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MESSAGE FROM REV. KATHYImagination & Faith to Create a New Year, January 2012
The beginning of the New Year invokes the field of unlimited possibilities and the power of imagination and faith to call our dreams into reality. The poet Rilke once said: “You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born…the future must enter into you long before it happens.”
This quote applies to this amazing spiritual power of imagination that each one of us has. Imagination can be used for good or ill, but when we approach it in a state of holiness, it will reveal amazing visions and dreams. Certainly these come unsolicited, but when we ask for a true vision and know it to be holy, what is revealed is often incredible. When we create the space, the ritual for holiness, we can find the deeper meaning. By that I mean, we can set up an elaborate ritual before prayer and meditation…for the seeking of guidance and greater vision, or we can simply set holy intention. Rilke’s quote as stated above is a much more poetic way of saying what Napoleon Hill did so many years ago...“What you perceive and believe, you can achieve.” Imagine good health. If you have an ailment, imagine the opposite. See all of the muscles, cells, tissues, organs, and systems of your body, healthy, vibrant, and filled with life. Take time to see yourself healthy and active. Imagine it in detail. Do not compromise in your creative visualization. Imagine what you really want, not just what you think you can probably have. Imagination gives us the ability to project ourselves through time and space and rise above all limitations. What we perceive and believe, we can achieve. We have to begin with our heart’s desire, and set holy intention. Then we envision that intention coming true. Take time in this first month of the year to list your desires and circle the top three. If you just can’t figure out what you want personally, start listing what you want removed from your life. Then the opposite will come clear. There is great power in writing our desires, stating the time by which we wish their fulfillment if we like, and then praying that God’s Will for good be done. We use our imagination and we perceive our desire coming true. We firmly believe it, activating our faith…so that we can achieve it. Prosperity…and all that it entails: peace, happiness, health, and plenty… is the result of deliberate thought and action. There is no reason to be afraid to ask for what we truly desire. The scriptural promise in Matthew 7:7 is: “Ask and it shall be given; seek and you shall find; knock and the door shall be opened.” While you are listing your desires and envisioning their fulfillment, take time also to imagine your desires for our Unity Church. See it growing and thriving and prospering in this New Year. As each of us does that individually, we make a difference for the greater collective. The future enters into us as we tune into our dreams. Let us release our worries and imagine our fondest dreams…in our own lives, in the life of our spiritual community, and in the world. Love & blessings, Rev. Kathy Archived Messages from the Minister |
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