The Universe Is Now Taking Orders

Sometime last year I had experienced a bit of a rough patch. I was overcome by a depression ~ the likes of which I had not experienced before.

I lost interest in the things I liked to do.

Two months easily flew by without me even wanting to check my email, or chat with friends on an Internet group that I belonged to. I did not even want to go near a phone. (I never really liked the phone all that much anyway.)

Well, my on-line friends took notice.

And before long, they had gathered a bunch of "cheer-me-up" goodies and shipped them off to me.

One of the things in that box of cheer was an altered art journal, created by Took, this blog's number one fan and commentator.

Because this was a lovely journal, a thoughtful gift, AND a Took original, I wanted this book to serve a special purpose.

Months later this "special purpose" revealed itself to me.

This book was going to serve as a repository for my visions ~ the dreams I wish to manifest in my life ~ and as an aid to help me maintain my focus on these dreams.

The first several pages had images of the things I wish to manifest ~ wealth, a best seller, a successful business, and the transformation of my house into a fantasy dream home.

(Somehow, when I up-loaded this image, the blues and the yellows got switched. That's supposed to be a blue sky and yellow sunflowers. Go figure.)

This was going to be fun, because it meant that I was going to play around with editing and altering images on the computer.

So, gracing page one was a $1,000,000 check made out to me from the Bank of the Universe.

The next page had me practically buried in a pile of Benjamins.

Page 3 showed my N.Y. Times best seller, Wealth Happens.

On the next page was the entrance for my proposed business, Pixelektra Studio.

And the 5th page featured my fantasy dream home.

Yes, this is my actual home. And with a little bit of digital magic, I turned it into a place of my dreams. (Hey! I even "fixed" the roof!)

Accompanying these images were my words, gushing with gratitude, and thanking God for these many blessings.

Not one to stop there, I began making a list of all the other things for which I am grateful, such as my family ~ the two-legged, the four-legged, and even the no-legged, my strength and intelligence, my creativity, Winter's passing and Spring's arrival, etc.

Waiting to be started is a section devoted to things that can shift my mood from a negative to a positive state.

I still haven't worked on that section because I had not had the time.

But that is just as well; for while waiting for an occasion to work on that section, I had the insight and inspiration to include images in that section.

Scanner and computer, here I come!

I am a visually-oriented person. And what better way to focus my thinking and shift my mood than through images?

Focusing on the positive and on the pleasure my dreams bring me is a much better thing than to focus on the negative appearances that are presently in my line of sight.

Life is supposed to be fun.

Stuck In the Mud

Sometimes getting stuck in the mud is an unavoidable thing.

At times like that, I feel like shouting out, "Kick me please! Kick me in the butt now!"

This whole week has been one of laziness and avoidance.

Oh yeah, I was busy sitting on my belles fesses all week long in front of the computer. But doing what?

I should have been working on my business plan.

But, no.

Instead I was blasting off emails, reading and responding to posts on the two on-line groups that I belong to.

And I could not leave it at that.

Thanks to multiple tabs and the refresh button, I was bouncing back from site to site, commenting on whatever new post popped up.

Why was I doing this instead of maintaining my original intent to complete ~ and submit ~ my business plan and loan application by the end of this month?

I guess I am still dealing with the setback having learned that our tenuous financial situation is not going to be looked up favorably by those in power to make a decision on my small business loan application.

I am still trying to avoid focusing on the obvious outward appearances instead of the outcome I want. The outcome one focuses on is the outcome one will usually get. After all, that is what the Law of Attraction is all about. (Anybody who has seen or read The Secret will know what I am talking about.)

It makes sense.

As a human plopped down in a particular situation, all I can see is what is immediately around me.

It's like being shut inside a small room and not being aware of all the other rooms in the huge mansion. It's not being aware of the beautiful grounds surrounding the mansion. It's not being aware of the roads that take one from the mansion to many other amazing places.

I can only see the four walls around me.

I can only see my immediate situation.

But God, the Universe, or whatever you chose to call the Higher Power, can see much farther and beyond. God can see the infinite possibilities that I cannot.

The key is to have faith that those infinite possibilities do exist ~ just like I have the faith that in one month from now all the trees and shrubs will be covered with green leaves. The weather that I have been waiting for will be here.

It is not up to me to figure out how God is going to bring these infinite possibilities to me. My job is to believe and then get out of my own way when these possibilities finally do cross my path.