Take the highest thought we have, and … enlarge on this
consciousness until it embraces a more vital concept of Reality. If we wish to
demonstrate prosperity, we must first have a consciousness of prosperity; if we
wish health, we must embody the idea of health. This is more than faith; it is
the knowledge that we are dealing with Law. While a certain consciousness may
be mechanically induced …the more spontaneity put into the mechanical word, the
more power the word must have. – Ernest Holmes Science of Mind
I take an annual prosperity class
to continually expand my consciousness of the freedom of life that comes with
prosperity and to learn new ways to see myself as a prosperous person. The
classes often include homework, usually an assignment to reflect upon some
aspect of prosperity either that I admire in another person or that perhaps I believe
is lacking from my own life. These exercises generally require mechanical, logical,
and mental reasoning as much as spontaneous adventuring with money or some
other aspect of prosperity. I think that many of the authors of these classes
prospered through the mechanical act of writing the class.
I was in a waiting room and had
vowed to stay focused on my assignment of recalling my heroes and the qualities
I believe made them heroic to me. Another man came in and sat down to wait for
his wife. He had heard me comment about a hospital that had closed its doors
over twenty years ago. Neither of us remembered the name of the hospital but
its mention sparked a fond memory for him of his first grandchild’s birth there
twenty-six years ago. We began to talk.
In the next ten minutes until his
wife came out, we discovered that we both shared Catholic upbringing in our
youth. I learned that when he was only six, his father, a Marine, died in the
Korean War. Now we both knew we shared an age and some similar backgrounds and
values. I could have written a long list of heroes and a longer list of values
but that single spontaneous sharing prospered both of us. We live in the same
neighborhood, go to some of the same doctors, yet in all the time that we lived
less than two miles apart, we had never met. I suspect that we shall cross
paths often now but if not, we have touched each other and woken within each
other a mutual regard.
This simple encounter goes much
farther and does far more than an exercise in recall and reflection could ever
accomplish. Oh, I still intend to finish my exercise as part of my agreement
for the class but now, the energy of spontaneity outweighs the gain of effort,
which proves to me that prosperity is far more the momentary love and
appreciation of anything than it is the hard work to gain or the solid feel of
owning.
I turn in trust to the
spontaneous Reality of Spirit as me and as everyone whom I meet. I listen
intently and discover the kindred nature of us all. My prosperity grows through
quiet appreciation, hard work, but mostly through the magnified enjoyment of
any single moment of sharing and caring. I have my priorities straight and
receive lavishly the good I give.
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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