You and the new you
I apologize to all that work night or graveyard shifts. You will have to adjusts the hours to reflect your sleep and waking schedules, but every one awakes to a new day and a new you. No matter your shift or your schedule, you have never been here before. The new day knows nothing about your life, not the triumphs or the failures. In fact, it only knows you as potential energy, capable of being the hero or the goat in this new tapestry of Now. What you will weave and make an imprint of is entirely up to you, and you alone. It is not dependent on conditions or on other individuals, it is how you interact with life itself. You have been given the greatest gift, and that is choice. You can act or react any way you choose, but you must keep in mind the consequences of your choice.
Ernest Holmes said, “There is no sin but a mistake and no punishment but a consequence.” Sometimes that consequence feels like a punishment, but if we look deeply we will find that we are the author of the punishment. God loves and it is contradictory to say that God destroys. Even in the many myths of destruction and calamity, we find the people brought it on to themselves. When they awoke to a new day they carried over the problems of the past. There was no room for optimism or opportunity in their life. Worry and depression have the same affect on many individuals in today’s society.
Regardless of whether you use the biological or Biblical approach to how you got here, you have all the potential to rise above conditions or circumstances to be all that you want and desire. We can’t wait to have more sugar in our life to make it sweeter, we must see the sweetness in everything. Too many look to the bitterness as a guide and their life suffers accordingly. We are spiritual beings encased in an earth suit. Like Tinkerbell, it is up to us to deposit the fairy dust on all the people and situations we encounter.
We all love the rags to riches stories portrayed in the movies and even the news. Those individuals woke up to the new day with a rallying cry of “I CAN.” You too can enter into a new phase of love and appreciation. Don’t let the past set the precedents for today, set a new precedent today. Fill it with love and promise. You may never look back
Say to yourself, “Today and every day I awake to a new and glorious day. The promises of this day leads me to health and happiness. The fulness of this day perpetuates all the good I desire. Nothing and nobody can darken the opportunities of this day. This is the day the Lord hath made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.
God is Love and Loving You Right Now!
(The Rev. Dr. Walt Sharer is minister at Bishop Church of Religious Science, located at 129 E. Line St., Bishop. Rev. Freda Lindsay and Rev. Walt officiate the weekly, Sunday services at 10 a.m. You can hear Rev. Walt’s message on “The Devotional Hour” on Sierra Wave KSRW 92.5 FM Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. The church can be reached at (760) 873-4195 for more information.)