Course on Training Today's Twelve

Hello Readers,
You are specially invited to take my new Scriptural study course. Go to my website scripturalstudycenter.org to check it out. It is important that we train to the fullest to be the best we can "about our Father's business," therefore I have launched, Course on Training Today's Twelve. Module 1, Unit 1 (Mark, chapter 1), is now available. You will also find introductory materials including an exquisitely beautiful Journal to help you get the most from the course. This is a practical hands-on metaphysical, healing course that brings the ideas and teaching of the Master into your life.

http://tinyurl.com/TrainToday-s12

Come and I Will Give You Rest

It is time to rest, but rest with gentle action in unselfed love. The words of the Master, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and i will give you rest," offer comfort and healing. He continues to graciously invite those who seek peace to "learn" of him for he is "meek and lowly in heart," -- thereby you will "find rest unto your souls" (Matthew 11:28). To systematically learn of Jesus and imbibe the Spirit is to become strong and find inner joy that lifts one's emotional state and quality of life -- and this is a blessing for everyone. To this end, I have launched a new course on my website that begins with the first Gospel written, Mark. It is the shortest and most active, healing-packed writing of the four Evangelists, yet imparts a sense of peace, grace, rest, and assurance. The course is free (donations gratefully accepted). The title is, Course on Training Today's Twelve. You are officially invited. http://tinyurl.com/TrainToday-s12

The Christ invites you to rise up and follow, to become "fishers of men" (Mark 4:19). Active in spiritual learning and sharing brings the highest sense of rest and joy. Turning from worry or thought for one's self to reflecting the Light of Love that blesses mankind, brings healing and rest to your soul, your heart, your very being. Come and join me in gently learning about the Master, Christ Jesus, and rest in his loving counsel, instruction, and example. He once said to his students (disciples), after hearing about all their hard work and efforts, "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest awhile" (Mark 6:31). Come and rest awhile. Rest in active Love.

I'll be happy when...

How would you complete this sentence?
I'll be happy when....

If we must wait for outside circumstances, other people, changes in finances or job opportunities -- for any wish, want, hope, or desire that is outside of our own thought or consciousness -- to come to pass before we will be happy, then we will find this joyful state to be elusive.

Where does happiness reside? Within.

Happiness is eternal and uninterrupted in Spirit, in the kingdom of God. When asked where the kingdom of God was, Jesus responded that it's "within you" (Luke 17:21).

Perhaps we should finish a different sentence...
I am happy because...

If at this moment you are "anything but happy" then this is the right moment to work on that statement... I am happy because... WHY?

Here are the unchanging reasons for happiness that come to my thought... I am happy because God is infinite Love, and loves me (no matter what).  Because He is all-loving and merciful, I am loving and merciful -- I forgive everyone everything, and God forgives me everything. "Be thou clean," Jesus said as he instantly healed a leper, and his words extend to us to cleanse us from any past or present sin or wrong thoughts/feelings. I am happy because I'm washed clean. I am happy because God is eternal Life and each of us lives in that Life forever (without beginning or end). I am happy because I know that everyone is all right, everyone is expressing and enjoying life now and always. I am happy because there is no real separation from God or from one another.  I am happy because God supplies me with overflowing good that is right here, right at hand, and available -- "I shall not want" (Ps. 23:1). I am happy because angels surround me all the time and because I can discern their holy and inspirational messages. I am happy to be always protected and always in the presence of the omnipresence. I am happy to reflect and express God's Love and do His will which is always good.

Are we smiling a little bit yet? Think of more ways to finish the sentence, I am happy because... It honors God to do so and lifts you up -- everyone is benefited when you are uplifted!

Turning Grief to Meaningfulness

Grief, defined as the pain of mind produced by loss, misfortune, injury or evils of any kind; sorrow; regret, comes almost involuntarily -- but we do not need to be burdened and held down by it forever.  Grief paralyzes and time goes by. The question is, what do you want to do with the time that is going by? What could you do with a right focus and energy? 

When we suffer loss, we naturally grieve, but there is a day that we need to redirect -- use the force of the grief in a turn toward forward moving accomplishment. This direction comes from unselfish motives. Thinking about helping others brings high energy -- enough to succeed. There is an incredible power that Spirit imparts when our heart is set on helping others in some way. 

This may be the day when you think on how to best use your time, and how to use it to help others. Being ready to move on does not mean you are completely over some tragic event, but it does indicate that good is actively supreme and asserting itself. Jumping over the hurdle of paralyzing grief into active good to help others will bless many. Not doing this will deprive them. 

Think about giving your consent to make this change. Think of what you could do to help others and take an action step in that direction. You will feel a peace coming to you even as you think about this.  

Ps. 107:13. "Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses."