But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

— Romans 6:22-23

The Message

“Reaching For The Light”

Gift of Life … p 72

The gift of life,

If truth be known,

Forever lies unseen,

Beguiled by mortal being.

The voice within

That’s never stilled

Is truth awakened

To illumine life:

Life and soul are one.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Jesus grew strong in mind and body. He grew in favor with God and men.

— Luke 2:52

New Life Version

“Reaching For The Light”

The Duality of Being … p 71

We are, each one of us, a duality: that of mortal body and immortal soul, each, in its own way, playing a vital role in our well-being. We need only take an honest look within ourself to realize that our everyday concerns all but invariably centre around affairs of the body, with little or no thought given to the soul. Experience alone tells us that these two separate though interdependent ‘Beings’ must work as one if we are to know inner peace and harmony.

In order that the soul may play its proper role, which is that of animating our spirituality and coming to know God, we must first take charge of the mind. Idle and mundane thoughts serve only to imprison us in mire. They are of no avail and must not be allowed to linger in the mind. To our good fortune such thoughts are readily expunged by thoughts that uplift and enliven the soul. We can begin doing this merely by giving thanks to God.

That we may become ever conscious of the soul — our life-giving force — we do well to begin, first, by taking our mind off ourself, then in selfless humility, look for the good in others, a simple process, figuratively speaking, of stepping back, becoming quiet within and listening. Thus does our intuition, our spiritual eye, come into play such that our higher — that is to say divine — senses enable us to at once see another’s goodness and to connect spiritually with his very soul. For both it becomes an ennobling experience.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

— 1 Corinthians 2:9 

New Living Translation

“Reflections From Infinite Mind”

Imagining Together … p 64 

Pray, do not stand idly by, come with me into the wondrous light that, even now, we sense within the soul. See the peaceful, flower-filled meadow that so entrances the mind with thoughts of love. Freed of worldly matters in this transcendent state, we are equally freed of selfhood, overwhelmed with a deep and abiding sense of our own divine spirituality. Oh how real the light, the utter joy of Being.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

neither they shall say, Lo! here, or lo [!] there; for lo! the realm of God is within you.

— Luke 17:21 

Wycliffe Bible 

“Reaching For The Light”

The ‘Who’ 

We Really Are … p 70

When the ‘who’

We show to others

Gives lie to

The inner soul

We have lost our way.

Fear not, for

’Tis but an illusion,

An aberration, a

Mind in turmoil

Working to obscure

The ‘who’

We really are, the

God-given ‘who’

Forever resting in

Peace, Love and Harmony.

We have but to 

Quiet the mind,

Be still and

Surrender to our

True inner Being:

To God within.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

— St. John 16:13 

King James Version of the Bible

“Reaching For The Light”

God and Man … p 69

When we think of Spirit as a vibrant, living force of energy, we as well properly attribute to it Divine Wisdom. As an emanation of the Soul, which is engendered and sustained by that wondrously mystical primal force of God, Spirit is the ever-present medium binding God and man. Spiritual energy is the Christ, the Holy Spirit, that which affords our communion with God through prayer: a harmonious force which heals both soul and body.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

[ We live a transitory life with our eyes on the life eternal ] We wish you could see how all this is working out for your benefit, and how the more grace God gives, the more thanksgiving will redound to his glory. This is the reason why we never collapse. The outward man does indeed suffer wear and tear, but every day the inward man receives fresh strength. These little troubles (which are really so transitory) are winning for us a permanent, glorious and solid reward out of all proportion to our pain. For we are looking all the time not at the visible things but at the invisible. The visible things are transitory: it is the invisible things that are really permanent.

— 2 Corinthians 4:15-18 

J.B. Phillips New Testament

“Reflections From Infinite Mind”

Inward 

Enlightenment … p 63

Those earnestly seeking inward enlightenment, who take the time to think for themselves, continually questioning the whys and wherefores of life, are those who, in time, will be gifted by God’s grace with knowledge of their true spiritual Being. Imperceptibly such are transformed, free of worldly dross, at one with their fellow-man, at home in Elysian bliss.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Jesus said to them again, “Yes, peace be with you! Just as the Father sent me, so I am now going to send you.” And then he breathed upon them and said, “Receive holy spirit. If you forgive any men’s sins, they are forgiven, and if you hold them unforgiven, they are unforgiven.” 

— John 20:21-23

J.B. Phillips New Testament

“Reaching For The Light”

The Breath of God … p 68

That primal force of Purity,

The Essence of all life,

Lives within the soul,

Never wasted, never lost,

Its spiritual emanation

The mystic tie with that

From whence it came:

The Breath of God.

— Garry D. Kilbourn