You already know that life is full of surprises, and you have a whole bunch of surprises coming up, surprises that will surprise, the kind of surprise that you like to have surprise you, the kind of surprise that will make you jump for joy and help you to know that that there is a God, a God Who loves you.

You will bump into someone you never expected to see again, or meet someone new you never expected you would. Something wonderful will occur. It could fall from the sky. It could be a thought you have. Whatever it may be, it will help you to start believing in love again and the love in your heart and that, perhaps, you are lovable and capable of loving and being loved as well. It’s time for you to hang your hopes on a star.

For a long time, you may have been someone who didn’t dare to get your hopes up. I am extolling you now to get your hopes up. Whatever you are seeking, look for it around every corner. Start looking up and welcome happiness, whatever form it takes for you, know that it has been sent to you on this occasion.

It is not really that you are getting a new lease on life. It’s that you start turning your thoughts in the right direction. I have heard you mumble such sacrilege as: “What I want will never happen. I am always disappointed. I never get what I want. I don’t even know anymore what would make me happy. I’ve given up on happiness. I will be happy enough just when trouble stays away from me.”

Life is going to whirl you around and where it lands, nobody knows. This part is scary to you. Let go of the scary part. Have the joyous part. A particular joy does not have to last forever in order to stir your heart. Would you refuse a piece of candy because later there might be a hole in the bottom of the bag? Accept what is offered to you as it is offered. Say thank you. There are no iron-clad contracts. You already have a contract where you agree to live life to its fullest. It is not for you to push life away and stand aside from it as if you don’t belong in life.

Life has happiness in store for you. It always has. It’s possible that you have gone on strike and have been marching around life, griping about it, and not entering into it. Jump in! Jump in with both feet. The least you can contribute is a life-supporting attitude to this one life before you now.

If you don’t accept life now, when will you? When will you get out into the playing field? When will you sign up for life? You can’t change the past. You can light up the present. No one can enter you into life for you. Only you can give it a whirl.

Give life an opportunity to give you all it’s got, and it has a lot of joy stored up for you. I kid you not. Regardless of what despair you might find yourself in now, dreams do come true, and dreams can come true for you.

Look at it this way: Before you can win the lottery, you have to buy a ticket. Your ticket to life is free. Just step over restraint and latent holding back. Make yourself accessible to life. Enter in, not half-heartedly but whole-heartedly. Give life all you’ve got. Give it a handshake. Welcome it. Give life a head start. Give it a cheer. Give life three cheers. Hurray for life. Hurray for life. Hurray for life.

Accept My blessings for you. Say thank you to life and give life on Earth a good run for your money. Extend life’s performance as you would a Broadway play, and applaud and applaud and get up from where you sit and give life a standing ovation.