Scientific Prayer

Behind every problem or difficulty lies the Truth of Being. This means that in spite of the appearance, you must believe that Divine Mind has already healed the situation¬-that in reality there is nothing but God, or good. Jesus referred to this when He said that when you pray, believe that you have received, and you shall receive. And at another time, he said, “The Father worketh hitherto and I work.”

These statements by Jesus make it very clear that we do not deal with symptoms, but that we must work in our consciousness to lift it above and beyond the mere seeming to the love and goodness of God Himself.

Life is for us

Life is the One Perfect Unity from which everything proceeds, including yourself and all your experiences. All action proceeds from It; all knowledge is in It. It is in us. We are in It.

The key to our whole understanding of Life lies in the realization that Life Itself is pure Spirit.

Life has equipped us with creative ability. If we can only get this firmly in mind, that Life is always for us, It is never against us; the only and original Power is good, then we shall gain freedom.

Life has no adversaries. The denial is like straightening out a mathematical problem. We are not fighting the wrong conclusion, we are merely explaining why it is not true. We are rearranging our thought in a way that proves to us that Life never limits us.

It is not the intellect alone with which we deal. There is a deep feeling center within us. No matter what the intellect affirms, unless this deep feeling center accepts its statements, we shall not get very far. Daily consciously explaining to one’s self what he believes about Life will gradually awaken this inner feeling to an acceptance of what the intellect affirms.


Only some of you will understand the example I’m going to give but you all should understand that if you are patient enough, clarity will come to you – and it may come in the most unexpected ways. If we continue to question things, everything gets muddied and we can’t see a clear picture. But if we just have faith that everything is developing as it should, the meaning will come to you eventually.

Here’s what happened. People in the U.S. will know the TV show “House”. At the end of that show just before (or maybe after) the credits, there’s an animation of two guys sitting on the beach and the one says “That’s some bad hat Harry”. The meaning behind that has been an enigma to me since I first started watching the show.

Today I was looking around on the TV and found that “Jaws” was on – you know how old that show is but it’s always been a favorite of mine. It had already started but I tuned in anyway. Just at the point I tuned in guess what happened. The Chief of Police was sitting on the beach with some guy and the first first words I heard were “That’s some bad hat Harry” and the guy with the bad hat had a hat exactly like the cartoon one. Obviously the creators of House really liked Jaws and that expression.

It was such an epiphany for me (as stupid as that sounds) but it showed me clarity and that if I wait for that clarity it will come. How odd was this day for me? It sounds so petty but it showed me so much about my life and my faith.  What’s the probability that I would find the answer to a question that has been perplexing me for so long on a Sunday morning in a very old movie? Pretty small.

Don’t question things and doubt them for long periods of time. Know that you’ll get an answer if you just let it go and sit back and wait for it.

Terrie

Ideas In Trust

Man does have a creative faculty in him that will reconstruct his work and his career and his youth if he will pay attention to it and obey it.

Every woman has creative ability that she could use, if she would, to remake her home, her family relations, her domestic happiness, her outside career. The trouble is that we do not usually trust this inner urge to create. We haven’t any confidence in our own ideas-because they are our own.

Haven’t you had the experience of thinking of what seemed momentarily a good idea; then discarding it because it was your own and so couldn’t be worth much-and soon after finding that somebody else had conceived the selfsame idea, used it, put it over successfully, and reaped the profits and the credit that might have been yours? And how you felt, when all you could say to yourself was “I thought of that first. Why didn’t I do it?”

We try so hard to hear some thing we think we ought to hear, or something we simply want to hear, that we fail to hear the actual voice at all.

Inspiration – your own creative urge – waits in your heart, and it will transform your life, your happiness, your prosperity if you will only listen ant let it.

Usually it works for you a step or two at a time=and works as you work.

Perhaps at this moment you are refusing, or neglecting, to listen to the voice that is telling you ex¬actly what would get you out of your troubles and into your highest happiness, if you would only obey. And maybe you haven’t “the courage of your own ideas,” maybe you think they are no good because they are yours. Perhaps it never really occurs to you to trust them, because
they are yours.

But oh, my friend, they are not yours! They are simply offered you for use—like everything else we call our own in this world. And they-these ideas that press us for utterance or expression¬-they are not merely something we have the privilege of expressing; we have an obligation to express them.

The purpose of all meditation, of all going into the silence, of all listening for the voice, is to receive ideas.

We have the option whether we will do something worth while in the world’s thinking, in invention, in industry-or remain merely followers and trailers of the men and women who do use their ideas, and lead.

Gardner Hunting