January 2025 Daily Guides by Rev. Kelly Robbins
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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Embrace New Beginnings
Affirmation: I am a powerful manifester, and I take time to nourish my soul.
This first day of 2025 is a day to embrace new beginnings. Centers for Spiritual Living’s theme this year — “Rising Higher, Growing Deeper” — brings to mind a visual of a tree. We see the tree trunk and branches growing higher, wider, expanding. What we don’t see, which is happening simultaneously, is the growth of the roots, which also are growing deeper and expanding wider to support the growing tree. The roots give the tree the nourishment it needs to grow and thrive, and the stability to withstand the heavy winds and storms it may encounter.
I imagine many of our New Year’s resolutions have this same structure. Growth and expansion in areas others can see, as well as the breadth of deepening inward, where no one can see but you. This first day of 2025, reflect on the goals you set for yourself and take a step back. Did you include space for the roots of your soul to grow?
We often focus on the effect, the outer expression of Spirit. It’s usually what others can see, and it often is measurable — losing weight, saving more money, changing careers. However, we often fail to take time to nurture and strengthen our inner selves, the pure expression of God within each of us. These qualities are less tangible and more a state of being, qualities such as love, joy, power or wisdom.
Are you focusing on change that includes your roots so it lasts and will weather the storms that are sure to come?
Quotes
The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
— Socrates
There is no strain or struggle in the universe. All the actions of life are harmonious, steady, sure and quiet.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Science of Mind,” page 244
