Find time this weekend to turn off your phone, calm your nerves, cast your cares on the Lord, and meditate in the field of His faithfulness.

Isaac was an outdoorsman who worked the fields during the day; but he returned there in the evenings for another kind of work -- the mental work of meditation. Imagine his world. No electricity or electric lights, no radios or headsets, no cell phones or engine noises. With the vault of heaven above him, Isaac took time for nocturnal walks before bedtime to pray and think and meditate. Read More...

"It is said that the best things in life are free. They are. That is why a man must stop trying to pay for them with anxious effort and unnatural strain.
Some wise individuals realize that hard work, all by itself, is no virtue. They are the alert ones. They see the difference between anxious striving and natural coasting.
Anxious effort gives you nothing for something.
Natural effort, effort harmonized with the natural laws of life, gives you something for nothing.
One task of Psycho-Pictography (Mental Pictures) is to show you that the easy way is the right way. It does not appeal to an unrealistic desire to get something for nothing. It tries to show every man that he inwardly possesses everything he needs, _but does not consciously know it._"~ VH

When other people’s judgment and directions confuse you, listen to your own judgment. It is good. Learn this as Truth: “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” ECH

"When asked what governed most people, a teacher answered, 'Unconscious imitation of other people, in religious activities as well as elsewhere.'" VH

I AM rich in good health, happiness, love, success, prosperity, good fortune and unlimited money.

I AM rich in every way.

The great scholars teach that everyone carries a spark of the Creator.

This means, everyone.

We learn from this to never discount a person because of how they look,

or even how they behave for that matter.

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Joy and peace are not but idle dreams. They are your right, because of what you are. They come to you from God, Who cannot fail to give you what He wills. We clear a holy place within our minds before His altar, where His gifts of peace and joy are welcome, and to which we come to find what has been given us by Him.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

God's gifts of joy and peace are all I want.

ACIM

“You can change your life by altering your thoughts.”~ Eric Butterworth
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Butterworth acknowledged Henry David Thoreau as one whose master work, On Walden Pond, he re-read each year to keep his life and ministry on course. Butterworth's Great Teachers: Henry David Thoreau

A Swiss shepherd boy was kidnapped by passing gypsies. As he was hustled away inside the wagon, he heard the ringing of the village bell. The sound became fainter and fainter as the wagon carried him away. But that bell's special tone made a permanent impression upon his mind.

Years later, as he grew up, the memory of that bell stirred a restless urge within. It made him weary of the gypsy life. He longed to return to his rightful home. So he broke away from the gypsy camp and began his search. He wandered from country to country, village to village, listening intensely for the special ring of that single bell. He heard many peals as he journeyed along, but he always detected a false ring, and so refused to be lured away.

Finally, while pausing by the roadside to rest, he heard a faintly familiar peal. He turned in its direction. The farther he walked the more swiftly he stepped. Something within him knew that he was hearing his village bell at last. And he followed it all the way home.

Likewise, the ring of truth is inside every person. And this is not something merely mystical or philosophical. It is a practical fact.

If a person learns to listen, if he refuses to be lured away by false sounds, he will find his way home. The ring of truth will always be recognized by the person who listens. And everyone has the capacity to listen and to follow. Psycho-Pictography -- The New Way to Use the Miracle Power of Your Mind VH