How much life, abundance, goodness, truth, and beauty can we
mentally entertain -- this is the measure of our possible experience; this is
the mold of acceptance. The Infinite fills all molds and flows forever into new
and greater ones. It is the unborn
possibility of limitless experience. We give birth to it.
– Ernest Holmes Your
Invisible Power
What offspring are we growing in the womb of our mind? What
idea have we cherished until it has become the nucleus of force gathering to it
and to us all of its necessary parts, pieces, and processes? The thoughts that
drive us, those we celebrate and those from which we cringe in fear, are the
seeds of our future.
In examining what we are gestating as our concepts of life
and prosperity, choose to let the foolish and limited arrive stillborn by
nurturing an ever-expanding, though sometimes frightening, future that draws
only joyful life and successful prosperity to us. Our fear is only of the
unknown, native and natural to our humanity, it serves to remind us of wiser
choices. When we realize that we may choose the wisest of choices much better
from an attitude of happiness, fear fades like morning mist.
Human babies reach a point during gestation where they move
to music, even to the click of keys on a typewriter or computer keyboard. Each
of my four children seemed to require different nutrients. During one
pregnancy, my wife ate copious amounts of the hottest salsa she could find.
That child never eats really hot sauce today but another loves it now but if my
wife ate it during that term she became ill. Similarly, we must fill the needs
of both our prenatal ideas and those that have emerged to life of their own by
providing whatever active support we know and are able to provide.
The healthy gestation of an idea is an image that I like,
especially for the early stages of a project when the opinions and actions of
others might quash our creativity if we share the secret. Sometimes, even we
are surprised by an idea as it comes to us well developed and ready for our
immediate action because it has grown in the safety of our unsuspecting,
therefore nonjudgmental consciousness.
As someone pointed out recently in a Sunday message, we are
all winners of an intense race for life. Only the best of us reached the point
of nurture. Only our highest and best ideas ought to reach the point of our
conscious nurture, let alone become part of our experience. If any idea
supports life, adds to the value of life, enhances freedom, joy, love, or any other
element of prosperity, that idea is worthy of our nurture and of birthing in
the world. We generate and germinate those ideas by concentrating our attention
on the highest ideals and qualities of being, which we can conceive.
I clear my mind of unserving ideas and concepts by looking
for Spirit as my way-shower in every time of visioning, meditation, or even woolgathering
daydreams. Spiritual wisdom shows me the best and as I contemplate the best, It
acts to bring to me every essential for completion. It does this in ways I know
and ways I don’t even need to know; and It always satisfies. I am so grateful
for my prosperity gestated to term, live born and viable, emerging now 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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