Divine Order and the Unity Principles (4)
It’s Thursday, let’s look at the fourth of the Unity Principles. This one’s my favorite.
Here’s how it’s expressed at unity.org: There is power in affirmative prayer, which we believe increases our connection to God.
Ellen Debenport, cited yesterday phrases the principle as: Prayer is creative thinking that heightens connection with the God-mind.
Either one, the key to the Principle and a key element of Divine Order is prayer. I suggest to you that prayer is
- talking with God
- listening to God
- feeling God’s presence
- enjoying the God-mind
- experiencing the Christ Spirit
- feeling heaven (within you or around you)
- giving expression to our faith, our belief
- giving an ear to God, God’s message
That list can go on and on. If praying is creative connection with Spirit, can there be any limit to how that connection occurs? I think not.
And I think that’s a fact of Divine Order. Divine Order is the creative, harmonious, melodic, methodical arrangement of everything that is (for God created every thing, remember!). Therefore, any connection among those things is an element of that arrangement, of that order.
Henri Nouwen, a Catholic priest and professor at Notre Dame,Yale and Harvard and author of over 40 books, makes this statement in his compilation, The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life:
“Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.”
Divine Order around us, in us, of us, for us. Let us pray.
Love,
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Divine Order and the Unity Principles (3)
Human beings create their experiences with their thinking.
That statement is Unity Principle #3. Our thoughts create our reality. The principle goes by many names: Law of Mind Action, Law of Attraction, Power of (Positive/Negative) Thinking. It’s the basis of The Secret, which was such a hit 5 years ago.
What does it have to do with Divine Order?
Not only are we God’s creations. We are God’s expressions. Through our thoughts, words, feelings, and behaviors we are able to express God’s creation continuously. In fact, as we express our Be-ing, we co-create again and again and again with God. That’s Divine Order, the harmonious arrangement of original creation — expression — continuous co-creation.
Rev. Ellen Debenport expresses this with beautiful human simplicity in her book, The Five Principles: “My personal belief is that we come into human form largely to play with Principle Three, to create our experience through thoughts and feelings,. I picture a soul group lanning its next human lives from the Other Side, probably swearing that this time we will remember our divine power, this time we will remain in constant contact with God within, this time we will create consciously just what we need and want. Our rediscovery of Principle Three once on Earth reminds us of that intention.”
I’m smiling as I think that entire “soul group” process–whether it’s as Ellen sees it or some way different–is clear evidence of the Divine Order.
Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind, says: “Even God can give you nothing until you make up your mind about what you expect.”
How clearly that states that we–and our expectations–are part of the Divine Order.
Love,
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Divine Order and the Unity Principles (2)
The second Unity Principle:
Human beings have a spark of divinity — the Christ Spirit — within them.
And Divine Order goes right along with that.
Consider: God is all.
Consider: we are all one with God.
Consider: we are all One.
Let me repeat my definition of Divine Order: a heavenly, Spirit-arranged harmony among and for all things.
Seems a sure bet the One we are is the perfect example of harmony…at the spiritual level.
The idea(l) of Divine Order suggests to me this reversal:
The spark of Divinity is not within the human being. That suggests the physical is bigger, more inclusive than the spiritual. Rather we are spiritual children of God, totally so. We merely don the human costume. Then, acting our lives from within that costume can take our attention away from Divine Order, by taking our attention away from the Christ Spirit that we are, first and foremost.
Jesus exemplifies the perfect actualization of the Christ Spirit, knowing the truth of Divine Order above all else, seeing the limitations of the human actings, and knowing/showing our power to live in and by that Diving Order.
The Christ Spirit we are is our access to realizing Divine Order as truth. The Christ Spirit we are is also the truth that we are of Divine Order.
Love,
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