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Here it is… OWNING OUR DIVINE NATURE by Margaret Stortz
Every time we think, we are setting divine wisdom in action for our purpose, whether we know it or not. Since our thoughts have power, we had better know what backs them up and take responsibility for them.
I consider awareness of our oneness with God and awareness of our divine nature an absolute salvation from helpless, hopeless, ignorant living. With this knowledge, we can extricate ourselves from circumstances without light or freedom and create magnificent lives built on infinite inspiration. However, such awareness of our infinite nature is both wonderful and terrifying because now that we know who we are, we are responsible for the power at our disposal.
We are anything but innocent animals, dependent on instincts and simple learning to get by. We have the wisdom of the Infinite to uplift and guide us. I’m not sure we think of this as a responsibility, but it is, of course, just as paying attention to the right use of fire and electricity is.
Our divine nature gives us tremendous power since the mind we use is the Divine Mind. We may not have the expansive illness of infinity at our disposal, but we have as much of the love and wisdom of God as we can encompass and use. In fact, every time we think, we are setting divine wisdom in action for our purposes, whether we know this or not. Since we are learning of the power of our thoughts, we had better know what backs them up as well.
Not for nothing did Ernest Holmes refer to thoughts as things because he believed that “definite states of consciousness, as they become subjective, operate through a creative field and tend to reproduce themselves in form.”
In other words our thoughts do not stay airy ideas that blow away. Strongly held ideas tend to make themselves known in some ways in our very lives either through forms or actions. It seems that we are far more creative than we know and that we are always creating something, whether we plan to or not, which makes it necessary that we do indeed “mind our minds.”
The website MindBodyGreen.com says simply, “What you put your attention on grows.” Holmes often reminds us that we can choose what we think about and the we can change our minds at any time. He writes, “Let us choose to identify ourselves with abundance and success.”
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS
Holmes is right; we can choose what we think about. In fact, we always are, either with care or without much attention. The old aphorism “to whom much is given much is expected” does indeed apply here. We will use superior knowledge always, and it is our responsibility to use it correctly. This is a principle of elevated human behavior.
We do not come into life knowing that we must take care of how we think. Either we are taught this behavior or we will stumble around confounding ourselves until we figure it out—if we will make the effort to do so.
Self-responsibility is not an easy lesson because it means that we must stand behind our choices and actions rather than blame others. Actually, because self-responsibility is so hard to act upon or sometimes even recognize, humanity has discovered the need to create and agree upon bodies of civil laws. Because often we will not restrain our actions or redirect our thinking, we will require the laws of the land to constrain our behaviors. Now if we know that we share the nature of God–if we be conscious of what this means–our ways of thinking of ourselves and our relationships to life should set us free from destructive thoughts and feelings.
We can always choose what we think about. If we believe in the oneness of God, every person we know is part of that oneness. We are indivisible.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO OTHERS
If we are careless in our behaviors with ourselves, it almost naturally follows that we will behave toward others in the same way, for our brothers and sisters in life can be as close as our own heartbeats. And such thoughts and acts can easily become habitual, far from what would be a part of our divine nature. In a belief in oneness with God, we naturally regard others as part of that oneness, and if we act as if we do not, this can only mean that we do not truly believe in divine unity or our divine nature. If we find that we are casually slipping into negative habits, we may wish to engage in some more spiritual studies and practices to bring us back to what we really believe.
ONENESS WITH GOD EXTENDS TO ALL
The world of conditions and affairs can seldom help us maintain a belief in the oneness of all life. It can be replete with images and actions that seem to make our belief in oneness a kind of lie. Sometimes religious people will belittle others in order to make their own beliefs paramount. And when some believe that their spiritual system is the only true one, it makes shared unity harder to find. In fact, if we criticize others in a harsh way, we have actually forgotten that oneness extends to all–people we love and people we may not like at all–and we have forgotten our own oneness yet again. Thinking in terms of our divine nature can be quite challenging. We are often caught up in our own human affairs that we hardly remember the infinite overtones that hold us.
OWNING OUR DIVINE NATURE This is why quiet times, reading and prayer work become such important practices. It may be true that inwardly we know that we are one with life and the things of life, but we must often work to remind ourselves of this overarching truth. This is one reason why I say that we must own our divine nature, which is an integral part of how we think of ourselves as divine. These are not just convenient titles that we give ourselves to make us feel spiritual; they are working aspects of our own being. WE say that we have the nature of God; the mind we use whenever we think is an extension of the activities of the Infinite. Therefore we must be mindful of ourselves as using the God energies every time we act. If we think of ourselves as part of the Infinite, we must consider that everyone and everything else that exists as part of the Infinite as well, and we may not all know this. It is true, then, that when we go forth into the world, we will be meeting with others sharing the nature of God everywhere we go, whether they appear to be exactly like us or different in every way. Let’s allow Holmes to have the last word: “The answer to every question is within man because man is within Spirit, and Spirit is an Indivisible Whole.”
Blessings & Love Kathy McConnin Science of Mind