New Thought spiritual communities like ours this Sunday, July 3, are celebrating Interdependence Day,  a day dedicated to expanding our hearts and therefore our capacity to be in Compassionate Service.   As spiritually aware people, we have come to know that because we are one, giving is receiving.   It feels so sweet to know I have made a difference in someone’s life by my presence.  You may feel this way too.   

This summer, as an active part of Association for Global New Thought’s Season for Humane Service, we are placing our focus on being in service to our friends, family, neighbors, and our extended human family.
Join us this Sunday as we celebrate INTERDEPENDENCE DAY.  Our guest speaker and musician is New Thought professional singer songwriter Elaine Silver RScP who is touring this part of the country.  I have known Elaine for many years and know you will appreciate her warm and engaging presence and her enormous gift for taking you to spiritual heights through music.
 

I have been witnessing something heart-warming and uplifting that I want to share with you.   All around me things are popping.  I am seeing and hearing about a great number of demonstrations of the Great Good of God working in my life, my prayer partner’s life, and in the life of our students and congregation.  I recognize the Oneness of Life, Life is God, the All in All.   God is the Source, Substance, Supply, and Creation as well.  And that Life is an ever-giving presence, pure Unconditional Love.  We are originally blessed.

We save ourselves by being receptive to that Good by allowing it to flow and work through us. The creative process is ever operating in our lives.  Our part is to wake up to this Truth and to create consciously directing our attention to the highest vision for our life that we can glean (and stop focusing on what we don’t like or don’t want).  Our classes are powerful birthing fields for the Universal Human.   

This Sunday we are celebrating our students who have just completed another course of study.   You may have personally witnessed their transformation as result from studying and applying the Spiritual Principles and Practices that we teach in our classes.  What you may have not understood completely is that what happens in our classes is not only personal transformation, there is a deeper sense of connection with the Indwelling Presence of God, powerful new friendships and group support, a deeper sense of community, an greater awareness of Oneness/Interconnection with all life and compassion and desire to be in service to the greater good.  Classes are the fast track to becoming and developing as a Universal Human.    

Join us this Sunday and feel the Spirit!

My gift to you is a practice that will surely alter your life.  It is called present moment gratitude.  It is not being grateful for something in your past or that has not manifested yet.  It is being grateful for all the gifts of the present moment.  I recommend that you do this with a friend or family member giving each person 5 minutes.  Notice how you feel before you start and then how you feel after. “I am so happy and grateful for the air I am breathing, fo

Gratitude is  way under-rated in its power to shift consciousness and change lives.

We help the Japanese people most by keeping our vibration high which lifts  the collective vibration any time it is dropping. Joining in sorrow and despair lowers the collective vibration and helps no one.  

The mystical teachings and spiritual practices of New Thought Ancient Wisdom/Science of Mind inspire us to raise our vibrational set point and view life from a larger perspective.   “Bad” news is seen as a prayer request,  an opportunity to use the creative power of our thoughts and words to heal conditions and reveal heaven on earth.  As we pray, we move into compassion and service.   

 If I get into awfulizing, I am no earthly good.  So I remember the Spiritual Truth beyond the appearance. I remember that Spirit is all there is and I am a center of Divine operation.  The Power of God can do anything and works through you and me.  I see in my mind’s eye the whole world moving into loving response.  All manner of resources and help appears and Japanese communities are being cleaned up and restored. I know that Universal Mind responds to my word and vision and it is done.

 I encourage you to join me in seeing the highest possibility of God’s Love show up as us, the world, and as the Japanese people.

 This delightful little metaphysical book, The Master Key System, was hidden away for 70 years because the “church” banned it.  Reprinting began again in 2007.  It has been called one of the finest studies on higher consciousness ever written.   Almost every Silicon Valley entrepreneur including Bill Gates made a fortune studying this book.
 

So, my friend, where is your attention and focus?  What is your general mental tendency?  That is what will show up in your life experience because your thought creates your world.  And, you can change your world by changing your thinking one thought at a time.   When you do so, be gentle with yourself.  Gently guide your thoughts into the realm of better feeling thoughts, focusing as much as possible on what you want.  That means complaining, focusing on the problem and telling your story of woe is out.  Talking and thinking about your vision is in.   Experiment with this and see what happens.

 There are many ways that we go unconsciousness – eating, drugs and alcohol, projection, blaming, spacing out, and distracting oneself in many other ways.  To become conscious, it is important to identify the ways you become unconscious.  As you witness the unconscious behaviors and the thoughts behind them, you will be able to exercise your ability to choose what is resourceful in thought, word, feeling, and deed.   Yes, you can do it!

Expanding in Consciousness,

Rev. Dr. Kathleen Johnson

 I am grateful for the change in consciousness attuned now to the greater vision of world peace and release my word to the all-powerful action of the Universal Law of Divine Mind. This is Spiritual Mind Treatment, the form of prayer taught in our classes and services.  It transforms consciousness, mine, and therefore all of humanity, because we are one.  As a result, our outer world changes. 

 I know that those young men in Truth cannot die. They are on an eternal journey as individualized expressions of God.  I also know that Gandhi, King, and Chavez, who used vision and non-violent methods, found a better way to bring about change. 

 Join me in using the enormous blessing of spiritual power to call forth peaceful change into being. 

 Peace, Poise, Power,

Rev. Dr. Kathleen

Spiritual Director