Let me see I started to post something similar to where I think I’m going tonight on Monday.

I mean the webinar was great as usual, that 50-minute exercise with the one sentence DMP was not just extra it was special. Somewhere in the middle of the exercise I had this rush of energy that filled me up such that I had to pause and just be! I felt a good vibration as I finished.

Monday morning after reading and the sit, I got right into the cards, it didn’t take much time and hardly any effort to come up with 50, it just kind of flowed. Of course, these cards cut across all the stages of your life and create a reflective mode.

Where it’s interesting is with the affirmations. I had the five affirmations and of course as a self-directed thinker I decided to add one that I really like, which is ten two letter words; “If it is to be It is up to me.”

I first heard this in on Sunday March 18,1984 from a Salvation Army Major at a mandatory service, where I was in a non-medical detox program for addiction to alcohol and other drugs. I then modified it a couple of weeks later adding two words; and thee.

On Monday I wrote this twelve-word affirmation and then I wrote again this time If it is to be it is up to thee and me.

Then as I was contemplating which one to use. I kept both. I then was moved to think about the word thee and how it came to mean God, Higher Power, Universal Spirit, Great Spirit whatever to me.

It means you in the dictionary, so then I thought maybe there is a Spiritual connotation where is means God, no not so. The only place that I found that it seems to be used as a term of respect is in the Church of Latter-Day Saints.

I’m trying to remember how it took on this significance where this use of thee means only Higher Power to me.

Well for one I don’t refer to my family or friends as thee meaning you. I then remembered it was in the Big Book of AA and it’s in THE chapter How It Works and the third step prayer, which begins God, I offer myself to thee, it is a beautiful prayer, I’ll leave it there.

Well, I satisfied my curiosity if nothing else. I could just here stop since I talk in loops anyway. I won’t since there is a link to Haanel somewhere, so I’ll finish that part of the story.

Now back to the day before which was St Patrick’s day where the Major gave this affirmation. On that day, the 17th, my dilemma was lack of power. This is the linkage to Haanel and how you need to have it as well as the importance of power in your life especially Spiritual power.

So, on that day the 17th of march I took the first step in Alcoholics Anonymous which you don’t really take the first two steps, one, you admitted powerlessness and unmanageability, which I did by showing up at that place on the second biggest drinking day of the year.

And two, you come to believe that you can be restored to sanity by believing in something greater than yourself, i.e. a Higher Power.

Lack of power is the dilemma, getting power is the solution. Haanel talks about power in some way in almost every week with the key being as stated this week the “knowledge of your power, the courage to dare and the faith to do.”

Which keeps you from going backwards in applying the law of attraction.

I will stop here, since this is the first week that I took pause in reading Haanel and as a result I have written something in the margins of 95+% of the numbers and exploring those thoughts could take a while.

Go check out what happened last week.