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When a child has a dream and a parent says, “It’s not financially feasible; you can’t make a living at that; don’t do it,” we say to the child, run away from home… You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don’t. Your dream may change, but you’ve got to stay after your dreams. You have to.

Excerpted from a workshop in Asheville, NC on Sunday, May 1st, 2005

All Is Well
Abraham-Hicks

You are really individual beings, with very special talents, and it would be nice if teachers had the time, or parents had the awareness or skill, to see the children as the very individual, very special beings that they are. So that rather than trying to drum them into one category, they are, instead, appreciating the special insight that each child brings to the sea of diversity and contrast which is the stuff that creation comes from.

Excerpted from a workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 13th, 1997

All Is Well

I have been listening to a lot of Byron Katie (Katie to those who know her) as of late, due no Abraham CDs coming for some reason. (I will have to call and check up on that soon.)

The most recent one I have been listening to is Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life . I think this may have actually saved my sons from quite a bit of berating and yelling and screaming.

Around 1pm yesterday, I got a really angry phone call from my husband calling me home from work. It was an early release day from school and the boys, 5 1/2 and 7 1/2, apparently decided it was a good idea to play in the upstairs bathroom sink and flood the place out. I did the work on the issue as I drove.

“The boys shouldn’t have been playing in the water in the sink. They should have known better.”

Is that true? Can you know that it is absolutely true?

Well no, I guess not, but dang, I wish it was.

The reality of it is that they did and “It is What It Is”. That is the reality of the situation. My thoughts about it all can torment me or not. In this moment right now, I can think about it in a way that didn’t cause me stress. I prefer it that way.

In my wildest dreams, I could not have envisioned the scene of what was to meet me at home.

The bathroom, that the boys were in, was upstairs. The water had soaked through the floor and was dripping from the ceiling in the living room. There was water pouring out of every light fixture and the paint was bubbling up like small balloons on the ceiling. Holy crap! The water had traveled all the way across the living room and was pouring out of a seam and onto our large screen TV and our Wii. The total dollar amount of damage done is still to be determined. Wow.

I was oddly calm about all of this. We had a water damage company on site within the hour and had filed a claim with the insurance agency. We now have heavy duty heaters and fans running in the upstairs bathroom and in the living room. It is very much like being on a plane seated on a wing aisle. I thought we would have had problems sleeping, as the fans are under and right next to our bedroom, but it turns out that the fans work wonderfully as white noise generators.

I did have a little chuckle about all of this as I was out driving to take my dog her things at the kennel. We are currently in the process of having our kitchen redone. We have had to move everyone into the office / spare kitchen area. The very SMALL space. I have come to realize how large my personal space bubble really is! I had been complaining about how cramped we are and how I wanted the kitchen to be done (it will be absolutely gorgeous when it is done!). I have been griping about not enough space, on a very regular basis. Doesn’t surprise me, in hindsight, that something happened that makes even less space!!

The children desire freedom! And every particle of their being from their Source says, “You are free. You are so free, that every thought you offer, the entire Universe jumps to respond to it.” And so, to take that kind of knowledge and try to confine it in any way, defies the Laws of the Universe. You must allow your children to be free, because the entire Universe is set up to accommodate that. And anything you do to the contrary will only bring you regret. You cannot contain those that cannot be contained. It defies Law.

Excerpted from a workshop in Atlanta, GA on Sunday, September 19th, 1999

All Is Well