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From the beginning we have had
the potential capacity to be
perfect as God is perfect because
God is who and what we are and
gave us that capacity as
individual life expressions in
the beginning!
This is perfectly clear to you
and me, but it has taken a long,
long time - millions of years -
to get to our present point of
conscious unfoldment/evolution.
Today we have something to
celebrate then!
Somewhere way back in my
seventy years of living and
learning the Unity way (by the
way I'll be 92 this month, so
happy birthday to me!) I began to
puzzle over how we human beings
could be expected "to just do
it," to intentionally decide to
take the next step in our
consciousness development. This
was a vestige of my pre-Unity
thinking that is essentially
definable in terms of "God up
there and me down here" - the
separateness of God and human
beings: "God is in Heaven, and
I'm trying like hell to get
there, and I don't know how!"
The pre-school child cannot
work out the answers to
fifth-grade questions, but, when
he gets to grad school, the
potential he had - in the
beginning - has gone on to
develop an idea for the space
program. The same person! Yes,
but it took a lot of days, a lot
of all-night study and cram
sessions and what sometimes
appear to be stupid mistakes to
get there. That's life.
The idea I developed in last
month's essay gives insight into
the answer to my puzzle: as we
human beings have learned through
the gradual unfoldment process to
meditate, to contemplate, to
wonder and to wait patiently for
guidance, for the dawning of a
new idea, for the answer to
appear "out of thin air," we have
found ourselves confident and
ready to take a new step, to walk
out into the darkness, the
unknown. And when we get there,
it isn't dark and it isn't
unknown. God is the knowing
quality in us. That's what Unity
has taught me.
So, if you have a decision to
make, a problem to solve, read
the above and "follow, follow,
follow."
I believe I heard this
definition sometime: PRAYER IS
THE WAY WE THINK ALL DAY LONG.
Unity offers the method of
affirmation to establish what we
think about all day long. Here
are the last two affirmations I
have developed:
I LIVE MY LIFE IN CELEBRATION
OF GOD'S UNCEASING ACTIVITY TO
SHOW OUR HUMAN FAMILY HOW TO
FULFILL OUR DESTINY.
I LOVE GOD AS THE ONE LOVING
CREATOR/CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE. I
LOVE MYSELF AND OUR HUMAN FAMILY
AS A UNIVERSAL FAMILY SHARING
EVERY GOD QUALITY, NOT CONFINED
TO ONLY ONE PLANET. I LOVE AND
GIVE THANKS FOR OUR BEAUTIFUL,
MIRACULOUS PLANET EARTH, ITS
EVERY LIVING CREATURE, AND GOD'S
MYRIAD PROVISIONS FOR OUR HUMAN
LIFE.
Don
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