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 !

The Way It Works!

I am writing to you from London tonight. I have just returned from a small English town by the name of King's Langley in the County of Hertfordshire, about an hour north of London. In the auditorium of a secondary school in this quiet village (the world headquarters of Ovaltine) took place the first Science of Mind conference held in the UK since 1909! How remarkable that Science of Mind and New Thought had almost disappeared in the nation of Thomas Troward, one of the greatest of the Fathers of New Thought and a direct inspiration for Ernest Holmes, the Founder of Science of Mind.

What is even more remarkable is that the auditorium was packed with hardly a seat open. Hundreds showed up, even though the fee for the weekend of speakers, seminars and workshops was 95 pounds-a bit more than $190. There is apparently a great hunger and market for what Science of Mind teaches and this conference, organized and in part funded by volunteers, was a success beyond the most optimistic estimates. Congratulations to all who helped to make this precedent setting conference a reality.


What we don't perhaps realize is that the UK is an intensely secular nation with a real distaste for organized religion of any kind. In England the churches are almost empty and those few who do attend are in their 60's or older. Religion is out but spirituality is very much in.

This is where Science of Mind comes in. We are not a religion, never have been and have no intention of becoming one. We are a spiritual philosophy that appeals to intelligent people looking for something more than a life lived on the surface but we are never divisive or set ourselves apart with special ceremony or do's and don'ts. Rather we empower, enlighten, and teach the thread of Truth at the basis of all life and all religion. Religion, by its nature, divides humanity into camps; each sure that its way is the only way. The world can no longer tolerate religions that divide. The attempted car bombings in London and Glascow over the last two days have graphically demonstrated that the us against them mentality must end.

Never again must anyone kill in the name of God. To do so is to totally misunderstand the very nature of God. God is the Loving Universal Mind which permeates all things. God does not care whether you cover your hair or let it fall to your shoulders. God does not care if you are Muslim or Christian - Buddhist, Jewish or Hindu.

God did not make religion. Religion is a creation of humanity. Let's be clear- no religion is the Truth about God - not one! Religions are, at best, a poor attempt to explain what we do not have the words to explain - the vastness of the Mind of God, the unconditional and everlasting Love of God and the Oneness with God that is our very nature. In rejecting religion, we must not reject God for God is all there is and to reject God is to reject all Creation. God and religion have little or nothing to do with each other.

All that exists in Time and Space begins in the Mind of God. All that exists on this plane of existance begins in the mind of a human, inspired by God. On this world and many others, God works through us, as us. We are the creative agents of God on this earth, empowered by the Mind of God. Creation is the process of transforming the Word into form. This Creative Process has four major components. Let's look at them now, as we contemplate the world as it will be when we all realize at last our Oneness in God.

1. Every act of creation must begin with a desire. Without a vision or desire nothing can be created. Those who want nothing, who have no passion for anything - create nothing. Desire is what creates the mental picture that is the raw material for any creative act. What do you really desire? Love, money, home, children, inner peace and fulfillment - what?

2. A clear and unwavering mental picture of what you desire. When I say clear I mean clear. All the details, the color, taste, smell, how you will feel when it comes into reality and its yours.
This picture is like the slide that you put into the projector at a slide show. Without a picture on the slide, there is no show. What is your picture and how clear is it? It can be as material as a new car or as spiritual as world peace or inner well being. Doesn't matter, one is as valid as the other. Keep the picture clear, don't cloud the lens of your mind with doubt, worries about how it will come or when.

3. Will. Your will is the Will of God individualized. Without will, there is no light with which to project your slide or desire upon the blank canvas of the Law, which is the system of creation.
Your will is central - it is the light bulb in the projector. If it is weak or flickering, so will the picture be cloudy or flickering and your desire will never come into form. Strong will produces strong demonstrations. Remember, the Law is like a white wall upon which you project your desire. The brighter the light, the clearer the picture. The stronger the will and the clearer the picture the more the white wall of the Law can reflect your desire back to you as your reality.

4. Faith. Faith is what keeps your light or will, bright, clear and steady. People who do not trust in the constant operation of God's Laws of Creation have no faith. Without faith the light goes out or flickers on and off. Weak light projects nothing. Faith is the real key.

You see, you must know that when you create your mental picture, put your will to it and keep the faith that your picture will harden into form in accordance with God's Law; that it will happen each and every time. When it does happen you have not caused anything to change, you have just brought what already exists in potential into form. You have managed a power that has always been yours - indeed it is your birthright.

You have not transcended natural Law, you have used natural Law as it is meant to be used. Your desire is already created the moment you desire it; it just needs you to turn on the light, trust in God's Law and let your desire harden into form just as hot wax will always harden into a mould as it cools. It is not magic or New Age, it is spiritual science. It is the Law of Cause and Effect in operation. Your desire is Cause and the Effect is the realization of what you want. Unless you muck it up with a weak will or little faith, it will always happen.

Facts, family and friends will often tempt you to doubt that your desire can happen. They want to make your light flicker, don't let it! Facts are the residue of someone else's beliefs. Facts are desires or beliefs that have hardened into form and they have NO power over you. Ignore the current facts and focus on your desire as already done. Expect it! Creation is independent of precedent. You and God are a majority and nothing can stand against you!

Turn on your light, keep it strong, trust in the process and watch your world transform!