Quoting from the web article at http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000009416.cfm

Good News: Government Ad Campaign Promotes Marriage

As more people delay marriage and a growing number of Americans choose never to tie the knot, the federal government is promoting the benefits of the institution with a national media campaign that gets under way this month. The $5 million effort is led by the National Marriage Resource Center.

Mike McManus, president of Marriage Savers, said the initiative is long overdue.

“We’ve had a 50 percent drop in the marriage rate since 1970, when there were 21 million never-married Americans,” he said. “In 2006, it tripled to 60 million.”

David Popenoe, founder and director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, said both the government and families could do more to support marriage.

“It’s every parent’s duty to promote marriage for their children and to work with their children to help them to have a lasting, stable marriage,” he said.

Popenoe pointed out that married couples benefit society. “They contribute more,” he said, “produce more and are less of a drain on the taxpayers.”

— Roger Greer

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Well, I’ve developed a bit of a script that seems to work for me and in my humble opinion is actually resulting in answered prayers across the board.

When the anxiety pops up – I ask myself a few things.

Is worrying going to help any?

Probably not. In fact, it will actually delay my prayers if I understand the model of the universe we live in correctly.

Is it true that letting go actually helps prayers become manifest?

Yes.

Is it true that worrying interrupts the manifestation and diverts your prayer energy?

As far as I know.

Is there any down side to letting go and releasing your prayer into the heavenlies?

Well, now that I think about it. Not really. If I hold on, well that’s not going to help at all. So fine…. I’m going to trust whatever is up there helping me. In fact, I’m going to let go of my wife completely and let your will be done with this. I may not like it right now, but hey there may be a bigger plan on the horizon. In fact, I’m gonna just trust…… in something I can’t see, hear, feel, taste, or touch.

A day or two later…. prayer answered. Sometimes it happens within minutes. One of the requirements seems to be not interfering too much and putting parameters around the delivery of prayers as that is not exactly trusting.

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I had debated posting this for some time. It is convoluted, but I thought it would open a window into some of the prayer work and thing that have been going on.
 

A few days ago, as I was coming to work – something sort of said to me as the odometer was approaching 140.00 – see where you are at when the odometer is at 140. I thought to myself – errr? What is this raucus?

Yup. Talking to myself again I guess… maybe. Perhaps it was a disincarnate spirit. Perhaps a “nature god”. Perhaps my higher self. Jesus? God? Earth Consciousness? My subconscious? I really don’t know at this point. I do know it was a thought though and it popped into my head out of nowhere so I went with it.

As I approached the magical 140 – well at first I thought that maybe this was related to the street sign I had just passed, but then I realized I was actually on a “bridge”.  Bridge. Interesting.

As I drove into work, I happened to pass right by bus #140. Interesting. The plot thickens.

I arrived at work and checked my email. The first message in there is something about “The Bridge – Step 9″. I zeroed in on this for two reasons: one – the girl who served me last night at Denny’s had her birthday on the 9th, and two – this bridge event which had happened earlier. So I read the email and went ahead and downloaded this ebook called “The Bridge”.  It is essentially a prayer / manifestion guide in the spirit of Mark 11:22, but with a new age flavor. That sounds great, but wait – it gets better.

This same morning I had a few dreams most of which are in my written dream journal offline; however, I thought I’d bring to the forefront – one of the dreams. In it, my wife and I were both riding back to our old house (I was driving) and came back the reverse direction from a long winding road in my hometown to our old house. She kept asking – do you normally come this way and similar questions. As you may know, we are currently separated and I’ve been fighting tooth and nail to get our marriage back together somehow – so this dream may have had some marital messaging for me in addition to any cosmic type guidance.

As I opened my brand new book, “the Bridge”, somehow the computer had switched it to page 30, which was The Bridge Reminder #6 – Getting Home! It discussed loving our enemies and such. I felt jolted as I recalled my dream about getting home the reverse direction. Home. Home sweet home. The back way????? Errrr?

I thought it was neat how the whole thing went down. Now one could certainly argue that all of this is merely a function of my brain or ego attempting to survive and recognizing patterns and attaching to them. Fair enough. I have thought much the same myself. However, here is the kicker. Once this stuff starts happening, it seems to get louder and louder until you start to pay attention and quit ignoring it – at least that is how it went down for me.

This all ties back into the idea that what we call reality is in a weird sort of way – actually a dream  – not that I’ve ever woken up from the dream – this is all purely theory and speculation at this point. Shohn’s tips for getting marriage back together – find out secrets of the universe – then get marriage back together. Perhaps my strategy is a bit off.

With this framework laid out, I have been attempting to follow / get guidance from what many would term in the new age as the “higher self”. It seems that there are a variety of channels for communicating with whatever is up there or out there in the blue ether.

Here is another example. I had a spiritual question on vitamins – rather – which ones to use. I had researched various herbs for enhancing dream vividness. The goal being to get my mind to such a level that I can have a “near death experience” and talk to the being at the end of the tunnel of light without the normally mandatory blood and guts for such an experience. If you are a Bible reader, you may recall the experience that Paul had in the desert on the way to Damascus – the blinding light? Well, instead of taking LSD or Peyote like normal folks, I’m trying to get my mind to operate at maximal levels to arise from this dream we call reality. This means I need appropriate neurotransmitter chemical thingies or something like that.

One herb I had found was something called the kava kava root. It is said to help reduce anxiety and allow for better sleep. Mmmmmmm -  reduced anxiety… yummy.

I was researching this in the morning.  I specifically looked this one up on wikipedia. Later on that night, I opened my herb book for the first time in a long time. It turned to a page about “Kava Kava” root – directly.  This was not in the middle of the book. It was a 300 page book. Coincidence?  You tell me.

I decided it wasn’t and went to the vitamin store for some good ol’ Kava Kava root.

At this time, I have been taking it for several days in conjunction with super doses of B vitamins.

The first night I took it, it felt sort of weird as I was fading into sleep. However, through this combination – I have noticed a definite improvement in the vividness of my dreams. Many seem “real”.  Since then, almost every single night – my dreams have been quite vivid – leaving impressions to sort through for much of the rest of the day.  No tunnel of light at this point, but hey I am still learning how to eat spiritual baby food here.

Well with my new found dream pills, I have been having some rather interesting dreams about the wife. The day before I had a dream that she was “cleaning” out our house, but wasn’t ready to come home. Last night I had a dream that she was “preparing” to come home. I can’t wait for this dream to become reality.
 

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