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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Universal Life Church

By Rev. Donald Z

Relax!

God Knows What He is Doing
Lessons From Gods Angels

Jesus Said:

Ask for the great things, and the small things shall be yours as well.

Ask for heavenly things, and all the earthly things shall be yours as well.


The Angel Of LOVE

Borne from the Tear that Christ Shed on the Cross



And the Angel Speaks:


Today I bestow the essence of love upon everything. Everyone I meet

shall be lovely to me. My soul meets the soul of the Universe in

everyone. This love is a healing power touching everything into

wholeness.


To love is to see God in all. This sight, this intelligence, this all light of reasoning, wisdom, understanding, is the light of God that flows within you and every creature in the universe, the home of God, the one only. To trust yourself is to trust God. To love yourself is to love God, God is all. Allow your love forever to flow, the choice is yours. There is only one choice, and that choice is Love, Love God, Love Yourself,

Love Your Brothers, Love Your Sisters, Love Your Vision.



Love! Compassion! Mercy! Creativity !Forgiveness! These are of all of the Love of God. Chose to see the light of God, for by his mercy you walk in the light of God. He is always by your side, you are chosen. We have no obligation to one another except to give and receive love. Say I love you no matter what you have done or who you may be, for all is God, and I love God as I love all. Step back and allow the natural flow to enter into your life. Allow me the Angel of Love to share the knowledge that God has given me to share with you, allow me to share this Love now.

Meditation


Relax and concentrate your whole self on the thought and the presence of the Spirit of God. Count from ten to zero. As you count, feel yourself moving closer and closer to God. Fell yourself moving closer and closer to your true _expression. When you reach zero you will be filled only with the spirit of God. All other thoughts will have vanished from your mind as you begin your journey into your God consciousness. Reflect on this one thought. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. That is not so. For God and I are but one.


See a young man walking along a snow-covered path, surrounded by the stillness of a cold winter's night. Only the sound of the snow beneath his feet breaks the stillness of the night. Above the sky stretches endlessly in all directions, so full of stars it seems like an immense umbrella of light sprinkled with small bits of darkness. The entire country, from the distant peaks and valleys to the green trees along his path are bathed in an unearthly light.


He comes upon an clearing, and the source of the light is suddenly revealed: Amazed he looks at the full moon which seems to have drawn him closer and closer, as if it has singled him out above all. A beautiful woman, a princess with snow-white doves as feet appears. His eyes are riveted upon her beauty. Her lovely glow lights his face.


He feels motion in his motionless legs, he feels himself moving towards her, wanting, willing her to meet him. His every sense is keyed to peak awareness, yet he oblivious of the icy coldness of the wind and the stinging of the snow as winter tears at his soul.


He feels the pale moon woman's floating motion toward him as much as his purposeful advance toward her. They are drawn to each other as if magnetized. Now they are close. He opens his arms and embraces the shadowy form, which takes on substance from his touch. Their shapes blend together.



The merging of their outlines extends to their minds and pervades their blood. He experiences their unity with every fiber; every muscle and cord in his body responds, grows strong in ways they had not been strong before. The wind has joined their union and supports them, carrying them along on violent gusts.


There is a soaring in his mind and heart, almost unbearable in intensity. At last, when the ultimate crescendo has been reached, it begins to abate. The shadow form slips from out of his hold and is swept away by the winter wind. He is left alone with the purity of the night and snow, never to be lonely again, filled with the afterglow of new hights of awareness, aliveness, and unconditional love.



You are now feeling the true nature of love.



And God Speaks;



Love is the central flame of the universe, yes, the very fire itself. It is written that I am Love, and that you are my expressed likeness, the of the One Eternal Being. Love is self-givingness through creation, the impartatation of the Divine through you my children.



I have spoken and so it is:


The Angel Of TRUTH



And the Angel Speaks:



I rely on God alone, in whom I live, move and have my being. A sense of

happiness, peace and certainty flows through me. I know truth in myself

because I know truth in God. I am sure of myself because I am sure of

God.



Never accuse the world or yourself of foolishness or ignorance,

Not even God judges. He knows all things and does all things well through you.

All evil is blamed on sin, but sin is only a mistaken idea of life, a mistaken idea of who you are, and the world in which you chose to live. This is all the sin you or anyone has ever committed. Your mistake is of mind, and you have chosen to live that mistake.

Knowing this truth erases all mistakes.

You are now free from your suffering and troubles. Speaking truth, thinking truth will bring to the world all that it is seeking.

GOD WORKS ONLY IN TRUTH!

You have no idea how soon you will forget about the misguided idea of evil

When you speak and live the truth. Realize the world is not of evil.

Speak boldly and let spirit handle your affairs. Know that spirit occupies the space that form claims to occupy.

SPIRIT IS PURE INTEELIGINCE AND THAT IS TRUTH.

Did Jesus not say that man shall not live by bread alone! But by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God!



The mind of man is the mind of God

The life of man is the life of God

The soul of man is the soul of God

The spirit of man is the spirit of God



In truth move on.

Relax and concentrate your whole self on the thought and the presence of the Spirit of God. Count from ten to zero. As you count, feel yourself moving closer and closer to God. Fell yourself moving closer and closer to your true _expression. When you reach zero you will be filled only with the spirit of God. All other thoughts will have vanished from your mind as you begin your journey into your God consciousness. Reflect on this one thought. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. That is not so. For God and I are but one.


Daily Prayer (meditation)


I am a center in the Divine Mind, a point of God conscious life, truth and action.

My affairs are divinely guided and guarded into right action, into correct results.

Everything I do, say or think, is stimulated by the Truth.

There is a power in the word I speak, because it is of the Truth and it is the Truth.

There is a perfect and continuous right action in my life and affairs.
All believe in wrong action is dispelled and made negative.

Right action alone has power and right action is Power, and Power is God…The Living Sprit Almighty.

This sprit animates everything that I do, say and think.

Ideas come to me daily and these ideas are divine ideas.

They direct me and sustain me without effort.

I am continuously directed.

I am compelled to do the right thing at the right time.

To say the right word at the right time.

To follow the right course at all times.

All suggestion of age, poverty, limitations or unhappiness is uprooted from my mind.

And can not gain entrance to my thought.

I am happy, well and filled with perfect life.

I live in the Sprit of Truth and I am conscious that the Sprit of Truth lives in me.

My word is the law unto it’s own manifestation, and will bring to me or cause me to be brought to it’s fulfillment.

There is no unbelief, no doubt no uncertainty.

I know and I know that I know.

Let every thought of doubt vanish from my mind.

That I may know the Truth and the Truth may set me free.

And God Speaks;



These things my son hath done you shall have done too.



I have spoken and so it is:



The Angel Of KNOWING



I know exactly what to do in every situation. Every idea necessary to

successful living is brought to my attention. The doorway to ever-increasing

opportunities for self-_expression is open before me. I am continuously meeting

new and larger experiences. Every day brings some greater good. Every day

brings more blessing and greater self-_expression. I am prospered in everything I

do. There is no deferment or delay, no obstruction or obstacle to impede the

progress of right action.



And the Angel Speaks:



All was, and is, and ever will be, is the work of the Divine Mind. " God saw everything He had made, and behold it was good.



Our words along with our true nature of Knowing are the only principal at work. The water of a mighty river maybe dammed up, but if a channel were made the water would flow freely over the land making them fruitful and unconfined. This we Know! So why do we become muddled in faith, when we Know!



Jesus said; By thy word thou art justified and by thy word thou art condemned. If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death. Faith? No! Knowing!



Knowing itself as Knowing will feed itself and increase. Knowing will work miracles by reason of itself. Miracles are the power of Knowing.



Know That;

God lives in me as his strength and glory

God lives in me as my strength divine

By His light and love I read life's story

And the key to His world is mine



Old ideas are old beliefs.

You are not obliged to live in the past.

You are the creator of today.



Know this if nothing else,

Know that all is God!


Relax and concentrate your whole self on the thought and the presence of the Spirit of God. Count from ten to zero. As you count, feel yourself moving closer and closer to God. Fell yourself moving closer and closer to your true _expression. When you reach zero you will be filled only with the spirit of God. All other thoughts will have vanished from your mind as you begin your journey into your God consciousness. Reflect on this one thought. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. That is not so. For God and I are but one.

See yourself in a large open-air swimming pool in beautiful surroundings, comfortably immersed in water of exactly the right temperature. Be carried away by the soothing motions of the waves, listening to the sounds of the gentle ripples. The bed of waves supports you securely and surrounds you lovingly, extending far in all directions, further and further beyond all horizons, until you realize you are floating on an endless cloud. There is nothing to break the continuity of support and the rhythm of sound.


You feel the need to share this grand experience with someone. Suddenly you find yourself high above the clouds floating on air, part of an Angel ballet. To your delight, you find that your body is completely at ease performing intricate routines in unison with these Angels. Every move is at once spontaneous and familiar.



Your motions synchronize effortlessly. You find yourself soaring to heights you have never imaged. You easily follow the tempo and rhythm of the winds. Soaring gracefully you rise with them. A great feeling of joy and well being fills your soul as you perfectly perform your routines. You want this ballet to last forever, to experience the sense of well being and accomplishment again and again.



Suddenly, there is a slight difficulty, your soaring has become more difficult than before. Your movements are not as fluid, not as graceful. The wind resists your flight, and the sky is not as clear as it was before. You are not quite sure of the direction in which you are to move. The wind is becoming furious, the sky foggy; somehow you must clear them to see where you are going. If only you had someone to guide you!



The moment you become aware of your need, it is filled;

A golden angel appears to show you the way.


Immediately you find yourself in a perfect private world that is only yours. So perfect you are not startled or surprised. Angels are Gods messengers. You find you silently communicate perfectly with the Angel. You become aware of another certainty in this wonderful place. Language and communication need not depend on words. Without words to inform the angel, it knows that you need a guide; without spoken reassurance, you know that you can trust this spirit. You willingly allow the Angel to guide you, wherever he chooses to lead.



He soars ahead of you and you follow, knowing that all is safe. The Angel’s golden light is so bright you unable to see anything clearly beyond his light. Everything here is so beautiful that the thought of missing anything makes you a little inpatient. You say nothing because you so much love the beauty of the angel, but suddenly you know that he knows of your impatience.



He puts on a magnificent display for you; without any break in his graceful soaring ahead of you he answers your thoughts by means of emanating a beautiful kaleidoscope of ever changing designs and colors, each representing an answering word. Only they are lost on you, because you can not understand his language. All you can make out are incomprehensible Patterns.



If only there was a way to learn his language, if only you could discover what is in his head? That's it; you have found the answer; to find the answer you must pursue the Angel to its’ source. Allow your mind to become one with the Angel. His thoughts become your thoughts, his soul becomes your soul. All of his senses and his thoughts become your very own.



See and feel yourself moving forward, gaining on him slowly, drawing along side him, closer and closer, until your outlines blur and merge, until you are a part of him and he is a part of you. Suddenly you know that you understand his language and his thoughts as you understand your own. Spend some time within the angel. Study his feelings, his thoughts, his language as long as you wish.



Repeat after me



I know my destiny in life. God has

ordained a wonderful mission for

me, and I joyously fulfill it. I am an

emissary for Spirit, and I accept

my life in God.

And now you Know!



And God Speaks;

I will provide!



The Angel Of ABUNDANCE



I identify myself with abundance. I surrender all fear and doubt. I let go

of all uncertainty. I know there is no confusion, no lack of confidence.

The presence of God is with me. The Mind of God is my mind. The

freedom of God is my freedom. The power of God is my power. The

abundance of God fills my every good desire right now.





And the Angel Speaks:


Abundance can never be denied of you. As a child of God how can anything ever be denied of you? It can not! But you must we willing to step up and accept you true inheritance without question, knowing full will that the Father is and will always answer you wherever you yourself are in spiritual conscience. The Father would never turn away any of His children. Knowing this we should never question nor need we ever fell alone. Aloneness is your conscience choice of standing apart for our Father. It is your choice, not His, made of your own free will that has been granted onto you. Abundance, true Abundance in Love Peace all that is beautiful, all that is life is yours now just for the acceptance of your true inherence as the child of God. You do not have to force any issue in life. For to do so is to believe in the duality of life, and there can not be duality since all is of and is God.



Relax and concentrate your whole self on the thought and the presence of the Spirit of God. Count from ten to zero. As you count, feel yourself moving closer and closer to God. Fell yourself moving closer and closer to your true _expression. When you reach zero you will be filled only with the spirit of God. All other thoughts will have vanished from your mind as you begin your journey into your God consciousness. Reflect on this one thought. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. That is not so. For God and I are but one.



You are walking into the light, surrounded by a thick mist, feel it clinging all around you feel its softness, white embrace. Now allow the mist to dissipate and allow the warmth from the light to start to take a hold. As the mist dissolves other forms start to emerge and you find yourself walking in a pine forest. Pine needles make a firm springy carpet beneath your feet. You reach out and feel the bark of the trees that tower above you. The scent of pine fills the clean clear air. The light shines warm though the last of the mist and though the green pine branches, and lights your path with cool green shade.


Stand for a moment weave patterns on the forest floor as the

light gleams and sparkles though the trees.



Stillness fills the air, as you wander along the path though the trees, that stillness becomes sound-music. Listen carefully and let the guild you. The path opens out into a clearing, there is the source of the music. An angel sitting in the tall grass playing a violin. The notes flow from his fingers. You stop and hold your breath, you know you are on the brink of a new experience, You see the notes flow from the angels hands, spiraling skyward, silver streaks of sound arise in a shimmering spiral, returning to meet golden streaks, blue, red, green, intertwined, then separating, almost to beautiful for the eye to see. On they soar together. Onward they soar together, spinning skyward, soaring to their climax, creating a flame as the approach a crest in the path.

There they remain for an instant, so beautiful, with so much grace; they now burn blue, before falling into the mighty pine forest.



Deeply moved by this marriage of sight and sound you begin to feel new creative possibilities of abundance coming to life within you, growing, expanding, and crying for _expression.

Now watch this new found abundance grow, knowing that you can now express it smoothly, effortlessly and with confidence.


And God Speaks;



Walk onto me,

your Father as the proud child

Knowing that all my gifts are bestowed

Upon you today by your acceptance



And so it is


The Angel Of ACCEPTANCE



The Spirit within me knows the answer to the problems which confront

me. I know that the answer is here and now. It is within my own mind

because God is right where I am. I now turn from the problem to the

Spirit, accepting the answer. In calm confidence, in perfect trust, in

abiding faith, and with complete peace, I let go of the problem and

receive the answer.



And the Angel Speaks:



All that is, is God! You are of God, I am of God, all is of God. The simple acceptance of this one truth will set you free. All that we have ever wanted or all that we ever need has already been given onto us with love. God wants for us what we want for ourselves. Know that God would never hold anything from you. Understand, that as you know God, so God knows you. This is why it is very important that you know that God is a kind and loving parent. As you know God so you will reflect onto the world.



Relax and concentrate your whole self on the thought and the presence of the Spirit of God. Count from ten to zero. As you count, feel yourself moving closer and closer to God. Fell yourself moving closer and closer to your true _expression. When you reach zero you will be filled only with the spirit of God. All other thoughts will have vanished from your mind as you begin your journey into your God consciousness. Reflect on this one thought. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. That is not so. For God and I are but one.



God who fills your consciousness fills the whole of the Universe. Let yourself be carried by the sprite of God and with this One Sprite roam over the whole of creation. Fill Gods power in the mighty winds, Gods strength in the towering mountains, in the thundering skies, and in the ocean vast blue. This One Universal Spirit with all of its power, love and wisdom fills your consciousness.



God is the warn gentle breeze, the colors of the rainbow, the beauty and the power of the waterfall. The first rose of spring, the wind that fills your sails as you lazily sail into the orange sunset. He is the waves as the drift upon the sandy shores. God is the gentleness and love that fills your soul.



God is the rich fertile soil and the life giving seeds of the earth. God is the green grass blowing in the breeze. God is the mind that creates all that is new. God is all that is life. You are an individual _expression of God! God is the power of creation in your hands, in your mind, and in your soul.



Feel God as God caresses you with The Fathers loving hands, feel his love, his wisdom, his peace, his knowing, know that these are also yours. Know that it is God that binds all hearts, all minds and bodies together in peace and harmony. Feel his love, express his love, his kindness and his wisdom. Accept this gift he has given you. Live in his love and all that you touch shall be as his touch and therefore be aglow in love and wisdom.



Now move forth into this world as his massager of love. Let his sprite grow within you until Gods love is all that you are. Know that you are Gods _expression of power, strength gentleness, life, creativity, love this sprite that is you. Know that you are chosen as one of his expressions, give only love even in the face of hate Let his sprite replace all that has died inside of you. Let God make your vision clear and strip you of the illusion of this world.



See God as he creates, see him creating every moment of your life. In God you are continually being reborn. Go now with God in the spirit of love into the newness of life.



Love all that you see and know that by loving all that you see love will be returned to you ten fold. Love all that you do, all that you are, for all that is you, God is also.



With God there can be no evil on your pathway, there is no matter to its laws, there can be no loss or lack, no deprivation. There is nothing to fear, for there is no power to hurt. There is neither sin, nor sickness, nor death. The past is but a dream. The future is but an illusion. There is only now, right now, this moment! And that has already become the past.



And God Speaks;



Go now and know that I am always with you!



Everything that you do, say or think is governed by MY Divine Intelligence and

inspired by My Divine Wisdom. You are always guided into right action. You are

surrounded with friendship, love and beauty. Enthusiastic joy, vitality and inspiration are in everything you do. You are now conscious of My Divine Guidance.



Close your eyes and repeat after me:



I accept complete happiness, abundant health and increasing prosperity. I am aware of my partnership with God. I know that everything I do shall prosper and shall be for the good of all. The law of God is flowing through me. I am one with the rhythm of all life, God.

Know that you have nothing to be afraid of. There is nothing to be uncertain about.

I am over all, in all, and through all. I am right where you are. I am at peace with the world in which you live. You are now at home with the Divine Spirit in which you are immersed. You and I are one. Go and know that truly My Kingdom is at hand today, where you are, as you are, and as who you are.


The Angel of Spiritual Serenity

The greatest gift God has bestowed upon us, is spiritual serenity, how much the greater, given with love. Know that the God gives to the children only with love for God would never want anything but love for his children. Serenity is your natural state of being. You can see it in a child’s eyes at play. Peace, calmness, serenity must be guarded everyday, indeed every moment with every waking breath. This gift, the most precious of Gods gifts, the simplest gift of all is the most difficult of all to harbor. Know that when peace and calmness are withering from your soul that it is nothing more that your believe in the illusion of this three dimensional world. When you feel your serenity slipping away simply turn within and say God I love you!



Close your eyes for a moment and say God I love you and now simply wait for his answer.

Relax and concentrate your whole self on the thought and the presence of the Spirit of God. Count from ten to zero. As you count, feel yourself moving closer and closer to God. Fell yourself moving closer and closer to your true _expression. When you reach zero you will be filled only with the spirit of God. All other thoughts will have vanished from your mind as you begin your journey into your God consciousness. Reflect on this one thought. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. That is not so. For God and I are but one.

Imagine yourself sitting on a riverbank, observing the configurations of a whirlpool directly in front of you. A small branch drifts towards the eddy, it comes closer and closer, until it is finally caught by the pull of the whirlpool. Your minds eye now has a point of focus and follows the branch as it is caught in the vortex of the swirling water, drawing a circle around its largest circumference, then around its next one and the one after that, being drawn down deeper and deeper and faster and faster inward.

Retaining your sense of comfort and safety, you begin to identify with the branch. Feeling no fear or threat, you follow the branch, you are now the branch, letting go, relaxing as the whirlpool carries you into its center. You feel relief that burden of control is lifted from you, relief at being allowed to be let go, to follow where the water leads, deeper and deeper into the mysterious depth, leading to the new dimension beneath the point of the funnel, into your inner conscience.

Now you have reached this quite and peaceful place, begin to explore it. There are some landmarks here, which in the future will immediately reinforce your knowledge of having arrived at the source of your inner spirit, the one you have chosen to surrender to God. Notice how it feels. It is a place and a state of mind to serene to be called expectancy, for you are waiting for something yet to be identified, and yet you know beyond a doubt that you have entered the Kingdom of Heaven within, just as Jesus had promised. You find yourself waiting, not for any solutions to concrete problems, but for a panorama of creative thought. You are now face to face with the creation of God as you.



While you are waiting, empty you mind of all thoughts. Allow only God to enter the temple of your mind. Empty your mind of all concerns as if you were cleaning a table to spread out on it pieces of a picture puzzle. There must be plenty of room to display all the pieces of your reflective thoughts, each piece must lie within its own island of space, so that your inner -expression of God can examine himself from your inner most minds eye.

See and feel as God releases you from the burden of your ego and takes control of your life. Never again need you worry about any outcome in your life as God now has total dominion through your surrender. All that you say and do is now an _expression of God.

Now repeat after me,



I now let go of everything and turn to that Divine Spirit of God within me, where the spirit of love and the spirit of peace dwells in me with calm serenity. I withdraw into the place in me that has never been hurt, nor has ever been sick, and that has always lived in divine and eternal peace, I choose the Kingdom of God, which is good. This inner Kingdom within is all peace, all power and all perfection. I know that I have entered into the Kingdom of wholeness, perfection, peace, power, beauty, love, supply and life. I know that the abundance of this life is showered upon me, that I am guided into right action, into right decision. I now walk the pathway of Gods perfection into the knowledge, the peace, and the love, knowing that God now makes my every movement and decision for me. I now live in harmony, abundance and peace. I now live in the Kingdom of God.

Now listen as the Spirit of God within you speaks;


I will never leave you nor forsake you. I am with you always, for you are my _expression, the light of my Light. I have fulfilled myself as you, and have given myself to you as you. All that I am, all that you are, we are, for you are my _expression. I am all that you can conceive of me, your supply, your health, your work, your relationships, your protection, all that I am, you are. Know that I will, nor can I ever withhold anything from you, for I am you in true _expression. Take your rightful place upon the throne of my heart, love me as I have always loved you. Know that I now give you divine authority to manifest the fulfillment of your desires, and I will always guild you wisely and rightly. Choose that which you have and accept that have as me, your father, the one who loves you, who wants only good for you.



Oh love what you see. Love everything that you see. See yourself and all in pictures of total fulfillment, see it in your heart, feel it.


Now repeat;

I now totally and completely surrender to the activity of God, the only power at work in my life. I now let go of all that I am or was and do his perfect work. I let go and let God work his miracles through me, as me, as God!



I now move into this world as a co-creator with God, always listening to the inner guild, and doing that which is in front of me to do as one with God.

Now allow yourself a few minutes for this experience to fully what has just happened. You are no longer ordinary, just one of the crowd, you have touched the face of God.



Live it, breath it and

Say unto your heart,

"Peace, be still!"


God's New Meditation


As you close your eyes and relax you concentrate your whole self on the thought and the presence of the Spirit of God you feel yourself moving closer and closer to God. You fell yourself moving closer and closer to your true _expression. Just breath and you will be you will be filled with the spirit of God. All other thoughts will have vanished from your mind as you begin your journey into your God consciousness. Reflect on this one thought. The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if he stood there and they here. That is not so. For God and I are but one.

See yourself surrounded by Jesus, Mohammed, The Buddha, and all the great saints and Gods messengers, because this is truly who you and all of your Brothers/Sister are. We are the messengers sent here from God to share our messages and Gods love. Now I want you to become one with whom they are. Feel and see the white light of Gods power as it flows into you, though you and surrounds you. Feel and know the sense of the omnipotent presence of the Father. Understand and release all that you thought you were. Know that you are so much more. Now form a circle with these great beings and hold hands. Experience the union with the Creator, feeling his light, love, and peace. Release all feelings of tension as you become one with the Holy Father. Know that you are now blessed with the honesty, truth and knowledge of why you are here. Know that you are a minister of His truth as your individual _expression of the Father dictates to your soul. Ask God to bliss all of your Brothers/ Sisters and know that it is so. Know that you now shine with His beauty and love and healing even to those that would persecute you, knowing that any persecution is simply a misunderstanding that they have of themselves. As you forgive them know that they are forgiven, just as you are forgiven. Release all of those that have ever hurt you and see them in Gods loving Light. Know that you yourself are released. Know that though you and your sharing of Gods light, peace and forgiveness that you have done your part in saving this world. Now bath in this understanding and allow it to become whom you are.



Now see yourself carrying this Light, Love and understanding into the world and bless all, even those that would chose to be your enemy, knowing in your heart that no child of God, no Brother/Sister could ever truly be an enemy.



Bless it be, and so it is.


Go in peace, goodwill and love.



Thank You

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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Universal Life Church

Online Ordination
By Rev. Johnie Woodall
Ministers

Ministers are to serve the people of the Churches and to teach the Gospel of Christ.

Second they are to be a servant all people Next he is to Preach the Gospel of Christ and that is to Love all people of all the earth.

Now the two Commandment's that he gave us is to Love GOD with all your Heart,soul and mind.

Second one is to Love your neighbour as yourself this is not the way it is in the Bible but to get the Bible verse go to Matt. 23:37-40 that is the two commandment's that JESUS CHRIST to us all and I beleave it is to be tought that way and money is said to be the root to all evil, but that is not how I read it.

The love of money is the root so Love in that way is not good at all. We need to put all our Faith in the LORD and not in Money.

You may say I say that because I don't have any that is the true at this time, but it has not always been like that.

It is now I am happy now that I learn that money doesn't make me love any better.

Only true love is when you thrust in the LORD and him only I thank you very much for the time that was given to me and i THANK YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW.

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Friday, September 23, 2005

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By Starhawk
A Pagan Response to Katrina

As Pagans, as worshippers of nature, how do we respond to an event like Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of the United States? What does it mean to ‘worship’ something that, with one breath, can wipe out a major city? Do we see this as punishment, retribution for some Pagan sin? As an object lesson in the reality of climate change and global warming? As an overheated Goddess batting away some of the oil rigs contributing to her fever?

Of course, no one can speak for all Pagans; we have no official dogma. But here is my own answer, as a priestess, teacher, writer, and activist.

Pagan religions are not punishment systems. We don’t worship Gods of retribution, but a Goddess—or Gods and Goddesses--of mystery, in many aspects. The Goddess has immense power, both creative and destructive: the power that pushes a root out from a tiny seed and sends its shoot reaching for the sky, the power of the earthquake and the volcano, the rain that feeds the crops and the hurricane. We respond to that power with awe, wonder, amazement and gratitude, not fear.

The great powers of nature have an intelligence, a consciousness, albeit different in magnitude and kind from our own. Everything in nature is alive and speaking: the deep, crystalline intelligence of the rock heart of the planet, the fungal threads that link the roots of trees into the nerve-net of the forests, the chattering birds and the biochemistry of plants and mushrooms are all communicating. Our spiritual practice, the practice of magic, is about opening our eyes, ears and hearts to be able to hear, understand, and communicate back. And those powers want us to communicate with them. The Goddess is not omnipotent—-she is co-creative with human beings. She needs human help to create fertility and regeneration. The elements, the ancestors, the spirit beings that surround us want to work with us to protect and heal the earth, but they need our invitation.

Nature is also human nature. Our human intelligence, our particular, sharp-pointed ability to analyze, think, draw conclusions and act, our aesthetic/emotional capacity to thrill at a beautiful sunset, our deep bonds with those we love and our empathy and compassion for others, are all aspects of the Goddess Herself. Indeed, she evolved us complicated, contradictory big-brained creatures precisely to experience some of those aspects. Or to put it simply, she gave us brains and she expects us to use them.

As a Witch, as a priestess of the Goddess, I make daily time to meditate and listen, ideally in some place where I have direct contact with nature. I rarely use an indoor altar any more—instead I sit in the woods, or at least, in my garden, quiet my thoughts, open my eyes, look and listen. And what I’ve been hearing lately, in company with every other person I know who is in tune with the deep powers of the earth, is anguish, distress, deep rage, and dire warnings. The processes of environmental destruction, in particular, the overheating of the earth’s climate, are already underway.

A few weeks ago, when we were preparing for the Free Activist Witch Camp that Reclaiming, our network of Witches, offered in Southern Oregon, I asked, “Is there any way to avert massive death and destruction.” The answer I got was an unequivocal ‘no.’

“The process has gone too far,” was the answer. The image that came to me was river rafting and shooting the rapids. There was a point where we as a species could have chosen a different river, or a different boat, or a different channel. But now we’re in the chute. We can’t turn back. We can’t stop.

There’s a command in river rafting, used in extreme situations: “Paddle or die.” If you paddle, you have some power—-not enough to change the flow of the river, but enough to steer a course and avoid crashing on the rocks. If you give up, the river will most likely flip your boat, and you will drown.

When our Reclaiming group emerged from the woods, a little-reported item in the news media informed us that vast stretches of the tundra were melting in Siberia. If we were collectively using even a minimum of our human intelligence, this news should have been trumpeted on the front page with all the alarm of a terrorist attack, for it is far more dangerous.

Global warming increases the intensity of storms. Turn up the fire under a pot of water, and the bubbles will be bigger, faster and stronger. Hurricanes draw their energy from the heat in seawater. The Gulf of Mexico is abnormally warm—-and hurricanes have doubled in average intensity in the last decade and a half. Hurricane Katrina was a natural phenomenon, but Katrina’s progression from a Category Two up to a Category Five as she crossed the gulf was a human-caused phenomenon, a function of our choices and decisions, our failure to steer a different course.

The forms and names we put on Goddesses, Gods, and Powers help translate those forces into terms our human minds can grasp. And so the Yoruba-based traditions that originate in West Africa have given the name ‘Oya’ to the whirlwind, the hurricane, to those great powers of sudden change and destruction.

Santeria, candomble, lucumi, voudoun--all include Oya in some form as a major orisha, a Great Power. Offerings are made to her, ceremonies done in her behalf, priestesses dance themselves into trance possession so that she can communicate with directly with the human community.

No city in the United States has more practitioners of these traditions than New Orleans. On the night the hurricane was due to hit, I made a ritual with a small group of friends to support the spiritual efforts that I knew were being made by priestesses of Oya all over the country. We were in Crawford, Texas, at Camp Casey, where Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, camped near Bush’s ranch to confront Bush with the painful reality of the deaths his policies have caused.

Many of the supporters there were from New Orleans, worried about their homes, their friends and families. The overall culture of the camp was very Christian—-we found no natural opening for public Pagan ritual, although a number of people did indicate to me quietly that they were ‘one of us.’ But our little group gathered by the roadside, cast a circle, chanted and prayed.

We prayed, speaking personally in the way humans do: "Please, Mama, we know what a mess we’ve made, but if there is any way to mitigate the death and the destruction, to lessen it slightly, please do." That same night, Christians were praying and Orisha priestesses were ‘working’ Oya, and the hurricane did shift its course, slightly, and lessened its force, down to a Category Four.

And New Orleans survived. Not without loss, and death, but without the massive flooding and destruction that was feared. We all breathed a sigh of relief.

And a day later, the levees failed, and the floods came. They failed not from an Act of Goddess, but from a lack of resources. The Bush Administration had systematically cut funding for flood control and for repairing and increasing the strength of the levees. The money went to Iraq. Much of the Louisiana National Guard was also in Iraq. FEMA, the Federal Agency responsible for responding to natural disasters, had been gutted, defunded, refocused on terrorism, and its directorship given to a Bush political crony with no experience in disaster response.

Now, weeks later, New Orleans remains under martial law. Official efforts at relief have ranged from inept to brutal, and the lack of planning and concern for human life, the punitive quality of the official response, seem deeply linked to prejudice and racism which devalues the lives of the poor, especially if they’re black.

But ordinary people of all faiths have responded to this disaster with caring and compassion, with massive donations and relief efforts, and with shock and rage at a government which so completely fails to embody the values of human decency and respect for life that it claims to represent.

The Goddess does not punish us, but she also doesn’t shield us from the logical consequences of our actions. Katrina’s destructive power was a consequence of a human course that is contemptuous of nature. A Native American proverb says, "If we don’t change our direction, we’re going to wind up where we’re headed." Katrina shows us a glimpse of that awful destination.

And she also shows us hope. We can change, and if we truly awaken to the need, maybe we will, before it is too late. The outpouring of concern and efforts to help, the hope, determination and vision of some of the citizens of New Orleans who remain, the grief we feel for the dead and the losses and the compassion that a huge tragedy evokes are the tools we need to set a different course, one that honors nature and human life, that uses our human intelligence to restore and regenerate the natural world, awakens our compassion, and kindles our passion for justice.

When we set a new course, all the powers of life and growth and regeneration will be flowing with us. And when we ally with those powers, miracles can happen.



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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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I am Glad I was not there.


Imagine Jesus saying that. There are things that transpire because God sees our deep need to know Him better. We may possess to a high degree the three things below,

Mental ascent
Verbal affirmation
Visible and verifiable consecration

However, these do not bring us to truly knowing Him. Listen to the Words of Martha and Mary,

"Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died." John 11:21

"Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died." John 11:32

His Disciples had Mental assent, Verbal affirmation and Visible consecration, but they did not get it. Much like us. Many times, God allows things to happen in our lives to bring us to a point of truly understanding him. This understanding is realized, when something dies.

Lazarus was an object lesson. He was sick, he died, was mourned, wrapped in grave clothes, placed in a tomb, a large stone was placed in front of it. For four days, his body, his dead, decaying body waited. Jesus could have shown up two days after his funeral, but he waited two more days. No matter when he would have showed up, Lazarus was still dead. He waited two more days for one reason it would seem. To demonstrate the power to give life to a dead thing.

"And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe;" John 11:15 KJV

God wants you to know something about him that can only truly be appreciated by experience. In this story, Lazarus is the object lesson. In your life, the object it applies to could be many things.

Lazarus may be a promise, a longstanding prayer, a dream or ministry. Lazarus and his experience you may identify with feeling without life, confined in a dark place, wrapped in the garments of death, even your circumstance and nature stinking because of the hopelessness of your situation.

This morning in preparation the Lord spoke the things below to me toshare with you.

I will be a light to you in your dark place. I will bring healing to your brokenness. If you will seek my face! Watch and see what I will do when you commit to seek, till ye find. When you knock, until the door opens. To ask, until the answer comes. When they have buried it. When it has been sealed behind a rock. When the band has played and the crying has happened. Just because it is dead, don't mean your promise will stay dead. Sometimes things have to die to live. I am the resurrection and the life, though it were dead, yet
shall it live!

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."

Your Promise, your dream, your ministry may be dead. However, that is the best place for it, for it could never truly live, until you have truly died.

I hear the voice of the Lord calling your name¦. "Come Forth"

In Him, By Him, Through Him,

Scott Phillips

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

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Universal Life Church javascript:void(0)SeminaryMy uncle wrote this for me when I had cancer years ago. --Amy
Sermon for Sunday
When Is God Deaf?
Virgil Smith - Pastor

When is God Deaf? Matthew 15:21:28

Dear Jon.. My Sermon from thinking about Amy (with Cancer at the time)
When you have prayed, do you ever come up against a blank wall? God is deaf to our prayers, or so it seems.

People have prayed for fine weather and it has rained cats and dogs.
They have prayed for health and been dogged all their days by chronic illness.
They have prayed for the life of a loved one and even while the prayer was uttered, the loved one died.

People have prayed for peace and wars have broken out all over the world.
People have prayed for deliverance from tyranny and have suffered torture, imprisonment, and death.

Now strangely enough, the Bible is full of examples of this same apparent deafness on the part of God. In the Psalm, that real devotional book of faith and praise , you run across passages like this: "O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer." Or this: "Be know silent unto me lest if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." Turn to the prophets and one of them starts right in with the complaint, "O Lord, how long shall I cry, and you do not hear?" Or move over into the NT and you stumble over the same experience, Paul prays three times that his thorn in the flesh be removed but his prayer goes unanswered and for the rest of his life he has to make the best of it. Even Christ on the night before he dies prays in an agony that the cup of suffering and bitterness be removed, but shortly he rises from his prayer and drinks the cup to the dregs.

What shall we make of it, when God seems to go be deaf? At lest we can start out by knowing that the experience is not common only to and me, and that it is not necessarily and indication of lack of faith on our part. We can take comfort from the fact that the great spirits of the OT, Saint Paul and even our Lord himself knew what it is like to pray and apparently have the prayer go unanswered.

When we turn to the story of this woman of Caanan, which is a kind of case history dealing with the problem of unanswered prayer. To her petition for help for her sick daughter, Jesus "answered her not a word" Why? Well, in the first place, the woman was a stranger.

Jesus had just left Judea and was traveling into a non-Jewish country where he had not been before.

How did this woman come to know about him? Why had she come to this Jewish Rabbi with her sick daughter? Stories, no doubt, had gone on ahead of him telling of his miraculous cures.

Possible she was at her wits end trying any and every possibility to find a cure for her daughter. After all, what had she to lose? And perhaps right there you will find one obvious answer to a lot of unanswered prayers. Is it too much to say that when in our extremity we turn to God for help we come, more often that we'd care to admit, as comparative strangers to him, getting around to prayer only when we don't know where else to turn, and then not bothering to pray until we are up against it again?

And have you ever thought what a mess this world would be if every prayer were answered? Just consider the spectacle of all sorts of people, many of whom are strangers to Him. And so sometimes , are we. But the woman persisted. She came and worshipped him, saying "Lord, help me." And though persistence she awakened a response. And that's the second thing we can learn from the story of this woman. You have to be prepared to prove your sincerity in prayer by your persistence, throwing your whole self after the prayer until the prayer becomes indeed your "soul's" sincere desire.? This means persistence not only in the asking but in thinking and working too. Prayer is no substitute for your own efforts. God is a father and he will no more do your own thinking and working for you than any father will do his boys homework for him night after night. The father loves the boys and he could presumably, work out his problems for him. But the father knows he should not if the child is going to develop its own powers and character.

Very often I suspect, when our prayers go unanswered we have failed here. We have failed to submit to the necessary discipline of thinking and working.

Perhaps no single prayer which you and I have offered in the past few years has had so much of our heart in it so the prayer for a just and lasting peace. What will come of it? Will God again seem to turn a deaf ear? Or will the answer depend upon the depth of our sincerity?

Is God, perhaps waiting for us to throw our whole selves after the prayer, head and hands as well as hearts?

There is not much sense in praying for peace while we look down our elegant noses at "inferior" races, or sit down comfortably on top of the highest standard of living in the world with rarely thought, much as a had lifted toward millions of people living on a bare subsistence level in Asia and Africa. No doubt God will, one day answer the prayer of mankind for peace. When you and I and the rest of us prove with open hands and outgoing hearts that we really mean it and are willing to work and sacrifice for it.

So with this woman of Canaan. Her persistence brought a response. But it was not yet the response she wanted. To her continued pleading Jesus answered with a proverb, "It is not meant to take the children's bread and to cast it to dogs;" and she answered. "Truth, Lord." Though the proverb does not sound as harsh in its original language as it does to us, it was still a rebuff. Yet there was an uncommon humility about this woman. She didn't grovel in front of Jesus to get what she wanted, nor did she whine and stand on her injured dignity when he tested her sincerity. She simply accepted herself for what she was, a nobody with no particular claim on anybody, lest of all Jesus.

Until you and I can accept ourselves and our difficulties with the same clear-eyed humility, we are going to have a lot of difficulty with unanswered prayer. Some of us, unlike this woman, think we have a claim on God. After all, we say, I go to church and say my prayers; I'm neighborly and lead a reasonable decent life; why shouldn't God grand just this one prayer of mine?

Such a person wants reasons, not mercy. God gives mercy, not reasons. It may seem strange at first, but God probably doesn't see life and its problems exactly as you and I see them.. When you and I are faced with sorrow or suffering or difficulty, everything in our lives is colored by it. Although God sees what we are going through and understand what it means to us, his view of the world is not so colored. He sees our difficulty but he sees live-all of it and thus sees our difficulty in its proper perspective. What this woman of Canaan was doing was seeing her problem in perspective. "Truth, Lord" Even though she loved her daughter and wanted desperately to have her cured, her problem was not so important as some; she was not worthy as some, she had no claim on Jesus at all. Yet, she persisted, there must be mercy given for such as me. And there was. She came to Jesus convinced that he could help here and would respond to her prayer.

I am lost in admiration for that little work, "Yet". "Truth, Lord. YET" It's a remarkable little work along with it oversize twin, "nevertheless."

They keep ringing through the Bible like the sound of trumpets.

There was Job, you remember. When everything had been taken from him except life itself, "Tho he slay me, yet will I trust him." There was Peter after a long discouraging night's work with nothing to show for it "We have toiled all the night and taken nothing, nevertheless, not my will but thine be done."

The woman with her, "Truth, Lord. YET.." belongs to a royal succession of those whose faith could not be shaken that God, of life, is basically good and that God will respond to that faith.

Notice that it was not a tentative "YET" not "Well, we'll give it one more try and see what happens" kind of thing. This woman of Canaan put her whole life and the life of her child into that little world "Yet" so with Job and Peter and Christ. They threw their lives after their trust in God and he did not let them down.

The tragic thing is that when life gets us down and God apparently doesn't hear our prayers, we give in too soon to discouragement or despair. It's if we stopped two thirds of the way or nine-tents of the way along the road exactly as if this woman had given up after Jesus? First silence of after his rebuff. It's tragic because God never lets a man down who trusts him all the way. If you and I happen to read life otherwise, read our own particular difficulty or tragedy as evidence that God is not to Be trusted any further, it's our reading of life, not his. For the Christian reading of life is a triumphant affirmation that life is basically good because God is good, because God is faithful, because God the God of Jesus Christ whose will for men is not failure and discouragement and despair, but whose will for us is victory and peace and joy. Those gallant souls, despite what life may be throwing at them at the moment and I know at times it seems as if life were throwing the whole book at them, we trust that God will respond to their trust and will not let them down. "O Woman, great is thy faith. Be it unto thee as thou wilt."

There is no guarantee that you will get exactly what you want. This woman did. She got the health of her child. Paul, on the other hand, still had his thorn in the flesh. Christ for all of his prayer, still got a cross. And so may you.

But this same Christ is also your guarantee that God will never let you down. He will see you through to the end and beyond! When God seems deaf to your prayers, you can be sure that he is not. He is listening. And within his power to grant, he will still answer you. He will respond to every prayer offered in persistent, humble faith. Not in the way you may expect of in the way that you may want, but in the way that is best. You can trust him for that.

Love Virgil.

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Monday, September 19, 2005

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By Evensong
Musings on Winter Solstics

The Sun skips in and out of the clouds like a child playing hide and seek, but mostly there is a brightness to this Solstice Day, if not in the skies, then at least in my heart. As the Sun, now reborn, gains eminence in the sky, the Wheel of the Year turns once again. And I receive this sign in my own life as well, as a promise of brighter days ahead. Even the Winds speak of this, hailing our shores from the Southwest, the South symbolizing Fire and the West symbolizing Water. ?Opposites?, as are the day and night, blending in beauty, reminding me that there is but one Source and origin of both Fire and Water, which alone can create a balanced union of the two, to produce a wildly beautiful midwinter day. And with this Solstice wind comes also a newborn sense of freedom out of this union, which to the mind might ordinarily suggest impossibility, chaos, or adversity.Yet from these opposites, suggesting the impossible dream, yin and yang, anima and animus, magnetic and dynamic, spring forth all the powers of Creation! I stand in awe of the simplicity and yet the magnitude of this truth. Then I am reminded that this same Forcedwells within all beings, and within myself as well.I stand along the shore with my face toward that Wind and feel the energy of the pounding surf pour over my soul as the waves pour over the beach. With this benediction from Nature, I yield up a prayer of gratitude for all the surprising ways in which this message about opposites and impossibilities made possible will work its way into my life. And I receivethem with a joyful heart filled with hope. Perhaps I have too long dwelt upon and reworked what is no longer working in my life. But as these thoughts wash over me as I feel the smile of this midwinter Sun, I realize that the darkness of this phase is passing, for it must give way to the Light, just as the Wheel of the Year turns again. And in that turning there is always hope!In moments like this there is no room for thoughts of fear, scarcity, war, terrorism, or fragmentation. Or even the madness that seems to overtake the commercial world of the Holidays, in whatever religious tradition one seeks to observe them. There is only hope that smiles down upon us with the return of the Sun/Son of the Light. If there is no room for the Light in the Holiday Inn of Madness, then let there be room for this Light in our hearts, bringing with it a sense of extra ordinary ?stable-ity?. For when this Light comes, we can see our way through the darkest nights of our souls and be transformed by them. Indeed whatever darkness we may feel is always dispelled by this Light. And so it will always be.May quiet courage, inner peace, outer tranquility,joy, hope, radiant love, abundance, healing and wholeness be with us all as we journey through this Holiday Season , and as we find our way into the new year! Brightest blessings!



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Thursday, September 15, 2005

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Big Bang vs. Creation
By Rev. Samantha Phenix


I chose this topic based on a rather unexpected 4 day vision quest in which this was the first of 2 visions given to me on the 3rd day. My personal theory based on my current understanding and knowledge, is the big bang theory and creationism are one and the same. The conflicts in science and theology is only in understanding and not, in my opinion, due to conflicts of events. Advocates for both sides continue to try and prove the other to be wrong. I say, they are both right, merely two different perspectives of the same event.

Most of all, it is the linier time frames that cause the greatest confusion. Without going into another theory, take a perspective of an infinity preceding the creation of human flesh, Adam & Eve (Gen.2), and the Gregorian time frame around the time of the flood.(Gen.4&5) With this perception, it is logically possible for both to be truth.Shortly before the vision, I was contemplating and conversing on some aspects of creationism with another party in the vision quest. As we spoke I paused with the images of the vision....I looked out over what appeared to be a never ending sea of slowly swirling fog. The fog was filled with an innumerable amount of glistening sparks. The fog had a conscience about it, one, yet many as one. The conscience understood its chaos and thought to create form by balancing its energies. [we will label those masculine(positive) and feminine (negative) ] In the moment of this thought, there was an immense explosion, much like a nuclear division of a single cell.

After the flash of the ignition cleared, the scene had changed. To one side a brilliant light radiated (pure positive energy), on the other side, there was a void of darkness (Pure negative energy), and in the middle was a spark kindled from the explosion, existing of a perfectly balanced union of positive and negative energy, the birth of one pure neutral essence in harmony with all existence ( the Christ energy). This spark had a radiance that illuminated the expanse between the two energies,creating a shimmering vale around the central realm that was once in chaos. This area now had form, physical matter was birthed into the midst with orbs of many different types and characteristics, all unique in their creation.....In asking for understanding in the interpretation of this vision, I connected with the positive energy, or the masculine conscience.

It had only one basic emotion in its knowledge and understanding which was Love, the truest sense of unconditional love I've ever felt. I also received its most basic truth, even separated by individual form, it remained one. The connection had a vibrant energizing essence.I then connected with the negative energy, or feminine conscience. In its purity, it was just as peaceful as the positive energy, however, it had a draining effect on the positive energy that came into contact with it. It felt only the separation, and though it retained all the knowledge of its partnered energy, it lacked the understanding created by the sense of love, being void of emotion without the love of the positive energy permeating through it. In this deceptive perception of separation, the second most powerful emotion was birthed, and it was Fear. From this fear, was birthed all deception throughout the now physical realm of chaos.Even now in our realm of chaos, the two greatest powers in effect are Love and Fear. In these, our world is manifest through the positive and negative energies utilized by all of creation, physical and metaphysical.

Rev. Samantha Phenix June 9th, 2005

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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

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By Scott Phillips
The Wisdom of a Bird

Singing in Faith

I could hear it as I walked through the foyer of our home. The birds were singing. It struck me, they were singing at the beginning of the unknown.

None of us knows what kind of day that lies ahead of us. We all have frustrating days; in addition to sad, trying, exasperating and exhausting days. However I believe we can consider the birds, which over time the programming inside of them, makes them sing. There is no forethought, but instinct, they sing because they are birds.

Consider with me the blessing of having a bird like faith. We have heard of birdbrains, and we know this refers to the size of a bird's brain. However consider the spiritual lesson, singing at the beginning of the day.

So often in life we get what we look for. I remember growing up, when my parents would get a new car, I would begin to notice all of the same kind of cars driving down the road. I never noticed them before, but because it became something I looked for I saw them everywhere. Our life, with all its challenges, we can in many ways create our environment, buy living, walking and even singing in faith.

I anticipate good things today. I have no reason to feel this way, but I feel this way anyway. It will be a good day, and if I could sing, this is the song I would sing today.

I sing because I'm happy,
I sing because I'm free,
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know he's watching me.

Have a Great Day!

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Tuesday, September 13, 2005

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Unreasonable Mercy
By Scott Phillips


God Bless you in his purpose this weekend!
Unreasonable Mercy


"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they bered like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18

To consider a loaf of bread for one dollar or a gallon of gas for one dollar or a glass of drink for one dollar, these are reasonable offers. Without a doubt, from our experience many of the everyday necessities it seems that our threshold of acceptability is pressedin what we are willing to pay for what we need to have.

However, what is reasonable about Mercy? Is it reasonable that a harlot would find purity at the place of repentance? Is it reasonable that a liar could find truth? Is it reasonable that a sinner could find righteousness?

There is not reason, nor rhyme to the contemplation of complete freedom from a past of prejudice, pride and poor choices. However this is the conclusion that Christ offers to those that will find repentance. Repentance is the key to complete deliverance.Repentance is the Key to complete reconciliation. Repentance, true repentance can truly take the scales and schedules of justice and throw them out the window.

I am thankful for God's unreasonable ways. Truly we can find grace for our need. The verdict is in, we can find strength for our weakness in this unjust exchange the Lord of Glory provides.

Quit scheming your excuse and sit down and let the spirit of his Goodness saturate your soul. Catch a glimpse of his Mercy and taste of his Grace. Even as it was done to the prophet, God will take a holy coal and cleanse your grimy soul and make it clean and right.

Consider Solomon and the mercy of God. God chose a man born froma union that began in sin. God chose him to not only be used, not only to be king, but chose him to be the wisest, wealthiest and most prosperous man to ever live. Your beginning does not determine your destiny.

Consider Sampson. A man who never did right, God still gave him one last chance to make things right. Your mistakes does not doom your calling.

In considering the scripture above, it struck me that there is nothing reasonable about God's mercy.

Looking for another to partake in the best exchange available to mankind!

In Him, By Him, Through Him,

Scott Phillips.

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The Universal Life Church is a comprehensive online seminary where we have classes in Christianity, Wicca, Paganism, two courses in Metaphysics and much more. 
Ordination with the Free Online Ordination, button.We also offer many free wedding ceremonies for your use.
 
The  ULC, run by Rev. Long, has created a chaplaincy program to help train our ministers. We also have a huge catalog of Universal Life Church materials.  I've been ordained with the Universal Life Church for many years and it's Seminary since the beginning and have loved watching the continual growth of the seminary.
 
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Sunday, September 11, 2005

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Trusting in the Lord
By Rev. Gloria Jean Kirby

It would seem the winds were blowing, rain just a pouring down, thunder effecting the skies, fear of the lights going out, many in a hurry to find shelter,
Then we go to the Bible it states, Jesus wake up, don't you care that we are perishing, what did Jesus do, calmly arose, and softly but with great Authority, Spoke Peace be still to the winds of the Storm, not run away for Shelter in a underground safe place, but in the midst ofthe storm, then to only read, on to the fact if we put our Trust in God, not be shaken with the winds, rains, storms of life, but only relax, take those deep breathes and say Ha, to the Devil, Our Father is in Control, Jesus Authority has said, Peace be still.Fear is torment, and distrust, Faith Wow it is not seeing it but believing in a Greater Power, God's Power, and His Son Jesus Christ, this is what life is about, laying aside the worries, andfears, and not getting upset, or scard in life, Always say Peace Be Still, like let us think on Psalms 91, it will lead us into a assurance that no harm can come nigh us. For his Angels have charge over us.

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The Universal Life Church is a comprehensive online seminary where we have classes in Christianity, Wicca, Paganism, two courses in Metaphysics and much more. 
Ordination with the Free Online Ordination, button.We also offer many free wedding ceremonies for your use.
 
The  ULC, run by Rev. Long, has created a chaplaincy program to help train our ministers. We also have a huge catalog of Universal Life Church materials.  I've been ordained with the Universal Life Church for many years and it's Seminary since the beginning and have loved watching the continual growth of the seminary.
 
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