"All you need is love love, love is all your need". The Beatles June 1967.

Now thanks to the information passed to me by Richard M, I've moved from 'the dog', further north into the Alberta oil sands region.  The job if you recall from my earlier post, still involves driving coaches, but now I work away from home.  Two weeks living in camp, one week home.  Far from an ideal situation, but needs must and for the first time in over a year, Wendy and I can plan our lives.  So, over all, a good move.  It turns out that Richard M is on the same rotation as I me, so I got too see a lot of my new friend.  I believe people come into our lives on short, medium or long term 'missions'.  I felt Richard M was a short term visitor and having fulfilled his mission of getting me to this area of Alberta, would drop from my immediate 'radar' screen in the near future.  Until that time came round, I enjoyed his company.

In an endeavor too increase her overall spiritual knowledge and understanding, daughter Gemma was drawn to a holistic spiritual Festival of Light, held annually in Llangollen, Wales.  Gem made the trip from Telford in Shropshire, with her good friend Kate.  On arrival at the festival, eager to absorb as much as possible, she saw a tent where there was to be an introduction to the Law of Attraction.  Not knowing what this was, but eager to learn from the festival, Gemma and Kate sat in on the presentation.  I will not try and 'regurgitate' all that the girls heard or felt.  Suffice to say that the email Gemma sent to a number of family members, was full of enthusiasm and references to the 'Law of Attraction' (LOA).  Also to the magnetism of the presenter, Benjamin Stubbs.  She also included a link to a series of videos on You Tube featuring Jerry and Esther Hicks.  To say that Gem's enthusiasm came bursting from the page, is like saying that the Pacific Ocean is big, or Mount Everest is high!  Understatements all!  Having read the email, I promised myself that I would watch the video clips - some time!

When eventually I sat down and watched Esther channel Abraham, I was mesmerized.  Her words were very deep and meaningful and took a second and third watching too truly start grasping her message.  Or more accurately Abraham's message.  What struck me in the message Esther was delivering, was an unmitigated similarity to basic religious teaching - love!  I don't mean the huge religious establishments like the Roman Catholic Church, Church of England etc etc, with all of their rules and threats that go with them.  This was the teaching of pure unadulterated love and that struck a real chord in me.  Things were starting to make sense at last.  There is a law that brings together all the feelings I had been feeling, all the words of wisdom I had experienced and voiced.  It stripped away the layers of control placed there by conventional  religious teachings.  This is the Law of Attraction and my world was going to change for ever.

Richard had told me, not that long before, that there was no such thing as an accident!  How these words rang in my ears now - no such thing as an accident!  This is exactly what the LOA tells us.  We get what we ask for.  Some might call that prayer?  It now struck me - well, Wendy reminded me - that I had got exactly what I has asked in my job!  I had said I'd love a job that involved travel, as Wendy was making some great business trips and I felt just the 'teensiest' bit green with envy!  What happened?  The LOA gave me a job driving coaches!  Remember those words of wisdom from our Grandmothers: "be careful what you ask for, it just might come true"!  That's the LOA in action!  Our grandparents were much smarter cookies that we gave them credit for.  They understood the LOA before it was even called that!  So, I got my travel job!  I wasn't happy where I was and asked for change and along came Richard M.  I just had not been specific enough.  I asked for travel and the LOA said ok, here you go, a bus is traveling, bet you are pleased now!!

While I was on one of my two week stints away from home, Wendy purchased a little book from the bargain bucket in our grocery store - for the Brits, that's a Supermarket.....  A small volume, which holds a big, big message.  When I got home Wendy showed me the book and after a few days of seeing it sitting on the coffee table, I actually opened it and started to read.  I could hardly bring myself to put it down.  I found myself smiling like an idiot as I read words that made infinite sense.  I found myself furiously nodding like a manic donkey as I read more words that made such sense to me.  Yet again I found myself drawing parallels with the words in the book, to religion.  Then to my immense surprise, amongst the many quotes from the good and the wise, were quotes from Jesus Christ!  The Law of Attraction and Jesus Christ preached the same thing!  Unconditional and absolute love!  Then a song came to me from my early teenage years from a hero group of the time, The Beatles, 'All you need is love'!  It seems that for all the stuff that was going on in the mid sixties, the boys knew exactly what the answer was - love!

The book that made such a huge impression on me - the Power by Rhonda Byrne.  I've already recommended this book to a few friends and sent a copy to my son.  It carries a huge message - well it did for me.  I guess the impact of the message depends on your own state of heart and mind?  Mine were wide open!  I jumped straight in, no hesitation, sign me up.  I need to know more and more about the LOA, because it WILL help me change my life, it is already.  I know there are more books out there which will help me understand more of how the LOA works and how I can train myself to receive and use the LOA.  But this small volume will always be the one that DID it for me.  I've already started to carry it too and from camp with me, as a constant reference.  I have a memory like a sieve, so this little book is an invaluable tool for me.  Ohhh and then things moved into another gear altogether!