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For a good long time an idea
has come to me that proved to
result in my feeling a renewal of
hope and confidence, actually a
conviction that something new was
about to happen in and through
me. The idea is the title to this
writing.
The idea expresses the spirit
of our conviction that the New
Year will bring us into
significant changes in our lives.
You are well aware of the truth
that we need not wait for a New
Year to make some changes that
will make our life healthier,
happier, and more productive and
constructive. God is always
available when we decide to
change!
God is Be (Being) coming into
expression/manifestation, which
means coming into consciousness
and an effect in the physical,
material world. Our human
Personhood is always in the
progressive, cumulative state of
becoming, coming into greater and
fuller unfoldment of our infinite
spiritual capacity.
This is why every day is
indeed a new day in which God can
do a "new thing" in and through
us.
The old religion speaks of our
need to be redeemed from sin and
reconciled to the Lord.
Today we see that this may be
related to our realization that
we may have lost self-respect and
confidence because of feeling
guilty about past mistakes, and
that the reconciliation is with
our true Self the Christ or
Spirit of God as the unchanging
and eternal reality and potential
of our soul. The new thought that
is transforming religion reveals
the amazing truth that our soul,
our spiritual Self, cannot be
damaged, and that if "damage" may
be justifiably used to describe
traumas experienced humanly, this
indeed can be reconciled,
rectified, transcended.
"Behold, the
former things are come to
pass, and new things do I
declare: before they spring
forth I tell you of
them."--Isa.42:9.
Sometimes all we need is just
to say, “This too shall
pass!”
The difference: to sin is to
become a sinner. To make a
mistake is something that happens
in the learning, growing process
known as human life. But how
often our mistakes prompt us to
take a look at what we have just
done and sometimes to gain
insight into the state of
consciousness involved, resulting
in a step of learning. We teach
our children to learn from their
mistakes.
"Therefore if any
man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are
passed away: behold, all
things are becoming
new."—II Cor.5:17.
A December 8 notation in my
journal reads: Our cosmic
connection: So we can become
human beings and do it well. As
scientists discover more and more
of the wonders of our cosmos and
our miraculous planet, we learn
more about our human potential
and where we can go with it.
Just as we often seem to learn
from our mistakes, it is obvious
that we human beings often (or
usually! at this point in our
unfoldment) wait for a crisis or
an urgent need before we sit down
to look for an answer - a new way
- that life is proving is always
there! We have been hearing
doomsday predictions of disaster
as we run out of oil. It has
proved that, not only is it false
that we will soon run out of oil,
we have lots and lots of natural
gas. There are many, many other
ways of making use of the energy
that is almost the definition of
what the planet and the cosmos
is. It seems that every week
someone comes up with a new idea
and even a new invention already
to go into production to make use
of the energy stored in the sun,
the wind, the tides, and even
waves in rivers produced by huge
fans. Biodiesel and bio other
things such as restaurant grease
and waste products, etc. along
with using plants and forest
products have become viable
alternative forms of deriving
energy. A basic fact of science
is that we cannot use up energy,
we can use it, and the essence
remains in a form that one day
may again be made use of.
The moral of our thinking
today is: when it seems there is
NO WAY, look for the NEW WAY.
Every day is a new day that no
one has ever lived before. This
means the discoveries of this new
day await us!
Don
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