Fast Food God

God doesn’t, cannot break cosmic law, for to do so would establish favoritism. No one stands above another before God, Divine Love is not measured, is always available and is unlimited. Most unfortunately go through life living on self-will until some hardship befalls. Now being nominal believers they then turn to prayer in desperation and fear, asking for help. Now having been told that we are all loved by God, His Love boundless, why does God often seemingly not deliver or as some have said “God answers all prayers, just sometimes the answer is no?” How could this be?

Consider the fast food restaurant. We pull up to the speaker/microphone, place our order, drive up to the window and get our food. Oh wait, that’s right; we have to pay for the food before it is handed to us. What happens if we lack sufficient funds? No food, we go hungry. The person holding our order may love us and want with all their heart to provide us with the food since clearly we are hungry, in need of relief, but they cannot. In the secular world to do so would be unfair to other customers, fellow employees, the restaurant owner, company share holders and the community at large would suffer, because if we receive free food, why shouldn’t everyone? Providing something for nothing, based only in emotion, inevitably leads to anarchy, suffering and lack immanent.

Fortunately for us God exists outside secular rules, and God never says “no” but He never will or even can answer a prayer that will give prosperity to one if it brings poverty to another, peace to one by causing turmoil to another. To do so breaks cosmic law, and since He is the author of the law, He never breaks it. All prayers are answered in the positive, but often because we have certain expectations, based in self, we are unable to see God’s hand at work.

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Keys To Success and Doc Holliday Video

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Keys To Success and Doc Holliday

To recognize failure intelligently is the first step toward building success.
We all fail, often. The question is do we profit from the experience or reflect morbidly on it?

We can have anything in life that we really want, but we must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it.
Why do so many desire success but fail to demonstrate? The Great Universal Mind, God, knows if we are prepared and cannot, will not ever bring anything into our life that will overwhelm or harm us. So success is determined by our preparation.

The Universe is ready the moment we are.
Who would try to run a marathon without first training or fly a plane with no prior instruction, yet spiritually many, if not most expect The Universe to deliver just because they asked, essentially asking to win a marathon while promising to train afterwards. Our responsibility then is to consistently train ourselves to see the Great Reality within all, recognizing all are connected in Spirit, no one beyond the pale, all deserving of the chance to grow in awareness. So we prepare ourselves for success through consistent focused prayer, meditation and service to those still locked in the bondage of self.

The biggest fool of all is the man who bothers about outer things and neglects his own consciousness. If we have no time for prayer and meditation, we will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
Toward the end of the movie Tombstone, Doc Holliday is receiving last rites from a Catholic priest as Wyatt Earp walks in. Doc comments to Wyatt “I was just investigating the mysteries of the Church of Rome. It appears my hypocrisies know no bounds.” Hypocrisy had little to do with it. We all chose the course of our lives, many however putting off to tomorrow their “investigation.”  For Doc Holliday, at least in this movie, better late than never but since most of us cannot rely on cards and a quick gun hand for our source and security, ultimately failing Doc in the end as he faced eternity, we chose the sure bet to truly succeed, to Practice the Presence of God daily through prayer, meditation and service.

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The Car Keys Video

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The Car Keys

So many times in life we have thought we were ready only to find that a little, or a lot, more seasoning was needed. Typically this discovery happened after we were up to our necks. No? How about that position you thought you were ready for, so many want the title “Boss” until they get it. Or that home improvement project that looked so easy on TV. Not to mention, but I suppose I am, when we were young and so sure we were ready for the world, to be “responsible", grown up. When our children pass through those years all we can do is suggest they slow down and enjoy the time, since once we truly become responsible that horse has left the barn and will never return. They will probably listen as well as we did at that age.

Spiritually it is impossible to demonstrate beyond ones understanding. Many have tried and great has been the fall. Conversely as we grow in spiritual understanding new horizons and opportunities naturally unfold. Truly the keys to the kingdom are in our hands, the timing ours. Choosing to grow day by day in understanding, raising our consciousness a day at a time, we embrace the Truth of Being: that we are timeless children of the Great Creative Lifeforce, connected to everyone and everything. So, just for today, pray gently and meditate on love, seeking spiritual guidance from the voice of Creation within us all. Oh, and when your teenager asks for the keys to the car try to avoid dwelling on the "responsible" things you did in your parent’s car as soon as you were out of sight.

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Rhetorical Death Traps Video

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Rhetorical Death Traps

Do you know anyone who has “tried every thing” but has failed to manifest much success? Some of the obvious “every things” are: “I’ve tried to diet but nothing works for me”, “I exercise but nothing seems to happen” and the real killer: “I just don’t have the time to: cook, exercise, study, etc.” In truth, every diet works if it is truly adhered too and do you really believe 20 minutes a day 3 times a week is going to get you in shape and we always find the time for the things we really want to do. Picture a perpetual bricklayer toiling to build a wall who then tears it down at the end of each day, working very hard but in the end accomplishing nothing. The previous examples may be troublesome but they only set the stage for the truly destructive. “I have read spiritual books but how do I know if it will work for me”, “I’ve prayed but nothing happens, so either God is punishing me, doesn‘t care or isn‘t there” are rhetorical death traps, entire crews of perpetual bricklayers at work.

 “Faith without work is dead.” By inviting the Miraculous in and then slamming the door in its face, dialing the number and hanging up as soon as the connection is made, is it any wonder so many fail to demonstrate? Surrender the yeah buts, the you don’t understands, the shoulda, coulda, wouldas, the contempt prior to investigation and all the other bulwarks of self centered fear that justifies in our consciousness the use of those rhetorical sledgehammers that stunt our awakening in Spirit. Pick up the bricklayers trowel and build a relationship with God, a Power Greater Than Yourself as you understand it, and when you find one of those sledge hammers in your hand, drop it immediately and reaffirm God’s love and light by practicing the Presence of God through prayer where the fear is. Soon a wonderful spiritual structure will take shape to sustain you, those sledge hammers all but forgotten, oh, and you might even lose a little weight.

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