http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/index.xml ExpectGood Inspirations en-us Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:08:23 EST Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:08:23 EST exceptgood@aol.com http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P71 "God’s purpose is not limited by your past." Rick Warren Dear Hearts, Do we let past events dictate our lives? There are so many excuses we can give ourselves for not reaching our full potential. "I don't have a *college degree", "I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks", "I am limited by my finances", "I married the wrong person", ad infinitum. As we look at the lives of the great saints and avatars, each one... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P328 One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho Dear Hearts, How many times have we said (or written) something in a moment of anger and regretted it for days or months…sometimes even years? It’s so easy to react to something that upsets us, but often the price of an angry reaction is so high and can be so hurtful. There are days when everything seems to be going along smoothly and then bam! Someone says something that doesn’t set well with us... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P259 “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” William James Dear Hearts, We're not at choice about whether we will have unfortunate events occur in our lives. We're living a human life…and human misfortune is part and parcel of that life. What we do have choice about is how we handle life’s misfortune. There are a multitude of ways misfortune can strike, a hurricane, the loss of a loved one, a job loss, breakup of... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P168 “I Dwell in Possibilities” Emily Dickenson Dear Hearts, Do we find ourselves being pushed along by worry, doubt and fear? Or do we find ourselves being pulled by a vision of possibilities? We don’t have to travel to some exotic place, find a new job or a new romance to dwell in possibilities. The possibilities exist within the life we lead right now. Each of us has the opportunity to make this week a celebration of Life, therefore a celebration of God for God is Life. We... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P432 "Find me one person who is for something and against nothing.....and I will find another savior, an exalted human being." Dr. Ernest Holmes Dear Hearts, As we go through this day, instead of thinking what we're opposed to...or against, what if we focus our thoughts on what we're for...what we support? It's easy to move into the mind set of "against" because we live in a general atmosphere of negativity. So, it's up to us to change .... "to be", as... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P393 “Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.” George Washington Carver Dear Hearts, Today, let's think about the way we love. Do we give of our love generously, unconditionally? Or do we place conditions on our love? Does our love become a “contract” inasmuch as, “I’ll be loving to you as long as you take out the trash or clean the garage or fix dinner, etc. etc.” In this world of ours, many of us forget completely that we are here to love as God... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P129 "We all need to embrace a four letter word - GROW" Dr. Edmund Cohen Dear Hearts, On a daily basis we are called to grow, to become, to step into a larger way of being. Every day the Universe issues us countless invitations to grow and expand our life. GROW beyond our own selfishness ~ Can we go the extra mile for another today? GROW beyond our own need to be right ~ Can we use those magical words today -- "You may be right?" GROW beyond... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P260 “You must do the thing you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt Dear Hearts, Haven’t we all felt there were some things we just couldn’t do? This can take many different forms…asking for a raise, offering an apology, etc. Whatever it is we feel we can’t do becomes a wall of our own self-imposed limitations. However, on the other side of the wall, a larger life is beckoning to us. The key to getting to that larger life is walking through our fear by doing the very thing we tell ourselves... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P23 "A year ago, I was the biggest has been." Terri Hatcher after receiving a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Dear Hearts, What a beautiful example Terri Hatcher gave to all of us. How many times have we felt like "has beens"? Our life as we have known it seems to disappear and we feel washed up. What do we do when this happens? We begin saying, "yes" to the smallest opportunity that comes our way. Often when some seemingly... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P32 "But if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself." Carl Jung Dear Hearts, Haven't each one of us said at some point in time, "I'm not creative". The truth is we are incredibly creative. For moment by moment, we're creating our lives. In India, when a baby elephant is born it's tied with heavy rope to a tree so that the elephant can only move within a certain circumference. After the elephant is three months old, a slender river... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P229 “Today, I Expect Only Good!" Rev. Barbara White Dear Hearts, As we visit this website, Expectgood.com, do we really give thought to the words…Expect Good? Often we get up in the morning…and expecting good is the furthest thing from our mind. Our goal seems simply to “survive”, trying to get through the day without the proverbial “other shoe” dropping. However, there’s another way to live. What if we get up in the morning and immediately began to think about the infinite... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P63 "You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." ~ Homer Simpson Dear Hearts, How much time do we spend blaming ourselves for something that we either did or didn't do? When we continually blame ourselves, we become our own worst enemy. Why do we find it necessary to beat ourselves up? If we make a mistake, we can stop, think about the mistake, learn from it, apologize if necessary and move on. We all mistakes, but life belongs to those who... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P122 "We followed our dreams, because dreams are all we had. In the process, our lives became magical." Sigfried and Roy Dear Hearts, Often times when we were growing up we were told to stop "dreaming", that this was the "real world"...and many times we did exactly that. We grew up and went ahead with our lives in the "real world", but whatever became of our dreams? In these beautiful days of love and light ~ what a perfect time to revisit... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P385 “Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.” Katherine Mansfield Dear Hearts, Acceptance…what a word! How often in our lives do we mentally “fight” against our circumstances? Whether it’s our careers, our home life, our children, etc., somehow in our minds, things aren’t the way we want them to be. So the mental fight begins and the negative talk about how we don’t want to be doing what we’re doing…how we’d rather be doing anything else in the world but what... http://www.expectgood.com/dearhearts/wsdl.php?id=P7 “Be here now.” Ram Daas The month of January has an energy all its own. It’s a gearing down from the holidays as well as a gearing up for the new year. We have an opportunity in front of us to delight in this month of January. Each one of us has 31 precious days, 744 hours, 44,640 minutes that are uniquely our own. How many moments will we relish and cherish realizing that each moment of this beautiful month is a precious gift? How much time will we dedicate to love, to peace, to...