Unity Village“Are You Comfortable Being Uncomfortable?”
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Fall 2010
The theme for this year (2010) is Practicing Spiritual Economics . . . so, all of our Sunday lessons have centered around the practice of developing a prosperity consciousness. However, as I was preparing to create the 5th lesson in the Sunday series, The Truth About Prosperity, an interesting question popped into my head . . . "Do folks really want to be prosperously healed?" And by prosperously healed I am referring to being healed of all the dis-eased thinking that causes a lack of peace and love, health and well-being, or wealth and abundance in every part of our lives. And yes, you may be thinking, Well, of course I want to be prosperously healed! Who wouldn’t? But, let’s take a closer look at what being prosperously healed entails.
To paraphrase a dictionary definition, dis-ease is a condition or tendency within our consciousness that is considered harmful to our feeling of personal well-being . . . as well as, being harmful to our financial endeavors, careers, relationships, and so on. It can be caused by our reaction to environmental stress, as well as, the stress that results from the friction created in the relationships in our lives.
So . . . the question for each of us to ponder is . . . are there certain psychological or emotional payoffs that come from remaining in a state of stress . . . a state of dis-ease, especially if there are others in our lives with similar stress. In other words, does allowing ourselves to be healed or relieved of the thinking that causes the stress and frustration in our lives create a sense of being disconnected from a condition or emotion we have somehow unconsciously become accustomed to? Basically this question is prompting each of us to ask ourselves, Am I comfortable where I am? Have we become comfortable in our discomfort, because it gives us something familiar and similar to talk about . . . to be about? You know how we often defend our actions with the statement, This is just the way I am?
We each need to check ourselves . . . our own thinking . . . to see if there is any inkling that our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves have caused us to settle for things being a certain way. Inklingmeaning a slight hint or indication that our hearts may have grown dull, making our efforts to change futile and unproductive.
The awakening question to ask yourself is, Do I really want to be prosperously healed? There is the possibility we may not have considered this in our quest for more peaceful, prosperous, love-filled lives. We may have been so busy doing things to try to change the state of our affairs that we are unaware of the fact that our hearts have become dull . . . meaning we have become somewhat complacent. Again, I say . . . without even knowing it, our attitude may be . . . This is the way I am! . . . and . . . This is the way things are in my life!
The purpose of the question, "Do you really want to be prosperously healed?" is to invoke an exacting and rigorous self evaluation. As a matter of fact, the purpose of the New Thought Movement is to guide the individual to seek to discover what is truly true about himself or herself . . . and then to honestly and earnestly do the work that is necessary to bring about significant change within his/her consciousness.
God will always love us just as we are, but there is an eternal internal movement within each one of us that is calling for each of us to reunite our consciousness with the Christ Spirit that indwells us . . . but it is up to each one of us to make our own individual choice to participate in the divine re-uniting. Only we can choose to change from being self-conscious to God-conscious.
The re-uniting of individual consciousness into At-one-ment with God-Mind cannot occur unless the individual is willing to allow it to occur. If your motto is, My will, not Thine be done . . . then by way of your thinking, you tie God’s hands . . . so to speak. Many of you have heard Charles Fillmore’s statement . . . God cannot change crystallized race consciousness.
So, for God to do a perfect work through you, you must become open, receptive, willing. Each of us must learn how to say with all of our heart, and with all of our mind, and with all of our strength . . . Yes, I want to be prosperously healed, and I want to be healed right now. Make this the mantra of your mind and the meditation of your heart. Say it with conviction and it will be done unto you . . . Amen!!!