New Thoughts for the Week

February 5-11: When you were born on earth, you had the potential to become enriched through growing up. Growing up included physical growth and spiritual growth.

We feel challenged while growing bodies which are genetically designed in ways that are similar to parents and some ways that are dissimilar. That is a fact and we cannot get away from it. On the other hand, when it comes to our spiritual growth, we have so many choices of what we can do with it that we may part from how we develop our spirituality from our parents or we may do as they have done. Wisdom dictates that we become very thoughtful about those choices. Talking with the Presence of God within us about how we will grow up in spiritual awarenesses is essential if we are to feel good about ourselves. Even if we choose to walk a different path from our parents,. We can love them as they function and feel good about ourselves in the midst of our different choices. It is highly beneficial that we always love our parents, but that does not mean that we cannot make choices for different spiritual pathways.

Last Week's Thought

January 29-February 4: Your imagination of God’s speaking to you gains further assurance as you express Unconditional Love both to yourself and with other people. Unconditional Love is not simply feeling fond of another, it is treating another with an amazing kindness. Moreover, the other does not need to earn it from you. You are to love your enemies. You are also to love those people especially close to you. This includes your family, your relatives, and your neighbors. Often it seems most difficult to love those who are living in close proximity to you or those who are your siblings or those who have dealt you some unkindnesses. When you really love them unconditionally, it means that you care about them even though there is no evidence that they care about you. When you accomplish this, you are unified with God more than otherwise. God is Love, and when you think and feel about yourself and others with Love, the Divine Mind is being expressed through you. This means that you are true to the inner Self, to God, and to life in its greater ways.