IN THIS ISSUE:

Stop, Look and Listen is a familiar phrase from childhood, but heeding that advice can have a profound and positive effect on your life today. Looking for some ways to have mindful fun with your kids before they head back to school? We’ve got you covered with a project from The Golden Thread of Truth. And when it’s time to just take a moment for yourself, enjoy the insightful message from our founder, Dr. Ernest Holmes.

The Power of Paying Attention
—Dennis Merritt Jones

As a child, were you ever repeatedly told to pay attention? I certainly was. Like most kids, I had a very short attention span. Regardless of what I was doing, dialing in on the task at hand seemed to be a major challenge.

My mind did an ample amount of wandering in the wonder, focusing on just about anything other than the current moment and what I was supposed to be doing.

Can you relate? Even as adults, for many of us, paying attention is challenging. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that, irrespective of our age, many of us still occasionally need a gentle and timely reminder to be present in the moment and for good reason. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE!

Spiritual Families @ Home

This summer, Centers for Spiritual Living Youth Ministries are teaching The Golden Thread of Truth. The stories center around the universal truths that are present in all the world’s religions. Share these enriching messages and fun crafts with your children and grandchildren at home at your leisure!

Golden Thread #3: Relish the Journey

Being present in each moment of our lives leads to more happiness. When your mind is thinking of the future or worrying about the past, you cannot be fully present to the people, places and situations now. We will use passages from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle as we celebrate the moment of now. Practice the power for enjoying each moment.

Being Present

It is impossible to have a problem if your mind is fully focused on the Now. Each thing that comes up can be dealt with or accepted. It does not have to be put aside, ignored or criticized. We really don’t need to make it into a problem.

If you put it off, and put other things off, they collect into hundreds of items that may need your attention in the future that you will need to remember and worry about.

If you take care of each item as it comes up, you can release it and never collect any worries.

When you don’t collect any worries, you are left with ease, joy and lightness. You can relish the moment, which leads to the next moment and the next.

Give your attention to the moment and completely accept what is. When you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes infused with quality, care and love - even the simplest action.

Be present in your life:

• Don’t watch TV while you eat - put your attention on your food
• Look into people’s eyes - focus on what they are saying
• Answer a question with another question to find out more about the person

Dr. Ernest Holmes said we should also erase the thoughts of yesterday that would rob us of today’s happiness. “There is nothing arising out of the past that can disturb me. The past, the present and the future are one unbroken stream of Good. I lose all thoughts that in the past have caused anxiety. The Spirit knows no past and is not affected by the belief in any. The past is swallowed up in the victory of a perfect present, which is filled with love and protection.”~ “The Science of Mind,” page 245:4.

Equally, we must not have fear for the future. “I see that the future is bright with promise. It beckons me forward into a more complete realization of my own worth and my rightful place in the Universe. All my tomorrows will be happy and filled with harmonious occupations. I look to the future with great and pleasurable anticipation, knowing it will expand my opportunity for radiant self-expression. I love my past and my future and understand that they are but continuations of the one unbroken chain of life. There is no future to be afraid of and no past to bring discord into the present.”

Family Activity: Our life’s journey is a number of steps. Each step can be taken unconsciously or consciously and deliberately. This craft reminds us that we have a choice in how we take each step.

About The Golden Thread of Truth: Parents all over the world share parables and stories with their children. The Golden Thread of Truth shares stories from all the world’s religions and teachings to expand respect and understanding.

Find more crafts on our Pinterest site or get the entire summer program with activities for teens, expanded stories and Q&A from the website.

Release Your Invisible Spiritual Power
Affirmations from Dr. Ernest Holmes

I know that I am a perfect being now, living under perfect conditions today.

Wing that Spirit alone is real, I know there is one Power which acts and reacts in my experience, in my body, and in my thought, for my good.

I know that this recognition establishes, through Law, harmony in my experience, prosperity, a sense of happiness, peace, health and joy.

Today I hold communion with this invisible Presence which peoples the world with the manifestations of Its life, Its light and Its love.

I withdraw the veil which hides my real self and draw close to the Spirit within, that is in everything and in everyone.

I accept everything that belongs to this Spirit.

I claim everything that partakes of Its nature.

 “How to Change Your Life,” ~ page 246

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