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Your Invisible Dictaphone

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on November 7, 2008| Leave a Comment »

           Your destiny depends entirely upon your own mental conduct. You may think that you know this already, but if you do not act upon it, it is certain that you do not really know it. Most people would be amazed to discover how much negative thinking they indulge in. Thought is so swift and habit is so strong that unless you are very careful you will constantly transgress.

Suppose that, quite without your knowledge, an invisible Dictaphone were strapped on your shoulders the first thing tomorrow morning, and that you carried it about all day until the last thing tomorrow night. Then suppose that this record were played over to you so that every word you had uttered for a whole day was repeated to you. Well, if you are an average human being you would probably be embarrassed. Yet it really does happen that everything we say, and think and do, is recorded – in the subconscious mind – and our daily experience is simply that record being played over to us by the Law of Being.
Never forget that the circumstances of your life tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct of today.
 
I have chosen the way of truth…(Psalm 119:30).

Let all of our thoughts, words and deeds this day, create the tomorrow for which we pray.

Thinking rightly,
Z gardener

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You Are Always Treating

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on November 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »

You are continually treating your conditions with the thoughts that you hold concerning them. What you really think about anything, is your “treatment” of that thing. Many people have the idea that they are only “treating” when they call it “treating.” But no matter what you call it, your thought concerning any subject is a treatment. This is the reason visible conditions are always the expression of invisible thought.

 
If you will begin systematically to treat every side of your life with a series of positive, correct thoughts, and keep to this practice for even a few weeks, you will be amazed to find how much everything will change for the better.
 
…be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…(Romans 12:2).

Just for today, try replacing each negative thought with it’s positive parallel. If you have an ache think of it as being well, if afraid of something declare it as a source of joy or if angry turn that anger into thoughts of peace. This will demonstrate two things. One is that disciplining one’s thoughts is very demanding. It will also demonstrate how much better the world is when we are thinking about it in a positive way. One other thing, it will become clear that how one sees the world is a matter of choice, not fate or external circumstances.

Seeing clearly,
Z gardener

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Bluebeard Draws the Line

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on November 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »

          We make spiritual progress by putting God into every corner of our lives. Most people on the spiritual path are willing to give God a generous portion of their lives, but there is often one little corner where they do not wish the divine Light to shine.

 
Bluebeard, you remember, kept open house, with the exception of one little room – and there he drew the line. His current wife, or any of the neighbors could go all over the premises and welcome, until they came to that one little room, the Bluebeard chamber, that was forbidden. Yet that one little locked-up room contained the tragedy of the house.
 
The contents of the Bluebeard room need not be anything that we usually call horrible. There may just be selfishness, laziness, spiritual pride, or any of the more “respectable” but very deadly sins. There may be an old grudge or bitter remorse.
 
Open every door of your soul to God. Have no place where the light of His presence does not shine.
 
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God… (Deuteronomy 29:29).

What if today we emptied ourselves of every grudge, resentment or shame that we carry? What if we let go of every fear, doubt and worry? What would our day be like if we spent it in grateful rejoicing and gladness? My guess is we would be so blessed that we could never go back.  Why don’t we find out?

Finding out,
Z gardener

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God Says Now

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on November 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »

           God’s time for your demonstration in now. The time God wants you to be healed is now. The time God wants you to be in your true place is now. The Bible says that the day of salvation is now.

 
God is ready the moment you are. There is nothing to wait for except the changing of your own consciousness. People often make the mistake of saying, “I know my demonstration will come at the right time.” But the only time to be harmonious and satisfied is now. The time to be happy is now and the place is here. Did not Jesus say, The kingdom of heaven is at hand, and by this he meant close by.
 
Do not keep yourself out of the Kingdom of Heaven by inventing postponements, but change your consciousness now, for it can all happen in a moment.
 

…that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed (Romans 13:11).

Wake up and know that all God has in store for us is within our reach today. God longs for us to live harmoniously in a happy and satisfied state.  Our consciousness is the only obstacle to our joy. The day we change our consciousness to that which God has ordained, is the day we arrive in the kingdom of heaven. Rejoice and know that submission to God’s will is the gateway through which we enter the Garden he created for us. Today is THE day the Lord has made. Will we rejoice and be glad in it?

Rejoicing,
Z gardener

 

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Triumph Over Danger

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on November 3, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Read Psalm 91.
 
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet..
 
Here the lion stands for a difficulty of which we are so afraid that it seems to us a very lion in our path, rushing at us in the open. How different, on the other hand, is the attack of the adder, or snake; for it creeps upon us in the dark. And here we are promised that our complexes, dragons though they be, shall be dissolved by the realization of God. There is nothing that can be done by any form of psychotherapy that cannot be better done by the Practice of the Presence of God.
 
The last three verses are in themselves a glorious psalm of ringing joy and triumph.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him. There is nothing hypothetical or contingent here. The statement indicates the fixed decision – I will deliver him. And why? – because he has set his love upon me.
 
I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. In the bible the “name” of anything means the nature or character of that thing. Now the nature of God is perfect, omnipresent, all-powerful good, boundless love; and to “know” this is to be set on hand above all our difficulties.
 
The last two verses gather up all the implications and promises of this wonderful poem, and present them to the fearful or doubting heart as a song of triumph. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. 
Now, either God is telling the truth here or He is not. There is no room for interpretation, no hazy symbolism or mysterious figures. God is promising to honor us and to deliver us from danger and fear if we “dwell with Him”. The only question is whether we believe Him enough to follow His will instead of our own. To quote Paul Simon “My will has been broken by my pride and my vanity”.
Following His will,
Z gardener
 

 

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