A Brief Guide To The Spiritual World

As I was thinking about the topic for this week's message, it occurred to me that just about all of us are pretty good at getting around in the physical world. We can understand what we can see, feel, touch, taste, smell as long it is "in the natural" or physical realm. When talk of the spiritual world comes up in conversation people almost always get uneasy, as if a taboo subject has been introduced. We are fairly comfortable with things of the intellect, but talk about the Spirit that created all that exists or the spirit that lives in each of us and we get uneasy and often leave the room!

Why do you think this is? I believe that it might be that people are uncomfortable about spirituality and the discussion of it because it strikes to the heart of who and what we are. It touches the very essence of our being and we feel vulnerable and exposed. It also brings up religious differences and these tend to pit us against our fellow humans. Discussion of religion or spirituality brings our differences into focus rather than bringing us into common ground. Of course, in our "politically correct" society we wouldn't want to offend, now would we?

Let's talk about what I believe is the Truth about the spiritual world. Physicists such as Steven Hawking, estimate that 98% of the entire Universe is non -physical or not yet formed into matter. (I define the spiritual world as all that is not yet in form - void energy)

At the center of this spiritual world is the Cosmic Intelligence we choose to call God. God is not God's name, it is the convenient word we in Western Culture use to refer to that Power that is beyond our intellectual understanding. We know its there, we can see the effects of this Power all around us, the glory of Creation on this planet and billions of others. The sunset, the blue, blue sky, the perfect temperatures for life, the exact chemical composition of the atmosphere that allows us to breathe; the perfect cocktail of amino acids that produced life here on earth - and most awesome of all - the exquisite double helix of DNA - the very building blocks of all life; these can not be the product of luck, fate or random chance.

There is some seriously advanced engineering going on here, far beyond our puny human abilities. Who or what is the cause - the First Cause of all of this? This Cause we label God, for lack of a better term. Some just refer to this great Mind as the Universe, some call it Divine Mind, some say Universal Mind, others call it the life essence of the Universe. Luke Skywalker and Obe Wan Kenobe of Star Wars fame just called it "The Force". That is as good a name as any!

Atheists and agnostics sometimes ridicule people of faith. They laugh at those who believe in a power of Creation greater than the puny human mind. They call us fools and gullible innocents. To me, those who cannot see the hand of a great Mind in the wonderful panorama of Creation all around us; who cannot see the exquisite order that permeates the Universe and all in it - they are the gullible ones.

Even scientists admit that today's scientific fact all too often becomes tomorrow's myth and legend as we advance in our knowledge. In contrast,Universal Truth is true now, 2,000 years from now and for all time. As I often point out to atheists and agnostics who wish to debate me, and they do love to debate; most of the greatest scientific minds of the past 600 years had a strong belief in a Great Power, a Mind beyond human comprehension, that was the Cause of all creation, the Prime Engineer of all that exists, the Great Lawgiver who created the Ordered Universe that we live in. Such men and women as Einstein, Von Braun, Madame Curie, Pasteur, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Goddard, even Carl Sagan, the Sage of Modern Astronomy, all believed in a Power, a Mind behind all Creation.

These great men and women of science might not have all been religious church goers but all the true greats of Science reached out and "touched the Face of God" as they looked deeply into the Cosmos and explored its workings. They saw nothing but Order and Design in everything from a snowflake to DNA to the orbit and tracks of the planets and stars. They knew at their deepest core that all Creation cannot have been the result of random chance.

Does this mean that they bought the notion of the Sunday School God, the Old Man in the Sky in the White Robe on his Bench of Judgement writing in his book of Good and Evil Deeds? Of course not, and neither do I or any other Religious Scientist or thinking Christian. God is a Spirit, not a superhuman. God is an Essence of Life, not a capricious and cranky tribal God as envisioned in the Old Testament.

We live under a New Covenant, a new understanding of God as Love personified, of Intelligence that loves us because it IS us. We understand that God and humanity are partners in the sense that God works only through us, for us. If we are not a clear channel through which God can work, we will not experience the Grace of God working in our lives.

Our job is Faith - trust in things not seen - and acting on that Faith with the same certainty that we act on what we see and know in the physical world. Your faith in God and God's Laws should be of the same depth and certainty as your faith in gravity or in the Sun staying in the sky. Physical Laws and Spiritual Laws were made by the same Mind, the same Intelligence and can be depended on equally and trusted implicitly.

All of us understand that there are immutable and dependable laws that run the physical world. We do not expect a sack of cement dropped from a 10 story building to go up, we KNOW better! We do not expect a healthy baby to be born 4 months after conception, we KNOW that it takes nine months! We do not expect the sky to be green tomorrow, we know that it is blue, even if obscured for the moment by clouds. These things are the products of physical law - made by an intelligence.

So then why do so many otherwise intelligent people believe that the Spiritual World is governed by a God of caprice, whim, reward and punishment? Why do we believe in a God that plays favorites, cannot be trusted to act in a predictable manner but seems to blow hot and cold. Many believe that the Spiritual World is different, but it is not! It has been said that humanity cannot conceive of a God unlike itself and I believe that is a true statement. Most of us make an image of God that is like our image of us. Our God cannot grow bigger than what we think of ourselves.

The next time you struggle with visualizing God, think of a warm bright light illuminating from the center of your being. This is the Holy Spirit, the Indwelling God, shining from within you, present in you and present in every place in the Universe at the same time. God just is, always has been, always will be. The day you finally can let go of seeing God as a person and can see God as a loving benevolent Intelligence that operates through you, for you - that is the day that you will understand at last that every human being on this planet and every other we may discover, is God. God and you are ONE. God lives and moves and has its being through you and you receive your life through God. One cannot exist without the other.

Know that you are loved beyond measure, that you are treasured as a pearl beyond any price. You are a thought in the Mind of the Creator of the Universe. Is that not a magnificent notion?

You are never separated from the love of God but you can refuse to see the Truth about who and what you are. You have the power to draw the curtain of disbelief over the face of God within you but know this; God is still there waiting for you to awaken to your magnificence. You are given free will in order that you may choose your life, your way and your Light. This is not a dress rehearsal, choose wisely!

May God bless every moment in your life and may you become a conscious partner with God in the co-creation of Heaven on Earth right here and right now!

And So It Is!

The Most Powerful 2 Words In the Universe

The two most powerful words in the Universe are "I Am".
The Bible tells us that I AM is the very name of God.
When Moses asked God his name, I AM was the answer. That is the name of God, He is the Great I AM. God is First Cause, has always existed, indeed is all that exists outside of God. Do you realize that you and I create our reality and our lives by speaking His name a hundred times a day. That is the real meaning of "we are created in the image and likeness of God".

We identify ourselves and take ownership of an idea or condition in our lives by saying I AM. When you say, I am flat broke - you have just taken ownership of being broke and have spoken the same words God spoke on creating the Universe, so you can be sure that you will be broke! (for those of you outside the US, that means I don't have any money) You can use the I AM without actually saying the words. People like me never get ahead. People like me just seem to sail though life. The former creates struggle, lack and anger. The latter creates an easy, abundant, carefree life. Same power, used first in reverse and then forward. What will you choose?

What you think about yourself and speak about yourself can be healing or toxic to your outer reality. The I AM is a statement into the Law which always gives you what you believe and expect but not always what you want. We all want things, but the question is what do we expect? The gap between your expectation and your desire is what you lack in your life. You close the gap by expecting exactly what you want. The expectation and desire must be one and the same for it to manifest in your life. Most of us expect the worst and we are never disappointed because you always get what you really expect; what you really think you deserve in your heart of hearts. Do you want to know what you expect? Take a look at the facts of your life. Your life is a perfect mirror of your expectations.

This I AM power is a lot like electricity, which is just another manifestation of the energy of God. As the renowned motivator and teacher, Bob Proctor says: You can cook dinner with electricity or you can cook a person and we have done both in our society, on occasion. You see, electricity is neither good nor bad, it is all in how you use it. So it is with the Law of Mind Action, it is all in how you use it. Every hour of every day we are using this I AM power in forward or reverse. Contrary to what you may remember from Sunday School, God will not interfere no matter how you use the I AM power.

It is your decision and your right to use your God given power to go backwards into despair or forward into abundance and happiness. God did not make you to be an automaton; He made you to think, to reason, to feel and to choose. Remember, its your choice, but know that you have to live with the results! You are always held accountable for your use of God's powers; be it your Word - the I AM - or electricity. The secret is to know how each works, follow the rules of right use for each and be ready to live with the results of your words and actions.

I believe it is time to discuss exactly how we all create our lives, whether unconsciously or consciously. Hear this: We all create our own life experience with our Mind and its thoughts; what we allow to take root in our Mind and what we believe at the core of our being. Not one person has ever lived that is exempt from this great truth. Now you may not be aware that you are creating your life with your use of I AM and the Law that operates it, but in your subconscious mind lay the seeds of your immediate and distant future. What you have allowed to enter in to your subconscious, the ideas and beliefs you were taught or chose to buy into, are reflected in your daily life- your reality is merely a mirror of your thinking and believing.

What this means is that NOTHING in your life was created outside of you! You chose your relationships, you chose to explore new places or to stay where you were born, you chose the job you have, you chose to be educated or not, you chose your beliefs, attitudes and behavior. I know it often seems that life comes to you from the outside in, but in Truth Life flows from you and comes into form through you as your outer reality. Be very grateful for this, because if it were not so, you would be a powerless victim begging God to save you, to help you. You have the power and responsibility to help yourself - with the help of God's inspiration and constant help. We sometimes call this the Spirit Within or the Holy Spirit.

As the Bible says so simply: "As within, so without". Again Jesus said: "As a man thinks in his heart of hearts (that is your subconscious mind), so he is". The most important lesson Jesus ever taught is in that passage. In that one phrase the secrets of the Universe are hidden. We are thoughts in the Mind of God and your life reality is the sum total of the thoughts and beliefs in your mind. Your mind is different from the Mind of God only in scale. Both work in the same way. We often block our desires by allowing our Ego to constantly try to get into the driver's seat of our lives and put God into the back seat - this you must never allow.

You may say Dore', what about areas of the world that are in turmoil, in poverty or wracked with disease? Did they choose to be this way? Certainly not consciously! I don't believe any sane person wants to suffer with poverty or disease. These things happen by a lack of understanding that our personal reality is just the collective reality in microcosm. Without knowing the Law and how to use it consciously to create the life you want, you abdicate control and let your subconscious take over your life creation. Just as the individual creates their life with their thoughts and speaking, so a nation or a people create the collective life of their country with the attitudes, thinking and choices they make or allow to be made for them.

All things great and small operate by the same Divinely Ordained Law. As you or I think, so we are. God, the individual human and an entire nation. all create reality the same way. By use of the I AM power. In the beginning was the Word, as John describes the birth of all Creation. The Word is the birth of your personal reality. Watch carefully what words you think and speak!

A good example of the I AM (IT IS) power used in reverse is the present economic slowdown in the United States. The financial press began braying frantically about a looming recession and that the "bubble had to burst" long before it did. The "experts" who helped cause the "bubble" in the first place, now created a climate of fear guaranteed to create a recession. Nationwide fear set in. When people become fearful and lose their optimism, they stop spending, business stops investing in new factories and products, less is sold, so less is produced, which then produces layoffs and job loss. The "experts" expected a recession, we all listened to them and we got what we expected because we bought into their fear.

Fear is poison to people, to nations and to economies. What would have happened if everyone had gone on as if all was well and bought that new car, took that vacation, bought that new RV? That's right, no recession! It is the persistent negative use of IT IS (a form of the I AM) that has caused the apparent slowdown we now face. Ignoring the IT IS and returning our lives to a normal level of consumption and optimism will cure all this in a matter of weeks, if we have the will to do it. The recession, if it is such, all came about through the collective consciousness and a change in the collective consciousness is the only cure for this condition. Most people have no conception of the phenomenal power of thoughts and words. Thoughts, words and the choices they give birth to literally create the world we live in.

Let's bring it down you your life right now. How can you use the I AM power to create the life you want and deserve? Never again say I AM or IT IS unless the words that follow is what you want to experience. Refuse to own things that you do not want in your life. Yes, your present reality may be that you have no money but the minute you say, I AM poor you take ownership of your poverty, plant the seed of permanent poverty in your subconscious and you will be poor unless you replace this belief with a new I AM. Illness and disease also comes about by a negative use of the I AM and can be cured by replacing the belief in disease with a belief in perfection and wholeness.

What should you do if you have an negative or unhealthy belief still lodged in your Mind. Replace it with the image of what you want. A lower thought cannot exist in the presence of a higher one. You must intercede before the negative idea takes up residence in your subconscious.

We reason with our conscious mind but create our lives with our subconscious. Guard the door to your subconscious mind like a sentry guarding a treasure. Your mind is your treasure. We would not purposely poison our bodies; why do we daily poison our minds? Begin by turning off the news broadcast. Little of good report is ever heard on these broadcasts. How does knowing all the bad in your town or your country help you? Can you do anything about it but worry, get into fear and thus shut down your happy life?

Begin today to monitor what you take into your subconscious. Make sure when you say I AM that it is what you want to become or have in your life. Sounds easy - it may well be the hardest thing you will ever learn. The rewards are empowerment, Heaven on Earth and the peace of Unity with God. You deserve all the Good your heart can hold.

Don't wait another day to start the transformation of your life by the renewal of your mind.

May God Bless and Keep you well, happy and at peace.

The Case for God

It is very important to know who you are! How many of us have taken the time to ponder the question: Who am I? What is a human being and why are we endowed so differently than any other life form on this planet?

Are we the products of evolution and the natural extension of the great apes? Or were we created out of whole cloth in just six days about 5,000 years ago? Or perhaps the answer lies somewhere in between?

Did this planet, the galaxy and the Universe as we know it, come into being as a random act - a Big Bang? Did life appear due to some miraculous succession of coincidences where all the proper materials for life appeared in just the right time and place? Did humankind evolve from one celled matter into the magnificent creative creatures we call humans by the random chance of Fate?

No one really knows how it all began. Creationists have their belief with no proof and evolutionary science has evidence but no real proof, either. Here is what we do know. The Earth is infinitely older than 5,000 years and mankind has been on it, in one form or another, at least several hundred thousand years. We also know that on this planet and throughout the Universe is a common thread of order, elegance, and careful design. Nothing appears to have been thrown together by accident. Everything works as it should and it works simply and beautifully. Something or someone designed this whole thing! To believe in random chance creation is to stretch the bounds of credibility to a level of the ridiculous.

To illustrate just how foolish the "random act" theory is, imagine that a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft spontaneously arose, complete in every detail, from the giant aircraft graveyard down in Tuscon, Arizona with no human intervention at all and no creative mind at work. That, in essence, is what the Big Bang folks want us to believe. The aircraft graveyard has all the materials to build an aircraft but who is the designer, the creator and the motive force behind the creation? Is there a case to be made for the existence of God?

Who or what created the Universe? We know that every effect has a cause and having said that, who or what is the First Cause - the Creator of all that is? We call it God, for lack of a better word. You may call it Divine Mind, Universal Intelligence, Spirit but every day in a million small and wonderful ways, God is affirmed in our lives. Everything on this planet seems designed to delight and to assist mankind. From the beautiful blue skies above to the green grass and deep blue seas; it all fits us to a tee! I am sure that other advanced species on other planets have their right and perfect environment, just as we do here on Mother Earth.

What then do we say to the very vocal but small group who deny that God exists? We say, look around you! From the perfect composition of sea water to the unconditional love of a dog; to the exact formula of atmosphere that we need to breathe - it is all here! This entire planet is a huge stage set designed for humanity to act out its destiny. This was made for US! This is what the Bible is saying when it reminds us that we are stewards of this Earth, have dominion over it, but that it is a sacred trust we have accepted. Failure to discharge this trust properly will be fatal to all of us!

We can prove the existence of God every time we look into the eyes of a baby or watch a sunset. From our body's chemical composition to the design of our large intestine to the brain which the Mind operates - it all was designed by the greatest Mind we call God. There are no accidents on this Earth. It was all by design but who and what was the designer? For lack of a better word, we call It, Her or Him - God.

To me, God is not a person. God is not a super human. God is not like anything we can experience or have ever experienced. God is beyond human comprehension, which is why we have Jesus and other prophets and teachers to personify God for us. God is too big for our Earthbound minds but we have known Her forever in our Divine Mind - that part of us that has lived forever and will never die.

Why do you suppose that every great religion on the planet has a human being, a great soul, as a teacher, prophet or a "son" of God? Perhaps it is because we cannot conceive of who and what the Father is - He is unapproachable and unknowable to most of us. Just too vast a concept for our little minds.

The Mind of God has no beginning and no end. It has no birth and no death - it is truly timeless and limitless. It has existed before any matter ever formed, before the first star lit the black void. It is First Cause, the Alpha and the Omega, the circle of life that has always existed and will evermore exist. I have come to understand this God and to know Her well.

That great Mind is accessible to us but we must open the door and believe. Faith is the ignition key of God. No Faith - no God. This is why the atheist will never experience God, because they have no faith in anything beyond themselves. Their world is tiny, they are alone in a sea of unexplained vastness. I shudder to think what that must be like for them. To live life as a candle blowing in the wind, destined to be snuffed out and never know why? No thank you!

What is the proof of a great Mind, a First Cause, a Benevolent Spirit behind all that is? Look around you at the magnificence right in front of you. There is all the proof you will ever need. The wonders of life are not a random accident!

To access God, Day or Night, just open your heart, your mind and pray. Don't know how? Go to the home page of this web site and click on "Prayer". This one click may transform your life! If you need prayer for yourself or another, fill out the prayer request on the "prayer" page and I will be happy to respond with a written prayer for you to say morning and night. I will also be praying for 10 days on your behalf. Next message, we'll talk about prayer, how it works and how to do it effectively.

And So It Is!

God's Operating System

When I was a child I had a very difficult time understanding how God could allow all the bad things that happened to the Earth and her people. Why were thousands killed in an earthquake in Tokyo and hundreds dead of Hurricane Donna in the Gulf Coast? Doesn't God control all things, including the weather? Doesn't God care about what happens to his children? Why doesn't he protect us and keep us from harm?


When I would ask a minister or my mother's Rabbi friend, I would get a version of the "God works in mysterious ways" answer. This did not satisfy me and I did not believe in a God who worked that way. I thought: "Why have a God at all, if He is not going to take care of us?"


Now this bothered me because I remembered being healed of cerebral palsy through the power of Spiritual Mind Treatment (affirmative prayer) by my dear Mother who would not accept a crippled life in an institution for her baby boy. If she could do that, using God's power of prayer, then God must exist! Something just did not add up for me.


There must be a truth that I had not yet learned. Indeed, there was! My entire concept of God and how God operated was 180 degrees wrong! God is NOT a parent - God is a Creator and in this fact lies the entire error of our thinking. We are not God's children, we are God's Creations. You may ask, what is the difference? Well, If I am a writer and I create a novel I care not one bit who reads it or whether they are good or evil. I just care that they read my book. It is my creation and I care about it but I do not become involved in its distribution, sale or what happens to it after the sale. God creates us but allows us the gift of free choice - to create the life we can believe in and accept. Whether we know how the Law works, we create our lives according to God's Law - there is no other way to create anything. The trick is to learn to use the Law to consciously create our life the way we want it to be. We can stop being a passenger in the back seat of our lives and learn to drive the car! Do not think that we are alone and without help!

Now this does not mean that God is dead to us and is unavailable for help and direction. God is always available, never closes and is always ready to assist us in any way possible. How God does this is the key question. God does not meddle, or micro manage our lives. God uses the operating system of the entire Universe to empower us, to direct us and to support us. This operating system is the Law. God operates by scientific principle. God operates the same way each time, is predictable, and even handed. This fact is the greatest gift God could possibly give us.

God is not a human and is therefore not subject to human frailties such as favoritism, caprice or bad temper. God is a Spirit, the creative intelligence of the Universe; the author of the big bang, the designer of evolution, the engineer who designed the entire cosmos and everything in it.

God invented science, man just discovered it! God invented electricity - the universal power source of all creation, man just discovered it! God is the architect of the Universe and of everything that is in it. As a scientist, God has instituted immutable laws on both the physical and spiritual planes of existence. They always operate, they are totally dependable, they are totally impersonal - they work the same for the saint and the sinner.

We all know some of the laws of the physical world such as gravity; the law that states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, the laws of thermodynamics and many others. These laws must be unchangeable and they must work every time for every one or else the entire planet would fly to pieces and all life would cease to exist. We can depend on gravity to hold us down upon this planet spinning dizzily through the heavens at 18,000 miles per hour.

So too we can depend on the spiritual laws that God has ordained for us to use in creating and managing our personal reality. Here are just a few: The law of cause and effect. For every thing that appears in our life (an effect), there is a cause. That effect can only be changed or eliminated at the level of the cause; fooling around with the effect cures nothing. This is the basic law of the Universe!

We see this effect fiddling every day in our culture. Doctors often fiddle with symptoms or the effects of illness but rarely cure the dis-ease. Why? Because they never address the cause of the disease. They look only at the physical world for the cause and the cause is always mental and spiritual. The mind and spirit must become sick before the body can exhibit the sickness. One day, physicians will treat the mind and spirit first while containing the symptoms with medicine or surgery. At that point, we will have true healing. What about cancer - a disease that touches so many lives today.

Cancer is made more probable by certain lifestyle choices like smoking but it is caused by long term sadness, grief, anger or bitterness. We poison ourselves with our anger and hurt and then look for a physical cause. Cancer is the body turning upon itself. It does this at the mind's bidding - of itself it can do nothing. The spirit and mind must be transformed and healed before the body can be totally healed. All healing must take place at cause - never at effect. We rearrange the "deck chairs on the Titanic" when we work with the effects. The cause was the hole in the hull and any remedy that did not address the cause was doomed to fail in the life of the Titanic and in our lives.

My life's work is to empower people by teaching them how to consciously and deliberately use the Law to create the life they want and deserve. Why not drive the car and get out of the back seat of your life! More next week!

AND SO IT IS !

Amazing Grace!

Guilt, shame, poor self image, depression, feelings of worthlesness. These are epidemic in our culture today; especially here in the United States. So many people that I encounter in my daily life seem to be haunted by the shadow of past hurts or the shame of things they have done. In Science of Mind, we teach that what you are inside - your inner man or woman - is perfectly reflected in your outer reality. In other words, your outer world is merely a reflection of who you are inside. If the inside is dark, hurt and feels unworthy, is it any wonder that your reality is not so wonderful?

It is easy to see that if you feel unworthy, shameful, guillty with a "weak worm of the dust" mentality, that these feelings will outpicture in your life. The key needed for us to be released from this prison of hurt, pain and shame is to understand God's Grace. Grace is a vey misunderstood concept and I felt it was now the time to turn the spotlight of Truth on it.

Grace is never earned. You cannot receive Grace through good works or kind thoughts. Grace is a state of being One with God, in sync with the flow of God's love for you. You earned your Grace long before you were born. It is your birthright. You are beloved of God, no matter what you have done, who you have hurt, what wrong you have committed or what wrong has been committed upon you. God's love for you began long before you had a body or a human personality. God's love for you is unconditional - it never wavers, it never ceases.

You are not a surprise to God. The Great Mind we call God has known you forever and will know you forever more. Long before your sojourn here on Earth began, you were a friend of God. God created you - do you not know that He/She knows you better than you can ever know yourself? Indeed, you and God are one substance, one mind. God's love is unconditional, not bound by judgement or condemnation, as is human love. You do not have to "behave" to receive God's Grace. You do not have to be Holy to receive God's Grace. You do not have to go to church to receive God's Grace. You do not have to receive Jesus and your "savior and Lord" to receive Grace. You earned grace the moment God created you with Her thought and gave you life with a Word. Nothing can change that fact.

How then do we become consciously aware that we are in a state of Grace? All you must do is to accept God into your life as your friend, your strength and your great inner voice. That inner voice of God provides 24/7 counseling service free of charge and is never closed! You see, you really are never out of God's loving Grace; you just forget and deny that you are in it, therefore this becomes your truth. God does not move away from you, but often you and I have moved away from God. God is as constant as the Northern Star, always loving, always welcoming you home.

Grace is the healing balm that soothes all hurts, heals all wounds, restores our faith and our power. Grace is eternal forgiveness whether we deserve it or not. We never deserve God's Grace but we always get it, if we are open to it. Our job is to get out of God's way, open our hearts, know that God knows exactly who and what we are and not only does He not care but She is proud of us and celebrates us. You are a work in progress from your first breath to your last. You are never a finished product and knowing this, God does not expect anything from you but to love yourself and to be the best you know how to be at that point in time.

Loving yourself is so important. If you cannot love yourself, how can you love another? You were made by God the way She/He intended you to be made - perfect substance made from a Perfect Mind. That you fall short is due to your error thinking, it is not a flaw in the your design. You have the power to change what you believe; to change what you allow into your mind, into your home and into your life. You have the power to rise above all your past errors, all your past hurts and soar into the life you were born to live.

Try this exerecise right now. Sit quietly and imagine God's Grace flowing over you from the top of your head, down the sides of your face, over your arms and chest, down your legs to the limit of your extremities. Feel the warmth, the peace, the joy sweep over you as the love of God flows over and through you. Keep the Grace flowing until you feel renewed in body, mind and spirit. You probably will feel like you are being caressed with something soft, warm and delightful.

Do this as often as you wish, knowing as you do it that it is God holding and loving you. God loves you so much more that any human is capable of loving anything or anyone. God's love is a love beyond our imagining but perhaps if you think of the most powerful feelings of love you have ever experienced and then square them - you may have an idea of how God feels about you. You are beloved of God because you are God in microcosm. You are to God as your fingers are to your hand - distinct but never separate.

Be peaceful, no matter who you think you are, God knows you and God loves you anyway! Her Grace is yours for the asking and the receiving. Open the windows of your life and let the Light of God shine in!

Next week: The Sentry at The Gate!