| Dear Friends, This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CL 64, which was published in Volume of The Living Light Dialogue. The CL, or Church Lecture, series of classes were lectures delivered by Mr. Goodwin to the congregation of the Serenity Spiritualist Church.
"For many centuries our individual souls have been evolving. And there are many, many centuries that yet face us in our evolution until there is a total acceptance within us of all experiences that our minds encounter. Illumination is directly dependent upon our willingness to accept. Without that willingness, there is no illumination. Without that acceptance, there is no fullness of God's love. So let us think now in this moment in this experience, what is it within us that is dictating? Is it our eternal soul or is it the limited experiences that this short earth life has already given to us? My good friends, lessons are given in many different ways that hopefully, in some day, we will in truth accept the cause of them.
There greatest failing known to man is the failing of placing the blame and responsibility in life's experiences outside onto someone else or something else. This is one of the greatest delusions ever created by the human mind, but this delusion does, in truth, serve a good purpose: it serves the purpose of preserving the rigidity of our own will. It is that rigidity that slowly, but surely, is being broken. It is that rigidity that is man's true suffering. For a wise man long ago stated that a petrified opinion never saved a human soul. So it is our opinions that we have become addicted to. It is our opinions that, in truth, are causing our lack of goodness in our life, but those opinions, created by our minds, can be changed. They're changed through the power of prayer. For the mind to try to change an opinion that it has already accepted is only a battle and a house divided. It is through honest prayer that we are freed from these dictates of yesterday. It is through our own constant effort of prayer in all of our endeavors, in all of our thoughts, place God, that Divine Principle, in your thought and God will move whatever mountain your minds may have already created as your obstruction. If you will remember that in each and every moment of your life, you will live to see, through experience, that there is a power and an intelligence that is totally neutral, totally impartial that brings the promise of your own soul's aspiration."
Prayer is an aspiration. The effort of constant, conscious prayer is an expression and a demonstration of gratitude, which is a recognition and an acceptance of a greater power. As we become more open, through our efforts of prayer, that divine Power flows more freely in our lives.
We all have the same levels of consciousness; so the message to the individual is applicable to us all.
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Sincerely yours, Russell Fitzgerald Vice President | 
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