Your
thoughts affect powerfully the people around you. Therefore, be sure your
thoughts are strictly true. Keep steady, constant, cool headed. Learn this law:
"Wisdom
is the principal thing; therefore get Wisdom; and with all thy getting get
understanding. ECH
zenHabits: 6 Steps To
Being More Creative
Be
very persistent in finishing the studies you attempt. Resist your temptation to
changeableness. You affect people near you strongly; therefore learn Truth. By
steadiness of purpose, you preside over nations. Keep this text: "All power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth." ECH
Your true
desires are the expression of what you value.
A true desire has the potential of fulfillment within it, and
your part is to allow this desire to come to fruition. A blooming flower is a
perfect example of this. First you see the buds filling up and then the
glorious release of color. Flowers can't keep from blossoming. It's the natural
expression of what they are. It is the desire of nature that causes these
flowers to open to their full glory. When flowers express their nature, we
receive the beauty of their gift.
The process works the same way with us, but
unlike the flowers, we can -- and often do -- withhold and restrict the
expression of what we are. This causes pain. Not only are we hiding our light,
but the world misses out on the beauty of what we are.
Is there something within you wanting to
bloom? Feel the energy you are exerting trying to hold back this expression.
Now imagine yourself releasing this energy. Notice how it feels when your
energy is unobstructed.
Christ's vision is a miracle. It comes from far beyond
itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies,
but has been kept obscure.
Christ's
vision pictures Heaven, for it
sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored
there.
Christ's
vision is the miracle in which
all miracles are born. Christ beholds no sin in anyone. And in His sight the
sinless are as one. Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.
Christ's
vision is the bridge between the
worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into
one made holy by forgiveness. What was to be the home of sin becomes the center
of redemption and the hearth of mercy, where the suffering are healed and
welcome. No one will be turned away from this new home, where his salvation
waits. No one is stranger to him. No one asks for anything of him except the
gift of his acceptance of his welcoming.
Christ's
vision is the holy ground in
which the lilies of forgiveness set their roots. This is their home. They can
be brought from here back to the world, but they can never grow in its
unnourishing and shallow soil. They need the light and warmth and kindly care
Christ's charity provides. They need the love with which He looks on them. And
they become His messengers, who give as they received. His lilies do not leave
their home when they are carried back into the world. Their roots remain. They
do not leave their source, but carry its beneficence with them, and turn the
world into a garden like the one they came from, and to which they go again
with added fragrance. Now are they twice blessed. The messages they brought
from Christ have been delivered, and returned to them. And they return them
gladly unto Him. I give the
miracles I have received.
Your
mind makes speakers and lecturers. Therefore, be wise in judgment by often
repeating: "The
Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to
speak a word in season." ECH
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