Imagining

What if God isn't a noun to be empowered and worshiped
but a verb of creation powered by love?

What if every single tree drawn in primary school is a sacred work of art worthy of joyful notice?

What if our lives are built on a web of kindness, a net, which holds everything living. What if the rocks are alive singing strength and courage; vibrating from our feet right up to our heart?

What if we loved ourselves as deeply as the mountain who, caressed by water, surrenders herself into sand?

What if our most loved, intra-national pastime was a game of entertainment where we all win?

What if no one aspired to be a millionaire and money no longer had power
but was simply a means of tenderness.

What if transforming our world by imagining it can actually make it happen?

- Deborah Rodney

This week I focus on my thoughts and feelings about myself. When there is self-recrimination I pause ... and then I consciously practice self-love and unconditional friendliness toward myself and allow it to bring to light new ways that I can better appreciate who I am as a child of God. I am caring and kind to the most important person in my life . . . me! I love my gay, wonderful self so much.

a penny

usually I don't write about my dreams here, but since it relates to my new class I thought I would.

I dreamed that I saw a penny on the ground, and I picked it up, this I normally don't do, but in my financial freedom class, we talk about that spirit gives us abundance in accordance to what we are willing to accept.

So I leaned over and picked up the penny, and then I saw another penny, and I picked up that one too. Pretty soon I was picking up plenty of pennies, and the pennies were getting larger and larger.

I looked over in the sand and I saw a glint of silver, I reached over and it was a crown.

I then found another crown, and each crown was getting bigger and more elaborate, then they starting become Golden Crowns, finally there was more than I could carry.

I saw some people and I said to them, "Come here, there are Gold crowns here, and I have more than can use.

Maybe the dream means nothing, maybe it means that if spirit gives you a little, you need to accept it , be grateful for it, and once you are, that opens yourself up for more and more, until you have more than you need.

New Class - New thoughts

new thoughts - can we change the way we think about things, change our attitudes, make our own lives better?

in the class I'm taking, we were asked to think - to go back and look at our first money memory, and what we learned from it.

I thought and thought, and I flashed back on my mother (stepmom #2) and how it was her birthday - I had no money to buy her a gift (I was 9 or 10) and I was told to get out of the house and not to come back until we had a gift for her -

my sister and I scrounged up coke bottles and the like, until we had a couple of bucks, and then we went to the drugstore and bought some thing.

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What I learned from this; is that you are worthless unless you have money, unless you have a gift to bring, you are useless.

of course this doesn't make it true, it is just what I brought away from it.

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I confessed this at the class, and later I felt so incredibly free and lighter that I ever had before.

Happy Holy Days

I believe in Christ, the man and the god, that dwells within in us all, but I don't believe in hate, though hate is easy to be found...

Sometimes it is harder to find the love, it takes a little bit more work to see the love that surrounds us, that love is really the only thing that makes life worth living.

Sometimes, if we are alone, it is easy to think that there is no love, but that is only a filter which one can, with practice, take off.

To experience love, we must first give love, for when you practice what you want, it will find its way to you.

So I wish for you, my readers and the others in my life, a life full of the practice of giving love, so that it may find you.

Chris Michaels

When we cooperate with spiritual law and learn how to think, we automatically become powerful and prosperous.

What is Prayer?

To Religious Scientists, Prayer or what we like to call Spiritual Mind Treatments, is the conscious alignment or affirmation of yourself with the Truth that is beyond this experience and is the truth about yourself in God's Mind.

We like to do this in five steps, the First we call Recognition; in this step we recognize the Attributes of God, the One Mind, the One Spirit that is in all things.

the second we call Unification, this is where we align ourselves with the One Presence.

The third step we call, Realization; this is where we restate our True thoughts about ourselves, in our experience we sometimes get focused on what seems to be true about us, i.e. not enough money, in the step realization, we focus on what is the truth, that we already have all these things, that they already are ours

the fourth Step we call Thanksgiving or Celebration, this is where we express our thanks for this desire, being already present in our lives

And the Fifth Step is called Release this is where we release our word into the perfect Action of Law (not God's love or the universe)