We meet the challenge of youthful life by staying young in mind. Affirm the qualities of passion, enthusiasm, and expectancy. Affirm a joyful and exciting life every day. Age is a state of mind we do not choose to entertain. – Ernest Holmes "Aging and Eternal Youth"
Compassion and caring are the ties that bind us together in mutual understanding and in the unified attempt to uncover the Divinity in each other. Compassion is the most gentle of all human virtues, for it is the outpouring of the Divine givingness through all. – Ernest Holmes A Holmes Reader: on Practical Wisdom (Compiled and Edited by Rev. Carol Sheffield and Kenneth T. Lind, RScP.)
Saturday Treatment - My Passion Guides Me
As I sit in silent moments attuned to the Divine within, I wake to my passion and let it show me the fulfillment of my life now. My passion is finding the Divine in people: family, friends old and new, both casual and business acquaintances, even the stranger in the market. Somehow, I see there is love and divinity even in those who seem cranky and disagreeable as they reveal their softer inner sensitivity and desire to be loved and respected for who they believe they are. My passion guides me to see the truth that if God is the ultimate Presence and Power for Good then we are all beneficial presences in the world and we all support each other in thriving.
I let my passion guide me in all my personal decisions. I let it teach me my own unique compassionate way of being in the world. Despite all the news and noise of the world's opinions of humanity, my passion shows me our unity and continued promise and potential inherent within us as the Divine expression as us. We are each alone to discover our genuine nature and all together to wake us to the wonderful truth we are. I accept my passionate way of seeing and believing as alight within me on everyone's path not because I alone am special but because we all together are specialized realizations of Divine Reality as our own reality.
Now, I let my passion guide me to live in carefree abandon, a soul alive in peace, assurance, gratitude, and love poised and powerful in my acceptance that as anyone prospers, I prosper and as I prosper to that degree I lift my world. In freedom and in joy with grace and ease I release my words backed by my passion and all Divine Power. They are my reality now. And so, it is.
John
Rev. John Lusk RScP
“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. It is like the sunlight of eternal truth
bursting through the clouds of obscurity and bathing the whole world in glory.
It is the absolute that you are dealing with and nothing else.” - Ernest Holmes
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