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"Unless
we become the living embodiment of love and light, we shall have no
justification in saying that God is love and light. Unless we use
the freedom we have without abusing it, we shall have no justification
in saying that man [woman] is master of his [her] own soul, the creator
of [her] his own destiny, and the arbiter of [her] his own fate. -
Dr. Ernest Holmes, excerpted from "Hearts Full of Fire"
published in Science of Mind magazine January, 1991 (modified)
When we pray, meditate, contemplate, read
spiritual literature, or just sit in the silence of our mind, we are
co-mingling our mind with the Spirit of G-d that is within us.
These spiritual practices all work to develop our consciousness, that is
our awareness of our unity with G-d. It is easy for most of us to
know that we are unified with the Spirit of Life intellectually,
especially in the privacy of our prayers and meditations. And this
is wonderful and good, but we can't let these precious moments of prayer
cease to move through us as we go about our experiences in daily
living. In the scripture we can read this powerful
instruction: "pray without ceasing" ... and some will
tell us that this means that our thoughts are prayers and so we are in
fact praying without ceasing all day long ... and there is some truth in
this ... but there is something more that we are capable of ... and that
is bringing our prayers into our every conversation, every action and
every interaction with others that we have in our lives.
Dr. Holmes writes that "unless we become
the living embodiment of love and light, we shall have no justification
in saying that God is love and light" ... and in this, I believe,
he is referring to love as an action and a reaction, and light,
spiritually, is intelligence. This love and this light is within
us ... we were born with them ... they are part of our soul. Yet,
we have been taught to repress both with instructions to be humble and
meek when in truth the more love and light we express the more of G-d
within us we are expressing. It is not enough for us to say we
love everyone, we must express this love in whatever way we are called
to express it ... perhaps with compassion, with understanding, or
perhaps just to harm no one by either our words, thoughts or
actions. Whenever we speak the truth, or think the truth, about
anyone, and know that there is a power within them, a strength greater
than their physical conditions or circumstances, we identify even more
with that power which is within us too, and we are strengthened in our
faith. This not only expresses love, but intelligence as well for
we are identifying with the Intelligence of the Infinite which is
available to all and in all.
"You,
the reader, know that you exist. This knowing you exist is
God. What you are aware of is your concept of God. Each man
[woman] must ask [herself] himself, "What am I aware
of?" The answer to this question is his [her] belief about
God. It is what [she] he knows about God. When he [she]
says, "I am aware of want. I am fearful. I am
sick," these are lies and have no truth in them. When man
[woman] says, "I am fearful," he [she] is saying God is full
of fear which is nonsensical. When [she] he says, "I am in
want," [she] he is relating a lie and a denial of God's abundance
and infinite supply. His [her] faith is a failure, and he [she]
succeeds in being a failure. He [she] believes in a lie, but he
[she] cannot prove the lie. The false condition seems real as long
as he [she] dwells on it. When he [she] ceases to believe it, he
[she] is free and healed." - Dr. Joseph Murphy, Supreme
Mastery of Fear, pg. 24 (modified)
Dr. Murphy is very direct about the words that
we speak that hold us in bondage to lack and limitation, sickness and
other maladies of the world. When we speak, we are speaking from
our consciousness. If we let ourselves entertain thoughts of lack
and financial struggle, we will develop what is referred to as a
"poverty consciousness" ... but, in truth, this is an illusion
created by the entertaining of false ideas in our mind ... we are an
expression of G-d and G-d has no awareness of poverty or lack for It can
only be aware of the infinite abundance available to us all. As we
speak words that affirm that which we know as the truth ... that which
perhaps momentarily is only present in the Un-Seed Side of Life, we draw
good to us. As Dr. Murphy states, false conditions seem real only
as long as we dwell on them ... as we direct our attention to that good
which we desire, the false will fade away.
We have learned from the science of mind and
the Master Mind Jesus how to pray, how to sit in the silence of our
mind, how to turn to G-d for every good thing we can imagine for
ourselves ... and so we know that it is now time to pay attention to the
thoughts that come to our awareness and the words that we speak.
We can lift up our awareness to a greater good at any time. We
just must make the conscious effort to become more aware of the un-seen
good than we are of the limited good that is visible to us.
When the Master Mind
Jesus stated, "all that the Father hath is mine" ... he wasn't
just speaking to that which has been made visible but to the infinite
good that has yet to be made manifest. It is very important that
we understand this. As we learn to think from the awareness of
infinite abundance and infinite good, in both the seen and the un-seen,
and speak of this awareness, we draw more and more good into our
experience. Let us now pay attention to our thoughts and words and
align them with the good desires that we seek to experience for
ourselves and others, beginning right now, right where we are.
AND
SO IT IS!
Keep
the faith!
Rev.
Dr. Henry Lee Bates
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