July 27, 2014
Today we are
reviewing the final chapter of SPIRITUAL ECONOMICS; THE PROCESS AND PRINCIPLES
OF TRUE PROSPERITY by Rev. Eric Butterworth.
The final
chapter is titled, “A New World Vision” and Butterworth ends where he began…
talking about the ever-presence of God substance and how it is our thinking
that creates our experience in the world. He says, “Repeatedly we have stressed
the point that economic conditions, no matter how dire they appear to be, are
in the world “out there.” What counts for you… is how you deal with them in
consciousness. When you begin to see things from the high perspective of the
eve-presence of God-substance, you will be in the creative flow of abundance,
which will bless your life.”
This inlet of
awareness, this giving way to divine flow, will become, as Emerson put it, “…an
outlet to all there is in God.” Who doesn’t want to live that way?
I just watched
a video on Friday of Reba McEntire singing a song she just wrote. It’s called,
“Pray For Peace” and we’re going to listen to it right now. I also have words
for the screen.
PLAY “PRAY FOR
PEACE” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A29S6cn0nig)
Pray for
peace. I was touched when I first heard the song. The most poignant lyrics in
the song, for me, are pray for forgiveness, pray for wisdom, pray for
knowledge, and pray for understanding.
Praying for
peace is a beautiful thing to do. What will give it real and enduring power is
praying for peace from (1) a consciousness of forgiveness, wisdom, knowledge,
and understanding of spiritual principle… and (2) living it.
Whether its peace or prosperity, “…when we assume mastery
over our thoughts, as Butterworth writes, we become attuned to an evolution
that leads to the unfoldment of the kinds of things and experiences we desire.”
The awareness
and understanding that there is an ever-present sea of God-substance and that
we influence the invisible into the visible by way of our thinking is, in a
nutshell what Butterworth has been saying for 12 chapters.
“We have a
marvelous opportunity to usher in a “new world” of both prosperity and peace in
which people of awareness will live
with what Thoreau calls, “the license of a higher order of beings;” people who
practice the presence of God; people who know that the kingdom of God is not
out there somewhere hopefully to be discovered in some distant place on some
distant day… but people who know, as Jesus tells us, the kingdom of God is
within. And this kingdom is a realm of substance that is omnipresent and
omniactive.
To know this and live from this is
what changes the world. If you want the world to change, live from this
understanding and expression. What you express into the world influences what
the world becomes.
You may think, “But what can I do?
How can I have any influence on such a gigantic need? I am only one! Canon Farrar
has the answer and I’ll let it speak directly to you:
I am only one, but I am one.
I can’t do everything, but I can do
something.
What I can do, I ought to do.
And what I ought to do, by the grace
of God I will do.”
I invite you
to practice forgiveness routinely. Not the archaic forgiveness of, “that no
good lousy so and so did such and such to me and even though he doesn’t deserve
it I’m gonna be nice – or at least not show my anger towards him. I’ll just be
an example of shining cordiality. (Meanwhile you’re constantly convicting and
sentencing him/her in your heart)
It becomes
easier to forgive when you leave your heart open to the possibility that so and
so is a misguided (or frightened) child of God acting out of fear because they
don’t know how, or they’re afraid to extend love. They feel defensive about
everything because they don’t know there is an ever-present God-substance which
hey influence by their thinking. But you know that.
I invite you to develop a meditation,
or a yoga, or a tai-chi practice; or something else, whatever that may be that
helps to slow down your inner turbulence and connect with your inner guide,
inspiration, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, or Buddha nature, etc. whatever you call
the source, or messenger of inner wisdom, understanding and knowledge.
I invite you to pray from a place of
knowing that all is well because God is present and you, in partnership with
God, make a difference.
You can do all of this.
Would you not do this for the Love of
God? And for yourself? Think what it would do for you. The troubling thoughts
that “haunt” you will now seem increasingly remote and far away from you. And
they go farther and farther off because the sun in you has risen that they may
be pushed away before the light. They linger for a while, a little while, in
twisted forms too far away for recognition… and are gone forever. And from you
the peace you have found will extend and you will never feel homeless again.
Offer peace to everyone and you find
a home in Heaven the world can neither tarnish nor destroy.
You are one person. You can do this
for yourself and for the world.
I invite you to go in peace.
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