pay yourself first…

“Try to set aside some of your monthly income for yourself alone. This enables you to invest in yourself and in your future.”
Your Angel’s Message:
One secret of abundance that any people don’t realise is that paying yourself first is a wonderful way to take care of yourself. Of course, your other obligations are important. You need to pay the bills. You also have a debt to yourself too. If you can try to save a small portion of every wage. Keep this money in a savings account to only ever be touched when you truly need it for your future. 

You may be horrified at the concept of investing in yourself. Surely that relates to your ego. The answer to this is absolutely not. When you pay yourself, you’re recognizing your own self-worth. You are acknowledging that you deserve abundance, peace and prosperity within your life. This is so good for your general energy! Treat yourself the same way you’d treat anyone else that you love. The rewards will be great! 
What You Should Do:
So, with all of the above in mind, it’s time to take care of you and your future. It’s time to treat yourself with the same generosity you would extend to someone you love. If you can, try to regularly save around ten percent of your income or just what you can afford. 

And if you promise to tithe some of your winnings, I may be able to help you uncover your Lucky Numbers as well.
Your Affirmation:
“I accept nothing less from my own self than what other people expect from me. I shall always endeavour to pay myself first.”

Oliver’s Birthday

Oliver is nine on Feb 9, 2020

 

He gets nine dollars twice: $18.

Not enough for his new bike pedals,

but enough for multiplication and addition practice

learning to budget time and dollars

learning to budget patience too

daily at the mill of generosity

in the village where children thrive!

Saint David Nussbaum

border by Cherkasova; Adobe inDesign by Jeanne

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my Podiatrist

is extraordinary:

as I proclaim here.

Soothing

design by Yamamoto

Perhaps as a child you had the chicken pox
and your mother, to soothe you in your fever
or to help you fall asleep, came into your room
and read to you from some favorite book,
Charlotte’s Web or Little House on the Prairie,
a long story that she quietly took you through
until your eyes became magnets for your shuttering
lids and she saw your breathing go slow. And then
she read on, this time silently and to herself,
not because she didn’t know the story,
it seemed to her that there had never been a time
when she didn’t know this story—the young girl
and her benevolence, the young girl in her sod house—
but because she did not yet want to leave your side
though she knew there was nothing more
she could do for you. And you, not asleep but simply weak,
listened to her turn the pages, still feeling
the lamp warm against one cheek, knowing the shape
of the rocking chair’s shadow as it slid across
your chest. So that now, these many years later,
when you are clenched in the damp fist of a hospital bed,
or signing the papers that say you won’t love him anymore,
when you are bent at your son’s gravesite or haunted
by a war that makes you wake with the gun
cocked in your hand, you would like to believe
that such generosity comes from God, too,
who now, when you have the strength to ask, might begin
the story again, just as your mother would,
from the place where you have both left off.

“Prayer” by Keetje Kuipers from Beautiful in the Mouth. © BOA Editions, 2010. Reprinted with permission.

Definition #151(Jeanne from Queens #23) Larger than Life

Jeanne makes a huge Raggety Annie for baby Quenby
1975

Big dolls-big men-big

babies, beds, dramas, cars, hats,

generosity!

Definition #72 clutching

Ebenezer Scrooge, whom Dickens described as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner. Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.

clutching robs the skin

of shine and glow and largesse:

generosity!