GOD IS OUR SOUL

God is our soul:  He is within and everywhere around us. This certain knowledge of God’s presence is based upon faith made real when we embrace God’s goodness in all that we do.  And in the doing, we hunger to come ever closer to God.  We want to feel His presence, to all but touch Him.

Through faith we become one with God and, as a result, one with our fellow-man, doing unto others as we would have them do unto us.

We pray and give thanks to God with ever-growing kinship: His light within a suffusion of all-encompassing love and goodness; our spirituality His.  No longer is it we, it is God treading the earth through us.  His will obtains in all that we think and do.  We cannot see God, although we visualize Him as the light within.  Our prayers to God have become those of God, our whole being entrusted to His care.

Garry D. Kilbourn

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A JOURNEY THAT WILL SET YOU FREE...

Fear not to go within in search of the real you. It will come at a low point in your life when you are at a loss, not knowing where to turn. It is precisely this combination of events that will enable, nay, even compel you to make this journey. And it is one that will set you free.

Discovery of one's own self is not an intellectual exercise, something to be reasoned in the mind. By its very nature, it is a spiritual revelation; one that reveals our primary purpose in life, that of coming to know God.

Though the journey may be lifelong, we soon come to know a quieting of the mind coupled with a sense of inner peace. Even more, we learn to love our self and we become enlightened with the knowledge that we can do no better than to love both God and our neighbour. Ever mindful of God's presence, we manifest His goodness and enrich the lives of others.

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YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL

     You are beautiful because of you: There are none other like you. You do, however, have one thing in common with all others--that of goodness. It is this ever-present God-given trait within you that is critical to your well-being. And, not least, it is that which unites us in our humanity.

     Goodness, albeit a very real phenomenon, is ofttimes obscured by the circumstances of life. As such, it is not to be taken for granted. It's presence, both intellectually and spiritually, requires none other than a firm belief in your own goodness coupled with self-discipline to make it a conscious reality.

     Anger and uncertainty in your life tend to obscure the goodness: you feel lost and alone in a turmoil of emotions that, left unchecked, pull you ever deeper into despair. By being honest with yourself and confronting that which gives rise to your unhappiness you at once quiet the mind and slow the beating of your heart, thus allowing rational thought to come into play. Only then can you begin the ascent to recover that wondrous sense of Elysian goodness; that which is your very birthright.

     Goodness requires that you first love yourself. This in turn enables you to give freely of yourself to others, thus sustaining and enriching your life. Thus too is your beauty recognized.

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THE CHOICES WE MAKE...

We are, each of us, blessed with the power of reason and its natural concomitant, will power.  Through reason we make choices for good or ill as they affect our life.  And, in accordance with our will, we act on them.

The choices we make as they relate to our day-to-day activities and our physical well-being are apparent to all, a manifestation of outward appearances all to often belying the truth.  Be that as it may, attendance to worldly matters pales beside the need to acknowledge and to come to terms with our own oft-neglected spirituality.

If ever we are to know peace within, to be certain of the path we walk, we must consciously quiet the turmoil of the mind to allow the soul to emerge and play its proper role in our life.  This involves no less than a choice to be made in accordance with rational thought, while at once exercising our will to act on it.  Thus may we come into the presence of God such that our spiritual awareness manifests His goodness; hence, our overall well-being.

G.D. Kilbourn
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Quest for Truth...

IN OUR UNRELENTING QUEST FOR TRUTH...relative to the human condition, we consider the matter of OUR SOUL interacting with a morally spiritual realm in the universe, that is to say, with GOD.

FAITH, no less EXPERIENCE, leads us to know GOD is within and everywhere around us.  That GOD IS OUR SOUL, the very essence of life, is known to all who BELIEVE.

The ever-present AURA emanating from each one of us, revealing our true identity, is but the sensory, at times visible, soul: A soul at one with nature.

There can be no doubt that we have the capacity to commune with GOD, with each breath we draw and with our very thought.  We have but to call upon our own God-given goodness and to act on that goodness.

DEATH is but the release of the soul, a spiritual renaissance or rebirth; something to HONOUR.

G.D. Kilbourn
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Thomas A. Dorsey

"I done my best" are at once the soulful and uplifting words of Thomas A. Dorsey uttered shortly before his death at age 94.

Mr. Dorsey was a pioneer of black gospel music, composer of more than 300 blues and gospel songs and co-founder in 1933 of The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses.

From 1924-1930 he was Ma Rainey's piano accompanist and song-writer, touring the Jim Crow South and the Midwest on the Negro T.O.B.A. Circuit, in tent shows and in vaudeville.

In 1930 he formed the Thomas A. Dorsey Gospel Songs Music Publishing Company.  Recognized as the first to write and publish gospel songs, his most famous, Take My Hand, Precious Lord, was written following the sudden death of his wife and stillborn son.

During his latter years Mr. Dorsey founded and became Choirmaster of the Interfaith Church Choir in St. Louis, Missouri.

Beginning as a blues pianist in honky-tonks, he became a self-made man and a person revered throughout the black church community.

Having in mind the words of Jesus urging us to "Love thy neighbour as thyself" and to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," can each one of us say in all honesty, day in, day out, "I done my best?"

G.D. Kilbourn
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Becoming...

BECOMING...'Tis commendable to feed the soul, to enrich our spirituality. What may at the outset appear a lonely, no less a daunting task -- for who among us early learned that God is our soul -- becomes a source of INNER PEACE.  When we at once question our PURPOSE and SEEK answers. 

Were we, upon awakening each day, to take but a moment to commune with God, to acknowledge His presence, and to ask: What am I Becoming?  That is to say: Am I being true to myself?  Am I able to accept my own innate goodness and to share it with others?

BECOMING is full of hope, a process of change and, above all, a spiritually transcending experience.  With God's grace, it is a never-ending joyful process.

Garry D. Kilbourn
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