Presenting an editorial excerpt from AWFSM Where Can We Go? Is it just me ... or have you had the same desire lately? Just wanting to get away from all of it. Like falling into bed and pulling the covers over your head to shut out the world. Or maybe, just getting into the car and driving on and on with no destination in mind. Yes, that is an 'escapist' attitude. But sometimes the urge to just get away from it all is simply overwhelming. It's not that life is so difficult. There isn't even that much going on for me personally. Still the craving comes, sometimes out of the blue; just to leave it all behind. Perhaps it reflects the world's condition right now. All the wars, global warming, national skyrocketing debts, the escalating poverty that is now worldwide, social and economic upheavals, or all the tragic global events rolled into one. But, here I am. Here I am at my keyboard, typing away. Writing about it instead. Anyway you look at it, there is still the big question that looms overhead ... where can you go? Exactly where do you think you can go? Where is there to go to escape to? The old proverbial saying rings in my mind ... "where ever you go, there you are". Quaint isn't it? Almost sickening on the other hand. I get tired of myself, little less everyone else and everything else. Especially someone else's 'thata quote'. Then again, if I'm not talking to myself, I'm listening to others who are talking, or I'm busy reading what others are busy talking about or writing about. This all presents a constant hum of white static; filling my mind with brain wave patterns overlapping one another at dizzying speeds. Vacations? Although inviting, such vacations are not the remedy. Most vacations abound in too much activity, which does not resolve the inner conflicts. But there is one solution that works. It seems to be known by a few, but actually practiced by fewer. It is an instant, age old remedy handed down through generations. The only catch is, that it has to be approached on a personal basis. I literally use this remedy as often as needed. It comes with taking the time to seek a place of pure stillness. Not silence; for that is not always possible. Quietness, yes. Peacefulness, yes. A sort of mini retreat. A respite away from everything and everybody. That is where we need to go. That is where I have learned to go. Seeking that inward place of greater isolation. The place of pure delicious solitude. Within this short hiatuses there is no me, and there is simply no one else and nothing else. No yesterdays, and no tomorrows. Absolutely nothing. A blissful stillness. Sometimes I'm in that special place in a blink of an eye. Other times, it is a trek all of its own. But it is my refuge and a comforting security. Usually I find this place in the wee hours of the early morning. The outside traffic has died down. The rest of house is dark in the veil of sleep; all except for me. Wide awake inside, yet drowsy enough to enjoy the presence of nothing, I journey to my private oasis. The lonely solitude is a soothing ointment for healing. Deep within, my soul is greeted and carried into the grateful void. No demands coming from the outside world or from the inside world of my own soul. A place of total acceptance in genuine warmth and love. Wafting an ambiance in ageless wisdom and pure intelligence all its own. Maybe some of you recognize this cure all place by a different name. Or perhaps by a different avenue of purpose altogether. I simply call it my place of communion. Not that I have to call it anything, or even do anything at all, but be there. It is eternalized as the unsaid prayer. In my there-ness I'm touched with the heartbeat of the universe that feels no ill will at all. A God given retreat that shelters my spirit in a renewing energy of goodwill. Such times never seem rehearsed or humdrum. In fact just the opposite, because like a magnet this dwarfing heavenly solitude draws upon my being prompting a return time and time again. Yes, God, here I am. Yes, great cosmos, here we are together again. Let me sit in the lap of the universe and rock gently with its rhythm of life. I guess I do go somewhere after-all. I guess there really is a place to go for all of us who feel the need to get away. The uncharted hi-ways and byways of our infinite life. No matter how many venture therein, there is always room for more. For we all come away from these inter-dimensional so-journey's knowing full well that the next trek will be just as wonderfully rewarding. © Copyright C.L. Mareydt, Editor AWFSM

It is time to step it up! It is up to me & it is up to you. Let's stop waiting for someone else to do it. Only as we begin to realize that WE are the ones who are responsible, will any real change take place in our own lives. If we really want to BE the change we want to see in the world today ... it will happen. We are responsible for what we think, choose, act upon, & allow into our lives. Remembering that we will attract exactly what we focus upon in life. We will bring into our lives exactly what we draw our own attention toward. Here are a few simple pointers to take into consideration to actually BE the change we want to see in the world today. 1. Each One of Us Taking Responsibility for Our Own Life We do not have any control over anyone else's life, only as an influence can we even begin to help anyone else. Responsibility starts within ourselves first. When we are responsible for our own lives, we come out from the victim mentality of blame and irresponsibility that leads to anger, shame, & low self esteem. Our lives change as we change. If we do not like our changes, we need to take personal control, face up to the challenge, & allow ourselves to begin again. We need to carefully consider, concentrate, pray, & seek what is really important. What we believe is exactly what we are, & our lives will show exactly the same. 2. Looking at Clear Picture of What Kind of Changes We Really Desire Each thought brings about a coresponding action that shapes our minutes, hours, days, weeks, & years. Hence our lives. Looking at ourselves, inside & outside, & asking if this is what we really want to BE. Allow our prayers to search our hearts & motives, asking God for continual guidiance. As we change our thoughts our actions will change likewise. Think about it. That can produce some powerful changes! 3. Remembering We are Co-creators in Our Lives Once again, our thoughts of yesterday have affected our path today. There is a Universal Law of Attraction - that tells us like attracts like & a Universal Law of Reaping - that tells us we reap what we have sown. In other words we are in a continuos ripple effect from the moment we are born till the time we depart from this earth. 4. Learning to Believe because WE are Responsible Co-creators We learn to believe God, we learn to believe that we are more than the sum of our parts. We learn to believe that there is much more to our lives than meets the proberbial eye. We are far more valueable than we once knew, & so is everyone else. Even more so, the more we believe! This is not religion, this is not doctrine, it is the acknowledgement of finding our true being as created by God. Our true purpose of being. Our true person. The one that dwells deep within the hidden resources of our spirit & soul. This kind of believing creates. Creates well being. Creates unity. Creates a special wholeness that grows & expands. Such believing changes our perspective & our perceptions. We don't have to know it all, just have to start believing. 5. Discovering We Really Have Little or Nothing to Fear Uncertainty is not fear. Unknowing is not fear. We can allow ourselves room to be uncertain, and not know everything; & yet still believe. Constantly looking upon our difficult moments with truth, knowing that as we face them our focus will help us overcome. Step by step, the path becomes easier. Step by step, as we attend to the little things in our life, the path continues & the journey becomes enjoyable. By co-creating an environment with God, inside & outside we support the exquisite design of life that is meant to BE. 6. Being Open & Receiving What We Have Created Remaining in the constant thought of Being a Change allows change to come our way. With the thoughts, attitudes, & actions that correspond our Being will start to change ourselves & our situations. We are Beings who are full of energy. God made each one of us that way. Our energy can work for us or against us, according to what we are believing. According to what we are focusing our attention upon, according to what our heart is holding onto, or releasing. If we really want to Be the change we want to see, then we will. It is a constant positive that emits a constant positive force. Yes, a positive energy. No this is not new age, it is not affirmations, it is not just believing & receiving. It is the total commitment of responsibility with God to allow our perceptions & perspectives to be illuminated in wholeness of being within ourselves first & then outward. We become one with God & one with ourselves. We come to our Being. BEING the change we want to see in the world ... today. For it is always a new day.

to view/purchase book Introduction Dozens upon dozens of Christian Books have always filled our bookstores from generation to generation. Christian literature and Christian programming infiltrates almost every denomination, affiliation, and congregation worldwide. As a Born-Again Believer myself, such spiritual resources profited my Christian walk thru its many devoted, anointed authors and teachers. All of whom God’s Holy Spirit directed into my life either in person or thru their gifted ministries and books to bless my own personal relationship with God and with others. This book will minimally add to the immense sea of Christian literature already available. Thru the power of The Holy Spirit will it reach the hands and hearts of each reader to bless according to purpose. What is shared on these pages is a portion of prayerful time between God’s Spirit and myself. It is not a personal expose’ of my life, nor a ‘How To Book’. It is the expression of God’s Spirit to me; which has in turn prompted me to put in written form what I hear as expressed. In so doing I have discovered along the way that my earlier Christian years had prepared and brought me to this very place and time. And, if that were not enough, the Divine Vision presented during this time confirmed and enabled me to continue on with this writing. As far as my earlier Christian years, all were consumed in the normal daily events of Christian living. Loving and caring for my family; my husband and two children. Loving to hear and study the Bible, loving to write, loving to share. Always filling lesson books and journals with dates and times of my life. Always seeking and following the quickened Word of God to me, the best I knew how at the time. My writing flowed from spiritual songs, dreams, and poetry. All mainly for my eyes only. As the inspiration to write this book began it steadily unfolded a new purposeful change, full of amazement and wonder in the power of God’s Holy Spirit with me. Then with the advent of the Vision, everything escalated! The Vision literally translated me into what I can only describe as a ‘living revelation’. One can only liken it to a butterfly suddenly emerging out of its cocoon. I was not and then I was! Suddenly realizing something was dramatically different. For several days this dramatic difference caused me to see extra clearly, to hear extra clearly, to communicated extra clearly. There was a walking definition of loving power that effected my whole being. I used the words ‘extra clearly’ to emphasize the unique completeness and clarity that was experienced within my spirit, soul and mind, and even to my very body. I was totally engulfed within the Vision. There literally wasn’t any sense of lack whatsoever. Experiencing such a complete sense of oneness in and with God’s Spirit so powerfully purposed that everything in my life flowed in a Divine Purpose. Those few days held all the daily events of life, but significantly altered every moment to a Divine Purpose and flow. Making everything, little or big, wonderful and full of life! Being acquainted with the anointing power of God’s Holy Spirit, which is totally awesome itself, those days generated a distinct glory of their own. So caught up in the wonder of it all, the full understanding was missed at the time. Needless to say as the Vision came to an end, I was devastated and experienced great disappointment. Yearning so much to be in that same place again, The Holy Spirit, with much loving comfort, ministered to me and kindly brought me to the understanding of the Vision. God’s Spirit graciously clarified that the Vision in its revelation power was now a Divine part of me spiritually; and it would remain according to its purpose. In the meantime the Vision would fulfill its purpose and produce accordingly. Not only for me, but for the many who would share in its benefits. I can only testify that the Divine Vision is still alive within me to this day. It continues to uphold me in truth and love, and more so as I am able to share. As you can see this book is not mine alone any longer, but now has become yours also! to be continued ...

Will be attempting to publish a free online version of my latest book 'Who Do You Say I Am' here within my blog at Zaadz. It is all about 'being' the change I want to see in the world today! So it should all begin this coming New Year of 2007! I will literally copy & paste the book into this blog area and see how it flows. My book(s) are available for purchase at: Lulu.com - d23 d23 is the 'logo' for our business design twenty three at: d23 'Who Do You Say I Am' is an en-visionary journey through prayer that began from a vision that lasted several days and then an ongoing dialogue that brought about a beautiful communion with God. Communicating with God is prayer. Such prayers become a living force full of energy and power. You will be delighted to find how this spiritual dialogue will effect your own life and your own personal relationship with God. Most of all, dear friends, enjoy your spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on an earthly trek. Looking forward to this new beginning in 2007 with you. Hope you are too! C.L. Mareydt p.s. come on in and join as a friend or subscribe for the updates to come along :)