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The Call of the divine

4/29/2020

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In the Science of Mind we speak of the fact that we are made of the Divine, that which is our source, it is what we plug into every day that allows us to know within our hearts we are not doing anything alone. 
Right now I am sure the “shelter in place” feels isolating, many of us haven’t seen family, friends or our spiritual family for the last month. It is a different world we are experiencing and perhaps more time that we are used to having. In truth, we can never go back to where we came from, for all of us are forever changed by this experience. But one thing in our lives we know as a constant is God. It is the one thing that never changes. We are the ones that shift and look at things with a different understanding. Our relationship to it might shift but God the power and the presence of all that is is the light that is held for us to see by when we feel we are in the darkness. Darkness is merely a shadow we cast, because what lies ahead is unknown. It is what we interpret as what we can’t see ahead. This is when we have the opportunity  to practice the presence.
     So, practicing the presence is taking the time within yourself and your day to reflect, restore, maybe even have a revelation of what is appearing in your life right now. 
Many of us question, what is next when all of this is over? Have you ever thought, you have a choice to create “the next choice”?Over the past few weeks I have been asked, “what is mine to do Rev?” And I ask you, "Why does there have to be something to do? Why not just be?" 
     
I’m not saying being a couch potato is a life ambition, but I look at this time for all of us to really look at what we have been “doing” in our world. For me, I didn’t realize what a crazy, rushed existence I was living until I had to be in the quiet. Yes, the last month has been both challenging and enlightening. Both personally and here at our spiritual home. Personally, I have taken the time to breathe, sleep in a little, and allow those things that call to me to do. Our spiritual home has been a blessing as well. With the Leadership Council we have reorganized, looked at our financial picture and done yard work. Each day I step into the world with the opportunity to contribute not only to my life but the world. What God calls us to is we do not need to chase a life purpose to be worthy of living. We are certainly not devoid of purpose in any way shape or form.
     Our purpose is to listen to the voice, that which excites us, gives us joy and be the heart and hands of the divine. 
We are co-creators with the divine. Everything we do is with the divine acting through us, and come into our minds and out through our hands Ernest Holmes our Founder said, "You must not define yourself by experiences or conditions, for while these are tools you can use, they are not who you are. You are Spirit, a fiery, heavenly intelligence created by God and unlimited in nature." Victor Frankl, was a psychologist who was a Jew and along with his wife was placed in a Jewish concentration camp. Through-out is time there - He searched for his purpose and life’s meaning. At the end of the war he was released and with it, he experienced a moment that released him also from his past - He discovered - Life’s meaning - Is the meaning you give it. What he further discovered was his purpose was to help those as best he could through the experience they were all having. He made a difference. There is a great story about a man walking along the beach one day and he noticed another man throwing starfish that had washed up on the beach during an overnight storm, back into the ocean. As he approached him he asked, What are you doing?And the man replied, why are you throwing the starfish one by one back into the ocean? Surely you don’t think you can make a difference? There are too many.The man looked at him, and as he did he threw another starfish into the ocean and said, “ I made a difference in that one” That is also how God works in our lives. God doesn’t give up on us, it has this amazing divine love that is already installed that we can tap into when we need it.To Tap into that divine love is saying - my relationship with the Divine makes a difference within me. It allows me to see things in a positive way, that no matter what I feel I can’t do. The Divine will somehow show me the what I CAN DO.The love connection we have, makes a difference.There is no wrong when we are on the spiritual path, no matter what we claim that as.There maybe over 1000 religions/faith connections but there is ONE Divine Universal power. If you don’t want to call it God, call it Love, Elohim, Yahweh, Source, whatever feels comfortable to you. Jesus called God “Abba” - heavenly father. It was like saying “daddy” in our English language. That was the connection Jesus the Christ had with God. He knew that whatever he did in his life was driven by his connection to the divine source. 

Ernest Holmes
There is a place within us that lies open to the infinite

Conclusion
As you move beyond this time together and head out into this coming week.
Notice what stirs you.
Notice what puts that divine spark within you

Affirmation:
I renew my life’s purpose each and every day by allowing the divine spark to guide what’s mine to do in the world.





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Easter - Resurrection and Awakening

4/13/2020

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This Easter morning we are waking up and being in the world differently everything has shifted. What we know to have been the way we have always been is no longer. We as a people are being asked to awaken to something new to be present to a new evolution - we as a people are experiencing from this moment a resurrection, a renewal an awakening. As a people we are experiencing a new way of being, this my friends is a “new normal”we can not return to our "old ways of being" in the world and as individuals. A a culture we have been for a very long time, been in a tomb. We have lived in the dark, by choice, until now where we are all now being forced to awaken to a the shift and change taking place.We have in the past, placed ourselves there (in the dark)with only now and then letting the cracks of light in so we could possibly see what the Divine is working with us to create. God is working through us 24/7, we as a soul can never be separate from it. We cannot separate ourselves from love, divine love. We are responsible for pushing the stones (not stone) out of the way so we can enter a new idea of what we are now going to be in the world. Love is right now wanting to push forward, bringing us with it, into the light.
...I love this quote by Anais Nin
And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom
We are each here to learn and to grow, claim our highest expression. We are all moving through changes in our lives, releasing those things that no longer serve us. New things are calling us and the process of change begins, actually it  ...has already begun.
Easter Sunday is a time we associate with Spring, renewal and resurrection. It is a call placed into the universe to each of our hearts, and recognized by the story in the New Testament. The story we know, is about a man - Jesus the Christ - who through demonstrations of love showed us a better way of being in the world. He was a teacher, a Rabbi, a man who embodied the Divine presence and knew with God all things are possible. Jesus the Christ knew when he entered the gates of Jerusalem, it was not going to end well.
He was taken on a journey where he ended up displayed on a cross, to a people who did not know Divine love, instead they only knew fear. People did not condemn him, fear did.
Jesus the Christ, brought a new consciousness of being to the world and that is where the fear came in and changed not only a man but all of us. He was the demonstration we were all waking up to. Like the story of Adam and Eve, he gave to us the knowledge through being hungry to know God. Yes, we were taken out of the garden because it was limited. We were instead placed in the world to be and see unlimited possibilities. To be a people to do the good works among many of spreading and demonstrating love and working together to create a world that enjoys sharing and caring about the human existence. Jesus was placed in a tomb after only 3 hours of being "on the cross" so his family could observe Jewish traditions of the Seder. Jesus was part of the bigger picture for all of us to know God. In the time they placed him in the tomb (darkness) to Sunday morning where he came out (showed us the light) to complete being the teacher for another 40 days among the people, and then he left. This is part of the story that goes untold. He "lived" beyond his "death". What that says for us is no matter what appears to be in the dark as an experience for us, we will eventually emerge into the light and move forward. When he left (ascended) it still shows humankinds ability to move into their highest potential, their highest good. The story about Easter us NOT about death, it is really about living! Please recognize this with me. One of the quotes I found by our founder Ernest Holmes is this...

The Spirit that raised Jesus dwells in all.
The Spirit quickens our mortal bodies when we let it.
Here is a lesson in mental and spiritual healing. 
As the Truth dawns upon the subjective state of our thought, it stimulates it into newness of action.
Everything works from within, out

Looking again at the time between death and resurrection is not just about a man who came into the world and died on a cross, it is our story as a people. What it shows us is, when something happens in our lives that is uncomfortable we want to by-pass it. Skip over it and move through it as quickly as possible so we don’t have to experience the uncomfortableness of the situation. When we look at what is happening currently in our world, we are experiencing being uncomfortable and being shut into our own tombs.
--Rumi said,
Where there are wounds (cracks), that is where the light enters

Instead of looking for the light, we are staying in the dark. So, I ask each one of us today, what is wanting to move through you?
What is it you have been saying you have been wanting to do, and now you have the time to do in?
When Jesus left the tomb...he kept going. He entered into a new light of being. He didn’t die, he kept living.
When we stay in the dark, we don’t grow spiritually or productively we stay the same…
When we refuse to move and not grow we will stay in the dark. It is our time to be broken open, now, right now
It is our time to decide to no longer be in the dark to walk  out into the light!There will be a time in the experience we will “break open” to the new. Allow yourself to do that, be broken open and allow the divine to guide you. Listen to your heart. It will not fail you. What we have learned we needed from the experience, acknowledge the growth that we have experienced, blessed it, given gratitude for it. It is our time to open up to another opportunity of growth, spiritual and mental. William Bridges, author said,
"Transition always starts with an ending. To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old." Trust the process and let go.....
What we know when we do allow ourselves to trust and let go we then accept we are a soul experiencing changes within this body we inhabit. But what we know is that though we are a soul in a body we are immortal. Our soul continues living long after the body has no longer served us. The story of Jesus and the resurrection teaches us is that we continue to live long after we roll back the stone of limitation.
So let us together know that whatever we are experiencing is giving birth to something within us that wants to be expressed. We are only limited by what our minds think we can’t do, but our soul knows what we can…..
The Science of Mind text tells us,
Our lives and experiences may very well be likened to a river. If we stand on the bank of a river and watch it flow by we become aware of the fact that the river never changes but that its content is always new. By analogy, we might say the purposeful dynamic quality of Life within us never changes but the content of our experience of living remains the same...

Affirmation
Today, I am open to great changes in my life, claiming the highest expression of who I can be. I claim greatness now.

Surely the presence of Love is in this place
I can feel its mighty power and its grace
I can feel the holy presence, I see glory on each face
Surely the presence of Love is in this place….

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