I dreamed that life was joy. I woke to find that life is service. I discovered that service is joy.

For those of you who want to tickle their creative talents, here's an interesting forecast of 2006 happenings by Kirael. Below are some short excerpts, there's much more behind the link:

"Soldiers in their green uniforms will think their way around a battle situation and not fall prey to that old “I’m a combat solider” mantra.  They will start questioning just what the real destination is.  Soldiers around the world are leaning in the same direction.  They’re seeing that the big shots don’t get shot, and in that, they figure there just might be a better way.  In their seeking, so shall they find."

"The year 2006 may be waiting for its winter season to even out as late as the beginning of the New Year.  People, who in parts of the world would normally be hibernating indoors, will be in their shirt sleeves wondering what to do with their build-up of wood to be burnt in fireplaces.   To continue, I’d be saying, don’t forget where theses stockpiles are, because there’s a better than even chance that you’ll need them long after what was to be the spring thaw.  You’ll see for the very first time the best evidence that the seasons are changing, and in that, the world population will need to adjust."

"Many will choose the safety of growing their own pure foods to offer their families stronger resilience in maintaining healthy energy.  If you’re a landowner, you’re truly already rich beyond your expectations, and if that land has as well a natural flow of water, you could be considered some sort of a zillionaire, whatever that is.  The year 2006 marks the return to the soil of those who would never have believed they would be tillers of the earth."

"Look for those who might have never even thought of being a political leader to be willingly thrust into the position of serving the people. In that, you will see new leaders, both male and female, rise to the call. Watch mostly for the quiet ones."

"Those of you who’d be stretching the limits of the healing energy are about to find yourselves on a much brighter street.  You will be asked to communicate with the rest of the world just how healing should be shared and not be left solely to the world of the doctors.  It will become life’s work for many. The holistic or hands-on healer will be asked to take a much larger role by year’s end."

--Kirael