IT EITHER IS OR IT ISN'T!

As Religious Scientists are learning and living a philosophy that is based in the Principle that says "We are Spiritual Beings living in a Spiritual Universe and we are governed by our use of the Universal Law of Cause and Effect." This is what we call Divine Principle. This Principle is our Truth. We prove it True by living it as our Truth and as David Walker said, "...not just on special occasions."

Jesus once said that we shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set us free. How does Divine Principle set us free? It sets us free because we know that whatever is showing up in our life is showing up because we believed in it enough to allow it to show up. We did not create it. We created our experience of it. This includes everything and I mean Every Thing. It either is or it isn't! The Good news is that because thoughts are things and if we do not like what is showing up, we have to power to change it by changing our thoughts. It is our choice.

Ernest Holmes says,

"...Nothing can happen to man that does not happen THROUGH him, whether it be the result of his own erroneous conclusions, those of his grandfather, or those of the race to which he belongs! This is not in any sense fatalistic, for WE CAN CHANGE THE TREND OF CAUSATION WHICH HAS BEEN SET IN MOTION AT ANY TIME WE DECIDE TO DO SO."

Note the last sentence, "...WE CAN CHANGE THE TREND OF CAUSATION...AT ANY TIME WE DECIDE TO DO SO." Those CAPS were put in by Ernest Holmes not me. We Decide!

So, let's explore this statement by Ernest Holmes in regards to the thing called "illness" of any kind whether it be a cold or Cancer. Do we have the power to "...change the trend of causation which has been set in motion?" I answer, "It either is or it isn't!"

We are part of a race consciousness that believes in disease. Erroneous thoughts cause things that are erroneous. Am I aligning myself with race consciousness, or am I aligning myself with Truth. If there is a healing to take place, it takes place in my mind. Nothing in the material world is REAL. It is merely a thought that has hardened.

I have been reading the works of Phineas Quimby, a healer, who believed and proved this Principle in regards to illness. Quimby called the Principle the "Science of Life." He said,

"Thoughts are like grains of sand, and are held together by their own sympathy or attraction. The natural man is composed of these particles of thought combined and arranged to make a form called man. As thought is always changing, so man is always throwing off particles or thoughts and receiving others." He goes on to say "man's change of mind is under one of the two directions, either of this world of opinions, or of God; and his happiness or misery is the result of his thought."

So, can we go too far physically in the erroneous direction? Is there a point of no return? Must we die because the doctors told us so? Because, the X-ray says so?

Principle is either true or it isn't. I must believe that erroneous thoughts can never go too far. We can be healed in an instant. Jesus did it. He said what he could do we could do and better. Phineas Quimby believed Jesus and proved it true. There is a Divine Spark within each of us that is not ill. It doesn't know the word illness. It is perfect. It is Good. If we can truly believe in that, anything unlike it would fall away into the nothingness from which it came.

We are not healing the physical man, we are revealing the spiritual man and we can do that anytime we truly decide to do it.

"There is a Power for Good in the Universe and I get to use it." I get to use it because I am it. It is not separate from who I am. This is the Truth I strive to live. Disease, poverty, and war are not real; we have believed them into our experience. They are created by the Power that we used incorrectly. God is Good and everything else is simply not the Truth. It either is or it isn't.

Namaste! Rita

I Do Believe in Rainbows

Today, just as I was getting the news that the sale of my screenplay is still sitting in the world of Hollywood time, I got a call from James. He was calling me about the talk that Patrick and I will give on Sunday Valentine's Day, but the conversation started with him telling me about a beautiful rainbow that he was looking at.

For anyone who was on-line for Boot Camp this morning, you know I teased him about all the rainbows he had seen lately, saying "of course you see rainbows, it's been raining."

Later for a moment I felt sad about my script. I immediately went into meditation, asking what do I need to know. Just like the sun clears a rainy day and brings a rainbow with it, I remembered my conversation with James. While he was looking at the beautiful rainbow and I was getting the news about my script, Spirit was talking to me, this time through James.

I remembered the story of Noah and the flood---the rainbow was a promise from God to Noah that he was loved.

And so, James calling me at that exact moment with news of a rainbow was just a gentle reminder for me that my Word as success has been put into the Law. Whether it revealed to me as a sold screenplay is none of my business. My only business is to know that Spirit always keeps its promises to those who choose to believe in rainbows even when they are behind the clouds. I choose to believe in rainbows. I am already successful right now.

love,
Rita

The Law is Our Faithful Servant

The Universal Law of Cause and Effect is called the Doer, Blind Force, The Creative Medium. It is called many things. It is our faithful servant and it only thinks deductively. That means it does not reason, but only does as we say. It responds to the power of our word backed by our belief.

Recently, I was in a car accident, which someone pointed out to me was not an "accident" but "on purpose." Since I was the person at fault and hit someone else, these words stirred me into emotion. I would never purposely set out to hurt anyone. I did not set out that morning to purposely hit another car with my car. However, I did have a conscious upon the impersonal Law when I left the house that morning. I wanted to work from home and resisted going.

The first thing that happened was my husband was using the car I usually used which left me in the car with out my parking pass. I would have to park somewhere else that day, which put me on the street where the collision occurred. As I pulled out of my garage, I treated for my new Prius or better, and I knew it was already here.

Well, my faithful servant, the Law worked as fast as possible, ala the car accident, which catapulted me home to work after getting towed to the body shop, and then because I do not have renter's on my insurance, a friend lent me her Priuus.

So when thinking about these series of events and knowing that I did not leave the house wanting to hurt someone else or wreck my car, I still cannot call this an accident. Thank God for Grace and Rita's overall sense of well being and non-violence and peace and love which created a a minor instead of a major accident.

So what can I learn from all this. I cannot tell the Law how to do something, for that would be outlining. As I told my practitioner when he was treating for me at the scene of the accident, I feel like my resistance to work created this.

I feel somewhat like the Sorcerer's Apprentice ala Disney's Mickey Mouse. Learning the power of the law without clarity is precarious. I pray for clarity, the ability to trust my intuition. My boot camp word this time around is Gratitude. Perhaps if I used a little more of that, still moving forward at all times to love, live and serve. I would experience more constructive ways of demonstration than car accidents.

Any thoughts on this?

love,
Rita