Take great joy in the Eternal! His gifts are coming, and they are all your heart desires!

— Psalm 37:4 The Voice (VOICE)

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Nurturing The Soul … p 77

Were we to count our blessings, would those we ourself have nurtured, which give insight to the soul, our true spiritual nature, be numbered? Selflessness, humility, love of ourself and our fellow-man — these are the blessings that give life and meaning that ever endure, all of which are to be found in that age-old maxim: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Worldly wealth and power are as nothing compared to “knowing thyself;” of being at one with God.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Please answer me: Don’t give up. Wait for the Eternal in expectation, and be strong. Again, wait for the Eternal.

— Psalm 27:14 The Voice (VOICE)

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The Enlightened Soul … p 111

All else aside, we have a moral obligation to provide for our own well-being, physical and spiritual. Herein lies the rub: Familiar to most is the lifelong pursuit of earning a living, in itself both necessary and laudable. Much less so, however, are we given over to the needs of the soul, our “other,” spiritual being.

Unbeknownst to many, it is this divine inner self that must, at the very least, be given equal time and study to that spent in the effort to earn a living.

The physical and spiritual aspects of life, while separate, are nonetheless interdependent. If we are to know harmony of mind, body and soul, the incessant workings of the mind must give way in part to the enlightened soul. In the doing we become a changed person, with a new-found sense of empowerment and inner peace.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple. For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle. He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head above my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to the Lord.

— Psalm 26:4-6 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

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Prayer … p 110

Spirituality is an expression of the soul: God within. How to become one with this, our inner self, becomes the question central to our well-being. To our own good fortune the answer is ever before us: We have but to surrender ourself to God in prayer.

Prayer is self-effacing communion with God. Here, thoughts of the mind lose themselves in our divinely spiritual self, our very being suffused with Love: Love of God and Love of our fellow-man. Such is man’s natural state.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Jesus said, “You’re absolutely right. Take it from me: Unless a person is born from above, it’s not possible to see what I’m pointing to — to God’s kingdom.” “How can anyone,” said Nicodemus, “be born who has already been born and grown up? You can’t re-enter your mother’s womb and be born again. What are you saying with this ‘born-from-above’ talk?” Jesus said, “You’re not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation — the ‘wind-hovering-over-the-water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life — it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom. When you look at a baby, it’s just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can’t see and touch — the Spirit — and becomes a living spirit.

— John 3:3-6 The Message (MSG)

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Born Again … p 76

To ignore, or to take lightly, the import of the familiar Biblical phrase “born again”, we do so at our own peril. Even so this is our way, as we actively pursue that which we unknowingly deem to be life’s purpose — that of materialism. Although this strange phenomenon, which weighs heavily upon the soul, is seldom discussed for reasons apparent to any thinking person, it is one that many, to their lasting good fortune, overcome.

We free ourself from self-destructive earthly materialism to become the person we truly are when we rediscover our soul, our oneness with God: He in whose image we are made. Such rediscovery is no less than a conscious transition of mortal thought to an awareness of God within. Through faith we become attuned with God’s harmoniously Divine Mind, from which we both emanate and return. And thus do we know God’s Elysian Garden of bliss.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Faith is the assurance of things you have hoped for, the absolute conviction that there are realities you’ve never seen. It was by faith that our forebears were approved. Through faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God; everything we now see was fashioned from that which is invisible. Faith begins as hope and indeed is unseen; so many doubt that it is real. What follows is the proof that faith is a reality that can be trusted.

— Hebrews 11:1-3 The Voice (VOICE) 

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Faith … p 75

History, it is well known, is replete with those claiming knowledge of the afterlife. We in this age are both the beneficiaries of this thought and of the human condition ever revealed to us as the centuries unfold. What we have learned, and have come to know, is that human knowledge, i.e., that limited by the five senses, is alone of this world. This despite the fact that conjecture and fantasy oftentimes lead us astray in our thinking and in our behaviour. Even so, it is in our very nature to seek and to have a deeper understanding of our purpose, one that takes us beyond and frees us of human thought. Thus do we reach out to Faith, that which anchors and ennobles us, it at once the transitional and transformative force uniting mortal with immortal to reveal in our consciousness our true, ever-present, divinely spiritual Being.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious, Adorable One. Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present. Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is omnipotent, supreme. Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections; And Love is reflected in love; And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death. For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All. 

— From Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 16-17

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Knowing God … p 109

Believing them to be separate and distinct, we speak of “God’s will,” as in the oft-quoted Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:5-13)“Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,” and of “human will,” the latter being a product of the mind — deliberate thought and action.

God’s will is that divinely primordial force governing the laws of the universe, of nature and of mankind. The exercise of human will, absent of divine influence, is little more than wishful thinking. When, however, our will is not a manifestation of personal preference, but instead, the divine emanation of human spirit, human will becomes one with God’s will. Such is made possible when thought transcends worldly concerns by going beyond belief and beyond faith to that of Knowing God lives in us and we in Him. It is this purity of thought, of humble selflessness and love of others — in essence, harmony of Being — that transforms us, whereby our will “in earth” becomes one with God’s will “in heaven.”

— Garry D. Kilbourn

We do, of course, speak “wisdom” among those who are spiritually mature, but it is not what is called wisdom by this world, nor by the powers-that-be, who soon will be only the powers that have been. The wisdom we speak of is that mysterious secret wisdom of God which he planned before the creation for our glory today. None of the powers of this world have known this wisdom — if they had they would never have crucified the Lord of glory! But as it is written: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him’. But God has, through the Spirit, let us share his secret. For nothing is hidden from the Spirit, not even the deep wisdom of God. For who could really understand a man’s inmost thoughts except the spirit of the man himself? How much less could anyone understand the thoughts of God except the very Spirit of God? And the marvellous thing is this, that we now receive not the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God himself, so that we can actually understand something of God’s generosity towards us.  — 1 Corinthians 2:8-12  J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) 

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Divine Thought: 

Ever Our Companion … p 74

The expression “writer’s block” refers to the inhibition of creative thought in those engaged in the writing of literary works — “inhibition” being the operative word. Were we to apply this concept in day-to-day life, not as it relates to our own thinking, but to the laws governing all of nature — to Divine Mind (God), from which all in all both emanates and returns, reason alone suggests we are either unable or unwilling to hear the ever-present voice of God within. The first are those who exhibit their own will, not that of God’s, denoting an unawareness of the power of Divine Mind. The second is alone the product of our consciousness, whereby we choose to deny God’s beneficent power. Either or both is detrimental to our well-being.

To avoid so-called “writer’s block”—that which is not real—there is but one path for all: In selflessness and humility we must give ourself over to God’s care, asking that His will be done. Faith manifests itself in God’s goodness and love, freeing us to become who and what we are meant to be. Divine thought becomes ever our companion.

— Garry D. Kilbourn