My Favorite Fourth of July
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Dear
FFTP Network Members,
On the Fourth of
July,
Americans are celebrating our most patriotic holiday - Independence
Day. The Declaration of Independence drafted by our forefathers
announced our freedom from tyrannical rule to become the United States.
It also granted us equality and assured every individual the right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - including the freedom to
prosper.
Early patriots understood the connection between freedom and financial
prosperity. And today, countless immigrants arrive on our shores to
flee oppressive governments for the chance to pursue a more prosperous
life.
But I wonder how many of us understand the vitally important freedom
that is self-endowed - the freedom borne of mind and spirit that frees
us from lack and limitation and releases our ability to attract
financial abundance and security.
On
this holiday representing our collective freedoms, no matter where you
reside on our planet, while Americans are enjoying gatherings with
family and friends, picnics, barbeques, parades and fireworks, I
encourage everyone to draft your own "Declaration of Financial
Independence" by considering the following questions:
1.
Do I feel equal in value, potential and ability to my brothers and
sisters? Or do I allow low self-esteem and "error thinking" to keep me
from my freedom to express my talents and
abilities?
2. Do I believe that the pursuit
of happiness is my divine right and therefore open my
mind and heart to receive the gifts of life and the Creator?
3. Do I take the liberty
of stepping out in faith, trusting in life to support me, knowing that
I can never be alienated from the Universal source of supply and
knowing that Life will meet me on my terms if I freely and boldly take
action?
4. Do I overcome
the tyranny
of negative thinking and past conditioning, which taints the colors of
my present existence and keeps me from experiencing the valor and
bravery, purity and innocence, and vigilance and perseverance - the
actual traits symbolized by the red, white and blue of the American
flag?
5. Do I consider the unlimited
abundance of the Universe as symbolized in our flag by
the stars, considered a symbol of the
heavens and the divine goal to which humans have aspired from time
immemorial, and the stripes,
symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun? Do I open my mind
to receive my share of this vast abundance and allow myself to be
nurtured by the Divine Light?
At
this midpoint in 2010, we can make the Fourth of July a transformative
Independence Day or continue to limit our concepts of freedom to an
extra day off from work and hot dogs. Which will you choose?
~ Marilyn
