February, with the celebration of Valentine's Day, has at least one day expressly dedicated to expressing our love, passion and joy, so I thought we would use that as our theme for this month's prosperity thoughts.
This Sunday, Matt Boggs and his best friend, Jason Miller (boyhood friends since third grade), will be presenting a talk on their passion: Project Everlasting Love. What on one level seems so incongruous, (two bumbling bachelors in their mid 20's on a quest to find the secrets to a life-long love from couples married 40 years or more), is also a perfect reminder of some key prosperity principles.
First and foremost: When we have "suffered" some deep pain, there is always an opportunity to transmute this suffering into a blessing that serves Life. In this case, Matt's mom and dad divorced when he was a young teenager and it impacted him traumatically and deeply. Their divorce shook up his whole world view and at the same time, ripened him for the Divine Idea that was just around the corner- to
co-create Project Everlasting Love.
Second: Repeated failure in an area in which we have deep passion and interest is merely seasoning for our eventual success. Matt, as he will tell you on Sunday, had a profound desire for a perfect relationship and never gave up, even though his dating and searching for a life mate has left him heartbroken time and time again. Since,
as we teach, "it is all good", if it is not seeming to be good, it is not done yet...and so, following this teaching, Matt has not given up on his dream of a perfect mate. Instead he has embraced it even more fully. In that process, he learned a few things about realistic expectations and unrealistic expectations and, hence, matured into
someone who is ripe for eventual success in relationship.
Third: When we are invited into a Divine Idea, we say "Yes!"-- even when we do not know how to take the next step forward. The "Oh-no!-How-can-I-possibly-do
offhand comments that lead us to the next step, and the next step after that. We will never ever run out of ideas so long as we have passion and joy around our life. Passion and joy attract energy like a magnet and energize people to support us with suggestions and help from every imaginable source. Matt did not know how to write a book or make a movie-- he just had the idea to call his best friend, Jason, and pitch this zany, crazy, off-the-wall adventure to him. Jason, who had never even thought of this kind of project a moment before, found himself saying "Yes!"-- and off they were to their next step of stringing together idea after idea in pursuit of manifesting
their Divine Idea.
Fourth: When we are in the Divine Flow, we can let go of results, knowing that Divine Order is bringing out all the love and passion and joy each step along the way. Since we do not really know how to implement this Divine Idea called life, we can just let go and allow Spirit to respond to us with an ever-more-abundant flow of joy,
passion and love. We can let go of our old ideas of how it should look, and enjoy the ride... knowing that our good is with us each step of the way.
Finally, we must, if we are going to live a life of joy, passion and love, say "yes" to that which we love and enjoy, and which expresses our passion. Matt and Jason were faced with hundreds of small decisions in their journey to bring Project Everlasting to fruition. They had lots of small time rejections or apparent detours and yet still said "yes" over and over again to the Divine Idea. This made the project more of an adventure and less of a trek, and the result was that there were many synchronistic events that enriched their lives and inspired their creative juices.
If you want a richly rewarding life, then start by saying "yes" to Divine Ideas, and continue to say "yes" to Divine Ideas, and never stop saying "yes" to Divine Ideas because You are a Divine Idea perfectly expressing your love passion and joy.
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