Ozark Sunset
Photo Courtesy of Blake Lasater
We, as humans, have a tendency to focus on what we don’t want, rather than what we do want. A teacher once told me to reinforce positive behaviors in our children, rather than trying to turn them away from things we do not want them doing. For example, if you say, “Don’t play in the reet”, all they hear is “play in the street”. Perhaps this is the key to opening the eyes of those who do not want to see. Heather Cox Richardson (my very favorite historian) told us today that it is imperative for everyone to know that the richest man in the world now has access to our national checkbook, along with private information of every citizen. I know many people who listen to and read only conservative news media output. They do not know what the highest elected official in our country plans for us. I pray for clarity in words and actions.
“The still, small Voice for God is not drowned out by all the ego’s raucous screams and senseless ravings to those who want to hear It. Perception is a choice and not a fact. But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. Perception is a witness but to this, and never to reality. Yet it can show you the conditions in which awareness of reality is possible, or those where it could never be.”
A Course in Miracles T-21.V.1:6-11
"It is only by acknowledging the supremacy of Spirit, which annuls the claims of matter, that mortals can lay off mortality and find the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator."
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 491:12-16
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