True Self

Christ is your true selfhood. Jesus Christ was the Messiah. In the Bible a truer translation is Christ Jesus. It was his anointing, his title. Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is within you. He also said that you are the light of the world. This is a universal truth. In yoga last night, the teacher was talking about how your body is full of light. This light expands and fills the room. It fills the building, the city, state, world, universe. That light that is everywhere is the true idea of God. Jesus saw know limits to the power and awareness of God. It is universal.

Christ is the human and divine coincidence, divinity embracing humanity. Therefore, what God sees in you and knows about you is Christ. I have seen this at work before. I have seen middle-aged ladies connect with criminals behind bars. How? There was a connection between them, the presence of God. The cool thing about Christ, is it is the connection because the Christ (true selfhood) in you recognizes and bonds with the Christ (true selfhood, true idea of God) in them.

American theologian Mary Baker Eddy wrote "[Saint] John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration, — reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God."

Christ is your connection to God. I am talking about Christ as the divine influence in your life. Where Christ is, healing is taking place. Nothing that comes into contact with Christ leaves unhealed. Christ uncovers evil, arrests it, destroys it, dissolves it. Christ as the full presence and activity of the one God brings us progress and freedom.

Step aside and let Love have Her day. Before you step into a room, step aside and let the real you step into the room. Watch what happens.

Eckhart Tolle says:

"If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality. In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself."

This is so true. I ask, why do we accept things that are false about ourselves and others so readily? This is your God's day. God's life of freedom and health is your life of health and freedom.

Feel that today and let it prosper in you.

American theologian, Mary Baker Eddy said this: "Man, governed by his Maker, having no other Mind, — planted on the Evangelist's statement that "all things were made by Him [the Word of God]; and without Him was not anything made that was made," — can triumph over sin, sickness, and death."

Earthquake and Tsunami

I have been praying about the earthquake that struck Japan this morning and the resulting tsunamis. My Bible fell open to Ps 16, which reads "Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge." I am praying that for everyone in the Pacific region.

I am pondering the following:

Divine intelligence governs all creation perfectly and with perfect assurance. One of the names for God is Principle, which describes how God is the law-maker. Principle therefore is a law of good, a law of Love. This then mean that God and God's power is a law FOR good. I am reminding myself that God does not share His power and authority with anyone. Let's bring thought into harmony with these divine facts. Natural disasters are not natural. They are not from God. As it says in I Kings 19, God was not in the earthquake, wind and fire.

God's Action

Did you know that God is walking, acting talking, harmoniously and unencumbered? God's action is the Christ declaring Truth's Truth on your behalf.

Sickness, no matter how slight or bad, is a misconception of God. Jesus showed us how to remove the misconception. He said you can only serve one master. That is why we refuse to give our consent to disease. We recognize what Jesus did, that Our Father is benevolent and takes away disease. We recognize this when we become aware of divine Love and Love's presence to the exclusion of sickness.

Step aside and let divine Love have her day. Rely on Her wisdom and see what kind of day you have.

Loving More

This week I have been reading a book called The Mastery of Love.
I've had the book for a few years and this week God said it was time
to read it. He are some ideas that have been helping me to see love differently.

"We can talk about love and write a thousand books about it, but love
will be completely different for each one of us because we have to
experience love. Love is not about concepts; love is about action.
Love in action can only produce happiness. Fear in action can only
produce suffering. The only way to master love is to practice love."

"Love has no resistance, no expectations. In fear, we blame others
for not meeting our expectations." So, fear lived out is a recipe for
disappointment and inharmony.

Is it tempting to feel like you don't have enough love to go around because something has you down? That's how I felt yesterday. Something big hadn't worked out the way I thought it should. This morning I opened Mastery of Love I read "Self-pity is disrespect." Self-pity is: I'm not good enough, not bright enough not strong enough, not intelligent enough, not enlightened enough, not loving enough. "Happiness never comes from outside us. You are happy because of the love coming out of you."

So, no one else makes you/me happy or sad. Happiness is the result of Your [God's] love. Well, I realized that I didn't have to put up with self-pity and I was free to love, well freely.

Hot Run

As I was heading out for a run on a hot, hot day a neighbor said I should be safe and abandon the idea. In St. Louis, it's not only hot but humid. But, I had confidence that I could manage the situation. I realized when I was 2/3rds of the way through the run, I realized a few things. First, I hadn't committed to leaning on God, I had decided that I had intelligence to "manage" the situation. It turned out I didn't really. I ran too fast. Second, even when I realized I was running too fast, I didn't slow down enough. I realized I needed to listen to God. As I ran, I listened to ideas from an audio program from spirituality.com about solving world hunger. This audio chat was feeding me with spiritual ideas and these ideas were feeding me and sustaining me. I was pondering how all things are possible to God. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus told his disciples, "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." American theologian Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, — a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love."

As I was running in the heat, I came across some large earthworms who were stretched on the sidewalk. They had expired from the heat. Because I was praying for myself and out of care for the innocent worms, I didn't feel I could accept the picture of death before me. I turned my heart to God, who is divine Life. I heard a message - life is springing up. A step later I came upon a very large worm who was writhing on the ground. (He was really large - about 9 inches long.) I picked him up to get him into a flower bed out of the heat. This worm who had been out in the sun was quite warm to the touch. To the touch, he was hot, maybe between 110-120F. It seems I was there at the right time to help the worm. I imagine that we both are grateful that prayer is not theoretical, it is practical. At times it heals us. At times it leads us to solutions.

New Day

I'm glad you stopped by. Man, how I hunger for the Word of God today. That's what feeds me. That's what makes my heart beat. That's what makes me want to relieve the suffering of others and support them.

Behold, I make all things new." (Rev 21.5) Wow, today is a new day. It is God's day, so then see how everything is subject to the power of Good.

Be glad, rejoice, be grateful, see harmony - experience Life.