The Abundant Life

It's quite evident when you look around at our Universe, it was created for us to live abundantly. When I say abundantly, I don't mean in the material sense but that which makes our lives fulfilled.

The Sun was created to offer us energy, we have more than enough fruits and vegetables to keep us healthy, water to keep us hydrated, and work to keep us strong and alert. We as humans have something valuable to offer as well. Each person, with his/her experience and background, enter our lives to offer us something. However, we can no more receive all of our needs from one individual than we can from one fruit or vegetable. Each person brings something different to the table, such as support, security, love, comfort, encouragement, etc. These people may come all at once or one at a time.

Whether or not we allow ourselves to receive fulfillment from this 'Abundance' freely given to us to make our lives richer, is completely up to us. Choices, choices, choices...I don't know about you but I choose to have life and have it more abundantly.

The beauty of it is that it won't cost me a thing. How wonderful! Thanks God!

Be Blessed
~Novelist Angela

Happy New Year Happy New You!

Since the New Year, I've taken some time to reflect on what I am most grateful for and what a blessing life lessons are. I want to share some of my thoughts on the subject with you.

For those of you who don't realize, life is a classroom. People and/or situations come into our lives to challenge our souls to unfold to the next level. Challenges, in and of itself, can be however you choose to see it. For me, a challenge is what it is. I try not to assign any qualities to it and I do my best to roll with it. One thing I know for sure is anything you fight has the potential to fight you back.

These challenges(people/situations)will show you where your focus is. Whether it's on the outer(material or physical) or the inner(spiritual). If it's on the outer, you will find yourself clinging or experiencing withdrawals. If it's on the inner you will have a sense that everything is going to be okay no matter what the outcome. This is your higher consciousness at work. The higher consciousness always knows that things will work together for your good.

When these challenges show up, we can choose to make the spiritual connection thereby getting the lesson and moving on with a greater sense of who we are. Or we can simply miss the connection, allowing it to pass right over our heads and keep experiencing the same challenge in different forms until we get it.

Wishing it away is only our ego's way of resisting change. But change we must. We must learn to be open and receptive on this spiritual journey. Because the sooner we realize that all challenges come to assist our souls to unfold to higher levels of consciousness, the less time and energy we waste swimming against the currant.

This year in 2009, one of my goals is to remain open and receptive to life's lessons, for the enrichment of my soul's unfoldment.

Be Blessed!

~Novelist Angela

Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (excerpt from When Company Comes)

So often, my mind becomes clouded with fear. Fear of lack, limitation, and/or rejection. Fear, exposed, is false evidence appearing real. I had anxiety over the unknown; anticipating the unknown to be monstrous. It is up to me to assign qualities of goodness, through a positive attitude toward the unknown, track down the fear and expose its unreality. I can do this by realizing that my Higher Power is my inexhaustible resource, NOW and always and I am never alone. Today I will not be afraid. I turn my back to fear and I choose faith. Faith is that innate ability to know when it doesn’t show, that nothing but GOOD is waiting for me.

Today I Am Reminded:
It is in my power to make today a good one just by the way I think about it. Whatever I think about, I bring about. As long as I concentrate on today’s activity, and don’t borrow from the fears of what might happen tomorrow, then there won’t be room in my mind for worry.

Angela Bolden-Thompson
"When Company Comes"
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JUST PAUSE AND REFLECT (excerpt from UFBL's Daily Inspiration for Better Living)

Stop rushing to and fro without taking a moment to enjoy your surroundings. How many times do you run here and there without really seeing what is in your environment? When you look at the ocean, what are you really seeing? What is actually going on when the waves are coming to shore? When you look at the plants and animals what are you really seeing? Are they the last ones that anyone will ever see again? Do you value them? Pause for a few moments, open your eyes and really take pleasure in what is going on around you.

Let God fill your soul with His joy, peace, love, and all else that is good. God is there with you, right where you are, for there is no spot where God is not. Pause often and reflect on what is in your surroundings at the moment. Be grateful for your life; appreciate your world. There is so much to
love.

Praise God for being alive during this time. Be thankful all through the day, at all times. Your prayer can simply be "Thank You, God."


--Alice J. Brown

Think A New Thought- reposted from The Daily Inspiration For Better Living

Emerson said: "What is the hardest task in the world? To think."

Obviously this is so, when one considers that most of us are the victims of mass thinking and feed upon suggestions from others. We all know that the Law of Cause and Effect is inviolable, but how many of us ever pause to consider its workings? The entire course of a man's life has many times been changed by a single thought which became a mighty power that altered the whole current of human events.

If golf shots can be influenced by mental attitudes or proper visualization, and the "galloping ivories" turn up at the mental command of the players, who is there now to say that events are not influenced by thought and before us is a field that is gradually yielding to modern man some of the secrets of the ancient mysteries.

Writers have long declared that the luck factor comes about from a determined mind - a combination of visualizing, concentrated thought, willing, and believing. Think about this in connection with yourself and the goals you have set for yourself, for in it is the primary secret of this science.

Claude M. Bristol
"Belief Makes Things Happen"
The Magic of Believing

As for Me and My House...

As an artist, it's hard not to fall in love with the many different forms of art, whether it's graphic, musical, or literary. Although I have a passion for words, nothing moves me like music--House music.

I ride each note like a surfer on a wave. At first, slow pacing myself until my body catches the rhythm. It sucks me in, tosses me, flips me, bends me, pushes me, strokes me, lulls me, and then releases me.

Like an addict, I return for more. Hit after hit, I'm getting high off the energy. Lyrics ringing in my head, taunting me, seducing me, manipulating me, calling me back for more. I give in and we tango all over again.

Hi my name is Angela and I am addicted to House Music!

Beneath the Surface, Suzanne Perazzini (Check out this book written by a fellow Author)

Jo has the darkest of secrets in her past, which drives her to seek out the most traumatic of hotspots in the world as a war correspondent so she never has the time to confront what she did.


A fellow reporter, Craig, accompanies her into war-torn Sergavia to recover rolls of film from a dead colleague and along the way Jo finds love and a reason to go back to the beginning so she can move forward.

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Excpert from Beneath the Surface:


Branko’s eyes, unseeing, gazed up to the heaven I hoped he had gone to. What freakin’ heaven, for God’s sake? Who was I fooling? Out of the black sky, a wave of hopelessness thundered over me.


For an instant a cavity opened and closed, but I had seen inside, and that image of empty loneliness scratched at my sanity.

I fell forward onto my knees by his side and touched an unblemished cheek. It was cold. This was the face Ana loved. I felt her sorrow, and tears threatened. I brushed his hair into place and rubbed at the dirt on that cheek. I had seen more death than most people see in a century of life, but this was Branko. He had a name. I had talked to him. I had liked him.

I heaved my pack onto my back, snatched up the rifle, checked the magazine and put the safety on. There was nothing I could do for Branko, but I could help save his family—if I could get to them before they reached the pass.

I turned around and faced the mountains. That was where I was going. Up there into the snow.