The Best Year of Your Life!

How many of you have made a New Year's resolution? I have made a thousand of them, if I have made one. A few actually were achieved but most were just "good intentions". Good intentions are rather like hope. Better than the alternative but just barely! They are soft, weak, well meaning but posess little or no power for real change.

As New Year 2008 dawns in a few hours I invite you to try something different this year. Instead of the usual resolutions that are rooted in good intentions and will power; try using God's Law instead of your human will power. You will see a dramatic difference in results.

If you have been a frequent visitor to this blog then you know that I talk a lot about the Law. It is the key to the creation of all things. Even God uses it and has used it to create all that exists. In fact She invented the Law. What I mean when I say the Law was expressed in the Bible by John, when he said "In the beginning was the Word". The Word is the start of all things. Both God's Word and your Word must be spoken before you see the results. God has already promised each of us that He will speak the Word, when we can believe. The rest is up to us.

The Word is your declaration of what you will allow in your life, stated with absolute certainty; knowing it is already done. Your Word has the same type of power as God's Word - the difference is only of scale. God spoke the world and all that is in it into being and has given you and I the power of the Word so that we may speak our lives and all that is in them into being. The Law of Mind Action states that what you speak about with certainty, what you act on with decisiveness and what you accept as yours before you ever receive it - is yours! What the Mind declares with certainty must appear in form. Wishey-washey words did not create the Universe and they will not create what you want in your life!

This New Years Day do this: First decide what you want to heal, change or create in your life in 2008. Do not make a "laundry list" of all that is wrong in your life - you will never get all that done. Instead, choose the 5 most important things that you will add to your life in 2008. Perhaps it is a mate. Perhaps it is more financial abundance. Perhaps it is a new home or a new job. Perhaps you want better health; to heal an illness. Perhaps, like me, you are going to become fluent in another language. Your desires are yours; the choices are yours.

The key to successful creation is to focus. Focus is everything in life creation. What you focus on, positive or negative, is what appears in your life. So decide on 5 things or less that you will definately focus upon and bring into your life this year. Write them down. Until you write them down, they do not exist for you. Keep this list in front of you at home and at work.

Each day, do affirmative prayer and declare that you have one of these desires already in your life. Accept this desire as done and remember to thank God for assisting you in bringing this into your life. Do a different desire each day as you pray. Never beg or ask - demand! God has promised us all a life of joy, of abundance, of peace and happiness. If we do not now have it, it is not God that has kept it from you - it is that you have not consciously used God's Law to bring it into your life. It is your right to have this life but you will never have it until YOU create it by declaring it so and believing that it is so!

As you make your list of 5 desires to fulfill, state them as already done. Say "I have", never I want or I wish or please give me. No power there! No one is giving these to you, you are creating them using the power given to you at birth by the Most High God. That power is your good use of God's Law. God has given you the power, the building materials - you build the house! Remember, your life will not change until YOU DO. It happens from inside you. As you change, so will your life but not a minute before!

After you have made your list of new states of being, begin to move into these new states. The Bible says it this way: In my Father's house are many rooms (the King James inaccurately translates it as "many mansions"). This means that there are thousands of possible states of being (Mind) in God's Universe (rooms in the Father's house). You have the right and priviledge to occupy any of those "rooms" or states of Mind that you can believe in and accept.

This year, don't resolve to change. Change your state of Mind, move into another of the Father's "rooms" and become a new person. As Scripture states in Romans 12:22 "Be you transformed by the renewal of your Mind". In other words, change the way you think; change what you think about; change what you believe; change what choices you make - and change your life! Nothing or no one "out there" can do it for you!

If you need help in doing this drop me a line at the "contact Dore'" or "Prayer Request" links above. If you do what I have outlined in this post, I guarantee that this will be the very best year of your life!

Have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year

And So It Is!

A Non-Traditional Christmas Story

Christmas is one of my favorite times of year, is it yours? I went to a lovely Singing Christmas Tree program at a large Baptist Church in my town - yes I was in the front row of a Baptist Church! It was extremely well done, the music was delightful, the story very traditional and the short message, couched in a "thank you for being here", was appropriate and very upbeat. Kudos to First Sarasota, as our downtown Baptist Church is now called.

Both my wife, Susan, and our friends who accompanied us, had a wonderful evening and left the large sanctuary renewed and full of love for all humankind. That is the entire point of Christmas as I see it. Oh, we gave each other knowing smiles at the simple, allegorical Christmas story that portrayed events that either never happened or happened very differently than the standard "Greatest Story Ever Told", but those are the facts and the facts are not what Christmas is all about.

Many New Thought people, including those of us in Religious Science, get caught up in disputing the "fairy tale" presentation of the Christmas story and in so doing, may miss the entire experience of the season. You see, dear ones, it doesn't matter if Mary was or wasn't a virgin (probably wasn't), it doesn't matter if Jesus was born in Bethlehem or Nazareth (pretty sure it was Nazareth), and it sure doesn't matter that Jesus wasn't born on December 25th ( he almost certainly wasn't). It doesn't even matter that the baby's name wasn't Jesus (ever hear of a Jew named Jesus, before or since? - It was Joshua or Yeshua in Hebrew). Doubtful that there was a manger and we are sure that Augustus did not decree a census and ask every person in the Empire to go to his home town (can you imagine millions of people on the roads all at the same time all over the Mediterranean world - wow, what a mess!). Stars do not hang in the sky then or now and the Three Kings were actually Persian Priests called Magi but, what the heck, its the joy the love and the beauty of life that we are really celebrating; not the birth of a baby boy! We are celebrating the birth of the Christ - that Mind that was in Jesus, not the birth of the man Jesus.

Oh, the baby boy is very important because He grew up to become the Christ - the Wayshower - the one who opened the eyes of humanity to its higher potential, to the reality that love really does conquer might every time- if we have the raw guts to employ it! Takes more courage to show love in the face of adversity than to attack or defend; how many of us could march into the dogs and fire hoses dressed in our Sunday Best as Martin Luther King and his thousands of marchers did? Dr. King changed America that day; just as the young Jesus changed the Roman Empire and the world beyond it in His day.

The celebration of Christmas is not just for Christians - it goes far beyond the parochial celebration of "The Son of God". It is a celebration of Light, Love, Goodwill toward all humans, kindness and yes, of a young Jewish man named Yeshua Ben Joseph who had the Christ mindedness to transcend his humanness and show us the Way out of the darkness and into the Light. That is why many Jewish friends of mine celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah with their children because a few weeks of focus on love and goodwill are good for every human on this planet.

The message and majesty of Jesus is that even a simple Jewish cabinetmaker's son, born into the poorest town in Galilee, can by realizing who He really was, transcend his carnal self ;free himself from the world of facts and logic and ascend to true Christhood - that state where we operate in the certain knowledge of our Divinity and become master operators of God's Spiritual Laws. Let me illustrate my point a bit by an examination of the "miracle stories" of the New Testament.

Many do not believe that these events ever took place. I do believe that they happened because I have experienced this kind of healing three times in my life and I know that it exists and I know how and why it happens. It did not happen because the Father reached down from Heaven above and touched these people. It did not happen because Jesus was God and had Godly powers that we mere mortals do not possess. It did not happen because these people would have been healed anyway in the natural course of events. There was no magical suspension of the physical laws of the world. It happened as a result of faith. Faith is God's magic elixir which heals, creates and renews.

When this miraculous healing took place, there was a Master at work using the same Spiritual Laws of the Universe that God used to create this world. That Master was Jesus. As He taught us over and over the Law does the work using our faith and creates what we call miracles almost every day somewhere on this planet. No magic, just brilliant use of the Law. Here is how it worked for Jesus and how it will work for you in your life.

If you are a student of the Bible, you will remember that on several occasions he stated plainly that anyone of us could do what He was doing- if we believed! He was stating that if you use the Law, which requires that you see it done before it appears in form and that you have a total belief that it is done without any evidence to prove it - then it will be done unto you.

In every single instance of healing He asked the afflicted if they were ready to be healed or if they believed that He could heal them. In the case of Lazarus, he was not in this world and could not get in the way of his own healing. That is the point, our doubt and need for proof keeps our healing efforts from bearing fruit. If you do not have total trust in God and the Law that God has instituted, then you cannot heal yourself or anyone else. Take up your bed and arise! That is what each of us must do, if we are to heal our lives and live the Divine Life we were meant to live. Let go of the "facts" of this moment and soar!

Faith is the key to creating what you want; the key to healing your body, your mind and your life. What you have faith in is not as important as the faith itself. Faith moves mountains - doubt builds them. Fear makes them into Everest's. Faith is not a sometime thing. Faith is a state of being, a constant attitude, an expectation of good or bad. That's right, you use faith when you prepare "for the worst" - you expect it, you have faith that it will surely happen and then you are surprised when it does. Faith, like God's Law works in forward and reverse! You will always get what you expect and believe in!

Jesus the Wayshower was teaching us to live in this world but be not of this world. What He meant is that we must remember that we are spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience and to put our faith in our Divine selves (our true selves) and not in the temporary physical Ego self here on Earth. The Divine in us never dies - the body and Ego pass totally away; they are but shells and suits for us to use while here. Keep your focus and your Mind on who you really are - put your faith in the words of the Master Teacher - Jesus, and in God's Law that allows you to create whatever reality you can absolutely believe in and accept.

For the first time humankind became free of the tyranny of facts; of struggle and lack - if they would learn to use the tools God has bequeathed to us. That is the real message of Christmas - we are free! That is the ministry of Jesus The Wayshower. You are so much more than you think you are!

Have the best Christmas ever - tell someone you love them and be joyous! May the New Year be the finest in your life to date!

Your Faith will set you free!