Thank you for bearing with me while I was away for two weeks this month.

I have no problem going off-grid when I'm away -- in fact, I look forward to it! When I was ready to tackle the multitude of emails that descended on my inbox in my absence, look what arrived on Friday, the day I honor the Angel of Joy in the morning. This is a daily inspirational message I've been receiving for many years, and this time it was just the right topic:

Joy

"I let my inner vibration of joy flow into every circumstance of my life."
                                                                                                 ~affirMOTION
 
        In any given moment, you can choose to feel joy. Close your eyes and picture the smile on a child's face. Place your own face where you see that baby face. That was once you as a child and it only takes a moment to return there.
 
     What if.......... the world really needs more of us to feel JOY at any given moment. Walk by the next window pane and look at your face. Give yourself a "thumbs up" and know that by seeing yourself in JOY for that one little moment, you uplifted the world.
 
      "I let my inner vibration of joy flow into every circumstance of my life."
 
~smilingly yours today~
JUDY
  
           Judy Matejczyk
     www. judymatejczyk.lifemasteryconsultant.com
512-497-0190
             "Building People, Building Dreams."      

Thank you, Judy, for your message about the energy of Joy. I love the concept of giving yourself a "thumbs up" when you see your reflection!  We can also smile at someone we don't know; thank a rose for its beauty, and celebrate the bright colors of Fall, being open to Nature's expression of Joy in its being and its cycles.

May many blessings of Joy come into your day.

The Essenes related their concept of Law to the tetragrammaton – the 4 letters YWHW that we tend to translate into “Yahweh.” This word is often interpreted as the Hebrew name for God. Yet Murray Webber, author of the book, An Introduction to Gnostic Hebrew Qabbal (© 1995) tells us that what should be pronounced for the tetragrammaton is the word, Adonai. The words God and Lord, he firmly states, are not interchangeable in Hebrew (page 18)!

Furthermore, in the section on the Hebrew letter Daleth -- the 4th letter (every letter in Hebrew has a corresponding number), Webber notes that many spellings of the word for Spirit or Creator in a variety of languages are made of four letters!

He uses the English word, Lord, rather than God, then mentions these others:

Yod He Vav He (YHVH, the tetragrammaton) for Hebrew
Dieu    ---  French
Gott   ---  German
Odin  --- Norse
Jove  ---  Roman
Zeus  ---  Greek
Atma  ---  Hindu
Nebo ---  Assyrian
Isis   ---  Egyptian

OK, I’m sure there are others that don’t match that formula, but isn’t it fascinating? The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 numbers (2+2 = 4). And the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Tav, has the numerical value 400  (4+0+0 = 4), and also a large multiple of 4.

And here’s more to be excited about – while I have a very limited knowledge of languages, how about the word, Love? It’s 4 letters, too. And also in Spanish (Amor), French (Aime) and German (Leib).

I have some exposure to a system of numerology, but at this point am curious about what any of my readers might think about this. What is significant for you about the number 4?