Ideally, when we give birth to our children we take loving responsibility to teach, guide, sustain, shelter, protect and love them. It is our responsibility to teach and guide them not only physically and mentally, but also spiritually. The best possible way of guiding a small child spiritually is to teach him/her a simple prayer: "Heavenly Mother-Father God, please fill me with light and love." Then ask your child to wait in silence for one minute.

When we ask for spiritual bread, as in this prayer, we definitely receive. Knock on this door and it quickly opens. Ask for material bread, (wealth, loving relationships, health and success) and you deny the Spirit within you to bring about these things yourself. You deny your birthright and inheritance. The ability to create your own reality. Not anybody else's, but your own; according to your innermost beliefs and expectations and by using the great creative energy of your feelings and emotions. Failure to recognise the creative power within you is failure to recognise that which man calls 'God'.

In the beginning it is very difficult to accept that nothing 'happens' to us by accident and that there are no chance meetings in our life. There is no such thing as good or bad luck. If there were, we would be living in a chaotic universe, and our quantum physicists are discovering how mathematically precise it really is. Even in its spontaneity.

When you come across a virtual stranger who is unaccountably rude to you, consider what area of your own behaviour, perhaps within your own family, that this is reflecting. All things that happen to us or about us are a part of our own life's learnings. Even the war in Bosnia is a reflection of our collective minds. It is a reflection of fear. What fear? Do we in Australia spend billions of dollars on a DEFENCE budget? Which path do we follow? Fear or love? That is the bottom line of all problems. Which path?

Even if your teenage child is experimenting with drugs, you should ask yourself why this is manifesting in YOUR life. Be aware that growing people must experiment with their physicality. Exploring their strength, their sexuality and, in the dangerous case of drugs, chemically expanding their consciousness. Know that, in the physical realm, heavy drug taking is extremely dangerous, but in reality, nothing can ever destroy life.

Instead of attacking your children, tell them your fears, that you need reassurance that you have taught, guided and loved them enough that they will have the physical, mental and spiritual strength to touch and let go. The strong can do this, the weak will get hooked. Ask them for the reassurance that they are strong enough to face the realities of their personal world without seeking escape into the hallucinatory world. You are the one who is suffering. You ask them for help. Learn that you must let go and allow them to follow their own life's learnings. Instead of focusing your mind on your fears, sit quietly and mentally send them your unconditional love and protection. Which path do you follow?