The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, Not So Good?, relates Anne’s experiences in learning to deal with life’s various upsets. Click to see Anne’s Quotes. The Featured Product This Month spotlights Anne’s first book, Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic. Click to learn about EZosophy. In today’s Anne Talk, Just Say No, Anne reminds us that just saying No is a path to both honesty and freedom. Click to see Anne’s Art. In today’s Dr. Money Talk, I Have What I Need When I Need It, Dr. Money provides an example of how her washing machine need was quickly and unexpectedly met. Click to learn about Anne’s Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Schedule. Click to Schedule Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Services.

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

Living EZosophy, March 31, 2020
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The 12-step program has an acronym, “ODAT.” It means, “One day at a time.” It might be the most useful phrase of today’s world. ODAT reminds us to live in the present. Given our changing world today, making plans for the future is almost a thing of the past. It’s challenging to plan a move; all plans are dubious. Our stone is blank as we wait for instructions from the Universe and the government. Our flimsy arrangements revise themselves daily. Our current plans are to put our things in storage in the Texas area, in case our loan doesn’t close. Who knows if the mortgage company will continue to give new loans when people have the go ahead to skip payments?

While our plans hover over a slip-sliding reality, good things abound. Each time I hit a roadblock, a miraculous answer surfaces. I am gobsmacked by the ease flowing through a desert of impossibilities. We need a washer. I didn’t want to buy a new machine and store it for 6 months. My friend brings one to me on the same day I make a Master Mind request. And my friend happens to be a retired building inspector who could give us advice on a current problem we were having on our electrical panel. As I spoke to her about our electrical problem, the lights blinked on and off in the room we were in. They have never done that. A friend offered to take our castoffs, since Goodwill is closed, and store them for her garage sale. I told her that we weren’t sure if the storage places would be open during the stay at home order, and she says, “Ours is.” I forgot she works at a storage facility. How wonderful. We can store our furniture at her facility. There are too many miraculous connections to list. I feel like I am riding on a magic carpet over a burning forest. The world is full of a current tragedy, but I’m lifted above it – at least part of the time. I’m thinking that if people are not worried a little bit, then they are not paying attention, or they are fooling themselves. You can put whipped cream over a mud pie, but it’s still a mud pie. Will good come of this? Of course, but it’s spiritually wise to face the good, the bad, and the ugly. And that’s it for the Anne Report. 34 days ’til closing. Yes! And yikes!

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Not So Good?

I've been tracking the COVID-19 virus for about two weeks. Earlier in the week, it looked like the U. S. would have the most cases in the world by Saturday the 28th. As I watched the numbers go up, the United States cases surpassed China on Wednesday the 25th. I posted on Facebook that the U. S. now has more coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the world. One of my friends remarked, “I'm not surprised, given our lifestyles.” I asked her what she meant. “Do you mean that, as a culture, our immune systems are lowered because we don't exercise enough, and we eat junk food?” Her reply, “I was thinking about how people have this belief that it can't happen to us. We don't take measures to take care of ourselves because we have this belief that we're invincible. It will never happen to me.”

Yep, there was I time when I believed that nothing bad would ever happen to me. I was a good person, and I had recently upped my spiritual commitment. I exercised, ate well, and thought positive thoughts. I was a poster child for Norman Vincent Peale. What could go wrong? Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to me, I believed in a Santa Clause God. No lumps of coal for me; I’ll always get the good stuff.

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The first major wakeup call brought that belief to a temporary, abrupt halt. I was in Martinique. An orangutan jumped on me; it happened in a flash. His claw went into my stomach and punctured my lower abdomen. I was in the mountainous rain forest and there was little medical help. My guide escorted me (we were on foot; of course we were), to a clinic for treatment. It had a dirt floor, but despite the limitations, the doctor did a good job sewing me up. “Stay out of the water for several weeks.” “No!” Have you ever seen the water in Martinique? I would be grounded while at one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. I was incredulous that I had an orangutan encounter and that I was wounded. “No, I’m a good person. Bad things don’t happen to me.” That was one of my many awakenings. Regardless of how good I tried to be, there was no guarantee that life would be perfect and that I would not experience health challenges, relationship problems, or other hardships.

Still, I pushed aside the parts that didn’t fit the model of being good: the belief that I was so good and that trying to be “good” at all costs, led to dark shadows around my soul. Eventually, I had to get real, examine my premise, and create new beliefs that worked for me – ones where I didn’t engage in magical thinking and that didn’t make me distort my self-image. I stumbled around for a few more years, divesting myself of the belief that because I was so good, nothing bad would happen to me, but there came a time that I had to drop it. The whole situation was steeped in perfectionism, shame, and feeling disappointed in life. What a relief. A burden lifted.

What beliefs helped me to re-establish my faith in life without pushing away reality?

• Not all is good, but good can come from all, if I’m open to it. Some people would rather not believe in good endings, and, for them, I don’t think they will get them. Not because they are bad, but because they overlook them when they come, in deference to beliefs such as “nothing good ever happens to me, life ultimately sucks, or I don’t deserve a good life.” The belief that good will show up somewhere, never fails me.

• I always come out smelling like a rose. Again, this means that, at the end, things will be okay. A side note: as I cycled the neighborhood trails yesterday, I saw these words written across the path in large, green, chalk-drawn letters, “Everything is going to be okay.” I smiled.

• My safety does not always include my body, but who I am is always safe. I worked relentlessly with my thoughts to be sure I never encountered physical harm. It didn’t work, and I was rigorous in protecting myself mentally, physically, and emotionally. When I realized that I wasn’t my body, I finally understood that what is real and true, cannot be jeopardized.

Life is not predictable. Whether it is 9/11, a hurricane, or a pandemic, we are always at risk. Bad things happen. The current pandemic brings us to the cliff of not knowing, and there’s nothing the egoic mind detests more than uncertainly. Even if we are in good health, attractive, and successful, we are not exempt from collective disaster. We must face this truth, but, amid uncertainty, we must carry our best beliefs with us for comfort. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I will fear no evil, for thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” The principles and beliefs we develop and embody through the floods of life are our rods and staffs. We don’t need to throw them away when the flood comes. We need to use them to build a boat in our consciousness so we can cross the current challenge safely, and when we do, life will be EZier and EZier.

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  What is EZosophy?

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  Anne Talk

Just Say No

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In today’s Anne Talk,  Just Say No, Anne reminds us that just saying No is a path to both honesty and freedom. Time: 5:12

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  Dr. Money Talk

I Have What I Need When I Need It

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In today’s Dr. Money Talk, I Have What I Need When I Need It, Dr. Money provides an example of how her washing machine need was quickly and unexpectedly met. 3:43

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