Light It Up

Rev. Patrick begins today's talk with a simple children's Christmas story about a shift in perception. We learn that it is in the sharing, in the generosity of spirit, that the consciousness is shifted. In Creative Mind and Success, Ernest Holmes said this about spiritual practice: "We have this Law in our hands to do with it as we will. We can draw what we want only as we let go of old order and take up the new. And this we must do to the exclusion of all else. "Generosity is Grace. We need to believe in the Grace of God, the Divine Givingness. But we must recognize that the Divine Givingness can mean nothing to us until there is a Takingness on our part. It requires our participation in it. "The Self must raise the Self by the Self because the Self is God. We have to do the work. No one can do the work for us."