October 2025 Daily Guides by Jesse Jennings and Ernest Holmes
The Daily Guides have always been a beloved section of this publication. Each month, new spiritual guidance is imparted by members of the Centers for Spiritual Living communities. It’s lifelong insight you can’t find anywhere but Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.
Each day brings two quotes from various wisdom teachers, a personal guide from the author’s life and a powerful affirmation. This daily inspiration has impacted generations of readers.
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Faith Is the Channel
Affirmation: Letting go of that which is little, I now enter into a larger concept of life.
This is the way: Think what you want and then trust the law to work for you. Suppose that you want to do a certain thing. You must make up your mind what it is that you want and then you must believe, believe in season and out of season, know every day that the thing that you wish is just at hand, waiting for your faith that it may be made manifest to you. Your faith is the channel through which the Spirit is to make the gift. Now faith is an absolutely positive and definite way of thinking.
It is thinking the truth in spite of all appearances.
— “The Uplift” magazine, March 1918, page 10
Here is a piece of one of Holmes’ early writings, from the monthly periodical that he and brother Fenwicke published and then soon merged with Dr. Albert Grier’s “Truth” magazine. What catches my eye is his line about believing “in season and out of season.” It’s an elegant style of encouragement to keep believing, whether or not at that particular moment we’re “feeling it” or receiving any support or noticing any results.
In life there is always a balance between obstinacy and flexibility, but this is an appeal to keep on keeping on, no matter what. At each turn, our good awaits our recognition of it — in fact, is actively seeking us — both for our own fulfillment and for the greater expression of life more abundantly everywhere in general.
We just need to build the determination to shepherd our wishful thinking all the way into definite shape.
Quotes
Let’s go upstairs.
— Homer Johnson, said as his invitation to join in prayer
