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Your thoughts are your prayers
I had the pleasure of going to the Center for Spiritual Living this past Sunday in Redondo Beach. I go to many different places of worship for many different religions. I was definitely filled with Love by this beautiful congregration.
A message that has stuck with me all week was fairly simple, from the time of worship. The message was incredibly powerful and intellectual and I have been reflecting on that as well … however, the lasting inspration came in one of the songs, the words were “Your thoughts are your prayers … be careful what you’re saying.”
This really rocked me to my core because I have alway looked at prayer as a conscious thing … but to consider that whatever I allow myself to think, that that is a prayer? That was surprising for me to consider. I’ve appreciated meditating on this and have been singing the song to myself all week whenever I get into my negative default mentality of judging myself or fear of what might be … I do not want fear and judgment to be my prayers!!!
In light of the inspiration I thought I would include some other inspiration quotes from Ernest Holmes, since I enjoyed a service from on of his spiritual centers so much.
“Love opens the way before me and makes it perfect, straight, and glad. Love forgives everything unlike itself; it purifies everything. Love converts everything that seems commonplace into that which is wonderful. Love converts weakness into strength, fear into faith. Love”
“If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man’s inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.”
― Ernest Holmes
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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.
We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!
There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.
By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.
In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.
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