Divine Order and the Unity Principles (1)
This is the first of 5 posts about Divine Order and the Unity Principles. Each post will explore a principle and its connection to Divine Order.
First, we need to define Divine Order.
Divine is easy: of or from God, Spirit, the Divinity.
Order can be tricky. The first definition is an authoritative direction or instruction, a command, a mandate.
Go with that definition and Divine Order means direction or commands from God to us.
Here’s the second definition of order: a condition in which each thing is properly disposed with reference to other things and to its purpose; a methodical or harmonious arrangement.
Surely you can tell I like that definition better, for it lets Divine Order mean a heavenly, Spirit-arranged harmony among and for all things.
Who wouldn’t choose that definition?
So, let’s look at the first Unity Principle: God is the absolute good…everywhere present.
And so is Divine Order everywhere present. In his wonderful book, A Daily Dose of Sanity, Alan Cohen tells of a coaching client who clearly knew what she wanted: a house on a hill, surrounded by trees and with a view of the ocean. Alan asked her about her wants:
Why the house? For security.
Why the hill? For perspective.
Why the trees? For their growth.
Why the ocean? For its expansiveness.
Alan’s further exploration disclosed that the house, hill, trees and ocean were not the woman’s true desire. She wanted security, perspective, growth experience, and a sense of the expansive.
Her true wants are within that harmonious arrangement of all things. Sure, the house and its surroundings may provide them to the woman.
Those physical things may not fulfill her true wants.
Her true wants may be fulfilled in other ways she has not considered.
She may come to realize her fulfillment already exists within the absolute good that is everywhere, even and especially within her. As it is within each and every one of us!
God — Absolute Good — Divine Order are the same thing. They are everywhere present.
Love,
In: Oneness, Prayer, Spirituality, Unity Principles · Tagged with: God, Principles, Unity
We are One
Living, loving God,
I have felt your presence not only with me but truly filling me today.
As I have been consciously aware of the warmth, energy, welcome pressure from my inside-out,
I have been joyed, made happy and secure.
I have felt whole.
I have felt the flow that holds me, moves me–and with my having no concern where I am going.
I know I am cradled completely in your One.
That consciousness is not constant. It does not even ebb & flow.
It clearly comes and makes me feel your presence.
And it goes away, leaving me to be in the human game: thinking & doing, talking & worrying, planning & hurrying.
Yet when that consciousness is lively in my mind and in my heart, it supersedes all time.
It flows forward and backward and I enjoy the certainty that you are always with me,
no matter where my awareness is.
God, thank you that you are always with me.
And I with you,
even when I do not know it.
And so it is. Amen.
Love: not just for Valentines
Happy Valentine’s Day!
It is a day devoted to love, to expressing love and emphasizing love, especially between two people.
But who says it has to stop there? Who says it should stop there?
From Ernest Holmes:
I listen with complete faith and trust to the voice of Love guiding me today.
I accept the abundant good that flows easily and freely to me.
In return I am loving and generous to all others, knowing that we are joined in Spirit.
My whole mind is open to the Divine influx of joy, love, wisdom, and guidance.
My life prospers.
Happy Valentine’s Day!!
