I HAVE FOUND THIS IN SEVERAL PLACES ON THE INTERNET. IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND A WITH A GREAT MESSAGE WE ALL NEED TO TAKE INTO OUR HEART AND REMEMBER.
Take counsel:
I hear your cry.
It passes through the darkness, filters through the clouds, mingles with starlight, and finds its way to my heart on the path of a sunbeam.
I have anguished over the cry of a rabbit choking in the noose of a snare, a sparrow tumbling down from it's nest, a child thrashing helplessly in a pond, and a son shedding his blood on a cross.
Know that I hear you, also. Be at peace. Be calm. I bring you relief from your sorrows, for I know it's cause and it's cure.
You weep for all your childhood dreams that have vanished with the years.
You weep for all your self-esteem that has been corrupted by failure.
You weep for all your potential that has been bartered for security.
You weep for all your individuality that has been trampled by the mobs.
You weep for all your talent that has been wasted through misuse.
You look upon yourself with disgrace and turn in terror from the image you see in the pool. Who is this mockery of humanity staring back at you with bloodless eyes of shame?
Where is the grace of your manner, the beauty of your figure, the quickness of your movement, the clarity of your mind, the brilliance of your tongue? Who stole your goods? Is the thief's identity known to you, as it is to me?
Do you remember the secret I gave you at your moment of birth?
The passing years have destroyed you recollection, for they have filled your mind with fear and doubt and anxiety, with remorse and hate, and there is no room for joyful memories there; these thought habituate.
Weep no more. I am with you. You are my greatest miracle. You are the greatest miracle in the world. Those were the first words you heard, then you cried. They all cry.
You did not believe me then.
How can you believe yourself to be a miracle when you consider yourself to be a failure? How can you believe yourself a miracle when you have little confidence in dealing with your responsibilities? How can you be a miracle when you are shackled with debt, worried where tomorrow's meals will come from?
Enough .... how many wise men, poets, writers, artists, composers, how many philosophers and messengers have I sent with word of your divinity, your potential for godliness, and the secrets of achievement? How did you treat them?
Still... I have you and will always be with you. You have been told you are a special piece of work, noble of reason, infinate in faculties, express and admirable in form and movement.
You have been told you are the salt of the earth. You have been given the secrets to move mountains, of performing the impossible.
You believed No one. You burned your maps to happiness, you abandon your claim to peace of mind.
You snuffed out the candles that had been placed along your destined path to glory.
then you stumbled lost and frightened, in the darkness of futility and self pity, until you have fallen into a hell of your own creation.
You have cried, cursed, beat your breast, and cursed your luck that has befallen you.
You have refused to accept the consequences of your petty thoughts and lazy deeds and you have searched for a scapegoat on which to blame your failure. How quickly you found one. You blamed me!
You claim it is the will of God!
You are wrong!
Let us take inventory. First, call a roll of your handicaps, for how can I ask you to build a new life without tools.
Are you blind? Does the sun rise and fall without your witness? No - you can see - the hundred million receptors I have placed in your eyes enable you to enjoy the magic of a leaf, a snowflake, a pond, an eagle, a child, a cloud, a star, a rose, a rainbow, and the look of love. Count one blessing.
Are you deaf? Can a baby cry without your attention? No - you can hear - and the seventy thousand fibres I have built into each of your ears vibrate to the wind in the trees, the tide on the rocks, the majesty of an opera, a robin's plea, children at play, and the words I LOVE YOU. Count another blessing.
Are you mute? Do your lips move and bring forth only spittle? No- you can speak- as no other of my creatures, and your words can calm the angry, uplift the despondent, goad the quitter, cheer the unhappy, warm the lonely, praise the worthy, encourage the defeated, touch the ignorant, and say I LOVE YOU. Count another blessing.
Are you paralyzed? Does your helpless form despoil the land? No - You can move - you are not a tree condemned to a small plot while the winds and world abuse you. You can stretch and run and dance and work, for within you I have designed five hundred muscles, two hundred bones, and seven miles of nerve fibre all synchronized by me to do your bidding. Count another blessing.
Are you unloved and unloving? Does loneliness engulf you day and night? No - no more - for now you know love's secret that to recieve love, it must be given with no thought of it's return. To love for fulfilment, satisfaction, or pride is not love. Love is a gift on which no return is demanded. Now you know that to love unselfishly is it's own reward and, even should love not be returned, it is not lost, for love not reciprocated will flow back to you and soften and purify your heart. Count another blessing - count twice.
Is your heart stricken? Does it leak and strain to maintain life? No - your heart is strong - touch your chest and feel it's rhythm pulsating, hour by hour, day in and day out, thirty-six million beats a year, year after year, asleep or awake, pumping your blood through more than sixty thousand miles of veins, arteries, and tubing - pumping more than six hundred thousand gallons a year. Man has never created such a machine. Count another blessing.
Are you diseased of skin? Do people turn in horror at your approach? - No- your skin is clear and a marvel of creation, needing only that you clean it with soap, brush and care. In time, all steel will tarnish and rust away, but, not your skin. Eventually, all metals will wear, with use, but not that layer that I have constructed around you. Constantly it renews itself, old cells replaced by new, just as the old you is now replaced by the new you. Count another blessing.
Are your lungs befouled? does the breath of life struggle to enter your body? - No- the portholes to life support you even in the most vilest of environments of your own making and, they labour always to filter life giving oxygen through six hundred million pockets of folded flesh while they rid your body of gaseous wastes. Count another blessing.
Is your blood poisoned? Is it diluted with water? Pus? - No - within your five quarts of blood are twenty-two trillion blood cells and within each cell are millions of molecules and within each molecule is an atom oscillating at more than ten million times each second. Each second, two million of your blood cells die to be replaced by two million more in a resurrection that has continued since your birth. As it has always been on the inside, so now it is on your outside. Count another blessing.
Are you feeble of mind? Can you no longer think for yourself? No - your brain is the most complex structure in the universe. I know. Within it's three parts are thirteen billion nerve cells, more than three times the people on earth. To help you file away every perception, every sound, every taste, every smell, every action you have experienced since your birth. I have implanted, within your cells, more than one thousand billion protein molecules. Every incident in your life is waiting there, awaiting only your recall. And, to assist your brain in the control of your body, I have dispersed, throughout your form, four million pain sensitive structures, five hundred thousand touch detectors, and more than two hundred thousand temperature detectors. No nation's gold is better protected than you. None of your greatest ancient wonders are greater than you.
You are my finest creation. You!
Within you is enough atomic energy to destroy the largest cities in the world and rebuild them.
Are you poor? Is there no gold or silver in your purse? -No - you are rich! Together, we have counted your wealth. Study the list. Count them again. Tally your assets. Why have you betrayed yourself? Why have you cried that all the blessings of humanity were removed from you? Why have you deceived yourself that you are or were powerless to change your life?
Are you without talent, senses, abilities, pleasure, instincts, sensations, and pride?
Are you without hope?
Why do you cringe in the shadows, a giant defeated? Awaiting only sympathetic transport into the welcome void and dampness of hell.
You have so much. Your blessings overflow your cup and you have been unmindful of them, like a child spoiled in luxury, since I have bestowed them upon you with generosity and regularity.
Answer me.
Answer yourself.
What rich man, old, sick, feeble and helpless, would not exchange all the gold in his vault for the blessings you have treated so lightly?
Know then the first secret to happiness and success is - that you possess, even now, every blessing necessary to achieve great glory. They are your treasure, your tools with which to build, starting today, the foundations for a new and better life.
Therefore, I say unto you, count your blessings and know that you are already my greatest creation.
Be grateful for the lessons learned in poverty, for he is not poor who has little, only he who desires much, and true security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
The handicaps that produced failure in your life exists only in your mind -- count your blessings.
No painting by Rembrandt or a bronze by Degas or a violin by Stradivarius has the value you possess. Their value is based on the fact they were created by a master and they are few in number yet there are more than one of each of these.
There is only one of you - never before and never again to be. You are a rarity and the most valuable treasure on the face of the earth. Rarest of the rare.
Why have you valued yourself in pennies when you are worth a king's ransom?
Why did you listen to those who would demean you? And, far worse, why did you believe them?
Take counsel - no longer hide your rarity in the dark. Show the world. Strive not to be like others, never imitate, be proud of who you are because you are special and unique.
Take counsel.
The law is seldom listened to. Most seek magic means, devious routes, or wait for the devil called luck to deliver them the riches of life. They wait in vain, just as you waited. They wept, just as you wept, blaming their lack of fortune on my will. The secret is simple -- whomsoever shall compel you to go with him a mile - go with him two.
The surest way to doom yourself to mediocraty is to perform only the work for which you are paid. There is a pendulum to all life and the sweat you deliver, if not rewarded today, will swing back tomorrow tenfold. You cannot command success, you can only deserve it, and now you know the greatest secret necessary in order to merit it's rare reward.
GO ANOTHER MILE.
You are my greatest miracle.
You are the greatest miracle in the world.
We are both miracles and now we have each other. I now give you the greatest gift and power - that of choices.
With this gift, I placed you even above my angels, for angels are not free to choose sin. I gave you complete control over your destiny.
I have never withdrawn your great power. What have you done with this tremendous force?
Use your power wisely.
Choose to love rather than hate
Choose to laugh rather than cry
Choose to create rather than destroy
Choose to persevere rather than quit
Choose to praise rather than gossip
Choose to heal rather than wound
Choose to give rather than steal
Choose to act rather than procrastinate
Choose to grow rather than rot
Choose to play rather than curse
Choose to live rather than die
I also gave you the power to...
think, create, love, plan, laugh, speak, imagine, dream, pray.
My pride in you knows no boundaries.
Now that you know that your misfortunes were not my will, for all power was invested in you, and accumulation of deeds and thoughts which placed you on the refuse of humanity were your doings, not mine, you can see that you are more than just a human being - you are a human becoming.
You are capable of great wonders, your potential is unlimited. Never demean yourself again! Never settle for the crumbs of life! Never hide your talents, from this day hence!
Remember the child who said "When I'm a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says "When I grow up." then when grown says"When I get married" then to "When I retire." In old age, he looks back realizing somehow he missed it all and it is gone.
Enjoy this day and tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. You have performed the greatest miracle - you have returned from a living death. You have been born again! You will feel self pity no more and each new day will bring joy and challenge.
You can choose failure and despair or success and happiness.
The choice is yours, exclusively yours. I can only watch, as before - in pride - or sorrow.
Remember the four laws of happiness and success.
1. Count your blessings
2. Proclaim your rarity
3. Go another mile
4. Use your power to choose wisely
and one more... Do all things with love..for yourself, love for others, and love for me.
Wipe away the tears. Reach out, grasp my hand, and stand straight and proud.
You are the greatest miracle in the world.
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