Temple Hayes

Ernest Holmes refers to that inner impulse to push out as the “divine urge.” It permeates every living thing, and its voice perpetually whispers in our inner ear,

“Grow, grow, grow…I have to be more tomorrow than I was yesterday.”
The Universal Imperative is “Grow or Die.”

Can you pinpoint any area of your life (relationships, career, school,
and so on) where you have witnessed the Life Force that
originally sustained you so well, begin to withdraw? By
this I mean, the diminishing of the “juice or passion” that is
so vital to your existence and well-being.
Ignite or re-ignite your passion and listen to the whispers of your own divinity!

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I recall in my teenage years how incredibly difficult it was for me to learn how to drive an automobile. With all the various things to remember, shifting gears, and being on a big highway with everyone else, I would often question my ability to drive. Yet I never questioned the planning done by engineers, the construction completed by road crews or anyone’s logic used in designing the actual routing of the roads. I don’t recall even once asking if the road actually matched the direction of the map in front of me. I simply trusted it to be so.

Do you ever wonder why it seems so innately easy to accept roads created by humans, yet we doubt the roads of our own life which lead us to our amazing Selves? We often ask God why we have to go this way or that way, when we should consider asking God if there is a better or different route to take other than the one we are on.

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The courage you need will come, and will not fail you. — Steve Goodier

Mahatma Gandhi claimed to have never made even a minor decision
without prayer. Gandhi was known best as an Indian nationalist and
spiritual leader, but he was also a man of rare courage. He developed
the practice of nonviolent disobedience that eventually forced Great
Britain to grant India’s independence.

He spoke often about spirituality and prayer. He told about
traveling to South Africa to oppose a law there directed
expressly against Indians. His ship was met by a hostile mob and
he was advised to stay on board. They had come, he was told, with
the express intention of lynching him. Gandhi said of the
incident: “I went ashore nevertheless. I was stoned and kicked
and beaten a good deal; but I had not prayed for safety, but for
the courage to face the mob, and that courage came and did not
fail me.”

Gandhi preferred courage over safety. If accomplishing his goals put
him in the way of danger, then he wanted to face that danger bravely.
His prayer was to receive enough courage to do what needed to be done,
not to live his life free from harm.

Rabbi Harold Kushner speaks about such prayer. He reminds us that
“people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for
the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have
lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers helped
them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available
to them before.”

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I am noticing that more and more people are feeling torn in many different directions. We have all felt at times that we are being pulled in two or three directions. It could be job issues, family crisis, adjustment to a new marriage or adjustment to an old marriage becoming new.

The key to remember is experiences are always happening around us but not in us.

I am not my experience. They are simply matters happening all around me and in my life. My experiences do not define me. They are only moments in time. It took me awhile in studying the principles of unity to comprehend that I did not need to bring into my physical being the challenges that I was facing.

The facets and experiences of my life are like the branches of the tree and I am the trunk. The branches will change, come and go but the trunk will weather any storm.. kind or unkind.

Prayer is the greatest method to ground ourselves when we are needing to create a greater sense of peace when facing any and all of our experiences in life.

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Shirley & Marcy

A mother was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn’t want his mother to walk with him.
She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe. So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings and stay at a distance so he wouldn’t notice her. She said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed. The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor girl he knew. She did this for the whole week. As the two walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy ‘s little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to do every day all week. Finally she said to Timmy ,”Have you noticed that lady following us to school all week? Do you know her?” Timmy nonchalantly replied, “Yeah, I know who she is.” The little girl said, “Well, who is she?”That’s just Shirley Goodnest , Timmy replied, and her daughter Marcy. Shirley Goodnest ? Who is she and why is she following us? Well,’ Timmy explained, every night my Mom makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, ‘cuz she worries about me so much. And in the Psalm, it says, Shirley Goodnest (surely goodness ) and Marcy (mercy) shall follow me all the days of my life, so I guess I’ll just have to get used to it!

May Shirley Goodnest and Marcy be with you today and always!!

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