Remember that I Is For Inspiration

Looking inside yourself and trying to find ways to make everything around you work can be as simple as learning how to make inspiration work for you. With the proper inspiration, you can bring everything in your life together while making it work for you in a way that can make your life whole again. Since life is full of passion and exploration, find the many things in your life that can help you bring your world to a completely new level.

If you find that there are several prayers or reading that seem to motivate you, these may be just a few of the things that really get your energy flowing on a positive level. Once you think about it, the more positive you are, the more you will be inspired to move and try new and exciting things. The more you try, the more you will prosper.

When you do find that you are stuck in a place where you are not finding much inspiration, the answer may be found with a few simple words of prayer. You could even look to the outside world at several places that are beautiful and speak to you on the many different levels of your soul. If you let it guide you, prayer and inspiration could become the key to unlock a whole new world of opportunities that will shape your life and fill it with meaning and purpose that will leave you feeling whole and fulfilled.
 posted by Friends of Leah   

The Act of Forgiving

Many people have this one all mixed up. When someone hurts you or otherwise commits and act that harms you, your property or your loved ones in some way - the key to a healthy spiritual outlook is to forgive them.

Forgiving doesn't mean to forget the event ever happened, invite that person back into your live strongly or give them another opportunity to harm you. It means that you should simply realize they really don't know the hurt they cause with their actions and to pray for that person to be filled with the Divine and understand what they are doing. It doesn't mean that you forget it - it means you understand.

Another way to look at it is to consider the old Christian addage of "Turning the other cheek"; many people interpret that to mean that Christians should allow themselves to be victimized time and again. However it really means to not harbor animosity or walk around "hating" someone for something they have done. The idea is to let those negative feelings go and move on.
It doesn't mean bring that situation into your life again and again.

Believe that you will be taken care of, you will be healed and when someone hurts you - pray for them to awaken with a sense of their fellow man and stop hurting others. It only takes belief and prayer.
 posted by Friends of Leah   

Anger Hurts You

Are you angry at life for not giving you the same opportunities that you see other people enjoyed? Did you know your anger might be the very thing that is holding you back in life?

It's easy to lay blame on a God that doesn't really care or doesn't really listen to the people down here. It's easy to say that you don't make a lot of money because you didn't go to college or your parents didn't care enough to help you save to go to a university.

However, once childhood is over, it is time to take things into your own hands and stop blaming everyone and everything for your lack of success. A lot of it might be your anger holding you back. It can be very comfortable to wallow in your own self pity that no one cares and why should you even try to make a success out of yourself?

The reason is simple, because with a little effort - you can do it. There are a huge number of people that have overcome staggering odds to become successful in the fields and industries that they believed in. If you truly believe that an idea as merit - pursue it. As the Divine to help lay a path for you to walk - no one ever said it would be easy but in turning your anger into action - you will accomplish great things for yourself.
 posted by Friends of Leah   

Praying for.....

What do you pray for? Do you feel that your prayers are not heard? Did you know that sometimes the answer to prayers isn't "No" but sometimes it is simply "Not now".

Make sure that you're praying for the right reasons. It's not right to ask the Divine to miracle money into your bank account or a passionate person into your life. God is not an order filler. However, it would be fine to pray for a way to make more money or to find a way to meet someone special in your life. Then when those doors open, be ready to walk through them. If the job that came your way wasn't the high powered entrance into the corporate world you dreamed of, take what you're given. There is a reason for everything. Perhaps you're being placed in a lesser position so you will encounter someone that of importance that can see you shine.

There's a method to everything that God does it is up to you to walk with Him and let Him enrich your life. But He will not do the work for you. When you make a request, be prepared to work for it and earn it and when you're not ready to do so, don't say God doesn't listen - he merely said "Not now" because you weren't willing to work for what you asked for - at least not for now.
 posted by Friends of Leah   

Listen to Your Angels and Be an Angel

Did you know that you're surrounded by angels all the time? Not just the ones that are Heaven sent either - but in your daily life. People that help, encourage and love you can all be considered angels in your life. If you drop something and someone stops in their tracks to help you pick it up, you have just had a brief and small encounter with an angel on earth. When you're feeling blue and someone goes out of their way to make your feel better - you just had an angelic encounter.

Be an angel yourself, when you see someone that needs help, it can be as small as holding open a door for someone that needs a little extra help to staying up all night listening to a friend unload her troubles. The secret is to be there for the other person.

Give without expecting anything in return. You don't have to give money or anything material. Just give your own good feelings and a little time to helping others and you will see big changes around yourself.

Just as darkness can not exist in light, being positive will actually make negativity unable to live around you. Negative people are repelled by the positive and when you're a positive person doing positive things, you'll find that the old friends that were kind of a drag on your existence won't come around as much? Why is that? The answer is simple, because if they can not make your miserable and feed off your misery, they aren't interested.

When you become a person that is truly there for others, you'll find yourself described as "an angel" often and you know what? They're right!
 posted by Friends of Leah