March 26, 2025: “THE SEAT OF THE KING!”
“The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don’t see it. It is within you.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
“For the kingdom of God is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit;” Romans 14:17.
“But this kingdom within is not material — it is spiritual. In it is the seat of the king, and when we become sufficiently acquainted with it, we shall be able to reign from the throne that was prepared for us from the beginning.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 35.
“Whenever two are linked in this way, there comes another from the unseen world. It may be through birth, if nothing prevents conception, but a third does come, when two unite in love, or in hate. The intense qualities born of such joining appear in the spiritual world.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 57.
“We receive not by begging and crying, but by acknowledging and realizing, as Jesus Christ did, our oneness with the Father. When we have found the kingdom of God and the richness of it, we come into touch with the allness of the one Ruler whose throne is within. Then we have no more trouble about things. Things come just as naturally as the planted seed grows.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 61.
“When we understand another person, we understand ourselves better. And when we understand ourselves better, we understand the other person better too.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 85.
“Through your morning contemplation of truth, you make your home a temple of God. You do not find love in your home: it is not on the floor; it is not in the air; it is not on the ceiling. Love is not anywhere except where you bring it.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 101.
“Why do we pray? We pray to a higher power or powers than we ordinarily have access to… How you think about the power you are trying to contact will make a difference in the kind of prayer you use.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 102.
“The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.
“Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever.’” Revelation 11:15.
March 19, 2025: “MIND!”
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” — William Shakespeare.
“The purpose in a man’s mind is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.” Proverbs 20:5.
“Mind is not a thing; Mind is. It is that which, through orderly process, produces the thing. This orderly process, we have learned by observation, is from an invisible center to a visible circumstance.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 33.
“This loving is also part of infinite love, without which the world does not evolve. Objects move from inorganic to vegetation to selves endowed with spirit through the urgency of every love that wants to come to perfection.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 55.
“AS YOU STUDY, you will learn that your mind receives from two sources: the universal Mind of Being, which has its outlet through your consciousness, and the intellectual activities of the individual minds about you, which have both conscious and subconscious phases of expression. Now, that which you receive from the Mind of God is always good, always helpful, health-inspiring and peace-inspiring.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 50.
“To love him, we must practice deep looking in order to understand him. If we do, we accept him, we love him, and we also accept and love ourselves.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 85.
“As you contemplate this for five or ten minutes each day, you carry into your world the awareness of all that God is and all that God has as a gift that has been bestowed upon you by the grace of God. If you have contemplated that, you have brought the peace that passes understanding into the room.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 100.
“God does not have to be changed. I have to be changed. The everlasting rivers rush to fill the well, but I have to dig the well. To pray is to dig the well.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 101-102.
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ― Marcus Aurelius.
“Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” Ephesians 4:22-24.
March 12, 2025: “HEAVEN!”
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” — Henry David Thoreau.
“The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.’” Luke 17:20-21.
“We think of heaven as a place of unending happiness… Jesus Christ, of all those claiming intimate acquaintance with spiritual things, gave heaven definite location. He often referred to the Father dwelling in Him; He also told others that the Spirit of God dwelt in them. As a climax he definitely located heaven ‘within you.’” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 31.
“Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes. I need more grace than I thought.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 53.
“Do not brood on things which stir up strife. If it seems that you are in hell, just know that there is a stairway leading from hell to heaven. When there is nothing in you to require the purifying fires, you will rise on the very spiritual atmosphere you have created, into a beautiful new realm of life.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 56.
“Understanding a person brings us the power to love and accept him. And the moment we love and accept him, he ceases to be our enemy.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 85.
“Let us say you have ten minutes… for contemplating God and the things of God… It is only those who have in some measure been touched by the Spirit of God who have the capacity to sit for ten minutes in this contemplation.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 100.
“We live in infinity, and it presses on me its infinite riches. But all I can take is what I can hold in my hands. Not a grain more. There is a limitless supply of water in the reservoir, but no more gets into my cup than my cup can hold… The reservoir does not have to be enlarged. My capacity has to be enlarged.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 101.
“Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.” ― Sri Chinmoy.
“To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27.
March 5, 2025: “PURE SPIRIT!”
“The Divine Spirit does not reside in any except the joyful heart” — The Talmud.
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” John 16:13.
“The I AM is pure Spirit, without parts or passions, It is the prism through which the white light of Being is focused and refracted on the screen of visibility in many colors.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 30.
“You breathe without a body like a spark. You grieve, and I begin to feel lighter. You keep me away with your arm, but the keeping away is drawing me in.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 53.
“We show forth God by acknowledging Spirit only. Stop every thought but the thought that Spirit is All. God is Spirit. God makes all. Spirit is the substance out of which all things are made.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 35.
“In each of us is a seed of understanding. That seed is God. It is also the Buddha. If you doubt the existence of that seed of understanding, you doubt God and you doubt the Buddha.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 84.
“It is not the building that is the temple of God: it is you who are the temple of God, if you leave human limitation, anger, fear, and jealousy outside and if you bring love and peace into the room through your consciousness.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 99.
“The purpose of prayer is to bring you into conformity with the laws of the universe so that the everlasting power and mercy may flow into you and through you.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 101.
“This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety. It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.” ― Dalai Lama.
“Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol (Hades), thou art there!” Psalm 139:7-8.
THRIVE IN ’25!
For 2025 our theme is: “Thrive!” According to Webster; to thrive is “1: to grow vigorously : flourish 2: to gain in wealth or possessions : prosper 3: to progress toward or realize a goal despite or because of circumstances —often used with on, “thrives on conflict.”
As the wholly perfect sinless child of God (Christ) that we are, we are meant not merely to survive, but to thrive. The only things holding us back are our own limiting thoughts and feelings of inadequacy and separation. To which, the Apostle Paul said, “I die every day!” 1 Corinthians 15:31. Each day we have the opportunity to release what was for what can be; we open the door to a new level of understanding and expression of the divine potential within. We are reborn as we are renewed in mind. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2.
Our weekly Prayer Circle letters this year will follow the book ‘Talks on Truth’ by Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore. “Mind is the only causative power. By the power of the Word, it makes and unmakes all laws governing in personal life. The I AM floats in mind and formulates the words that set mind in motion.” (pg. 82.) When we change our minds, we change our lives. When our consciousness opens up to new awareness’s of being we are ‘born anew’: we begin again to realize peace, wholeness and abundance through greater and more fulfilling channels of expression.
For March we are sharing from Lesson 3: The I AM in Its Kingdom.
Thank you for accompanying us on this journey of self-realization and discovery of our Divine potential!
Please affirm with us: “I AM as God created me, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of God’s Love!”
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!
For so it is and so it shall be, Amen!
February 26, 2025: “HIGHER THINGS!”
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
— Lao Tzu.
“Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it…earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.” 1 Corinthians 12:27,31.
“Cease making disease microbes, and turn your attention to higher things. Make love alive by thinking love. Make wisdom the light of the world by affirming God’s omnipresent intelligence. See in mind the pure substance of God and it will surely appear.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 26.
“When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom to the ocean. There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 52.
“THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE is but the externalization of thoughts. Man, a spiritual word or thought, has existed from the beginning. Hence in reality man’s higher Self is spiritual. He is Life and Intelligence expressed. He thinks and his thoughts become objective as forms.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 57.
“If we do not practice understanding, we do not avail ourselves of the most powerful instrument that can free us and other living beings from suffering. True love is possible only with real understanding.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 84.
“You are not meeting together to seek money, fame, or anything that can be objectified. You are seeking only one thing: God attainment, spiritual realization. Therefore, you present to this world pure consciousness, and pure consciousness is God.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 99.
“There is only one way you could change God. That is to be less than love. Less than wisdom. Less than good. For Love, Wisdom, Good — if He is anything — this He already is.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 101.
“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.” ― Sai Baba.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9.
February 19, 2025: “MANIFEST GOD!”
“Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.”
— Swami Sivananda.
“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.” 1 Corinthians 12: 4-7.
“When wisdom and love have been invoked, and their harmony has bee made manifest in the thing formed, God is manifest.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 24.
“If you’re not here, nothing flows. I lack clarity. My words tangle and knot up. How to cure bad water? Send it back to the river. How to cure bad habits? Send me back to you.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 52.
“The germ of God-likeness slumbers in us, and it should be our true aim in being to make manifest this perfect Self, or Christ of God, in our lives.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 11.
“In Buddhism, we speak of salvation by understanding. We see that it is the lack of understanding that creates suffering. Understanding is the power that can liberate us. It is the key that can unlock the door to the prison of suffering.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 84.
“This not only is a prayer or meditation that will benefit all who are gathered in that place, but because you exist in consciousness, not in body or place, everyone, anywhere, who is reaching out for God-realization, is right where you are, receiving the benefit of God’s presence.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 98.
“God is not a man or woman like you — to be coaxed or moved by tears — to be entreated or cajoled or threatened. If you think of God and what He is like, what words come to you?… Changeless may be one word. Law may be one word. Eternal may be one word.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 100.
“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.” ― Gautama Buddha.
“Thou art the God who works wonders, who hast manifested thy might among the peoples.” Psalm 77:14.
February 12, 2025: “MOVEMENTS OF MIND!”
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
— Plato.
“The mind of him who has understanding seeks knowledge…” Proverbs 15:14.
“Under the veil of historical symbology, the Scriptures portray the movements of Mind in its different cycles of progress. These cycles repeat themselves over and over again, but each time on a higher plane.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 16.
“In the ocean are many bright strands and many dark strands like veins that are seen when a wing is lifted up. Your hidden self is blood in those, those veins that are lute strings that make ocean music, not the sad edge of the surf, but the sound of no shore.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 51.
“The idea that man is the product of physical generation is an error of race ignorance. Man’s understanding that he is in reality brought forth through the action of the mind will restore him to the divine law under which he will increase, multiply, and replenish the earth according to the plan of God’s creation.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 144-5.
“If we practice looking deeply into his situation and the causes of how he came to be the way he is now, and if we visualize ourselves as being born in his condition, we may see that we could have become exactly like him. When we do that, compassion arises in us naturally, and we see that the other person is to be helped and not punished.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 83.
“You are inviting into (your) spiritual household the guest of God, those who are ready to enter the spiritual realm. When they come, do not let them find our house empty. Do not let them find your consciousness devoid of truth and love. Be sure it is filled.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 98.
“Whatever you conceive God to be, can you conceive Him to be less than good? More than good, perhaps. Beyond your highest concept of good. But not less than that. God is always more.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 100.
“The past is an interpretation. The future is an illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals.” ― Shams Tabrizi
“To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” Romans 8:6.
February 5, 2025: “BEING AS GOD!”
“If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all.” —Yogi Bhajan.
“Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.” Psalm 51:6.
“The author of Genesis was evidently a great metaphysician. He described Being as God, Jehovah God, and Adam. We would express the same idea as Mind, idea, and manifestation.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 14.
“You’re sitting here with us, but you’re also out walking in a field at dawn. You are yourself the animal we hunt when you come with us on the hunt. You’re in your body like a plant is solid in the ground, yet you’re the wind. You’re the diver’s clothes lying empty on the beach. You’re the fish.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 51.
“AS YOU STUDY, you will learn that your mind receives from two sources: the universal Mind of Being, which has its outlet through your consciousness, and the intellectual activities of the individual minds about you, which have both conscious and subconscious phases of expression.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 50.
“If while we practice we are not aware that the world is suffering, that children are dying of hunger, that social injustice is going on everywhere, we are not practicing mindfulness. We are just trying to escape.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 82.
“The years of your study should have emptied out your old state of consciousness and built a new one made up of the word of God. This word of God which constitutes your new born consciousness is life and truth and love to all who enter.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 98.
“You do not pray to change God. How would you change Him? God is good. He is your good. Would you pray that he become something other than that?” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 100.
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” 1 Corinthians 15:45.
THRIVE IN ’25!
For 2025 our theme is: “Thrive!” According to Webster; to thrive is “1: to grow vigorously : flourish 2: to gain in wealth or possessions : prosper 3: to progress toward or realize a goal despite or because of circumstances —often used with on, “thrives on conflict.”
As the wholly perfect sinless child of God (Christ) that we are, we are meant not merely to survive, but to thrive. The only things holding us back are our own limiting thoughts and feelings of inadequacy and separation. To which, the Apostle Paul said, “I die every day!” 1 Corinthians 15:31. Each day we have the opportunity to release what was for what can be; we open the door to a new level of understanding and expression of the divine potential within. We are reborn as we are renewed in mind. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2.
Our weekly Prayer Circle letters this year will follow the book ‘Talks on Truth’ by Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore. “Mind is the only causative power. By the power of the Word, it makes and unmakes all laws governing in personal life. The I AM floats in mind and formulates the words that set mind in motion.” (pg. 82.) When we change our minds, we change our lives. When our consciousness opens up to new awareness’s of being we are ‘born anew’: we begin again to realize peace, wholeness and abundance through greater and more fulfilling channels of expression.
For February we are sharing from Lesson 2: Microorganisms.
Thank you for accompanying us on this journey of self-realization and discovery of our Divine potential!
Please affirm with us: “God’s Omnipresent Intelligence expresses through me as Divine Wisdom and Love!”
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!
For so it is and so it shall be, Amen!
January 29, 2025: “YOUR HIGHER SELF!”
“I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.” — Ramana Maharshi.
“Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;” Psalm 61:2.
“God is your higher self, and is in constant waiting upon you… Use him every hour of the day… You cannot use God too often.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 11, 12.
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 51.
“Man, a spiritual word or thought, has existed from the beginning. Hence in reality man’s higher Self is spiritual. He is Life and Intelligence expressed. He thinks and his thoughts become objective as forms. ” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 57.
“Each day, we practice looking deeply into ourselves and into the situation of our brothers and sisters. It is the most serious work we can do.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 82.
“Now you will begin to see yourself in a new light. You will realize that you’ve spent these years filling you mind and soul with God’s word, and that word of God has come to fruition, and all who reach and touch you are blessed and receive benediction.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 97-98.
“I can produce in myself the climate out of which answered prayer is likely to come. Only God may answer prayer, but I can pray. I can establish the conditions on which answered prayer depends.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 99.
“There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.” — William James.
“But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.” 1 Corinthians 12:31.
January 22, 2025: “A SOLVABLE PROBLEM!”
“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.” — Marcus Aurelius.
“When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.” Psalm 8:3-5.
“Life is a problem solvable by a principle whose essence is intelligence… For if God is Spirit, the principle of intelligence and life, everywhere present at all times, He must be just as accessible as a principle of mathematics and fully as free from formalism.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 10, 11.
“We know separation so well because we’ve tasted the union… The pushing away pulls you in.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 47.
“As the fundamental rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division enter into and work out the abstruse problem of the advanced mathematician or the simple example of the beginner, so do the fundamental principles of spiritual science work unerringly in simple healing or in the solution of the great problems of life.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 20-21.
“If you do it out of love, you act very much as Jesus did on the cross and Gandhi did in India… These great men all knew that it is the truth that sets us free, and they did everything they could to make the truth known.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 21.
“You who have been studying The Infinite Way or any other truly spiritual teaching one, two, five, or ten years must have a mind filled with truth, not memorized statements of truth… you have become filled with the spiritual truth, with the word of God which sets you free, and which sets all those free who come within range of your consciousness.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 97.
“I cannot make creative things happen. But I can prepare for creative things to happen. I can do what I can do… I may draw it forth. But I draw it forth the way a fisherman draws forth the fish of the sea. I cast in my nets and I wait. That is the way it is with the power of God.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 99.
“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” — Niels Bohr.
“I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:10.
January 15, 2025: “THE PHENOMENAL WORLD!”
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau.
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein; for he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the rivers.” Psalm 24:1-2.
“Every act of man has its origin in thought, which is expressed into the phenomenal world from a mental center that is but a point of radiation for an energy that lies back of it. That point of radiation is the conscious I, which in its correct relation is one with Cause, and has at its command all the powers potential in Cause.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 9-10.
“Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish. Your face will turn rosy with illumination like the redbud flowers.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 46.
“So get busy by using the Truth you know. Love those about you in a practical way; pay no attention to what others are doing, in so far as to make comparisons. Bring forth your own joyous world of love, friendship, beauty, and plenty. God is giving everything required to build such a world. There is within you the God-given intelligence to build such a world. Get at it!” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 151.
“Looking deeply does not mean being inactive. We become very active with our understanding. Nonviolence does not mean non-action. Nonviolence means we act with love and compassion.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 81.
“There are not two, three, five, or six, as there seem to be. There is only one, all one in God-consciousness, all partaking of the divine name and nature.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 97.
“There is an art, even a science of prayer. Yet more, there is a life of prayer. The more we live this life, the closer we come to the time when the creative energy of God will pour through us freely, steadily, constantly as productive work.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 98.
“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.” — Earl Nightingale.
“For God so loved the world…” John 3:16.
January 8, 2025: “INFINITE MIND!”
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” — John Muir.
“Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2.
“God is not a person who has set creation in motion and gone away and left it to run down like a clock. God is Spirit, infinite Mind, the immanent force and intelligence everywhere manifest in nature. God is the silent voice that speaks into visibility all the life there is.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 9.
“There is no reality but God, says the completely surrendered sheikh, who is an ocean for all beings. The levels of creation are straws in that ocean. The movement of the straws comes from an agitation in the water. When the ocean wants the straws calm, it sends them close to shore. When it wants them back in the deep surge, it does with them as the wind does with the grasses. This never ends.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 44.
“It is up to you to accept your God-given perfection for yourself, put aside the past mistakes and the untrue suggestions, and fix your undivided attention upon the Creator of your inner pattern of perfection. This is the secret of success in all spiritual treatments. You must bring all of your mental attitudes, the centers of your consciousness, and even your physical structures, to this high place in Divine Mind where you see as God sees.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 135.
“When we practice looking deeply, we have the insight into what to do and what not to do for the situation to change. Everything depends on our way of looking.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 80.
“You are not an isolated person separate and apart from every other person in the meeting. Each one is in you, and you are in each one, and all are in God.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 96.
“We create the conditions in which God’s light is most likely to shine forth. But God gives the light.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 98.
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill.
“Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge; for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. That your trust may be in the Lord, I have made them known to you today, even to you.” Proverbs 22: 17-19.
January 1, 2025: “NEW HAPPY YEAR!”
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca.
“In the beginning God…” Genesis 1:1.
“All reforms must begin with their cause. Their cause is mind, and mind does all its work in the realm of silence, which in reality is the only realm where sound and power go hand in hand” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 8.
“What is form in the presence of reality? Very feeble. Reality keeps the sky turned over like a cup above us, revolving. Who turns the sky wheel? The universal intelligence.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 43.
“The restrictions of yesterday have no power to overshadow our lives today, when we realize that we are in the eternal now. Let us begin our day with newness of thought and courage. Let us at the beginning of the new year throw the doors of our hearts and homes open to the new.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 185.
“We have to find the real causes for social injustice, and when we do, we will not condemn a certain type of people. We will ask, Why has the situation of these people remained like that?” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 80.
“As I fill my mind with truth, love, and spiritual wisdom, I am a law of harmony. healing. and peace unto all who enter my spiritual household.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 96.
“The power that heals, the power that prospers, the power that solves problems, that turns inharmony into harmony and sorrow into joy, is a creative power. It is the creative energy of life. It is the creative energy of God.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 98.
“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” — Anne Sullivan.
“In the beginning was the Word…” John 1:1.
THRIVE IN ’25!
For 2024 our theme is: “Thrive!” According to Webster; to thrive is “1: to grow vigorously : flourish 2: to gain in wealth or possessions : prosper 3: to progress toward or realize a goal despite or because of circumstances —often used with on, “thrives on conflict.”
As the wholly perfect sinless child of God (Christ) that we are, we are meant not merely to survive, but to thrive. The only things holding us back are our own limiting thoughts and feelings of inadequacy and separation. To which, the Apostle Paul said, “I die every day!” 1 Corinthians 15:31. Each day we have the opportunity to release what was for what can be; we open the door to a new level of understanding and expression of the divine potential within. We are reborn as we are renewed in mind. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2.
Our weekly Prayer Circle letters this year will follow the book ‘Talks on Truth’ by Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore. “Mind is the only causative power. By the power of the Word, it makes and unmakes all laws governing in personal life. The I AM floats in mind and formulates the words that set mind in motion.” (pg. 82.) When we change our minds, we change our lives. When our consciousness opens up to new awareness’s of being we are ‘born anew’: we begin again to realize peace, wholeness and abundance through greater and more fulfilling channels of expression.
For January we are sharing from Lesson 1: Reform Your God Thought.
Thank you for accompanying us on this journey of self-realization and discovery of our Divine potential!
Please affirm with us: “GOD’S KINGDOM OF LOVE AND UNITY IS NOW ESTABLISHED IN MY LIFE AND AFFAIRS!”
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!
For so it is and so it shall be, Amen!