Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The choice for right mindedness.



Watch carefully and see what it is you are really asking for. Be very honest with yourself in this, for we must hide nothing from each other. If you will really try to do this, you have taken the first step toward preparing your mind for the Holy One to enter. We will prepare for this together, for once He has come, you will be ready to help me make other minds ready for Him. How long will you deny Him His Kingdom? T-4.III.8: 1-5


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Jesus offers to help us claim our natural inheritance: the unconditional love of God. He states that we must be honest about our desire and willingness to give up the ego and its belief in conditional love in order to maintain and aggrandize itself in favor of the Oneness of our Transcendent Source. It is a choice that we can make at any time. It is not forced on us because we have free will. It’s up to us. How long will it take, or what will it take, for us to give up our wrong mindedness for right mindedness?


Monday, April 25, 2022

Turn it over



I will love you and honor you and maintain complete respect for what you have made, but I will not uphold it unless it is true. I will never forsake you any more than God will, but I must wait as long as you choose to forsake yourself. Because I wait in love and not in impatience, you will surely ask me truly. I will come in response to a single unequivocal call. T-4.III.7:7 - 10


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Love is not impatient. Love waits. It encourages second, third, fourth, fifth, any number of chances. Sooner or later, one way or another, come hell or high water, the Truth will set us free from the deep, deep sleep of the ego world.


Today, we become aware that to experience the unconditional love of our Transcendent Source, our natural inheritance, we must shed the strings of attachment to the ego. Rather than deprivation and loss, cutting the strings of attachment to the ego is a liberation. Today, we are encouraged to turn our attachments over and let the ego go.


Sunday, April 24, 2022

The better way is there all along.


No force except your own will is strong enough or worthy enough to guide you. In this you are as free as God, and must remain so forever. Let us ask the Father in my name to keep you mindful of His Love for you and yours for Him. He has never failed to answer this request, because it asks only for what He has already willed. Those who call truly are always answered. Thou shalt have no other gods before Him because there are none. T-4.III.6: 1-6


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Once again the above passage brings smiles to the faces of those who love the God of unconditional love. One’s will brought into alignment with God’s will engender great peace and joy. To achieve this alignment one must give up the things of the ego. One discovers this in the search for truth and meaning.


Today, when one turns their attention to the will of God by asking “What would Love have me do?” a whole new level of awareness arises. With it comes great peace and joy, and laughter. Getting on a better track we think “Of course, this better way has been there all along.”


Saturday, April 23, 2022

The place of unconditional love and peace.



There is a kind of experience so different from anything the ego can offer that you will never want to cover or hide it again. It is necessary to repeat that your belief in darkness and hiding is why the light cannot enter. The Bible gives many references to the immeasurable gifts which are for you, but for which you must ask. This is not a condition as the ego sets conditions. It is the glorious condition of what you are. T-4.III.5: 1 - 5


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When we experience the Oneness with the All in a state of mediation, we become aware of the Kingdom of God within us. How could we desire the meager offerings of the ego after that? Jesus tells us many times and in many different ways in the New Testament that the Kingdom of God is within us made up of unconditional love and all we have to do is seek it and we shall find it. In Matthew 7:7 Jesus says, ““Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”


Today, take a few minutes several times during the day and set the things of the ego aside and go within to the place of unconditional love and peace.


Friday, April 22, 2022

The choice between conditional and unconditional love.



You project onto the ego the decision to separate, and this conflicts with the love you feel for the ego because you made it. No love in this world is without this ambivalence, and since no ego has experienced love without ambivalence the concept is beyond its understanding. Love will enter immediately into any mind that truly wants it, but it must want it truly. This means that it wants it without ambivalence, and this kind of wanting is wholly without the ego’s “drive to get.” T-4.III.4:5 - 8


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Most people are afraid of love because the ego loves conditionally which is born out of the desire to get. The desire to get is based on the belief in scarcity. In the world of unconditional love there is no scarcity and therefore no desifre to get anything. The witness, observing this dynamic, has a choice to make: to love conditionally or unconditionally? Unconditional love is our natural inheritance and the only thing that is real. It is this recognition, acknowledgement, and choice for unconditional love which brings peace and joy.


Today, reflect on the choice between conditional love and unconditional love and make a decision about how to proceed with life.


Made of junk.


You who identify with your ego cannot believe God loves you. You do not love what you made, and what you made does not love you. Being made out of the denial of the Father, the ego has no allegiance to its maker. You cannot conceive of the real relationship that exists between God and His creations because of your hatred for the self you made. T-4.III.4: 1 - 4


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Not knowing our true selves we don’t love them. Deep down they seem inadequate and defective because they are. The work of the ego conditioned and socialized by the society it was born into and grown up in, comes to be seen as ludicrous and insane because it is. This insanity and ludicrousness, the ego will not admit to, but deep down we know that what the ego would have us believe is a lie. 


It dawns on us that there is a better way and with this dawning a search begins. The search can take us on many paths but to only one destination which is the Oneness with our Transcendent Source.


Today, we recognize and acknowledge that our egos are full of shit which encrusts the brilliant diamond within. We know this because God doesn’t make junk even though we do and plenty of it.


Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Seven principles support group


 A small online peer support group is being started for people who are interested in talking about ways to understand and apply the seven principles of Unitarian Universalism. The group will be limited to seven to nine members and when the group is full at nine, new people will be added from a waiting list if someone in the existing group leaves. The expectation for membership is that people will read the posts to the group, and contribute at least one post per week.

If you are interest in joining please send me an email at davidgmarkham@gmail.com


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