Reaching for Forgiveness

When confronted by the resentments of the past, it seems a startling idea, but we can decide how we think and feel about our experiences. We can control our feelings and can change how we feel about the painful situations of the past. Mind is cause, never effect—never a victim. Circumstances, situations and actions of others never control our thinking—we do. As Paul says, “be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…” (Romans 12:2)  We don’t have to conform our thoughts or feelings to what we see, hear or experience, but instead can renew our thinking—finding new ways to think about the past, and through this process, find transformation.

When we allow our thoughts and feelings to conform to our experiences, we allow those experiences to act as a mold for our thought patterns and thought-feelings, and allow them to perpetuate our suffering needlessly.

We can begin this process by being willing to think a new thought.

I am ready to move on—to see this experience of the past from a spiritual perspective—through the eyes of Mind—not the eyes of the flesh. I am willing for my thoughts surrounding these events to be new ones. I now decide to dissolve these old patterns of thinking with their accompanying thought-feelings. Divine Mind holds no grudges or resentments. Divine Mind knows the right way to think about these events of my past, and that Mind is my mind now. I am listening to God’s divine ideas. As God’s expression, I can never be a victim.

Reasoning Through Evil Has No Power

There is only one Mind—the divine Mind. The word God comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for good; so, good is Mind and good is the only Mind. God is right consciousness and God holds the right idea of everything s/he creates and sustains—i.e. of everything that is real. If God is all then any other power must be a supposition, an assumption, a false belief, a misapprehension or a misunderstanding.

Since God is infinite Mind, an evil consciousness, called a devil, cannot be Mind, and cannot have intelligence or reality.

If God is infinite power, there can be no evil power. If God is infinite Mind, there can be no evil consciousness or devil. If God is infinite presence, there can be no lurking presence of evil. 2+2=5 cannot be real and cannot be a part of the principle of mathematics and cannot exist. So it is with evil. Evil can have no place in the divine Mind and cannot exist as a part of the divine Principle.

Saying there is a devil is like saying there is a principle of anti-mathematics which is trying to get us to make mistakes in arithmetic.

If you believe evil is real and is a power, what does that do to the Unity statement, "There is only one presence and one power in the universe and in my life, God the good, omnipotent?" It makes it meaningless.

God says

God says for me to tell You This:

nothing needs fixing;
everything desires
a Celebration.

—Em Claire, from “Shine”

The True Bread

The real bread or food of life is thoughts of health, of happiness, and success or progress. It requires a lot of work and effort to obtain and maintain these true and life-giving thoughts. But there is no way out of this erring condition but the one—discarding all thoughts that evil and any life separate from God (i.e. material life) are real.

Questions Demanding an Answer

If there is only one presence, who are you? Where are you?

If there is only one power, what power does sickness or disease have over you? Addiction? The economy? Hurricanes?

If God is All-in-all—everything, how can you possible be separate from our Father-Mother? How can there be any lost souls?

If God is All-in-all—everything, and God is good, how can evil be real? How can disease be real? How can poverty be real? And how can there be any sinners?

If God is all and God is Love, where is hell located?

If God is spiritual, and you are His image and likeness, how can you be material? How can you be imperfect?