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God is the Beginning and the End

The Daily Meditation 10.26.2013

God is the Beginning and the End

 Michelle Snider, Practitioner II Student

rainbow300-150x150.jpg?width=150God is Strength and Power. God is wisdom and grace. God is peace and joy. God is the beginning and the end. God speaks and at once it is created.

I am created by the Word of God.  I am held in Her loving embrace. As God is strength, power, wisdom and grace so too am I. All these attributes are mine for God and I are one.  

I open my eyes each moment and I see anew the wonder of God’s handiwork.  Everything is an expression of her perfection. I look into the mirror and smile knowing in my own way the perfection which is God expressing as me. If there is ever a moment of doubt I stop and close my eyes, breath in the pure air, feel the ground beneath me and know that I am perfect, whole, and complete just as She created me. I allow and accept the joy, creativity, strength and perfect peace which is my birthright to fill me and lift me up.  As I open my eyes I experience the world as it truly is, and it is wonderful. I express in every breath, word, and deed my unique God self. I live in God’s embrace. I am indeed a wonderful individualized expression of God. Peace is with me always.

Thank you God for all aspects of my life. In gratitude I live my life well. 

I know that as I speak my word is acted upon by the Law which always says yes.

I release my word into the Law and so it is.

Michelle Snider is a Practitioner II Student at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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The Daily Meditation 10.25.2013

Success and Prosperity are Spiritual Attributes Belonging to all People

 Dianne Martin, RScP

Dianne-2008-150x150.jpg?width=150“Success and Prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.  This is the key to a realization of a more abundant life, to the demonstration of success in financial manners.  It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.”       –Ernest HolmesThere is only one and that one is the source of all that exists.  It is the source of all good.  It is the source of prosperity and success.  I see  God’s prosperity in the beautiful leaves that change colors and drop to the ground.  I hear God in the crunching of those leaves under foot. I feel God as the air chills in the changing season. I see God’s prosperity expressing everywhere and in everything!

It is this one source that flows through me and expresses as me.   It is this source that gifts me all that I need, all that I want.  It is this source that creates me as prosperous and successful.   And, I know that as this is true for me, it is true for each person reading this prayer.  We are all expressions of that one infinite source. We are all abundant and successful! 

Today I speak my word and know that I am prosperous and successful.    I realize that I am a reflection of the prosperity that is Spirit. “It is right that I should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed”.  I open myself to accept everything that allows me to be successful.  All the decisions that I make lead to my success.  I accept opportunities that lead to my success.  I give myself permission to  take whatever action is necessary that leads to my continued prosperity.  Anything that stands in the way of my success falls away. I know that my life story is one of prosperity and success . 

I am successful right here and right now and for that I am so grateful.  I am grateful for all the abundance that flows to me. I am thankful that my abundance and success continues to grow every day and in every way.

I release these words into the law knowing that they cannot return void; knowing that as I speak them, it is done.

And so it is.

Dianne Martin is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 

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As We Think and Speak, So It Is

The Daily Meditation 10.23.2013

As We Think and Speak, So It Is

 Ardy Skinner, RScP


RGCSL-Photo-AR-150x150.jpg?width=150There is one Infinite Power that resides within everything and every moment.  It is filled with Love, Light, Joy, and Perfection.

I know that I am one with this Infinite Power and that it is closer than my own skin– for it resides within every cell within my being.

In proclaiming this, I know that I am also this love, this light, this joy and this perfection. And just as I know this is true for me, I also know this is true for you.  You are this amazing love, this endless light, this deepened joy, and pure perfection!  In realizing this I see that every experience you have is met with loving perfection.  I see that every dark spot is lit up with this glorious light that shines as you and in you.  I know that every moment and every encounter that you and I meet has pure joy and pure faith.  You and I live in the realization that this Infinite presence is within every single second of every experience!

I give great thanks for this living realization within our lives right now!  I am so thankful for the gift within you and the gift within me!

I release my word in complete faith that it is already done and it is already here– for my word always returns precisely what I speak into it– for it is law and law always responds in perfection.

It is done!  And so it is!

Ardy Skinner is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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Attracting Success, Fourth Part

The Daily Meditation 10.22.2013

Attracting Success, Fourth Part

 Ernest Holmes, Our Founder  


ernest_holmes-144x150.jpg?width=144It is quite necessary, then, that the successful businessman should keep his mind on thoughts of happiness, which produce cheerfulness instead of depression. He should a radiate joy and should be filled with faith, hope and expectancy. These cheerful, hopeful attitudes of mind are indispensable to the one who really wants to do things in life. Declare your freedom. Know that no matter what others may say, think or do, you are a success now, and nothing can hinder you from accomplishing your good. All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true. 

 

Begin to blot out, one by one, all false beliefs – -all ideas that men is limited, poor or miserable. Refuse to think of failure or doubt your own power. See only what you wish to experience and look at nothing else. We are relieved of all thought of clinging to anybody or anything. Cannot the great principle of life create for us all that we need? The universe is inexhaustible; it is limitless, knows no bounds and has no confines. We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the principle of life itself, for all that we have or ever she’ll need. It is not some power, or a great power, it is all power. All we have to do is to believe, never wavering, no matter what happens. As we do this, we shall find that things are steadily coming our way and that they are coming without that awful effort which destroys the peace of mind of the majority of the race. We know that there can be no failure in god’s mind, and this is the great power to which we are depending. 

Ernest Holmes “Science Of Mind” Page 302

Ernest Holmes, Founder of Religious Science and author of many books, including the “Science of Mind”

Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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I Co-create With You

The Daily Meditation 10.21.2013

I Co-create With You

 Rev Bonny Allen Rice, Minister

revbonny-150x150.jpg?width=150Spirit, Divine Intelligence. Creative power, Heart of the Divine, always manifesting in every thing, within this knowing I live and have my being.  I dwell in the One.There is no separation.

 

I co-create with you.  
 
Accepting that I am co-creating with you I release any sense or thought of limitation and open to the Divine inspiration that flows through me and becomes a manifest thought.  I allow expansion to take place and move into the action of belief.  All of this is done in joy and love and trust.
 
My Gratitude is full in thought, feeling and confidence.
 
I release this prayer and simply let it be.
 

Rev Bonny Allen Rice is the Pastoral Care Minister at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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Praising the Evolution of My Soul

The Daily Meditation 10.20.2013

Praising the Evolution of My Soul

 Rev Martha Quintana, Senior Minister

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There is One Life and that Life is Perfect.  From this One Life, all life emanates.  Creation and creativity happen from the self-contemplation of the One Life, and all life in every dimension is a manifestation of It and evolves from It.  I am so aware of this and recognize the Life that indwells all being.  It is All Principle including Love, Health, Joy, Goodness, Abundance, and Grace.

I am one with this Life.  Like it, I am love, health, joy, goodness, abundance, and grace.  I am that which it is, and I align with it.  As I know this for me, I know this for every person who reads this prayer right now.

I affirm and declare that all is well.  My vision for the evolution of my Self is the evolution of the soul, and it speaks to me loud and clear.  Every action necessary for my own realization for my higher self is taken easily and effortlessly.  Any self-sabotage falls away never to return.  Any unnecessary self-talk falls away and I see myself through the eyes of the Divine. Life loves me unconditionally and I adopt that life for myself.

I am so grateful.  My own heart sings with the grace that I have adopted and truly all is well.  Knowing this is true, I release my word.  It is done.  And so it is.

Rev Martha Quintana is the Senior Minister at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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The Daily Meditation 10.18.2013

I Have Enough, and I Am Enough

 Marilyn O’Leary, RScP

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As I bask in the knowledge that Divine Love is the Source that sustains me, I know that we are One in Source.

We all share in a common foundation of life.

Because Source is all, there is no lack.

We live in an abundant universe.

Whatever we need is available to us.

There is enough for us all, and enough for each of us individually.

Just look at the leaves on the trees, blades of grass, waves in the ocean, needles on a pine tree, and stars and galaxies in the firmament.

They are innumerable.

I am grateful for all that I have.  

And just as there is no lack of material goods, there is no lack in the immaterial – that is, there is no lack of ideas, intuition, or inspiration.

When I open myself to Spirit, I find any idea I need, I find true inspiration, and I allow my intuition to work.

My mind is a fountain of creativity which functions well when it is open to Spirit.

This is true for every person who believes it.

I am enough, and I give thanks for all that I am.

I release this thought knowing that as I do, my words are powerful and bring this prayer into being.  

And so it is. 

Marilyn O’Leary is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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On Center

The Daily Meditation 10.17.2013

On Center

 Kathy Mathiason, RScP

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I recognize there is a Presence in the Universe that is ongoing, eternal, unlimited…pure, beautiful, sacred…in all, through all, is ALL. Everything that is seen and known comes from this spark of goodness, this thing called Life. This essence is every heart beat,  is every breath…in every blade of grass,  fragrance in the spring rain. Love is the language of Spirit. Excellent radiant health, abundance and prosperity, success, creativity are the birthright of all…all the time.

I align myself with this essence, this purity, knowing I am one with this Presence. Knowing everyone reading these words is an expression of Spirit, magnificent, pure and wonderful.

I allow and accept goodness to flow into my life, into every area of my life. Anything that does not serve me in any way, not for my highest good, falls away harmless and formless into the Universe. All of my needs are meet as Spirit blesses me with exactly what I need for my personal and spiritual growth. My understanding of Life and my relationship to Spirit becomes more meaningful each day. I feel the Divine expressing Power, Love, and Awareness in my relationships, and my decision making. I trust and know I am in my perfect place, always protected and safe in all that I do.  As I travel this endless journey to places beyond my imagination, I am in awe of Life’s magnificent wonders. I am Loved, I am Love.

I am deeply and profoundly grateful for my miraculous Life, knowing it is getting better and better all the time!

I release my prayer into the Law knowing it comes back to me greater than I could ever imagine. And so it is…

Kathy Mathiason is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 

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Love is the Language of Spirit

The Daily Meditation 10.16.2013

Love is the Language of Spirit

 Linda Martin, RScP

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I recognize there is a Presence in the Universe that is ongoing, eternal, unlimited…pure, beautiful, sacred…in all, through all, is ALL. Everything that is seen and known comes from this spark of goodness, this thing called Life. This essence is every heart beat,  is every breath…in every blade of grass,  fragrance in the spring rain. Love is the language of Spirit. Excellent radiant health, abundance and prosperity, success, creativity are the birthright of all…all the time.

I align myself with this essence, this purity, knowing I am one with this Presence. Knowing everyone reading these words is an expression of Spirit, magnificent, pure and wonderful.

I allow and accept goodness to flow into my life, into every area of my life. Anything that does not serve me in any way, not for my highest good, falls away harmless and formless into the Universe. All of my needs are meet as Spirit blesses me with exactly what I need for my personal and spiritual growth. My understanding of Life and my relationship to Spirit becomes more meaningful each day. I feel the Divine expressing Power, Love, and Awareness in my relationships, and my decision making. I trust and know I am in my perfect place, always protected and safe in all that I do.  As I travel this endless journey to places beyond my imagination, I am in awe of Life’s magnificent wonders. I am Loved, I am Love.

I am deeply and profoundly grateful for my miraculous Life, knowing it is getting better and better all the time!

I release my prayer into the Law knowing it comes back to me greater than I could ever imagine. And so it is…

Linda Martin is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 

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Attracting Success, Third Part

The Daily Meditation 10.15.2013

Attracting Success, Third Part

 Ernest Holmes, Our Founder

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We live in mind and he can return to us only what we think into it. No matter what we do, law will always obtain. If we are thinking of ourselves as poor and needy, then mind has no choice but to return what we have sought into it. It is done unto you as you believe. Thoughts of failure, limitation or poverty are native and must be counted out of our lives for all time. God has given us a power and we must use it. We can do more toward saving the world by proving this law then all that charity has ever given to it. 

Remember god is the silent power behind all things, always ready to pour into our experience that which we need. You must have a receptive and positive faith in the evidence of things not seen with the physical eye but which are eternal in the heavens. All is mind, and we must provide a receptive avenue for it, as it passes all through us into the outer expression of our affairs. If we allow the world’s opinion to control our thinking, then that will be are demonstration! If, on the other hand, we rise superior to the world we shall create a new pattern.

Ernest Holmes “Science of Mind” Page 301-302

Ernest Holmes, Founder of  Religious Science and Author of numerous books, including the “Science of Mind” 

Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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I know I am Worthy

The Daily Meditation 10.14.2013

I know I am Worthy

 Ruzande Malunga, RScP

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The Divine Essences is ubiquitous, all- knowing and all - loving.
As I enter into divine partnership, my good accelerates at lightening speed.
I know I am worthy.
I have my highest purpose in mind.
I see clearly what needs to be done in order to accomplish my goals and I do it with ease.
There are no hurdles in my way.
Enlightenment is my exhortation and as I go through my day, I do so with joy in my heart.
I have many opportunities to learn and I cherish each moment.
I focus only on God’s goodness and blessings and I feel a sense of serenity and tranquility.
I am strengthened and renewed as I experience the warm flow of Divine Love, spreading  throughout my entire being.
It is the Power that renews, restores and awakens me to a greater awareness of God within.
I am grateful for this opportunity to be in the Divine Flow grateful for each moment of possibility.
I give thanks this is so.

Ruzande Malunga is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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All is Well With Everyone Around Me

The Daily Meditation 10.13.2013

All is Well With Everyone Around Me

 Rev Martha Quintana, Senior Minister

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I invoke Spirit.  I invoke it this morning because I know when I bring Spirit to the foremost part of my Mind, I bring forward my own aliveness. Spirit is alive always and in all ways, and I partake of it just by saying, “Spirit,” and just by calling to forward.

Spirit is alive in all people and things.  It is the energy behind the rising sun and the spirit in the first cry of the newborn infant.  It lives and dwells everywhere, equally present.  Spirit is never measured out in portions but is always fully present here, there, and everywhere.  It is Peace, Love, Abundance, Health, and Divine Guidance.  It is here in, as, and through me, and it is right there with every person who reads this prayer. 

I affirm and declare, in this moment, absolute abundance and absolute life.  The absolute good that is Spirit and Truth permeates all my affairs and I live in confidence and faith.  I already understand and know that goodness is indwells me, and therefore, all is well.  This feeling of peace and goodness spreads beyond me to the lives of all my loved ones, my spiritual community, and to the community where I live.  Every house on the street where I live is blessed and every house in the entire neighborhood is blessed.  This blessing spreads to the city, state, and finally, to the country.  The leaders of our country are blessed and they move into the absolute harmony that is already there. 

I give thanks for this prayer and for its blessing. I am so happy that my Spirit is showing and that all is well with all people around me.  I simply let it go and let it be.  

And So It Is.  Amen.  

Rev Martha Quintana is Senior Minister at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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Attracting Success

The Daily Meditation 10.11.2013

Attracting Success

Ernest Holmes, Our Founder

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 We mean by demonstration, bringing into our experience something which we had not experienced before; bringing it in as the result of conscious thought; and unless it is possible to do this, our whole science is a mistake and a delusion. Unless there is a divine principle, Universal soul or subjectivity, or medium, which, of itself – -without any help or assistance – -can produce things, and will, then there is nothing in this teaching. But there is a divine principle; and what it does for us it must do through us. Our part in a demonstration is to set the word in motion, thus compelling, through the law of subjectivity, the result or manifestation.This objective state of a man’s thought decides what is going to happen to him in his objective experience.

This objective state of his thought is the sum total of his thinking and knowing. It is the medium between the relative in the absolute, between a limitless and the conditioned. What ever is involved in it, will evolve therefore, when there is no longer anything in our mentality which to denies our word, a demonstration will be made; nothing can stop it, for the law is absolute.

We should approach the law normally and naturally and with a sense of ease. There is nothing peculiar or weird about it. It is a natural law, and must be thought of in this light. We should come to consider the law and the spirit as friends and think of them as such. In this way we shall gradually go from good to more good and from peace to greater peace. This is the natural unfoldment of reality through man. We should expect the best, and so live that the best may become, a part of our experience.

Ernest Holmes “Science of Mind” page 299-300

Ernest Holmes, Founder of Religious Science and Author of many books, including the “Science of Mind”
Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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The Daily Meditation 10.10.2013

Every Person is a Divine Expression of Unlimited Love

Kamatara Johnson, Practitioner II Student

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Oh Dear Loving Source, Creator-God, I recognize You-We-It-Us in this moment here and now. The Divine Essence of All that Is vibrating in concert with the universe. God is expressing in each unique creation here on earth, as each thing and being, through all the critters and people and whatnot. This energy of the Divine is going out and coming in, always evolving in the Life-as-we-know-it. And in a space of ineffable reverence, I see the unlimited Love, the unlimited Potential, and the unlimited Abundance of the Divine as supporting all of life right now.

And so I know the Truth for myself as a Divine expression of this unlimited love, potential, and abundance. I also know the Truth for each individual in our Divine family. Each one is a Divine expression of unlimited love, unlimited potential, and unlimited abundance. Spirit knows no precedent as evidenced by the unique experience of each person living as his/her path unfolds in alignment with the Loving Source.

So I honor my own confidence and courage to release all that does not serve my best and highest good. There is no reason to relive the past, to stagnate, or to repeat any thought, emotion, feeling, belief, or action that is old or ineffective. There IS reason to evolve, grow, reach, and push…to stretch into a new place, a deeper expression of the One Loving Source. I am evolving right now as I shed the unwanted and dysfunctional, which opens the space for NEW thoughts, more centered emotions, more peaceful feelings, more healthy beliefs, and more creative actions. This is the setting for clarity, abundance, and joy. Out with old, in with the new. I celebrate this cleansing, this mindful abandonment of old burdens. I celebrate the lightening and release and freedom that occurs in release. I am at the center of this exchange, with life flowing in and out, giving and receiving. The balance of the Divine surrounds and supports me in this transition to a new and better place now.

I am so grateful to behold the power and presence of the Divine expressing as me, to watch my mindful evolution unfold perfectly for me even as I experience it all. I appreciate the design of this beautiful Universe, ever expanding and growing.

I see the clarity and the release and the abundance in action right now as Principle works; the Law is set in motion and creates. The order is already filled. As this is spoken, I know it is done. And so it is.

Kamatara Johnson is a Practitioner II Student at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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Transitions

The Daily Meditation 10.09.2013

Transitions

Liza Kerr, RScP

liza1rev1-150x150.jpg?width=150This prayer is for my friend Rosemary who made her transition on Friday, and for anyone else that has made their transition and still touches our heart.

God is everywhere and all things.  God is in the first breath that we take when we are born, God is in every breath in between, and God is in the last breath we take when we make our transition.  God is always with us.  At the point of point of transition – whether we are transitioning into this life or onward as part of the immortal journey, the hand of God is there, the touch of God is felt.  As we are transmuted from the life we know into that unknown, we are surrounded by the Love that is God.  The Love that is God is transmuted to all that are at the parting Gate and all that are at the receiving Gate, as one passes off the other receives; smooth, seamless, with loving grace.  We breathe out in one life and take a breath in another, each of us on our eternal journey.  Such is the way of God.  For God is Everlasting Life, Immortality, Everlasting Love, Hope, Wisdom, Warmth, Comfort, Peace, Harmony, and Grace.

Perfect God, Perfect being, perfect man, so it is for me, perfect in all ways.  For I know that I am an individualized personification of God as the One Source.  There is no separation between me and God.  God as me, me as God, I am a perfect part of the perfect whole; like a drop of water from the ocean which contains all of the qualities of the ocean, so too do I contain all of the qualities of God, a small part of the perfection that is God.  There is nothing in me that is not in God, nothing in God that is not in me. Just as this is true for me so is it true for Rosemary.  She is perfection personified.  She exists now as she did before, a creature from God, as God, to God, never separated from God.  Each of us is on our own journey each of us in our own time. 

I speak my Word and my Word is Law that Rosemary has begun the next phase of her journey, the next step of her eternal life.  I know from the bottom of my soul that Rosemary is engulfed in the loving arms of God and thus continues her journey.  Rosemary is freed from her earthly bonds and her physical body and has merely made a transition to a different state of grace.  She is soaring, and liberated and almighty for the wings of God are supporting her, and sustaining her.   I feel in every cell of my body and to the bottom of my heart that Rosemary was welcomed with open arms into the next phase of her journey.  I feel peace, harmony and joy from her, and I know that she is safe and beyond our mortal cares and worries.  May she light the path for each of us that knew her in this life and welcome us when we transition over.   

I give thanks for knowing that Rosemary is continuing her journey, safely, in the arms of God.  I give thanks for knowing Rosemary.  Rosemary was like a Mother to me.  Always there when I needed her, always accepting me for the way I actually am.  No need ever to sugar coat life to Rosemary, she was able to accept me on my own terms, and make me laugh about it.  I give thanks to Rosemary for taking me in when I had nothing, no money, no hope and even less than that, a true lost soul.  At the time she took me in I was living in a tent with my husband and daughter and the only means of transportation we had was totaled in an accident; nothing.  Rosemary gave our family a place to live, and our dignity back by believing in us.  When someone believes in you and gives you hope where there was none, the only thing left is to live up to their expectations; thank you Rosemary (and Ralph, too) for having such high expectations of me.  I will remember you.  I will look for you on the other side.

I release this prayer to the Law of Mind, knowing that it cannot come back to me void, knowing that it has already occurred and I anchor it into place by saying –

AND SO IT IS

Liza Kerr is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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The Pearl of Happiness

The Daily Meditation 10.08.2013

The Pearl of Happiness

Joy Lynn Hertz, RScP

Joy-Lynn-December-400-150x150.jpg?width=150I AM HAPPY AND I KNOW IT!  God is perfect happiness.  Knowing that I am an individualized expression of The Divine, I chose to embrace and exude blissful happiness.  I consciously welcome the uniqueness of Spirit to express in, as, and through me.  I accept The Pearl of happiness as my birthright and I embrace it in this moment and each moment moving forward.  I am one with the Creative Power of the Universe and know the qualities of God expressing as truth, joy, peace, love and kindness wrap around me like a warm blanket.
 
My present feeling is one of wholeness and oneness, embracing every person I come into contact with. My joy expands to an all time high and I share it with wild abandon.  As I listen quietly to the voice of Wisdom within, my mental energy responds by creating more and more and more of the same.  Physical appearances of imperfection present themselves and I release them from my consciousness continually creating more space for the happiness that is my heart’s desire.
 
My heart is filled to overflowing with gratitude in the knowing that I am the hand picked chosen messenger of happiness.  I move forward joyously and fearlessly with open arms and an open heart as the message flows through me.
 
I release my Word into the Law knowing that it cannot come back to me void.  That Happiness is my Divine Birthright. IT IS DONE!  IT IS COMPLETE! AND SO IT IS!
Joy Lynn Hertz is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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My Steps Are Divinely Ordered

The Daily Meditation 10.07.2013

My Steps Are Divinely Ordered

Ernest Holmes, Our Founder

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“Order my steps in thy word, and let not any iniquity [*strife, confusion, false belief, limitation or health challenge] have dominion over me.”        

Psalms 119:133 (adapted)

*Metaphysical Bible Dictionary

Unity School of Christianity

 

“The steps of a god man are ordered of the Lord.  Think, my child on the word “steps.”  I truly order each step.  I do not devise a plan and then leave you in your human weakness to work it out alone.  No, each moment of the day I direct and guide and order.  Always am I by your side.  My hand in yours, leading you out and on and upward, so you do not have to ask, “Lord, what am I to do all week?  Give me your plan.”  No, you only have to say, “Lord, show me what to do now, this moment.  Show me how to solve this problem which confronts me.”

“If you will learn this lesson well, you shall never look with fear or uncertainty into future days, you shall fear neither lack of material things nor spiritual guidance, for you will know, oh so surely, that each step of the way is guided and planned, and that you do not walk, even for one moment, life’s highway alone.”

Quiet Talks With The Master  Eva Bell Werber, 1936

             How comforting it is to realize that we are NEVER alone, nor are we wondering around aimlessly; instead we know that each step we take has been ordered by Infinite Spirit.  One might refer to this as being surefooted.  Our pathway has been made clear before us.  All pitfalls are removed.  Our way has been cleared, therefore we are able to walk confidently as we journey forward.  There is no need to fret, worry or doubt whether we are making the right move (step), as anything less than certainty has no control (dominion) over us.  Anything, less that absolute perfection, as we set out on whatever the plan may be, is powerless to even come nigh our dwelling.”  We must trust that when we say “Lord, show me what to do now, this moment. Show me how to solve this problem which confronts me” the answer appears.  It may come from a friend, a magazine article, a book, a Spiritual Mind Treatment, from nature; it may come from anywhere or anyone, as the answers are infinite! All we need to do is ask, remain alert and ready to act when the answer come, and surely it shall come.  Then, we must step out surefootedly, confidently and know that all is well.  And so it is!

Lovater Harris Jones is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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We are Allowed to Choose

The Daily Meditation 10.06.2013

We are Allowed to Choose

Ernest Holmes, Our Founder

ernest_holmes-144x150.jpg?width=144Man has the ability to choose what he will do with his life, and is unified with a Law which automatically produces his choice. While he does not  have the ability todestroy the idea of himself, he does have the ability to deface it, to make it appear discordant, but he cannot destroy the Divine Image. Man is an individual and does with himself what he wills.the Scriptures say: “God hath made man upfight; but they have sought out many inventions.” Individuality cannot be automatically produced; it must be spontaneous. It would not be individuality without the ability to think as it chose. 

We live in a Universe of Love as well as a Universe of Law. One is the complement of the other –the Universe Love pulsating with feeling, with emotion, and the Universe of Law, the Executor of all feeling and all emotion. In this lesson on healing, the, let us remember that back of the man which we see is the Divine Image. There is a Perfect Concept of Man, held in the Mind of the Universe as an already accomplished fact, but man is subject to the law of his own choice. 

Ernest Holmes  ”Science of Mind” page 195-196

Ernest Holmes, Founder of Religious Science and Author of many books, including the “Science of Mind”

Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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The Daily Meditation 10.05.2013

I Feel Beauty, Peace, Joy and Love all Around

Carol Grimm, RScP

Carol-Grimm0001-150x150.jpg?width=150As I walk out  in the first  really cold morning of the year, I notice the changes once again.   The wind is blowing and there is ice on the  stock water.  I see the last flowers of the season and the colors of the leaves on the trees and I know that it is all the creation of Spirit.   I feel Beauty, Peace, Joy and Love all around. I know that I am one with all that is.  If this is true for me, it is true for all who read these words and, indeed, all that inhabit this planet. What each person does impacts all.    

As  I move into the fall of the year,  I  know that there is perfection  not only in the beauty of the world and the weather, but in the affairs of man. Any thought of  separation, of disagreement, of anger and blame now falls away never to return.   The whole country and the world  now come together as one.  As we come into the  holiday season  I know that  it is true that “Love is all there is”  

I am extremely grateful for this knowing, for the Beauty and Joy and Love that surround me.  I give thanks for  all.

I now turn my words over to the Law knowing that they are true  as they are spoken.

And so it is.

Carol Grimm is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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I am so Blessed

The Daily Meditation 10.04.2013

I am so Blessed

Barbara Kraft, RScP

BarbaraK2-150x150.jpg?width=150I am reminded of the song we sing each Sunday at the beginning of our service titled “I Am So Blessed”. It goes on to the next line “I am so grateful”.I look around at all that exists in my life and that song helps me to remember that it is all Good and all God. The God that resides in each one of us. That place of unconditional Love and acceptance. It is that place of non-judgement and peace.I am so blessed…..for all that appears in my life. All that I call good and all that I label bad. I am so grateful…… for the lessons I learn and the experiences I endure. They teach me to be better, stronger and yes, happier.

I am so blessed……for the life I choose to live and all those who have come into my life who have made this a rich and fulfilling life. I am so grateful……for this teaching that shows me that I can have what I desire and I can overcome the self imposed obstacles.

I greet each day with a deep breath, an open mind, and a song in my heart. 
I am so blessed……..I am so grateful for all that I have.

And so it is.

Barbara Kraft is a Practitioner at the Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
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