My true Identity abides in You.

That You is God.

My true Identity abides in You, God.

The shit is starting to hit the fan here in the world.

The time we knew was coming has arrived. The tide has turned and now is the time for faith. You’re going to see a lot of changes. Abundance books are about to take a nosedive in sales. Mark my words.

When people are on the verge of foreclosure, with no work and no money, and are having to sell their cars to pay their credit card debt, and have no food to eat, believe me, they are not thinking about how to get their millions.

Suddenly, IT’S BACK TO BASICS.

You realize that STUFF is just stuff, and it means nothing.

When you are stripped of everything you thought kept you safe, when there is nothing left for you to cling to, when you are standing naked and exposed, YOUR TRUE IDENTITY IN GOD is revealed to you.

I find that most people use God as a past-time, like a hobby. As if being spiritual is something hip and cool, rather than a total necessity, like water.

It is said you cannot survive without water for more than 10 days, and so it is with God. You cannot survive without God. You just can’t. It’s impossible. You can go for a very very very long time, but there will come a time when you simply start to dehydrate.

I used to work for the University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter and our editors wrote a sentence that put our newsletter on the map: “Water is a very good drink.” Every health magazine in the country picked up that sentence and reprinted it, as if it was cutting-edge leading information. Water is a very good drink.

Well, guess what? It is!! Water is a very good drink.

And guess what else?

GOD IS A VERY GOOD DRINK.

You should be sipping from the cup of life every day.

The world is in an apparent crisis. Don’t forget: It’s a dream. Please don’t take it seriously. If you take it seriously, you will get sucked in, sucked down, dragged down, and torn to shreds.

Shit Hitting the Fan is the very best analogy to what is happening right now. Shit is flying everywhere. It’s affecting everyone. I read yesterday that retirement funds have lost $2 trillion dollars in the past 12 months. That’s interesting. What’s going to happen to the way we live? How do you survive when your safety net is taken away?

One of my readers was served foreclosure papers yesterday, and another reader who is on disability and receives money from the government for housing is convinced she will be homeless soon because the government will stop sending her a check every month.

What is happening?

We are forced to ask for help and start communicating with each other. It might be that people have to start living in family structures again. Who knows? Can you imagine! All these people who have been living alone and single for all these years suddenly living together with others in communities.

What I do know for certain is that God is good.

Do you pray every day?

Prayer is essential. It’s like water. You absolutely NEED it on a daily basis.

I pray hourly for guidance, grace, direction and wisdom.

The form doesn’t matter. Religion doesn’t matter. There’s no special clothing required. You don’t have to get on your knees if you don’t want to. You don’t need a private sacred space. You don’t need candles nor music nor special mat. All of that is distraction.

All that is needed is that you take a few minutes throughout the day to get quiet and start listening, looking and hearing.

All that is needed is a little willingness to see things differently.

The great Emmet Fox said, “Have you ever noticed that God gave you two eyes and two ears but only one tongue?”

Most people just talk talk talk talk talk - about their problems, about their worries, about their concerns, about their solutions, about their situations. Talk talk talk talk talk.

It’s time to start listening and looking.

Now is the time for faith.