Can We Be the Light?

Ernest Holmes wrote, “To desert the truth in the hour of need is to prove that we do not know the truth.” As writer Sally Robbins explains in the June issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine, “Being the calm in the storm requires us to push through our own fears and doubts while standing firm in the spiritual principles we embrace.”

In her piece, “The Calm in the Storm,” Robbins encourages us to look at this time of crisis as one of selection. “If I know I am on this planet to be a light-bearer,” she writes, “what better way to know that I embody that charge? It’s easy to hold the torch when everything is going well. During times of difficulty, we truly know what we are made of.”

If we are meant to be a calm in the storm or a light in the darkness, then we must ask ourselves how we accomplish that. “Can we maintain the vibration and frequency of serenity when those around us are frantic?” she asks. “Can we be the light in the darkness?”

She reminds us, “The light and power of God are always at your disposal simply awaiting your choice to use them. Force yourself — and be the calm in the storm.”

Rise as a Human Family

In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, the Association for Global New Thought issued a statement on recent events and the language of the unheard. The statement quotes Rev. Dr. David Alexander, Atlanta Spiritual Living Center and columnist for Science of Mind magazine: 

“We must come to the understanding that every time we are outraged it is because we have been asked to accept a normal that is not natural. Racism is not natural. Injustice is not natural. Indifference to the inhumane treatment of black and brown bodies is not natural. White supremacy is not natural.  For too long humanity has been conditioned into this unnatural state called ‘normal.’ 

“Yet we have also been given the tools to change it. It’s time we rise as a human family and address these issues head on as manifestations of a misguided mindset that has been in place for hundreds of years. 

“Consciousness created the place we find ourselves and consciousness with right action can change it.”

See the Good in All Things

By Ernest Holmes

Learn to see God in all manifestations, in all people, through all events. The ordinary person sees only the lump of matter. Not so with the awakened soul. He sees in all things the Divine Mind at work, molding out into expression what it feels itself to be of life, of color, of form and beauty.

There are some illusional ones who claim that what we see is all false and that the so-called material universe is an unreality. What a mistake. What we see is the body of God — full, free, complete, whole. …

What do you see when you look upon the human form, the crowning glory of God’s perfect creation? Matter, matter, matter? Flesh, blood and bones? Indeed, these may be passing into expression, but what of the idea, what of the reality of the body? …

Of all things on Earth, the human body is the most beautiful, the most wonderful and the most God-like.

— Excerpted from the June 2020 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine