Spiritual Solutions

When someone close to us dies, especially if it is sudden, it can be difficult to adjust to that movement and sense of loss. But I think perhaps it can bring two things to mind for us:

First of all, we can learn to treasure the time we have with one another, to love one another and be with one another in the fullness of our spirit. And another thing is that, although our loved one goes into a realm that we are not able to see at this time, we can know that life is eternal, there is a timelessness to life and we can establish a new relationship with our loved one in that dimension.

We live really on two levels. One, we live on a physical level where we relate to one another in the outer. And we do our work, and we have our homes, and we have our families and our loved ones and friends. We live in a world where sometimes we are thrown by difficulties and we go through dark times. We judge much by appearance.

Then there is another world that is parallel to it, a world that has no beginning and no end, a world that I think of as timeless. It is a world that is our spiritual world and is the true heritage of our being, that from which we sprang in the very beginning. Creation happens not only in the outer but happens within us all the time, and that creative spirit is always at work within us.

In our journey through life, if we can shift from being an outer-oriented person to being an inner-oriented person, to being aware of the timelessness of life, then we see that life did not begin at birth nor does it end at death. We can also see a dimension where we can truly say that we dare to believe that God is good.

Every tradition has its creation story. You will remember the creation story in Genesis, where it says “And God created heaven and earth.” And it goes on in all the different aspects of that creation, and in every phase it says “And God saw that everything was good.” So we see the good being expressed through the creative spirit. Then later, in each of the gospels, we see that same creation story repeated many times in different ways through new beginnings in different situations.

It is significant that in each of the religious traditions across the world we find creation stories. The creation story is important to all people because it points us in the direction of our true roots. We are rooted in the beginning with God. We were created in the beginning with God.

We read in the scriptures that the Jews were confused when Jesus spoke to them about Abraham. They said that their father was Abraham, and he said “Well, you’re not acting like your father was Abraham, so Abraham really isn’t your father.” They scoffed at him and spoke jeeringly to him. Then he said, “Before Abraham was, I am.” And they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. (John 8:59).

What was Jesus saying there? He wasn’t speaking of his personal self; he was speaking of his spiritual nature, saying in essence “In the beginning of time, I was there.”

That is true of all of us, we have been from the beginning of time created in the likeness and in the image of the living God.

We are here to bring forth the fruits of that creativity in our lives. How do we do that? How do we focus on that instead of getting caught up in the appearance of things and seeing our limitations amid our doubts and our fears?

First we must become aware that there is a dimension which can be recognized as being timeless. We then move consciously into that recognition as we adapt for ourselves a spiritual discipline, a discipline of how we deal with time and how we relate to it in our lives.

There’s a story of St. Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Jesuit order, about when he was a student. He was playing a ball game with some fellow students and one of them said to the group, “Now, if the world were to end tomorrow what would you do right now?” Some of them said, “Well, we’d go out and get drunk and we’d do all of the things we wouldn’t do normally.” And the other half said, “No, we would go to the church and throw ourselves on our knees and pray that we would be safe and certain forever.” Ignatius hadn’t spoken, so one of them asked him what he would do. He said, “I would go on playing my game.”

You see, we must not get caught up in the “forever.” Nor must we get caught up in just living for today. We must combine the two, because each one is hinged upon the other in a timeless way.

We are the very essence of the creative Spirit of God in expression right here on earth, right now, today. And the future, of our own selves and of our world, really depends on how we bring forth that creative spirit in our own lives.

Each one of us is unique, and we have much to give to our world. We have peace to give, we have love to give, and we have the gifts of the spirit to share. Yet we must discipline ourselves, in a gentle way, in a spiritual way, to be open to the Spirit that expresses through us naturally if we turn to it and we let it. For we are truly spiritual travelers on a timeless way!

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We can use our power of awareness to bring about healing in our lives.

Awareness is all-powerful. We create our universe through our awareness. We think of the universe as being out there and that’s what it is, that’s the reality. But the reality is that you create it from within yourself, and the universe is different for different people. You may see a friendly universe, another may see a universe that is not so friendly, and yet another may experience a terrible universe. It all starts within you.

There are two components of awareness. One is attention. When we give our attention to that which is negative, critical, or judgmental, then we tend to bring about in our world those negative situations that confirm our views. We see our world in a negative way, and then we have a bad experience in our world.

However, if we are purposeful and positive in our attention, and we give our attention to good outcomes and a sense of joy and friendliness in our universe, we tend to bring about in our experience health and wholeness, peace, joy, and harmony, all of the good things we would like to experience.

So the attention is an important aspect of awareness. As we become conscious of the power of our awareness, we can use it consciously to bring about that which we would want to experience in our lives.

By opening to an expanded awareness of the underlying reality of your life, which we call God, you become more fully aware that this reality is continuous and ever-present, equally present at all points in time and space. You give attention to that, and your intentions move to bring about right outcomes.

Years ago – in 1969, when Kathryn and I were first in ministerial school, there was something going on in a town close by there that was very significant in our understanding of the mind. It was at the Menninger Clinic, in Topeka, Kansas, where Elmer Green was performing experiments with an Indian spiritual adept called Swami Rama. Swami Rama had the ability to be able to voluntarily control the involuntary processes within his body, such as his blood pressure, his heartbeat and the rate of his heartbeat. He was able to raise the rate of his heartbeat or lower it just by giving attention and intention to it.

Elmer Green came to the ministerial school on more than one occasion to work with the students, and Kathryn will remember this. We were wired up with very primitive biofeedback equipment; that was the very beginning biofeedback equipment. We were wired up with electrodes on our hands and on our temples and we were invited to let our right hand become warm. And as we let our right hand become warm, we could see on the indicator scale that we were wired up to that temperature in our right hand going up as we voluntarily paid attention and intended to let the temperature rise in our right hand. In our left hand we were invited to let the temperature reduce, and on that indicator scale we could see the temperature going down. There was a difference of as much as five or six degrees from one hand to the other.

Why is this important? It’s important because this is the way the universe operates. As we give our attention and intention then we are able to affect how our universe works for us, because results follow upon intentions. The slightest intentions we have, the desires we have, bring about results. All desires bring about results.

So this is important for us to realize. That which we thought was involuntary, we can accept as being voluntary. Not only for the inner processes of our bodies, where we can focus our attention on that which needs healing and help to bring about that healing, but also in our outer world – which is connected to us. Remember that the underlying reality is everywhere and equally present in its entirety at every point in space and time.

So every part of God is present, meaning that all infinite intelligence is present where we are. So you can say, “Wherever I am, God is.” Wherever we are, infinite intelligence is also; and infinite intelligence responds to our attention and intention. As we expand our awareness, then we are able to bring about a more beneficial world for ourselves, for our loved ones and for our world in general.

What are you giving your attention to? The attention is first, and then the intentions follow that attention. The intention is the active part.

I’d like to suggest seven steps for you to take and apply to yourself:

1. Sit quietly and relax your mind, calm your whole being – because this doesn’t happen if you get anxious about it. Your intentions are interrupted by your anxieties, worries, and doubts. We have to be relaxed in mind and in a very natural way just focus our attention.

2. Intend the outcome that you want. Be specific about it. What is it you want? And do it in a natural way, in a gentle way, such as visualizing it or maybe verbalizing it through an affirmation (I have more vigor, more energy, greater health, etc.) You are intending an outcome.

3. Don’t get bogged down in the details of how it’s going to come about. Don’t force it or concentrate too hard. Just let it be very natural as though you were getting a glass of water or lifting your arm or whatever, just a natural movement of intending that outcome.

4. Expect and believe in the outcome, know that it is certain.

5. Realize that doubt and worry and attachment interfere with the process, interfere with your success. Those are the three biggest obstacles in us achieving our desires: worry, anxiety, and doubt. So we need to eliminate those.

6. Let go of the desire. Let go of it once you’ve identified it, you’ve put it out there. It’s like mailing a letter; you don’t have to do it twice. Just let it go, and wait for the result to come back.

7. This is a very important step. Be open to the feedback you receive. That’s where your awareness comes in again, because sometimes feedback comes in unexpected ways and can come either from within us or from our environment. But remember that any feedback you get, it is you who has elicited that feedback. It is coming because of the intention you put out. 

These are the steps, and that last step is really important.

This awareness is one of the healing secrets of the universe. One of your highest purposes is to be clear in your awareness of your oneness with the underlying reality of your life, the very presence of the living God. Be aware of that, and be aware of what you are giving attention to; then follow that by giving your intention to what you want to have happen in your life.

“Every good desire of the heart shall be fulfilled, either in ways we anticipate or in other ways that in God’s sight are even better.” – Ernest Wilson

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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All of us are called to a spiritual journey, whether we realize it or not. It’s a special calling, and our life is not complete until we heed that call and move forward according to the Spirit. We are guided by God’s presence; we are strengthened by God’s comforting love. Even in the deepest and darkest times, God’s love is always present to uplift us and sustain us.

In the Zen tradition, there is the idea of the sacred ox. The sacred ox symbolizes the wonderful and powerful qualities we have within us which begin to manifest as we awaken to the truth of our being and start on our spiritual journey.

The beginning scene on the scroll is the seeking of the ox. On the scroll there is a man who is wandering through the thickets in the mountains of China or India, and he is looking for himself. He realizes the ox is never lost, but he doesn’t know where to find it, so he is seeking the tracks of the sacred ox.

Behind him in the scene are all different criss-crosses of roads that he has taken – pain and loss and confusion and upset and praise and blame and all of those things we go through in life, all the roads that criss-cross behind him. And off he goes, seeking the tracks of the sacred ox. Finally he enters the forest and he stops to rest. And as he rests and becomes quiet, he looks down and he sees the tracks of the ox.

This tells us that the first steps in all spiritual journeys start with silence, start with moving into the forest in our own being to find that quiet place. It has to start there. And there we have an awakening, which Joseph Campbell called “the awakening call” or “the inner pull.” And I’m sure you’ve felt that pull, the pull of Spirit within you; that’s when you begin to see the tracks for the first time. Then, of course, you want to follow the tracks. So you try to follow the tracks of the sacred ox, that’s the next thing.

Following the tracks is a little different story, because what happens then is you begin to become aware not only of the outer life in which you are involved but you become very much aware of your inner life. You become aware of the vast inner regions of your being and the work that needs to be done there in order to feel whole, to feel that sense of oneness with God and the truth of your own being.

So we begin following the tracks of the sacred ox. Some people warn us not to take it, because when we take that spiritual journey our life is changed forever. Nothing is ever the same again. When we take that spiritual journey it touches every aspect of our life. So some warn against it.

I remember when I first went into ministry, just before I went into ministerial school at Unity Village I’d been accepted and I wanted to go. I’d never been to Unity Village and so I thought I’d better go and find out what’s going on, and I needed a place to live so I thought I’d scout around and see what I could find. So I made an appointment to see and talk with Jim Freeman, a writer and a wonderful man; he was director of Silent Unity for many years and he’d been called the poet laureate of Unity.

Writing had been flowing through me at that time, poetry and all kinds of things in my awakening. I went to Jim and I told him about all this and said, “I need some sense of direction. I’ve applied for the ministry and been accepted. What do you think? ”

“Look,” he said, “If you can do anything else, do it!”

Just like that. “If you can do anything else, do it.” And he said, “As for writing, many people write but not many come out of a cave like Mohammed did with the Koran.”

So anyway, I said “Well, I’m going to go ahead.” And that’s what happens when we’re ready to move to a new level in our spiritual journey; we feel the pull of Spirit.

There’s a story that Jack Kornfield tells about Chogyam Trunpa, the Tibetan monk and teacher. He arrived late at a lecture he was supposed to give in San Francisco. The hall was crowded, and when he arrived he said “Any of you who would like to have your money back because I’m late, you can have your money refunded.” He said, “You know, you who are new here you have to recognize that this is an arduous journey that you are starting on, it’s not all peaches and cream.” He looked around and said, “In fact, if you haven’t started it yet, you’d best not start it.” Then he looked around again and he said, “But if you have started it, you’d best finish it.”

It takes courage to start something, to realize the truth of your being and to step out in the direction and let Spirit lead us. It takes courage also to keep on keeping on. And that’s what he’s saying. If you’ve already started it, it’s best to keep on keeping on. Because you can’t stop in the middle of it. It starts with that quiet place within you, and it ends by going deeper and deeper and deeper.

What happens when we start on that journey is at first we have some tender remembrances and wonderful revelations come to us. But we also experience the stirring of things within us that come to the surface and need to be released, the old beliefs, old habits, old limitations that need to go. So it’s not always a journey of light and life; it’s also sometimes a journey of darkness and struggle.

That’s the spiritual journey. But the thing is that, with every challenge also comes a blessing; with every letting go comes the touch of angels to lighten you up and move you along the way.

No matter what is happening in your life there is the light that is leading us on toward the truth of your being. It’s already there within you. It’s not necessarily a journey toward the light, the light is already there within you. So with that light you can journey through light and dark, you can journey through ups and downs, you can journey through the mountains. And you can know that no gorge is so deep that God is not there, for God is there in all things.

God is Blessing You, Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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By Marlene Buffa

(Taking a quiet sideways glance at life, our guest contributor today, Marlene Buffa, offers insight through her words from experiences. A student of new-thought teachings, Marlene finds practical spirituality around every corner and seeks wisdom through observation of life’s inter-relationships. Sometimes playful, sometimes poignant, always thought-provoking, her writing inspires readers in meaningful ways.
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Halloween brings to light our memories and our apprehensions and enlivens our imagination.  Each year we honestly portray ourselves as something other than who we are, and venture out into the night fearlessly asking for what we want from strangers and friends.  The chant, “Trick or Treat!” resounds on neighborhood streets, with a telltale confidence that our abundant rewards, sweet and freely given, fill the largest container we dare to hold.  Life, too, offers us the opportunity to boldly request our desires from others as well as the Universe.  Just as our expectations of creepy “things that go bump in the night” sometimes come to fruition at Halloween, other evidence of things outside of ourselves interjecting with our humanity, finds its way into our daily experience.

Knock Knock
More than just a childhood formulaic riddle, spirit knocking on the door of our consciousness forces us to awaken to new possibilities.  My friend Ann’s condo, replete with sounds and noises from unearthly visitors, resonates with a loud knock, or rap on her wooden front door.  The wooden door is closed and behind a locked metal security door so no one can make contact with the wood, yet the sounds echo throughout her living room – loud enough that her neighbors hear it, too!  Ann gave up going to the door to see her anxious caller because after dozens of times, she found no one there.

Spirit knocks on our door, too.  Many times Spirit is there asking for an invitation to enter our lives, yet finds us not home to answer.  Over and over, we hear the call to a greater life, and either ignore it or find we cannot face the greatness it offers.  We must prepare ourselves equally to knock on the door of opportunity and to answer the call when opportunity beckons us.  Take the initiative to dare for a great life and you may just receive a “treat!” you weren’t expecting!

Bump
From fender benders, to bumper cars, we often equate a bump with a collision in transportation.  We’ve all heard the “bumps in the night” which startle us from sleep yet we dismiss such noises as the house settling or our pets rousting about.  Bumping into unseen forces, we sometimes feel a hovering entity or looming feeling surrounding us, daring to collide with our circumventing comfort zone.  With our bodies as vehicles transporting us on the planet, collisions occur naturally with others and with Spirit around us. 

Nothing to fear, these gentle bumps into our beingness serve to remind us and alert us of the awakened world in which we roam.  Like the bumper in a pinball machine, Life stands there, solid and immovable, waiting for us to bump into it.  We dart off in a different direction, most times not due to any epiphany of understanding, rather from the shock of the bump itself – the bump we created. 

When Life or Spirit bumps into us, it renders a touching reminder for us to awaken to the events and emotions around us while we make our way on the planet.  From the premonitory diversion to avoid an accident, to the gentle nudge into something better, Life reminds us of the power of the Infinite as a gentle teacher. 

Whoosh!
The older we grow, the quicker time passes.  Our perception and vantage point change as time reflects against the accumulation of our experience.  Time, as we interpret it through man-made dials and clocks, remains constant and some say, circular or infinite.  Unseen thoughts, entities and even energies wrap around us, check us out, and whisk away – in an instant.  The indescribable feeling of déjà vu, or the instinctive choices we make, represents our higher selves responding to Life. 

When life streaks by us in our unaware state of the daily banal, we waste precious time in the coma of disengagement.  Awaken from the sleep of drudgery and live the life you want to live!  Too often we “wake up” and we find our children getting married – wondering where did their childhood go?  Could twenty years pass without your conscious awareness of it?  Worse yet – did those years whoosh by without our enjoyment and fulfillment of precious moments?
Halloween reminds us to step outside of our normal persona to experience something new.  With the eerie knocks, bumps and whooshes, we attract that which we fear but know is real.  It’s easy to blame playful ghosts for the pranks they often wield on us, when our true fears lie within us – and we’re too afraid to face them.  As nurturer of our spirits and benevolent guide, Life knocks on the door of our consciousness offering us a deeper existence, bumps into us and diverts us onto a higher path and whooshes by us reminding us it’s never too late to wake up!

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I’m happy to share with you that I have just completed and published a book, Miracle Power You Can Use Today, with the sub-title Seven Secrets of Spiritual Growth for Your Wealth, Health and Happiness.

This is a Messenger Mini-Book, which means that in addition to reading the book, you will have access to an online journal where you can personalize your experience through supportive material, lessons and exercises I have provided for you. This is a fairly new concept and gives an added dimension to what appears to be a small pocket-sized book.

Also, you are invited to give this book to someone after you are done reading it; and through a Pass Along Tracking System you will be able to access the book’s history to view its “life” and its impact on the people who have also chosen to share and pass it along.

The mini-book is also available in ebook format for immediate access, and has the same online journal access as the printed version.

For information on how to order and purchase the printed book or the ebook, click on the “spiritual resources” tab at the top of this page. There you will also find information and links to other additional recommended spiritual resources.

Remember, God is Blessing You Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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There’s a true story about a little girl called Liz. She had a rare disease and the doctor said she would only have a chance of survival if her little brother, who was five years old, was willing to give his blood for a blood transfusion. He had had the same disease and somehow had managed to overcome it, so his antibodies would be helpful to her in overcoming the disease.

So the doctors approached the little boy, five years old, and asked him if he’d be willing to give his blood for his sister so that she could live. He hesitated for a moment, then he said “Yes, I’d like my sister to live.”

The doctors put them side by side on the bed and started the transfusion. The color gradually came back into the little girl’s cheeks, and the little boy smiled when he saw that.

Then, all of a sudden, the little boy went pale and he looked at the doctor and said, “Will I start to die anytime soon now?”

He had misunderstood; he thought he had to give all of his blood to his sister. But he was willing to give his all because he loved her so much.

How much are we prepared to give in our lives? Just a little bit or all of it?

Here’s the story of a man who expressed this love in a way that turned out to be transformative. He’d been married for nineteen years and his marriage was not going well; he went to his therapist, a man whom he knew called Tom.

He said, “Tom, I want you to help me; I’ve been married for nineteen years and my marriage is really going on the rocks. When we got married, my wife was a beautiful woman, a lovely woman, and she gave herself to me in marvelous ways, and we shared in great ways. 

But then she became really cranky and a kind of a shrew, and all she’s done in the last few years is hurt me as much as she can. I’ve just about had it and I want to do something to hurt her.”

So the man, Tom, said, “Well, Bill, let me think about it for a moment.”

He leaned back and folded his hands, then after a minute or so had passed, which seemed to Bill like an hour, he said, “Bill, you can try this if you want. It’s an idea for you. Today, when you leave here go to the florists; and get a nice big bouquet of flowers to take to your wife.

Then next Tuesday, ask her if she’d like to go out with her friends and tell her you’ll stay at home and look after the kids. And every day, so something really special and tell her how beautiful she is; and for a whole month pay a great deal of attention to her and do lots of things for her all the time.

Then after that month, when you’ve been pouring out all of this love and attention and giving her gifts and so on then leave her; that will really get to her.”

The man said, “Wow, Tom, I’d never have thought of that. That’s great advice, thank you, I’ll do that.” So off he went to the florists.

Tom didn’t see him for several months, and later when he saw him he said, “Oh Bill, how are you doing? Are you having a great time now? You’ve probably left your wife and you have lots of women in your life and you’re having a good time.”

“What do you mean?” responded Bill. “I don’t go out with other women. My wife . . .” Tom said, “Well, you said your wife is a shrew, and cranky.”

“Oh, no,” said Bill, “my wife is a wonderful woman, and I want to thank you for the best advice you ever gave me. I went home and took her flowers, and I paid attention to her.

You know, in the first week she began to change. One day I came home and she was dressed up and looked so beautiful like she always used to; she looked great, and she said, ‘I did it just for you.’

I told her she could go out to dinner with her friends and I’d look after the kids. When she came back she said, ‘Bill, why don’t you take a night out with the boys too. You deserve that and you need it.’”

He said, “Our life is so great now; it’s just like it used to be, only better! And I can’t thank you enough for the advice you gave me.”

So you see how love begins to transform things. When we become the expression of God’s love we begin to change, and as we change then everything around us changes too. This is the power of transformative love.

Remember, God is Blessing You Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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Someone asked Jesus, “Teacher, can you tell me how to attain eternal life?”

By eternal life, of course, he’s talking about the life of God present now and not some time in the future. Eternal life is now, when we recognize, know, experience and express the fullness of God’s presence in our lives. That’s eternal life – and it’s right now!

How can we attain that?

Jesus said to the man, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”

He didn’t say to love the Lord your God just a little bit, or just on Sundays, but he said “with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” It’s a full commitment, a total commitment. How do you do that? How do you feel and know and experience God’s presence with you at all times, in all places, all around you and within you at all times? How do you do that?

There’s a story from the scriptures that demonstrates how this begins to become possible. The story is from the gospel of Mark, in Mark 14:1-6. It’s during the time just before Passover and not long before the Crucifixion; and the chief priests and scribes were seeking how to arrest Jesus and kill him.

 “And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, ‘Why was the ointment thus wasted? For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and give to the poor.’ And they reproached her. But Jesus said, ‘Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.’”

This is about two different kinds of people and two different kinds of motive. We see the motives of the Pharisees and scribes; they hang around with Jesus, but their motive was not pure. They may have eaten with him, but they were not fully engaged with him or his teachings, nor really the love of God which they professed. They became very critical of the woman for her actions; they tore her down. That was their focus in life, which was their motive. It came out of doing things as a sense of duty or responsibility or fear.

When we do things out of obligation, or when the motive in our lives is one that is underscored by fear, then our life is filled with criticism. We begin to resent the things that we do; so we begin to criticize and put things down. We say that this world is not a good world, it’s not a friendly universe, and this is reflected back to us in bad experiences. So we must watch our motive.

You see, this story is not only about the Pharisees and scribes and the woman and Jesus in the long ago; it is about us right now.

There are Pharisees and scribes that live in us that sometimes get into those critical modes of being. We begin to look from the world viewpoint. And you know people who are critical all the time. From the time the alarm goes off in the morning, the coffee’s too strong, the day is ugly whether it’s hot or cold or sunny or raining or whatever, and then they do nothing but complain at work or at home. You know what I’m talking about. So the world is reflected back to them as an unfriendly world and they find much to criticize.

We need to look at ourselves and see if we’re coming from a place of obligation or doing things out of a sense of duty. Or are we doing things out of a sense of love? Are we looking at the world through the eyes of love? Years ago, James Dillet Freeman wrote a book called “Look with the Eyes of Love” which had a powerful impact on my life; I realized that when we look with the eyes of love; we are seeing as God sees.

How do we love God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind? We can only do it with the expression of God in and through us.

When we really love, we are extravagant in our love, aren’t we? We give extravagantly, we don’t hold back. Any time that you have been in love, haven’t you wanted to give extravagant gifts? It maybe seemed foolhardy at the time. But that’s the process of giving yourself totally, isn’t it? You want to give; there’s no counting of the cost, is there?

The danger, really, is in feeling a sense of obligation in our giving.

In the gospel of John (John 11:1-2), we are told that the woman in the scriptures who broke the vial of precious ointment over the head of Jesus was Mary, the sister of Martha and of Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead.

Mary is the opposite of obligation; in this story she is the very principle of love expressed. That’s what it’s about, the extravagant gift of love.

Jesus said, in the story, “Don’t trouble her. She has done a beautiful thing to me.” Or, she has done something of wonderful significance for me. Isn’t that something we want to do for ourselves and others? We want to be of a wonderful significance in our world, don’t we?

That’s what the Christ within is saying to us now “Do you want to be of wonderful significance in your world?” If you do, let the love which is of God express through you. Because that’s the only way we can see it.

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Yes, it’s FINALLY here – here’s some news from Song Chengxiang that you may have been waiting for . . . 

The long-awaited Quantum Confidence with The Morry Method system has just been released.

There are only limited number of copies available, grab your copy before it is too late.

Launch time is 11:00 am Eastern TODAY, Tuesday, October 6.

Here is the link to get your copy as soon as it is launched:

Click Here!

Whatever problems or frustrations you have
right now in your life, it all comes down to
your inadequate self image. This is the root
cause of all your problems in life.

The Quantum Confidence system is by far the
only “The Morry Method” brainwave
entrainment system that eliminates the root
cause, and frees you from your personal
bondage of the present inadequate self image.

And it employs a combination of advanced
cutting-edge brain technology based on
latest scientific research, including “The
Morry Method” brainwave entrainment
technology, the revolutionary new “Quantum
Triliminal” technology, hypnosis, advanced
subliminal technology, etc.

For the first time EVER, average people like
you and I can benefit from so many advanced
latest technologies in one system.

Get It Here!

Best of all, it’s guaranteed to work.

Just listen to what people are saying on
the blog after using a small sample
recording from the system:

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Al Says: (September 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pm)

Although I’ve been listening to TMM for
quite some time I noticed an immediate
change on listening to Quantum Confidence
Lite.

It seems like a whole layer of anxiety has
been removed very quickly and I am feeling
stronger and well, more confident.

Since this is from a few days of using the
“lite” version I am looking forward eagerly
to using the full version.

Thanks a million Morry
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Lorne A Says: (September 28th, 2009 at 3:19 pm)
 
I know that I needed to boost my self
confidence to help manifest the things I
desire.

The big thing I wanted to achieve was a good
manger position. I have been listening to
Quantum confidence for about a week now & I
feel more confident for the majority of the
day.

I got a call on Thursday for an interview &
had my second interview on the weekend. I am
now waiting for the call I have got the job!
I do not believe in coincidence… and think
it was the Quantum confidence that helped me
get the good paying job.

Thanks Morry!

Lorne

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DANIEL Says: (September 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pm)

I have everything that Morry has created.The
results are undeniable.

I challenge anyone to listen to this sample
and not feel much better and relaxed.You do
nothing but listen.Your brain hears these
tones and is soothed by the recording.

I go to sleep every night with the
Triliminals playing in my headset. I have,
like a lot of other people tried all the
other stuff out on the market and this is
the cutting edge product.

These recordings are needed now more than
ever in these very challenging
times. Confidence is everything.

Also another very critical thing is that
Morry is passionate about his product and
despite being busy coming up with more
recordings he is very accessible. You owe it
to yourself to get his programs.

I also am a full time stock trader and one
of the biggest obstacles for any trader is
being too emotional. It usually leads to bad
decisions. I can honestly say that my
emotions are no longer an issue as I am
relaxed and focused. My equity has gone up
as well.

Dont let life live you, you must learn to
truly live life. This is a tool that will
help. I wish you all well in your journey to
a better life.

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michelle Says: (September 29th, 2009 at 1:49 am )
 
I have been struggling with math for years
and was currently not understanding my
course in college at all about to give up.

I decided to try working on it while listening
to the morry method, and sure enough i got
on A on the assignment and quiz the next day
which is something i never thought i would
be able to do.

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These are what people got from using just a
small 20min sample from the entire system of
a set of 10 CDs.

Imagine what the whole system can do for
your own life and the life of your loved
ones.

Get a copy for yourself, it will be sold out
very fast.

Here is the link to grab your copy, at 11:00 am today:

Quantum Confidence

To your success

song chengxiang

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And here’s a P.S. you can be happy about:

They offer a life-time money back
guarantee, if you don’t like this system for
whatever reason, return it anytime and get a
full refund. No questions asked! You can see
how much confidence they have on this
system.

Grab your copy now before they’re all gone:

Click Here Now!

PPS. Feel free to forward this announcement to any
of your friends that needs it the most.

God is Blessing You Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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To help you realize your greatest potential, several of today’s up and coming spiritual growth leaders have shared their wisdom in a power-packed transformational ebook.

It’s called The Self Empowerment Guidebook.

You Can Get it Here!

Each expert explores self empowerment from a different perspective, ultimately giving you a well-rounded and highly effective approach on what it takes for you to empower yourself and live a life of joy and success.

You can grab your copy for free right now by clicking on the link below.

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My friend, Chris Cade, has lovingly put this ebook together and is charging absolutely nothing for it. I’ve known Chris for a while now and one of his best qualities that I’ve discovered is his devotion to people like you and me.

He wants you to succeed. He wants you to be happy. He wants you to be prosperous.

And his latest ebook is just one way that he can help you achieve these things.

Click on the link below to go to his website and follow the instructions to download ‘The Self Empowerment Guidebook.’

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Wishing you much abundance,

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

P.S. You’ll also have an exclusive opportunity to get 3 powerful audio interviews with Chris for an unbelievably low rock-bottom price. I highly recommend you take advantage of his offer!

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I was thinking about times when you may have been driving along, perhaps in a different neighborhood and intent upon where you’re going, perhaps not paying much attention to things around you. Then you hit one of those speed bumps – not the larger ones with all the warning signs before them, “Warning – Speed Hump Ahead – 15 miles per hour,” but the smaller ones that have no warning and are still around. I hit one myself not too long ago. And when you hit one of those things, wow, that shakes you up and wakes you up, doesn’t it?

In life we have bumps, too, don’t we? Life goes bump for all of us from time to time, we all hav unexpected things that happen to us which may be difficult, or frustrating, or even tragic. How do we handle these bumps in our life? Are we grim about them, or are we gracious in how we handle them? It makes a difference to us.

How we handle those unexpected events determines to some degree how we handle challenges throughout our lives. We develop a certain attitude. The attitude can be one of welcoming all experiences knowing you can handle it and move on through it; or you become fearful of life and what may be around the next corner.

Being cautious and fearful about life, you naturally attract to yourself things to be fearful about.

So how do you deal with these bumps in your life? Do you think and feel that you can transform such situations and handle them with grace, ease, and confidence? Do you move through them in a way that makes you stronger rather than diminishing you?

Let’s look at some answers to those questions. How do we handle those bumps in life that surely come along?

There’s a story in scripture which can give us a key. It’s the story about Joseph, who ticked off his brothers by telling them his dreams which symbolized a future when they would all bow down to him. The brothers got together and threw Joseph in a pit, and then they sold him to some Ishmaelite slave traders who took him as a slave into Egypt.

Later on, when Joseph met up with his brothers again in different circumstances, he said to them, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.”

I think we can do the same thing with situations which upset us, and disturb us, and throw us for a loop, and shake us up. We can say, this situation may seem to be evil, it may seem to want to take us down, to destroy us, but God meant it for good. If we take that attitude we can have a shift in our perception and we can begin to look for the good in the situation or person.

In Romans 8:28 we find Paul saying, “We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him . . .”

You may say, “In everything, even this mess that I’m in the middle of right now? In everything? There’s some good in this? I can find good results from this?” “Can this really be a vehicle of blessing?”

Yes, in everything – God works for good with those who love him.

Of course, you have to know, you must really believe, that there is good in everything.

Faith is a stabilizing element that sustains us. My wife, Kathryn, says it must be “unshakable faith.” She has an affirmation she uses all the time and which goes like this:

“I have unshakable faith in the perfect outworking of every situation in my life for God is in absolute control and all things are working together for my highest good.”

One of the most important things in life is the ability to recognize and utilize the good, which is always present.

You’ll remember that Jesus said, “He that is within me is greater than he that is in the world.” A challenge can be an opportunity to draw on your inner resources.

Jesus also said, “Don’t judge by appearances, but judge righteous judgment.”

What is righteous judgment? It’s looking from a God perspective, isn’t it? It was Emerson who said that “Prayer is the contemplation of life from the highest point of view.” So it’s a shifting from an outer perspective to a different point of view, to the highest point of view. When we see from a God perspective we can see the good in the situation.

There’s another key in the quote I gave you earlier. It says, “We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him . . .” (Romans 8:28)

“With” means to cooperate, doesn’t it? Loving God, we cooperate. Cooperation is love; it is the attitude of mind where we do not work alone. We cooperate with God, and we cooperate with people. The right use of divine love changes our whole perspective.

We are no longer the sole operator of our lives, the one who goes it alone and pulls ourselves up with our own bootstraps. We are the co-operator, we are the co-worker, we are the co-author, and we are the co-creator with God. Our lives begin to improve and change dramatically as we consciously work with God in the situation.

The spirit of love will lead you into the ways of cooperation. Then that love becomes a magnet that draws your good to you. Love is like a magnet and it always draws our highest good to us. The divine process says that we must love God, and then everything works for good.

So look for the good and look for God in every situation.

For God is Blessing You, Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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