Never Stop Improving

Golden Keys to Positive Living

Not long after I began my studies to become a Unity minister, Rev. Marion Brown, minister of the Bremerton Unity Center in Bremerton, Washington, asked me to come and work with her, twice a week. I welcomed this opportunity.

One of my jobs was to assemble and print the Sunday Bulletins on an old A. B. Dick Mimeograph machine. If that machine was not the first, it was close. On that old machine, it was virtually impossible to print a bulletin that was not messy. While trying to use it, I was tempted many times to resort to language usually not heard in a church! Eventually, I learned that when I blessed it, it did its best to respond.

One day, while at the local office machine store in Bremerton, I looked at a Gestetner Mimeograph, which used a new concept, ink in four color tubes, and NO messiness. After a bit of persuasion, because of the cost, Rev. Brown and the Board members agreed to buy one. Everyone was delighted with the new, color bulletins, not to mention my joy in using it.

Later, when I began Golden Key Ministry-Unity, I used various methods to create my print newsletters, but when the internet came along, that changed everything.

The reason I am writing this is that there is a lesson in it. The lesson is, change is good. The church in Bremerton had to release the old and to embrace the new. The same was true as I progressed in my work as a Unity minister.

It appears that some people are very reluctant to change their thinking. It seems that their thought and experience become acceptable although undesirable. They believe that is the best that can be achieved. However, there is always something better. You can always open your mind to new ideas, better ways to doing and being.

Someone said that insanity is thinking and doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. It just doesn’t work that way. To experience an improved life, an improvement in thinking is the first thing required. You must open your mind to new ideas, ways of living, healing modalities, and most of all, love.

A good question to ask is, “Am I thinking and acting in the highest and best way to create a better life?“

Concerning any challenging situation in your life, ask, “How can I better think about this?“

I like Lowe’s (Home Improvement Store) slogan: NEVER STOP IMPROVING! Of course, improvement requires continually upgraded thought and action. How are you doing? You can always do better. It all begins with thought, followed by action. – Lovingly, Rev. John

Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which I see before, I press on toward the high calling of God. – Philippians 3:13, 14)

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