Day 203

Today's Review:

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(183) I call upon God's Name and on my own.

The Name of God is my deliverance from every thought of evil and of sin, because it is my own as well as Him.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I experienced a couple of examples of the Law of Attraction at work yesterday. It becomes more and more evident the more I look for it. I don't see things as coincidences anymore. Yesterday I got a call from a friend of a friend in Chicago who is working with the Bob Proctor Life Success programs I'm also now trained and certified to present. She and I had a great talk about all the possibilities we could think of for sharing this information with potential clients and partners. After about 45 minutes, she had committed to coming to our August 9 workshop on The Winner's Image here in Fargo-Moorhead and we had talked about us coming back to Chicago to have an open house of sorts there in November.

It's similar to another conversation my friend (and business associate) and I had on Friday to set up some other meetings and potential presentations. It's so easy when we believe! This is wonderful information and will literally change people's minds which will change their results. What's not to believe in?

I've had other conversations with people I never thought would be open to what I'm learning, but when I stop making them wrong (in my head) and just be open and authentic, they are attracted to that energy instead of repelled, which makes perfect sense.

That whole concept is similar to what I'm learning through this course and other studies I'm doing. When I be what I'm learning, and start living the way I'm learning, I invite others to be the same and the world starts to shift.

I'm reading a book right now that is really helping me with my recent challenge with Christianity and spirituality. I've been questioning whether or not I'm truly a Christian if I can't accept that the only way to God is through Jesus. This book is called Discover the Power Within You: A Guide to the Unexplored Depths Within by Eric Butterworth. It talks about the need for unity in our spiritual lives which will lead to unity within our entire world. It rethinks certain Bible verses in light of who Jesus was, and encourages each of us to find God within ourselves instead of looking outside. In one section in the introduction, Butterworth addresses 10 of the most frequently asked questions about Jesus. The answers are very interesting.

The questions are: 1) What was Jesus' last name? (hint: it wasn't Christ.) 2) What about Jesus Christ? 3) By what name did Jesus' friends and family call him? 4) Was Jesus born on December 25 in the year beginning the Christian era? 5) Since Jesus is called "the son of David," is Mary listed in the genealogy? 6) Was Jesus a Christian? 7) Did Jesus intend to start a new religion named for Himself? 8) Is God a Christian? 9) Did Jesus claim perfection for Himself? 10) What does IHS mean?

I found the answer Butterworth gives to question 8 especially interesting: "Think about it. There was no Christianity when Jesus walked the earth. What he taught was a Universal Truth. His followers later made it into what we think of as the Christian religion. Most of this happened over centuries engineered by those more concerned with perpetuating a monument than disseminating a message.

"I have often speculated on what Jesus would have done if he had been seated around a table with a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Moslem, and a Shintoist - discussing ultimate Truth. I just can't believe that Jesus would have said, 'You must all forsake your beliefs and come and follow me.' I think he might have pointed out that the differences were chiefly a matter of semantics, and that there is an underlying principle similar to the Christ idea in every religion. I think he would have stressed the basic unity within the diversity of religions, pointing out that the greatest need of all persons is to find that indwelling unity with God, which is found in the principle of divine Sonship, that we call the Christ."

Shifting my understanding from Jesus-centeredness to Christ-centeredness by allowing Jesus to be an example of what all of us are capable of achieving allows me to be the best me I can be without shame or guilt, and strive for love in place of fear.

That is surely a miracle!