We work in mind establish a new
mental concept, leaving the manifestation of our new concept entirely in the
hands of the Law. Creation is not a finished product but an eternal emanation.
All life is an effect, a way, an outward manifestation of interior causes.
Creation is an internal process projecting itself now through our minds
― Dr. Tom Sannar Sourcebook of
Ernest Holmes
Your part is to focalize and
express the desire to God.
― Wallace Wattles Science of
Getting Rich
If prosperity is never completely
finished because there is always more to discover, and if we forever expand our
experience of prosperity, what does “finished” prosperity look like and why
speak of it? I feel prosperous and I am prosperous. I notice though that my
lifestyle includes many projects that fall into “Well begun is half done” and
rest there until I find new interest in them. Finished prosperity for me is more
projects that are complete.
At any one time, I have at least
five half-read books in various locations in my home. I stop to read awhile and
move on until I wander back to that book in an hour or perhaps a month. Mostly,
I am satisfied with life as I live it, but I do notice that when I finish a
book and put it back on a shelf, I feel a sense of lightness and freedom. I am
finished with that, now I can move on.
I like to cook and bake. I have
many recipes I plan to try and the various dry ingredients fill my shelves. I
have enough ingredients now for about ten to twelve batches of different kinds
of cookies but I don’t feel like eating sweets this week so I am eating soups
and sandwiches. I am prosperous enough to eat well and unfocused enough that I notice
it as an internal tension, which is far from a prosperous feeling.
I don’t make New Year’s
resolutions because an arbitrary resolve lacks the attractiveness and power of
self-involvement necessary to call me into action. When I feel uncomfortable, I
move and I change until I feel contented again. Finished prosperity for me is a
graceful easy willingness to make that change or that move as I retain my
harmony with myself.
Is it silly to say that finished
prosperity is always a work in progress? When we consider our health
prosperity, we see it as a process of birth to death transitions from one
viewpoint but most of us live life as chapters that open and close, stories we
begin and that seem to finish without our choosing. Both views have purpose and
merit. When we can blend them into a hero’s tale about ourselves that we tell
to ourselves, we never finish them for they become our eternal epics.
I think of finished prosperity as
a smooth road, landscaped just for me, and peopled with friends that I may
never know but who light my way with smiles, encouragement, and sometimes inspiring
critique. I travel that road with curiosity and wonder because although I
create my next steps with my feelings, beliefs, and thoughts, the blend is
always entirely new and excitingly different.
Now, I conceive of my prosperity
as always finished yet never ending and forever expanding. God creates what I know
and gives it to me through me. God is my finished prosperity here and now.
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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