ALL IT TAKES IS LOVE AND LAUGHTER

It is such a relief...or maybe it's just a boost to my confidence...to read a really smart, well-known author write something that I already have come to believe. Eknath Easwaran writes a lot about the necessity of bringing ourselves closer to those with whom we do not particularly choose to be close. It is amazing how well this works when I choose to do it...which I call "remember to do it."

I look back and see specific instances where I've simply upgraded my opinion of another, not by their doing something that meets with my high standards for them, but by my making a decision to think kind thoughts about them...and then thinking kind thoughts about them.

What brings this on is another line of Easwaran's, "...every one of us is trying to break into the bank inside...." To break into the bank inside of ourselves. I felt absolute exhilaration on reading that...and I've already underlined it in every color ink that I own. There's the joy...every time I read it I know again its truth.

I am reminded that we started out at birth as winners with all we will ever need right there inside...love, patience, kindness, supply, forgiveness, all we will ever need, and all we need do is use them. Be loving, be patient, be kind, give, forgive. Yet, we're still "trying to break into the bank inside."

And really...all it takes is love and laughter.

Bingo!

The door to our heart swings open...we're free at last, thank God almighty, we're free at last!

Thank you.