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Category Archives: Receiving
BEST LIGHT
“What is important is that we are doing what the Father has given us to do, according to our best light.” – Letters of Myrtle Fillmore, 1936. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth … Continue reading
AFFIRMATION – RECEIVING
We are frequently encouraged to “give,” but can only give what we have received. In simple terms, affirmation and gratitude are the receiving modes in spiritual life. When we give, what joy we feel when the gift is happily, enthusiastically … Continue reading
COMPOSURE
“Composure is truly such when we are able to meet new situations and sudden upheavals with equanimity. This composure may be acquired in various ways, by mental training, by silence and meditation, or through the attainment of an artistic degree … Continue reading
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ALL the LOVE
“Suppose that for a moment we took off the spectacles of Time and Space and saw the world as the angels in heaven see it, as a simple Temple in the midst of Infinity and Eternity. It would then be … Continue reading
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MORE LIFE
“Health is more life. … We do not have to beseech God. Life more abundant rushes into the souls and bodies of men, as air does into a vacuum, the moment they learn how consciously to relax and, turning toward … Continue reading
TRUE FREEDOM
A Sunday School teacher to a very little girl: “Ask Jesus into your heart.” – mjd “It is through Christ, the indwelling Christ, that we are to receive all that God has and is, as much or as little as … Continue reading
PERSONAL SABBATH
An enduring memory is from a book by Erich Fromm, You Shall Be as Gods, 1969. (As I recall without the book at hand,) Fromm described the Jewish concept of Sabbath as a time for assimilation of the work accomplished … Continue reading
PRAY WITHOUT CEASING
“[Jesus] was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he gave them this reply: “The kingdom of God never comes by watching for it. Men cannot say, ‘Look, here it is’, or ‘there it is’, … Continue reading
“OUR”
This post begins a series of thoughts regarding the Lord’s Prayer as an affirmation. They will be posted occasionally, gathered in the category “Lord’s Prayer.” THOUGHTS I love the first word of the Lord’s Prayer. Pause and relish it’s implications … Continue reading
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MEDITATION the PATH to VISION
“There is but one way to gain and keep for one’s own the beautiful vision of God which we have been contemplating with its results in the outer life; it is a way as old as mankind, that of meditation. … Continue reading
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