Let It Begin With Me

Wishing each of you a joyous holiday season, wherever your journey takes you.

Please take a moment to listen as the Harlem Boys’ Choir exhorts us to remember that peace begins with us. (From the choir’s “We Shall Overcome” album.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-djRRFxOMk

Christ Is Born in Us Today

— Ernest Holmes

“And suddenly there was with the angels a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will toward men.” Don’t you think this means that when we are waiting on the Divine Presence and listening to the voice of intuition, we come into a consciousness of peace and a realization that we all belong to one human family?

For surely God desires peace on earth and good will among men, and Christmas is the day of good will among men. It is a day when we find a common cause and gladly make our gifts of love to each other in the spirit of him who said, “Love one another. … It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”

Today, as our thought ascends in prayer, our good will is going out to the whole world. Today our great desire is that peace and good will shall come among all people and all nations, binding all together in golden chains of love.

— Excerpted from the December 2017 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine. The article can be found in its entirety at www.SoMArchives.org.

Join the Celebration

For 10 years, the Science of Mind Archives and Library Foundation has protected, preserved and presented the legacy of Religious Science and the work of founder Ernest Holmes and his contemporaries. The foundation’s mission is to locate, organize, preserve and share records, resources, materials and documents that support the activities and expressions of Science of Mind.

With 12,000 volumes of new and rare books by metaphysical authors, great theologians and popular self-help authors, the library has one of the largest collections of metaphysical books in the United States. At www.SoMArchives.org you will find published and unpublished writings of Holmes, along with books, pamphlets and magazines by additional authors.

Please visit www.SoMArchives.org to learn how you can become involved in these efforts or to make a donation.

A Time of Beginnings

In his introduction to inspirational messages for January in “365: Science of Mind,” Dr. Holmes writes:

“New arts, new sciences, new philosophies, better government and a higher civilization wait on our thoughts. The infinite energy of Life, and the possibility of our future evolution, work through our imagination and will. The time is ready, the place is where we are now, and it is done unto all as they really believe and act.”

For each day of the year, this book offers insights and inspiration from Dr. Holmes. In the introduction, Kathy Juline says, “Holmes saw beyond the veil of outer appearances, and he challenged us to do the same.” She believes, as Holmes did, that “we can be lights unto the world.”

As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote:
	Are you in earnest? Then seize
		this very minute.
	What you can do, or dream you can,
		begin it;
	Boldness has genius, power and magic in it;
		only engage then the mind grows heated;
	Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Wishing each of you a new year resplendent with new beginnings, with boldness, with imagination and will.

— “365: Science of Mind” is available at bookstores and online retailers. You can read excerpts every day on Twitter by following @ErnestHolmesSOM.