Archives for “Empowerment”
A short story illustrating the power of choosing your attitude about life.
I have found, in my travels through life, that when we are at breakdowns in our lives, that’s exactly the perfect point to powerfully choose what our destiny will next be. Envisioning what outcome we WANT, and then taking actions that move us towards that envisioned goal often goes extremely well, when we’ve completely crashed. [...]
One Day on Earth Participant Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo. As part of a global film making project, One Day on Earth is asking the creative community, “If you can document something to share with the world, what would you film?” This call-to-action is all part of a shared international video archive [...]
The Religious Spirit at Work By Os Hillman “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). As we begin to express the life of Christ in our [...]
I am never what you think me to be. I am never what your prejudgments about me are. I simply AM. Forever free of the euclidean prison of your preconceived notions and confining labels. Let go of controlling me. focus instead on controlling your own thoughts. Happiness and freedom will follow. © Copyright 2010 Philip [...]
Os has a wonderful item today– I just needed to share. The path to unconditional love absolutely requires us to forgive..and compassion to be able to step into understanding other people’s motives and actions. December 29 You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I tell you: Love [...]
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. -Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)
WORKBOOK LESSON 361 This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace. And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that will He also give. And if I [...]
WORKBOOK FINAL LESSONS – Introduction Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. To Him [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 360 Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us. Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for [...]
A really timely one today— it sounds like I am being called to pray for guidance–a dn will take this to heart and act accordingly. “He gave him the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the LORD and all the surrounding rooms, for [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 334 Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives. I will not wait another day to find the treasures that my Father offers me. Illusions are all vain, and dreams are gone even while they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false perceptions. Let me not accept such meager gifts again today. [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 330 I will not hurt myself again today. Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. Why should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? Why should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His power and His Love, and bids them take what is [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 328 I choose the second place to gain the first. What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God. It seems that we will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our independence [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 326 I am forever an Effect of God. Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You established me I still abide. And all Your [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 323 I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear. Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 322 I can give up but what was never real. I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. And as illusions go I find the gifts illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in readiness to give God’s ancient messages to me. His memory abides in every gift that I receive of Him. [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 321 Father, my freedom is in You alone. I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more. For I have neither made [...]
WORKBOOK WHAT IS CREATION? – Introduction Creation is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. Only love creates, and only like itself. There was no time when all that it created was not there. Nor will there be a time when anything that it created suffers any loss. [...]
First, what you think is White or Black, as I have said, is arbitrary. It may not seem arbitrary at all, however. A really serious player of the Game of Black and White totally convinces himself that White is, without a doubt, good and desirable, and that Black is, without a doubt, bad and undesirable. The truth, of course, is that good and bad are ways of thinking about things.
WORKBOOK LESSON 315 All gifts my brothers give belong to me. Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive. A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. Someone speaks a [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 311 I judge all things as I would have them be. Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. [...]
WORKBOOK WHAT IS THE LAST JUDGMENT? – Introduction Christ’s Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. And this the judgment is in which perception ends. At first you see a world that has [...]
I’ve been doing some interior soul-gazing… In the name of Love, I have permitted myself to become limited. I have a larger boundary-less nature [allowing me the luxury of not being able to say 'no' all the time, alas] – whereas my companion has specific boundaries, and is quick to (re)enforce them when broken. To [...]
WORKBOOK LESSON 307 Conflicting wishes cannot be my will. Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will for me to have. Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain. Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. If [...]
