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December 21, 2017
Where do you live?
Of all the questions that have come to me as I’ve prayed, that question right there in the title is the one that occurs with the most frequency. Probably because it gets to the heart of what’s happening when we pray.
While there are lots of ways to pray, for me, prayer gets me to a place of feeling my heart open so wide to God that I can not only hear, but also accept, what God is telling me about His supreme goodness and power. In that place of stillness and humility, I catch little glimpses of the wonder of God’s universe—the universe of Spirit, where freedom and health are natural. And I start to get it that this is where I live—where all of us live.
Isn’t this what the Christmas season is about? You could say that Christ Jesus’ birth opened the door to a whole new world of beauty and possibilities, because his life and ministry demonstrated what God really is, and what we are as God’s children. The healing power of the Christ, Truth, wasn’t just for those people in that time, but was a gift to all of us, because the healings Jesus performed showed that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:2). In other words, that instead of living in a world full of problems and disappointments, we actually live in God’s kingdom right now. The healing Christ, the true idea of God that was so evident in Jesus’ works, is still with us today, awakening us to this pure reality, and giving us the ability to prove that whatever does not express God, good, is unreal and powerless.
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