Do we believe this? Maybe we don't absolutely but perhaps we do more than we are consciously aware of? I know very few people who are truly without fear and this has become more evident as we humans face the spread of the COVID-19; otherwise known as the coronavirus.
As much as I am aware that there is Life for me outside of my body, I have no desire to leave this incarnation anytime soon. Does that mean I am afraid? I hope not. I do not want my body decimated by disease for one thing and more importantly still, I believe I have so much more to live for and to do. I believe most people share these same thoughts. This is why I am surprised when I come across people who tell me they are praying due to fear of this virus. Fear-based prayer is truly not prayer at all. The Spirit that breathed Life into us does not respond affirmatively to our fear but our faith. The universe is an Intelligent Power of Correspondence without contradiction. What we are feeling is vibrating through us as truth. Since the Spirit can only correspond to our feeling rather than our words, fear-based prayer automatically fills us with more fear.
I am of the opinion that we don't really know what we believe until our faith is put to the test. This is from my Weekly Message dated September 11, 2011: "I am reminded of something that a young woman (Mariel Hemingway) said in a book-signing that I went to at The Corridor Courtyard in Palm Springs. She stated that she had been away at the ocean with her family when she got caught in a whirl-pool and was about to drown. She struggled and struggled to keep from drowning and then she had the realization that if she were to die, she did not want to go to G-d in a struggle or in fear, but in peace ... peace in knowing that she could trust in G-d. Within moments of feeling this sense of peace, she was saved from drowning. This is the consciousness of faith that knows there is Something greater than anything we can fear. Something that has an ever-lasting love for us and we can trust It."
As Dr. Holmes writes: "If the soul can create and sustain a body here, there is no reason to deny its ability to create and sustain one hereafter! We are spirits now as much as we ever shall be." And this is the truth for everyone of us, both here and in the hereafter ... within us is the "Light that always Shines."
Fear is eliminated by faith; this is the truth. Faith in G-d, faith in Life, faith in the Universe, faith in the Good, faith in the Truth. Faith in a person; be it a deity, a guru, a pastor, preacher, priest or a president or dictator will fail us at some point. "My god is a jealous G-d" we read in scripture ... which tells us to put our faith in the Love and Law of G-d as absolutely as possible. Then our fears shall turn into joy and our faith shall be exemplified.
Say these words from the mystical Ernest Holmes out loud to your Self (facing a mirror if possible): "Come, Thou Great and Infinite Spirit and inspire me to do great deeds. Acquaint me with Thy knowledge and in Thy wisdom make me wise. I would be taught of Thee, Inner Light, and inspired by Thy presence. I will listen for Thy Voice and it will tell me of great things to be done. I will walk in Thy Paths and they will lead me into All Good. I will be inspired from On High. O Wonderful Presence, flooding me, filling me with Thy Light, Thou dost inspire me! I feel the inspiration of Spirit."
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