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  • G-d is Absolute Good, everywhere present.
  • Every human being is an expression of the divine; the Christ Spirit, by whatever name, indwells all people. Their very essence is of G-d, and therefore they are also inherently good.

  • Human beings create their experience by the activity of their thinking. Everything in the manifest realm has its beginning in thought.

  • Prayer is creative thinking that heightens the connection with G-d-mind and therefore brings forth wisdom, healing, prosperity and everything good.

  • Knowing and understanding the laws of life, also called Truth, are not enough. A person must also live the Truth that he or she knows.

    
 
  
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Weekly Message for January 19, 2020

 

 

                    Most of us have not been taught from an early age to "listen for G-d" and this is true for most of us because our parents were not taught to do so either.  Rare are the people who have learned from an early age the practical wisdom that can be gained from learning to listen for G-d.

                     I was so impressed with a spiritual practitioner at one time who has now transitioned to the Great Beyond, who related to me a session she had with a client for spiritual counseling.  The woman had come to her because she was in fear that she was going to not inherit the house her parents owned.  A  home she grew up in and loved.  She was worried that she would lose the house to her cousins who lived near her parents in their later years and had become quite close with her widowed mother while she had lived several states away and had not visited her mother as often as she felt she should have.  She assured my friend that she knew she would not be left out of her mother's will but she feared that she would not receive the house.  My friend asked her to sit silently while she prayed but the woman, after only a few seconds, would ask her a question and this repeated for several minutes.  The woman heard what my friend said but she did not listen with any real conviction.  My friend said she would pray with her but it was of utmost importance that she begin the practice of sitting in the silence for at least a few minutes morning and night until she arrived mentally at the point of conviction.  At that, the woman stood up, pulled five One-Hundred Dollar bills from her purse and handed them to my friend and said, "I don't have time to do that, please do it for me."  My friend being a woman of great integrity, handed the bills back to her and told her she could not accept the money.  The woman asked her why? ... and my friend told her in the most compassionate way she could that what G-d is going to do for you G-d must do through you.  We have to listen for that "still small voice" if we truly desire to use the power, intelligence and wisdom available to us.

                     Please take a few minutes to read the following taken from "A Course in Miracles" and then sit in the silence with this information in your mind:  "It is quite possible to listen to G-d's Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way.  The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communications with G-d, whether you are aware of it or not.  ... The part that is listening to the Voice for G-d, is calm, always at rest and wholly certain.  It is really the only part there is.  The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind.  Try today not to listen to it.  Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever." [I purposely changed the spelling of G-d from the original text from ACIM]

                   Throughout the ages those who have obtained a spiritual consciousness have "listened" for that "still small voice."  As we have read in this excerpt from "A Course in Miracles" we can train our mind to be aware of this Voice for G-d even when we are at our busiest.  I know this as the truth and as a fact.

 

 

 

 

Keep the Faith!
Henry Lee Bates
(Reverend Dr.)


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