One of my friends, Rickie Byars-Beckwith, is not only an incredible singer but a great songwriter.
She wrote a song once entitled, “I am choosing heaven today”. I truly believe the idea that we can choose the state we want to live from.
One verse from Rickie’s song is: “I am choosing heaven today, I am choosing heaven today, I am walking the road of heaven right now. I am choosing heaven today. I am choosing joy today. I am choosing joy today. I am walking the road of joy right now. I am choosing joy today. I am choosing peace. I am choosing”.
We can also choose resentment and walk the road of resentment right now. We can walk the road of regret right now.
We can walk the road of anxiety or worry or fear. We get to choose. That is God’s gift to us.
May this be a day where we choose and choose well.
Here’s To Your Right To Choose,
Mary Morrissey
Robert Louis Stevenson once said this:
Do not measure success by today’s harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
Measure your success not by what you are harvesting in this day, but by the seeds you are planting this day. What a great shift. What a great idea and what a great miracle that brings to any of us who will focus on it.
So, go on now… make today successful. Plant great seeds in your thoughts, actions and words.
Happy Planting,
Mary Morrissey
There was a time when I was leaving Seattle and driving to the airport fairly early in the morning. I looked out to where I normally see Mt. Rainier and there was just nothing. The clouds had obscured this huge mountain.
I thought if you didn’t know a big mountain was right there you would think there was no mountain. Meanwhile, there is this huge magnificent presence right there but simply obscured by the clouds.
I thought how often in my own life the Presence is obscured by the clouds of worry, regret or concern. Meanwhile, there is magnificent presence of love and guidance and power and peace that is right here.
If there are any clouds in the sky of your mind or your heart today know this: that behind those clouds there is a powerful Presence. That Presence loves you and has called you to life.
With Peace & Blessings,
Mary Morrissey
Mother Theresa said we don’t need to do great things. Instead she urged us to do small things with great love.
I don’t know what you are going to be doing with the rest of your day. But, I know this: that you and I can make a decision right now to amplify the love we bring into the things we are doing.
The true nature of yourself is all love. It’s yours. Claim it. Walk in this love and come from this love today.
We don’t have to do great things. Do small things with great love.
With Great Love,
Mary Morrissey
The Greeks have seventeen words of different meaning but they are all a form of love. In English we just have one word.
A friend of mine who is a singer/songwriter, Ricky Byers-Beckwith, has a line in her song that I have used many, many times to remind myself of the power of love. When there is a circumstance or a situation that I am concerned about or worried about or troubled by I remind myself of this line.
“In the end, love will have the final word”
Today, you can create a miracle of love’s presence in your life. Just remember, that in the end love will have the final word.
With Love,
Mary Morrissey
I would like to invite you to do an experiment with me. Take a deep breath right now, then let it out.
Henry David Thoreau said I want to do an experiment of learning to live in not only appreciation of, but connection with, the stream of life; the current of life that is moving through me.
Now that current, as long as we are breathing, it is no respecter of age. It isn’t a stronger current when we are young and a narrower current with age… it is life. There is not less life in you today than there ever was. But there can be an opportunity to appreciate and connect with the stream of your own life more today.
I invite you several times today, to join me in taking a few deep breaths. Notice at a cellular level that it activates an awareness and a connection to the stream of life; that life current that is moving through.
There is something wonderful called life happening in us right now.
Living Full Out,
Mary Morrissey
The Native Americans believed that God has a plan for the north, the south, the east, the west and the very center not only of the earth, but of us as well.
I would like to invite you to consider that there are mysteries and miracles to be discovered as we open our hearts and our minds to what people from different lands have to offer us. Those people from different lands may be living in your back yard.
Of the people all around you today every one has found, or is finding their own way. There are many teachers wherever we look.
To Your Discovery,
Mary Morrissey
In India there are millions of people that seem to have a way of living in harmony, even in such a large, crowded group of people. They have this peace and harmony because they have developed a certain way of being.
As you and I go through our lives, at times we want to fight the chaos. But, there is a way of being, even in the midst of things, where there is a center point within us.
This is a place of peace and calm that really comes from the place Jesus called the kingdom. He said there will always be tribulation in the world but be of good cheer because I have overcome this world.
I would suggest that no matter what you face, there is a way to find that still point within. Get quiet. Enter into prayer. Find answers and walk through this day in harmony.
With Peace and Harmony,
Mary Morrissey
God doesn’t live in the future or the past. God dwells in the eternal now. Jesus said the kingdom of Heaven is within you, not then. Don’t go looking here or there for it; the kingdom of heaven is within you.
Right now is a moment to make contact with this eternal realm that dwells in us. A question we can ask that helps us stay in touch with that part of ourselves, where we can feel God’s presence and know God’s power is this: God what would you have me be right now?
We are not asking what would you have me do, so much, but what would you have me be? An idea will come. Sometimes it’s helpful. Sometimes it’s optimistic. Sometimes it’s patient. There are always qualities of God that Spirit is seeking to develop in us, grow in us and express through us more fully.
On this wonderful day, a day of life, a great gift from God can be found… Dear God, in this life, in this moment what would you have me be?
Many Blessings,
Mary Morrissey
I hope today you will make a decision to stay inspired. When you stay inspired you are harmonious with ideas and resources. Resources will present themselves to show you exactly the next step to take for the visions you are holding.
The truth is, there has never been a better time to stay inspired because the virus of problem is everywhere around. You can be in flu season and not get the flu. You can absolutely have your immune system so strong that you walk through flu season and you stay healthy.
Remember, right where we are, God is.
Here’s To Inspiration,
Mary Morrissey
