"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.
"You will learn that in Christian Science the first duty is to obey God, to have one Mind, and to love another as yourself."
How do you love another like this?
It is to recognize, cherish, embrace the qualities of God that you see in another. It is to create a profound connection of at-one-ment with God's manifestation. It is to awake to His likeness-made-manifest and to hold that vision, that connection, that awakening in your heart - and in your arms.
It is to be the Light of Love and to see that Light of Love in another. It is to love another as yourself. It is to create - discover - Oneness with God-made-manifest, made tangible, made real in your experience with such clarity and profound connection and intimacy as to reveal Oneness, tangible Oneness.
It is not making love to "a material form with a mind inside" - though that may appear as an important step. But it is actually seeing another as God's own likeness, "beloved, complete, divinely fair" with such clarity as to experience Oneness - the love of Love.
A simple sensual experience focuses primarily on a body, the shadow.
Love, real Love, is making love - awakening to the Love of God - made manifest as another.
Therein lies the treasure of Love.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Love is always reflected in love (Part 4)
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors."
And Love is reflected in love.
What is this "debt" of love that you owe, other than to fulfill the two great commandments that Jesus said fulfill "all the law and the prophets"?
And what are these two great commandments?
To love God with all your heart, soul, and mind.
And, to love your neighbor as yourself.
This is your debt. This is what you owe to God: You must love.
And if you love enough to forgive, then you will understand that you are also so wonderfully loved by God as to actually be forgiven.
The unconditional love of God is never "earned" - it is always freely pouring out on us. Jesus said God makes His "sun to rise on the evil and on the good" and sends His "rain on the just and on the unjust." God's love is completely unconditional. But when we hate, dispise, ignore, we are certainly not in a position to even recognize - let alon receive - that free gift of God's unconditional love! With our heart closed in a knot of self-ishness, how can we possibly be open to love?
But if you open your thought - and your heart - to even the possibility of love, then be ready!
His Love will do its perfect work in you, as you. And you intuitively know that Love is the most natural thing in the world.
In fact, living His Love is your purpose.
Living His Love is why you're here.
Get busy!
And Love is reflected in love.
What is this "debt" of love that you owe, other than to fulfill the two great commandments that Jesus said fulfill "all the law and the prophets"?
And what are these two great commandments?
To love God with all your heart, soul, and mind.
And, to love your neighbor as yourself.
This is your debt. This is what you owe to God: You must love.
And if you love enough to forgive, then you will understand that you are also so wonderfully loved by God as to actually be forgiven.
The unconditional love of God is never "earned" - it is always freely pouring out on us. Jesus said God makes His "sun to rise on the evil and on the good" and sends His "rain on the just and on the unjust." God's love is completely unconditional. But when we hate, dispise, ignore, we are certainly not in a position to even recognize - let alon receive - that free gift of God's unconditional love! With our heart closed in a knot of self-ishness, how can we possibly be open to love?
But if you open your thought - and your heart - to even the possibility of love, then be ready!
His Love will do its perfect work in you, as you. And you intuitively know that Love is the most natural thing in the world.
In fact, living His Love is your purpose.
Living His Love is why you're here.
Get busy!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
How does God see you?
"Our Father, which art in heaven."
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious
Have you ever stopped to think about how God sees you? How God thinks about you?
He sees you as His image and likeness.
So if this is how God sees you, then how do you see yourself? As something else? What if you lived from God's point of view? What would change? What would you do differently if you actually understood that you are His image and likeness? How would you feel? Wouldn't it be amazingly good? Better than anything you could come up with yourself?
Yes.
And this is how God sees you: as His image, as His likeness. And Jesus proved this time and again that being His likeness involves health, wholeness, and holiness.
This is your starting point.
Think about yourself from God's perspective - not your own personal perspective, not your educational perspective, not your medical history's perspective, not your psychological profile's perspective. Think about yourself as God's own likeness made manifest, your spiritual qualities of intelligence, affection, creativity, strength, being reflections of His nature. God's view of you is limitless, pure, - real! God's perspective is perfectly suited to draw out your most perfect likeness to Him, your unique expression of Him.
So wake up with this thought:
What does God, Divine Love, have in store for you today?
Listen in your heart for that. And know that He will fulfill in you all the life and love that He has prepared for you.
And He adds "no sorrow with it."
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious
Have you ever stopped to think about how God sees you? How God thinks about you?
He sees you as His image and likeness.
So if this is how God sees you, then how do you see yourself? As something else? What if you lived from God's point of view? What would change? What would you do differently if you actually understood that you are His image and likeness? How would you feel? Wouldn't it be amazingly good? Better than anything you could come up with yourself?
Yes.
And this is how God sees you: as His image, as His likeness. And Jesus proved this time and again that being His likeness involves health, wholeness, and holiness.
This is your starting point.
Think about yourself from God's perspective - not your own personal perspective, not your educational perspective, not your medical history's perspective, not your psychological profile's perspective. Think about yourself as God's own likeness made manifest, your spiritual qualities of intelligence, affection, creativity, strength, being reflections of His nature. God's view of you is limitless, pure, - real! God's perspective is perfectly suited to draw out your most perfect likeness to Him, your unique expression of Him.
So wake up with this thought:
What does God, Divine Love, have in store for you today?
Listen in your heart for that. And know that He will fulfill in you all the life and love that He has prepared for you.
And He adds "no sorrow with it."
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The Christ is here - are you paying attention?
"Thy kingdom come."
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art everpresent.
The Christ is already here. With you. Where? In your thought, in your consciousness, in every intuition you have of love and goodness and grace.
Make room then! Clear out the clutter of distractions and invite Christ in. Listen to His intuitions of goodness. Be still. Sit at His feet. And listen:
Let Him feed your every need with the Bread of Life.
Let Him heal your pain with His pure touch of Truth.
Let Him fire up your heart with His unconditional Love.
He is here. Right here. Right now, with you in your heart and in your consciousness. Are you listening? Do you feel the intuition that there is something better, higher, holier stirring within you?
Then "take off your shoes" - all that would separate you from Him - because you stand on holy ground.
As the old hymn says:
O dreamer, leave thy dreams for joyful waking,
O captive, rise and sing, for thou art free;
The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking,
Unloosing bonds of all captivity.
He comes to bless thee on his wings of healing;
To banish pain, and wipe all tears away;
He comes anew, to humble hearts revealing
The mounting footsteps of the upward way.
He comes to give thee joy for desolation,
Beauty for ashes of the vanished years;
For every tear to bring full compensation,
To give thee confidence for all thy fears.
He comes to call the dumb to joyful singing;
The deaf to hear; the blinded eyes to see;
The glorious tidings of salvation bringing.
O captive, rise, thy Saviour comes to thee.
Right now, Christ is standing at the door of your heart, knocking, calling to you. He is your Saviour! He is always knocking at the door of your heart. Open it. Let Him in and let Him awaken you to who you already really are as His spiritual likeness.
"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!
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art everpresent.
The Christ is already here. With you. Where? In your thought, in your consciousness, in every intuition you have of love and goodness and grace.
Make room then! Clear out the clutter of distractions and invite Christ in. Listen to His intuitions of goodness. Be still. Sit at His feet. And listen:
Let Him feed your every need with the Bread of Life.
Let Him heal your pain with His pure touch of Truth.
Let Him fire up your heart with His unconditional Love.
He is here. Right here. Right now, with you in your heart and in your consciousness. Are you listening? Do you feel the intuition that there is something better, higher, holier stirring within you?
Then "take off your shoes" - all that would separate you from Him - because you stand on holy ground.
As the old hymn says:
O dreamer, leave thy dreams for joyful waking,
O captive, rise and sing, for thou art free;
The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking,
Unloosing bonds of all captivity.
He comes to bless thee on his wings of healing;
To banish pain, and wipe all tears away;
He comes anew, to humble hearts revealing
The mounting footsteps of the upward way.
He comes to give thee joy for desolation,
Beauty for ashes of the vanished years;
For every tear to bring full compensation,
To give thee confidence for all thy fears.
He comes to call the dumb to joyful singing;
The deaf to hear; the blinded eyes to see;
The glorious tidings of salvation bringing.
O captive, rise, thy Saviour comes to thee.
Right now, Christ is standing at the door of your heart, knocking, calling to you. He is your Saviour! He is always knocking at the door of your heart. Open it. Let Him in and let Him awaken you to who you already really are as His spiritual likeness.
"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!
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