Are you suddenly unemployed or do you know someone who is? I have been there and made the mistake of waiting too long to file for unemployment, thus disqualifying myself. I was trying to make it on my own, living off credit cards and borrowing money from family and friends. I was getting deeper into debt and was unable to find a job that would replace the income I'd had for many years. Every application I submitted was competing with numerous others, not to mention the fact that I'm 57 years old (prejudice in our country?).

I spent months making low-ball offers on houses in the Southern California real estate market in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, where the REO's (homes owned by banks) were growing in numbers. I thought I could become a landlord to have an income, before my savings ran out. But the banks were not accepting my offers and the auctions were selling houses at retail prices. I started putting things on eBay to sell and maxed out my credit cards learning how to invest in commercial real estate, since buying houses was not working for me.

My financial life was getting pretty scary, as you can imagine. But all of this doing, doing and doing seemed to be getting me nowhere. My money situation was getting worse and worse. My spiritual path was the only thing that held me up during that year... my faith in the goodness of the Divine and knowing the the Divine Presence lives within me. In fact, the Light from my Soul was becoming brighter as I turned my attention within. I began to make a conscious effort to let go of all of the disapproval I had for myself. One day I spent three hours just giving Love and approval to myself. It was an amazing cognition because who was giving love to whom? It was my higher self, the pure Soul, my pure Beingness who was giving Love to the little me, the relative me, the ego/mind/intellect me.

As the days went on, I was able to release more and more disapproval of myself. This nurtured a new, pervasive loving feeling toward my life, ugly as it seemed, and a loving feeling toward everyone I met and saw around me. I was consciously practicing "loving what is" whenever I could remember to throughout each day. I felt lighter and lighter. By the way, I did not invent this. "Loving what is" comes from ancient teachings as well as from modern spiritual teachers in the new age arena.

As I became lighter, small miracles began to happen. For example, though I'd been making offers on properties for 8 months and none had been accepted, suddenly I had two commercial properties under contract within the same week which I will be assigning for a nice fee. Also, a friend volunteered out of the clear blue to loan us $50,000, which we did not accept. And an honorable system for generating cash from home fell into our (my husband had been out of work too!) laps like a miracle.

My husband, too, has been practicing Loving What Is. It is a very powerful, high teaching. It is removing the block we have to receiving and has given us a new outlook on life. Instead of hating our life, we now love even that bad stuff, like IRS suppression happening to us, and believe it or not, the outcomes are changing. We are walking in the in Light, which to me means that focusing on Loving every molecule of what is happening is creating an opening for Grace to flow in our lives. And what could be better than that? Could this be the seed of true enlightenment?