The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, The Importance of Self-Discovery, reminds us to discover who we really are. The Healthy Living article, Thomas and Reynold’s Grand Ma’s Coconut Buttermilk Biscuits, provides a recipe for yummy biscuits. In the Anne Talk, Conscious Business Zone with Anne Sermons Gills, Anne talks with Kathy Mason about EZosophy. In the Anne’s Prosperity Video, The Universe Has Your Back, Anne suggests that we remember and acknowledge that we are worthy of being blessed. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s fifth book, The Living Book. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click to join Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

The 8 Word Miracle Mantra: “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.” -- Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, January 21, 2019
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Finally, we have a contract on our house. We close on May 4 because the new owners still have a lease, but so far, all the papers are signed. I am excited. Even though South Carolina is farther north than The Woodlands, the weather is similar. I cannot wait to spend more time with our precious grandchildren. We’ll be going up in March to babysit and try to buy a new home. We are exited that the new owners only live two blocks away. They love the neighborhood and love the house. We gave them a super deal, so they must be dancing. From the first time they saw the house, nine months ago, I thought they were the ones. I love our home. It’s surrounded by trees and our city was just ranked number two in the country as the best place to raise a child. I know, those polls disagree, but we do live in an outstanding community. Goodbye, 52 W. Tallowberry. I love you. Your new mommy will take care of you. Their baby comes in March.

I am ghost writing a book. This is my first one. I wasn’t sure I could do it, but I’ve taken on many tasks for the first time. I’m having a great time, and my friend, who hired me, and her client, are thrilled with what I’ve written. I get a high from them getting a high from reading the story. I’m bringing forth a story that needs a voice. When there’s a story to be told, thoughts gather. They form something like a writing angel that brings the story through. And that’s how I feel, like a writing angel is guiding me. It is the story of how a woman pulled through a series of hardships and was able to reclaim her life. It’s easy to imagine her plight because I’ve been there. Her life-events were worse than mine, but women have this special ability to almost put themselves in the middle of someone else’s pain. I’ve never met her, or talked with her on the phone, but, armed with a few facts on paper, I’ve entered her soul. And that’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

The Importance of Self-Discovery

I thought spirituality was going to be glitzy. I expected to be on the front lines of consciousness, ringing in a new awareness that would noticeably bring the world to its knees. I meditated, chanted, and prayed. I was excited and revved up. I attended visionary conferences and even helped put a few together. I traveled the world in my quest. What I got instead of the expected pizzazz was a cozy comfort akin to a security blanket. I received a calming inner rest. Even though the world goes crazy, I live in a world that can’t be dragged into the ever-present drama of daily events. I’m not always in that spot; I do get yanked around by bad news, but I don’t believe in those events. The news is not my god. I don’t live in the center of worldly chaos. Do I know what’s going on? Absolutely, and I grieve, but I don’t let the tragedy of life’s occurrences define me.

I recently did an interview with Kathy Mason (today’s Anne Talk, in the other column). She asked me what I saw for the future. What was my outlook? I was startled by the question. I replied that I didn’t look ahead because seeing the events that lay ahead is a heavy burden. It’s like making a to do list and trying to accomplish everything at once, rather than sequentially. It’s safer to have an in-look instead of an out-look. I’ve watched friends go to a psychic to see their future. Go for it, but I don’t want to see my future unless I’m concocting joyful scenarios in my mind. When I look out to the next year, it looks rosy, because I’m looking through that inner calm. It’s an in-look.

I’ve been around the cosmic circle more than once and I thought I had a clear vision of how my life would roll, but it seems the Universe had different plans. I wanted wisdom but received humor. Maybe we have enough wise people! I wanted courage but received the ability to forgive. I wanted to be great, but my life became a match for my finicky nervous system, not for greatness. I once went on a southern speaking tour. I spoke in six places in two weeks and drove a long, long way, alone. It was fun, wonderful, but my body screamed. It was too much input for my mind and body. I wasn’t built for it. I’m a one-thing-at-a-time kind of person. My inner voice spoke up and gave me a choice. “Do you want to be ill or healthy? Super successful or dead? Going on these long, stressful trips is going to do you in.” I listened. That was my last tour. When I travel to speak, I speak at one place and return home. In and out; quick and easy.

Though I don’t live in the outer world, I know that there is an outer world to be managed. I need a place to live, food, clothes, friends, and organized affairs. No, not that kind of affairs! I mean that my tasks and my life need management. I have a will, hum; we’ll have to change it when we move to another state. I need to travel the safest and easiest route when I drive. I need to maintain my life. This is where the Law of Attraction (LOA) really shines. Implementing the LOA makes life maintenance easier. Affirmations are one of the instruments in the LOA toolbox. An affirmation is a positive statement that envisions or affirms things the way we want them to be. (Yes, I know you know this.) When I drive up to a busy intersection, I start saying, “Perfect timing; perfect order.” I actually sing it. I sing it frequently. As I ghost write a book, I think to myself, “It came together so easily.” My self-talk does not say, “What are you doing? Are you crazy? You’ve never done this before.” Nope, I pull out that inner blanket and forge ahead, singing myself love songs about the outcome. And so far, it’s working. Years ago, when I was stretching to pay my bills, being $700 a month upside down, before food, I would affirm, “I always pay my bills on time.” I would get still and ask over and over, “What can I do?” and take notes. I was willing to do what it took to make enough to pay my bills and pay them on time, and my strong intention worked. I paid every bill on time, every time. Positive thinking and the LOA have saved my life on many occasions.

The LOA is perfect for handling the outer world, but delving into the inner world is necessary as well. Why? Because if we don’t travel inward, we never will know who we are. We’ll die believing that we are no more than our emotions, thoughts, beliefs, our body, or the sum of our experiences. That is not who we are. That’s the fluff. That’s the illusion. Who are we? We can read an extensive book about a donkey, but neither the book nor the donkey information is a donkey. The physical realm and our body, emotions, and beliefs are like that book, and we are like the actual donkey. It’s easier to say who we are not, than to say who we are. We are not that which gets punched in the gut. Yes, it will hurt, but the body exists in a different kind of reality than who we are does.

There was once a warlord who destroyed countless monasteries. His general rode ahead of the army. His task was to enter the premises and roust any remaining monks. He encountered one monk who refused to leave. He reported this to the warlord, and he instructed his general to threaten his life and make him go. The general threatened the monk, but he refused to go. The warlord was infuriated. He went to the monastery and confronted the monk, “Get out. I don’t think you know who I am. I could run my sword through you and pull it out and never bat an eye.” The monk replied, “Sir, I don’t think you know who I am. You could run your sword through me and pull it out and I would never bat an eye.” That monk knew who he was, and that knowledge made him invincible.

Okay, we may never reach brave-beyond-measure monk status, but if we don’t know who we are, we better check into a monastery. That was a joke, but if we don’t know who we are, we need to find out as soon as possible, and when we do, everything will be EZier and EZier.

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  What is EZosophy?

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  Healthy Living

Thomas and Reynold’s Grand Ma’s Coconut Buttermilk Biscuits

Do you ever have a craving for something you haven’t had for ages? The longing feels like an itch that needs to be scratched. It happened to me. The thought came out of the ethers and accosted me: “I want a buttermilk biscuit.” After five days of harassment, I knew I’d better make that biscuit. Let’s buy some buttermilk. I limit my intake of dairy, so going to the grocery store to buy buttermilk was a rare experience. It had probably been forty years since I purchased buttermilk. Buttermilk buying is more complicated in contemporary life than it was years ago. When I was a kid, there was one kind of buttermilk to purchase. Today, in my world of endless choices, I shopped for one pint of regular organic buttermilk. I was out of luck. No organic buttermilk; no size smaller than a quart; and no regular, full fat milk. Damn those low-fat freaks! I walked out with one quart of regular non-organic buttermilk.

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Thomas and Reynold’s Grand Ma’s
Coconut Buttermilk Biscuits
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I prayed to my Google Assistant for a great recipe and she came through. She provided a recipe that created a renaissance of biscuit making in my kitchen. Did you know, and why did I never know, that you can cut your butter or lard into the flour with a food processor? Biscuit making suddenly became easy. Yummy, I made two batches of buttermilk biscuits. Six cups of milk left, and if you know me, you know that I don’t waste food.

A diabolical plan arose. Suppose I made a healthier biscuit? The following recipe is my modified version of some grandma’s biscuit recipe. Hoping this iconoclastic move, to make a healthier biscuit, does not offend nor create useless melancholy for our traditional bakers or those loyal to grandma. If it will make you feel any better and more loyal to your elders, I am a grandma too.

Thomas and Reynold’s Grandma’s Coconut Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe

Preheat oven to 425°F (My oven is gas and hot, so I do 415°F.)

Ingredients

• 2-1/2 cups of whole wheat white flour (King Arthur Organic Whole Wheat White or Trader Joe’s Whole Wheat White)

• 1 teaspoon salt (It’s okay to use 1/2 teaspoon. I tried it both ways. It’s just personal preference.)

• 2 Tablespoons of baking power

• 2 Tablespoons of ground flax seeds

• 1/2 cup cold coconut oil

• One cup plus two tablespoons of buttermilk

• 2 teaspoons of agave

If you do not have a food processor, let me know and I will pray for you. If you do not know how to use a food processor, I will assume you are either a rebel or that you don’t cook much. That said, get out your food processor right now. Assemble your ingredients.

Place dry ingredients in food processor or bowl. Mix by hand or in processor.

Add coconut oil to processor and mix, using the pulse mode, until coconut oil is thoroughly mixed.

If you are using a bowl, cut oil into flour mixture using two knives or a pastry cutter.

Put mixture in a wooden dough bowl or mixing bowl. Make a hole in the center and pour in liquids. Mix well. Roll out. Form biscuits. (I use the bottom of a glass as a biscuit cutter.) Place on baking sheet and cook about 15 minutes. I check after 10 minutes. The tops will not be brown, so check the bottoms. They are ready when the bottom is brown. If you have leftovers, place them in a vacuum sealed bag and leave them at room temp. They will stay good for a couple of days. They freeze well and last up to three months in the freezer. I don’t refrigerate bread. I consider that a bread abomination. I let it stay out or freeze it. And, if you’ve read this far, I bet you want a buttermilk biscuit.

If you have any healthy living tips for the newsletter, send them to me at anne@annegillis.com.

  Anne Talk

Conscious Business Zone with Anne Sermons Gills

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Today’s Anne Talk is Conscious Business Zone with Anne Sermons Gills. Anne with Kathy Mason about EZosophy. Time: 44:32

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The Universe Has Your Back

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Today’s Anne’s Prosperity Video is The Universe Has Your Back. Anne reminds us to remember that we are worthy of being blessed. 5:33

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