One Sunday morning as I was watching "Super Soul Sunday", a show produced by Oprah Winfrey, I heard her guest speaker say, "What the word 'ego' means is 'edging God out'." This intrigued me so I began searching for articles about this new way of looking at the word "ego." I am sharing with you an article from Rev. Ellen Debenport. It is excerpted from the Unity Book, Sacred Secrets.
"A provocative question has arisen about the law of attraction and the idea that our thoughts and feelings create our experience: If we believe that we create our own reality, where is God? How presumptuous, some might say, to imply that we are in charge! Isn't that just running rampant with our egos, thinking we can control everything, when in fact we should be seeking God's will? When I first heard the idea that I was a co-creator with God, it sounded grandiose and blasphemous. I was being encouraged to relocate God as being within me instead of out there watching and tending to my needs. But that made me feel I was praying to myself, which seemed wrong! And when ministers and teachers told me I had all the answers within, I felt bereft. Obviously, I thought, if I had the answers, I would be using them. It took years of self-reflection and spiritual study to learn that I was laboring under a mistaken impression of who I truly am-my true Self. I am a spiritual being having a human experience. I am an expression of God on earth. I am divine at my essence, my core, and I am never separate from God. As Jesus said, the Father and I are one.
That means I have access to infinite divine wisdom, guidance, love, and strength, like a desktop computer tapped into the Internet. I have a higher self or inner being-my God-connection-that knows exactly what I need and draws it to me. I simply set an intention, and the universe rushes to support me.
We are made in God's image, and God is nothing if not creative, so we are creators too. What an amazing aspect of Creation that we can draw anything into our lives with our thinking! What we hold in our hearts and minds appears in our reality. I have come to believe that we are never more spiritual, never more in touch with God, than when we are co-creating our lives with the Divine. It is exactly what we came to earth to do."
"A provocative question has arisen about the law of attraction and the idea that our thoughts and feelings create our experience: If we believe that we create our own reality, where is God? How presumptuous, some might say, to imply that we are in charge! Isn't that just running rampant with our egos, thinking we can control everything, when in fact we should be seeking God's will? When I first heard the idea that I was a co-creator with God, it sounded grandiose and blasphemous. I was being encouraged to relocate God as being within me instead of out there watching and tending to my needs. But that made me feel I was praying to myself, which seemed wrong! And when ministers and teachers told me I had all the answers within, I felt bereft. Obviously, I thought, if I had the answers, I would be using them. It took years of self-reflection and spiritual study to learn that I was laboring under a mistaken impression of who I truly am-my true Self. I am a spiritual being having a human experience. I am an expression of God on earth. I am divine at my essence, my core, and I am never separate from God. As Jesus said, the Father and I are one.
That means I have access to infinite divine wisdom, guidance, love, and strength, like a desktop computer tapped into the Internet. I have a higher self or inner being-my God-connection-that knows exactly what I need and draws it to me. I simply set an intention, and the universe rushes to support me.
We are made in God's image, and God is nothing if not creative, so we are creators too. What an amazing aspect of Creation that we can draw anything into our lives with our thinking! What we hold in our hearts and minds appears in our reality. I have come to believe that we are never more spiritual, never more in touch with God, than when we are co-creating our lives with the Divine. It is exactly what we came to earth to do."
Sunday Worship
August 27th - 11:30am - Join us for our "social time" in the conference room for coffee, cookies and conversation.
12:30pm - Join us for Worship Service as we learn to celebrate "The Freeing of Forgiveness.".
Lost coming to service? Map HERE or Jeremiah keeps his phone on into the service, 915-706-6599.
August 27th - 11:30am - Join us for our "social time" in the conference room for coffee, cookies and conversation.
12:30pm - Join us for Worship Service as we learn to celebrate "The Freeing of Forgiveness.".
Lost coming to service? Map HERE or Jeremiah keeps his phone on into the service, 915-706-6599.
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Meeting in the East Chapel of First Presbyterian Church,
1340 Murchison Dr., El Paso, TX 79902 (Schuster/ Murchison & Brown St)
Fellowship begins at 11:30am Worship begins at 12:30pm each Sunday.
1340 Murchison Dr., El Paso, TX 79902 (Schuster/ Murchison & Brown St)
Fellowship begins at 11:30am Worship begins at 12:30pm each Sunday.
God of all generations: We thank you today for those who are grandparents. We especially thank you for those who are grandparents to us, those who are grandparents by blood relationships, and those unrelated but older than we who generously share their love and wisdom, their time and traditions so that we have roots, stories and hope. We bless you for the gift of grandparents, and we ask your blessing on them, that their days may be filled with delight in their grandchildren. May their giving and grace toward younger generations bring fulfillment to them and may they be a blessing to all they love and call grandchildren, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.God of all generations:
