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1. A Strange Burden
Bendra was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was very
scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff .In spite of her fear; she put
on gear, took a hold on the rope, and started up the face of that rock. She got to a ledge
where she could take a breather .as she was hanging on there, the safety rope snapped
against eye and knocked out her contact lens. It happened so quickly and without
warning. Here she was , on a rock ledge, with hundreds of feet below her and
hundreds of feet above her. Brenda was scared. she was far away from home, and
now she could not see well with her blurry vision . Upset and desperate, she sent up a
prayer. When she finally got to the top , a friend examine her clothing for the lens ,
but it was not there . Brenda looked out across the mountain ranges , remembering
a Bible verse : “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro a throughout the whole earth .”
she thought ,” Lord, you know these mountains well and every stone and leaf .You must
know exactly where my contact lens is. Please help me. “She cried softly to herself before
starting on the trip back. Finally, the group walked a down the trail to the bottom. A new
party of climbers was just starting up the face of the cliff. One of them shouted out, “Hey,
you guys! Did anybody lose a contact lens?” Well, that would be startling enough, but you
know where the climbers saw it? An ant a was moving slowly across the face of the
rock, carrying it on its back! When she told her father the incredible story of the ant,
prayer and lens, he drew a picture of ant lugging that contact lens with the words,”Lord, I
don’t know why you want me to carry this thing. I can’t eat it, and it’s awfully heavy. But if
this is what you want me to do, I’ll carry it for you.” I think it would probably do some of us
good to occasionally say, “God, I don’t know why you want me to carry this load. I can see
no good in it and it’s awfully heavy. But if you want me to carry it, I will.”

2. Love Yourself
Your thoughts create your reality because your thoughts determine how you respond
to situations in life. Those responses are the energy you have inside of you to give away. If
you feel anger, it’s because you have anger energy in your body. Like everything in our
universe, your thoughts are a form of energy. Everything that you feel and experience is the
result of what I call attractor energies. This means that you get back what you put into the
world. Thus, what you have attracted to you is what you have to give away to others.
Low energy attracts low energy. Some of the low energy thoughts are anger, hate,
shame, guilt and fear. Not only do they weaken you, but they attract more of the same. By
changing your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace
and joy, you’ll attract more of the same. These higher and faster frequencies that empower
you, will automatically nullify and dissipate the lower energies in the same way that the
presence of light makes darkness disappear.
The Irony of Giving
If you want to give a dozen oranges to your neighbor as an expression of love, you
obviously would need to be in possession of 12 oranges… Likewise, you can’t give love away
to others if you don’t have any for yourself. You can’t show respect for others if you lack
self-respect. You can’t give happiness if you are unhappy. And of course, reverse is true…
you can only give away what you do have and all that you are giving away daily are items
from your own personal inventory. If you give away hatred, it’s because you’ve hatred inside
you to give away… this concept is simplified by a description of squeezing an orange. When
you squeeze an orange, you’ll always get orange juice to come out. This is true, regardless
who does the squeezing, what time of day you squeeze, or what circumstances surround the
orange squeezing. What comes out is what’s inside. The same logic applies to you. When
someone squeeze you, puts pressure on you, or says something critical; and out of you comes
anger, hatred, bitterness, tension, depression, it’s because that’s what inside. The irony is
that you can’t give away what you don’t have because you always giving what you do have
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