She Let Go

She let go.  Without a thought or a word, she let go.

She let go of the fear.  She let go of the judgments.  She let go of
the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.  She let go of
the committee of indecision within her.  She let go of all the 'right'
reasons.  Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just
let go.

She didn't ask anyone for advice.  She didn't read a book on how to
let go...  She didn't search the scriptures.  She just let go.  She
let go of all of the memories that held her back.  She let go of all
of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.  She let go of the
planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.

She didn't promise to let go.  She didn't journal about it.  She
didn't write the projected date in her Day-Timer.  She made no public
announcement and put no ad in the paper. She didn't check the weather
report or read her daily horoscope.  She just let go.

She didn't analyze whether she should let go.  She didn't call her
friends to discuss the matter.  She didn't do a five-step Spiritual
Mind Treatment.  She didn't call the prayer line.  She didn't utter
one word.  She just let go.

No one was around when it happened.  There was no applause or
congratulations.  No one thanked her or praised her.  No one noticed a
thing.  Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.

There was no effort.  There was no struggle.  It wasn't good and it
wasn't bad.  It was what it was, and it is just that.

In the space of letting go, she let it all be.  A small smile came
over her face.  A light breeze blew through her.  And the sun and the
moon shone forevermore.

The above is believed to be written by Ernest Holmes.

Harmonious Family Affirmative Prayer

As there is One infinite Being, One Eternalness, One Power, One Law, One Substance, which is singular, unopposed, omni-active, and ongoing unlimited Life as Love. There is no "otherness," there is nothing separate – any sense of separateness is only some false sense of seeming separation within the limited perception of human mind.  There in One Union, Unity and Only-ness which is God-source of Love.

Nothing is apart from, different or lacking this essence... no one, no exceptions. There is only Oneness which can not exclude or rid anyone or thing.  There is only Infinite Being containing all that is, will ever be, all that has transformed through states of consciousness.

This I know that within this infinite All-ness, I am. I understand that I am made in the image, the idea of this One Whole, and I am, my family and friends are composed from the One Being  which is called by many sacred names: Great Mystery, God, Universal Intelligence, Love, Good and Allah.  I am and my family can only be beings that are creations of and from the One Source.  So any idea or notion that there is separation or no-good between us is revealed as a simple error thought or false belief. Within the One there is only Harmony – all things working together in swift and certain Balanced Perfection of Law. All Law of Divine Mind in action, balancing harmonizing and weaving life. No other law of human construction impedes or supersedes the Law of Unity of Life. No law regarding human behavior, actions or activity – no rules of “ should” or rule of “musts” from my human mind-making can override Divine Mind and Law. The Spiritual Kingdom of which I am an essential part and  includes all and all human citizens of a spiritual eternality.  My human personhood is as a spiritual being, made of and by God for mighty and sacred  purpose of radiating the truth of Unity, Oneness and Harmony.

I am gratefully appreciative of the knowing of Harmony, of Spiritual Citizenship of all and my divinely appointed family  The Only Power of Spiritual Law, Spiritual Nature, Essence and grace-filled assignments, to an earthly realm in a  time and space experiment.

Therefore, in the spiritual practice of seeking and finding Truth of Being I know only One Law operates. I am and all are equal and coherent elements of One Kingdom.

Releasing my word, and allowing it to be acting on by the Law  of Life, I am knowing this is SO. 

By Alice Casey, RScP

The Authentic Life

What does it mean to live authentically?

My mother would say it means to say what you mean and mean what you say, but if you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.

She had it right… but not complete.

I have also found that living an authentic life is also about being true to ourselves in how we share ourselves in the world. And, I’m not just talking about sharing our opinions. If we never share our talents, reveal our creations—that painting, that poem, that song, that idea for a new business—are we being authentic?

When we hide behind the paycheck of an unfulfilling job rather than start that business we’ve been dreaming of and even planning for years, are we living an authentic life? When we are inspired to give, to help, to donate, to praise, to serve, and we withhold, are we being authentic?

Whatever your excuses have been, I invite you to stop believing them.

Living an authentic life requires vulnerability, to admit that wrong, to ask for what we need, to cry, to be the first to say, “I’m sorry,” to be the first to say, “I love you.”

Paul Coehlo says, “The magic moment is that in which a ‘Yes’ or a ‘No’ may change the all of your existence.”

When we live an authentic life, we appreciate those magic moments more… because we’re consciously creating them. We understand when we’re standing on the precipice of a magic moment because we chose to climb up there.

Of course, living an authentic life requires courage… a great deal of courage. After all, sometimes the scariest thing in the world is to stand up for what we believe in when everyone else is sitting down. Imagine yourself for a minute standing up there… alone in your truth.

What had you stand up? What causes you to remain standing? Is it the ego’s need to be right? Or something more? Something greater? Think about it… that which has you stay standing has far more stamina than the ego. The ego would have sat down long ago.

At some point, we come to realize that living an authentic life is nothing less than an act of Love… perhaps the greatest act of Love there is. Love, and Love alone, stands forever. Love knows that authenticity brings greater intimacy, greater meaning, and greater rewards, even if no one else gets up there with us.

What does it mean to live authentically? To live an authentic life means to be Love in every moment because there is no acceptable alternative.

After all, if we’re not authentic, what are we?  

© 2012, Gretchen DeWees Kennedy, RScP

(Read Gretchen Kennedy's blog at www.gretchenkennedy.me)

Blessing for A Successful Event

I see a wondrously expanding and sucessful event, all of which unfolds with ease and grace. I send my praise and blessing to everyone participating in any way for contributing their beautiful gifts, talents, and dedication to this perfect outcome.

May all who attend and participate feel the uplifting, healing intentions demonstrating in, through, and as this sacred endeavor.

I rejoice in this sucessful day and know that it is both exquisite unto itself and the start of some things wonderful and good! 

~ Alice Casey, RScP

See Yourself as You Want to Be

By Ernest Holmes

We are—and can only be—the sum total of all our thoughts and actions. Our subjective state of thought is constantly radiating into Universal Law the images of our entire library of beliefs… our beliefs around love, around life, around the world and our purpose in it. From these images of unconscious thought spring all of our outward conditions, the circumstances that make up this human experience. Deep within our subconscious mind are imprinted the memories of previous experiences... and therein lie the silent causes of our outward conditions. 

Since the Universal Law which automatically receives our thoughts is always acting and never at rest, when we have chronic, habitual negative thoughts, we perpetuate experiences that we no longer want to have. What is needed, then, is a new outlook on the situation, a broader vision, a deeper realization. We need not be able to create this new perspective on the spot… we need only be open to the possibility that one exists.  And of course one does.  In fact, the Spirit that Knows All Things has unlimited outcomes, all of which have already outwitted your greatest conundrum a thousand-fold.

The key, then, to success and happiness, is the conscious control of ongoing thought patterns and a continuous emission of constructive thinking and acting. This key will unlock the treasure house of the Infinite and reveal to us undreamed-of opportunities and experiences.

Because we are of the One Mind, any vision you can conjure of an outcome which is based in harmony and unity is already complete in the mind of Spirit.  It is Divinely ordained.

Visualization from this standpoint is a creative act that is never bothered by any existing condition or conditions. Once we are certain that our whole thought is harmonious and unified with Good, we may ask for what we want, and it shall be done unto us by the Law.

In visualizing, put the past entirely behind, where it belongs; nor think of the future, where it also belongs, but make your thoughts perceive the ever-present reality, which is only the NOW.  Do not worry about the “how’s.” God knows how! 

Think of yourself as you would like to be, and calmly state that you are now in the position that you care to be in; that you are now doing the things you would like to be doing; that you now possess the things you want to possess; that your state of being is the ultimate state of being you can possibly imagine. Look at your picture as you would view a landscape, mentally dwelling on this picture, feeling the reality of it—the Joy of it, the Peace of it, the Love of it, the Prosperity of it, the Vitality of it—until you can sense that it is a reality.  Then leave the entire picture for the Law to work out for you, returning to your everyday affairs with perfect confidence that something is really taking place on the invisible side of your life, and that you will experience in outward form all of your inner aspirations.

As you speak as if the good outcome is already done, it is in the mind of God!

Edited by Gretchen Kennedy, RScP