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Going to the Well
We can make bigger buckets. We cannot make a bigger law. The Law knows nothing about big and little. It knows to do. Since there is such a Law and we are always using It, we are all receiving from Life an objective equivalent of our inward mental attitudes. If we wish more we must increase our expectancy, we must identify ourselves with more. Ernest Holmes
When you imagine going to a well, you think of taking a dipper or a bucket or even a trough to get water for yourself or your animals. The size of the receptacle determines the amount of water, and how much thirst of either people or animals, that you can quench.
Life is no different. An infinite Well of Life, of Abundance, Joy, Love, and Peace is the source of all that nourishes and sustains us. The amount we receive from that infinite Well is based on the size of our minds and hearts and consciousness, for they are the receptacles we take to it. The more open and receptive they are, the more good we can receive—a closed mind and a small heart can draw little. Living waters are available to quench every thirst you have, so bring the largest receptacle that you can imagine and let Life fill you up.
Spiritual Contemplation: If you imagined the current receiving size of your consciousness, what shape and size would it be? In other words, how big is your bucket? Now, can you imagine it being bigger? How big can you really imagine it being?
Affirmation: I go to the well with an open mind and a receiving heart. I draw forth the living waters that nourish and sustain me always.
Who Says That’s Abundance?
When I think about creating abundance, it’s not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it’s about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant. Peter Diamandis
Everywhere you turn, someone is trying to tell you what kind of life you should have to be cool, rich, or desirable. These pile on top of the messages you received as a child from your family, teachers, and friends about what makes you fit in, be successful or achieve what you are to become in life. But what kind of life do you want to create and experience?
Abundance means so many different things. It means having enough money to have the life that YOU choose. It also means experiencing enough love, friendship, creative expression, spiritual growth, and belonging. Everyone’s definition of abundance is different. For one person, abundance may be a big home in the suburbs, while for another it’s a cabin in the woods to retreat to on the weekends. For some people abundance may mean the freedom to travel and live in foreign countries, while for others it may mean working to build a fortune at home.
Spiritual Contemplation: What is your definition of abundance? What does abundance look like to you in your life?
Affirmation: I let go of any outside definition of Abundance. I create and live out my own idea of Abundance.
The Timeline of the Universe
We are not limited by actual boundaries, but by false ideas about life and by a failure to recognize that we are dealing with the Infinite. Ernest Holmes
When I took geology in high school, I was fascinated by the idea of geological time. In geological time it takes tens, even hundreds of thousands of years for anything to really change. Annual changes in the earth’s crust, for instance, are measured in millimeters, but over the millennia these changes add up to continental drift and even massive slow-motion collisions. The same is true for time as measured by starlight. The distances are so vast that the light from the stars we see has been traveling for hundreds of thousands of light-years across space to reach our eyes. This is a completely different time sense than the one that rushes you around from appointment to deadline to a fear that you will never get everything done. This same fear pushes us to try never to make mistakes and to get everything right. When we don’t, we wonder if we will ever grow up, or become spiritually mature, or experience true abundance.
Relax. Your life has an even longer time scale than geological time or even time calculated in light years. You are an immortal, deathless being of light, whose timeline for growth and expansion is the eternal infinite Reality of Life Itself. So remember, you have eternity to get it right, figure it out, and realize your full spiritual reality. Surely along the way you will discover that Abundance is already here.
Spiritual Contemplation: In the ultimate scheme of the Universe, how critical is this need or problem. In three months, five years, the next lifetime, or over eternity, how important is it really? How does this perspective shift everything?
Affirmation: Abundance, Joy, Health, and Love are my birthright. I have eternity to discover and experience all of Who I Am.
We Are Bigger on the Inside
Inner space is so much more interesting because outer space is so empty. Theodore Sturgeon
Science shows us that our bodies are actually more space than anything else. Dive deeply into the center of our own atoms and all we find is empty space, proportionately vaster than that between the planets of our solar system. What is at the Center of all that space?
The ancient mystics taught the practice of the Presence of the ONE in everything. The early Christian theologians knew that “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
This becomes the intuitive realization of the Omnipresence of the Infinite Reality, right where we are. When you take that centering breath and go within to the sanctuary at the core of your being—there you find infinity—there you find the Presence of the Infinite ONE. We are bigger on the inside than we are on the outside.
Spiritual Contemplation: Practice taking that centering breath that takes you deep into the heart of your core. Be still. From your center, stretch your inner awareness out as far as you can in every direction. Notice that there are no edges or barriers that cause you to stop. You can go now into Infinity. What do you discover there?
Affirmation: I breathe into my Center, and there I find the vast Infinite Reality of the ONE.
How Big Is Your God?
The Power that holds a grain of sand in place is the same Power that holds the planets in their places. There is nothing big or little or hard or easy as far as the Power is concerned. It is the same Power working in and upon everything. This is the Power we use. Ernest Holmes
All spiritual faiths and traditions agree that for our idea of God to come even close to the reality of the Infinite Presence, we must see It as omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. This means the form from which everything is created is infinite in power and intelligence. It is big enough to hold and manage the creation of a vast and seemingly infinite Universe. It has the intelligence and wisdom to know how to design cells that divide and multiply to become a baby’s fingernails and eyelashes. It is present in the smallest quark and photon while showing Its majesty in the beauty of the mountains.
Spirit, the infinite ONE, doesn’t differentiate between big and little. It shows up in the smallest to largest of all things. Nothing is too big for Spirit to create. This is the same creative power that moves through you. Nothing is too big for Life so you can focus on a molehill of Abundance, or on a mountain of Abundance. God doesn’t know anything about big or little. The Universe has the wisdom, power, and presence to become anything through you.
Spiritual Contemplation: How big is your God? Is it big enough to handle everything in your life?
Affirmation: Spirit doesn’t know big or little, mountain or molehill. I trust in the bigness of my God!
Infinite Abundance
The universe is abundant, unlimited in every respect; if it were not unlimited it would have depleted itself long, long ago. . . . Instead, what do we find? The fish in the ocean lay so many eggs that if they all hatched, the waters would overflow all the lowlands. The stars in the heavens are beyond counting. The grains of sand on the beaches are innumerable. The leaves on the trees continue to multiply. Nature is lavish, abundant, extravagant. Ernest Holmes
Have you ever tried to count the number of leaves on a tree? Now multiply that by all the trees in your neighborhood—in your state—in the entire U.S. and all across the globe. Now look into the heavens at night and try to count the stars that you can see. Beyond those are billions more in the Milky Way, and beyond that, trillions of galaxies, each with billions of stars.
How many grains of sand are on a beach? How many on all the beaches in the world? How many drops of water in a pond? Now imagine all the drops in the ocean. Everywhere you look, you can SEE the abundance of our Universe. Trust that what you see is a reflection of a powerful Spiritual Truth. The Universe is Infinite Abundance.
Spiritual Contemplation: How do you best see abundance in the Universe? Are you looking for it?
Affirmation: I live in an Infinitely Abundant Universe. I see the Abundance of Life and Spirit.
Ink It—Don’t Just Think It
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
and next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- S. Eliot
January first is a symbolic threshold from the past to the future, from the old to the new. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the ability to see what was and apply it to what is forthcoming? January first is the first day of the civil year in the Gregorian calendar used by most countries, but definitely not by all cultures. January It is named after the Roman god of doors and gates, beginnings and endings—Janus. , He is depicted with a double-faced head, each face looking in opposite directions, and is remembered at the beginning of important events in a person’s life such as marriage or a birth. Last night you closed a chapter of your life and today you symbolically start a new one, hopefully taking what you learned to support you on what will come across your path this year.
Now is the time to reflect upon your life lessons from last year and write down your intentions and visions for this year. Ink it—don’t just think it. If you want to be a conduit for the abundant flow of life, you need to put your vision in writing. This will move you beyond the mental sphere of just hoping your good will come You are here to live as an abundant expression of God, and everything you could ever imagine is yours for the creating. So plan boldly from what you’ve learned but leave room for the fun surprises of life to lead you even higher in this exciting New Year. Joyous Journey to you!
Spiritual Contemplation: Write down your insights and life lessons from last year and your intentions and visions for this coming year. Make sure to put this where you’ll occasionally see it from time to time during the next twelve months.
Affirmation: This is an abundant New Year that is fabulous to me!
Let It Be!
Let it be! Allow 2020 to be whatever it was and whatever it wasn’t. It is now done and complete. Let it go! Let go of anything you are holding onto about this past year. Allow yourself to become empty and open. Let it be!
-Dr. Petra Weldes
How Can You Grow?
What can you learn from this past year? What experiences can be grist for your spiritual growth and personal self-awareness? Look at ways you can grow from these experiences into a greater, bolder, brighter, more centered you. Nothing is a mistake if you learn from it!
-Dr. Petra Weldes
Release & Renew Yourself…
Grieve the things that didn’t work out the way you wanted them to this past year. Allow yourself to be sad or disappointed or angry for a designated period of time. Know that by doing so, you release these feelings, so you may move forward, fresh and renewed.
-Dr. Petra Weldes
Celebrate the Joys of 2020!
Celebrate the joys of 2020! Remember the love you have shared, the good times you’ve experienced, the new people and places you encountered. Look at all the ways you were open to new ideas, people, and possibilities!
-Dr. Petra Weldes
Evaluate Your Life and Make Conscious Choices…
Look back over this past year with an open and honest eye. What were the high points? What were the lows? Where could you have done better? When did you do the best you could? Do not be afraid to look; whatever it is, it’s there, whether you look or not. Seeing yourself and your life clearly, allows you to make conscious choices.
-Dr. Petra Weldes
Live According to Your Values!
Choose to live according to your values, not the values of the world. The way you show up matters. How you do what you do, matters. Commit to live from the spiritual and human principles that allow you to make a contribution to your own life, your family, your community, and your work place.
-Dr. Petra Weldes
Bask in the Presence of Love!
Bask in the presence of Love! This is the present that Life is continually giving–Itself, incarnated into all of creation. The hope of renewal, the promise of re-birth, the light of Truth, are gifts Spirit is giving. Let Love and Light surround you, fill you, lift you, and be your ever-present companion on your journey with Life!
-Dr. Petra Weldes
Spirit is Born In You!
Allow the Star of Love to guide you to the place where Spirit is born as the Christ Consciousness within you. This is your highest Self, and all of life kneels at the feet of this Truth, bringing you gifts of fulfillment, and singing the praises of your Presence. Let yourself be overcome by the Joy and Peace of this truth.
-Dr. Petra Weldes