"After this manner therefore pray ye..."

"Our Master taught his disciples one brief prayer, which we name after him the Lord's Prayer. Our Master said, "After this manner therefore pray ye," and then he gave that prayer which
covers all human needs."

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:"

Express your desires this way. Offer them up - sacrifice them - give them up! And for what?

"Not my will, but Thine, be done!"

Not my will - my desire - but Thy will, Thy desire be done. Where? in consciousness first, in soul, in thought awakening to a new and higher purer sense of desire, a desire that is:

• awakened from all egotism by the fire of "Hallowed be Thy name"
• healed of all loneliness by the fire of "Thy kingdom come"
• purged of all obstinance by the fire of "Thy will be done"
• cured of all lack by the fire of "Give us this day our daily bread"
• lifted out of all selfishness by the fire of "Forgive us our debts"
• led out of all temptation by the fire of "Deliver us from evil"

So that all that all that remains in us is our love of God, our Father-Mother, the all-harmonious Adorable One - who is everpresent with us here and now, all-power to awaken us to our true being as Life's reflection, to our embodiment of Truth, our being as Love-made-manifest.

What more could you possibly ask for?

So thank You for Your Life that You give us, Your Truth that awakens in us, Your Love that You shine in us. This is Your light. We will not let it hide under a bushel! This light is Your embodiment. There is nothing about us that is or can be unlike that Light. Your light shines in us, as us, everpresent Love reflected in love. And Love always leads us to exactly where we need to be and to what we love to do.

Thank you Father-Mother God.

"Jesus beheld in Science..."

"Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

Jesus beheld in Science the Hallowed Name of God where sinning mortal names and natures appeared to mortals. In the expression of this Hallowed Name of God, the Saviour saw God's own Nature made manifest and this correct view of man healed the sick.

The Hallowed Name of God is an influence ever present in human consciousness - the influence - the power and presence - of the Adorable One.

How would you act and behave and live if you knew this? If you knew the Adorable One was actually this close? What if you knew you could live without fear? What would your life look like? What would change? What would you be thinking about? what would you be doing? and how would you be living ?

Look hard and pay attention! Because a life without fear is exactly what God's will is for you - His prayer for you.

So pray:

Thy fearless will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God's fearless love for you is omnipotent, supreme.

So give us this day our daily bread - our daily at-one-ment, our daily communion, our daily fearless experience of being Your complete expression. Let that grace be ours today. Let that unconditional Love feed all fearful famished affections - feed us Life and that abundantly, limitless, pure, whole, healthy, holy.

And let all fear of debts, of "not enough," of tresspasses, grudges, lack, want - let it all go instead by "keeping your eyes off your circumstances and keeping them on the Lord." Let it all go by living the Love that fulfills all want, cancels all debt, eliminates all sense of tresspass.

And let that Love lead us out of our fear of trails and temptations. And let that Love deliver us from fear of sin (which is all the "love" of sin is), fear of sickness (ditto!), and yes even the fear of death, yes, deliver us from the "love" of death - thinking that death is a solution, a way out, an answer for any problem - because it isn't. Death is an enemy. Life - abundant Life - is always God's answer, God's demand. Live!

For Your kingdom - Your everpresence - is Life that annihilates all fear. Your Truth-power overrules all fear and Your perfect glorious Love rules out all fear. Forever. Because You are infinite (here!), all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All. And this Truth is the law of annihilation to all fear.

Amen.

Rejoice in God's work today

"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

I'm grateful for the work I have to do today. Let "Thy will be done" in me. Let Thy Mind direct my steps, Thy purpopse be fulfilled today.

Or better: let me acknowledge that Your work is already done, that Your kingdom is already come because You are everpresent. Right now.

I rejoice to see Your work made manifest today! Enable me - and all of us to know, that, as in heaven, so on earth, Life is omnipotent, supreme.

God never sees sadness or loss or incapacity! God only sees you as His perfect image and likeness: joyous, upright, whole, free - without a single element of error or fear or loss. Why? Because "...nothing inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God."

Give us then this day our daily bread, our daily communion with You, our daily satisfaction and fulfillment, our daily yearnings / needs / dreams / and hopes-not-dared-hoped-for to be revealed as already here and now abundantly fulfilled. Nothing shattered beyond repair. No fear of loss or loneliness. No failed efforts or faithfulness neglected. No silent hopes repeatedly dashed. But only an awakening to You: Love being reflected in love - all Good reflected in goodness and all Soul in bliss.

This "grace for today" that our Father-Mother gives us, feeds all our famished affections, forgives all our debts and doubts, our losses and limitations, and leads us away from trials and self-denials, delivers us from tresspassing with evil - false seeing, false feeling, false being, into - what?

The awakening to the everpresence of Life. To the all-power of Truth. The glory of infinite Love. To the Father-Mother who is over all. To the Adorable One God - who is All.

As in Heaven...

"Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven."
Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.

I was flying home from Denver a few weeks ago and I was looking out the window as the plane flew west into the sunset. It was so clear. I could see everything below me.

And then it occured to me: this is like God's view of things!

The "altitude" of God's vision is absolutely all-harmonioius - heavenly. He sees everything clearly. Nothing is hidden. He sees everything and everyone as connected, beautiful, and unpolluted. And He sees all His vast creation at once.

And God already sees His will done in us. He already sees us, with Him, in Heaven.