In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, you will remember that God creates by “letting.” God said “let,” at every act of creation, and it was done. Now God creates by means of you if you will let him, but you must let. Someone said, “Let go and Let God,” and this is a [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Let God!
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Without Rehearsal
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Someone said that living life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning to play the instrument as we go along. This saying describes the experience very well, but no one should worry about that. We are in this world for exactly that purpose – to learn.
While we are learning we do not [...]
Running Away From Life?
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the spiritual teaching we are told not to dwell upon our troubles, but instead, to realize the Presence of God where the troubles seems to be. Critics have suggested that this policy is “running away from life.” Is it?
Suppose you found yourself in a house that was on fire; what would you do? [...]
The Two Spirations
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever heard the old story of the two spirations? They are essentially for every worthwhile achievement. If either is missing the enterprise is doomed to failure, and if you have not been making your life as successful as you would like, you must go to work and find which of them has been [...]
The Secret of Successful Salesmanship
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
True salesmanship means finding out what your customer really needs, and supplying him with it; or if you cannot furnish it yourself, advising him to go elsewhere. Such a policy will not mean loss of business. On the contrary, working in this way you may lose one order but you will get half a [...]
The Kaffir Didn’t Know It
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
About the middle of the last century, a traveler was journeying along through what was then a remote part of South Africa. One day while smoking his pipe outside the hut in a native village, he noticed a group of little naked children playing what was evidently a native version of the time honored [...]
The 13th Hour
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some wonderful demonstrations come at the eleventh hour. Others come at the twelfth hour. And some of the deepest and most far-reaching demonstrations come at the thirteenth hour – if you maintain the right attitude. What, after all, is the right attitude? It is simply knowing the Truth of Being instead of accepting the [...]
Brains or Excelsior?
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You all know the Great Law. One way of stating it is to say: Like produces like. What we sow in thought we reap in experience.
People know that these things are true, and yet in spite of this transcendent knowledge they constantly use the Great Law for their own destruction. They would not dream [...]
The Good God
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
God knows everything, at all times. The Bible sometimes speaks of God as having changed His mind or being disappointed. God is supposed to have tested Abraham’s obedience in the matter of Isaac. God is supposed to have had His plans upset by the misconduct of Adam and Eve, by the general wickedness of humanity [...]
Theoretical Centipede
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do not dissect things too much. By the time you have dissected a living thing you have killed it, and you no longer have the thing that you began with. Take a rose out of the bowl, pull its petal apart, count them, weigh them, measure them, and then, while you will have certain [...]
