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A dear friend has been trying to leave this realm of Life for the past few days. Somehow, this has become entwined with my feelings about the devolving events in this country. Thanksgiving Day has brought to light, once again, the horrendous acts of our ancestors. Some feel we shouldn’t acknowledge them because they make us feel bad. What if instead of feeling bad, it caused us to celebrate that those days are over and now that we know better, we’ll do better? This is where my friend’s demise intersects with my feelings about our country. Her husband has been rock solid during the years of her illness, and now that the end has come, he’s remembering the good times and being grateful for the years of happiness they had together. When the bad times come into his thoughts, he doesn’t deny them, nor wish they hadn’t happened, but acknowledges them and is happy for the good times and her release from pain. Life is Good, even when it doesn’t seem that way. And to acknowledge all the events and look at what we’ve learned, how we’ve grown, how we’ll be different now, that is what it’s all about. It’s all a flowing river of energy, and whether it is positive or negative is our choice. Happy Holidays everyone!
“Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life and recognizing no mortal nor material power as able to destroy. Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine ‘powers that be.’ Such is the true Science of being. Any other theory of Life, or God, is delusive and mythological.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 429:6-11
“You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. You will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you.”
A Course in Miracles W-109.8:1-3
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