PERFECT LOVE
“We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all.” ~ Ernest Holmes ~ The above quote is one of the tenets of Religious Science, from its statement, “What We Believe.” To me, it says, no matter how many detours one may take,…
RECEPTIVITY
Years ago, I had the pleasure of being in the audience when the late, great, Dr. Joseph Murphy delivered a message entitled, “Fourth Dimensional Prayer.” I recall that he spoke extremely fast and used terms that were new to me at the time, or were used in a context I was hearing for the first…
PERPETUALGOOD~Here and Now
When I first began to “catch” the idea that the nature of God is one of Abundance forever expanding, it occurred to me that an unlimited supply of everything is available right here and right now. After all, I reasoned, The Source of all life is the Self-Givingness of Divine Love. I remember the…
CELEBRATING LOVE: The Gift of Christmas
“Only love knows love, and love knows only love.”~Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind, p.478~ ~ ~ ~ ~ “If you think Love is weak ~ you are asleep.If you think Love isn’t everything ~ you might be confused.If you think Love is only passion ~ you don’t know who you really are.”~ Ade Anifowose, Spiritual Appetizers for…
THANKSGIVING DAY!
For several years now, Thanksgiving Day has looked a lot different for me than it did in former years. What I notice is, while it keeps changing, the Presence of Love is always present. Wherever I am, the fullness of God’s love shows up. I am thankful for the awareness of the Presence of Love in my…
BLIND FAITH
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.” ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ “When Jesus said, “It is done unto you as you believe,” he not only announced the law of faith, he explained how it works. First, he implied that there is a law which operates upon your faith. All laws are universal; hence…
BUILDING A NEW TOMORROW
I invite you to join me as we deliberately settle into a consciousness that moves us forward in the direction of our dreams, while deliberately letting go of those which no longer serve. Affirm with me: * “I build a new tomorrow. I draw the pattern clear.” Past events, although fading into the realm of…
RIPPLES
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” ~ Matthew 24:35 ~ ~~~~ “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; he observes himself, goes…
PRAYER
The spiritual path may become a wearisome one for the faint of heart. It takes great courage to set out on a journey of uncharted territory, while depending upon the discipline of prayer as the one essential and dependable companion. Regardless of our religious persuasion, the fundamental beliefs we entertain about God, the universe, or…
REIMAGINE THE WORD/ REIMAGINE THE WORLD
I imagine, when evolution reached a point of self-consciousness within man, he felt a Presence and in response he uttered a sound in recognition of the All-Pervasive Feeling. The Universal Presence reveals Itself to man through his feeling nature. I imagine each time man responded to this inner splendor he gained greater insight of himself…
ASCENSION
This is a Universe of Wholeness, All-ness, Oneness. Spirit is a transcendent, perfect Whole that, in its Infinite inclusivity, harmoniously embraces all seeming opposites.~ Core Concept Five, The Science of Mind ~ “Let’s go upstairs!” is the way the late Rev. Dr. Homer Johnson often began each prayer. He was inviting us to move into a higher state…
LIVING INSIDE-OUT
Artificial Intelligence (AI) speaks to the phenomenal advancement humanity has made through the science of technology. For example, I have easy access to information on any subject by simply entering a key word into my computer’s web browser. I may connect with people I have not seen in many years. I may play games, read…
Practicing Holy Communion
Every one of us is endowed with an innate power that is nearer than the breath we breathe. This Power is the Presence that always hears and always answers. The nature of this Holy One, residing at the center of our being, is described in the Bible as saying, “Before they call I will answer;…
MIND and SPIRIT
“Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things will be added.”~ The New Testament ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ “Be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind.” ~ Romans 12:2 ~~ ~ ~ ~ When I was a child, I spent long summer days playing ‘house, kick the can, jump rope, hide-go-seek,’ and…
Express Your SELF
“The highest God and the innermost God is One God.”~ Ernest Holmes ~ The Principle of Being, as affirmed in the above quote, has been said in many ways. Mystics of every era have understood it; sacred books of the world have written about it; and devotees of all time have “caught it. “ Grasping…
Multi-Dimensional SELF TALK
I notice that whenever I am faced with the hardened facts of materiality, old thought patterns may cause me to perceive circumstances from a 3-dimensional point of view only; failing to include the fourth dimensional me, which is Pure Consciousness, One with God. It is in this state of limitation that the false beliefs of the…
PUIRPOSE
“And what is it to work with Love?It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.”~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet ~ The idea that the only Life there is, is God, is awe-inspiring and far-reaching in its implication. The concept of One Presence expressing in multiplicity means each one…
Breaking Agreements
“Am I going to let what comes out of my mouth be of the frequency of worry, doubt, fear, hate, and resentment, or am I going to let what flows out of my mouth be the vitalizing frequency of infinite possibility?”~ Michael Bernard Beckwith, 1/11/2015 ~ “… the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare…”~ Isaiah 42:9 ~ “Be impeccable with…
DIVINE POTENTIAL
Upon first hearing about the universal principles that undergird the ever-changing expressions of life all around us, the point is sometimes lost in translation. In other words, the message may sound a bit “airy-fairy,” as if it suggests that one can influence God by using certain words and gain special favor. This cannot be further…
STILLPOINT MOMENTS
“…there is something in the Universe which responds and corresponds to our mental states.”~ The Science of Mind, p. 319.1 ~ ~~~~ “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;and…
Think! Say! Do!
~ “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” ~ ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ One said, “I fight my battles on my knees.” Another said, “God has not brought us this far to leave us now.” “Yes”, another agrees, “but, faith without works…
SPIRITUAL BANDWIDTH
“For whoever have will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.”~ Matthew 25:29 (NIV) ~ ~~~~ “The Love of God is the divine givingness: the eternal outpouring of Spirit through Its creation.The Law of God is the Law of Cause…
WHOLENESS
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”~ Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich ~ ~~~~ “When we speak of “the Whole,” we are speaking of God. Man’s self-knowing mind is his perception of Reality. It is his Unity with the Whole, or God, on the conscious side of life, and is an absolute…
CONSCIOUSNESS: The Power of Belief
“Mama may have, papa may have, but God bless the child that’s got his own.” ~ Song lyrics by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. ~ ~~~~ “It is very important to understand the importance of our consciousness in spiritual growth. Divine ideas must be incorporated into our consciousness before they can mean anything to us. An…
WE ARE ONE
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”~ Rumi ~ ~~~~ “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”~ Matthew 22:39 ~ ~~~~ Have you ever noticed that when you get an a-ha revelation regarding a truth principle, that soon afterwards you discover that…
The Power of “I”
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” ~ Ernest Holmes ~~~~~“Mind is everything. What we think, we become.” ~ Buddha ~~~~~“What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.” ~ Job: 22:28 (NIV) ~~~~~“We do not describe the world we see,…
BREAKTHROUGH
I remember how exciting it was to experience my first luxury cruise. Late one night I wandered up to the top deck of the ship. I had never seen a darker night. It was pitch black except for the stars above, and perhaps moonlight. I was in awe. It was like being in the womb of…
Be Your SELF: A Beneficial Presence
“In this world you will have trouble.” ~ John 16:33 ~There are strong opinions about the present state of affairs that is taking place all around us and what the powers that be ought to do about them. As a result, feelings of fear, mistrust, helplessness, and hopelessness, the very antithesis of our true nature, may…
BORN FREE
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man (spiritually mature), I put the ways of childhood behind me.” ~ 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,I press on toward the goal…
DIVINE MIND
“We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty.One, indestructible, absolute, and Self-Existent Cause. “~~~~“We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new…
MIRRORS, SYMBOLS, and SIGNS, Oh My!
I have come to believe and realize what I think about comes about; and, where my attention goes, energy flows. I have come to know that to the degree that I change my thinking, I change my life. While this is all basic Science of Mind, it is far-reaching in its implication. These mental laws, being laws, are the…
AN INQUIRY INTO TRUTH
The philosopher Socrates said: “An unexamined life is not worth living.” As a student of mental science and the spiritual principles that govern it, from time to time I find myself re-examining my concepts of the nature of being. My consistent effort is to break through the collective consensus regarding the belief in separation and…
ONE MIND
Revisited “There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he…
A Vision of Wholeness
“Perfect Love casts out all fear.”~ John 4:18 ~ “As within, so without, as above, so below, as the universe, so the soul.”~ Hermetic Philosophy ~ Just as we know that no matter how fierce an earthquake, hurricane, blizzard, or even a tsunami may be; there is an unwavering faith that the sun still shines, is shining right now and…
Let There Be…
There is a tendency to describe the creative intelligence of Spirit as “God” and the creative intelligence of humanity as “me.” Actually, there is only one life, one mind, one creative intelligence and that life is God, the Life Force at the centerof every living being. It is the great I AM that we each…
The Greater THE -Yet-To-Be: Resurrection
Ernest Holmes, the author of The Science of Mind and the founder of Religious Science, writes: “Nature will not let us stay in any one place too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for…
PRESENT MOMENT POWER
(Reposted) “Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?” ~ Isaiah 2:22 (NIV) ~ ~~~~ “ Look unto me, and be +ye saved, all the ends of the earth:for I am God, and there is none else.” ~ Isaiah 45:22 (KIV) ~ What I notice is, anytime…
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
(Repost)“To be well, happy, and to express freedom, is in accord with Divine Law and Wisdom.”~The Science of Mind, pg. 46.3~ ~ ~ ~ “The greatest battle we face as human beings is the battle to protect our true selves from the self the world wants us to become.”~ E. E. Cummings ~ Yes, it seems that time and time again, we…
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