Happy New Year

This year invest in truth,
and let it work in peace.
Have faith in Him Who has faith in you. 

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

Is a Christian hymn, written in 1773. First verse:

You are loved, far more than you think.

How does the mystic see humanity? In an entirely different way from ordinary men and women. It is profitable for us also to see people from a mystical viewpoint. It provides power.

"The Shepherd"

The year is 1957. An RAF pilot is heading home from Germany for Christmas. Fog sets in, and all radio communication is lost.  Climb into the cockpit with "Fireside Al" Maitland as he once again heads out over the North Sea, in CBC’s annual reading of

This world is not your home.

The point of your life is to get to the point of your life, so let’s get busy.
If you were meant for this world, the world would have made you happy,
but it hasn’t done so,
so see what that indicates,
it indicates that you were meant for something different
from this human inhabited planet that wobbles so badly.

So consider yourself a visitor,
consider yourself as someone who has an opportunity to understand this world,
really, very serious now,
this world is not your home,
this world is not a permanent thing.
Vernon Linwood Howard

In this season (Christmas) which celebrates the birth of holiness into this world, join with me who decided for holiness for you. It is our task together to restore the awareness of magnitude to the host whom God appointed for Himself. It is beyond all your littleness to give the gift of God, but not beyond you. For God would give Himself through you. He reaches from you to everyone and beyond everyone to His Son's creations, but without leaving you. Far beyond your little world but still in you, He extends forever. Yet He brings all His extensions to you, as host to Him.

Wouldn't it be tremendous …

 “The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could center themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.” ~ Tao Te Ching

"I am as God created me.

Christmas Bible lesson from 1894

LESSON XII

Luke 7:24-35 Isaiah 9:3-7

Unto Us A Child Is Born