There is an infinite reservoir of Life within us. We may
block Its passage; we may short-cut Its current, but the reservoir is still
there and the flow is always ready to resume its course when we re-open the
channels. Our problem is not with Life Itself, but with the use we are making
of It.
– Ernest Holmes This Thing Called Life
While watching children play, I
noticed that they did not require huge stockpiles of toys in order to have fun.
When my kids were babies, they had as much fun with the box as they did with
the toy it contained. My cats love empty boxes both for hide and pounce games
and for a good nap. Before all of the electronics, we could put a child down in
front of a wall and he or she would find something to do.
Sometimes in the rush of the day,
we forget why we rush. Of course, we rush because we forgot that nature never
hurries. Roasts still take hours to bake. Salads take their season to grow; and
still need to be hand tossed for fresh flavor. If books were instant, we’d all
be authors and scholars. We begin to resume the prosperity of our youth every
time we remember to harmonize with our own unique rhythms and with the flow of
our environment.
Meditators and walkers seem to
have the edge in this but just remembering to stop the hurry and take a breath
occasionally works wonders. “Stop and smell the coffee.” is a best advice. Even
large cities have their hidden gems of nature. When I worked on Wilshire Blvd
in Los Angeles, at one address, I was only a few blocks from the La Brea Tar
Pits and adjoining park. Across the street from another address, the building
had a fourth floor rooftop garden with seasonal flowers and trees for shade
where I could escape from my hurried business for a breath of freshness. I can
find escapes like these in every city and town I visit. If I can, anyone can.
Now, which is the real
prosperity, the hurried business, the escape from the hurry, or the discovery
that if we can escape from the hurry for even a moment, or even that we don’t need the
hurry?
If we look at ourselves
individually, we get to choose for if we look at the whole lot of us, it is
clear that we all thrive at different paces in our own chosen places.
Meditations, a walk, a hike in
the woods are all life-valves that reopen our channels in the Infinite to that reservoir
of Life and prosperity, which resides always where we are within us. We bring
ourselves and only ourselves to every experience. The clothing we wear, the
money we use, our homes, and businesses are all the outpicturing of our own
self-awareness, which we constantly recreate with every thought and feeling.
Everything that happens to us or
for us happens because we have first thought the thoughts and felt the feelings
that attract that specific happening and only that specific happening. Blame is
useless and never solves anything, especially when we are responsible for
everything in our lives and need only change our mind about a person, place, or
thing to change our relationships in life. We resume our personal prosperity by
embracing the best of life.
I open my inner channels to the
infinite reservoir of Life and resume the prosperity that I came here to live.
All good is mine to enjoy now so I enjoy it with gratitude and appreciation and
so it is.
John
Rev. John Lusk
Staff Minister
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“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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