Serenity's Weekly Spiritual Quote: How we help our children and others

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

This week's quote, like last week's, is from spiritual awareness CQA 4, which was published in Volume 10 of The Living Light Dialogue. The CQA series of classes were part of Serenity's devotional services. Once a month Mr. Goodwin would have a question-and-answer exchange with the individuals who attended services that Sunday. As with many quotes from the CQA series of classes, this quote begins with a question from a member of the congregation. Questions from students or members of the congregation are in italics.

 

"It is sometimes said of our children that when they are small they step on our toes and when they are grown they step on our heart. Is it natural enough for subsequent generations, both individually and collectively, to resent one another and what can be done about it?"

"Well, ofttimes we, unfortunately, it seems, resent people or things that we decide are not harmonious with our own personal interests and desires. It is only an error in our own thought, it is only a limitation created by our own mind which keeps us separated from the universal consciousness of which we are, in truth, an inseparable part. If we decide and judge that our children or anyone are to do certain things and be certain ways—that we have made those rigid judgments in our mind—and they do not fulfill those desires and judgments, then, of course, we make the next step: that they step on our hearts. They step on what we have judged is the right path for them.

Now truth is taught through indirection, demonstration, and example. If we want someone to make changes which we believe is in their best good, then we must become the living demonstration. We must be the example. As like attracts like and becomes the Law of Attachment, when we set the example by working on ourselves, one of two things takes place with children or people: they grow in harmony with our efforts or they go. We need not be concerned whether or not they’re going to grow or whether or not they are going to go, for that is contrary to the Law of Personal Responsibility. If we take care of our self, if we truly become the living light, then we can be rest assured that our children, in keeping with the law established, though different from our own views, will be the light to the world that we have made effort in being ourselves."

 

We change the world by changing ourselves.

 

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Sincerely yours,

 

Russell Fitzgerald

Vice President

Serenity Association

P.O. Box 4187

San Rafael, California

 

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