From Gratitude to Grace by Gail Isabell Klein

From Gratitude to Grace

Evolved people give thanks for life, for the intelligence within the body temple, within nature, for what most people don’t even notice as they navigate through their day.

Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith

First, we are taught to list what we are grateful for with specificity and detail: Sipping herbal tea by a hot fire on a cold night.  My cat curled in my lap.  Sunset at the ocean on a slightly cloudy day, bursting with color.

To start in gratitude shifts our focus out of any sense of lack or hurt into appreciation, which expands our hearts, opens and softens us to our own inner spacious loving aware sense of self.

Gradually, we expand on the journey—listening more deeply and opening to whatever is happening now—this here is what I am grateful for.  This pain in my side, that causes me to do stretches, breathe more deeply, sit with myself, eat more healthily, take a walk.  This feeling I have: sad, hurt, angry, scared.  I am grateful for this deepening, expanding, growing, for where I was closed is asking for more awareness.

In those moments when what is appearing is not at all what we want from our personal self sense —resisting  and demanding things be different—means we are closing off some part of life and saying this is not worthy of love. When truly, love is the essence and first cause of all that is.

As the shift to accepting what is happens, even what we don’t prefer, all becomes grace. Because the power and the presence and the love that is our true nature is unlimited.  When we embrace everything with our loving gaze—even our resistance to what is, we open to the spaciousness of an open loving heart that preexists the outside situations needing to change at all.

Here is the true heart.  Here is the advanced gratitude training.   Grace takes over.  Grace—in which we are grateful for everything exactly as it is.

Affirmation:

Today I am grateful for my life exactly as it is.  I see all the beauty, all the love, all the wonder in everything.  My growth becomes my flow in grace.

Gail Isabelle Klein

Agape Affirmation November 14th

The presence of God emerges in mighty and marvelous
ways through me!
I am a carrier wave of infinite possibilities!
My life is ablaze with beauty, health and wholeness!
The quality of abundance is activated within me right now!
Peace is the seed thought of all my actions!
Gratitude is the song of my soul! So be it! Amen!

Agape Affirmation November 7th

The presence of God emerges in mighty and marvelous ways through me!
I am a carrier wave of infinite possibilities!
My life is ablaze with beauty, health and wholeness!
The quality of abundance is activated within me right now!
Peace is the seed thought of all my actions!
Gratitude is the song of my soul!
So be it! Amen!

Agape Affirmation October 31st

All things are working together for my good! Right here! Right now!
Encoded with genius capacity I am inspired and inspiring!
All is well with my body, mind and spirit!
My whole life is a love filled event in God consciousness!
The power of this awareness sets me free to be me!
Gratefully I let it be! And so it is! Amen!

Agape Affirmation October 24th

The presence of God within me makes all things possible in my life!
Love, peace and joy exude from the very center of my being!
Divine health and wholeness radiate as my body temple!
My whole life is saturated in plentitude and gratitude!
I declare, I decree and I am free!
And so be it! Amen!

Agape Affirmation October 17th

Every day I begin again in the full awareness of my oneness in God!
A powerful field of love connects me to my heart’s desires!
A fountain of God consciousness informs and inspires me!
Gratitude rises up and overflows my life!
Today I free my heart, open my soul and let the God times roll!
And so it is! Amen!

Bring on the Light by Rev. Karen Wylie

Bring on the Light!
This morning I awoke to these words and wrote them down on the tablet beside my bed.  I knew it was a message from God. Bring on the light my Beloveds!  Do not, for a moment, think that you and your light and love make no difference in this worry weary world.  We must continue to do our work as never before no matter what it looks like on the outside.
Our work is deep now because we are in these times of great change and transformation.  It may take some time to see the effect of the inner work you are doing in this current reality because everything is inside out and upside down.
Know this…you make a difference when you stay anchored in the truth of your being.  You make a difference when you choose the light and cast your love out into the world.  You have come for times exactly like these.  Look to God for your inspiration and joy.  Look for the beauty everywhere in everything.  That which is eternal never changes.  Stay faithful to your spiritual practice and look to God for the answers you seek no matter the circumstance.  Surrender your need to know.  Be willing to live in the unknown, trusting constantly that God will see you through in all circumstances.  Look up Beloveds!  Remember your source!  Everything you need is here now!  Look up!

Agape Affirmation October 10th

Everything about me proclaims the good of God almighty!
Peace by peace the beloved community is anchored through me!
I live in alignment with God’s big idea for my life!
My miracle consciousness blesses everyone I meet!
Divine and compelling right action orders my days and my ways!
Gracefully and gratefully I let it be!
And so it is! Amen!

Agape Affirmation October 3rd

I am rooted in the rich soil of God consciousness!

The fire of my imagination ignites the divine potential within me!

A perfect pattern of absolute wholeness shapes and forms my body temple!

The high vibration of unconditional love supports all of my relationships!

I am forever expanding, forever evolving, forever revealing God!

Gratefully I live these words of truth! And so it is! Amen!

Agape Affirmation September 26th

I am made whole in the image and likeness of God!
My actions are rooted in peace, wrapped in love and expressed with excellence!
Avenues of creativity flow to me from the mind of God!
Gratitude wells up and saturates every area of my life!
Plenitude is my natural state of being! I give and receive in God!
Joyfully I let it be! So be it! Amen!