While an apple a day many not really keep the doctor away, apples are full of vital nutrients that help us stay healthy and well. Watch this slide show about the health benefits of apples then go eat an apple.
Thought for Today
Copyright 2013 by R.A. Robbins
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” [Letter to Miss Eliot, Oct. 1, 1841]” ― George Eliot
Thought for Today
Copyright 2008 by R.O. Robbins
“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” ― Rainbow Rowell
Thought for Today
Copyright 2013 by R.A. Robbins
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
― Chad Sugg
It’s National Apple Month
Every year since I have been writing online I have struggled over what to do with October, particularly the last day of the month. Halloween is not something I celebrate or believe in. It seems that there is enough darkness, death and evil in the world without celebrating it. Let’s face it, in spite of it’s religious roots, modern day Halloween seems to have become just that — a celebration of darkness, death and evil and trying to make evil friendly.
So every year I struggle with what to do. One year I wrote about the Trick or Treat for UNICEF initiative to support a worthy cause. Another year I talked about alternatives to Trick or Treating. And yet another year I wrote an article about All Saints Day.
This year I decided there has to be something more uplifting we can turn our thoughts to during the month of October. I finally decided that we will celebrate apples here. Any why not? What’s not to love about apples? And there are so many things we can say about apples.
So put away your scary mask, cancel the séance and let’s have fun with apples.
One Song
Thought for Today
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Walking Through Fire and Remembering to Fly
An extended period of my life was spent wrestling with sickness, recovery, labels, control and regaining freedom that had been taken or surrendered. I found myself trapped by well-meaning, but misguided people into reliving victimization, blaming myself for what happened in and to my life, feeling that I was somehow “damaged” and had to spend the rest of my life “working on myself” with no end in sight.
My journey was in stages with times of regaining small portions of my life, but then finding new challenges. There were people who simply did not believe my story of Divine healing. There were people who kept trying to pull me back into support groups and into working on myself. The most difficult part has been learning to live healed.
One thing that kept me going on this perilous journey was knowing that someday, there would be an end to the suffering, in this lifetime. I knew deep in my spirit I would come out the other end healed and whole. The one thing I know now that I didn’t know then is that I was always whole. The Creator never saw me as anything less.
There came a time when I had to decided to trust God and keep going. There is no turning back for me. While I feel for people who continue to struggle and suffer, I know my limits. I pray for people. I send healing light. But the one thing I cannot do is get caught up in their drama. As a tender-hearted person this is a lesson I continue to repeat over and over. Maybe someday I will finally learn.
This has been a long process that has taken me from despair to hope, from being broken to wholeness and from captivity to freedom. As I write this, I am reminded of an art piece I was led to create in memory of a gifted healer. The image of the Phoenix came with the words, “the fire reminded us we could fly.”
For those of you walking through fire right now, I offer these words of hope. You can fly!
Copyright 2000 by R.A. Robbins
Thought for Today
Copyright 2016 by R.A. Robbins
“The manifest universe is the body of God …
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.”
– Ernest Holmes
Announcements and Updates
I have a few announcements to make. Don’t worry — it’s all good.
- As we have worked to combine all our online efforts under the Espirational Brand we have developed a new avatar to represent Espirational on Social Media. We have also been working on making sure Espirational or ItsEspirational (when Espirational is not available) appears on all our online efforts, including social media. So when you see Espirational or ItsEspirational and this cute little peace dove you know it is us.
- Bob’s New Book Revealed: The Prophetic Language and the Prophet’s Dictionary is available in the bookstore. He still needs reviews if you have read the book and would like to leave a review on Amazon.
- I have updated the Gluten Free Good Life page and included a list of links to the gluten free articles and recipes here on the blog. This should make it easier for you to find this information,
- I have also updated the Espirational Art page including a slide show, links to Espirational art and creativity articles and contact information if you are interested in buying my work.
- There is now a new combined About Espirational/Contact Us page. There are also contact forms scattered around on other pages, so you should be able to find a way to contact us.
- The bookstore, Espirational Books, went missing, but I found it. We are working on updates, but please use it. This is where you will find our books as well as other positive and espirational books. Proceeds from the bookstore support the work of Espirational, so please consider us when you are looking for books.
That’s it for now. As you can see we’ve been busy. Time to go take a walk by the lake. 🙂
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