The Way It Works, Sunday Service

As the word of God stirs the Soul and brings everything into manifestation, so does my own word act upon the Divine and creates the perfect life for me, today and always. I am mindful of my blessings, my Divine nature, and the incarnation of Spirit in everyone. And so it is.

Our Inner Terrorist

There has been a lot about terrorists in the news this week. The events are troubling for so many reasons. First, to have freedom of speech threatened is disconcerting. (We realize how blessed we are to have the right to speak our minds, no matter what our political leanings.) We almost did it when The North Koreans leaked demeaning information and threatened to cause injury to anyone who showed the spoof about their government. Sony pictures first seemed to respond to the threats but later decided to show the picture anyway. Similarly the political satirists in Paris were killed because their views were deemed to be sacrilegious. 

Then to come to understand that the terrorists have been recruited on the internet is heart-breaking! What is going on in a young person's mind, to want to die a martyr? I truly do not understand it.

But upon further reflection I thought about our own tendencies to answer the call of  the inner saboteur who tells us that we are evil, wrong, flawed and bad. That is the voice that tells us that we are not  good enough, that we need to "fix" the unfixable. It is the voice that causes us to hide our true feelings behind an addiction, to hide our vulnerabilities, and to live in constant fear.

When we succumb to advertising whose purpose it is to make us feel insecure with our smell, our shape, our weight, our hair, our clothes and even our shoes, we are recruiting an inner terrorist. We have done a pretty good job as a society.

There is a current popular song that sums it up. Colbie Caillat, "Try." She sings that we don't have to try so hard.

Just the way you are and just the way you are not, you are enough.

The Thing Itself Sunday Service

There is an ever-present, all-knowing Source that is the essence of all that is , and It is God. It was never born and cannot die, for it is eternal and infinite. God is my Source and my Essence. I express my divinity by living the good life now.

And so it is.

I Refuse to Malpractice!

I love classes!

I love to see people awaken to their spiritual magnificence!

I love to see the veterans of Science of Mind, re-commit to their own spiritual well-being and I love to see myself blossom with awareness. 

I have been teaching Science of Mind classes for 23 years and I still learn something new about myself every class.

Ernest Holmes' brother Fenwicke would claim that his brother, dead for many years, would creep in at night and write new passages. Of course, that didn't really happen. The reason why it appears new is because, I am not the same person I was when I first started studying. It is the same principle that you can't step in the same river twice, you cannot remain at the same level of awareness that you once were.

Thank goodness for that.

I am grateful that I have not yet been able to instantaneously manifest things. I am grateful because I have not always been aware of my divinity nor of the divinity of those around me. It wasn't even safe in the corridors of my mind for some people.

Tonight I was informed that my mom is ill and was taken to hospital. That is all I know. I am using as much spiritual discipline to stay out of worry, which becomes malpractice for a minister.  SoI go back to the basics and I look at the Declaration of Principles which Ernest Holmes wrote in 1927 titles, What I Believe.

It begins :

We believe in God, the living Spirit Almighty, one, indestructible absolute and self-existent Cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation, but is not absorbed by Its creation."

This Cause cannot be consumed. It is limitless and eternal.

Knowing that this Cause is where I am and what I am, I choose to see God expressing. Good and Good only.

Please join me in this awareness.