Smiling At The Prophets Of Doom And Gloom

Mankind’s history is replete with dozens upon dozens of boom and bust cycles. Additionally, there have been prophets of doom and gloom stating with absolute certainty the world was ending soon and we are without hope and there is nothing we can do about it, or we better all pull together to save ourselves before it is too late. These joyless individuals have been around since man first started keeping records. The one thing they all have in common is their perfect batting average: 0. Every single one has been wrong, the world hasn‘t ended, their dire predictions not with standing. Today’s doom and gloomers are as wrong as those who stood in the center of Rome prophesying the end of days 2000 years ago. How do I know? I believe in God. As the Lord's Prayer states so clearly, He is “Our Father" in every sense. Would you allow your children to be exterminated if it was in your power to prevent it? So, just for today, when you feel the sadness and fear the secular world dishes out unremittingly, turn to this truth: We are all children of God, and God has all power, bringing only good, that negative conditions are but passing illusions that dissolve when the shutters of fear and doubt are thrown open and the sunlight of the Spirit streams in, so when the next “expert” delivers solemnly the latest prophecy of doom, we can smile because we really do believe in a Power Greater than ourselves.

 

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Oh, Not Again!

Oh, Not Again!

We all know someone who never misses an opportunity to retell a story of some past injustice, real or imagined, perpetrated against them. If they are close to us (family), we have heard the story so many times we know it by heart. These tales attempt to justify why they haven’t or can’t and never will demonstrate over or put behind them some incident in their lives, usually finishing the tale with a note of satisfaction in their voice. Unfortunately many choose to hold on to past injustices and hurts to the point of shutting themselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. If we are to be free we must set free all who have harmed us, leaving their final disposition to their demonstration before God, getting us out of the resentment business. To be clear: there are those who have committed grievous acts beyond the pale, they will reap as they have sown, but harboring hurt and hate in our heart stunts our growth and limits our demonstrations and forgiving does not mean forgetting. Living on the Spiritual Basis requires us to forgive but it is does not mean we have to place ourselves in a position to be harmed again.

So we forgive all who have harmed us, setting them and ourselves free, but we don’t have to go to lunch with them. If for some reason they do appear in our life or they are someone whom because of family or some other reason we will have to face, we ask in prayer to be shown the way of patience, kindness, tolerance and love toward this individual and to be kept safe and free of new resentments in their presence. By saluting the Presence of God within them and releasing them you will be amazed by the results. To state a Great Teaching once again: simple but not easy, a price has to be paid and that price is the surrendering of self.  

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Beyond This Flesh

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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