Happy New Year 2003!

 What are you claiming for yourself this New Year?

In New Thought we believe there is a power for Good in the Universe greater than we are and we can use it!  What does that mean to you?  How much will you use?  How much will you refuse?  How much will you suffuse?  How much will you diffuse?

 The Science of Mind Textbook states: “We must maintain a positive, consistent, aggressive, mental attitude in the Truth”.

The key words here are positive and consistent!  When we face life with a positive mental attitude a subtle shift transpires and we are lifted to the next level of peace, prosperity, and wisdom.  If we are spiritually inconsistent with God and the Universe, God and the Universe seem to be inconsistent with our wants, needs, desires, goals, and aspirations.  What this means is the Universe responds to our inmost intention!  Jesus stated: Faith without works is dead!  We must put the “works with the faith”!  He admonished us to “Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only!”

 Do we have to wait for a crisis to turn to things Spiritual?  Or is our daily Life our Temple and our Religion?  Are we willing to let go of the old habit patterns of judgment and self-criticism so that we may experience life from a higher point of view?  Remember that negative habit patterns are learned and can be unlearned and released forever!

According to an old Hindu legend there was a time when all men and women were gods, but they so abused their divinity that Brahma, the chief god, decided to take away from men and women and hide it where they would never again find it.  Where to hide it became the big question.

 When the lesser gods were called in council to consider this question, they said, “We will bury man’s divinity deep in the earth.”  But Brahma said, “No, that will not do, for man will dig deep down into the earth and find it.”  Then they said, we will sink his divinity into the deepest ocean.”  But again Brahma replied, “No, not out there, for man will learn to devise a way to dive into the deepest waters, will search out the ocean bed, and will find it.”

 Then the lesser gods said, “We will take it to the top of the mountain and there hide it.”  But again Brahma replied, “No, for man will eventually climb every high mountain on earth.  He will be sure some day to find it and take it up again for himself.”  Then the lesser gods gave up and concluded, “We do not know where to hide it, for it seems there is no place on earth or in the sea that man will not eventually reach.”

 Then Brahma said, “Here is what we will do with man’s divinity.  We will hide it deep down within man himself, for there he will never look”! 

Ever since then the legend concludes, man has been going up and down the earth, climbing, digging, diving, exploring, searching for something that is already within himself!

Over two thousand years ago a man named Jesus who became the Christ found it and shared its secret; but in the movement that sprang up in His name, the Divinity in Man and Woman has been one of the best-kept secrets of the ages!

 I challenge each and every one of us to take a stand in the Truth that sets us free.  To claim our Good and live out of our Spiritual Intention.  To “Look Within” and find the life you’ve been “trying” to live!

If you come to Innerfaith occasionally set a new standard for yourself!  Put your spiritual life as a priority and begin to attain to a “positive, consistent, aggressive mental attitude in the Truth”.  See your life expand into a greater reality of who and what you are.  Begin to give in the service of God’s Work your time, your talent, and your treasure.

“Know that ye are gods, a little lower than the angels”.

 Namaste and Love,

  Dr. Sharron Stroud, Co-Founder