We celebrate today our independence, which means that we ought to be rejoicing for our spiritual, intellectual, and economic freedom. The United States is a country founded on the idea that individuals shall rule themselves wisely by electing other individuals to follow instructions while creating a state of peace and plenty for all.
Our ancestors and founding fathers believed that government other than ensuring the safety and fair business practices for all ought not to meddle in the normal affairs of the people. Throughout recorded history, one theme repeats. The ideals and necessities of one group of people become modified be others who join and by the changes in technology, industry, and commerce. At times today, we may feel if our freedoms are not as free as they once were our government not as much hands-off in action than it was in intention.
I am far from being a political activist. I believe that activists are generally far more active against something than for something. I am however, mentally active in my belief that any restrictions we feel from outside are subject to change as we choose our own beliefs. We still have freedom to think and we can think so freely that our actions and all of our intentions serve to create a world of advanced technology, economy, and commerce, which prospers all but never interferes with people just because it can.
Holmes says that we must have authority in our words. We put it there and when we speak with authority, our decrees are established, our word not only prospers it continues to prosper until we change it. I believe that our independence requires understanding that we are interdependent and that we must both give and receive our services, products, and money freely. Our lives and our health depend on the infrastructure of roads, water supply, transportation, food production and far more so, we need to independently support everyone else in their prosperity.
There is little value in dependent relationships, except for raising of children or the care of aging, the sick, or in giving temporary aid to someone who needs a hand up so that they too might contribute. Codependent relationships are weak and foster weakness but when from our own self-actualized independence, we bring love to others and learn to enjoy others as they are we realize relationships that foster strength and individual excellence.
I believe that we have sufficiency of resources available to all of us and that we can find ways to use all of those resources sustainably. Each of us can contribute to that through careful use and recycling but even more so by independently using the power of our words to declare abundance and celebrate it and by speaking up and speaking out for active efforts to create home and city environments that serve this idea.
Now, with the full authority of Spirit individualized I decide what I desire is for my world to discover its highest good and to establish that as the norm through a natural organic progression of free choices. I know my word blesses all who willingly accept that freedom is an inner wisdom lived by us as we enjoy gratefully all of its gifts and so it is.
John
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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