Beyond This Flesh

 No amount of money, resources, exercise or just plain old “good living” will alter the reality that flesh is finite. 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 for the spark of consciousness that is unique to us is timeless, was never born and will never die; has always been and will always be.

We raise our consciousness through prayer, meditation and selfless service, in so doing we effect permanent change beyond the vagaries of the 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, holding fast to the truth that we are not mere flesh but children of God in every sense, our raised consciousness transcending the strictures of time, the only true measurement of our time here being: how much love did we give away, unconditionally.

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Spiritual Caution Tape And Morbid Reflection

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 spiritual and emotional 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.

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Half Measures

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, perhaps buried in the back of a closet or worse seemingly mocking us every time we walk by them? Exercise equipment serving as a clothes rack or taking up space in the garage, perhaps a shelf full of dusty self help/diet books? Diet food aging gracefully in the cupboard or freezer?

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.

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An Affirmation