Acceptance of a greater good

We must identify ourselves with the limitless Source of prosperity, love, friendship, happiness, and spontaneous joy, and maintain this identification through new patterns of thought.  Ernest Holmes

Changing patterns of thought or habits can be daunting.  It takes practice, patience, and endless reminders of what it is that we want to change in our lives for the better.  

That hemostatic part of us just wants to stay the same.  But it can be done.  We can change whatever we want by knowing that there is something better for us.  Dr. Holmes gave us some clues as how it is done.  If it is any consolation, every time Dr. Holmes tells us that something needs to be done on a “daily,” basis, it means he had to do it “daily” too.  When I got that, it felt so much better knowing that even the “master” had challenges with the subject.

Clue number one:  The first thing we need to do is to get quiet within ourselves.  We need to quiet the inner critic - just ask it to be patient and reassure it that good times are coming soon.  

Clue number two:  We need to believe that it is possible for us to have what it is that we want.  We live in the Kingdom of God, all is for our benefit and participation.  We are surrounded by the abounding abundance of God, why then, are we being so parsimonious with ourselves?

Clue number three:  Every time we identify ourselves with the Spirit within, we are dealing with a certainty, and every word of affirmation replaces any denial.  In this way, we build up within ourselves an acceptance of a greater good.  

I am reminded of when I was a child and I remember I told a “little white lie.”  I told it so many times, that I started believing it myself.  Affirmations are the same way.  But repeating them often, getting into the truth of them, will bring us to the point of full belief.

Clue number four:  This one is all my clue for me.  When I want to change something in my life or get something new, I sit down and list all of the reasons why this is necessary in my life.  By reading and re-reading it, I come to a natural acceptance of the truth of it for me and once I have totally embodied it, it shows up for me.  

God is my Source of many things in my life.  It is a source of peace, calm acceptance, surrender into greater wisdom, and allowing myself to experience more of what life is.  I just have to REMEMBER that God is the solution to all of what is going on in my life.  I don’t have to “go” it alone.

We need to know there is a limitless abundance of all things good.  We can remember and remind ourselves of this every day.  Join me?