Reblog: Use what you have

Published on September 10, 2012 by lindseybiggsLeave a comment

Use what you have

By Patricia Hardee (Reblogged from CSMonitor.com)

In an interior design magazine, an advertisement caught my eye: “USE WHAT YOU HAVE. No big deal. Take the terror out of decorating. Talented professional can help you. No job too small or too large. References. Immediate results.”

It was designer Lauri Ward’s ad about using what people already have as a foundation to renew their home décor. For many people, her good idea revolutionized the interior design business. Rearranging for immediate and improved use what is already ours made such good sense, and I thought, That’s an essential principle that Jesus taught.

Speaking of what is already ours through God’s law of abundance, Jesus said, “Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” (Mark 11:24, New International Version [NIV])…Read more

Prayer heals universally

Published on September 4, 2012 by lindseybiggsLeave a comment

This video interview got me thinking about prayer and how God operates.

It’s awesome to me, that it doesn’t matter that this man was praying in French; and it doesn’t matter that I pray in English. The universal law of God’s beneficial help apply to everyone, everywhere!

It doesn’t matter what language you speak, God hears your prayer. God knows when the heart speaks.

Through prayer, we becomes conscious of God.

When the human consciousness glimpses the pure, unconditional love of God, the benevolent will of God to man, and an understanding of how we are created in His image and likeness, there isn’t any fear, insecurity or uncertainty left. And consequently the mental foundation for disease is gone. And the disease can vanish as readily as it did for the man in this video.

It doesn’t matter if you are in America, France, Cambodia or any part of the globe, God knows when the heart speaks. And we know God hears us because we feel the presence of divine Love.

Repost: Lessons from sunflowers

Published on August 7, 2012 by lindseybiggsLeave a comment

This is a such a beautiful analogy. And a wonderful prayer for our political climate.

Sunflowers’ promise of hope and unity

by Janet Hegarty

When you travel through western Kansas in August, near the town of Goodland, you’ll see huge fields of sunflowers in full bloom. The sudden burst of bright yellow against the green landscape is stunning, but the behavior of the sunflowers is even more impressive. All of the flowers face toward the sun and move together in unity as they follow the sun throughout the day.

Against the backdrop of the current contentious political landscape, the thought of these sunflowers moving together in unity is refreshing. It stimulates hope that there might be a way to move beyond antagonistic, divisive political differences. Granted, the life of a flower is simple compared with the complexities of human existence, but I believe there’s much to learn about how we might establish harmony by considering the sunflower’s activity.

The flowers move in harmony because they are all seeking and finding the good they need from the same source. This is what unifies their actions. Their need for the sun is intrinsic. They naturally follow the sun, and their needs are supplied in the process.

Much political discord today comes from disparate points of view as to how the social and economic life in the United States should be managed. These conflicting ideas have polarized the country. This polarization has been so extreme at times that it has severely slowed the normal effective action of the government. Thinking of the sunflowers has made me wonder if there isn’t a higher source of good we could focus on that might unite us all in progressive activity.