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FROM THE HEART a gift turkey in the mouth, especially when it comes from a
Well, bless my giblets. My mother told me never to look

Alan Cohen is the author of A Course in Miracles police officer.
Made Easy; mastering the Journey from Fear to Before I could say, "Gobble, gobble," Lieutenant Joe was
Love. Join Alan and friends in Hawaii, Feb 26 - standing at my window, hand outstretched with a healthy-
March 2 for a rare retreat, Unplugged. Put your proportioned frozen butterball turkey.
devices aside for a few days, liberate yourself "Wait a minute!" Officer K. called out. "We have to get
from technology, and reconnect with yourself your picture."
and your life. For more information about this
program, Alan’s books and videos, free daily I am not making this up.
inspirational quotes, online courses, and weekly So there I sat, under the floodlights of the Maui Police
radio show, visit www.alancohen.com. Holiday Roadblock on Route 31, posing with a dazed smile
as Lieutenant Joe handed me, your model safe driver, and
OFFICER GOD Munchie (in absentia), your model dog, a holiday present that
Do you believe the universe can take care of all went beyond any other I had received.
of your needs in ways far more clever, creative, and I laughed nearly all the way home. When I walked into my
miraculous than you can imagine? house I held the turkey up before Munchie and told him, "You
Last Thanksgiving a friend baked a large turkey at my are one heckuva manifester, mister." He just smiled.
home, most of which was left over. The real beneficiary of the Pizza Hut may deliver to your door, but when God deliv-
day was my dog Munchie (the famous author), who inherited ers, you won't even have to get out of your car! Our lives, we
the treat of eating turkey for a month! When the turkey ran discover, are created not so much by little thoughts, but by
out, he refused to go back to eating dry food (he's no dummy) intention— the universe is always mirroring out inner choices.
and I realized that I would have to get him another turkey. Recently while I was overnighting at a hotel in South San
Being a vegetarian, however, I was not thrilled about walking Francisco, I called my friend Steve to confirm our appoint-
into Safeway and buying one. ment to meet for lunch the next day in Marin. Steve told me
Not long before then, I was driving along a local highway that his schedule had changed, and asked if we could meet for
when I noticed a police car behind me, and I began to feel breakfast instead. I told him that I would prefer not to have to
nervous. Although I had not broken any laws, I did not like the drive through San Francisco rush hour traffic, but since we had
idea of a cop following me. I realized that I must have been not seen each other in a long time, if that was the only time
harboring some subconscious program about police, so I de- he could meet, I would be willing to do it. I turned it over to
cided to reprogram it by affirming, "The police are my friends; God, and let it go.
they love me and want to help me." I relaxed into a comfort- As I drove toward the city the next morning, I was pleased
able feeling, and let it go. to find there was hardly any traffic. I moved through the heart
One night just after Christmas I approached a police of San Francisco and into Marin with ease, encountering less
roadblock, and I was pulled over. "I am officer K. of the Maui traffic than I have ever experienced in the area. Could it have
Police Department, and we are checking for drunk drivers. been a holiday? To my delight, I arrived at the restaurant ten
May I please see your license and documents?" minutes early.
Sure, no problem. I gave the officer my papers, he looked Steve looked surprised to see me. "How did you get here
them over, and handed them back to me. so quickly?" he asked. "I'm surprised you made it at all!"
"Hey, Joe," I heard him call. "Come over here." "Why would you think that?" I asked.
Why does he need Joe? I wondered. "Because of the BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] strike. The
Officer K. leaned back into my window and asked, "Would roads are glutted."
you like a turkey?" I looked past our table to a newspaper rack. The headline
"Excuse me?" shouted, "BART Strike Cripples Bay Area," accompanied by a
"We have a turkey for you. Would you like one?" photo showing the freeways saturated with thousands of cars,
"Is this some kind of joke?" bumper to bumper.
"No. You are not drunk and your papers are in order. We I think this was a miracle. I think that when our intention
would like to give you a turkey as reward." is pure and we call on a higher power, events on the physi-
cal plane are literally reorganized in accord with our need. I
Rev. Dawn Casseday believe that at every moment each of us lives in the world we
create according to our beliefs and expectations, and as we
Psychic, Clairvoyant, Medium release fear and live for love, the universe rearranges itself in
favor our desired vision.
Reiki /Energy Healing,Tarot Phone A Course in Miracles tells us that all that is required for
Past Life Regression Specialist readings a miracle is "a little willingness." Earlier Jesus told, "If you
had enough faith, you could say to this mountain, ‘Be thou
available removed,' and it would be." If that works for mountains, it can
386-478-0341 certainly work for manifesting a turkey, getting beyond traffic

www.revdawncasseday.com jams and creating anything else your heart desires. Let us
practice knowing that God and love and goodness are present,
CASSADAGA and we deserve to live in the kingdom of love even as we walk
the earth.
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