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1/28/2003 

The mind of God, the intelligence and the medium and the 
manifestation, is everywhere, and it is everywhere connected.  
Thoughts held in mind produce inexorably as manifest forms.  God's 
abundance is infinite.  

As the mind of God is everywhere, it is in me.  My mind is part of 
that mind, and my thoughts are God's thought.  As my thoughts are 
held in mind, God's mind produces them inexorably in manifest form.  
My abundance is infinite.  

I have all the money I need to do what I want without thinking about 
the pay.  My assets make money for me whether I work or not.  I am 
comfortable and happy, doing what I like, providing wonderful 
services for wonderful pay.  

I am grateful that God, the Universe, provides for me.  I am happy 
that the Universe moves to support me and to give me the infinite 
abundance in manifest form.  It feels so good to be rich!  I praise 
God for providing for my needs and comfort.  

Knowing that the crystallization of the medium to form is as sure as 
a chemical reaction, I now let go of all effort to make it happen.  
I turn to more creative thoughts and divine ideas, confident that my 
abundance is guaranteed.  

And so it is.  


Sunday, January 26, 2003 2:37:59 PM

Oh, look here!  Business Week says that the Australian dollar is 
perceived as a safe haven at the moment.  Australians are enjoying a 
6.2% unemployment rate, "near a 12-year low," and consumer confidence 
is rising!  Perhaps we should leave the headlines behind us, get on 
with our lives, and live prosperously!  


1/21/2003

God, the Living Spirit, that is in all things, of which all things 
are made, is the conscious power and the Source.  

As I exist, I am a manifestation of this power.  I am the Spirit, 
which acts through me, as me, and is me.  

As a manifestation and incarnation of the perfect power, I realize 
I am whole; that at my core is the idea of health, that the idea 
manifests materially.  So I am already whole.  

How wonderful is the idea that I am whole -- how wonderful that it 
takes material form as I am conscious of it!  I am gratefule and 
happy!  

The immortal, almighty power acts upon my immortal, almighty thought.  
I trust the Universal Mind now to do the work of manifestation, and 
let it be.  

And so it is.  


Saturday, January 18, 2003 8:35:20 PM

Remember when headlines read, "It's the Economy, Stupid?" Not so long 
ago -- I believe it's been about two years.  And what a two years 
they have been!  I was just reviewing the NASDAQ performance this 
afternoon, noticing that it looks like the stock market is moving in 
a channel.  That is, it has a top and a bottom, and seems to be 
maintaining a fairly constant level for now, and has been since about 
the middle of 2002.  Although the market seems to be moving sideways, 
it is too early to tell whether those bumps and waves are going to 
stabilize, or are going to continue the letdown we've seen since 
April, 2000.  Without looking at the scale, in all those bumps 
and bounces, can you tell which one marks the event of 9/11/01?  I 
thought not.  

So what's all this brouhaha about terrorism and making the world safe 
for the Executive and Legislative Branches of the United States 
government?  Security, as I recall, depends mostly on the existence 
of a contented, happy, and prosperous populace, both domestically 
and abroad.  In this area, it seems, our governments (not just the 
United States) have taken their eye off the ball.  Tonight Yahoo! News 
displays a report that the real security risk, poverty, has been 
ignored too much in the past two years.  While people marched in 
San Francisco and around the world to protest the waging of war, 
we need to remember the second half of the technique of denial and 
affirmation.  When war is eliminated, we need to replace it with 
something more constructive.  Perhaps we need to look past our guns 
and figure out how to distribute all our butter.  

On another front, Business Week reports that oil may not come 
from squashed dinosaurs after all!  Researchers are unearthing 
evidence that the process of oil production is actually tied to 
microbes that live deep within the earth, and that digest 
hydrocarbons emerging from the earth's molten core.  What a 
turnaround this could cause in the minds of our world's industrialists 
and political leaders!  If this mine pans out, then we will have 
discovered in no uncertain terms that the supply of oil is infinite!  
All will agree that we need to abandon that old philosophy of lack, 
that led to hoarding, conquest, and conflict.  We will agree that the 
best service to each other and to ourselves is to share, to give and 
receive, knowing that the supply of energy, the supply of food and 
life, on this planet, is infinite.  All we need to do to nurture this 
infinite cycle is to understand it and shepherd it.  

War is impolite.  Peace is insufficient.  Let us move beyond ignoring 
and suspecting our neighbors, to greeting and helping each other.  


Wednesday, January 01, 2003 1:14:59 PM 

I never know when a particular skill in your skill set is going to 
come in handy.  When I joined the Bank in September, I thought I was 
going to be setting up operating systems and installing software 
packages.  As it turned out, I was not engaged to do either of these 
things.  

The first month I was there, one of my assignments was to write a 
program that would extract messages from a log.  The messages were in 
a specific format, which was mangled by the logging process.  They 
had to be categorized and stored in individual files, and the file 
names had to conform to a specific format that described their 
content.  I decided to write the program in Perl, knowing that this is 
the system administrators' universal programming language, and that 
others would follow me.  Perl, it turned out, was not the language of 
the development group into which I had been accepted.  Although 
everyone at my Microsoft business unit had written in Perl, nobody in 
my group at the Bank was familiar with it.  

I was given another assignment to extract data from an Informix 
database and to load the data into another Informix database, with 
modifications to the data on the fly.  I was given copies of the 
program set that did the data extraction, and from that I was expected 
to move forward with the loading program.  It turned out the 
extraction program set was written in Korn shell!  Suddenly I was on 
solid ground.  I had been teaching Korn shell programming for several 
years, and I knew it intimately.  I studied the interactive utility 
for Informix that the extraction program set used, and wrote my 
loading program in about a week.  

Today I am working with iPlanet, Big IP, and WebSphere.  The only 
correlation with my previous experience is the installation of iPlanet, 
which is just a co-branded version of a Netscape web server.  The 
other products are 100% new to me.  As I learn each of them, and more 
importantly, how they interact, I can expect to add my new knowledge 
to that little filing cabinet in the back of my head.  My next client 
may not use these tools, but some time in the future some client will.  

As a consultant, I have built a vast array of little details in my 
mind, and as a consultant I may be called upon to use them at any 
time.  I am reminded that, although continuous study is required to 
avoid obsolescence, nothing I have ever learned becomes obsolete.  
The act of consulting is directed study, constituting a post-graduate 
curriculum that never ends.  Lifelong learning is not the exclusive 
domain of colleges and universities, it is everywhere.  

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