Signs of Land?

As far as the story has been told, Christopher Columbus’s crew cried mutiny! They were about to make him “walk the plank.” They were sure he’d led them astray, and they would be lost at sea forever. At just that moment, a seagull appeared with a branch in his mouth. And so, the term “Signs […]

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The Third Law of Motion

Newton’s Third Law of Motion states “that for every force, there is a reaction force that is equal in size, but opposite in direction.” The Spiritual Laws of the Universe work in exactly the same manner as the natural laws of the Universe. In fact, they are the natural laws of the Universe in the […]

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Words! Words! Words!

There is a song in the musical My Fair Lady, where Eliza Doolittle is overcome with her disgust for all the words her would-be beau, Freddie sings to her. She wants action. “Words, Words, Words, I’m so sick of words,” she sings adamantly. I’m also getting quite annoyed with words, but for a different reason. […]

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What are You Accepting?

Acceptance is contained within the fourth step of Spiritual Mind Treatment in Thanksgiving. Acceptance is such a different concept than declaring or demanding something. Acceptance means that I acknowledge that something is already there within my life in all its fullness and that I allow it to be. The question is what are we accepting […]

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I Demand It!

In the Science of Mind and Spirit we have a form of prayer that we call Spiritual Mind Treatment. It has five steps and the third step is called “declaration or realizatoin.” In that step we announce whatever it is that needs to be known within our experience. It might be the truth that we […]

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Rise Up to Meet Your Great!

It’s Easter, one of the High Holidays in the Christian Faith Tradition. We are also in the middle of Passover, one of the Holy Holidays of Judaism. In the Christian tradition, the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is celebrated. Passover is celebrated in remembrance of the Israelites being freed from slavery in Eygypt.  In another […]

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Be Careful What You Ask For…

Remember that saying, “Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it… .” It’s true, but you don’t always get what you ask for; you get what you need before you ever get what you ask for. Deepak Chopra said that this morning in his daily meditation series. “The Universe doesn’t work according […]

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What’s Your Achilles Heel?

One of the stories in Greek Mythology tells us that it was prophesied that the mythic character Achilles would die young. In order to counteract this prediction, his mother Thetis took him to the waters of the River Stiyx that had the powers of invulnerability. She held her baby, Achilles by the ankle and dipped […]

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