Thursday, August 22, 2013

Being Your Vision – Our Prosperity

We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is God.
– Ernest Holmes Principles of Religious Science       
               
Our prosperity is never ours alone. We all, being the life of Spirit, share in the universal abundance of Spirit as Creative Mind, Active Law, and Limitless Substance. I hear from many that they are needy and held back in life because of location, circumstances, or other self and culture defined limitations. I hear of and see many who have climbed above these so called limitations through imagination, desire, willingness, and personal effort to understand the laws of life, the principles of success.

My real inspiration comes not from the famously athletic or the famously wealthy but from people in every aspect of business and living, who realized that they could lift themselves from the bondage of their seeming limitation to a freedom that their family, neighbors, and friends never dreamed of. It is that missing dream and not circumstance that holds back any of us. It is the discovery and cherishing of the dream that moves us into success even greater than we dreamed, when we advance toward achievement of our dream.

The whiners from my youth used to say, “It is not what you know but who you know that leads to success.” Those who succeed prove daily that if they show what they know, to whom they know; sooner or later they will know someone who will aid them in their success. Begin now by doing daily what you love and by working at whatever work you can find to make a living while you develop your skills, talents, and contacts.

Dustin Hoffman sold shoes in a store on Fairfax in Los Angeles while becoming the great actor. The Beach Boys and the Ventures, two amazingly popular rock groups from the sixties appeared at Barnes Park in Monterey Park California before they were famous. Now those who know their success and met or heard these people before their success have the private conceit of saying, I knew them when…” But, their success occurred because they believed in their dreams and they believed in themselves.

Not a bit of anyone’s success takes from the ability of anyone else’s success. Success and prosperity expands to include anyone who embraces them and expands to the degree that they embrace it. The life of all is the limitless Life of God and that Life is abundance and fulfillment for all who know that it is.

I claim Life as my own, knowing that Life honors every claim upon It. I accept now that all of the Power and Presence of God responds to my belief in myself. As much as I believe in the way that I believe, it appears in my experience now. I have the wisdom, knowledge, and contacts that I accept and I receive the goo that I show others returning to me at all times in wonderful ways and so it is.



John

Rev. John Lusk

“First you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes



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