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Sometimes I realize that my
problem is that I think I'm
trying to be spiritual!
When I dislike what I am doing
or experiencing humanly, I tend
to think of it in terms of not
being spiritual enough!
I really know better: I
absolutely believe that you and I
and all of us humans are
spiritually perfect and complete.
But to measure this by human
performance doesn't work out so
well!
Matthew 5,6, and 7 records
Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in
which He is telling us that we
should be perfect humanly:
"Be ye therefore
perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is
perfect."
Matt. 5:48.
Maybe the word isn't "should."
Maybe it really is "can be."
Jesus is establishing for us
that we are perfect as our Father
in heaven is perfect. This idea
of our being perfect is subtle
and a bit hard to understand.
Jesus identifies Himself (or the
universal Son, Christ) as one
with God, but He always says that
it is God Who is doing the
work!
Our human society tends to
speak of God and I, but the most
accurate rendition of Unity-type
thinking is God as I, oneness,
God expressing as I humanly just
as spiritually I share the One
Spirit Jesus defined as God!
There are two ideas about all
of this that I want to present to
you. The first one is that our
human experience if
unsatisfactory to us does not
justify the conclusion that we
really are not spiritually
perfect. The second, which
follows from the first, is that
it is absolutely crucial that we
be patient in our unfoldment of
our spiritual reality/potential
humanly.
The two ideas actually focus
on the one big Truth: our human
unfoldment progresses to the
degree that we are in tune with
Spirit as our perfect Cause
instead of being overly concerned
with results. In every aspect of
human activity this formula is
the key. Being in tune with
Spirit is what being means, and
Being always precedes doing. Here
we see why I titled this essay
"IT'S HUMAN WE'RE TRYING FOR!
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Expressing our spirituality
humanly is what human life is all
about, but we must keep in mind
that we are not trying to prove
that we are spiritual. Rather we
are gradually learning how to
apply principle to what we are
trying to accomplish humanly. I
have often (and others too)
"written ,that "trying" is our
big problem. Instead of the big
Try, we do better when we let
Spirit or the Father as Jesus put
it, do the work.
Very often we all speak of
life as going to school. This is
really a good way for us to think
about the process of bringing our
spiritual potential into human
actuality. It is apparent that
there is an
unfolding/evolutionary process
involved in all life on our
planet, in this dimension. Last
month I wrote that we will be
well-advised to focus on learning
all that we can about this
dimension of life instead of
concerning ourselves with
whatever dimensions may lie
ahead.
So what I am encouraging us to
think about and do in this essay
is to remember that it is human
that we are becoming and
spiritual that we already are.
And all that we are spiritually
can indeed be brought forth in
our human life, but let us not
try so hard, just be patient with
how we're doing in the school of
human experience.
Applying Emilie Cady's
wonderful statements in her
classic book Lessons in Truth,
Spirit cannot fail; therefore we
cannot fail!
Don
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