Is Lowell back home now? I can't wait to hear about his reaction to your "new" shape and glowing health. 
Let us know when you get the kinks worked out of that Lima bean fudge. I am intrigued and always game to try something new and different. My daughter in law has an interesting recipe for pumpkin fudge. I haven't tried it yet but It sounds pretty good...
Love 
Well, we understand just what you are saying! Well, I do, sorry for being pressumptious...got to stop doing that!Sandy wrote:
I am just sitting here thinking about what you asked each of us to do, to think about all the love we have in our life. The list is enormous and it is growing everyday. It seems that the more you love you send out, the more love seems to be returned to you. Or may be our ability to recognize the love that is all around us is greater. Whmmm... I am not sure what I am trying to say here?
Actually I witnessed something very similar while at an amusement park. We were waiting for a turn on the parachute ride. There was a man and his young boy already on the ride and the mans pants were hanging down a bit low. It was so funny to watch his very serious face, then observe his backside over and over... well ... you get the picture 
Thank you for that suggestion! I need all the help I can get to stay on track with a positive attitude an outlook. It isn't easy at this stage, although I can envisage a time when it will become a way of life. I am determined to follow through despite the little backslides that pop up from time to time.I'm working my way through the secret audiobook and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in reinforcing the secret lesson.
The sad thing was it was probably all captured on one of those memory photos they try to sale you at those places of torture! Poor little thing, been wearing reinforced one pieces ever since. :twisted: 
Got this message this morning...The Secret on Oprah
The Oprah show on The Secret was so successful that Oprah is hosting Michael Beckwith and me again on tomorrow's show!
Tune in to The Oprah Winfrey Show Friday, February 16th, for more in-depth coverage of The Secret. Also, be sure to watch Oprah After the Show on Saturday, February 17th, on Oxygen for even more coverage.
One of my daughters did a similar thing but it never stopped her from wearing skimpy bikinis 
Sandy wrote: I don't mind you posting Phil's lessons at all in fact I enjoy them very much!
...and last night when the day was over... finally over... I did exactly that. But you know once I got started expressing my gratitude and thanks for all of my blessings, I started asking for everyone I love to receive blessings, as well, and it was like I couldn't stop... I even asked for blessings for a couple of people who have ruffled my feathers (which always brings me reeling back to that forgiveness issue and I'll save that for some other time)... It is my understanding that one of the keys to the Law of Attraction is gratitude. And for the past week I've had a bit of a struggle with that too. Trying to find gratitude for the extreme cold weather, trying to find gratitude for the frozen septic lines while my husband is out of town, trying to find gratitude for the second 8" of snow followed on the heels by the next 12" and so on...Count your many blessing for all of the Love that you have in your life
I couldn't figure out what you were referring to Kim ..... along with a warm bed and pillow to lay my head on 
Well the first pair fits nicely even loose and the second pair fits... although not loose enough for my liking Today is the end of the fast... tomorrow I measure myself.... my son just came in and told me how proud he is of me and how I stuck to it to the end.... Wow that felt soo good to hear that from him and "sweet feed heavin' mama"
It's a beautiful gift! 
... Anyway, I did go and it was one crazy adventure, loads of laughs and sandbars... long story... don't ask. You should have seen my face, the first time before going down the river,when they told us we could not sit in the raft but had to sit on the edges and hold on with our legs... like riding a big pontoon horse.. so's we could help paddle... freaked me out at first... but by the end I was ready to go again.... and we did. I've got some funny pictures of it around here.. I'll post one up sometime soon.
That's right back atcha Sweet Spring Goddess Gaia 
But who of us have the knowledge to say there is not a Spiritual/supernatural force at work as the producers are suggesting?. We are all spiritual babies here just taking our first steps. If this group of people who produced this movie believe this with all their hearts, than more power to them to produce a documentary that will inspire others to be happier and better adjusted. I venture to say that each and every one of us differ in our spiritual views and our vision of God in some way. Some of us view God as a Father, some perhaps a mother, to some God is a being of light without gender, others a powerful force of love that surrounds and indwells each one of us, and some all of the above. In my opinion we are all right, for God works with all of us regardless of the name or our vision of him. All beings who love God and their siblings in return have help and inspiration from the Creator of us all. They have some desire in either small everyday ways of making life a little more pleasant for others or sometimes they find or are given opportunities to reach others on a larger scale. I think that the intent by the creators and producers of the Secret was pure and are done with love in the hopes of helping and reaching others who might have turned a blind eye to these truths otherwise. Many of us know of these principles already but knowing about them and having the tools sometimes to overcome the much easier negative tendancies is something altogether different. It is just too hard for some people, to know how to let go of our carefully cultivated fears and worries. This is where I very much applaud the secret because they showed us some surprisingly very effective and simple tools to combat our negative attitudes and actual feel the change of positive thinking as it affects our life. Anything that has even a romote possibility to bring positive change and love to our world is welcome by me.I just hate the point of how they use a supernatural focus to make people really get into this. It may be true, but in my oppinion, it's just trying to get you to focus on what is REALLY at hand here. And that is determination, and positive thinking.
I had frozen water lines once...not fun..I too learned the "ins and outs" of our crawlspace far better than I ever really wanted too. On a positive note, at least it was winter and we did not have to contend with giant Spiders the likes of which have not even been seen in the movie Aracnaphobia! (I butchered the spelling on that one) You know you are absolutely right! If you really think about everything that happens even the yucky things, you can find something positive lurking about all the unpleasantness. In that same spirit, I want to tell you all about something that happened to me yesterday. We woke up to an unusually warm and muggy day for this area. Of course this was the day that I had decided I must get the apartment complexes grass mowed. With the extra rain we had finally received earlier in the week the grass had suddenly shot up in leaps and bounds and with the teeny tiny push mower the landloard gave me to complete the task, I knew it would be now or never. After an hour or two of plugging away I was feeling hot, weak and dejected. Then I began thinking about positive thinking and my mind drifted to more spiritual contemplations. It was then I noticed a large shadow pass over me. I looked up to see a large Wedgetail eagle flying low perhaps fifty sixty feet. While I watched with wonder he almost stopped mid flight and turned to fly back over the yard. There he stayed flying always in a very tight circle turning his head to always keep me in view. I waved to him in childlike delight and it was then I noticed his mate flying a little higher following his lead and doing the same thing. Beyond that was something else I have seen only twice before, both times when I was also thinking some deep(for me anyway.) spiritual thoughts.. It was small circular rainbow in a bright blue sky. That along with these two magnificent eagles circling in the foreground...Well I can imagine how Noah must have felt! It was then I thanked God for the long green grass that brought me outside on this warm muggy day, with out which I would have missed this wondrous site. 
and I've missed you all so much!!! and feel just plain awful as a parent.....
