GRATEFUL HEART

Being resourceful, I have developed a more enduring spirit and mindset using imaginative solutions. For those of us who will fight bravely and not yield, there is triumphant victory in overcoming!

Ultimately to triumph over every inward challenge—such is man’s divine destiny, such his glorious goal.  We are all learners in the school of life to master the lessons of living.

My health hurdles create unusual contests. By using mindful techniques and strategies, I have reshaped my thinking. 

I have been advocating the constant utilization of an affirmative mentality. My expanding thinking has fostered incremental improvements and breakthroughs in my own healing methodologies.

Sharing my journey is of interest to my community of friends, and family. At the same time, it can benefit others if they feel they can gain from it. 

All of these friends and family are supporting my individual recovery.  

The gradual small steps – can be a minor efficiency gain or a slight improvement in my healing. However, with consistent frequency and compounding effects, these minute actions can turn into mammoth gains. 

I am constantly challenging myself. By thinking short-term and long-term, I am forever evolving my strategies. To me, it is a game, and I intend to win. I am all too familiar with the term 'life triumphant'. 

I am using mindset and meditation. Also, I apply creative visualization which employs imagery. The vibrations we get from the pictures we use have a strong effect on our consciousness.

The subconscious works in pictures. So photos from my past serve to give the feeling of health and vitality. This photo is from when I was the fittest in my youth.

I am always trying to initiate new ideas. I am learning different modalities of meditation, diet, and overcoming. I gain new insight with each method and procedure. This is akin to a biohacker. 

I cultivate a positive mindset and foster a holistic well-being. I envisioned my life of walking normally and energetically, enjoying life to the fullest. 

Overcoming adversity is a part of life, to which no one is immune. The gift of life comes with many lessons. We grow and develop as we learn. 

However, the divine intelligence of our bodies can do the job far better than we can. The subconscious part of us can be programmed to aid in our recovery. 

Sometimes we can be so softened down, harmonized, and wisely directed, as to become obedient servants for the outworking of enlightened purposes. 

Be joyful all the time and be ever so grateful. I am so thankful, for the support I receive from my wife, dear friends, and family. You give me the impetus I need to carry on. 

I cannot let you guys down. You all have invested so much of your energy in me. That is real love. 

I am so extremely thankful to all of you, for your support, financial and otherwise. For your words of encouragement, your prayers, your upliftment, even those of you silently urging me on. I keep hearing your whispers in the wind beckoning me onwards. I feel so humbled.

RICH IN VIRTUE 

Our true wealth is our stock of virtue, and our true power is the uses to which we put it.

Virtue is when we choose actions that succeed in showing high moral standards. Doing what is said to be right above all.  

"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8 

Love, purity, gentleness, meekness, patience, compassion, generosity, selflessness, and self-renunciation - all these are wealth and the mastery is the uses to which we put it. 

The heart that truly desires to do good does not wait for money before doing it. If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are. 

Do good with what you have now.  The more money you get the more good you will do. 

Money does not constitute true wealth, position, or power, and we should not rely upon it alone. 

In the midst of riches, we should be willing to look upon ourselves as stewards and not as owners. Wealth is to do good with it and to bless others. 

Many years ago, I was in charge of operating our family business. It was in my hometown of Arima in Trinidad in the Caribbean. We called the enterprise 'Farm and Garden Supplies'. 

Photo courtesy Glen Foncette (dec.)

I would often help out struggling farmers and agriculturalists. There was one young man in particular who did not have any money to buy seeds for his gardening business. I took it upon myself to give him all the seeds he wanted with the hope he would pay me when he was able to sell his harvest. 

It was a joy to witness the gratitude in him when he finally returned to pay me. Still today, I can see the heartfelt look on his face. 

He felt so happy and grateful that someone was willing to help him in his dire need. When we are blessed with abundance and can afford to aid others, we should do so. It means the world to them.

When we know what it is to have, we are always looking to give. It FILLS us up - with an overflowing grace of knowing we are a blessing to others.