I’m a big Richard Curtis fan.  I just love his writing and his movies.  Love Actually is one of the most well known – especially at this time of year.  And there are others:

• Four Weddings and A Funeral
• About Time
• Pirate Radio
• Girl In the Cafe
• Yesterday
• Notting Hill
• Bridget Jones Diary
• And many more lesser known works

If you haven’t seen one of them, but you enjoyed Love Actually, I encourage you to check them out.  The writing is always sweet, quirky and smart.  There’s also the TV series Vicar of Dibley, which is beloved in the UK and less well known elsewhere and completely hilarious, especially to me as a minister.

Love Actually’s core message is that Love actually IS all around.

It shows itself in all kinds of ways and let’s not compare.  Compare and despair is not our way.

When every single one of us is having a unique expression of God’s perfection, what’s the point of comparing?

Each relationship we have is to help us with our spiritual growth and development.  If our relationships didn’t sometimes challenge us would we even value them?

My most challenging relationships have provided me the biggest healing opportunities.

When we feel like we’re suffering, that’s when we can feel we’ve got a strong attachment that’s coming up to our attention for healing.  If we’re trying to eliminate the pain by trying to change the situations and circumstances of our life instead of healing the attachment, then we’re missing the opportunity for healing.  

Just think, our Higher Holy Spirit Self has carefully planned a major opportunity for healing and we’re thinking there’s something wrong in the world that needs to be fixed instead of our stinking thinking.

When we’re trying to shift things in the world of form, density, then we’re missing the point.  Sigh.  Spirit just has to set up another opportunity to get our attention.

It’s a little like there’s a bus to take us from heaven to hell and we’re waiting at the bus stop, the bus pulls in, doors open and we’re busy trying to fix the bus stop because there’s a leak in the roof.  We don’t even see that the bus is there to carry us away.

Challenges highlight the opportunity to shift our thinking and GET ‘ER DONE!  It’s the thinking that needs to change AND THEN the circumstances, situations, and relationships will change.  We need to start at the level of cause not the level of effect in order to be successful in healing.

We’re so trained to work on shifting things “out there” instead of “in here,” in our thinking.  

This Christmas, let’s give ourselves the gift of remembering that everything works together for our good – everything is FOR us, nothing is against us.  Everything is helpful.  Even Covid.  Everything.  Even cyclone bomb storms and power outages.  Everything.

And all attachments cause suffering.

All suffering is born of a false belief.

All beliefs are false.

Love is the only healer.

Love is what we are.

We are here only to be truly helpful.

The kingdom IS within.

And Love actually is all around, and within.

We can let go of the painful past and release the compulsive fearful thinking.  Dissolving difficult thought patterns is the kind of work we do in Masterful Living.  It’s deeply healing to us individually and to those around us, because we share the same mind.

And that’s why so many relationships are healed, families mended and transformed for the participants of Masterful Living.  Come join us this coming year!  Why wait?

You can book an Exploratory Call with one of the spiritual counselors to discuss any questions you have about Masterful Living and that’s a free call!

Are you SO ready to have a new experience in the new year? We’re doing the deep transformation and the healing is happening in our lives! If you’d like to join me in my year-long Masterful Living Course 2023, then please click here to learn more now.

Would you like a spiritual mentor to support you in building trust and faith? Are you ready to have a different experience in the new year and stop repeating the same painful patterns? We’re doing the deep work and the healing is revealing itself in our lives! If you’d like to join me in my year-long Masterful Living Program then please click here to learn more now.  

My next Masterful Living Bonus Class is on January 2nd – New Year Reboot. If you’re willing, I’m willing. If this is right for you, you WILL know it. In my year-long Masterful Living Course a number of people have healed their depression, gone off anti-depressants, let go of old hurts and sadness that has troubled them for many years. They have accomplished what they never believed they could do, because they gave themselves a chance, and they didn’t give up. You can do it too.

MY LATEST ACIM PODCAST EPISODE:  My topic is Family Conflict Elimination. Grief can grab us and pull us under.  It’s no joke.  It feels like a living hell.  And yet, we can use it to have deep and abiding healing.

New Year Reboot – 5 classes, starting January 2nd.  Please click here to learn more now.