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Would you welcome a
revolutionary idea that would
bring miracles of prosperity,
health, and happiness to you?
Where, do you suppose, such an
idea would come from?
The glorious concept of the
Unity teachings is that it comes
from God (within you, within the
very fabric of life, ready to
come into human experience in the
here and now).
Sometime during my first tour
of duty at Unity School in the
late 30's and early 40's the
writings of a New York newspaper
journalist, Dana Gatlin, were
published by Unity in a book
titledGOD IS THE
ANSWER. She was saying
that, if you need a new idea or
to have a problem solved, God is
the answer--that is, THERE IS
AN ANSWER!
Oftentimes it looks as if
there is no way out, no answer,
no way to solve the problem. Dr.
Edward de Bono has written a
number of books and worked with
many of our largest corporations
promoting the idea of what he
calls "lateral thinking."
Lateral thinking, very simply
put, is getting out of a thinking
rut. A simple approach as to how
to do this is to accept the Truth
that there is a way, that a new
idea is always possible. This is
what Dana Gatlin meant. This is
certainly what Jesus meant. This
is the glorious concept of
Unity.
When Jesus said (as recorded
in John 4:35)
"Say not ye, There
are yet four months, and then
cometh harvest? behold, I say
unto you, Lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields; for
they are white already to
harvest,"
He was expressing lateral
thinking, that is, telling us to
look at the problem in a new
way!
The great old
professor-philosopher Rufus
Jones, wrote of "new eyes for
invisibles". And there was a
definition of an atheist I heard
years and years ago: an atheist
is a person who has no invisible
means of support! In an earlier
website piece I quoted some
scientists I read about who said,
"You can only see what you're
looking for." This means, of
course, to be looking, searching,
not staying with the same old
ways!
What turns me on more and more
these days is to realize that
these great ideas are not just
for the famous scientists, the
popular seminar leaders, but for
you and me in our everyday lives.
Nothing gives me greater joy than
to find myself doing something
"old" in a "new" way. I'm
recalling right now that Lowell
Fillmore actually titled a
book NEW WAYS TO SOLVE OLD
PROBLEMS.
Sometimes (I'm basing this
next statement on my own
experience) Truth students
mistakenly feel they shouldn't
have problems, only answers. But
problems prove to be the stimulus
to answers - to ideas we did not
have before. Think about that!!!
And now that problem you have -
let God (the wonderful Mind in
you and everywhere) show you the
way!
Don
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