Friday Meditation with Wenda - Health is mine, here and now

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits; Who forgiveth all thine inequities; who healeth all thy diseases…. – Psalm 103: 2-3

You can be healed! You can be lifted up and out of your present circumstances! It can happen to you! There is a tremendous Power available to you right here and right now.

This is the Power of God which is always present, always available, and forever waiting to be expressed.

What is the key to this Power? The key is in your choice to make a change in your thinking – and that change can be made right now!

Are things not going well? Are things in your life not working in your best interest?

Why do you think these “things” are happening to you? Can you accept the possibility that the healing of all manner of situations both physical and mental, rests in the realm of Mind? You are surrounded by Infinite Mind… and it is ready to work for you, through you, right now!

How Creative Thinking Works

The great exploration which the mind makes into the realm of spiritual healing is as fascinating an experience as anyone will ever have. We must be careful, however, to differentiate between this form of thinking and mere daydreaming. In daydreaming one sits around longing for things, and picturing oneself as having them, but in the very same moment being certain it could never be, letting one’s imagination run wild, soaring into realms of fancy.

Some people have done this and upon being told that they had not proceeded properly, have exclaimed: “But we understood that we could have anything we wished.”

In spiritual mind practice a person does not just “wish’ for things. He consciously uses his thought to set creative Power in motion and then accepts with expectancy the result. He is, in a certain sense, experimenting not with Mind Itself, but with his own thought, in seeing what use he can make of the creative Power of Mind.

This Creativeness we do not inject into Mind; it is already there, a natural Law in the universe.

In spiritual treatment the person thinks of himself as he would like to be. He should do this without contradicting the good of others, without seeking to coerce others. And he should do this in as absolute sense as is possible; that is, he should withdraw from any contemplation of the relative facts in the case and think only of the desired outcome as being established in Mind.

He takes the proposition which his mind can encompass – such as realising that he is surrounded by abundance and by right opportunity – and compels his mind to accept this idea as now being a fact in his everyday experience.

Consequently, his work is intensely practical, and even though he is an idealist, he is scientific in his application of this universal Principle of Mind to the problems of his daily living.

From it’s Up To You! By Ernest Holmes

The Power of Thought

The inspired thought of all nations and men agrees that God was always existent as pure Being. The loftiest thought of all the great religions of antiquity conceives of Him as living in Self contemplation, until, seeking to manifest more and more the joy of living He, by the power of His thought, presses life out into visibility, into external shapes. Thought is creative. To think constructively is to create, for the thought ever seeks to manifest itself in shape.

If we consider God first as Pure Being and then as the Creator of the Universe to manifest in Substance the Divine Thought by the spoken word, we can best apprehend God as Principle, since every created thing is an emanation from God and is informed with His life and power. Thus we speak of God as Life, Love, Wisdom, Substance, Omnipresence, Omnipotence and Omniscience.

In this light we can understand the character of the power of healing and recreating that Jesus possessed and which he promised to his followers who believed in him and had faith even as a grain of mustard seed, and it points to us the way to obtain healing and to order our affairs so as to express ourselves, in all things, in concord with the Divine harmony. It illumines the darkness that has clouded the mystery of our own consciousness. By it we can apprehend the true meaning of the declaration that we are made in the image and likeness of God.

We possess in thought the creative power inherent in thought and we can use that creative power upon ourselves through the manipulation of our own consciousness and the expression of the word. Understanding that life is health, and that as Principle, God’s creations are perfect, obeying the operation of law in every particular way, we can see that any interference with, any abridgement, impairment or extinction of, disease is due to human error and can be corrected by the application of the creative powers in us that are inherent in the Divine.

What, therefore, avails it to understand the mechanisms and operation of the subconscious mind if we do not apply correctives in consciousness in co-operation with the Divine Mind? Must we not, when contemplating the wonderful power within ourselves, realise also how immensely it is reinforced by the application of the Divine power within us? Must we not feel that his is another wonder revealed to us in order that we should “seek God”? There is but one answer to these questions and that is that if we ever needed anything to convince us of God’s tender love for us this revelation should surely bring that conviction.

For God is healing. When all is said and done about the power of the subjective mind we are yet to know that the supreme power of healing is in God, and that however much we may be able to do for ourselves the very powers we exert are God’s powers seeking manifestation through us.

Knowing God as Principle it is our business to seek the science of the operation of His laws. We use the word “science” in this connection not only as the equivalent of knowledge but as the equivalent of knowledge correctly applied. For spiritual healing is a science. It is the power of reforming and recreating applied through the knowledge of Divine causation.

God manifests Himself to the individual in His own way. And one experience of the individual with God as a directive, illuminating and sustaining influence is worth more by way of interior conviction than all the essays on the Divine ever written or sermons ever preached. “The Spirit witnesseth to our spirit that we are the children of God.”

Now this explanation of God’s nature and attributes is made necessary in order to clarify what we in Divine Science believes God to be. It has been well said that the surest way to lose God is to attempt to define Him. To those who wish to know God we say that this knowledge is not to be had from books or teachers, or sermons or pictures. The best way, the only way, to know God is to seek Him by “feeling after” Him. We must seek after Him in the very centre of our own being. All those dim gropings for expression of the divinity within us must be recognised as efforts of the Spirit to impress itself on our consciousness and must be waited on, attended upon and developed.

Friday Meditation with Wenda - Live in Peace

"Live in peace, boldly and with tranquillity". Abbey de Tourville

It is our duty not to be continually fighting a civil war within us. Yet, inner peace does not come by living in an ivory tower as an escape from conflict and tumult. Nor is it the absence of these disturbances; rather, it is the strong control of them. This is why Tourville used the two words, ‘boldly’ and “tranquillity” – to live in peace with a courage that is steady and stable!

It means the right discipline of our thought and emotion which cools resentments, calms all anxiety, extends forgiveness, and cultivates love.

We are kept in peace even in the midst of turmoil as our thought is stayed on God. But peace, like love, cannot be stored for ourselves alone as a private possession. It must describe our actions with others.

For peace is not some kind of passive mood; but a moving attribute of our Divine nature. It is a power very much alive in each of us, creative and healing. As we learn to use the magnamity of Spirit toward ourselves, we can express Its generosity and forgiveness toward others, and live in peace.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you…. – John 14:27

Friday Meditation - I Bless Everything

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. – James 1:25

It, (God) was not created in the past, nor is it to be annihilated in the future; it is eternal, permanent, absolute, and from all eternity it sufficiently embraces in its essence all possible merits. – buddhism


James tells us that we should look to the perfect law of liberty, and by following its precepts we shall be blessed in our deeds.

This means to keep the eye single or centred on the Spirit, which is eternal and embraces all good. We often wonder why we are so limited, and too frequently project the blame for our limitations upon the Will of God.

This is a psychological trick which we play in ignorance of the true facts. Limitation is not imposed upon us by God, but through our own ignorance of the great freedom that
God has bestowed upon man. We are privileged by our Creator to become cocreators in our personal affairs. No greater freedom could be given than the freedom each has in experiencing his true nature in increasing measure.

Daily we should open our consciousness to the Divine Influx, expecting greater wisdom and guidance and complete self-expression by blessing everything and knowing that the good multiplies in our experience, and lift up our consciousness to receive it.

We should turn our thought God-ward and accept the wholeness and the abundance and the joy of the eternal Spirit.

The Mind at Work

Our thought, our imagination, our words, are creative. We did not hang the stars in space nor set the lofty peaks overlooking the sea, but we do experience an outward manifestation of our inward convictions. The greatest discovery ever made is the discovery of the power of thought. Thought is an Energy of which only this may be said: It is.

Our thought operates independently of conditions and has the possibility of transcending circumstances as they now are and causing new ones to be created. However, we should bear in mind that the creative Power is only set in motion by our thought. The Power Itself belongs to the Universe, and no man made It. All that we can do is to accept it, believe and use It.

But while we continuously remould our thought according to the pattern of ancient ideas, we remain bound to previous opinion, bias, and prejudice. We must do something to break down limiting experience and to expand our inner vision. Here our imagination comes into play, enabling us to conceive greater good.

Neither the will nor the intellect are creative, they simply decide that to which the thought, the emotion, and the imagination shall respond. He who would rise above previous conditions, transcend limitations, and create a better situation for himself, must deliberately turn, in his imagination and thought, from the old order; and with a calm, but flexible, determination endeavour to contemplate only the good, the beautiful, and the true.

He should refuse to admit into his consciousness any controversy or argument, but should compel himself to know and to accept that through the genius of his thought he is moulding an individualised destiny out of That from which all form emanates.

Sin and Judgment

“Sin means, literally, mistake or “missing the mark”. It means our failure to be true to the innate spirit of Good: it means a false system of thinking, the control of the body of the senses rather than by the soul.

Sin is the most subtle illusion that arises from the organs of fancy, which inhabit the soul. It is a supposition that a phenomenon of sense is a verity of Being. Sin is fear, doubt, lust, and all the other myths and goblins that lurk in the shadows that add perspective to the panorama of existence. It is a vista of the senses, unreal and therefore non-existent. Evil lurks in that mind which the great Milton has stigmatised as “mortal mind”, the mind which is not.

There is a law back of sin. You cannot sin without suffering. The only destruction of sin there can be is the reformation of the sinner himself.

To be effectual our repentance must be in proportion to our sin, and the only atonement for evil is the overcoming of the temptation to sin; this is accomplished by persistency in wielding. The sinner alone can atone for his sin. If we realise the fact that we are spiritual beings and not material, that we are now the children of God, gradually we are brought into at-one-ment in consciousness, and we become consciously at-one-ment with the All-Good, the Perfect, the Permanent.

We do not have to reconcile the sun to an object in a dark alley; all we have to do is to move the object, and place it in the sun’s beneficent rays.

Man is spiritual. God is not man, even as the sun is not a ray, but man in his spiritual completion is the outward expression of which God is the indwelling substance. When the lesson of Love is learned, and man rises to the law of Love, existence is transmuted into life, and he becomes a luminary of the Spirit in whom is no darkness at all; neither is there shadow of turning toward the reign of sense.

The predestination of man is that he shall forever repose in the great central heart of God.