Living In Spirit

Thursday, August 20, 2015

The Price Of Indignation

“You can have either your demonstration or your indignation, but you cannot have both.” We cannot codemn anyone and salute the spark of divine simultaneously. We will never progress far on the path of Living on the Spiritual Basis if we harbor resentment and condemnation of any kind for any reason in our consciousness. By whatever measure we limit or subjectively dismiss anything or anyone as being beyond the pale, we distance ourselves from the path.

The maxim of “equal and opposite reaction” is as true spiritually as it is physically. The Great Carpenter taught on this point when he spoke on “righteous” judgment. Many have misconstrued this teaching as to mean that we should never be judgmental, which is incorrect.

To be able to see our brothers and sisters clearly we must first address our own shortcomings and clean up our side of the street, only then can our “eye be single.” Once we have done this we see everything in a new light, the true light, the light of spiritual awakening.

We all naturally have opinions and viewpoints on all manner things, additionally some people we will welcome into our lives, others not so much, and some for valid reasons will be kept at a distance. The key is the steadfast refusal to engage in self-righteousness and of becoming a spiritual imperialist. We must stay ever vigilant of these thoughts and when they creep into our consciousness, for they will often masquerading as wolves in sheep’s clothing, we gently turn to God in prayer thanking Him for our heightened awareness, asking Him to guide us on the path of patience, tolerance, kindness and love.

Having strongly held opinions and viewpoints are never troublesome when filtered through Spiritual truth. The trouble arises when we fail to employ this filter for this filter is the key to self-control, the bar against becoming self-righteous and manifesting deadly spiritual pride. So the choice is simple but the price is high; God or indignation. Choose wisely.

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

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Chosen

" God doesn't choose the prepared, He prepares the Chosen." It has been said that God tempers His strongest instruments in the hottest flames. To temper a piece of steel means to improve the hardness and elasticity of the metal. Consider the process in our lives. Trouble comes, sometimes we invited it in as a result of our actions, often however it appears at our door uninvited. Regardless, how we react is paramount. We all know individuals who are or have been broken in spirit, perhaps that person has looked back at us from the mirror.

In the hands of the master metallurgist anything metal can be mended. It may require great effort and much energy, but it can be done. Metaphysics is the metallurgy of the soul. No matter how broken, seemingly beyond human aid, The Master Metallurgist of our soul, God, can mend, reform any soul to completeness. There is a requirement however that steel does not have to meet; we have to be willing. Willingness is the key to freedom, to seek His face wholeheartedly our daily task. Some days we will feel so heavy that mere movement is a challenge, others we will feel as though we have wings, the gravity of our and the world's troubles as light as a feather, but it matters not. As long as we remain in motion, growing day by day as children of Our Loving Father, we demonstrate that we are The Chosen and work to insure that all our brothers and sisters come to know, regardless of current circumstances, that they too are loved beyond measure, truly chosen by God to be happy, joyous and free.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Realizing Our Spiritual Perfection

What is perfection? A child’s laugh, a spring day, the family gathered together for the holidays, a content cat, chocolate, all of these things and infinitely more may be perfect but only in the most subjective way; i.e. in the “eye of the beholder.” Forms of non-subjective perfection; a “perfect” game in baseball, a spade royal flush, prime numbers or scoring a “100” on a test come to mind. Descartes held “existence itself is perfection”, which extrapolated could lead one down the path of “everything” being perfect. So clearly perfection can be often perfectly obscure.

So what then is “spiritual” perfection? And what flawed individual could ever hope to attain it? No one among us has lived or is living life perfectly. Spiritual perfection is not living perfectly but holding to the perfection of God. I can’t, but He can. Living on the Spiritual Basis we have learned that all are connected in spirit, the eternal spark of the divine existing in each of us regardless of station or circumstance, all equal in His eyes, Our Father’s love, perfect; beyond time and flesh. So by a wholehearted commitment, day by day, to grow in understanding and service to Our Father we approach “perfection.” Though this flesh, this life, will never be perfect our pursuit and demonstration of faith, though often trembling, can be.

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