Living In Spirit

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Beyond The Flesh

Do you know of anyone who heard the Gettysburg Address in person? Observed Washington crossing the Delaware? No? Of course not. The flesh we inhabit will one day fail. No amount of money, resources, exercise or just plain old “good living” will alter that. The truth is simply this: Being human is a terminal condition. This truth raises an eternal question, are we this body or something more? Living on the Spiritual Basis the answer is clear: We are Spiritual beings experiencing the human condition, not Human beings in search of the spiritual. The spark of consciousness that is unique in us is timeless, was never born and will never die; has always been and will always be.

We raise our consciousness through prayer and meditation, in so doing we effect permanent change beyond the vagaries of this flesh, secular living and thinking. So our job, the only real task in this life, is too practice the Presence of God every day in every area, with everyone, to fully forgive all who have trespassed against us, to hold fast to the truth that the only aspect of this life that translates beyond the flesh is our raised consciousness and the only universal measurement of our time here is: how much love did we give away, unconditionally.

The Secret, Wayne Dyer, ACIM, Serenity, Enlightenment, Zen, Emmet Fox, How To Be Happy, Golden Key, Addicts Today, Chopra, Jesus, Healing Path Recovery, Einstein, Marianne Williamson, Sayeh Beheshti, AKUA

Friday, June 26, 2015

Spiritual Caution Tape And Morbid Reflection

Remember reaping and sowing? What we dwell upon is out pictured in our lives. When morbid reflection raises its head and we allow it to remain in our consciousness (“sowing” the negative thoughts with feeling), we reap the harvest of self centered fear, shutting the door on the sunlight of the spirit, causing us needless wear and tear. When we find ourselves drifting into morbid (negative) thinking we must stop immediately and “quarantine” the trouble by refusing to consider it and invoke, through prayer, the Presence of God, substituting God for the trouble in our minds eye. By doing this consistently we break the habit of focusing on the trouble (sowing negativity) and replace it with the habit of recognizing God (sowing truth) where the trouble seems to be. By refocusing we reap peace of mind instead of fear, serenity over confusion. Remember, everything we consider becomes imbued with power in our life, for good or ill, so get out the mental caution tape and immediately tape off destructive thinking, quarantining it with prayer, placing it in God's hands.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Half Measures

Spiritual half measures avail us nothing. Not a little, not some, zero. Having entered into a secular endeavor half halfheartedly, what was the outcome? Any unfinished “projects” lying around the house, buried in the back of a closet? Exercise equipment serving as a clothes rack or taking up space in the garage, perhaps a shelf full of dusty self help/diet books? On the secular plane we can go to work half halfheartedly and still draw a paycheck, at least for a time. A poorly built house is still built, a badly painted room still painted. Our spiritual life however requires total commitment, half measures resulting not only in our failure to demonstrate but instilling the false belief that we tried and God didn’t deliver, probably because we really are unworthy or God is just too busy with important things. Nonsense. NONSENSE. God is source, “Our Father" in every sense. We are His children, children of the miraculous and all the gifts and blessings that relationship represents are ours for the asking but we must ask without reservation, standing firm in faith, consistent in our prayers, meditations and actions, for spiritually, half measures truly avail us nothing.

When we know, who walks beside us, on this path we have chosen, our fears fall from us.