Every day that I can, I meditate/pray/(or whatever word you want to call it) as early as I can. Usually I have personal questions or issues that seem pressing that day, so I attempt to articulate those questions as part of my meditation. Then I do some reading from a variety of inspiring sources. Then I summarize what I learned from that dayâs meditations, questions and reading in a brief Spiritual Sharing.
I hope you will feel free to substitute (for the word âGodâ in the following meditations) your word that best describes or names the source of your experience of spiritual power, insight and understandingâwhether God, guiding spirit, intuition, the unknowable, conscience, Hashem, inner knowing, natural understanding, deity, the Universe, friend, light, the Ineffable, creator, a favorite deity, I-Am-That-I-Am, or any other word or name that works for you. The many different linguistic, cultural, religious and experiential names we assign to our various but often uniquely personal spiritual experience and understanding of our higher power cannot change whatever may be its essence and nature.
Itâs possible that I may someday attempt to publish this yearâs worth of mediations. Thank you for your help, and for feedback too!
Daily Spiritual Sharing:
2/10/10 â We can help others best by recognizing that we donât know how toâbut God does. We can be fully present, accepting and loving. We can ask to see clearly, allow God to work through us appreciatively, encouragingly and forgivingly, and not interfere.
2/9/10 â When we limit the number of times we turn to our guiding spirit for insight, inspiration and help, we limit the number of daily problems, large and small, that we can resolve.
2/8/10 â Our happiness and strength arise from our undivided efforts to see, accept and lift ourselves and all others as Godâs one perfect, unconditionally-beloved, eternal creation, to whom he has given everything, and with whom he is well-pleased.
2/7/10 – All apparent angry attacks and defensiveness conceal fearful pleas for healing and help. When we ask for Godâs grace and vision, he lifts every imagined illusion and barrier to the love that sees only goodness and unity, and sets all things right.
2/6/10 â We get angry at others because we feel guilty about what weâve done to them, not the other way around. And so we try to make ourselves feel better by dumping our guilt feelings on them, imagining we can rid ourselves of our guilt that way. We canât.
2/5/10 â Human culture projects its fearful interpretation upon everyoneâs actions, while spiritual guidance leads us to a more peaceful, loving vision. Thus, we can reactively interpret behavior as aggressive, or we can ask to see it as offeringâor requestingâlove.
2/4/10 â When we notice someone who frightens usâsomeone apparently sick or sad or desperate or angryâwe can ask our guiding spirit for another way of seeing that person, not let our fear interfere, surrender the encounter to peace and inspiration, and relax.
2/3/10 â When we ask for clarity and guidance, we find out that what we need and want the most, but may have temporarily lost sight of, is exactly what God wills for us too. We are wholly supported in accomplishing this shared willâsurely, safely, serenely, joyfully.
2/2/10 â We donât understand our own needs. Our guiding spirit does, and will supply them, when we let go of our own ideas of what they are, and stop hurrying to fulfill them. Instead, we can be willing to ask, and receive.
2/1/10 – Gifts given resentfully, guiltily and fearfully, without loving thoughts, are unwelcome sacrifices, angry attacks, tradeoffs, payments for something. We imagine someone is demanding sacrifices of us, but weâre demanding them of ourselves.
1/31/10 â We are Godâs one perfect beloved eternal expression. Bodies are for communicating unity, acceptance and love, and were never meant to be permanent. God bountifully comforts, inspires and strengthens the willing. Of what shall we be afraid?
1/30/10 – We can relate to one another as to God, and he to usâone good, whole, perfect creation, one value, one mind, one love, one request and one answer. We are his loving eyes and willing hands, and through us he extends his appreciation and meets every need.
1/29/10 – All our guiding spirit asks of us is our willingness that it be our guide. We donât need to be strong, or sure, or wise, but merely willing.
1/28/10 – Our one real choice is whether or not to invite and follow our inner guidance. When we surrender to it, weâre happy, and when we donât, we lose our way. This one powerful choice offers us vision, release from guilt and fear, and clarity of purpose.
1/27/10 â When we dedicate each situation, interaction and perceived conflict to a peaceful outcome, and look on everyone with appreciation and acceptance now, we can be assured that all will play their parts well, and that God will meet everyoneâs needs.
1/26/10 – When things go wrong, we need do nothing. We can rest quietly, calmly, patiently, fearlessly, harmlesslyâaccepting and trusting in Godâs peaceful, healing light, hope, inspiration, vision, power, insights, strength, and unconditional love.
1/25/10 – What if spirituality reveals a powerful higher reality not contradictory to science but unexplained by it? What if we share one transcendent mind and love? What if the universe is within, nothing is without, and we dream eternally in the heart of God?
1/24/10 – How do we know whatâs the right thing to do? What makes us feel good. What makes us feel peaceful, loving, loved, at one with all of life. What relaxes, heals, warms us, lets us breathe, brings smiles and laughter, what feels right, what makes us happy.
1/23/10 â We can only give love, which is who and what we areâone love, one mind with our creator and his creation. Nothing else is eternal. Our bodies are temporary, a means of loving. We can choose to give and receive love only now. Nothing else matters.
1/22/10 – We create our own little separate realities by projecting our fears about the world outward onto others, and then letting their responses reinforce our beliefs. When we express and see instead only one loving, eternal reality, loveâs witnesses appear.
1/21/10 – As we give now to our brother, and thus to ourselves and everyone, the eternal gifts weâve received of peace, acceptance, love, appreciation and forgiveness, our eyes mirror our freedom from fear, past and future, change, mistakes, guilt, hurry, and time.
1/20/10 â Each of us creates his own little harmful, hostile, confusing, insane personal and cultural world of senseless mental fantasies and meaningless projections of guilt, judgment and fearâwhen all we ever need and want is to be in the circle of Godâs love.
1/19/10 â Godâs justice comprises his peace, life abundant, and life eternal. His love is unconditional, his forgiveness and patience infinite. We can be ignorant, confused, misguided, willful, crazy, dangerous and cruel, but never irredeemably âbadâ or âevil.â
1/18/10 â When we feel inadequate, weâre judging God himself to be difficult, angry, impossible to please. God loves us now and always with unconditional love and infinite appreciation for our smallest gifts, which ripple perfectly through his beloved creation.
1/17/10 â Instead of letting guilt and fear hold us back from the love we could be giving and receiving, we can use them as reminders to ask God to share with usâand through usâhis comforting vision of one unified, beloved, forgiven, eternally perfect creation.
1/16/10 – We can experience the power and the memory of God anytime that we want nothing else. We can ask for it, welcome it, and then await the coming of Godâs bright, beautiful, revealing, comforting, illuminating, reassuring, guiding, restful presence.
1/15/09 – What if this life isnât the only âchanceâ we get? What if somehow we go on forever in an eternal present, one with all creation and its accepting, loving creator, just as he intended? Why cling blindly to a tragic cultural vision of a brief, hurried, guilty life?
1/14/10 â When we let God work powerfully and lovingly through us, he heals our illusion that we are separate, divided, competing mortals, and shows us that we are forever one in himâfree to be, do, have and share everything we need and want.
1/13/10 – When we ask God for guidance, he who sees his creation as one, equal, beloved and eternal, will move us away from all sense of isolation, guilt and fear, and toward choices that are in the best interests of everyone and everythingâthat is, our own.
1/12/10 – We can ask God to share with us his vision of one perfect creation all equally and forever blessed with everything we could want and need, and for the healing strength we need to free ourselves now from all guilty illusions of a past that is, after all, gone.
1/11/10 – We are most powerful when we merely accept everything and everyone as-is, without opposing, comparing or defending, letting the goals of acceptance and peace inspire all our relationships, interactions, decisions, conflicts and endeavors.
1/10/10 – God helps us drop our cultural blindfoldsâthe judgment, guilt and fear which fog and obscure our sight of others and ourselves as-we-are and were meant to beâhis unique, beloved, beautiful, human, muddled, messy, forgiven, perfect creation.
1/9/10 – God is not at home in our separateness, but in our relationships. We know his peace when we let go of imagined âsafetyâ barriers of guilt and fear between ourselves and others, choosing instead to rest calmly in immutable innocence and oneness.
1/8/10 – We can walk joyfully along our eternal path of now by walking together with othersâneither before nor behindâseeing ourselves as God does, as his one perfect, beloved creation and will, and letting go with him our human blindness to that light.
1/7/10 – We can rest together where time begins and ends, one with another and our peaceful guiding spirit, healed, forgiven, released from past guilt and future fear, filled with the inspiration and creative possibilities inherent in a loving, innocent, eternal now.
1/6/10 â A focus upon one single healing purpose comprising acceptance, appreciation, help, forgiveness and love toward all things offers stability and meaning to life. All other perspectivesâon ourselves and each other, our activities and goalsâresult only in guilt.
1/5/10 – When we humbly accept Godâs miraculous healing of all our past errors and imagined future fears, we can once again live joyfully and appreciatively in the present moment, seeing in ourselves and everyone only reflections of his light, grace and love.
1/4/10 – When we see ourselves as temporary, threatened individuals, we compete and attack.When we remember our essence and eternal value as beloved co-creators with God and all, life is joyful, loving, purposeful, cooperative, productive, peaceful, meaningful.
1/3/10 – Giving and receiving acceptance now miraculously changes and heals the past while creating a peaceful, happy future. If we drag our own and othersâ past mistakes into our present moments, when will we envision, create and share a different kind of future?
1/2/10 – All that we give is wholly shared, because Godâs creation isnât separate, but one. Godâs love is given and received in an eternal creative cycle, to us and through us. Our only limit on giving and receiving is our willingness to ask, receive, give, and appreciate.
1/1/10 – When we accept and mindfully practice unionâpeace, kindness, acceptance, loveâas our highest relationship goal, all our interactions, communications, conflicts, giving, creativity, work, play and all our other priorities feel miraculously supported.
12/31/09 – Who might be harmed if we all consistently chose to project upon one anotherâand ourselvesâa warm, caring, positive, empathetic, optimistic vision of their/our human potential, capacity, and possibilities? Who might benefit?
12/30/09 – All guilty, sad, hard things of the past, all scary possibilities of the future, are just illusions that mess everyone up in the present moment. Everything that is joyous, loving and giving happens now, this moment, when we let all past and future fears go.
We can pass on, encourage, enkindle either fear or love. Letâs choose love. And when we or others forget, we can let it go and choose once again. Love is the most powerful force in the universe, while fear is nothingness. Choose love, and choose love, and choose love.
Fear erases whole-heartednessâall appreciation, all reasonable, loving perspectives, and everything we know to be true, replacing them with insanity, cruelty and chaos. We can always, right now, choose love over fear.
Love isnât sacrifice. Union canât be found in bondage. Love is freedom. As we release others from their separations-through-sacrifice, we will find ourselves released to be free, loving and as one, and available to receive their comforting love in return.
âSpecialâ relationships are only harmful when they hold us to guilt about the past and fear of the future. âSpecialâ relationships work only when we give freely of our appreciation and acceptance in the present, and let go of past and future illusions.
People are motivated by only two things: a wish to help, or a wish to be helped. No other interpretation of othersâ motivations is ever accurate, and when we guess or assume some other motivation, our response to them will have nothing to do with anyoneâs reality.
All we ever need from others is: their permission to love and give to them, or their gracious loving responses to our moments of fear, regardless of what form our fear takesâwhether anger, judgment, attack, defensiveness, withdrawal or misunderstanding.
When we learn to interpret othersâ every action as either loving, or a request for some kind of lovingâwhether help, kindness, acceptance, gentleness, appreciationâlife gets simple, kind, friendly, relaxed, peaceful. And when we forget, we can begin again, now.
The whole world is as we are. If we send out messages of peace and love and giving, they will return to us. If we send out messages of fearâanger, guilt, attackâthey will be returned to us. Love the world and watch it love you back.
We are loveâbeloved, loving, and eternally one with all and a loving God. When we momentarily forget this visionary truth, we feel alone and guilty, because we have rejected Godâs unconditional, universal gift. We can accept and share it once again.
The pressure and pain of continual judgment and fearâfrom within and withoutâwears us all down. God sees us only now, as innocent, perfect and beloved. When we ask his help to see ourselves and others as he sees us, all judgment and weariness disappear.
God wants us to accept ourselves, him and one another, as a loving circle of support. He wants us to let go of all our illusions of a condemning, angry, vengeful, impatient, impossible, unforgiving God who expects us to understand and know everything already.
Instead of focusing on guilt, vengeance, resentment and anger, we can stop attaching demands, bondage or expectations to our âspecialâ relationships, and instead seek, see and accept in ourselves only our own highest, holiest, loving and forgiven innocence.
Right now, there is no such thing as conflicting needs or confusing motivations or angry illusions. Right now, we have no need but to share Godâs mysterious, incomprehensible, irrational, unexplainable, ineffable, eternal, unconditional love, acceptance, appreciation.
The cause of fear is illusionâthat we are separate, defective, competing, imperfect, mortal selves, hurrying to be superior to others before we die. The cure for fear is accepting that we are eternal, equal, one, and unconditionally loved by God.
12/29/09 – I am committed to being, knowing, seeing, sharing, expressing, honoring, welcoming, embracing, accepting and appreciating only Godâs one whole eternal, infinite, perfect, loving, powerful, sane, peaceful, innocent, meaningful creation.
12/28/09 – All the sad, guilty, hard things of the past, all the scary possibilities of the future, are just illusions that mess everyone up in the present moment. Everything that is joyous, loving and giving happens now, when we let past and future fears go.
12/27/09 – When weâre upset, the only way to return to peace and love is to be peaceful and loving. Weâre never upset for the reasons we thinkâinjustice, who is right, unfairness, unkindness, selfishness, anger, wearinessâbut because weâre afraid.
12/26/09 – All our fears are about âpastâ and âfutureââmere verbiage, concepts, words about time which never occur. Only an eternal series of nows really happens. With God, we can handle anything now. Now is also the only time we can change past and future.
12/25/09 – The only gifts which are loving, useful, and acceptable to others and God are those offered in appreciation and love, never those given out of fear, selfishness, guilt or sacrifice.
12/24/09 – We are one creation, eternal, infinite, equal, unlimited, whole, unshakeable, miraculous, powerful, peaceful, belovedâand usually asleep in dreams of separateness, dreaming we are competing, joyless, suffering, sinful, finite mortals.
12/23/09 â We can be only goodness. We can inhale, exhale, think, ask for, receive, see, know, share, speak, hear, accept, teach, learn, express, envision, feel, choose, createâonly goodness.
12/22/09 â Sacrifice isnât love. Itâs the opposite of loveâan attempt to kill it, control it, and replace it with guilt. Giving freely with Godâs strength and guidance of our highest self at each momentâto ourselves, to allâis love.
12/21/09 â We are free to see God in everyoneâexpressed as unlimited, innocent, joyous, good, beautiful, loving, gifted, abundant, wise, eternal be-ing, one, in and with all.
12/20/09 – A God of love, our source and nature, never created fear, evil and guilt, but only eternal love, which we can embrace or postpone, but never change. Godâs beloved eternal creations honor him and each other by creatively extending his love in his image.
12/19/09 â When we let go of anotherâs wickedness, cluelessness, obtuseness, mistakes and attacks, we forgive ourselves too, and peace and truth dawn on us both. When we appreciate rather than condemn, innocence is reflected from wherever we bestowed it.
12/18/09 – Why act out human suffering, despair, anger, resentment, guilt, defensiveness, loss, limitation and death, when God offers his beloved eternal children forgiveness, joy, wisdom, strength, guidance, peace, love and endless abundance, forever?
12/17/09 – The only goals that bring satisfaction, healing, peace and love are those which offer these continually to ourselves and others. We can lean on Godâs strength, live our faith, trust his loving guidance, and let all weakness, guilt, anger and fear go.
12/16/09 – We can practice willingness to see things Godâs way anytime, so when we most need his perspectiveâin moments of conflict, panic, confusion, fear, weariness, angerâwe will remember to ask for it, certain of its healing, transforming power.
12/15/09 – If we were mere mortals, we might reasonably feel doubt, guilt, weakness and defensiveness. But God is real, and well-pleased with his beloved children. We can choose to live, express and see only this strong, certain faith in ourselves and in everyone.
12/14/09 â When we have learned to always choose love over fear in every situation, we will be free to focus on creatively choosing how best and most usefully to express that love from moment to moment.
12/13/09 – As Godâs willing, human, eternal creation, we put our trust in his strength, guidance and unconditional forgiveness, and devote each moment to courageously, joyously, uniquely, humbly and powerfully expressing and sharing his boundless love.
12/12/09 – We exhale panic, confusion, frustration, resentment and helplessness; inhale Godâs perspective, guidance and strength; and focus confidently, trustingly, calmly, lovingly and completely upon doing the next right thing with his holy gift of now.
12/11/09 – We can heal the walls between ourselves and others when we let go with God all our present and past guilt, sins, mistakes and errorsâand see others as equally free of theirs. Accepting and sharing Godâs forgiveness releases us to love and be loved anew.
12/10/09 â Our everyday priorities, activities and interests are rewarding and meaningful only in context and service to our highest spiritual goalsâpeace, love, understanding and acceptance of Godâs will (âwhat-isâ), forgiveness, and our oneness with God and man.
12/9/09 â We are Godâs will, forever loved, learning and forgiven. Our loving thoughts are infinitely transformative, creative, powerful and eternal. We ask God to express himself joyfully through us now, letting go with him distracting imaginings of past guilt.
12/8/09 – Giving and receiving love joyfully reminds us of our oneness with God and his eternally loving creation. Guilt, suffering, attack, deprivation, need, unfairness and death are all fearful, meaningless, ephemeral illusions of separation from this holy relationship.
12/7/09 – We are eternally learning, loving and forgiven spirits. Time itself, as well as suffering, aging, everyday concerns, wars, catastrophes, mistakes, and all our everyday choices are urgent only insofar as they postpone or hasten our peace, joy and oneness.
12/6/09 â We learnâand teachâbest from approaching the good, not from avoiding the bad. God helps us focus on what brings joy, not pain.
12/5/09 – All relationships are reflections of our relationship with God. We are his eternal creation and expression, sharing one mind, one love, one purpose.
12/4/09 – When we feel tension building with someone, we can remember to turn the relationship over to God, dedicate it and the conflict to the goal of peace, be honest, gentle, forgiving and appreciative of both, listen calmly, and ask thoughtful questions.
12/3/09 – Strain, weariness, and confusion disappear when we share with God his undivided will to love, lift, forgive, help and comfort all his children, to recognize only our eternal goodness, and to support only our eternal greatness.
12/2/09 â When we feel fearful, confused, dispirited, hopeless, uncertain, pulled in various directions, unloved and unlovable, we can be sure we are not communing with God, nor relying upon his guidance and strength.
12/1/09 â Union is always universal and unconditional completion, extendable infinitely and lovingly to everyone. Separate, special, exclusive âunionsâ are counterproductive, disappointing, impossible oxymora.
11/30/09 â What few know, and even those few too often forget, is that in Godâs eyes, we are all exactly the same, equally and eternally blessed with an infinite amount of love, forgiveness and appreciation to share with others.
11/29/09 â All we ever need remember to do in any situation is ask God to share with us his unique perspective on our every sorrow, trouble, challenge, pain, guilt, fury, conflict, frustration and fear, and then peacefully await his sure, clear answer.
11/28/09 â Guilt is insane and blasphemous when God has joyfully offered to each of us, his prodigal sons and daughters, immediate and unconditional love and forgiveness for all the mistakes we would leave behind us.
11/27/09 â The light and joy in othersâ eyes strengthens our faith by reminding us that God works lovingly and powerfully through us.
11/26 â When we refuse to see shortcomings in others, and instead see only their eternal value as Godâs beloved children, we remember our own lovability, value and oneness as an essential and indispensible part of Godâs one, single, unified, eternal, perfect creation.
11/25/09 â When we learn to see only the joyous, beloved and loving eternal spirit in everyone, we will see a beautiful world where death, suffering and time are irrelevant,
11/24/09 â Instead of seeing cruelty, evil, error, ignorance, obliviousness, selfishness and foolishness, we can choose to see in others only the beloved and learning spiritual beings they are, acting only upon one of two goals: either offering others love, or asking for it.
11/23/09 â We can rest our faith, peace and love in the powerful, unconditional, universal love that God channels though us, instead of in our demands and expectations for othersâ behavior.
11/22/09 â In quietness and peace, we allow Godâs forgiving miracles to work through us, and do not interfere,
11/21/09 â We each made our own weird, private, personal, completely insane and incommunicable worlds of fear, so we can release them to God, and decide to share with others only our love, which is always perfectly understood by everyone.
11/20/09 â Even if we canât understand it, we can accept and use the unshakable grace and faith we are granted, along with our desire to be holy, share Godâs will, and be wholly helpful, kind and forgiving.
11/19/09 â When we start our day asking for Godâs strength and guidance, we can then listen, trust, work and rest peacefully.
11/18/09 â When we feel tired, frustrated, overwhelmed, we can let go and let Godâs inexhaustible and certain strength and power work through us.
11/17/09 â When we feel defensive, we can ask to see ourselves as the eternally lovable, loving, forgiven creation God sees.
11/16/09 â We can accept, forgive and love ourselves when we are willing to allow each present moment just to be what it is.
11/15/09 â All Godâs children are forever safe, unconditionally loved and joyously supported. Our bodies are temporary, our spirits eternal.
11/14/09 – When we are frozen in fear and guilt from past pain, we can ask to see things differently, as God sees, who loves his whole creation unconditionally and eternally now, as-is, just as he created us to be. Then we can let go and let God, and rest in his peace.
11/13/09 – Spiritual sight is always wholly helpful, because love attracts love to itself by offering and seeing it everywhere. When we ask continually for spiritual light, all paths work. When other perspectives distract us, even our sincerest efforts come to nothing.
11/12/09 – We want only to ask for, accept, give, receive and see the eternal light, peace, love, strength, joy and forgiveness of God in all that we do, in everyone, and in everything.
11/11/09 – When we carry guilt around, weâre seeing ourselves and the world as hopelessly unteachable and unforgivably mortal. We can choose instead to accept, affirm and see all about us as unconditionally loved and loving, learning, forgiven, eternal.
11/10/09 – Whenever we consistently ask for and apply Godâs guidance, we are his accepting, forgiving, loving expression, and our lives work. When we decide to go it alone for a bit, our lives fall apart. God merely waits in infinite patience and love for our return to joy.
11/9/09 – Knowing how divided our minds are, why would we choose to direct ourselves, rely upon our own strength, or be our own teachers? We can resign now, and surrender our every need and undivided attention to our constant, clear, unlimited Teacher.
11/8/09 – With Godâs consistent guidance, strength and love peacefully flowing through us, we can let go of all attacksâour own attacks upon ourselves, our attacks on others, and othersâ attacks on us.
11/7/09 – When weâre feeling afraid, overwhelmed, confused, weak and estranged from God and man, we can surrender our simple willingness to allow Godâs strength and loving purpose to work peacefully and powerfully through us.
11/6/09 â Our decisionsâto hand over our fearful thoughts to God, and to share with others only our loving onesâincrease our loving thoughts and reduce our fearful ones.
11/5/09 âWe can remember Godâs power, light, love, and healing forgiveness whenever we use and share that power with everyone.
11/4/09 â We begin our day by turning it over to Godâs guidance, and promise to ask again for that guidance at each difficult moment.
11/3/09 â Our loving, appreciative responses to othersâ fears are reminders that we are all unified in Godâs love, and that we need never fear loss or separation from that love.
11/2/09 â As we humbly ask for Godâs love, healing and forgiveness to flow through us, we are one with him, and become his perfect answer to every problem.
11/1/09 – When we trust God enough to ask him, often, for understanding, meaning, help, loveâand for the answer to every problemâhe will remind us that his answer already lies in us.
10/31/09 – In an eternal, but also in a practical sense, ârealityâ is not âout thereâ but rather âin hereââin the loving thoughts we all share with each other and with God. A ârealistâ then, is aware only of the love that is everyone, everything, everywhere.
10/30/09 – We recognize and nurture our own limitless value when we see and nurture that same equal and limitless value in everyone.
10/29/09 â Living joyfully in the light of Godâs unconditional love, acceptance and forgiveness of our humanity is co-conditional and inextricably intertwined with joyfully sharing that same unconditional love, acceptance and forgiveness with all his children.
10/28/09 – We are exactly alike in our interdependence upon each other and our Source as a loving whole. We are completely unique in freely channeling that love through our lives, relationships, creations, productions, expressions.
10/27/09 – The way to God is to see everything and everyone, including yourself, with love and without blame. God and his creation comprise a perfect, eternal, loving whole. What is not love doesnât exist, last, or matter.
10/26/09 â God answers prayers for peace and rest by removing our fearful, negative thoughts and replacing them with powerful, positive thoughts we use to encourage others.
10/25/09 â All God needs from us is one second of willingness, when things feel scary, to let him stoke our tiny sputtering spark of love into a bonfire.