For even despairing ones are not likely to reveal their plight to others in this decadent times when pride, stubbornness and fear of being rejected are part of the human make-up and selfish and uncaring people are so many around! This being so, be kind, caring, helpful and so forth only when the occasions come to provide you with the opportunities to act in these manner.

But these gracious qualities of the heart can still be practised at any moment of the day, if not, all through your life! Kindly thoughts, right intentions and caring prayers can be with you all the time and this will be your contribution to the Universal Pool of Energy that mankind is drawing their joys and goodness from. And the best way of maintaining and sending forth the peaceful energies of these lovely qualities of your heart would be the giving of a warm smile to greet whoever you are seeing and to make use of kind and caring words to those you are speaking to. Better still, to offer willing help whenever it is needed!

Since a day is filled with opportunities to meet people more than anything else, see to it that the warm and friendly smile is at your disposal! Smile to show that you care; smile to say that you understand; smile to express your forgiveness; smile to give your consent or encouragement; smile to let others know that there is always love in your heart for them; smile to bring peace and hope to the troubled hearts! Smile and keep on smiling as your way of showing gratitude to life for all the opportunities of learning and growth. Smile and know that each time you smile, Niang is smiling with and at you.

Learn to see that problems are nothing but opportunities for learning and growth. For it is only when you are able to dissolve them that you are evolving!

As of this moment, regard every problem as a blessing, every difficulty as a learning, every suffering as a teaching, and every trial as an awakening!

This is the way to win the gaze of the Divine and the help of all Protecting deities, and the means to win the Light that awakens and the Love that fulfils that will be changing the course of your life!

Saturday, 8th November 2003 (10th Moon 15th Day)