Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For Yourselves… And Everyone Else… All Around The World. All Around The World Indeed! Cuz All Of Humanity Is ONE… Whether We Like It Or Not; Individuals We Are… Yet Emanating From And Forever Linked To THE ONE LIVING GOD – THE ETERNAL SOURCE OF ALL LIFE… Our “Mighty I AM Presence”; And That Loving Connection… Our Link To The Loving Source Of All That Is… IS THE STREAM OF LIFE WITHIN US… That Sustains Our Being. And Therefore, That Loving Source Of Life… Expressing Itself Through Individuals… Is What It Will Take… To Establish Fearless Loving Order… In The World In Which We Live. Amen…   

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…    

And Y’all Be Love…  

“Everyone knows how strong thoughts of fear or grief have turned hair white in a few hours; how great fear makes the heart beat so rapidly as to seem about to “jump out of the body”, this result not being at all dependent on whether there be any real cause of fear or whether it be a purely imaginary cause. Just so, strong negative thoughts may render the blood acid, causing rheumatism. Bearing mental burdens makes more stooped shoulders than does bearing heavy material loads. Believing that God regards us as “miserable sinners”, that He is continually watching us and our failures with disapproval, bring utter discouragement and a sort of half paralyzed condition of the mind and body, which means failure in all our undertakings. Is it difficult for you to understand why, if God lives in us all the time, He does not keep our thoughts right instead of permitting us through ignorance to drift into wrong thoughts and so bring trouble on ourselves?

Well, we are not automatons. Your child will never learn to walk alone if you always do his walking. Because you recognize that the only way for him to be strong, self-reliant in all things, in other words – to become a man – is to throw him on himself, and let him, through experience, come to a knowledge of things for himself, you are not willing to make a mere puppet of him by taking the steps for him, even though you know that he will fall down many times and give himself severe bumps in his ongoing toward perfect physical manhood. We are in process of growth into the highest spiritual manhood and womanhood. We get many falls and bumps on the way, but only through these, not necessarily by them, can our growth proceed. Father and mother, no matter how strong or deep their love, cannot grow for their children; nor can God, who is omnipotence, at the center of our being, grow spiritually for us without making of us automatons instead of individuals.

If you keep your thoughts turned toward the external of yourself, or of others, you will see only the things that are not real, but temporal, and which pass away. All the faults, failures, or lacks in people or circumstances will seem very real to you, and you will be unhappy and sick. If you turn your thoughts away from the external toward the spiritual, and let them dwell on the good in yourself and in others, all the apparent evil will first drop out of your thoughts and then out of your life.

Paul understood this when he wrote to the Philippians: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things”, (Philippians 4:8). We all can learn how to turn the conscious mind toward universal Mind, or Spirit, within us. We can, by practice, learn how to make this every day, topsy-turvy “mind of the flesh”, be still and let the mind that is in God (all-wisdom, all-love) think in us and out through us.

Imagine, if you will, a great reservoir, out of which lead innumerable small rivulets or channels. At its farther end, each channel opens out into a small fountain. This fountain is not only being continually filled and replenished from the reservoir, but is itself a radiating center whence it gives out in all directions that which it receives, so that all who come within its radius are refreshed and blessed. This is our relation with God. Each one of us is a radiating center. Each one, no matter how small or ignorant, is the little fountain at the far end of a channel, the other end of which leads out from all there is in God. This fountain represents the individuality, as separate from the great reservoir – God – and yet as one with Him, and without Him, we are nothing. Each of us, no matter how insignificant he may be in the world, may receive from God unlimited good of whatever kind he desires, and radiate it to all about him. But remember, he must radiate if he would receive more. Stagnation is death!

O, I want the simplest mind to grasp the idea that the very wisdom of God – the love, the life, and the power of God – are ready and waiting with longing impulse to flow out through us in unlimited degree! When it flows in unusual degree through the intellect of a certain person, men exclaim, “What a wonderful mind!” When it flows through the hearts of men, it is the love that melts all bitterness, envy, selfishness, jealousy before it; when it flows through their bodies as life, no disease can withstand its onward march.

We do not have to beseech God any more than we have to beseech the sun to shine. The sun shines because it is a law of its being to shine, and it cannot help it. No more can God help pouring into us unlimited wisdom, life, power, all good, because to give is a law of His being. Nothing can hinder Him except our own lack of understanding. The sun may shine ever so brightly, but if we have, through willfulness or ignorance, placed ourselves, or have been placed by our progenitors, in the far corner of a damp, dark cellar, we get neither joy nor comfort from its shining; then to us, the sun never shines.

So, we have heretofore known nothing of how to get ourselves out of the cellar of ignorance, doubts, and despair. To our wrong thinking, God has seemed to withhold the life, wisdom, and power we wanted so much, though we sought Him ever so earnestly. The sun does not radiate life and warmth today and darkness and chill tomorrow; it cannot, from the nature of its being. Nor does God radiate love at one time, while at other times, anger, wrath, and displeasure flow from His mind toward us. “Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives or a vine of figs? (James 3:11).

God is All-Good – always good, always love. He never changes, no matter what we do or may have done. He is always trying to pour more of Himself through us, into visibility, so as to make us grander, larger, fuller, freer individuals. While the child is crying out for its Father-Mother God, the Father-Mother is yearning with infinite tenderness to satisfy the child. “In the heart of man, a cry; In the heart of God, supply.”

There is but one Mind in the universe. Human mind, or intellect, makes mistakes because it gathers much information from without. Universal Mind sees and speaks from within, it is all Truth. Our way of thinking makes our happiness or unhappiness, our success or nonsuccess. We can, by effort, change our ways of thinking. God is at all times, regardless of our so-called sins, trying to pour more good into our lives to make them richer and more successful.

… There is but one power in the universe, and that is God – good. God is good, and God is omnipresent. Apparent evils are not entities or things of themselves. They are simply apparent absence of the good, just as darkness is an absence of light. But God, or good, is omnipresent, so the apparent absence of good (evil) is unreal. It is only an appearance of evil, just as the moving sun was an appearance. You need not wait to discuss this matter of evil or to understand fully all about why you deny it, but begin to practice the denials in an unprejudiced way, and see how marvelously they will, after a while, deliver you from some of the so-called evils of your daily life.

There is no absence of life, substance, or intelligence anywhere. We have seen that the real is the spiritual. “The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal”, (2 Corinthians 4:18). By using this denial, you will soon break your bondage to matter and to material conditions. You will know that you are free. Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death cannot master me, for they are not real. There is nothing in all the universe for me to fear, for greater is He that is within me than he that is in the world. God says, “I will contend with him that contendeth with thee”, (Isaiah 49:25). He says it to every living child of His, and every person is His child.”

Lessons in Truth, by H. Emilie Cady, 1894