vulnerable.

I know that flies in the face of everything we've believed for so many years, and it's going to take some time to re-orient ourselves to this new way of thinking. But as we release thoughts of vulnerability, we will watch ourselves thrive in unprecedented ways.

As far as teaching this new way of thinking to our children, well, they already know it to the extent that it hasn't been drummed out of them. As we live with an attitude of security and well-being, what they already know will be utterly reinforced in them by our example.

Regarding the example of the three young children and their mile-walk from the apartment complex, I have a feeling that they now know from their parents' reactions not to repeat that! And as tempting as it would be for the parents to use this incident to tell the children about all the scary, awful things that could have happened to them when they took off on their adventure, the less said about that, the better. It is never in a child's best interest to teach them to feel vulnerable. It is never in a child's best interest to teach them that this is a scary world populated by some bad people who could harm them.

From listening to news reports, we have, of course, gained the impression of a frightening world. But all the problems, pain, and awfulness in the world would be a momentary blip on the screen if we were to actually witness the proportion of well-being and not-well-being.

Here's Abraham speaking on October 14, 2006, in Washington, D.C.:

"We say, when you start, segment by segment, experience by experience, reaching for a better feeling thought, reaching for a better feeling thought, reaching for a better feeling thought, reaching for a better feeling thought....

"Before you know it, on every subject that is active within you, you're over here in alignment with Source. And now you are a bright beam of well-being everywhere you go. Which means murderers could never find you, even people who are rude in traffic cannot find you, even people who aren't attentive in a hotel can't find you. In other words, when you are in alignment with the [happy] you that you have become, only that which is a match to what you have become can come to you. And anything less than that is a symptom of your scattered - we love you - sloppy thought!"

I think of the song "Teach Your Children Well" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. We could change the "Well" to "Well-Being."

We teach it by living it. And we can start this very minute.

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