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Thy Will Be Done

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10).
Now we too often choose to use our free will in a negative way; allowing ourselves to think selfishly, and this wrong thinking brings upon us all our troubles. Instead of understanding that it is our essential nature to express God, to be ever about our Father’s business, we try to set up our own account. We abuse our own free will, trying to work apart from God; and the very natural result is all the sickness, poverty, sin, trouble, and death that we find on the physical plane. We must never for a moment try to make plans or arrangements without reference to God, or suppose that we can be either happy or successful if we are seeking any other end than to do his Will.
Our business is to bring our whole nature as fast as we can into conformity with the will of God.“In his will is our peace,” said Dante, and the Divine Comedy is really a study in fundamental states of consciousness, the Inferno representing the state of the soul that is endeavoring to live without God, the Paradiso representing the state of the soul that has achieved its conscious unity with the divine Will. It was this sublime conflict of the soul that wrung from the heart of the great Augustine the cry, “Thou has made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find themselves in Thee.”
    Know this. Until we are in harmony with God’s will, our reality will be limited to the worldly one one that we perceive. When we are obeying God and following God’s will, our reality will be the Eden God created for us.
So, it boils down to who we trust. Do we live in the reality given to us by the Creator of the universe, or will we live the reality created by our limited and self-dominated human perception. As for me and my family, we will follow the Lord.
Doing his will,
Z gardener

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Thy Kingdom Come

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Thy kingdom come. (Matthew 6:10).
Man, being manifestation or expression of God, has a limitless destiny before him. His work is to express, in concrete, definite form, the ideas that God furnishes him, and in order to do this, he must have creative power.  Elsewise, he would be merely a machine through which God worked—an automaton. But man, having the nature of his father, remains a creator. Notice that the word individual means“undivided.” The consciousness of man is not separated from God’s consciousness.
“Thy kingdom come” means that it is our duty to bring more and more of God’s ideas into concrete manifestation upon this plane. That is what we are here for. The old saying, “God has a plan for every man, and he has one for you,” is quite correct.
If only you can find out the thing God intends you to do, and will do it, you will find that all doors will open to you, and you will be gloriously happy. There is a true place in life for each one of us where we can bring the Kingdom of God into manifestation, and truly say, “Thy kingdom cometh.”
There is nothing more essential to our happiness, security and well-being than discerning that which God intends us to do and to be. When God’s will conflicts with our desires, God’s will must be done. That is how we exist undivided from God. When we separate ourselves from God’s will, we condemn ourselves to live in the world we created, instead of the Eden God created for us.
When we do understand and follow God’s will for us, we open the doors to Eden and help usher in God’s kingdom here below. We are the instruments by which “Thy kingdom cometh”. Be the person God created you to become and find your true place in God’s kingdom. Then your Eden will embrace you forever.
Thy will be done,
Z gardener

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Hallowed Be Thy Name

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            If we trace the derivation of the word hallowed, we will discover a most extraordinarily significant fact. The word hallowed has the same root as holy, whole, wholesome, and heal, or healed; so we see that the nature of God is complete and perfect—altogether good. Some very remarkable consequences follow from this fact. We have agreed that an effect must be similar in its nature to its cause, and so, because the nature of God is hallowed, everything that is projected by that Cause must be hallowed or perfect too. God cannot cause or send anything but perfect good. God cannot, as people sometimes think, send sickness or trouble, or accidents—much less death—for these things are unlike His nature.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity…(Habakkuk 1:13).
We were created perfect. Our separation from God, has left us vulnerable to imperfection because we chose our own path rather than following God’s will. If we are to claim the perfection God granted us, we must reunite with God fully, wholly and willingly. When we do, we will open the door to the garden and the perfection therein. There, we will be healed, whole and holy.
In communion,
Z gardener
Author’s Note: Please pray for those in the path of Isaac. Our spiritual union with them will strengthen and lift them.

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Which Art in Heaven

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on August 28, 2012| 1 Comment »

            Having clearly established the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, Jesus next goes on to describe the fundamental facts of existence. It is the nature of God to be in heaven, and of man to be on earth because God is Cause, and man is manifestation. Here heaven stands for God or Cause, because in religious phraseology heaven is the term for the Presence of God. The word earth signifies manifestation, and man’s function is to manifest or express God as Cause. In other words, God is the Infinite and Perfect Cause of all things; but Cause has to be expressed, and God expresses Himself by means of man. Man’s destiny is to express God in all sorts of glorious ways. To express means to press outward, or bring into sight. Every feature of your life is really a manifestation or expression of something in your soul.
Since it is misunderstandings about the relationship of God and man that lead to all our difficulties, it is worth any amount of trouble to correctly understand that relationship. Trying to have manifestation without Cause is atheism and materialism, and we know where they lead. “Our Father which art in heaven.”
…as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them…(2 Corinthians 6:16).
          Astounding! We are the manifestations of God’s consciousness in the physical plane. We demonstrate that consciousness when we rise above the self and express God’s will in our lives. When we do this, we can then live in the Eden God created for us.
And when our life here is over, then we are sure to be in heaven with God. There, God is not seen and experienced through a veil as he is here below. There, we will be unified with God and in communion with God and all the saints. Until then, let us bring heaven into sight here below by being God’s children in all ways.
Walking and dwelling with God,
Z gardener

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Father of All

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast;
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small:
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
—Coleridge
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the Fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee…that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this (Job 12:7-9).
How do we love, and to whom do we turn to learn? Do we love well, and do we listen to all things great and small?
Stop for a moment, listen to the earth, the fowl and the infinite creation of God. Then walk hand in hand with the creator, your Father and wonder in what his hand has wrought. Then fly to Eden.
In flight,
Z gardener

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Our Father III

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 24, 2012| 1 Comment »

Now the Prayer says, not“My Father,” but “Our Father,” and this indicates beyond the possibility of mistake, the truth of the brotherhood of man. If forces upon our attention at the very beginning the fact that all men are the children of one Father; and that
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28).
Here Jesus cuts away the illusion that the members of any nation, or race, or territory, or group, or class, or color, are, in the sight of God, superior to any other group.
The final point is the implied command that we are to pray not only for ourselves but for all mankind. None of us lives to himself, however we may try. In a much more literal sense than people are aware we are limbs of one Body.
“Our Father”—a spiritual explosive, that will ultimately destroy every kind of human bondage.
So, brothers and sisters, we are all one, we are all God’s children and we are all put here to help each other. What happens to one affects all, and whatever happens, we are to be our brother’s (and sister’s) keepers. As members of the family of mankind, that is our reality. The more we live in it, the more our Edens flourish.
In the garden,
Z gardener

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Our Father II

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Note that this clause that fixes the nature of God, at the same time fixes the nature of man. It is a cosmic law that like begets like. It is not possible that a rosebush should produce lilies, or that a cow should give birth to a colt. The offspring must be of the same nature as the parent; and so, since God is divine Spirit, man must essentially be divine Spirit too, whatever appearance may say to the contrary.
At a single blow this teaching of Jesus swept away 99 percent of all the old theology, with its avenging God, its chosen and favored individuals, its eternal hell fire, and all the other horrible paraphernalia of man’s diseased and terrified imagination. God exists—and the Eternal, All-Powerful, All-Present God is the loving Father of mankind.
If you would meditate upon this fact, until you had some degree of understanding of what it really means, most of your difficulties and physical ailments would disappear, for they are rooted in fear. If only you could realize to some extent that Omnipotent Wisdom is your living, loving Father, most of your fears would go. If you could realize it completely, every negative thing in your life would vanish away. Now you see the object that Jesus had in mind when he placed this clause first.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him(Genesis 1:27).
If we accept this truth fully, how could we fear, have doubts or ever believe that we are on our own? Yet, even the most ardent believer still experiences these human weaknesses. We are human. However, we are also divine and we can draw on that truth to live each day in joy and gladness. Even in the face of great pain and tragedy, our Father is ready and willing to supply the strength and blessings we need to overcome any negative circumstance.
The real question is this. Do we believe with every fiber of our being that our Father sends everything to us for our best good? If the answer is yes, then every circumstance of our lives will lift us to new heights of understanding, hope and peace. If not, then we will struggle with unnecessary fear, anxiety and uncertainty that feed on our false sense of being alone.
We are not alone! Our Father is with us each moment. And when doubt or fear creep into our human hearts, we simply need to call on our Father and receive his grace, love and mercy. Then, we can act on our faith and rise above all that would try to separate us from our God and our brothers and sisters.
“For I am convinced that nothing can separate us from the love of God.”
In the presence of the Father,
Z gardener

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Our Father

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

            This simple statement fixes clearly the nature and character of God. It tells all that man needs to know about God, and about himself, and about his neighbor. Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “My religion is summed up in the first two words of the Lord’s Prayer.”
“Our Father.”In this clause Jesus lays down once and for all that relationship between God and man is that of father and child. This eliminates any possibility that the Deity could be the relentless and cruel tyrant. The majority of men and women are at their best in dealing with their children. Speaking of the same truth elsewhere, Jesus said:
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?(Matthew 7:11).
As we spend the next few days examining the Lord’s Prayer, please keep in mind that “Our Father” desires that we have life and have it abundantly. If we are to please God, we should rejoice and be glad in each day. Praying is the best way to live in that way, and our Father will ensure our gladness if we commune with him.
Today, we can all rejoice that the creator of the universe is our loving Father who will ensure our best good if we abide in his will. And, whatever difficulty we face, God will turn it into a blessing if we follow his way.
Thank you Father,
Z gardener

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The Imprisoned Splendor

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate’er you may believe.
There is an inmost center in us all,
Where truth abides in fullness; and around,
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh it in,
This perfect, clear perception—which is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error; and to know,
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.
—Robert Browning, “Paracelsus.” Part I
…Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32).
Father, let the light that you placed within us; shine in on us and out on others so that darkness is swallowed up in its radiance. And let that light guide our paths to the Eden waiting on us. As within, so without.
Shining on,
Z gardener

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Blessing and Cursing

Posted in Good Morning, tagged , on August 14, 2012| 4 Comments »

Life is a reflex of mental states. As far as you are concerned, the character that things will bear will be the character that you first impress upon them. Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. If you put your condemnation upon anything in life, it will hit back at you and hurt you. If you bless any situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time it will gradually fade out.
Bless your body. If there is anything wrong with a particular organ, bless that organ. Bless your home. Bless your business. Bless your associates. Turn any seeming enemies into friends by blessing them. Bless the climate. Bless the town, and the state, and the country.
Bless a thing and it will bless you.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11).
So, who wants to bless a cold, a stumped toe or major hurts and challenges in our lives. Probably not very many of us want to bless negative situations. Neither do we really want to forgive those who wrong us or threaten us. Yet, that is exactly what the Bible proscribes as the required response.
In all  this writer’s experience, blessings things always led to more blessings, and cursing things led to more cursing. We may not feel like blessing a thing or person. But we should ask ourselves, “would we prefer more blessings or more curses?”.
Now which do we want more of; the choice is ours. 
Choosing blessings,
Z gardener

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