Living In Spirit

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Spiritual Jell-O

“The universe is run exactly on the lines of a cafeteria” Emmet Fox. Just as at a self serve cafeteria, all of the gifts Our Father’s grace provides are laid out before us, but it is up to us to take the action to claim these gifts, for just as the self serve cafeteria where we can sit wanting, watching others eating all around us, we remain hungry until we act. We must rise up in spirit and claim our spiritual nourishment through prayer, meditation and service, putting into action/demonstration the truths we have come to hold in our heart. We resist the alluring spiritual shortcuts arrayed before us that ultimately lead only to tears, for this would be akin to trying to exist on jell-o and desserts alone. Though colorful, tasty and satisfying in the moment, it is ultimately spiritually deadly if we try to exist on these solely. Spiritual Jell-o, you heard it here first, refunds available upon request.

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, August 7, 2015

Spiritually: Tide Pool Or Salt Marsh?

Ever been to a tide pool or salt marsh? A tide pool is consistently refreshed with an influx of new water with the rising of the tides while the salt marsh is only sporadically refreshed. While a tide pool is vibrant and fresh, a salt marsh smells of stagnation and rot. As is true for tide pools and salt marshes, such is our spiritual lives. When we become static, stagnant in our thinking, restricting or worse shutting off the fresh flow of experience taken to heart, we become resistant to change and can completely stifle our spiritual growth.

Living on the Spiritual Basis when one door closes we rejoice, for we have reached the end of this part of our journey and fearlessly (I know, easier said than done, which is why we rely on God for strength) we stride forth, knowing that God is with us and will keep us unharmed, if we are about His business: our ultimate awakening in Spirit. So the choice is always ours, freedom or limitation, growth or stagnation. Choose wisely.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Words To Live By

Easy does it! Work hard but don’t make hard work of it. Has worry or being so tense a loud noise makes you jump ever improved or changed the outcome of any undertaking? Not in my experience. Take all prudent steps and indicated action but when this is accomplished, stop. Nothing positive can be had by redoing or rehashing something that was already well done. Worry and being tense are simply forms of fear, for truly, what is there to be afraid of? Living on the Spiritual Basis we cannot serve two masters, we are in the world but not of it. We are all children of God, loved beyond measure, eternal in every aspect that matters. We keep our head where our hands are and address the tasks at hand, and when done; we leave the results to God, reminding ourselves that, though our true Self is eternal, we live one day at a time.

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