Category: Insights and iInspirations

You may find it interesting that in the Bible the word perfect is used over fifty times and the words perfect and perfection are in our Leader’s writings over four hundred fifty times. It seems to me tnat we are being shown, in hundreds of ways, the value, the necessity, of beginning our prayerful work with the recognition of  perfection, – God and Her all-good, perfect, creation.

The Student’s Reference Dictionary tells us that perfect means “finished, complete, not defective, having all that is requisite to its nature and kind; fully informed, completely skilled; complete in moral excellences.”

Our dedication to knowing and loving God’s all-goodness, our trust in this as our basis of thought and reasoning, gives our lives a buoyancy, strength, and security that nothing else can. We are starting at the top, beginning with God, Spirit, and Her spiritual creation, and loving the discovery. We are starting strong!

When I was in college I went to a Christian Science lecture. (Probably the best thing I learned in college.) The lecturer said, in essence, speaking about our starting point in prayer and treatment, When a fireman goes to a fire, he does not shoot the water at each individual flame,- he puts out the whole house, and when he puts out the whole house, each little flame goes out.

That has stayed with me all these years because “the whole house” is the recognition that all there is is God. And God, divine Mind, divine Love and Life, is perfect. Perfect God and Her perfect creation, spirirual, complete in every detail. The allness of God eliminates, by virtue of its allness, everything that is not God or like God.

To start with the trouble and continue to put out fires of small problems or even big problems by starting with imperfection leaves us trying to climb our way up higher, when that’s not necessary.  We worry, fret, we’re literally down in the dumps because our views are in the worrisome details that hook us in.

Let’s take that definition of perfection, understand that this is our starting point for our prayer, our work, and see the effects on our lives and our healing work. You are strong and secure when you  start with God! Don’t be tempted to start someplace else. Start at the top,of the mountain. You will love what you see. We will see good!

“Happy the man whose heart can rest, Assured God’s goodness ne’er will cease; Each day, complete, with joy is blessed, God keepeth him in perfect peace.” Hymn 83

This is NOT an advertisement. It IS a metaphor. Just enjoy it…,don’t take it too seriously! (Remember, Jesus spoke in terms of his own times.) Add your own insights! !!

Everything you will ever need for living is there! Ok, maybe that’s a bit of exaggeration, and I’m not advertising for it, but this is a pretty perfect metaphor for Life!

Think of all that is available! And it’s most exciting when you choose to walk in and experience all that’s available to you!

You may not even know what you need, or what you are looking for till you get there, but you’ll find it’s already been provided for you! You don’t have to make it, or create it, – it’s just like you, everything about you is already complete in every detail! You just get the joy of to discovering what’s there.

When you make a list of Life in its abundance, you realize it is eternal, without limits; it includes green grass and flowering plants!! Life includes beauty! Life is order! Life is provided by one overarching all- inclusive abundantly good idea, yet individually expressed. Life has movable partitions to allow for expansion of new ideas!

Life gets more interesting as you walk the aisles, taking in everything that has been provided in a beautifully ordered way. And there is always infinite guidance everywhere, called divine Principle, Love, – present to work all the parts, and provide the guide as to how things fit together.

Well, that’s a super example of Life! It is orderly, everything in its right and perfect place. You use it and have it wherever you go! Share it, expectantly watch how things work; watch the lights come on that eliminate the darkness; gain an understanding of the appropriate plumbing supplies;  and surround yourself with the colors you love,  painting them on your walls of your consciousness.

You can find all the little nuts and bolts you didn’t even know you needed or wanted. But they exist right where they need to be. Right now everything you require is present! Every detail provided with care, thoughtfulness, consideration. Sounds like all good right in one place right where you need it!

Life is just so! And the effect is a wonderful sense of provision, and protection, with glue sticks for all the little details.

A hymn in our hymnal begins, “Home is the consciousness of good.” This consciousness of good is the focus of our Home Improvement Center. Abundance of good recognized and expressed as Life in our consciousness will improve everything in our worlds.

There is a price for all this, – it is the price of paying attention and getting to know what’s in the store, down to smallest details, and that you are to use what Love has been providing forever as you. That’s living Life!

So Life is like Home Depot! Nothing exists in that store, -atmosphere of thought,- that was not first an idea. Then these ideas found expression in a million different ways, all with a purpose to benefit and bless. Then the individual puts these ideas to use as his daily life,  seeing and loving the possibilities for the world, from the tiniest repair project to building a whole vibrant community of Life- lovers!!

It’s the price of using all this good to paint and decorate a world, a world of ideas filled with generosity towards others, light, and so much love,

That’s enthusiasm! That’s joy and good! That’s Life! Like Home Depot!

Isn’t it interesting that we always seem to have forks in our roads?

We’re always running into “fork-time,” another opportunity to choose which road we should travel and and consider where it will take us. Is this the right path for my life, – or not? What career should I pursue? Who should I hang out with? What’s my purpose? How do I know?

I think I post this idea, to make us alert about those choices we are making.

I’ve always loved the image of coming to a place along the road where you have to make a decision. You know, for example, that moment on the freeway where you see upcoming highway choices. You know this is about to be a significant moment. Either it will be the right road to your destination, or it could really take you off course, going completely the wrong way for quite a while. Often, as in life, the further along the wrong road we go, the wronger it becomes! (I know that’s not a word, but it fits.)

Yet at the original juncture,when we begin to make choices, those choices are often more simple than we might think.

Here is a truism: The more in tune we are with wanting to be and do good, with thinking and doing right, with unselfish motives, the safer the road. The higher, better, often more courageous choice,  will always place us securely on a good path.

The more we choose good, the more we will feel our life sustained and directed by Good. We will recognize, then, that we are governed by divine law, the law of God, which is the only true law that exists. This law of God, good, will be our guide and protector.

Contrarily, if choices are made in the negative, things like dishonesty, laziness, simply negative thinking, or allowing ourselves to be diverted on a materialistic road, our way will be rockier, and we will ultimately need to re-think the path we’re on. It will inevitably lead nowhere.

The road many people seem to be fascinated with right now may include a lack of morality and integrity, as the signposts along the way are showing. Hanging out on these roads weakens us, causing us to losing strength simply because we don’t know where we’re going. In a recent survey of millennials, when asked what their goals were for their lives, a substantial percentage said they wanted “to be rich and famous.” And because so many have been influenced to think this is the way to success, it might make folks think that’s the road to be on.

We are all, in truth and fact, better than a rocky, self- involved path.

The road less traveled,- or that the world want you to believe is less traveled,- might sometimes seem somewhat lonely with not many fellow travelers. But you don’t choose your life goals or purposes based on how many are walking along with you. You choose the road you’re on based on what you, as a wonderful, essentially needed contributor to the world, are uniquely here to accomplish.

Choose the path with lights on it. The spiritual sense, the moral sense, brings light to our paths, and always lights the view with the good that is possible.

This beautiful road has more lights on it; it has a deep spiritual sense and the most wonderful moral sense of good that always lifts and lightens the way. Dark places are removed when there is light. You can see your way, and the conviction that you’re on the right road gives you the courage to continue.