Recently my dear friend Jon Yeo introduced the ‘gratitude’ earth marbles to fellow Ozzie’s in Melborne. In Jon’s words here is what the gratitude program means to him:

“BlueMarble is about connecting people all over the world in a spirit of harmony and gratitude. It is a reminder of how small the world is and how powerful gratitude can be if we all choose to stay connected. The Blue Marble itself is a focus and celebration of that fact. It is a reminder how important it is for people to come together in gratitude, connect and keep moving, all the while speading peace and gratitude with all the people they meet on the way:
We will be seeing more of Jon and Melborne in the coming days as more videos come along…..

Here is Jon himself!

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I believe I have said this many times, that we can create a profound and unexplainable inner peace with an attitude of gratitude. I remembered today how much I loved watching the RAINBOW and the immense joy and gratitude I feel to see this miracle each single time it shows up. This summer when I took a trip to Miami with my children, after a very rainy afternoon, my daughter and I stepped out into the balcony to be greeted by such a miracle. Our room faced the oceanfront, and there right in front of our eyes, the most grand and majestic rainbow, a double rainbow actually. I do not know if I can articulate in words the magic I felt in my heart as I appreciated this beautiful magnificent sight in front of me.
I know the story of Noah and how the rainbow was a sign of God’s grace….I thought about the thunderstorms in my life from time to time…some quite intense…how could we ride this believing afterwards a miracle awaits. While we are undergoing the rains in our life, we could still appreciate the rainbow that is coming afterwards if we can keep our faith alive and surrender to the works of nature which is magnificent.
I feel at PEACE at this moment as I write this blog, I have had tremendous inner growth recently, a push into the fire you could say to learn about faith, and to learn about letting go and just trust and have faith. I heard Ester Hicks through a random YouTube video describe the analogy of paddling upstream of a strong river going downhill…she said, we created that strong stream, so why are we not going with the flow downhill towards what is our destiny, what we want and created…but instead we work and work our butts off trying to go uphill just exhausted with the ‘work’ we seem to think we ‘must’ do to accomplish our purpose. I tell you, I let go, I was so exhausted…and it is amazing how stubborn the mind can be, it can be amazing how unaware we are that it is our stubborn mind keeping us from letting go and just ‘allowing’ the river to take us to our destiny easily and effortlessly…which is how it should be.
I know we are all students of raising our awareness and consciousness of our own universe and we all have colorful paths but in the end we are all riding that same rainbow, all of us at different levels and speeds but all learning how to just let go….and let’s do this with gratitude. Are you facing tremendous stress and pressure today, you are not alone my friend, just look into your heart and let go and know the very stress that you are ‘working’ at is there to teach you to let go and stop paddling….just ride the rainbow…
Much gratitude
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Zachariah
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I experienced that consciously being in a place of gratitude and appreciation allows the flow of universal conspiracy. This subtle change within feels like being in the center of warm creamy yummy chocolate and you feel this incredible sense of satisfaction and contentment….. what can I say, I like chocolate!
It also triggers some kind of universal inner connection and you meet these incredible individuals who turn out to be your soul sisters and brothers. The instant you connect you know deep, very deep inside that you know them and they cherish the same virtues and values as you do and they see the bigger picture.
If an explanation is warranted you will fail miserably to ‘explain’ it away because you know the synchronicity of it all is all too coincidental. The timing, the character, the theme and most importantly the ‘potential’ of this meeting of minds just blow you out of your senses. The same giddy sense of happiness you feel when you appreciate your life and all that you have is the same giddy sense you feel when you meet these fellow spirits who are on their path but at this very moment in time has been intertwined with your path, the timing so very perfect you couldn’t but be grateful to the great universe for this conspiracy to bring these souls to your life.
In life you live, you love, you gain and you lose and I have to say the greatest loss comes when you take that path least traveled that requires you to hold the highest of virtues. It requires maintaining the highest of vibrations and quest to become more refined as you continue along your path. It can get lonely at times at those vibrational levels but you know that what you have left behind no longer serves you as your service is bound by a higher calling, a bigger universal plan. Your soul knows its purpose and must therefore follow this quest to fulfill the need of humanity, the need of the many, and the inner connection that is within us all.
This universal conspiracy is so perfect in its transactions, its plan, and we are part of it all, and it would benefit us all to be conscious participants rather than unconscious wanderers. When you feel like things are most out of control is when you must practice gratitude the most. When you feel like you have hit the lowest point is when you must inhale the appreciation of life itself. When you doubt your destiny is when you must envelope in the grace and magnificence of feeling thankfulness for the magical universe that supports you in the very story that you might see as the storm that hurts you still.
For those of you who are conscious you know the very meaning of my words and for those of you just starting out you can be assured it is a journey well worthwhile. Whatever point we are in one thing is for sure, the practice of gratitude an appreciation changes us within and it heal our wounds and strengthens our purpose to move forward without doubt or question to where our journey is leading us. It allows us to fall on faith and the understanding that we must allow our ego to step aside and allow the universal peace and flow to go through us and just be, just stand still and experience this conspiracy with utmost awe and respect for the one who created us so perfectly.
There is much more to come…it is October 2009 and I continue to meet souls who are opening me up to deeper levels of understandings….to be more compassionate, more kind, more graceful in my being.
Much gratitude
Elizabeth Zachariah
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GratitudeMania update:
HaveMarbleWillTravel….from the shores of Celebration Florida, the ‘gratitude’ earth marble has made its way to Queensland Australia into the hands of blue angel Lisa Shah. Here is what she had to say
“Thank you for this opportunity. It was a blessing to see how people willingly wanted to show their gratitude, and how the energy immediately changed for all the instant being profoundly thankful became the central focus. Love it.”

The videos/pictures from Celebration, Florida and QLD Aussie will become available very soon….please keep deep gratitude and appreciation in your hearts as we continue the marble’s journey to Melborne Australia next week with blue angel Jon Yeo. Much gratitude to our Aussie angels!!! 

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I guess it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why the vast majority of people choose to travel the easy path when facing life’s challenges. Those who stay the path and live on purpose often find that staying in a graceful mindset, and having an attitude of gratitude, in the midst of life’s tremendous storms require a LOT of will power. I am sure the thought has passed the minds of even mighty spiritual warriors to just drop everything and throw a tantrum. It fascinates me how ingrained we are in our old thought patterns (yes, only those of us who need to change our paradigms, not the old wise souls who have mastered the process). I find myself asking, what more must I do to learn these lessons and free myself from a self created prison of worrying thoughts.
Yes, yes…just let go…go with the flow….have you noticed it takes ‘work’ to train your mind to do this very thing. I agree I’ve had moments of freeing thoughts where I feel myself light and worry free when the exercise of letting go is successfully practiced. It is true that when I genuinely place myself in a grateful attitude this task is much easier. At those moments I feel I do have the will power to go through life’s challenges in complete faith.
One of the most difficult tasks I have faced recently is forgiving those who terribly wronged me or having compassion for those very people. As I stand back and look at myself some of my frustration comes from feeling helpless and not being able to “do” something to “fix” myself from feeling the emotions. The truth is there is nothing to fix, we feel what we feel and how we make conscious decisions to embrace a compassionate attitude with grace and how we execute our decisions is what it is all about. There is nothing we can change, there is nothing we can control, and it just is. There lies the wisdom of the statement ‘letting it go”. It takes will power to let it go….and I believe that gratitude is key in putting ourselves into that “space” of letting it go and allowing FAITH to take over.
I believe those of you who share difficult life experiences might relate to what I am trying to express. If you are going through similar situations in life, I just wanted to share with you that this beautiful place of feeling gratitude and appreciation is not just some trend or fad, it really does work. It takes just some progress every single day to get there, to that place of feeling free, but the work will pay off.
Be strong of will as you paddle through the storm…..
Much gratitude
Elizabeth
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Imagine a world with a new thought pattern…one that thrives on PEACE. A world where all living beings live in harmony with an inner connection of the heart. A world with appreciation for self but more importantly appreciation for others, compassion for those around and among us and unconditional love. A world where we take accountability and responsibility for all our actions and we don’t have others to control this process because we know in our heart what is truth, what is right, what is kind and what is just. A world that is energized with selfless giving and a sense of genuine and authentic community.

Much gratitude
Elizabeth
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It is 5.39 am PST as I write this blog. I’ve been awake since about 3 am thanks to my internal EST clock. I took a few days to get away to a meditation retreat here in Mount Shasta. It is my first time here. Strangely enough, and of course universal conspiracy is at play, I found this retreat on ggole when I was looking for pictures of Mt. Shasta for my face book page. The Blue Marble 4LIFE’s ‘gratitude’ earth marbles are made here in Mt. Shasta by Shasta Visions from recycled glass to conserve the environment and save the trees. The mission at Shasta Visions is also to create PEACE through the sales of their products. How I found out about them is a story for another day.

Anyway, I arrived at Medford airport in Oregon and drove 88 miles. It was different kind of driving, mountain driving for a suburbia girl. I had to force myself to focus on the road as my eyes kept drifting to the landscape that absolutely took my breath away, so fresh and new from the silhouette of buildings and building, and more buildings where I come from. Finally I saw Mt. Shasta. I felt humble appreciation for being allowed to be here and just experiencing this magnificent site.

I thought this morning about deliberate appreciation and making it a habit every single day to feel gratitude and appreciation in our lives every single day.  I heard once a short piece on YouTube from Abraham-Hicks that gratitude and appreciation is different. My understanding from it is that gratitude is an act and appreciation is a state of mind you get into as you carry out that act of being grateful. I guess you cannot appreciate anything unless you are grateful or thankful.  These are just my thoughts.

As I mentioned in my last piece, I have been faced with many challenges and hurdles to jump lately but when I put all of it in perspective, in the third person watching my life, I have to say that I am very fortunate that I am aware of what actually is happening and I have been given the inner strength, the tools and most importantly the grace to handle the situation with calm confidence. It still takes a lot of energy from me as I am still a student in this life journey and I have a lot of learning to do….but…I am still very grateful.

Also, I have been blessed with many connections recently coming my way to expand on how the ‘gratitude’ earth marble can go around the world, and now a good possibility on how I can implement the children’s program ‘Backpack 4LIFE’ into effect. As I said universal conspiracy is at hand and the right people are showing up. The truth of it is like that book called You2 by Price Pritchett states, that quantum leap happens as soon as your vibrational level increases to go to the next level which is not linear climbing but a quantum leap!

So how can you deliberately appreciate your life and everything in it today? Well, just like the words say…make a conscious deliberate decision to appreciate and be thankful for every single thing in your life today that you are able to accept…like the ability to read, to write, to speak, to share….these are all things we take granted for…appreciate them.

Much gratitude

Elizabeth

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Synchronicity….when you are in alignment with the universe this incredible universal conspiracy happens and magic takes place!

The gratitude mania continues with blue angel Sandy Harper preparing to celebrate gratitude in ‘Celebration’ Florida   on Sept 26th 2009. She is also the gratitude boot camp diva living on purpose to reach out and teach people why it is so vital and important to be in this space of absolute thankfulness.

So I know we say let’s feel gratitude and be thankful but let me ask you how we could accomplish it when things are not going our way or when things happen way beyond our control our soul suffers.  This is how I have been feeling for the last few weeks. I felt so pulled down that I could barely keep my chin up during the day without tearing up. I felt helpless, I felt so many emotions and I found myself trying to even block it at moments.  I know I have inner strength so within myself I observed myself and how I was feeling. When you are living your purpose, even when you feel like something happened to bring you down you KNOW that you are supported divinely.  So, I made a very conscious effort to be thankful every day for what I could see as things that were keeping me safe and sound and nurtured. It was an exercise at first of the mind versus the heart. The mind and ego wanted to be mad and angry and just go arrrghhhh…you get the picture. The heart wanted to just say that all this can happen but I have the strength within to handle this crisis and I will get the help from those who are truly my soul friends.  I am happy to report that in the last 3 weeks I faced it, I faced it with grace and amazing calmness and I know it took a lot of inner strength for that today my dear friends I acknowledge appreciation and gratitude to those here in my universe and to God . I know I am still being blessed abundantly through this ordeal.

We all face this every single day in every area of our life. How do we respond or do we re-act and think we have no control.  It is true what many teachers of gratitude say about this feeling place you get into. I feel compassion and humility because it puts things in perspective when I come from that place of gratitude and appreciation. It is a state of being rather than an act of saying ‘thank you’ or ‘gratitude’.

Appreciation….thankfulness….just really being humbly honest in our feeling is very important. I keep saying gratitude is humility awakened and it is…when we appreciate life and its path no matter what it is then we can feel that feeling of humility…it is just simply that I feel…others might disagree. If we can go into our heart and within we will accomplish so much PEACE in this world…

My dear friends out there….when you hold the gratitude marble in your hands, say to yourself  ….

“THE WORLD IS IN MY HANDS, WHAT I DO WITH IT IS UP TO ME”….

Let’s keep that in our heart every single day.

Much gratitude

Elizabeth

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The light from within….

As planned the first gratitudemania took place at VISIONS Restaurant Bethesda, MD on August 24th.
What struck me the most was as each person took a hold of the Peace marble in their hands there was this spark that ignited within them. There were a couple of very nervous individuals who wasn’t sure about being in front of the camera but they stood there in their nervousness and what amazed me was that the words they uttered were so perfect and beautiful. And I know it is because it comes from within, their heart, their soul, and their spirit. There is a connection that occurs as they get into that space of gratitude allows them to say those words.
And it is this very phenomenon that we want to infect into people globally so we can all understand that we have a past to deal with that is filled with many mistakes, but instead of trying to blame and not do anything why not we make an effort to move forward towards a peaceful and positive future.
Yes, there are many others who have this same mission, and this is wonderful, we are just joining that mission so our kids, our future generation can proudly say that we made an effort to hand them down a beautiful earth that can thrive socially and environmentally, not a mess for them to try and figure out. We still have time if we make an effort NOW. So, I hope that each of you who is reading this blog will go into that place within you and join this cause because we all want to make a difference.
Please go to www.bluemarble4life.com and watch the video.

Join the BlueMarble facebook group as well!

 Much gratitude
Elizabeth for the Blue Marble team

To REACH, TEACH and EMPOWER a CHILD….how do we REACH?
July 28, 2009
I received an email from Ryan@mindmovies.com and read about a wonderful mission some wonderful human spirits have embarked on. 3 women are going to help children with dental treatments and other treatments in Uganda http://www.justlikemychild.com/.
It does not matter how you help a child, if it’s in your community, your neighborhood or another country. I just happen to encounter this cause and when it is a children’s cause I pay partciluar attention because this is my life purpose and mission and I believe it is our duty and responsibility to help and support those who are going on our behalf to serve these children.
As you read this please consider helping Puja’s kids, go to this website http://www.justlikemychild.com/ and donate what you can. Select “Puja’s Kids” and click send. Believe me, many, many blessing will come your way.
Have a great rest of the week.
Elizabeth