Mitch Albom – Pam Grout

Protect what you value by giving it away

July 6, 2018 14 Comments

“Love is the only rational act.”– Mitch Albom shakey

The Course in Miracles turns every cultural paradigm on its head.

ACIM 187 is a prime example. It tells us that if we really want to protect our assets (love, happiness, beauty, joy), we should give them away. In fact, the more freely we give away our precious inheritance, the more we have.

Say what?

In the material world, we learn the exact opposite. We learn there are limits, that there’s only so much to go around. As long as we live from this state of consciousness, we will experience the reality of limits, of lack.

But once we start practicing the consciousness of “there’s more where that came from,” our assets begun doubling exponentially. They also become impossible to lose.

Giving things away is how we prove we have them. So we can store up our assets, continue to believe we must protect them.

Or we can begin to freely distribute them. Begin to share our blessings. To pass them out to everyone.

Only then, will we find ample proof that the universe in unlimited and abundant and always available for everything we need.

Have the very best weekend of your life, my beautiful friends.

Pam Grout is the author of 19 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, Art & Soul,Reloaded: A Year-Long Apprenticeship to Summon the Muses and Ignite Your Daring, Audacious, Creative Side.

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ― Mitch Albom

May 22, 2014 29 Comments

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling

Death has a bad reputation. But I agree with J.K. Rowling.

We’re thrilled for our friends when they’re heading to say, Hawaii or the Caribbean. I posit that we can also be happy for our loved ones who are now able to be everywhere at once, who now know ONLY love.

I’m not suggesting it’s easy for those of still here on this limited physical plane to let go. I recently lost my precious step-daughter to H1N1 flu and not having her here to laugh (she had the BEST laugh) and to make her wicked funny jokes (I always thought she’d make a fabulous comedy writer) wouldn’t have been my first choice.

But I happen to know she’s still with us. It’s just that she’s now on a different frequency. And I had a fabulous reminder of this from my new friend, Melissa Murphy.

Her beautiful, beautiful daughter Dannica died in a car accident 18 months ago. We traded a couple emails and I shared my belief that our spirits never die and that I think we can still be in contact.

I also mentioned I believe in a much bigger story and that while our consciousness does indeed create reality, it’s also guided by a bigger, more loving part of ourselves that doesn’t always make sense in this limited time-space reality. Lastly, I told her I’d say a prayer that very night that she’d feel some kind of connection with Dannica.

Here’s what her next email said (and she gave me permission to share):

“Like you, I believe our spirits live on and like a good little human being, I seem to need constant validation of that belief even in the presence of miracles!

“I took these photos this afternoon as I was on my way into town to meet a friend. I pulled over several times to take more. The image just lingered and lingered and lingered for the longest time. To me, the first one looks like an angel with wings and a rainbow where her heart is. As you can see, the rainbow actually turns into a heart!

“I’m generally a very private person, but some things make a human being feel like screaming from the rooftops; love, grief, and miracles are certainly among them. Sharing my thoughts, feelings, and experiences with others is my introverted way of screaming from rooftops. I scream for a while, cry a bit, and scream some more. It feels so good to be screaming, “Dannica’s not dead!!! She’s right here! See?!