About Science of Mind
The poet Rumi reminds us that God is Love, and Love created this vast theater of love in order to manifest and express Its beauty.
On the way of love,
You must be very alive.
A lifeless heart has nothing to sing.
You must be very alive.
So who is alive? The one whose soul is born from love.
(Rumi song by Ferraro and Luckett in the group Ruby.)
In The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes defines Love as “the self-givingness of God to Its creation.” We each stand in life as a portal through which God expresses love. All that we do in Love, for Love, as Love is God giving through us.
As you contemplate the coming year, you might ask: What is my heart longing to express? How is God pressing out Its self-givingness through me? Am I truly alive today?
Where we are happy with our lives, we are alive to our good. Where we are unhappy, we can discover where we are separate from God. When we are not fully alive—energized, growing, awake, aware—fear can shut us down. Leaning into fear can have transformational value, but lessons can come only when we do not try to bypass challenging experiences and avoid feeling the pain. When we go deeper, the power of challenges can awaken us to a new level of living. The opportunities for this kind of growth, of becoming more alive, are available to us on both a personal and planetary level.
We do our work in consciousness, on behalf of ourselves, each other, and the world. Let us be alive to the Cosmic Dance of transformation, alive to the unshakeable, unchangeable place where we stand in God. No one and no I can take that knowing away from us. We can own the Garden of Eden where we eat of the Tree of Life.
Know that all is, and all will be well.
—Rev. Dr. Kathy Hearn is the former Community Spiritual Leader for the United Centers for Spiritual Living. She lives in La Jolla, California.
