If you can

If you can, yet today:

 

 

Forget the tribulations and show a bigger smile to those who share life with you;

 

Give one more touch of happiness and beauty to your home;

 

Go visit, even for a short time, the sick person you wish to encourage;

 

Write, even if it’s a simple note, transmitting hope and tranquility, on somebody’s benefit;

 

Enhance your knowledge on the work area you’re currently employing your time on;

 

Extend some more optimism and joy to the ones you live with;

 

Try to forget – but really forget – everything that means a reason for sadness or exasperation;

 

Read some enlightening page and listen to music that sets peace to your heart;

 

Dedicate some minutes to meditate and pray;

 

Practice, at least, one good deed without telling it to anyone.

 

 

These indications of spiritual support, if respected, will do a great good to others, but will be good especially to you.

 

 

André Luiz (spirit) / Chico Xavier (medium)

 

From the book « Respostas da Vida », IDEAL Publishing

 

To find God

Christian life hinges upon brotherly love. We may give expression to the best within us.

 

The Gospel teaches us that there may be always a new beginning every moment so as to gain Christ’s presence.

 

Patience is the power to bring to us the kingdom of happiness. Jesus knows our shortcomings and gives us His tolerance. Let us help each other. Live is the law.

 

We must be faithful in little promises. Many people are completely involved with heavenly glories, while they are careless in little things.

 

Let us wake up. Devotion claims fulfilment. He who knows becomes responsible. The world needs help.

 

Let us be of service at every opportunity. In the Gospel as well as in business one must look ahead.

 

Jesus said; “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered”.

 

We can not measure God’s glory around us, but we can recognize the divine attributes of God through our love to our fellow man.

 

As far as it goes, the definition of the New Testament, “God is love; and he that abideth in  love abideth in God, and God abideth in him”, carries with it the promise that by living  and practising pure love man will finally attain to the state of union with the Maker for  ever.

 

Would we find God? Then we need to follow Jesus Christ. Service with Him, is the real easement of life’s problems.

 

Good things do not come to us by chance. The happiness and the peace in the soul’s kingdom come from love’s service. When we find love in our heart, Jesus is there.

 

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” – Jesus (Matthew, 6:21)

 

ANDERSON

 

July, 9 1965, New York City, NY 

 

(From the Book: “Entre Irmãos de Outras Terras” by F.C.Xavier and V. Vieira)

 

Message found on the webpage of the Spiritist Society of Baltimore: http://www.ssbaltimore.org/Messages.html

Synthesis

Everything passes… joy, pain, happiness, sadness…

 

The Universe is an eternal dynamic…

 

The worlds renew themselves; the beings evolve…

 

Nature dies and is born again thousands of times…

 

A Sun comes from another Sun…

 

A cell comes from another cell…

 

Only God stays…

 

Only God is…

 

He, the Uncreated, alpha and omega of Life, is the Law… 

 

Law that changes without changing itself…

 

That enhances without the need of enhancing itself…

 

That aggrandizes without needing to aggrandize itself…

 

Everything goes by to stay…

 

Everything stays to be…

 

The Spirit, reflection of the Creator, is what counts…

 

Is what stays, is what is…

 

Spirit and God, God and Spirit, summary and synthesis of Life.

 

 

PASTORINO

 

From the book “Juntos Venceremos” (Together we’ll win). Mediums: Francisco Cândido Xavier and Carlos A. Bacelli.

 

 

On difficult moments

When you see yourself on the verge of impatience that is able to throw your heart to the thorns of anguish, count the advantages that you have, in order to become immune to the attack of darkness.

 

Misunderstandings in family…

Remember those who long to find someone, even for a simple argument, on the chronic loneliness in which they find themselves.

 

Friends who go away…

Meditate on the probation of those who never had them.

 

Aggressions…

Think about the balanced brain that you have to support the fellows who are sick on the soul.

 

Beloved ones facing serious problems with feelings…

Meditate about your tranquility and safety, because of which, for now, you are able to stay free of obsessions.

 

Overload of tasks, which compel you to despondency and tiredness…

Spend a few moments examining the fight of the brothers who are out of any possibility of employment to guarantee their own maintenance.

 

Nuisances…

Evaluate the importance of some words of comfort that you can bring to fellows who are sick or comprehensibly weakened by the suffering that dominates them.

 

Broken home…

Take a look at the brothers who go by without a home.

 

 

Count the blessings in your life and vaccinate yourself against despair, because despair is a volcano of fire and darkness; its extension on the domains of disarray and death no one can measure.

 

 

By the spirit André Luiz – From the book  Aulas da Vida (Lessons of life). Medium (automatic writing):  Francisco Cândido Xavier.

 

Message found at Caminhos de Luz .

 

Support

If you can’t be patient because you are under the troubles of some illness, revolting yourself against the situation will only worsen your condition, doing harm to your treatment.  

 

If losses of material resources have dilapidated your economic savings and you stay away from work, intending to protest against the world, that will put you under bigger difficulties.  

 

If you revolt yourself against the illness of someone dear, this attitude will enlarge the sickness of the person you dedicate yourself to.

 

If you rebel yourself against the friend that does not embrace your points of view anymore, that’s a behavior that will only set you on bitterness for no reason.

 

If you don’t accept the work conditions life has designated for you, denying yourself the necessary renovation, you will obtain nothing but frustration on unemployment.

 

If you don’t keep the necessary calm while facing offense and critics, you will inevitably enter the domains of desperation.

 

Patience is the support of peace for all crisis and probations on which you may be. Exchanging it for complaint and rage, discontentment and intolerance, will always be leaving the little difficulty which you are facing to fall into the worst one.

 

 

Emmanuel (spirit) / Chico Xavier (medium)

 

Message distributed by GEEM – Emmanuel Spiritist Group

It has been said…

They’ve said:

 

That you won’t be successful on your business; 

 

That your dear person that is sick is near death;

 

That you will face a long night of hardships;

 

That you won’t find anymore the job you most wanted;

 

That you won’t recover from certain losses you suffered;

 

That the dreams you wish for won’t come true;

 

That the loved ones that are away from you will never come back to be near you again;

 

That the weariness of your physical body won’t allow you to do the things you want so much to do;

 

That for this or that mistake you’ll walk on the Earth constantly under rocks and thorns;

 

 

All of this has been said…

 

 

However, keep working and serving, praying and waiting, because God’s opinions are different.

 

 

Emmanuel (spirit) / Chico Xavier (medium)

 

 

From the website O Espiritismo.com.br

 

Enlightened suggestion

“Start your day on the light of prayer.

 

The love of God never fails.”

 

Emmanuel (spirit), Chico Xavier (medium – automatic writing)

 

Message found on the blog *RELIGARE*

Helping

                        You’ll not always have what you wish for, but while you keep helping others you’ll find the resources that you need.

 

                        Do not be apart. Work.

 

                        Do not complain. Forgive.

 

                        Do not be distressed. Go ahead.

 

                        Do not complicate. Simplify.

 

                        Each one of us, wherever we are, is always building the life that he/she wishes for.

 

 

 

André Luiz (spirit), Chico Xavier (medium)

 

Message found at the website « Caminhos de Luz » . Freely translated by us from Portuguese.

 

Our share

We are not able to correct all the errors and extinguish all the afflictions on the roads of existence, but we can all go through every day, making life better and dignifying it, on us and around us.

 

Emmanuel

Program

 

Work on the present;

Serving others;

Confidence in the future;

Thoughts on good;

Commitment to duty;

Cultivating friendship;

Exercising patience;

Practicing goodwill;

Cultivating gratitude;

Devotion to study;

All Wise God help us remember.  

 

* * *

Past hardships;

Shed tears;

Tendency to despondency;

The friend who went away;

The one who is an enemy for no reason;

The solved problem;

The suffered injury;

The unpleasant meeting;

The induction to censorship;

The useless word;

The empty time;

All Merciful God help us forget.

 

 

From the book “Respostas da Vida” (Answers of Life), by André Luiz. Automatic writing by Chico Xavier. IDEAL Publishing – Instituto Divulgação Editora André Luiz.