• Not everything along this journey is formulaic  —  but some things are.   There are most definitely a number of laws about how things work (and don't work) in this thing that we commonly call "life."   And once I discover a few of them, and assent to use them to my own advantage  —  I find that the sea becomes quite calm, and more navigable.
  
  
• And, after about 70 years of study, I've decided to commandeer the audacity to offer a prescription that could help you ameliorate your world  —  your children, your family, your home dynamics, your walk through life, and osmotically, this planet.
  
  
• Are these bombastic, preposterous & grandiose promises ?   I'd have to agree:   Yes.   They were.   When first I received them.   But (for me) the sad part is:  that the parcel was not delivered until I was well into the early autumn of my years.
  
  
• If you should so choose to eat them (fully digest, and let them become a part of you)  —  you will soon find that their transformative powers will also turn your existence inside-out  —  for the extremely welcome, far better.
  
  
• Can such a simplistic recipe make a consummate difference in one's life ?   I can only smile at the question.   Of course:   I have the advantage of (now) being on the aft side of the experience.

Here are the 29 Pieces of Light:

1.  Say "thank you" for every thing.  (I Thes 5:18)
2.  Pray on paper.
3.  Teach your 1-year old to read.
4.  Embrace the 4 Biggies
5.  Do your mirror work:
   
   
   1.  I like myself.
   2.  There are no accidents in my universe.
          (Rom 8:28)
   3.  Anger is not an emotion.   It is always an
       act  —  and always by my own choosery.
   
   
6.  Farfar's 27 Axioms
7.  Experimental breathing is your key to
    an enriched life.
8.  A mind expanded to a new dimension,
    can never re-turn.
9.  Taik noats.
10.  Re-read, re-write, and ruminate on your notes.
11.  Ask a zillion questions.
12.  Do all your assignments.
13.  Learn to be still  —  and quiet.   And wait.
14.  Drink water.
15.  Go for a walk.
16.  This is not life.   Life is what comes after.
     This is Heaven-School.   Learn your lines,
     without attribution.
17.  You are not your skin-suit.   You are
     the spirit within it.   Savor that.
18.  Do your PML
19.  Do your 57
20.  Guilt is like garbage.   It is an agent for growth.
     But not something we want to tuck under our
     arm, and walk around with for the whole day,
     or year, or life.
21.  BeSsiE
22.  Your skin-suit (body) is your Father's
     Message-Center.
23.  Bad habits cannot merely be cast aside.
     They must be replaced  —  with new,
     better, good habits.
24.  My Dictionary
25.  All is fore-given.
26.  I don't know what I need.   Actually, my needs
     are none of my business.   But, my wants are.
     And therein shall I mull.
27.  You have your Father's mouth.
28.  Focus.
29.  Everything is a gift.

• Not everything about God is formulaic  —  but a few things are.   And this is the first one:
  
  I am going way out on a limb to suggest that one particular verse might be the most important, or the most powerful verse in the Bible.  But.  This just may be it:   I Thessalonians 5:18.