Take What You Need and Leave the Rest
While sipping (hot) ice tea, I started the day with a short prayer. Actually it was one of the Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah that I memorized many years ago.
O Son of Light
Forget all save Me and commune with My spirit.
This is the essence of My command, therefore, turn unto it.
Then I decided to fire up the computer and listen to what Marianne Williamson had to say for today in her online A Course in Miracles program which is featured at Oprah.com. Each day she gives a rendition of the workbook exercises for the 365 day course which she started on 1 January.
Today she spoke of calling on God’s name throughout the day as a sort of mantra that would dissolve problems away by forcing you to focus on just God and his goodness.
The other thought that came was from a tape I had heard of Stephen Pierce when he talks about how he gets rid of the “noise” that make up our non-productive thoughts everyday. Pierce says he just says, “Stop!” or “Delete!”. Other gurus say things like “Next” to quiet the constant flow of negativity that our minds have been programmed to fed us everyday like clockwork.
In thinking of these different approaches, I decided that the ideas are good ones to calm the noise, but of course, as a child of God, there appeared to me to be something extra--and perhaps more potent--that we can use as children of the Father.
So I would suggest that instead of just saying “Stop” or “Next”at the appearance of a negative thought, why don’t we use more powerful words, holy words that have power inherent in them.
Some say the most powerful words are Hallelujah and the Names of the Prophets.
So today I started using “God is Most Glorious” which is the translation for the Arabic “Allah-u-Abha”. And, at first I thought I would be able to think other “constructive” thoughts in-between my “God is Most Glorious”, but my mind started playing tricks on me by telling me that these other thoughts were urgent things that I needed to take care of before I said the next “God is Most Glorious.”
The solution: delete all other thoughts besides your mantra until your brain starts to understand that you are serious about keeping negative thoughts out of your mind.
So far it has been a good day and I have experienced great piece while those around me have been coming apart with unruly and irate customers.
Anyway that is the thought for the day. Repeat the Holy Words whenever you can and let it sink in, because truly, God is Most Glorious. Greater is God than every great one and He can solve all problems with out missing a beat.
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