of your life that you now understand was a necessity for your soul growth and expansion?

CH – The Bronx living situation and then no living situation anywhere anymore, then our (H/C) separation while ‘I was on tour’.  DSG offered me her house.  Earlier I had written her angel asking her to re-offer me to stay in her apartment.

S -    Bailey & 243 St. Apt. in Bronx; when I initially saw the apartment there were hardwood floors, I put down a deposit and the only thing that needed to be finished was the bathroom.  When I went back to confirm moving in and the date, I found linoleum on all the floors.  Linoleum?!   I was upset, but I didn’t let it take over my thinking.  I prayed on it and the situation, which gave me peace in my heart and I was able to stand up to management and got my money back, even though the management was intent on my still moving in.

C  – God’s got your back.

The Lord’s Prayer begins:  Our Father (we are HIS children) who art in heaven.  Hallowed (most high) be Thy name.  Thy kingdom come.  (God’s sovereignty or place of royal abode is upon us.)  As it is in heaven on earth.  (The fullness of God’s riches in heaven [our hearts] also in earth [within our brains or the physical]).

What [part of the Lord’s Prayer resonates with you?

C – Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive others their trespasses/transgressions.  While we can often forgive ourselves we don’t always forgive the people who are our mirror image of the things we’re doing.

CH – Give us this day or daily bread.  Bread can equal so many things that we might be praying about; ideas, food, money, love, understanding.  The list could go on and on.  Saying that phrase changes like the meaning of music, depending on the thought behind it when I’m saying it.

SH – Thy kingdom come.  Whatever God has for me, it is for the best, for me at that time, because it comes from HIS realm.  Sometimes it’s hard for me to listen, but I think I am getting better each day.

C – Mary Widnar says:  “Go confidently toward your dream.”

Its like a payload full ready to erupt, like a volcano on an island in Hawaii.  Chemicalization + Talking helps alleviate the fumes or smoke from the fires underneath.  Not talking about it makes the payload build and build until it explodes in a fierce stream of soot, fire, and rock.

SH -  That’s the way I feel, I don’t think I can release it.  At that time, it can be quite deadly.

Cat Po – Sometimes she breaks down what she getting at in her writing with a story and then changes the wording around to apply it to the story.  How do you like it when she does that?

C -  sometimes she puts in alliterations and it’s a seems like a strange change-up, but it works.

CH – Sometimes, it annoys me, because I understand what she’s saying initially, but then with the change, I wonder what is that for, or for whom is she changing and giving a completely different meaning or affirmation.

SH – Mark it.  Ask for guidance, but nothing happens.   Try another prayer-nothing, try something else, still nothing.

C – Didn’t always come when I’d wait.

SH – If I put all my prayer ducks in a row, it comes and I receive it, not necessarily exactly what I hoped to receive, but a definite answer.

C – We have to create the space we expect, even if we don’t believe it’s working and that’s the awareness of the answering.

CH – Sometimes, I get annoyed.

SH – I get overwhelmed, but I continue on anyway, just because I know that the good will appear.

CH – It’s really our spin on what we take in reading, heard–life.  It’s our interpretation that matters.

SEE:  Open Your Mind to Receive pp. 1 – 2:  A famous actress . . . sick pocketbooks.

SH – I wanted to meet here, so that we could walk around the shops and take in the riches and see ourselves as really being a part of these riches.  Does it help, put you into the mind of God’s riches for us, even here on earth

C -  It puts me in a good place of receiving.  I have to confess, when I arrived I was not all that joyful to be here or anywhere.

SH – I wanted to come here to reinforce that I do deserve.  Sometimes I don’t feel very deserving of the richness of life.  I think it is important to be reminded that, YES! You SH do deserve it.  And deserve it all the time.

CH – Yes, I believe I am deserving and the emphasis on facials and massages.  My career, besides the basics of life, is to fund those two important things.

C – For your career, those two things, plus manicures is maintenance.  You have to have those things and its a good thing you know that they are must as a part of your continued happiness.  Even, for manicures if you get your nails buffed, that’s great as well.

CH lead this meeting and this is one of her favorites.  In the beginning of this chapter Cat Po suggests by meditating on the Lord’s Prayer and saying it 15 times per day, that miracles literally happen whether it is in the form of ideas, or sudden prosperity.  Something good ALL ways happens.  

This was the third meeting held at my house and I served enchiladas with homemade enchilada sauce.  Yummy! 

S. H. brought over her new kittens to meet my cat and the dogs that live in my home. 

I’d devised activities for homework for this chapter after I’d meditated on the Lord’s prayer.

Activity 1

       In your own words and or pictures rewrite the Lords Prayer.

Activity 2

       Meditate on something you want changed over the course of the next week by meditating 15 times/day on the Lord’s Prayer, whichever translation you prefer.  Do not speed through it like in church, but really feel the words and their different meanings.

     Saying the Lord’s Prayer can literally energize and empower you during and after having said it.

The two activities cannot be combined.  Meditation is for you and God to commune.  Pictorial and/or word changes is for you only to ingest the meanings of the Lord’s Prayer through your own words throughout the next week.

     It was an interesting day at my home because one of the dogs peed on me at the end of the meeting, probably because his owner had not taken him outside.  His owner suggested it was an act of neurotic aggression on the dog.  Then when he found out there were kittens in the house he said it was jealousy.  We all felt it was rationalization on the owner’s part, since he loves having the dogs, but not the work that goes with it.  He asked us to leave the room so he could chastise them and when we came back the kittens were traumatized (which is when we told him about their presence).  Needless to say the dogs were cowed as well.  Albeit, he still did not take them outside to go to the bathroom.  Living in this apartment is a hard thing for both humans and animals alike.  It’s a test, really of resilience.

CH – The Lord’s Prayer is a renewing of what God can do and has done.  Whenever or every time, I use the 15X/day with feeling recitation of the Lord’s Prayer I get loud and clear answers or very clear results.  It’s as if I am more focussed and the results are easier to be answered.   Or heard.

      If I am not asking a question or expecting something, then I receive amazing ideas.  All our prayers are re-affirmations  of our own understanding of God.  God’s love.  I always know ‘to quote “C” ‘when I am zeroing in on one item,’ not prayed up’ because things start to go awry.  But then I realize I must now get back on the Lord’s Prayer trail.  and in renewing my meditation I am refreshed and blessed with right thinking, receiving, and knowing.

The Questions:

1.  What does the Lord’s Prayer teach you?  Or why is the Lord’s Prayer important to you?

CH – The Lord’s Prayer, reminds us of the gifts that God has given us.  We can re-reap the world through the use of this prayer.  Everything that God expects us to seek, is spelled out in this prayer.  The first half is a reminder of who/what God is and can be for each of us.   the ethereal or spiritual reminders. The second half reminds us of the things we can ask His help with, in other words the earthly (brain) requests. 

2. How do you apply it?

CH – A slow pointed recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in mediation.  15 times is optimum and magical.

3  What if you don’t apply it.

C – If I don’t apply it I can feel the difference in my attitude.  It may not be totally ugly, but it is not a beautiful attitude either.  As I apply it, which I have not over the course of the last week, it can pull me up and out of the doldrums so fast that my head literally fills with bliss.  The Lord’s bliss, I guess.

Conclusions:

      We all concurred that the Lord’s Prayer is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful prayer to pray.  Not just to get stuff.  That’s not what we’re talking about, but to reaffirm with God and his desired will for us.  We just have to take time to listen . . . then do what has been told us.  Sometimes, it may come from another person, or an inner thought when not mediating, or in meditation, but as Jesus has said, “we must have the ears to listen.”  In this day and age, it means we must make the time to commune with God and then follow the lead given.  Tha’s what prosperity is really is, right?  Listening and following God’s lead, right?

Homework:

C – We must do something that may take at least 5 minutes to further our goal this week and then report back next week with the results.  The homework can take longer than 5 minutes, but no shorter than 5 minutes.  It can be anything, but should be something or a goal you are currently working on toward fulfillment.  You will be expected to report on the results at the beginning of our time together, as a part of our ‘sharing time’.

• Saying, “Please calm down”, rarely helps. 
• What if you said, silently to them “I love you, I love you, I love you.”  would that calm them down?  I bet it would, just like in the story Cat Po opens with on page 93. 

I have read that story in several of her other books, and it still gets me every time.  I always start to cry.  It is SO simple and yet, so effective.

When I finally let go and really let God, in my own work situation that had been stressed me out and said silently “I love you, I love you, to the person, that was stressing me out at the time, the situation did get better.  That person though had a mean streak or evilness in their soul and could not let that go with regard to me.  I got better, the situation did change, but was never perfect.  I did however rest more in God’s arms and although it was the best again, it could be.  I changed my approach and worked with God (instead of against Him) and the situation had to change; it got better.  It was workable. 

Leaning on God works all the time, when humans fail, because God can handle all, as long as we call on Him/Her for the ultimate help.  That just reminds us to go all the way up the chain of command, not just to the uppermost boss in your organization, (or on the human sphere) but to the uppermost command in the universe.  God gets it done and done right.

      In a painful situation, or an argument remember your secret weapons:  God.  The best secret phrase to turn it all around:   “I love you, I love you, I love you.”

C was the facilitator and the group was held at CH’s house.  SH brought Dominoes’ Pizza.  CH dressed the pizza up with steamed broccoli & black olives.  Along with that was some romaine lettuce with cheddar cheese shredded on top.  For dessert was either Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Pistachio.  Yum

We discussed Cat Po’s pages 98 thru 106.  Join me in the discussion:

1. 1.    How do you choose to bring peace, harmony, and blessings to a situation?

CH – Music is what brings me peace and harmony.  Whether it’s listening to it or signing.  But singing really puts over the top.  Lately it’s been “Looking for a Miracle” to the rescue.  And then affirmations or reading Catherine Ponder (Cat Po) or Florence Scovel Shinn (Flo Sco) books usually does the trick for me.

C – Humor, I try to either see the humor in the situation or try to add humor to the situation.  If neither of those works, I do my best to keep my mouth shut.

SH – My Mom’s birthday was yester and I was feeling down.  Because of the last six months, I know you’ve seen me down, but yesterday, because my mother had her birthday, then died soon after and then Christmas follows, I am usually depressed.  It’s just a bad time.  But rather than go down that path, I decided to reach out than to turn in on myself.  By reaching out, I called CH and just hearing her chipper voice it helped me through.  It wasn’t so much what she said or how she said, it was that she was available to talk to me.  I didn’t even stay on the phone that long, but it helped.

Another thing that works is our work here on a weekly basis.  I know that all of it is offshoot of 4T’s but, the fact that we have our prayer on Tuesdays and the book group meeting during the week on a weekly basis, I know that we are doing great things for ourselves here.  And I’ve been learning.  And it’s a very good thing to learn.

1. 2.    Chemicalization can appear in many forms: illness, financial issues, anxiety, old issues, etc.  Describe a recent Chemicalization that appeared before a demonstration of new good in your life?

CH – That flu that I just had for over a month was definitely a Chemicalization, especially since I had the flu literally in every orifice of my sinus cavity.  On the Sunday, that I felt better, I awaken with red eyes, which I later learned was Pink Eye.  Imagine my dismay when I realize I can’t go to church, because that condition is SO contagious.  I’d already been in the house for almost 3 weeks straight and had been looking forward to go out and be amongst other people.   Chemicalization still had its hands around my throat, really my eyes at this point.    To say that I wasn’t happy would have put it lightly, but I also knew that I was in the middle of a process and I just had to go with the flow. 

Going with the flow is better than fighting against it, because I knew if I went with the flow, I’d be going with the tide and not being pushed back.  I knew that what I really needed to do was to pray and so that is exactly what I did.  I worked on my meditation presentation during this timeframe.  I had to stay home, but it didn’t mean I couldn’t do something fun.  Homework all the time can become drudgery.  I also decided I wanted to get an idea as to what that new illness meant and I could find my Louise Hay book, Heal Thy Self, so I decided to order it from Alibris.  I looked up my different ailments and used the affirmations as well as making a few up of my own and placed them in my meditation presentation.   Choir members and friends gave me information about how to combat the different viral dis-eases.  At this point, I knew that prayer would be the only thing to pull me through this Chemicalization and even getting through that would be an amazing feat, but I knew God had given me the way to do it.

As I came out of the Chemicalization I had to go to UI and do an orientation.  I got all the information I needed, but when I was on the elevator there was woman, who started a conversation about her UI woes and their not being able to help her because she’s an actor.  I spoke up and said that that was my new career.  Once we got outside, she gave me all sorts of information about the business, websites, people, buildings I needed to live in.  I realized yesterday, that she was my door.  My door out of my Chemicalization experience.   Thank you, God.

SH  – Finances is what puts me into chemicalization.  It has been my past experience to have a tumultuous time of it whenever I have.  This last summer I wanted to work my last shift as a nurse and things started to happen that for the most part prevented me from doing what was my desire.  I went through major chemicalization when my checks from were being withheld because the agency made a mistake with regard to my insurance.  I went without pay that I was due for 45 days.  I couldn’t stop working then or start my business into full swing.

To say that I was low, was an understatement.  I was lower than a pregnant ant going through back spasms for the  fifth time.  There were days that I stayed on the sofa watching my days go by without much belief that I would get through it, but I had my weekly prayers over the phone with my prayer partners and the Cat Po book group and with those two weekly refinements of my life, I could always get up off the sofa. With each week the darkness and challenges I was facing would lift a bit each week.  It lifted high enough to get me into the light and I began to see clearly what I needed and could do to go on and do the desires of my heart.  Even if it was just a little bit, it was enough to get me to the next step.

 I am SO thankful to my prayer partner and the book group.  It has continued to uplift me and get to the point that I am helping to uplift my prayer and book group partners if they encounter challenges in their lives.  I am proud of that, but I am most proud of the work we are able to do each week, not just for me, but for all us and the other people within each of our lives.  To me, that is very special.

       The tools are continuing to help me learn that I must believe that I am entitled to prosper.  With each week I know this and act on it rather than against.  That is why I know that the work we do on a weekly basis is so useful for us.

C – Over and over in different forms I may have to learn to trust God and to trust in God within.  The tithing I understand, but as I receive the teaching for the challenges that my life presents, I realize I must pay attention to the other things in my life that I want to improve.  Last week was truly painful to me.  I was SO low, I was feeling irritable toward people, but didn’t let them know annoyance I was feeling.   Even when I was invited to go to dinner and the dinner was being paid for, I was feeling annoyance at being there.  It was a painful week, both literally and mentally.  My bank account was low to overdrawn.  My phone is on vacation, a part-time job fell through, and my rent was due.  And I was low.

In 4T’s for last week, when I was reading along, I was so mad.  What I needed to in my life was to take up what I was reading and lower the shield of anxiety.  I was  hiding why I was so low behind anger, anxiety and inner negativity.  All through dinner I was seething.  The only real thing I wanted was to go home and yes, skip the party.  But I couldn’t so I sat there wolfing down my food and ignoring the possibility of participating in the conversations swirling around me.  I was having my own pity party and had no time to contribute to the conversation.  I got through dinner and went on to the party and had a great time.  The next day I went to church, sang and left immediately afterward..

1. 3.    How did you deal with the chemicalization while it was happening?  Did it help?

After church I went home and came clean with my roommate.  Everyone else, I was keeping people at arm’s-length.  It was a relief and I realize, that I can of course share it with you, but I was holding back and basically keeping the shield of anxiety up high, so no one could get in.  I won’t do that anymore.  I realize that life contains lots of give and take to be successful.  Giving all the time is not the best for me, I must also allow others to experience my lows, even if it is just to listen.  That is what sharing the experiences means within a prayer group and this ?Book Group.  Sharing.  I remember to use my resources wisely, which includes my prayer group.  

1. 4.    Does joy attract more joy, in your opinion?

CH – Yes, I believe joy, like happiness, or prosperity thinking or prosperity attracts prosperity.

C – Charles Filmore believed that we all had to go to a higher place above the problem through written affirmations.  The New Testament has representation. 

            Jesus = You (or Me)

            A Man’s story = Left brain

            A Woman’s story = Right brain

            Crowd or mixtures of people = our fears and our thoughts.

            Disciples = Your thoughts

            Ideas = Right thought

To get through our challenges in life it would be best to call on our disciples to guide us through as well as prayer partners to maneuver around, over, and through the challenges to get to the ideas.

1. 5.    Which interpretations of Cat Po’s beatitudes did you resonate with the most?

 C – Numbers 2, & 5 – 9

2.      Go up into the mountain and think [away from the outside world].

5       Do not criticize your fellow-man or be accountable of that criticism or held in that criticism.  Life is a mirror.  Choose what you want reflected back to you carefully.

6       Directed pure energy toward what is wanted. 

7       Peaceful thinking garners peace around your environment, no matter the circumstances.

8          Chemicalization 

9          Joy within spills over to joy without and all around your atmosphere.

       - Blessed  are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness:  for they shall be filled.-

Vocabulary words:

     Righteous   =  Goodness:  Not self-righteous or goody-goody, or even pious in an outer way.

                             =  think and act in a harmonious upright

 manner.

                             = right thinking on all subjects of life–that is the great law of life!

Right thinking in all subjects:  what you think in your mind is what you will receive/produce in your life.

Think something about someone else long enough, you will reap the rewards of that thought in your life.  (That’s critically or affirmatively, the law knows no bounds.)

     What have you been saying over and over either verbally to or in your own mind about someone else, that you look around and you have garnered those acts or conditions into your own life?  Remember if you are pointing a finger at someone, there are three others pointing back at you.  Sounds trite, doesn’t?  The people that burn you up, (literally) are really reflections of something within your own personality. 

     So when I re-use my critical thoughts of others, the familiarity comes brimming to the surface because it seems as though I’ve been living with it on a daily basis and I have.  Criticism, condemnation, judgements all act like a boomerang.  So WATCh out!

    Right thought — The righteousness of your thoughts inherit the righteousness within your life.

    The Pharisees, believed they were righteous in their thinking but were in fact self-righteous.  Judging others harshly in order to prove themselves better, just.  Self-righteousness is a form of self-judgement through the judgement of others.  Whatever you think of others . . . so you are.  Too simplified . . . think of the last time you criticized another.

     Neither the Roman nor the Pharisee could see their own injustices toward the people around them, in fact they both thought that without judgement of others, they were doing them a disservice by not calling out their faults.   In other words, no mercy was given by the Pharisees, or the Romans or even the Galileans.  Criticism, persecution, injustice was a way of life.  To be merciful was a sign of weakness to them. 

     ”Unmerciful attitudes cause more indebtedness and financial worry than any other state of mind.  There is no ill-will or revenge among the merciful.”

    The people in the east, who lived on the arid desert’s produce were a merciful people.  If someone came out to the desert and needed water or food, they would supply it to them. 

     Be merciful unto others and we will receive the same merciful treatment from others in our lives AND our wallets and purses will get fatter.

      Injustices, criticism, condemnations, judgements are being thrown at you, remember that “Love” is the great conqueror of all.  It’s the best weapon to use to champion your campaign.  You will win every time. 

     Water in Jesus’ time was a powerful part of life that had to be relied upon from others in the desert.  Without it one would ultimately die and quickly, along with their cattle.  Having hunger and thirst was a parable of desiring the better things, or wealth in life.  God expects us to want those things, but also to ask Him for them or at the very least, have the faith, righteousness and love to know that all is ours because it is a part of our right-filled desires.  Those desires have been implanted in us to search for them.  It is God’s way to gather us back into his fold.

Questions to reflect upon:

1.  What are you thinking daily or minute by minute?

2.  Did you receive something unexpected recently?

3.  Do yu sit down and intentionally think about what you want in your life?

Affirmation time: 

There is no condemnation in me, for me or around me.  Divine Love now heals all critical attitudes toward others.  Divine Love now heals all critical attitudes toward me.