TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Spiritual Journey Command of the Spirit

Rev. Jim Rosemergy .........................................................................2 Myrtle Fillmore ................................................................................32
Calming the Worry Monsters How I Wrote the “Prayer for Protection”
Ian Lawton..........................................................................................4 James Dillet Freeman ....................................................................34
Faith Over Fear Freedom
Rev. Gaylon McDowell ......................................................................6 Daily Word, 1940 ..............................................................................36
Pray to Be Wrong Gethsemane
Alan Cohen.........................................................................................8 Rev. Ernest Wilson ..........................................................................38
Let Your Heart Listen The Redemption of Forgiveness
Martha Smock ................................................................................. 10 Kimerie Mapletoft .......................................................................... 40
Choose to Live Courageously Change: Designed to Illuminate
Susan Smith Jones, Ph.D. ...............................................................11 Rev. Ogun Holder ............................................................................42
Thinking How to Handle Change
Daily Word, 1950 .............................................................................. 13 Rev. Robert R. Barth .......................................................................44
Living Life from Within-Out Saying Yes to Change
Eric Butterworth.............................................................................. 15 Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. ...................................................................47
A Four-Step Process to Fearless Living I Am There
Revs. Richard Rogers and Richard Maraj ................................... 17 James Dillet Freeman ................................................................... 50
What Is Faith? Live Fully, Love Freely
Rev. Robert Brumet ........................................................................ 19 Jesse Herriott, M.A. ........................................................................52
If Faith Is a Tool, What Does It Do? A New Life—A New Song
Rev. Jim Rosemergy .......................................................................22 Daniel Nahmod................................................................................54
The Prayer of Faith Fearlessness
Hannah More Kohaus ....................................................................24 Daily Word, 1949 ..............................................................................56
The Voice We Might Not Hear Five Smooth Stones
Martha Smock .................................................................................25 Rev. Tom Thorpe .............................................................................57
Finding Peace When Tragedies Happen Sing a New Song
Rev. Jim Gaither ..............................................................................27 Mary L. Kupferle ............................................................................. 60
The Day I Nearly Died Sailor
Rev. Brian Grandon ........................................................................ 30 James Dillet Freeman ....................................................................62
 Some of the questions most frequently asked these days
are: How can I see what’s happening in the world through
spiritual eyes? How can I keep from fear and despair?
Fear is nothing but a thought, yet it can dominate people’s lives.
Consider this definition from The Revealing Word, a dictionary
about the inner meaning of terms used in spiritual study:
Fear—“Painful emotion marked by alarm; dread; disquiet”
(Webster). … Fear is a paralyzer of mental action; it weakens
both mind and body. Fear throws dust in our eyes and hides the
mighty spiritual forces that are always with us. Blessed are those
who deny ignorance and fear and affirm the presence and power
of Spirit.
Fear, how to overcome—Fear is cast out by perfect love. To
know divine love is to be selfless, and to be selfless is to be
without fear. The God-conscious person is filled with quietness
and confidence.
You might ask how one becomes more God conscious.
Fortunately, the question has been addressed throughout the
years by a variety of New Thought writers and thinkers. This
booklet is a compendium of spiritual practices for living without
fear in “quietness and confidence,” no matter what is happening
around you.
Although you may read one entry a day for 30 days, we hope
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 Wherever there is fear, there is also the possibility of courage.
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spite of fear. In truth, the way beyond fear is through it, and on
this journey, we discover something wonderful about ourselves.
Unknowingly, fear is the first to call for the courageous spirit of
God that is our true selves.
… I have experienced fear in combat—not so much that I would
die, but that I would be captured and tortured or that I would
never see my family again. I have felt the fear that comes when
a loved one is in danger and on the precipice of death. These
circumstances came and went, and in their going, I learned what
it was to give attention to God in the midst of a difficulty.
However, now I am challenged by fears of a different nature.
Perhaps they are fears that we share and which we can move
beyond together. I wonder at times if I am doing my best. I
question whether I am living the life that I am meant to live. Am
I resisting the divine plan? Does my life make a difference? Am I
living a life of purpose? Can you see the nature of my concern?
Perhaps these fears can be summed up with the question: Am I
in some way saying “No” to God? This is my greatest fear.
Perhaps writing to you is the beginning of my journey beyond
and through the fear. It is good to get things out in the open.
Dear friend, talk with someone about your concerns and what
Human beings fear many things, ranging from loud noises you fear. Also, know that you are a person of courage and
valor. Every time you voice and face a fear, you may experience
to public speaking to feelings to failure to success to death. anxiety, but you are also one step closer to being free of the
I don’t know a single human being who has not experienced paralyzing effect of the fear.
fear. However, I do know people who have not allowed fear When we willingly enter into our fears, they lose their power,
to dominate their lives. and the power that God is rises up to say: “Fear not, I am with
you. We have a work to do together.”

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 Obviously the ride up the steep cliff in the basket is terrifying.
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Calming the One tourist got really nervous about halfway up as he noticed

2 Worry Monsters
Ian Lawton
the rope was old and frayed. With a trembling voice he asked
the monk who was riding with him in the basket how often
they changed the rope. The monk thought for a moment and
answered cheekily, “Whenever it breaks.”
Life is full of moments like this. Our hold on life is old and
frayed, we never know when or how things will snap, and
we’re often dependent on other people. The best, most careful
driver can die in a car accident at the hands of another driver
being careless. You can send your kids to school in the safest
neighborhood and find them the victims of a deranged gunman.
Every day is full of situations we can’t fully control. What if?
What if I don’t get the job? What if I never find the right person
to marry? What if I move and still don’t find what I’m looking
for? What if I get pregnant and the baby has a rare disorder?
What if? Worry is a challenge for all of us at times.
Worry is not all bad, but it’s not all it thinks it is. Worry
about the future sometimes serves a purpose. It helps you to
troubleshoot potential pitfalls. You can play them out in your
mind, almost like rehearsing the future. Then you can either
dismiss the worry because you’ve seen how irrational it is, or
you can plan for it, or you can just accept it if it’s something
you can’t control.
There is an old monastery in Europe perched high on a cliff It’s all about mastery: letting worries work for you, not being run
several hundred feet in the air. The only way to reach the by worry. With awareness of what’s playing out in your mind,
monastery is to be suspended in a basket that is pulled you can steer worry in helpful directions. If you let worry run
to the top by several monks who pull and tug with all their your life, it will do so with glee.
strength. Mastering worry has a lot to do with timing. Decide to address
issues if and when they arise, but not a moment sooner. As
Atticus Finch often told his kids in To Kill a Mockingbird, “It’s
not time to worry yet.”

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 Human consciousness fears what it cannot control. Anything
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alleged status quo. Fear then begins to dictate what we do.
Therefore, we cannot allow the lower levels of human thinking,
based on fear, uncertainty, and ignorance, to dictate our
decisions. We must transcend the limited view of the human ego
and connect with a higher level of awareness, seeing beyond the
facts and limited perceptions to the goodness of God.
Charles Fillmore wrote that faith is, “The perceiving power of
the mind linked with the power to shape substance.” Faith is our
ability to see the possibilities of life. Faith sees ideas where fear
sees disbelief. Faith sees opportunities where fear sees obstacles.
Faith sees potential where fear sees problems. Faith sees abundance
where fear sees lack and limitation. Faith allows us to work with
God’s omnipresent substance (infinite possibility) and shape it into
a manifestation of good we can understand and use in our lives.
If we want to master life, we must exercise our faith. We must
say yes to our good by seeing it spiritually, holding it in mind,
believing in it, and bringing it into manifestation.
Faith allows us to become independent thinkers. When we keep
our faith in God in us, our thinking will not be determined by
Life is a mystery. Life is forever changing and no matter limited paradigms but by the context of love, wholeness, and
how hard people want some things to stay the same, prosperity.
changes happen. For some people, the unpredictability of Jesus taught that faith works with the spoken word. In the
life is problematic. The human ego, functioning out of fear Gospel of Mark 11:22-24, Jesus teaches us how to utilize the
of the unknown, tries to control situations, people, politics, power of faith. He taught us to speak the word of faith to the
religion, and anything it can dominate to maintain control mountains in our lives. First, we must put our minds on the
Spirit that transcends the appearance by seeing God’s goodness
and feel safe. Some people are looking for assurance in the
with our faith; then we must speak to our seeming problems and
midst of constant evolution. The challenge is, no matter tell them to be dismissed into nothingness. Trust God and live in
how hard we try to preserve a way of life, it will change. your power.

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 Years ago, a gunman killed the parents and four siblings of
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for dead. Miraculously she survived. At her family’s funeral,
she quoted Harry Potter’s mentor Dumbledore: “Happiness
can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only
remembers to turn on the light.” This young woman made
an extraordinary choice about how she would process
such a horrendous ordeal. She chose love.
On the day I read the news article about her eulogy, I was upset
about a credit card bill. Suddenly my upset felt absolutely trivial.
I realized that if Cassidy could choose love in the face of such a
terrible experience, I could choose love over far lesser challenges.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling heard about Cassidy’s oration
and sent her a personal handwritten letter in purple ink from
Dumbledore, a wand, and several autographed books. While these
gifts could not undo the tragedy the young woman underwent,
they demonstrate our power to soften each other’s pain.
When faced with fear, anger, or guilt in yourself or another, ask
yourself: Is there another way to look at this that would bring me
more ease, relief, or peace? If there is, pray to be wrong about the
way you have been looking at the event, so you can see it from
a new, more healing perspective. A Course in Miracles asks us,
“Would you rather be right or happy?”
Pray to be wrong about everything that hasn’t worked in your
life so you can be right about everything that could work—and
will. Bless the past for leading you to a new life, for both the
challenges and blessings have lifted you to higher ground. As
you consider what hasn’t made you happy, heed the profound
advice of the 19th-century novelist Dinah Mulock Craik:
“Certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what
is worth keeping and then with the breath of kindness, blow the
rest away.”

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Let Your Heart Listen Choose to Live DAY

5 Martha Smock Courageously

Susan Smith Jones, Ph.D.
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You are My beloved child. Out of My own self have I created
you. My life is your life; My breath is your breath; My Spirit
is your spirit. There is nothing to fear, for I am with you,
mighty in the midst of you.
I am the life that heals you. I am the love that lifts your heart and
sets you free. I am the wisdom of your mind. I am the light of
your path. I am the peace of your soul.
I am with you, dear child, through every hour of the day and
the night, standing with you, upholding you, supporting you,
revealing Myself to you and through you.
I am the love that will not let you go. I seek you out when you
do not know how to reach Me. I speak in your heart to comfort
you. I am the life of your body, and My life is perfect and eternal.
Trust Me. I am your health.
I am with you in all the experiences of your life. I am the power
in you to understand; I am the power in you to forgive; I am the
power in you to become.
Beloved, I am with you. Live in Me. Rejoice in Me. You are My
beloved child.

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What a difference it can make if we choose to live
Thinking DAY
courageously! It takes daring just to live, but it takes
courage to live your vision. Getting up each morning to
face the day as a willing and enthusiastic participant in life
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takes courage. Every day there are so many opportunities
to act courageously, but fear often stands in the way.
Why do we let fear paralyze us? If we know the truth about
ourselves, we can choose differently. Instead of letting fear get the
better of us, we can let Spirit be our guide, with courage at the reins.
Is it possible to be in touch with your true courageousness
without being in touch with Spirit? I don’t think so. We can soar
to the top of the mountain when we know that the courage we
want is part of us; it’s our trust in God. Trust in God will destroy
the fear that stifles our efforts.
Fear comes from our misperception of a situation. We look
through our human eyes and mind rather than the eyes and
heart of God. When we face our fears, acting from the awareness
that we are one with Spirit, we learn and nurture courage.
French philosopher Jacques Maritain said, “A man of courage
flees forward, in the midst of new things.” When we face our
fears head-on, they begin to evaporate. When we embrace what
scares us, we find we are endowed with a level of courage that we
never knew existed.
Let your courage be the shield that protects you. Let courage
direct your spirit’s light to shine on your path and give you the
strength to live your vision, to dare to risk and go after your
dreams. In the end, most people don’t regret the things they do.
They regret what they failed to do. …
We strengthen and develop our courage by using it. Don’t let it
go to waste. Trust in who you are and be all you were created to
be. Choose to live courageously.

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My thought of God frees me from all fear and fills me with
strength and happiness. Living Life from DAY

The way to rid yourself of discontent and anxiety and every

troublesome thing is to open your consciousness to God.
You may say, “I believe that and I try, but I do not seem to
Within-Out
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be successful. How can I think of God when so many other
thoughts crowd in?”
God has given you the power to control and direct your
thinking. You may not be able to keep harmful thoughts from
flashing into your mind, but you can refuse to let them stay. The
unwelcome visitors will leave when you turn your attention away
from them toward God.
If any thought makes you miserable or keeps you from
enjoying complete good, you can be sure it is a false thought
and has to go. It will go if you think of God. God is good. God
is your Father. Dwell on that. Absorb its meaning into your
consciousness. You can stop worrying. You can stop thinking
about what seems wrong in your life. You can change all by
thinking persistently about God.
Walk in newness of life.—Romans 6:4

It has been said that the starting point in spiritual

realization is a right understanding of the One designated
as the Almighty. But in a world of such broad diversity, how
can we understand unity? How can we discover the One
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There are many definitions of God, but none quite so insightful
as this: God is the sphere whose center is everywhere and whose A Four-Step Process DAY
circumference is nowhere. It is not a picture that can be drawn.
In fact, it should draw the mind away from the tendency to
envision an anthropomorphic being.
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Revs. Richard Rogers and Richard Maraj
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A sphere whose center is everywhere? Impossible! But wait:
If the center is everywhere, it must be where I am. Could this
be the meaning of omnipresence? A point of life and light,
present everywhere as each individualized expression? If this
is true, then I am the center of God. It is an audacious thought
with a sacrilegious tone. And yet, can a geographical center be
otherwise located in a dynamic and expanding universe? Every
point in this sphere, where God is, is thus a bubbling forth of the
infinite flow of life. …
The great Truth taught by the mystics of all ages is: Life is
lived from within-out. This means that the whole universe is
concentrated at the point where you are. More than this—you
are the universe expressing as you. You are its living enterprise.
It forever stands behind you with its full resources. However,
the fullness of this universal support comes through you and
not just to you. The most profound knowledge that you can
attain is that your whole existence flows forth inexorably from a
universal process, which is always from within-out.
How widespread and deep-seated is the belief that we are forever How do we live fearlessly when there seem to be so many
in competition with people and in conflict with the world things that scare us? We appear to be afraid of everything.
around us. Our fears, resentment, anger, and even grief come We are afraid to go to the doctor, and we are afraid not to
because we feel that the instability of life in the world is a threat
go. We are afraid of the past and the future. We are afraid
to our existence in it. Jesus gave the answer, “The kingdom of
God is within you” (Luke 17:21). … The kingdom within is the to know and not know. How do we break out of the pattern
realm of all-potentiality, all-substance, all-life, all-love, all-peace. of fearful thinking and live fearlessly?

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Here is a four-step process that moves us into fearless living:
What Is Faith? DAY
Dedicate Your Life to God—Something happens when you
turn your life to God or your Higher Power. You no longer live
for you but begin to access greater power and confidence. When
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you surrender your will and ask to do the will and the work
of God, you are no longer trying to figure things out to keep
yourself safe. God is now in charge of your life, and you are here
not just for your own desires but to fulfill your divine purpose.
Your prayer becomes Thy will be done.
Deep Listening—There is a deep knowing within you. Your
soul knows how to keep you safe. Your soul can guide you to a
greater life. Your soul can access the infinite wisdom of God, but
you need to listen to the deeper conversation going on within
you. As you listen to your own inner voice consistently, you will
be amazed at what is revealed to you.
Courageous Action—It is not enough to listen to God; you
have to be willing to put the wisdom and guidance into effect
in your life. That takes courage. Knowledge is not enough.
Knowledge demands courageous action. It is not enough to
know the truth; you have to be willing to quickly and boldly act
with as little resistance as possible. The way your life becomes
better is to act from the highest understanding you know.
Enlightened Review—As you begin to live this process, it
builds your faith in God and yourself. Each day as you dedicate
your life to God by listening deeply and taking courageous
action, you watch your life become greater. You will also see
ways you can dedicate more of yourself to God, listen deeper,
and let go of old resistance to taking action.

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Faith is intrinsic within the mind of every human being. It characteristics are largely the result of our biological evolution.
operates within each of us. We are often admonished to The physical characteristics of our sense organs and brain cause
“have faith,” but actually we cannot not have faith! Faith is us to perceive the external world as it appears to us.
fundamental to our nature. To have faith usually means to According to Carl Jung, we also have certain innate mental
focus our faith in a particular direction. Yet faith is always characteristics that affect our perception of reality. He called
operating in our consciousness, no matter how doubtful or these characteristics archetypes. These archetypes influence
the way we perceive and interpret the experiences of our lives.
fearful we may feel.
Which particular archetypes may influence us and how they
Fear is faith turned inside out. Fear is having faith in certain influence us are the results of many factors. Our stage of life is
images created by the mind rather than having faith in the one factor. Our culture and our particular era of human history
creative power of the mind itself. Our fearsome mental images are also factors in determining our perception of reality. …
may have their origin in prior personal experiences, or they
Faith is the power to create our reality by our perceptions, our
may be the result of cultural conditioning. These memories
beliefs, and our interpretations. Seeing is believing, and yet
may be filled with strong emotions. If we do not discharge this
believing is seeing. According to our faith, our world reveals
emotional energy from the body, these images will continue to
itself to us and becomes real.
haunt the mind. As we put our faith in these images, we make
our fear real and thus we give it power over us. (The word fear Excerpted from The Quest for Wholeness, Unity Books, 2002
can be used as an acronym for false evidence appearing real.) A
story from the East tells of an artist who painted a large picture
of a tiger on the wall of his house. He was a very good artist and
the picture appeared so real that he became afraid to enter his
own house! So we, too, may frighten ourselves with our own
imaginings when we imbue them with reality.
In a sense, we choose our reality because we, knowingly or
unknowingly, choose where we place our faith. Very early in life
we develop the perceptions that create our sense of reality. The
choice of where we place our faith soon becomes habitual and
unconscious. By the time we become adults, these habituated
perceptions are deeply entrenched in the subconscious.
What we perceive to be reality is the result of several factors.
One of these factors is our human physiology. Our physical

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 If faith is a tool, what does it do? We insist that faith’s primary
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Rev. Jim Rosemergy
vanish; a new job is to appear. We manifest rain or a large house
or someone to share our home as long as we both shall live.
Are we magicians entertaining ourselves and others by making
things appear and disappear, or do we have another purpose? Is
making things appear and disappear the primary work of faith?
I believe that faith’s best work is not done in the world. Through
faith, our spiritual identity is revealed, and aspects of our
humanity, such as fear and condemnation, are no more. Through
faith we align ourselves to the indwelling Presence always at
work in us. Let us express our faith by being willing to respond
to the power of God within us.
Isn’t it true that in our way of life, we believe all things begin
within us? If this is true, the primary purpose of faith is not in
the world; it is in us. As spiritual beings, are we not destined to
echo Jesus’s words, “I do not belong to the world” (John 17:16)?
Perhaps the real work of faith is to help us detach from the world
rather than to sink our roots deeper into it.
Are you willing to try an experiment? Let us no longer attempt
to use faith as a tool to build a larger house in which to live or to
manifest anything in the world. Let us use this tool to craft a new
person, to chip away our humanity so the divine masterpiece is
revealed.
When faced with a challenging situation or dilemma, most of
A tool has a specific purpose. Hammers pound nails. Saws us hope we will have enough faith so Spirit can act. Could it be
cut wood. Glue binds objects together. It would be difficult that in these moments, God is hoping we are willing to become a
to drive a nail into wood with a saw. Try cutting a brick with person through whom Spirit can act?
a screwdriver. Excerpted from Unity Magazine

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The Prayer of Faith The Voice We Might DAY

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Martha Smock
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God is my help in every need;

God does my every hunger feed;
God walks beside me, guides my way
Through every moment of this day.

I now am wise, I now am true,

Patient and kind, and loving, too;
All things I am, can do, and be,
Through Christ the Truth, that is in me.

God is my health, I can’t be sick;

God is my strength, unfailing, quick;
God is my all, I know no fear,
Since God and Love and Truth are here.

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We listen to many voices, voices that dwell on negative
conditions that predict all sorts of dire things, voices that Finding Peace When DAY
would negate optimism and faith.
Perhaps someone pours out a tale of woe; perhaps we turn on
Tragedies Happen
Rev. Jim Gaither
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the television and all the news seems bad; perhaps we read the
headlines in the newspapers and wonder what the world is
coming to.
The voice we sometimes do not hear is the inner voice, the voice
of the Christ.
“In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have
conquered the world” (John 16:33). Not I will, but I have. …
Christ is your center, your anchor, your unchanging life. Christ
in you says: “I am with you, unchanging, eternal. I am your
center of peace. I am your anchor of stability. I am that in you
which is strong and steadfast. I am the overcoming power in
you. I show you the path of life. I am the way, the Truth, and
the life. You can meet changing conditions and circumstances;
you can rise up with courage and faith; you can go forward with
confidence and joy. In me you can do all things.”
In time of sadness or grief, listen to the Christ. “Believe in God,
believe also in me” (John 14:1). “Peace I leave with you; my
peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives”
(John 14:27).
Turn to the loving Christ and hear Christ say, “Peace! Be still!”
to the surging waves of emotion that would overpower you. In
Christ you are calmed and quieted, you rest in Christ’s presence
and feel strengthened and upheld.
Remember that though things change, God is changeless,
enduring. God’s love is eternal. God’s life is eternal. You can
never lose your own. You are always and forever one in Spirit
with those whom you love.

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“Why did God let this happen?” If the universe did not have laws, we would not be here. If we
did not live in a world of risks and choices, we could not have
People of faith grieve and wonder why a good and all- free choice and could not be creative. If we were not free and
powerful God would allow human suffering. Tragedies creative, we would not be like God. Freedom involves risk.
happen. Wars kill and destroy. Diseases cause suffering. We can learn to accept the world as it is. We can learn
Children die. Everyone is touched in some way by tragic nonattachment, and we can focus on enjoying what there is to
events. We search for reasons and meaning but may not enjoy in life.
find what we seek. We feel denial, anger, despair and
Like saints and mystics, we can pray and meditate to know God
sometimes reach a point of acceptance. Yet even when we within us. The mystic strand in the world’s religions affirms
reach acceptance, we may still wonder, Why? that consciousness of God is consciousness of love and peace.
Let’s leave God out of the question and consider tragedies purely I believe the quest to know God is the most satisfying and
in terms of natural laws and human behavior. At that mundane comforting path available to us in this life.
level of explanation, we can find the causes of any tragedy. We We can express love and peace right where we are. We can
can give political explanations for wars. We can give natural alleviate the suffering of others. We can make life more
explanations for disease. Human behaviors that cause suffering enjoyable. We can make this world a better place.
can be explained in terms of personal choices, happenstance,
genetics, psychology, and environment. When we look for Regardless of why things happen, we can be at peace with
natural causes, the “why it happens” becomes “how it happens.” existence and be angels of compassion on earth.

“How” explanations can be useful. When we know how bad This article originally appeared in Unity Magazine.
things happen, we can find ways to decrease the frequency
and probability of bad things occurring. Still, in knowing how
suffering happens and how to avoid it, there is little or no
comfort regarding what has already happened.
Once we admit “natural” causes of tragedies, God is no longer
directly responsible for each event. If every human event can be
explained in terms of nature and human choices, it makes no
sense to ask why God let it happen. It only makes sense to ask
different questions about God: Why did God make a universe
that operates according to just this particular set of natural laws?
Why did God put us in a world of risks and choices?

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 On September 28, 2010, I was carrying a pane of glass from
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Rev. Brian Grandon
severed all of my tendons, a nerve, and an artery in my left
arm. I did not know the extent of these injuries at the time,
but I was in a state of shock and convinced the foreman
to drive me to the hospital. I did not take the time to fasten
a tourniquet, but just squeezed it with my good hand and
jumped in the truck.
To begin with, I have relatively low blood pressure and am
anemic. After just a few blocks, I realized I was in serious
trouble. Soon, I would bleed to death! I was immediately
becoming groggy; my grip was weakening and couldn’t stop the
blood flow.
Then, I prayed, “But God, I’m not done yet.” I prayed another
highly personal prayer then began to shut down. We were still
about 10 minutes away from the hospital. I began to wonder
if this really was my time or if I would have a near-death
experience. I was not fearful of death at all, just disappointed that
the guy driving would be freaked out by a dead body next to him
and that I would not be able to say goodbye to my loved ones.
Suddenly I heard him yell out, “Hey, there’s an ambulance on
the side of the road up in front of us!” He honked his way across
seven lanes of San Diego traffic to cut off two ambulance guys
from leaving a 7-Eleven parking lot. They had just stopped in for
some soda pop for lunch. So in this parking lot, the EMTs stopped
the blood flow and got oxygen on me so quickly it was amazing.
Later that evening, I met up with the EMTs at the hospital. They
told me that my blood pressure was so low that I only had about
two minutes until it was game over. God answered my prayer
long before I knew what to pray. My life is a prayer, and I am
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 Stand by the Truth, for its seed is in itself.
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Command of the Spirit Be the light, health, substance, beauty,
16 A Meditation by Myrtle Fillmore and youth of your world.
For ignorance, see light;
for sickness, health;
for want, plenty;
for ugliness, beauty;
for old age, youth;
for bondage, freedom.
Get on fire with this doctrine; let it be
your first, last, and only thought.
Our God is a consuming fire.
The righteous shall shine as the sun.
Appearances are nothing to Spirit.
Set the mind free from ideas of lust and
deception. This is freedom to heal.
No man hides iniquity.
Believe in the honesty of all people.
Like the child, see good in all things.
Distrust makes wrinkles and old age.
Keep to your intention.
Spirit fulfills your obligations.
Reiteration of Truth trains the mind …
Persistence in Truth brings healing and prosperity.
All is Truth.
From How to Let God Help You, Unity Books, 1956

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 Silent Unity came to me and asked me to write a protection
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How I Wrote the pamphlet that we could send to people. … They told me they

17 “Prayer for Protection”

James Dillet Freeman
wanted affirmative prayers for protection on the back page.
Among these was the verse from the 23rd Psalm: “Yea, though
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil: for thou art with me” (Psalm 23:4 KJV).
One of the young women who worked in Silent Unity was
reading my manuscript as I wrote it, and as she finished it, she
came up to me and said: “Jim, if I were a woman in England and
they were dropping bombs on my roof, or if I were a soldier and
someone was pointing a loaded gun at me, I wouldn’t want to
feel like I was walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
Can’t you do better than that?”
I thought, You want me to do better than the 23rd Psalm? You
have to be out of your mind. But rolling around in the back of my
mind was the little verse I had written as a prayer for protection
at Christmas. I had written it just for Silent Unity, but now it
came rolling up to the front of my mind and demanded that
I pay attention to it. It enticed me to see what I could make
of it. First I took the rhymes from it. I felt it would be more
universally received if it was not a rhyme. Then I changed Christ
to God. It had been Christ because it was a Christmas prayer, but
I felt if we were going to send it around the world, God might be
more acceptable to more people. So the little prayer became:
Let me tell you how I wrote the Unity “Prayer for Protection.”
“The light of God surrounds me, The love of God enfolds me,
When World War II was raging in Europe, we received many The power of God protects me, The presence of God watches
letters and phone calls from people caught in the conflict, over me.”
but for a long time we did not have a prayer for protection That is the way we first printed it. Then a line came to me that I
that we were all satisfied with. This is how one came. … felt would make the prayer even more powerful. The line was:
“Wherever I am, God is.”

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 In the freedom of the spirit of Christ within me, I know no
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Freedom bondage.

18 Daily Word, September 25, 1940 Freedom from all bondage, mental and physical, can come
only from the consciousness of freedom, from the realization
that nothing in all the world can limit or bind you. Your
consciousness of freedom sets you free from bondage, because it
is the consciousness of the presence of Christ.
What seems to put you in bondage? Some belief in disease, fear,
failure? Some belief that persons and things can affect you?
Some thought that the world about you can dominate your own
indwelling Spirit? You are free from such beliefs when you know
that Christ, the Spirit of freedom within you, is mightier than all
these. In Truth your freedom has always existed.
Live in the consciousness that nothing in all the world can limit
or bind you. You are free with the freedom of Christ. You are
now free in the perfect realization that nothing in all the world
can limit your freedom or take it from you.
I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee ...
out of the house of bondage.—Exodus 20:2 (KJV)

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 In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus faced the hardest
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Gethsemane problems that men have to meet—hatred, jealousy,

19 Rev. Ernest Wilson

rejection, betrayal, defeat, physical suffering, death, and
(perhaps worst of all) human loneliness. It was the human
Jesus from whom the cry was wrung, “My Father, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not
as I will but as thou wilt.” It was Jesus renewed in power
and courage, reaching past the dark shadow into the
everlasting light, who said ever so gently to poor, drowsy
Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? … the
spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” It was Jesus
the Christ, once more the radiant Son of God, who added,
“Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? … the hour is
at hand” …
You and I, all of us, have what we might describe as our
Gethsemanes. We may even have what have been described as
our “crucifixions.” It takes a courageous man, however, to place
his lesser woes beside that picture of Gethsemane and see his
troubles shrink. It takes a wise and faithful man to go one step
further, to face his own Gethsemane alone with God, and to call
forth the faith that sees beyond crucifixion to resurrection.
If we go so far as to compare our experiences to Gethsemane
and Calvary, we should go further: to the resurrection. Do not
stop part way. Go the whole way. And the whole way is past
apparent defeat into ultimate victory.
With enlightened vision I see that only the good is enduringly
true …

Excerpted from The Week That Changed the World, Unity Books, 1968

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 A few of us from Unity in the U.K. went to see Les Misérables at
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The Redemption of the cinema. I was a slightly reluctant viewer. I had never been

20 Forgiveness
Kimerie Mapletoft
to the live show as I understood it to be a very sad experience,
and indeed a lot of the film seemed to be very cruel, with a lot
of sadness and pain. I saw a contagion of fear that dominated
people’s responses to each other, of course creating even more
sadness, pain, and ultimately death.
Yet as the story line went on, it became clear that it was so
much more about redemption and forgiveness. How one deep
act of forgiveness, where a very obvious human mistake was
completely denied, revealed the real person underneath; and
how this awakened the lead character to experience himself
as someone who had a soul, who could make a difference, and
indeed he did. The film explores the journey from hate and
revenge to a true place of forgiveness, love, and peace.
It is a story that each of us can relate to. … If we choose to
follow the path of redemption and forgiveness—which is no
easy thing when we are surrounded by people in fear and have
fear inside us too—we truly experience the grace of God as love,
forgiveness, joy, and peace; as complete freedom from who we
think we are, to who we really are.
When you watch TV or read the newspapers, are you Toward the end of film, we hear the words: “To love another
struck by how much they focus on punishment and person is to see the face of God.”
revenge? About fighting hatred and fear with more hatred
When we can truly look beyond the sins and mistakes we all
and fear? Yet the most profound stories ever told are ones make (“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone” John 8:7)
about real redemption and forgiveness. They touch the and see the real person within, as Jesus did—the real person who
heart and soul, and open us to the experience of God, to is looking for love just as we are—when we can be the expression
grace, in a way that nothing else can do, except of course of forgiveness, our hearts open wide and we really do see the
in our own personal experience of this profound activity. face of God, and others see God in us.

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 Well, there’s truth … and then there’s TRUTH. The truth is that
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Change: Designed we may or may not be responsible for whatever change has

21 to Illuminate
Rev. Ogun Holder
occurred in our lives. Sometimes we make choices; sometimes
they are made for us. This is not to say we are victims, just that
we are not in control of it all—a subtle but profoundly important
distinction. More than 7 billion people live in the world. That’s a
lot of choosing and creating. As much as we are all connected in
the nebulous Oneness, we are truly creating only our own
experiences. And because there are 7 billion of us, we will also
always be involved with someone else’s creations. Unless, of
course, we choose to live as a hermit atop a mountain, and even
then we’ve left someone behind. Add to that natural disasters ...
Mother Earth doing some rearranging of her own. Without
warning, diagnosis and death and despair and disaster can occur
in our lives. Some would say there is a certain elegance to the
Universe’s creative chaos. But more often than not, we neglect to
notice and appreciate the artistry until well after we have stepped
away from the crisis of the moment.
Now here’s the TRUTH: The creative essence of the Universe, All
That Is, the one power and one presence we call God, the Alpha
and the Omega, whatever name and understanding to which
you subscribe, is fully present at the point of your consciousness.
In this moment, this very now moment, in the midst of it all,
Whatever someone is going through, no matter how resides a being of immense magnificence, of limitless power, of
difficult it may seem, the feelings will not last forever. transcendent grace. If you’re still unclear about who that being
… The desire to escape the distress and “dis-ease” can is, take a look in the mirror. But do not see only the strained
occupy every waking moment ... and often our sleeping features of a weary body exhausted by change and grief. Look
into your own eyes and go deeper—deeper into the certainty
ones as well. How did we get here? What did we do to of the strength that lies beyond what you deign to believe
create this? Isn’t it the truth that we brought this affliction you possess; deeper into the knowing that you are not simply
upon ourselves? expressing the Divine, but that you are the Divine.

Excerpted from Unity Magazine

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 … It is said that change is the essence of life. If we don’t
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How to Handle Change
22 Rev. Robert R. Barth
move with it, change will happen in spite of us. One way
to work with change is found in Exodus 14:13-15. Here we
find several steps that we can take to resolve any conflict,
remove any obstacle, or help us adjust to any change.
“Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord. …
Tell the people … to go forward” (RSV).
The first step is: DON’T PANIC. As the author of the Book of
Exodus says, “Fear not.” This experience will work out. Know
that a day from now, a week from now, a month from now, a
year from now, this will all be behind you. The real reason not to
panic is:
God is in charge.
So, second: PUT GOD FIRST. Relax. “Stand firm,” knowing that
with God in charge, all will work out for the highest and best
good of all concerned. “The Lord will fight for you, and you have
only to be still” (Exodus 14:14 RSV). How do you put God first?
By seeing “the salvation of the Lord,” by knowing the truth in the
situation. Let go of your Red Sea. Define the obstacle, then look
beyond the obstacle.
Manifesting Health—Is your promised land, your goal, perfect
health? As you listen to the Lord of your being, you will know
that perfect health is yours to claim. God is the perfect life
energy flowing through every atom and cell of your being.
Wholeness is being manifested in you, right now.
Manifesting Prosperity—Are you seeking prosperity? As you
sit in the stillness, you will be assured that God is the source
of all of your good. As you put your faith in God, your supply
will be guaranteed. Prosperity will flow to you in many ways,
through many channels.

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Manifesting Harmony—Are you seeking harmony in
relationships? God’s love is working through you and through Saying Yes to Change DAY
all of your relationships. Love is cleansing any past hurts. Love is
actively at work in and through you and in and through others.
Whatever you are seeking, you will find an answer. As you sit in
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. 23
the Silence, there will come a moment when God speaks to you,
when God guides you. But even this is not enough. There is one
more step you must take.
And that is: ACTION. You need to move ahead. You have placed
God first. You have prayed, meditated, and known the truth.
Now it is time to move ahead. There is a right and perfect step
to take. ... Do as you are guided, and the obstacle will disappear.
You will be able to walk right through it.

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The mysteries of change are known in every world 3. The Return: Transformation and Rebirth. The caterpillar
wisdom tradition and provide us with an archetypal map who died to itself in the phase of separation—then dwelled at
for spiritual growth. In the book Saying Yes to Change: the threshold in its chrysalis—is finally reborn as a butterfly
that can spread beauty and inspiration with its very presence.
Essential Wisdom for Your Journey, my husband and
Our spiritual transformation entails dying to the false self
coauthor Gordon Dveirin and I outline the three classical with its fears, attachments, and need to control. With the
stages of change that constitute a rite of passage—for rebirth to our true nature, or God-self, we are in alignment
instance, from the acorn to the oak or from the caterpillar with a larger whole and truly support the inner freedom and
to the butterfly. … well-being of all. …
The Three Stages of Transformation Life … is a journey into the unknown where change is constant.
The challenge is to pay attention, heal what needs healing, and
1. Separation: The Journey Begins. When I directed a mind/ grieve what we’ve lost as a testimony to how precious it has
body clinic at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, been. Staying faithful to the certainty that we live in a spiritually
patients often told me that the day they were diagnosed meaningful reality, we are called by change to authentic trust
with cancer or AIDS, they died to who they were. They and surrender. Answering that call, we live in peace, joy, and
felt as if they were falling into an abyss. When illness, job service right now in this beautiful and holy world.
loss, financial reversal, betrayal, divorce, or death of a loved
one disrupts our world, our ego identity shatters and we Reprinted from Daily Word
are separated from what was. The human response is fear.
At a deeper level, however, a spiritual process is beginning
to unfold. The shell of ego cracks, and its habitual way
of constructing the world falters. Deprived of familiar
frameworks, we are invited to enter the ritual process of
transformation.
2. Dwelling at the Threshold: Surrendering to the
Unknown. The late anthropologist Victor Turner, who
identified the three stages of transformation, termed the
second “the time between no longer and not yet.” We have
died to who we were but are not yet reborn to who we
might become. We are at the doorway, the threshold of
new potential. … This is the great unknown where ordeals
are faced, allies appear, and the gifts of trusting in and
surrendering to a larger divine reality are claimed.

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 Even when you feel most alone, I am there.
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I Am There
24 James Dillet Freeman
Even in your fears, I am there.
Even in your pain, I am there.
I am there when you pray and when you do not pray.
I am in you, and you are in Me.
Only in your mind can you feel separate from Me, for only in
your mind are the mists of “yours” and “mine.”
Yet only with your mind can you know Me and experience Me.
Empty your heart of empty fears.
When you get yourself out of the way, I am there.
You can of yourself do nothing, but I can do all.
And I am in all.
Do you need Me? Though you may not see the good, good is there, for I am there.
I am there. I am there because I have to be, because I am.
You cannot see Me, yet I am the light you see by. Only in Me does the world have meaning; only out of Me does
the world take form; only because of Me does the world go
You cannot hear Me, yet I speak through your voice.
forward.
You cannot feel Me, yet I am the power at work in your hands.
I am the law on which the movement of the stars and the growth
I am at work, though you do not understand My ways. of living cells are founded.
I am at work, though you do not recognize My works. I am the love that is the law’s fulfilling. I am assurance. I am
I am not strange visions. I am not mysteries. peace. I am oneness. I am the law that you can live by. I am the
love that you can cling to. I am your assurance. I am your peace.
Only in absolute stillness, beyond self, can you know Me as I am,
I am one with you. I am.
and then but as a feeling and a faith.
Though you fail to find Me, I do not fail you.
Yet I am there. Yet I hear. Yet I answer.
Though your faith in Me is unsure, My faith in you never wavers,
When you need Me, I am there.
because I know you, because I love you.
Even if you deny Me, I am there.
Beloved, I am there.

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 Whenever you are faced with a circumstance that makes you
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Live Fully, fearful, try to remember the foundation of spiritual practice isn’t

25 Love Freely
Jesse Herriott, M.A.
to run away or deny the fullness of the human expression and
experience. Rather, it is to feel whatever comes up and allow it to
pass through you.
To illustrate what I mean, let’s take a brief look at language. One
of the many Latin words for fear is the word metus, which means
“among, with, or around fear.” The root of that word, met, is used in
composing words such as meti-culous (fearful of making a mistake).
But if you add the letter “A” to that root to turn “met” into “meta,”
you instantly shift from being “around, on the same level as, or
with” fear to being “above” or “transcending” whatever you are
facing, as in the word meta-physics (above or beyond the physical).
The lesson is this: As soon as you feel fear gripping you, try
adding one iota of spiritual truth to your awareness, and it will
create an opening for you to step out of that state.
The purpose of the human experience is to live fully and love
freely. Whenever you are stuck in fear, you are disconnected
from the awareness that you are loved and guided. By love, I am
not referring to an emotion directed toward you, but the truth
that you are the embodiment of divine love itself.
In many cases, we try to run away from our true feelings and
deny the signals life is bringing us. Well, if fear is a biophysical
If you pay close attention to the news or the talk around response to external stimuli in your environment, then your life
town (and on social media), you may quickly find yourself is giving you an answer to a very powerful question you have
drawn into a state of pandemonium and fear. Fear is a asked. Your job is to shift your awareness of that message by
natural emotion that runs through our biological systems bringing the truth of your being into your consciousness.
as a result of external stimuli that we perceive to be You are always loved and you are always provided for. Don’t run
threatening. It would be absurd to deny that fear is a real away from your fear. God in you, as you, through you, has the
emotion. tools to shape it into something beautiful. Dig your heels in. Hold
on to your truth, and for your next move, select one of the many
infinite possibilities that are around you. Your life will get better
when you participate in creating the good you wish to experience.
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 We met at the Houston airport and drove to the Houston
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A New Life— Astrodome, where thousands of displaced people filled this

26 A New Song
Daniel Nahmod
gigantic building. They were people without homes to go to,
without a job to report to, without a structure to their lives.
Richard walked the floor shaking hands, hugging people, offering
comfort. I played my guitar and sang songs during two of the
most intense and profoundly heartbreaking days I have ever
experienced.
The fear and absolute bewilderment were palpable. As I walked
from cot to cot in the middle of the most chaotic, disruptive,
disturbing scene I’d ever witnessed, I stopped frequently to talk
with individuals. I came to one elderly woman sitting on her cot,
holding her head in her hands. A little girl, her granddaughter,
was sitting by her.
I asked this woman, “Would you like to hear a song?” She waved
her hands in the air as if to say, “whatever.” I sat down next to
Several years ago, I experienced an awakening. Day after her and asked, “Would you do me a favor? I think you’re going
day, I had sat at my desk at my computer programming to know this song. Close your eyes and sing it with me.”
job, more or less pretending to work. I realized the life I was
I started playing “What a Wonderful World,” and she began
living was a life I no longer wanted to live. to sing ever so quietly with me. Her eyes were closed and so
I decided to move from Chicago to Los Angeles, and in 1998, I were her granddaughter’s. I closed my eyes as well, and for four
began my new life as a singer/songwriter. Soon after I arrived, minutes or so there was no Astrodome, no despair, no Katrina.
I volunteered at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with my guitar, There was just the beauty of that song. We were lifted up and
singing for patients, nurses, and administrators. I sang for people transported—not physically, but emotionally and spiritually—to
in comas and watched as they moved to the rhythm of the music. the safest place imaginable.
Elderly patients would hum along to familiar songs. … In those few moments, the work of my life gained greater clarity.
In 2005, just after Hurricane Katrina, I received a call from my I’m aware that when I sing a song, whether it’s in a hospital room
friend, Rev. Richard Rogers. We talked about how we might be or a large auditorium, for four or five minutes I am sharing a
of help to the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. vision. It’s a feeling, an instinct, and, I hope, a wisdom. It’s a safe
space.

Reprinted from Daily Word

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Fearlessness Five Smooth Stones DAY

27 Daily Word, February 19, 1949 Rev. Tom Thorpe 28

I know that God is with me at all times, my unfailing

protection, and I am free from any thought of fear.
The knowledge that God’s presence is ever with me, surrounding
and enfolding me, brings a sense of security and protection that
banishes any thought of fear. I cannot be afraid when I know
that I am never alone, never cut off from God’s help.
I abide continually in the assurance that I am secure in God’s
love. Wherever I may go, whatever difficulty may seem to
beset my path, God is with me to protect me and to bring me
safely through the experience. I place myself in God’s care and
keeping. I trust Him to guide and deliver me. I replace any
thought of fear with a thought of divine protection, with trust in
God’s protecting power.
My constant awareness of God as my shield and protector, my
constant willingness to trust Him to guard and deliver me, will
free me from fear and keep me peaceful and relaxed at all times.
God is with me, and all is well.
He shall give his angels charge concerning thee,
to guard thee.—Luke 4:10 (KJV)

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Unity gives us five smooth stones to use in our with this third stone, we “come over” to the understanding that
overcomings. These are the five basic Unity teachings. we are lords of our lives.
David, you’ll remember, brought down Goliath with his Our fourth smooth stone is affirmative prayer, the prayer that
first stone. knows the Truth. Through denials (statements that release the
grip that error thinking has held on our minds) and affirmations
So, too, can we overcome any fear when we have developed (statements that build a strong consciousness of Truth), we
sufficient skill in using our first stone: There is only One Presence “come over” to a clearer view not only of ourselves but also of
and One Power in the universe: God, the omnipotent Good. how God’s universe is structured to offer us constant support.
Consider that if God is the only power in the universe, there can Our fifth smooth stone is, next to the first, the most important.
be nothing to fear. Why, then, do we have fears? We have them It reminds us to base every thought, word, and action on
because our skill in using this first smooth stone has not been our growing understanding of the Truth we know. As we use
fully developed. We don’t completely believe in One Presence this fifth stone more and more, we “come over” to a renewed
and One Power. Our fears offer proof of our unbelief. We need awareness of our God-given dominion. As we approach constant
to practice to build our skill by using the four remaining stones. God awareness, our first smooth stone will shine with a light of
Our second smooth stone is our own identity as the Christ, Truth that will quickly dissolve any fear.
the beloved child of God. Our nature and God’s nature are the
same, since we are expressions of God. Paul writes, “I can do This article originally appeared in Unity Magazine
all things through him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
So can you and I. When, from my humanness, I feel powerless
and defeated, I can remember my divinity, my God-given Christ
nature. Through this remembering, I “come over” to a new
understanding.
Our third smooth stone is our understanding of the formative
power of thought. We call this power the law of mind action. It
reminds us that our thoughts create our experience. Through
our habitually held thoughts, we decide how we will respond to
the people, events, and circumstances of our lives.
Our response may have no immediate effect on what happens
to us. Our response does, however, dictate whether we will see
ourselves as victims or know our dominion. Through practice

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 You are a child of the living God, meant to express happiness,
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29 Mary L. Kupferle
the rays of the morning sun, meant to embody the music and
harmony of the universe. Joy is your gift from God, and it is
not dependent on what occurred 10 years ago, a month ago,
yesterday, or last night.
Joy belongs to you, whether you know it or not. It is yours now,
to discover, to use, to exercise, and to bring into expression. …
You can sing your way through this day, and you will find
yourself strengthened, not only mentally but physically. This
does not mean that you must actually give voice to song—
although this is helpful in itself. It does mean that wherever
you are, whatever you are doing, you can sing a song in your
thoughts, in your heart, and in your soul.
You can do this. Your expression will change; your face will
shine; it will radiate beauty and youth; your body will move
freely and gracefully; your work will go more smoothly; your life
will be blessed and transformed. …
Sometimes we think we cannot get into the swing of things, that
we are out of step with success, wholeness, happiness, or peace.
At such times, it is more important than ever that we realize
that the gift of joy is innate within us and can be awakened. The
apostle Paul says: “Rekindle the gift of God that is within you” (2
Timothy 1:6). Rekindle it with the words: I will sing a new song!
You can and you will find a wellspring of joy within you that you
No matter what has occurred before, this is a new day, a never dreamed existed.
new hour, and a new moment. You can take hold of joy on
You need not wait until some future time to become aware of
the wings of prayer and find yourself lifted into lightness,
this inner joy. You need not wait for it to come to you through
peace, and courage. some particular person, thing, or achievement.
Do not postpone your joy for another moment. Sing a new song
of joy today, this hour, this minute.

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30 James Dillet Freeman
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