The Lessons We Learn From Sesame Street

Rushing out the house this morning.. Well not really rushing. While calmly preparing for my day, I turned the television to Sesame Street to keep my doggy company while I was away. A familiar bright blue bug-eyed character appeared on the screen who goes by the name of Cookie Monster. He says, "it's not easy being a cookie monster! You have to wait around all day for cookies!" (He was very sad about this.) "I WISH I could have cookies all the time, whenever I wanted them.." Suddenly a fairy god-mother appeared (played by the Asian woman from ER) in her bright pink tutu and cookie magic wand she tells him that his WISH is her COMMAND and from now on anything he touches will become a delicious cookie for him to eat. Overjoyed, Cookie Monster starts touching EVERYTHING turning it all into delicious cookies and eating them all up. After sometime he gets bored. He decides that it is no fun having all these cookies all to himself! Having all the cookies in the world doesn't mean anything unless you can share them with your friends and all the people that you love...

Cookie Monster in a few short moments became a master of the SECRET. Step #1. ASK. Cookie Monster had to know exactly what he wanted so that he could ask for it. The Universe/God/Fairy godmother responds to specificity. If you don't know what you want how is he/she 'goin know? Step #2. BELIEVE. Cookie Monster first had to believe that not only the Fairy-godmother existed and was there speaking to him, but he also had to believe that he in fact COULD have all the cookies in the world if he really wanted. If you truly believe this, you can have your cookie AND eat it too because you know that the supply of the Universe never runs dry. You don't have to save your cookies and lock them up in some bank! You can eat and spend freely knowing God is the GIVER and the GIFT. Step #3. RECEIVE. Cookie Monster gladly received his gift and was thankful! But he realized quickly that it was no fun unless he SHARED it. One must GIVE in order to RECEIVE. This is the SUPREME LAW and it works for EVERYTHING! From money... to LOVE and even bad things. One must send jealousy and hatred into the Universe to receive it. A person with a completely pure heart will never receive these things.

For example, I had been sending out a great deal of love into the Universe towards a certain person and was realizing that this particular person was not returning it. But instead of becoming sad, I left the situation up to the SUPREME guidance of the Creator. My phone rang and I was told to answer. It turns out that the caller was Ayanna, one of my best girl friends and I had been wanting to talk to her for some time! We had a GREAT conversation and it really warmed my heart to talk to her. Although the love wasn't received from this particular person (yet...) the love was received. Full circle.

He may not always give you what you WANT but he will always give you what you NEED.
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