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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Filling in the Blanks

The scale drawing of our plot and house "footprint" at the top is my first drawing done for the purpose of improvement plans. So far, it remains blank. The middle and bottom drawings are, our architect neighbor, Tom's rendering of Becky's early ideas for our back yard. You may click on these drawings for a better view, if you wish. I came across these in my photo file. I wrote in an earlier post about Becky doing a simple drawing that led us to this house, it seems I have left off the follow through. I let the project out of my thoughts. Oddly, I find that some force has gently led me back to the beginning.

Give the thoughts concrete form and they begin to feel real. The law of attraction steps in with the miracle, the incomprehensible power of true transformation. Sit down and give concrete form to your thoughts and to your dreams every day. I give my thoughts expression in these ways. I write, I draw, I take pictures. In this blog I wrestle to sculpt my thoughts to my desire. My dreams and desires that pertain to the restoration of our house are given life in this blog. Thought becomes things and with a leap of faith I am creating a thing by first creating the thing in my thoughts by way of this media. I create for myself a new life to order as I create this new life in my mind and believe I have it presently.

My new life in this house means coming up with $433,000 to effect a complete restoration of this house, by my estimate. Old Bob the Painter was incapable of this achievement. Old Bob the Painter could hardly keep a leaky roof over his head or eat more than once a day. Old Bob the Painter struggled with all the bills and complications of the painting business. Old Bob the Painter was not happy. Don't be quick to ridicule or pity me, maybe you have impossible dreams, too?

Everyone applies the secret law of attraction that thoughts become things. I once was the sound and lighting "Guru" for an acoustic music venue held two Friday nights a month in a church. I would sit at my sound control table at the back of the performance hall dreaming about the show being on the radio. After about two years, someone from the public radio station, NPR, came along and made it happen. I think it still airs Saturday nights at 8:00. When I recall the happening I feel alive.

During the same time of my radio dreams I had a lot of negative thoughts and emotions on account of my allowing certain circumstances, the details of which I will spare you. In like form as the positive radio thoughts, I received negative fruits from my negative thinking. Attaining fifty years of age, my sons emancipated by reason of their ages, and most of all, uniting with my soul mate, my love, Becky, I have a clear understanding that I am not only privileged to create my life to order, but I also have the necessity to do so. I dispense with the negative, unhealthy thoughts, the source of negative circumstance and cultivate the positive impulses of desire, the source for positive circumstance. Unawares, I have applied the secret law of attraction negatively and positively and received either result accordingly.

The brain houses the most powerful force in the universe. The computer is the greatest tool brains have so far created. Rough, incomplete ideas can be refined into real gems. Thoughts and ideas are refined to remove impurities and compounded with sympathetic ideas easily on a computer. We, in our day, live with miracles all around.

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