Come on, baby, let’s do the twist. – Chubby Checker
The twisting of a familiar theme into a new shape is
sometimes more revealing and ultimately more significant than acquiring new
knowledge and a new set of principles. Often when imagination twists the
commonplace into a slightly new form, suddenly we see soul where formerly it
was hidden.
– Thomas Moore Care of the Soul
Some of the best humor happens
during a conversation when someone says something and the listener hears it in
a new way and reveals a hidden hilarity to a serious situation. For instance,
Abraham Lincoln once accused of being two-faced, responded, “If I were two-faced,
would I be wearing this one?”
All of our days fill with
repeated scenes and routines no matter how prosperous we appear. We can cash in
on the commonplace by seeing it slightly different from the norm. Ten artists
see the same apple and produce ten different images. The trick is in learning
to see which image of what is before us in that new way that inspires us to
offer a new service or create a new product that meets the need, which was
always before us but cloaked in the guise of routine.
I reflect on all of the Sunday
messages I have heard or given, all of the new thought or other self-help books
that I have read, including everything that I have said from the podium or
written over the years, even much of the fantasy or science fiction I used to
read. I see the consistent theme of God is, God knows, God hears, God responds,
and God acts for us when we accept and allow. I look at the religions of the
world and notice that they all teach the same thing in different words, requiring
different ceremonies and practices, but they all include the idea that we live
in the presence of something greater than we are.
Whether Nature, Principal as
Spirit, or Principle as Infinite Law, or as one of the many ways of describing
God. There is available to all a Source of supply and life, a Divine Wisdom,
and a very present help cloaked in the trappings of daily routine and common
wisdom, which we can rely upon as soon as we notice it. The key to full
prosperity is shifting or twisting our viewpoint until we see this Something
and allow it to work for us. Until then we face random obstacles and unexpected
opposition because we do not see and comply with the laws of reality.
New information requires time to
assimilate and learn to apply. Sometimes we hear, absorb, but do not apply the
information we receive and then we hear it again with our minds closed to its
importance because, after all, we have heard it before. Information is
transformation only when we apply it to the situations at hand, which we also
see as the same old same-old, which just is so, why question it, or even try to
improve it?
The soul of our life is just
below our conscious focus of attention, or maybe, just above. When we give a
new twist to old ideas by listening with openness to new possibilities, our
soul consciously connects us with our Source, strips away the fog, and reveals the
answers that have always been before us but which we never saw before.
Today, I twist my view of the
reality before me by asking questions of my inner wisdom, Spirit. I listen
intently and receive new understanding of old knowledge, which I now apply to
solve my life problem: How do I thrive as I never have before? With new
clarity, I do thrive and prosper in new ways. How wonderful is that? Well, 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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