We Have Been Told Who to Hate

If the year were 1763, you would have been told to hate the French, because we were in the middle of the French and Indian War. A few years later, because of the War of Independence, the French were our friends and you were told to hate the English. Later, we were told to hate Native Americans (Indians). It seems they, the Native Americans had the audacity to be living on land that the settlers decided they wanted.
Then, we ran out of countries to hate so, we decided to have a civil war. It was easy. Depending on which side of the Mason Dixon Line you lived on, you just hated the other side. It didn’t matter if your own mother lived on the other side, she was the enemy, and you had to kill the enemy.
Then, in 1917, we were told to hate Germans, because we were in the “War to End All Wars.” Ha! Twenty-five years later, we decided to hate the Germans again. This time we threw the Japanese in to make it more interesting. Oh, by the way we liked the English, French, Russians, and sometimes the Italians. Now, that the war was over we thought we could rest for a while. Wrong, now we hate the Koreans, at least the ones that live north of the 38th Parallel.
From 1951 to 1953, I was in high school and I had never heard of Korea. It’s hard to hate somebody you didn’t know even existed. What’s the deal? North and South Koreans look the same. You could end up hating the wrong one. Well, we got through that war and since we were pretty good at meddling into other peoples’ Civil Wars, we decided to try it again. This time, we go to Vietnam. We are now supposed to hate somebody named “Charlie.”
Just about now, we begin to think there is no one left to hate, but we decide it’s Russia’s turn. Then we began something called the Cold War. We spend billions of dollars making weapons to wipe each other off the face of the earth. Well, somehow we got through that one without killing anyone and turned our attention to the Middle East. Now here comes Iraq, with the third largest army in the world. Yes indeed, we hate those guys, go in kick their butt, kill a lot of Iraqi, and get out relatively clean. Later, junior comes along and says, “You call that a war dad, I’ll show you a real war,” and we are still there.
In my opinion, the next twenty years we will go full cycle and hate the French again, wait a minute; we already hate the French. Who are we supposed to hate now? We are supposed to hate HATRED.

Today’s Exercise: Do one act of kindness towards someone you would not normally look at.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: War is an excuse for fear. Fear is an illusion. War is stupid.

The Golden Key

From time to time in everyone’s life, we are faced with a problem situation or person that seems to dominate our thinking. It could be something very simple like an argument or more serious like a lawsuit. The situation eats at the very fiber of our being. We spend countess hours looking for revenge or sleepless nights trying to figure out how to strike back. Emmett Fox says it so well.
The answer is to LET GO AND LET GOD. It is the golden key
to harmony and peace in your hands. By letting go and letting God
work through you, you open the channel through which divine
intervention takes place. It is not our job to figure out how to solve
this problem. All we must do is get out of the way and let God’s divine
action take place.
The process is very simple and works every time for everyone. All you have to do is this: stop thinking about the problem, whatever it is, and think about God instead. This is infallible, God never fails. You must substitute thinking of your problem and think about God and nothing else. Your objective is to drive the thought of your problem out of your consciousness and replace it with your vision of God. Don’t think of God in the religious vein but think of God as beauty, kindness, love, goodness, peace of mind or anything else that warms your heart.
In order to “Golden Key” someone or a difficult situation, think “ I am going to ‘Golden Key’ (person’s name or that threatened danger)” and then proceed to drive all thoughts of the person or danger out of your mind replacing it with thoughts of God.
This will not be easy the first time you try it so I recommend you start with simple problems. Constantly reaffirming a statement of absolute truth such as: there is no power but God; God is good; I am surrounded by the perfect peace of God or simply God is with me.
Remember the law you decide the What and the Why and leave the HOW to God.

Today’s Exercise: Golden Key someone or something right now.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: You decide the What and the Why and leave the HOW to God.

Love Dissolves Our Hidden Fears

Armageddon • War • Old Age • Loosing a Loved One
Hurricanes • Ghosts • The Dark • Ex-Wife • Unloved
Tornadoes • Electric Bill • Dentist Visit • Airplanes

How many hidden fears do we have? A few hundred or a few thousand? Psychiatrists say that our hidden fears go back to when the egg and sperm united in the womb.
These buried fears are so deep that in order to uproot them, expose them, and heal them, could be an impossible task. Actually, the time it would take to heal them could use up several life times. So, we ignore, them at least we think so. For each of us, those deeply rooted fears are waiting for the right time to explode at the slightest provocation. This paints a pretty dim picture of our future except for one thing, Love.
Love dissolves our hidden fears and love is waiting for us to ask recognition of its existence to deal with our hidden fears individually and en masse at the roots of fear’s existence. We can cast out all negative thinking, fears, and hate from the mind by choice; at the center of our consciousness. Love and only Love is strong enough to dissolve all discontent and fear.
Where do we start? We start with God, the Creator. God is Love. God loves you and all creation, for God created everything in the cosmos. You need not worry for you will always be loved. Wherever you look, you see God’s work. Wherever you look, you see but a reflection of yourself. All things then return your love, your prayers, and your wishes to move the very mountains of the world. God dissolves our hidden fears with love.
It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.
1. Love God with your whole heart and soul.
2. Love yourself.
3. Love your neighbor as thyself.

Today’s Exercise: Do 1, 2, and 3.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Love and only Love is strong enough to dissolve all discontent and fear.