August 2026 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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Fear: The Antithesis of Faith
Affirmation: I am a channel through which God creates. I know the nature of God is love, wholeness and harmony, and my life reflects that.
When I was young, my first corporate job was as a supervisor of a customer service counter. One day, a client walked in asking for a cash refund. Our company policy was not to give cash for refunds in this way. He was angry and threatened us with a gun. I remember standing there, frozen in fear, not wanting to make a bad decision and not budging on the refund. I didn’t know what to do. In the corner of my eye, I saw an employee slowly edge toward the safety button under the counter. Thankfully, the customer left without incident.
In that moment, I learned something about myself: I freeze in fear. And not everyone responds in that way.
Today, there’s a good chance I’d still freeze in a fearful situation. However, I now have fewer of those situations, and I have the tools and the confidence to make a decision without fear of being wrong.
Ernest Holmes taught that fear is the opposite of confidence and that fear and trust cannot exist together. I trust myself so much more now than I did as a young woman because of my understanding of how God works. I am not afraid to make the “wrong” decision because I trust I am a channel through which God expresses. I have the tool of affirmative prayer to help realize this truth whenever and as frequently as I need it.
Quotes
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.
—J.R.R. Tolkien
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
— Hebrews 11:1, as quoted by Ernest Holmes in “The Science of Mind”
