Monday, September 13, 2010

PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF PEACE IN DEEPEST GRATITUDE

TODAY THE CHURCH LESSON WAS ABOUT EXTRAPOLATING TOO LARGE OF A THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT NEGATIVES WE HAVE OR MIGHT HAPPEN TO US IN THE FUTURE. THE MINISTER SAID THAT THE POPE ALSO REVEALED THAT THERE IS NO HELL, HOWEVER MANY RELIGIOUS PEOPLE STILL THINK THERE IS. HE SAID WE ARE ALL PERFECT JUST AS WE ARE AND WE ONLY NEED TO LOOK WITHIN IN ORDER TO SEE HOW TO HAVE DEEP GRATITUDE AND LIVE LIFE FULL OF INSPIRATION AND INNER PEACE. HE QUOTED SOMETHING FROM HOLMES WHO FOUNDED THIS CHURCH. THE MINISTER IS FROM SOUTH AFRICA. HOWEVER, HE IS WHITE WITH A BRITISH ACCENT AND IS ON A RADIO STATION. HE USED A VIBRANT EXAMPLE AS TO HOW HIS FRIEND WAS IN HIS HOUSE AND THE CAT BROUGHT IN A LIZARD AS HIS FRIEND TOLD HIM. EVEN THOUGH HE DID NOT SEE THE LIZARD HE THOUGHT ABOUT IT CONSTANTLY. IT TOOK OVER HIS ABILITY TO RELAX AS HE THOUGHT ABOUT A REPTILE BEING IN HIS HOUSE. HOWEVER HIS FRIEND MAY HAVE BEEN TELLING HIM A RUMOR. IN OTHER WORDS HE SAID IT WAS A STRANGE THING THAT HIS HEAD WAS FILLED WITH THESE RUMORS. IT DID NOT LEAVE HISW MIND. HE REMINDED US THAT THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND US AS INDIVIDUALS. IT WAS A GOOD LESSON TO LEARN AND IT WAS A GOOD EXAMPLE.

THEY HAD A GREAT BAND THERE TODAY. WE SANG SOME OF JOHN DENVER'S SONGS WITH THE GUITARS AND DRUMS. AND I CRIED AGAIN AS I THOUGHT ABOUT MY MOM WHO HAD ONCE ATTENDED THIS CHURCH SERVICE FOR CHRISTMAS.

No comments: