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THE DAILY MOTIVATOR
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Yes
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Say yes to what is. Say yes to what can be. Say yes to beauty. Say yes to truth. You won’t accomplish anything by striving against reality. The fastest way to grow stronger and more effective is by acceptance of what is.

There is overwhelming goodness and richness in life if you will just see it. There is fulfillment and joy in every direction if you will just let it be.

By all means, take an active role in life. And let that active role begin with saying yes.

Say yes to this day, to this moment, to this very situation as it now is. And you will unlock a real and abiding value that pulls you ever upward.

Ralph Marston

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Luke 17:20-32

“Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He (Jesus) answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is! or, ‘There it is! For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

“And He said to the disciples, “The days shall come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them. For just as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.”

“But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it shall be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.”

“It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, let not the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house go down to take them away; and likewise let not the one who is in the field turn back. Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:20-32 (NAS) Forward to a friend

John 15:9-14

“Just as the Father has loved Me (Jesus), I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.”
“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.”

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

“You are My friends, if you do what I command you.” John 15:9-14 (NAS)

Daily Bible Reading

Today’s reading (to read the entire Bible in a Year):
New Testament — 2 Corinthians 7:1 - 7:16.

Old Testament — Proverbs 20-21.

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“Observe yourself and notice that you always tend to identify with your physical body: you act as though its needs, its satisfactions and dissatisfactions were your needs, satisfactions and dissatisfactions. Your physical body is nothing more than your vehicle. Because human beings confuse themselves with what they are not, they have such difficulty finding themselves, and they put themselves in jeopardy. The physical body is perishable, and, if you identify with it, you perish with it. Whereas, if you identify with your immortal spirit, you become a spark, a flame; you free yourself from your earthly weight and succeed in overcoming all difficulties.
Human beings do themselves a great deal of harm by identifying with matter, which is corruptible and ephemeral, instead of identifying with the spirit, which is unchanging and eternal. The physical body is only an instrument which has been given to us so we can live on earth, while our spirit, which leaves the body at the moment of death, continues its journey in the infinite.”

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov