LOVE AND LAUGH. TRUST AND PRAY.

Love and laugh. Trust and pray. -- "God Calling," December 27.

For this coming year, I hope to continue to love and laugh, to trust and pray. That is the open secret of living happy, joyous and free. To me, that's the inner circle of life.

Before first thought, wake up, feel God's love and smile. That smile becomes a feeling of laughter, of all's right with the world...which we recognize as trust that God is in control, all is exactly as it should be. And we pray our thank you.

Then we get up.

And all the rest is a matter of self-discipline...the discipline of turning our material world thoughts (usually self-centered fear thoughts) over to the care of the God of our understanding. It helps me to just take a short-cut and consciously say, "I've no doubt made a decision based on self that's going to bite me today...I'd best get ready now to admit it and laugh about it."

Getting ready is learning that we must keep coming back to: "I am the source of all my woes. Without fail." Else we get stuck in the outer circle of life...where reasoning mind and I'm right/you're wrong live.

And that, too, is for loving, laughing at, trusting God and praying, "Thank you."

Thank you.