The Seal Of Approval
The seal of approval is upon me, and I am not condemned by the thought or act of man. I will fear no evil for I know that divine love controls my every act. Every fear of man is removed; the peace of my soul bears witness to truth. God approves of me.
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May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
The Night Is Filled With Peace
I wrap myself in the mantle of love and fall asleep, filled with peace. Through the long night peace remains with me, and at the breaking of the new day I am still filled with life and love. I go forth into the new day confident and happy. I rest in spirit.
-Ernest Holmes
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May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
Meditation
Slowly the balance shifts
From inner creativity
To outer manifestation.
Slowly my core of inner strength
Streams outward
Along my nervous system,
Bringing health and vitality
To the whole of my being.
The life in me prepares itself,
Strengthens itself
For the moment in the cycle
When it will overflow its bounds,
Surging toward a oneness
With all of life.
The Blessing
I evoke the forces of peace and harmony
And ask these forces
To prepare me as a channel
For their overlighting guidance.
My heart swells with thanksgiving
For a winter of inner preparation
Which will lead me to the first step
In becoming a channel for peace:
That of finding peace
Within my own being.
-Danaan Parry
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May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
The Inner Light
The light of heaven shines through me and illumines my path. The light eternal is my guide and my protection. In that light there is no darkness at all. It is a perfect light shining from the altar of perfect love. I welcome the universal light and love into my inner being. Light shines through me and illumines the way.
-Ernest Holmes
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May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
Quaerite Et Invenietis “Seek and you will find”
“There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed”
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”
-Dr. Seuss, ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’
“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
-George Carlin
Merry Christmas to all on this most wonderful day of the year! This morning children everywhere will rise early in anticipation of opening their gifts, brought the night before by Santa Clause. Families will be together to share the joy and love of the Christmas Spirit. Christmas is celebrated in different ways all over the globe on or around December 25th.
Here in the U.S., families decorate the outside of their homes with festive lights and displays. Inside, stockings are hung over the fireplace to be filled with goodies and the Christmas tree is adorned with lights and decorations, and surrounded by gifts to be opened on Christmas morning. Later – the family, gathered together from far and wide – have a traditional turkey feast. But how did we come to celebrate Christmas the way we do?
We know that Christmas is an annual festival solemnizing the birth of Jesus Christ (or Jesus the Christ). It’s a religious and cultural celebration observed by billions around the world.
The gospels of Luke and Matthew state that Jesus was born in Bethlehem to the Virgin Mary. The pregnant Mary and her companion Joseph traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census, Jesus being born there. The Angels then heralded him as a Savior for the world.
Although no date is given in the Bible, early Christians connected Jesus to the Sun with such phrases as “Sun (not Son) of righteousness.” The Romans marked the Winter Solstice on December 25th, consequently, the first recorded Christmas celebration was held in Rome on that date in 336 A.D.
The word Christmas is a shortened form of “Christ’s Mass.” The word is recorded as Christesmaesse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Christ is from the Greek Khristos, a translation of Hebrew Masiah or Messiah, meaning “anointed.”
The abbreviation ‘X-mas’ is based on the first letter Chi (x) in Greek Khristos. Christmas has been known by various names throughout history. Anglo-Saxons referred to the feast as “Mid-Winter”. In Old English Geola (Yule) referred to the period corresponding to December and January which eventually became Christian Christmas. Noel (or Nowel) entered English in the late 14th century from Old French Nael, ultimately from Latin Natalis, meaning ‘birth’.
Christmas is celebrated in many countries around the world including many non-Christian countries due to periods of colonial rule, for example; Hong Kong. Another reason would have been because of a countries Christian minorities, Japan is one such country, where Christmas is popular despite a small number of Christians. Many of these countries have adopted Christmas traditions such as gift-giving and decorating Christmas trees.
So that is the History of Christmas, but what about the true meaning of Christmas. I know sometimes here in the U.S. we forget what it is really about. Almost everybody here celebrates; even the atheists. It has become more of a commercial holiday, with the television news reporting more on how much Americans spent on the holidays than on stories about the real meaning.
We all know the real meaning of Christmas is to celebrate the birth of a great man whose life was dedicated to spreading a message of love and peace. We should remember that the tradition of gift-giving is about the act of giving, not receiving.
I love this quote from American author Steve Maraboli:
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
Let’s try to remember what it is all about this holiday season. Try to spread joy and love to those you encounter, and remember, it’s about a man two thousand years ago who just wanted us to all get along. Peace. In the words of Dickens’ Tiny Tim – “God bless us, everyone!
Merry Christmas
Joyeux Noel
Frohe Weinachten
Feliz Navidad
Buon Natale
Feliz Natal
Vrolijk Kerstfeest
Craciun Fericit
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narcdzenia
God Jul
Vesele Vanoce
Heri Ya Krismasi
Sheng Dan Kuai Le
Nollaig Shona Dhuit
Gozhgg Keshmish
*Please forgive any misspelling
May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Kelly Curtis
I Acquaint Myself with Peace
When we give a spiritual mind treatment, or affirmative prayer, we are recognizing the Presence of God in, around, and through us. It is this closeness of the Divine Presence that gives us the feeling of peace that is accompanied by a consciousness of power. And it is because we do believe that we can have this feeling, this inner conviction, this sense of certainty that all spiritual teachers have told us is necessary to effective living.
I know that there is a Power greater than I am. I know that there is a Love that casts out all fear. I know that there is a faith that overcomes all obstructions. I now enter into this love. I now use this faith and know a great peace of mind, a deep sense of belonging, a complete realization that God is right where I am.
I believe that the Spirit within me, which is God, makes perfect and peaceful the way before me. I enter into conscious union with everything that lives. I commune with the Spirit in all people and in all things. I feel an intimate relationship to the Presence and the Power that control everything. I put my whole trust in God. I know that the Spirit gently leads me, wisely counsels me. I know that the Love that envelopes everything flows through me to everyone and with it there goes a confidence, a sense of joy and of peace, as well as a buoyant enthusiasm and zest for life. There comes back to me today everything that make life worthwhile, everything that flows from the inner realm of fathomless Peace – the indwelling Presence of God.
-Ernest Holmes
May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
Meditation
As leaves fall to the earth
And surrender to the soil,
So I, too, move my attention
From my outward stance
To my inner Buddha nature.
The life in me flows back and forth
From exerting my will
To flowing with the Will of All.
And in this season of stillness,
My direction is clear
As I return unto my source.
The stillness calls to me.
The Blessing
The whispering of the candle flame
Invokes the peace within,
Reminding me of the quiet journey
That I seem to be on.
I have been given a peaceful heart
And a path to take me there.
May I joyfully take up this task
To reach the core of me,
And there to find all beings
Residing in my heart.
May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
Peace, Poise And Power Within
Peace, poise and power are within me, for they are the witnesses of the inner spirit of all truth, love and wisdom. I am at peace within, and all around me responds to that great calm of the inner soul which knows its rightful place in the All Good. Power is born from within me and passes into my experience without effort or labor. I rest in security and peace, for the inner light shines forth and illuminates the way. I rest in you.
-Ernest Holmes
May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
Morning
Today is a day to focus on the thoughts, ideas, and actions that contribute to my inner peace. I can deal with the winds of change only if I am at peace within myself. Today I banish all thoughts and actions that create disharmony. I am calm, physically and emotionally. Today, I radiate peace.
Evening
I know that I did my best today to focus on peace and calm, Tonight I rest knowing that my mind and spirit are peaceful. I can rest with a peaceful mind and face a new day tomorrow.
-From ‘A Daily Book Of Pagan Prayer’ by Megan Day
May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Seth Kelly Curtis
Quaerite Et Invenietis “Seek and you will find”
Today we celebrate our holiday of Thanksgiving here in the United States. People travel from all corners of the country to be with family and loved ones. Our Thanksgiving dates back to 1621 when a group of English Pilgrims in present day Massachusetts (US) shared a feast with a tribe of Native Americans to celebrate a plentiful harvest. Many countries worldwide have harvest related festivals, Canada, India, China, Malaysia and Korea are but a few. American Thanksgiving takes place on the fourth Thursday of November. It is a day that we pause from our hectic and sometimes selfish lives to give thanks for our blessings and to feast on wonderful turkey dinners.
I always try to be grateful for the blessings in my life, I have many, but sometimes I fall short. I honestly try. Every night I remember to thank God/The Universe for my many blessings, both large and small, during my nightly shower. Because I enjoy my hot shower so much, I realize what a blessing it is. Sometimes though, life gets in the way of twenty-four hour a day gratitude. I’ll complain to myself about my job, how my boss is an ungrateful grump. But I’ve gotten better with my gratitude lately and I’ll tell you why:
I recently saw a news story on television about people in Madagascar working in mica mines. These poor beautiful people work fourteen hour days, seven days a week, for very little money. They do all this on one bowl of rice a day and live in hovels. They do this because they have to in order to survive (mica, by the way, is used in your cell phone. Think about that when you use it).
After seeing this story, I vowed to try much harder to appreciate what I have, especially my job. It really has made my job a lot easier, knowing that I’m only going to work about eight hours, just five days a week. Then I get to go to a lovely home and woman, who has a nutritious and delicious dinner waiting for me. Afterwards I have a very comfortable bed to sleep in. All that being said, I’d like to make a list of the things I’m grateful for:
I’m grateful for my wonderful girlfriend and companion Erin, and the beautiful home she’s made and keeps for us.
I’m grateful for our wonderful, crazy dog Annie, and our cats Kayak, Keno and Milo (who lived in a woodpile until he adopted us).
I’m grateful for the food we always have.
For the clean water I can get any time I wish.
I’m grateful for our home, a warm and comfortable shelter (right now it’s raining outside and I’m warm and dry).
I’m grateful for my warm and comfortable bed.
I’m glad I live in a safe place in the world (so many don’t).
I’m grateful for my job and the income it brings in.
I’m grateful to my boss for the challenge of learning to love and accept people I wouldn’t normally want to be around.
My health is an enormous blessing.
I’m grateful for our car (it sure is easy to get to work).
For having the fitness to ride my bicycle to work when I do.
For friends and family.
I’m grateful to you for being interested in my blog, and having very interesting blogs yourself.
I know that I have it so much better than most on this beautiful planet (God bless those people).
Thank you God/Universe for all of my blessings both large and small.
Happy Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival to all!
May God bless and protect you and…
May you always be
Healthy, Happy
Safe and Comfortable
Kelly Curtis
