Blog 422 – 10.02.2016

I think each of us is the author of this dream we call life. We create it daily by the vision of what we want that we hold in our thoughts. If you want your life to be better, happier, more fun. Think better thoughts.

If you are constantly dwelling on fearful, worrisome, or negative thoughts that is the only material that you are providing the Universe with which to make your dreams come true.

Three years ago I was on a job in Detroit, Michigan I met a Utility Inspector who had a very positive outlook on life. When anyone asked him how he was doing he would reply with a smile, “I’m living the dream.” What a contrast to: “Well, I’m here.” Or worse some list of aches or complaints. Honestly most folks dream or life sounds more like The Perils of Pauline than the abundant life Jesus spoke of as possible to each and all.

By the way, the question, “How are you?” Is seldom asked as a request to hear a list of your troubles. It is most of the time used as the song It’s A Wonderful World says:

“I see friends passing by saying, ‘How do you do?’
They’re really saying, ‘I love you!’ And I sing to myself, ‘What a wonderful world.'”

I say this is your dream, make it a sweet one. My parents argued so much in their forty seven years together that their marriage seemed more like Holy Deadlock than Holy Wedlock. But they did have one little custom that always made me smile. I often heard my Daddy say to my Mama at night and she back to him, “Sweet Dreams.” They often would say it as well to my brother and I. I say it to you, “Sweet Dreams.”

Try to hold the sweetest dream of what you truly desire in your mind. The next time some one asks,  “How are you?” pause a moment, think of that vision and see your dream coming true, smile your sweetest smile, and say, “I’m living the dream.”

I thought of a dream that I want to hold on to and to see visualized this morning. In my dream I see you, that alone makes me smile, and many of your friends and neighbors reaching for your morning coffee or juice and clicking on your lap top or smart phone for your daily dose of theencouragingword.co

Those who teach visualizing or intending say you should concentrate on what you want not on what you don’t want, hold that thought, that sweet dream, and then say aloud, “So be it and it is so.” That my Jewish, Christian, Islamic, other and, religiously unaligned friends is the literal meaning of the word Amen. So visualizing, intending is like a prayer. My favorite Bible verse about prayer is, “Ask whatsoever you will, believing, and you shall receive it.” Someone has said, If you can see it you can be it. Are you living the dream? I am, too,  and how sweet it is.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White