This is Who We Are
What is happening in form in the world around us is this: humanity is waiting for us to step forward. When we talk about 100 million “cultural creative” waiting to join our teaching, we are selling ourselves short. There are over seven billion people who are waiting to learn, understand and move into that which we teach and the principles we espouse by any name whatsoever. I saw a bumper sticker once that read, “God is too big to fit into one religion.” It could not have been … [Read More...]
Something New Every Day
As ministers of any denomination, it is incumbent upon us to remain “open at the top,” as Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science used to say. Recently, I had the opportunity to explore the parables, and of course, the first and, I believe, the most important is the parable of the two debtors. If we understand this parable, we will understand all subsequent parables. And the Teacher said, “There were two debtors: one owed him five hundred denari and the other owed him fifty. … [Read More...]
Changing boxes….
Changing Boxes I’m facing a significant on Saturday. I’m moving from one of the boxes I frequently check – that little box on surveys where I have to indicate my age range. I’d not given it a lot of thought until recently, but this year, I’m being forced into a new category: the 50 and over category. I’d like to think as we slide from one demographic category to another, we become wiser, more educated and spiritually evolved. Like the old boxes I used to check, my new … [Read More...]
7 Social Sins
Just like a great many others I am anxiously awaiting any news that will bring light on the motive from the surviving Boston bomber, 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I suppose we just want to hear the reason why anyone would do such a heinous thing, even though we know there is no reason that could make it right or justified. I would suggest that it is a human condition to attempt to rationalize such acts, and we await the information in some hope that his story might bring light on such a dark … [Read More...]
INCREASE THE PEACE
With this most recent violence of the bombing at the Boston Marathon and the recent killings of children at Sandy Hook elementary in Newtown Connecticut, the mall shootings in Oregon & Virginia and even the shooting at Taft High in California are all a cry for help. They are the call to prayer and the shout-out that we need to be more vigilant in the care and attention to our children. I know there is a great deal of call for the curtailment of guns, and attacks on the NRA for their … [Read More...]
A Living Idea
A living idea in the Mind of God has inherent in it everything required to grow and flourish. It does not require you, me or anyone else to maintain it. It derives all of its requirements from First Cause, Spirit. On more than one occasion in my life I have struggled and fought to maintain a form that disappeared as soon as I turned my back on it. This was a living idea in my mind and required everything in order to maintain it- not from Spirit but from me. And while I am certainly part of … [Read More...]
Practicing Peace and Understanding Amid Fear and Violence
Our blessings and our prayers go out to Boston today after, yet again, another senseless act of violence perpetrated on innocent people. I ask that each of us take a moment and pray for those afflicted, and once again, I ask that we pray for our world and our advancement into a peaceful unity and mature response to these heinous and destructive acts. It is obvious that the traditional responses that we as a world society have implemented for thousands of years have become, and possibly always … [Read More...]
Relatively Absolute
In the Science of Mind, our founder Dr. Ernest Holmes, states, "We wish to affirm relativity without destroying Absoluteness." He goes on to say, "This can be done only by realizing the relative is not a thing apart from, but is an experience in, the All-comprehending Mind." In light of this wisdom, I tell my students that my goal is not to become Absolute or to live solely in the relative. My intention, rather, is to blend the two in such a way that they mesh like gears coming together in … [Read More...]
Living from a Higher Vibration
Physicists are starting to come together around the notion that everything is created from some sort of vibrating energy. This is how we can get something out of nothing. Of course, others have known this for centuries. Countless shamans and spiritual teachers have talked about the need to raise our vibrational rate to that of love and peace, and that when we do that, something new emerges, different from what came before. It behooves us, then, to ask ourselves – “What is the … [Read More...]
Easter, A Story I Don’t Want To Pay Attention To
For centuries the story of Easter, to some faiths, has been the account of the literal resurrection of Jesus. To other faiths, it is a metaphor about transformation. For metaphysical communities, it remains up to the individual to decide. Nevertheless, it is one of the three times of the year when churches, metaphorically minded or literally inclined, are better attended; Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter. It makes an interesting challenge for pastors, priests and spiritual leaders. “What … [Read More...]
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