Even the smallest effort can work miracles.
Francis J. Gable, an early Unity writer, told of an experience he had when he was a traveling salesman. It was one of those rare revelations of transcendent significance that came from following a flash of inner guidance.
He was passing through a train station bent on catching the 8:40 to Chicago when he was confronted by a crippled beggar sitting with his pencils and cup. Following his charitable instinct he dropped a coin in the cup and hurried on past. Suddenly, a few steps farther on, he stopped short and pondered the significance of his act. He turned and addressed the man, saying, “I want to apologize to you. I treated you like a beggar, but you are really a merchant.” At that he stooped and took a pencil and then hurried on to catch his train.
His act was a spontaneous thing, but with implications much more far-reaching than at the time he realized. He was traveling through that same station two years later. As he passed this same spot he heard a voice calling out, “Hey mister!” He turned and recognized this same crippled man, now seated on a high stool, working as a proprietor of a bustling newspaper stand. The man said, “You probably don’t remember me, but I will never forget you. You treated me as a person, and for the first time in my life I realized that I could make something of myself. I have now found a way to be self-supporting, but, most of all, I now have self-respect.”
In that fleeting moment, two years previously, Francis Gable did the loving thing. He turned from love to loving, from charity to involvement, and a life was transformed.
Often it only takes a few moments to do the loving thing. Love is respect for others and never takes into account who or what they appear to be. Love recognizes and salutes the divinity in every person. Since we are all connected, when we do the loving thing to another, we are really doing for ourselves. The best part is that it keeps on going. – Lovingly, Rev. John
Golden Key Positive Prayer: Divinely guided, I do the loving thing. I love and respect people and we are all richly blessed.
Depending on your desire to prosper, declare the above prayer 50 to 100 times every day for at least a week. Expect something wonderful to happen, and it will!
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The Healing Word
Your physical body is carried in your mind as thought and it obediently reflects every mental attitude. When, in the course of evolution, you discern that your all-wise Creator intended perfection for all of His creation and you begin affirming perfection for your body, then the spiritual transformation has begun. It continues until your body is wholly regenerated and is expressing its divine perfection. God’s intention for you is to live life healthy.
The Prospering Word
Treat yourself for supply until all fear of lack has gone. Treat every day and many times a day for LOVE. The importance of this cannot be over-estimated. Love conquers every difficulty. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful person on earth. And one of most prosperous, too! – Emmet Fox, The Science of Living
Bytes of Wisdom. . .
Health, real health, is from within and does not have to be manufactured in the without. Health is the very essence of Being. it is as universal and enduring as God. – Charles Fillmore
Love is the self-givingness of the Spirit through the desire of Life to express itself in terms of creation. – Ernest Holmes
If you deal in the right way with your own thinking, the people around you will move into right conditions – either in your presence or by moving out of your life. – Catherine Ponder
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A Little Humor. . .
A devout cowboy lost his favorite Bible while he was mending fences out on the range. Three weeks later a cow walked up to him carrying the Bible in its mouth. The cowboy couldn’t believe his eyes. He took the book out of the cow’s mouth, raised his eyes heavenward and exclaimed, “It’s a miracle!”
“Not really,” said the cow. “Your name is written inside the cover.” – Roman Wilbert
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