The Clear and Simple Way

December Message 2008

HAPPINESS

Here we are, in the last month of this year, approaching 2009 and I invite you to enter the New Year Being Present! Here! Alive! Awake! Aware! Now!

In this Holiday season, a gentle reminder to stay in the love in your heart and spend your energy wisely, remembering that love is the greatest gift and that it is important to respect yourself and your money so that you live within your means and do not place unnecessary burdens upon your finances or create debt that you will only have to repay later. Your love is all that you are and it is enough. You are enough!

If you find yourself feeling lonely or stressed, desiring to give gifts that you cannot afford, or receive gifts that are not coming your way, you are invited to remind yourself, "I am enough!" If you experience any sense of lack, loss, or limitation, remind yourself, "I am enough!" You are enough!

As the angels say: The only thing you have to share with anyone is your own state of being! The peace of your being is a wonderful gift to share with others. Many people want to help uplift the world and yet live in such anxiety that this is what they end up sharing. We can uplift the world only to the degree that we live expansive, uplifted lives.

As you may have heard, this wisdom of the angels is now supported by recent scientific studies that tell us that happiness is contagious! And happiness leads to less stress and improved health at every level!

". . . researchers found that when an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person's happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only their friends, but their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends. The effect lasts for up to one year."

As I wrote in A Message For Our Times: We must recognize that our Oneness is not just in a spiritual sense - it is a Oneness with God - with all of humanity - with the very earth we walk upon, with every blade of grass, every star, every stone left unturned, every starving child, every laughing child, every sound a small kitten makes, everything we are - it is all God. Only through our recognition of this can we know freedom.

And so, this Christmas season, please remember that you are enough. And so is every other human being. There is enough. There is no need to grasp for or cling to anything. The greatest gift we can give another is our own state of peace. When we can accept that we are enough, we can also accept that someone else is enough. Acceptance of what IS leads to peace.

Thank you for being with me in the presence of angels throughout the messages we have shared in 2008. I look forward to sharing even more with you in 2009. The monthly messages for 2009 will be devoted entirely to angels in all their God inspired glory. Whether or not you "believe" in angels, simply reading about these compassionate beings of light can inspire and guide you in your recovery from the dis-ease of ego.

Happy Holy Days