HABIT is defined as “an acquired behaviour pattern;” one that plays a prominent role in our life. To be sure habits, for the most part, are innocuous. Those, however, which endanger our well-being demand to be questioned. In blindly submitting to self-imposed rules of behaviour, no less those unconsciously assumed, we impair our ability to judge both right and wrong.

Doing things out of habit, never questioning our motives, tends to absolve our behaviour: Be it right or wrong, we will have failed to subject it to the crucible of honesty and truthfulness.

Honesty and truthfulness, ever our TOUCHSTONE, enable us to know both who we are and our purpose in life; personal traits that instill self-respect and honour our worth.

  

Garry D. Kilbourn

bwfaithministry

Excerpt from CHANGE YOUR MIND: Not Your Diet©

HABIT:  Starting from early childhood a lifetime of habits and self-imposed rules have molded my life.  One-by-one subtle and some glaring behaviours are falling away from under a spiritual microscope of honesty and truthfulness.  Being in relationship with God’s unconditional Love I am becoming the person who I was meant to be. blw

WE BECOME a spiritual conduit...

The human soul we know to be the very essence of our being, for it is life itself.  Even more, the soul is an integral part of the divine electro-magnetic astral force that is at once diffused throughout and regulates the boundless universe.  Spiritually, we are as one with all in nature, seen and unseen.

We sell ourselves short by failing to recognize this divine interrelationship, together with its manifold human and spiritual benefits, each profound in its own right.

We begin our spiritual journey with thoughts of love—love of ourselves, for all mankind and for all else.  Such thoughts take us into a godly realm to reveal the divine purity of the soul.  In this humanly selfless state we become a spiritual conduit of God’s all-encompassing love and of His healing life-force.

No longer can we deny our own innate goodness.  Our new-found spiritual awareness exposes the heedless pursuit of materialism at the expense of nourishing the divine life-giving soul.

Garry D. Kilbourn               

bwfaithministry                      

“… WE BECOME a spiritual conduit of God’s all-encompassing love and of His healing life-force.”

KNOWING we have control over our thoughts, our words and our actions gives us abundant spiritual power.  At the close of this morning’s meditation we discussed how important it is to be ever aware that every thought, every word and every deed reflect His divine goodness.  All of this with a mind to the proliferation of senseless recent shootings, with the resultant loss of so many lives.

                                  

Each one of us must demonstrate our innate Knowingness by BEING the kindness, the caring, the gracious, the loving, the humble, the understanding spiritual soul that our families, communities, workplaces, towns, cities and world need at this very moment:  BE the peaceful, thoughtful, positive soul that uplifts and benefits others.  All such thoughts start with our intention to … BECOME a spiritual conduit of God’s all-encompassing love and of His healing life-force.  blw

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.       

Mahatma Gandhi 

Cycle of Suffering...

WE HAVE ONLY TO REFLECT on mankind’s age-old folly and to look within ourselves to realize how, collectively and individually, we persist in straying from that well-known dictum: “Do to others as you would have them do to you;” one found in the writings of ancient cultures throughout recorded history.

Just as a journey is made one step at a time, so must it be if we are to break this mad cycle of mutual suffering.  It is a moral obligation for each one of us to honour this simple expression of love and respect for our fellow-man.  Failure to do so is to disavow our own humanity.

Garry D. Kilbourn               

bwfaithministry

“…break this mad cycle of mutual suffering…”

                                    

This past Thursday evening I visited my friend in the nursing home.  Alice was full of sorrow and needed to share her feelings. 

“I’m a failure,” she said, “… my unhappy marriage, divorce, and my strained relationship with my daughter for over forty years... we haven’t spoken in months.“

With prayerful help from a friend who is a Christian Science Practitioner, Alice is becoming freed from sorrow.  The answer is divine Love.  Love for herself along with abundant loving thoughts for her daughter will free Alice from heart-wrenching grips of sorrow; this cycle will be broken.  blw

... ever conscious of God's presence ...

PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL THE WORLD OVER would agree that mankind’s trodden path even to this day is one that ever leads us astray from our true selves.  There is naught to be gained in strife; all to be gained in love.

                                   

We are, each one of us, a child of God.  We have but to walk in His Way, loving our neighbour as we love ourself.  Were we to be ever conscious of God’s presence, honouring in word and deed His divine goodness and love, we might rightfully declare our own humanity.

Garry D. Kilbourn

bwfaithministry

“… ever conscious of  God’s  presence.”

At five this morning I was driving to the meditation centre.  I saw a young man sitting beneath a tree that was beside the High School football field.  He was alone.  His arms were across his knees, his head bowed.  I sensed God’s presence around him.  I pray he did too.  blw

LOVE which transcends ...

All who awake to it each morning know of a LOVE which transcends human understanding: God’s love made manifest; a spiritual revelation.  It is an unselfish love; one woven into the very fibre of the soul. Above all, it is the reality of an intimate relationship with God.

Garry D. Kilbourn

bwfaithministry

… LOVE which transcends …

Cancer and suicide claim two precious souls who are lovingly welcomed into Eternal Life.

LOVE which transcends human understanding is a gift for everyone. blw

“My heavenly Father will never leave me comfortless,

in the amplitude of His Love.” *

*Mary Baker Eddy(1821-1910) Pastor Emeritus, Christian Science, Prose Works, pg 249.

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Be ever in life’s moment:

 

The PAST,

having left its indelible mark,

forever moves into the mists of time,

while the FUTURE is yet but a promise.

Garry D. Kilbourn

bwfaithministry

Be ever in life’s moment…

Just recently I experienced being in life’s moment… The MOMENT was very special and full of loving grace.  We stood silently, with heads bowed, drinking in the feelings of this precious moment.

We were presenting a Palliative Care Program at OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH.  Saturday afternoon, sixty of us were about to join in for lunch.  Halina asked Sister Magdalena to pray a blessing.  She, with twenty members of their parish, prayed the Lord’s Prayer in Chinese… slowly, reverently, joyfully. We were blessed!  blw

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Unattended Thoughts...

Thoughts of the mind left unattended take on a life of their own. 

Our role, nay, our moral obligation, is to control such thoughts.  Those revealing themselves to be negative or unkind will find no haven.  Uppermost are thoughts of a positive and loving Nature; those which inspire us to always look for the good in others.  Of a sudden our outlook on life is viewed as if from a mountaintop midst glorious rays of sunshine.  We can but give thanks to God.

Garry D. Kilbourn

bwfaithministry

“…control such thoughts…”

Isn’t it amazing when out-of-the-blue, without realizing it, your thoughts have taken you on a journey to a past experience.   You remember it, you feel it.   The other morning I awoke to a disturbing memory.  I could feel being pulled into the replay scene on the screen of my mind.

Thank God for friends who share their tried and true wisdom.  A short time ago, Mary said, “if a robber comes to your door, would you let him in?”  “NO,” I said.  “Well, why do you let your thoughts rob you of joy and happiness?”  Mary then quoted *Mary Baker Eddy – “Stand porter at the door of thought… ”  This simple quote saves me every time !   blw

*Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy