December 8, 2015

Happy Hanukkah
to our Jewish Brothers and Sisters.

Dear Friends,

“I pray for purification that I may stand forth a clear channel for His Will and His Light.”
-Flower Newhouse, from The Sacred Heart of Christmas.

We in New Thought, have our basic beliefs grounded in the Judaic Christian traditions, so we celebrate Christmas with an open heart and mind.
During this Advent season we remember to honor and celebrate the birth of our Master Teacher and Brother, Jesus the Christ.  Flower Newhouse, (Mystic, Clairvoyant, Metaphysical Minister, Founder of Questhaven Christward Ministries) says in her book (see above) “Humanity needs God’s vessels of consecrated men and women. They are links between God’s thought and the world. Every individual can be a way shower to …LOVE. The Christ emphasized our oneness with the Eternal Source and we are here to manifest God’s Will on Earth and to unfold the Godhood within us.”
Many churches and centers celebrate Advent, and light the Advent Candles.   As these candles are lit, let us light the Godhood Candle within us and reflect daily on BEING the GIFT of LOVE for all we meet, know and don’t know.
I love the prayer from Paramahansa Yogananda below.  I believe we need to expand our love beyond our city, county, country and borders. We are all one family on this globe evolving as fast as our consciousness will let us. We have the free will to expand and love those who need loving the most.  Let us replace anger with love,  fear with love, hatred with love.  If we feel these negative emotions about “another,” then there is some place within us we feel anger, fear and hatred about ourselves.  Let us CLEAN up and CLEAR out these deep feelings that no longer serve us.  We can then BE the sacred vessels of Love that will ripple out to heal our fellow earth sojourners and the world.

Be Thou President of a United World

by Paramahansa Yogananda, Whispers from Eternity

Divine Creator, President of the Universe, Chief Executive of Planets, Stars, and Galaxies! Thy democratic rule, giving the rights of free will and self-evolution to Ty citizen children,is bringing them nearer and nearer to Thine ideals.
Created with the consciousness of omnipresence, we had from Thee a birthright of eternal freedom. Alas, we imprisoned our universality behind bars of selfish interests and narrow-heartedness. May we learn to express our soul warmth of love and understanding, melting all icy boundaries of exclusiveness.
Bless us, O Father, that we form a United World, electing Thee as our Perpetual Spiritual President. with Thy guidance, may we govern ourselves rightly through conscience and soul discrimination.
Teach us to enrich our spiritual opportunities and sympathies by enlarging the circle of our patriotic love, including in it all inhabitants of the earth, regardless of color, caste, class, sex or creed.
O cosmic Lord, help us to respect, with kindness the independence of all They freeborn sons ( and daughters). Whether they are good or
temporarily error-intoxicated, may we honor all as Thy children.
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