Dear Friends,
     
I am still planning to reopen soon, so if you have any suggestions, requests, or can volunteer to help out - please let me know...

Meanwhile, as I write this, there is a lot of news about a possible war in Ukraine, which may seem distant, but in a certain way, it is very close to us because the "Spiritual Reality" is that we are all together in "This Thing Called Life."  There isn't really any intrinsic need for war, of course.  

Looking at it from a spiritually-minded viewpoint, this current upheaval and uncertainty seems to be rooted in a thought-world full of regret about perceived past losses, and a fear of future losses. We can easily get entangled in this thought-world of fear. I imagine you have friends and loved ones who have served in the military even if you haven't done so yourself, and this experience that we are sharing now, even if it is just by watching the news, may be triggering thoughts from our own past, or fears of our own futures - conscious or unconscious.  

So what can we do?  Actually, now is the perfect time to pay attention to any regrets about the past or fears about the future that pop up for you, whether they are related to the news about war, disease, aging, finances, or any other issue.   When we take a careful look at what we are thinking, we can evaluate whether those thoughts "help" us, or "hurt" us in our effort to live in that place of Joy, Hope, and Health that feels so right.


This week's affirmation and meditation are from Dr. Ernest Holmes.  It's always good to go back to the basics of Science of Mind whenever we need a reminder of what our teaching teaches!

Rev. Ron will be speaking this Sunday - be sure to tune in on YouTube or Facebook.  I think it's a very timely topic.

Peace & Joy to You,  

In The Flow
by Bené Raphael, Spiritual Practitioner

God in action is life realized in its highest and best form. Each time we treat and move our feet we are moving in the flow with God in action.  We are the vessel for God's creation.  As we think it is done.  What we believe becomes our reality.  Knowing this is what allows us to move into our best lives.  Seeing God in all is what brings us the greatest love, the most joy and absolute Truth.  The absolute of what God created us to be.  In our highest and best.  And in the flow. 

Try reading this aloud...pausing at each punctuation mark.
 

This Week's Meditation Passage:
The Eternal Cycles of Life in Motion Fulfill My Faith

     This is another way of saying that something happens when a [person] believes.  Faith is operated upon by some principle which is a government of Law and Order, and which has within Itself the power to execute Itself.  Prayer is not to ask God to be God.
     There is a Supreme Intelligence in the Universe, we cannot tell It anything; what little we know, we have drawn from It.  There is an Absolute Spirit around us, It does not need our existence.  It has already surrendered Itself to us but we have not yet surrendered ourselves to It.  That is what prayer--or treatment--is for.  
     We do not pray the Principle of Peace to desist from confusion, but we seek that Peace that it shall enter into our confused souls.  Therefore, prayer or meditation is for the purpose of becoming receptive to the Divine Influx, which already owns everything, knows everything, governs all things, and creates what we need--if we but permit it to--in Its own Nature, which is goodness, truth and beauty.  Each turns to the within in something after this fashion:

     We let go of everything, drop every fear from our minds, drop all confusion from our thought, and enter into the inner secret communion with that great Reality, which is our Universal Self--God--in Whom we live and move and have our being.  We are conscious that this Divine Presence overshadows and indwells.  It is both without this physical, mental being and within this physical, mental being.  Therefore, It is the spiritual Reality of this being, the I AM, which is Universal, Eternal, and Perfect.
     Now this Spirit is our Spirit.  It is our life from which we now draw full, complete and perfect being.  This Divine Intelligence does govern us intelligently; It does direct us consciously, accurately, unerringly.  We surrender to It every fear, every sense of uncertainty of the future, every thought of any morbidity of the past.  We surrender all confusion and doubt, and we know that this Divine Influx removes every mental obstruction to peace; It removes every sense of condemnation and judgment, and we enter into the fulfillment of Its perfection now.
     We believe if there is any part of our physical being which needs healing, It heals it; that that Power within us and around us which creates, can recreate, can make whole now.  We believe if there is any conflict in our mental being, it can be removed, because the Spirit is higher than the mind and more than the body, and we are dealing with that Spirit which, animating the mind with Divine Intelligence, produces an influx of spiritual life in the body, healing, without effort, both mind and body.  
     We relinquish, we let go, those things which bother us mentally or hurt us physically.  We know that the Divine Presence is the Eternal Healer, because It is the everlasting Giver of life.  And we know the Intelligence which created the Universe and projected it in form and governs it with perfect Law--that Divine Being directs our movements intelligently, coherently, constructively, certainly, bringing to each that which he calls success and prosperity, happiness, fulfillment of life, action.
     And we know that that Divine Being, governing everything out of Its own Nature, works without effort--Birthless and Deathless and Tireless, It moves through us to perfect ends, now.