Defining Your Spiritual Practice

“There are many sources of magic in this world,” Linda Dierks writes, “but few as enduring and rewarding as a deep spiritual belief. It’s a force born of your heart — a knowing, a constant presence that steadily grows and unfolds, revealing new awakenings.”

In the April 2019 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine, Dierks explores what she refers to as “kitchen table spirituality.” For a spiritual practice to work for her, it must be joyful and practical. Her own practice, she explains, “is based in a mind-management practice and backed up by quantum mechanics.”

She offers six foundational parts to her own practice, quoted here:

1. My higher being, Spirit, God, Creator, Source or Universal Field is an energetic force, an all-knowing higher intelligence and infinite source of joy, wellness and abundance.
2. My everyday place of worship is in nature, where I can physically experience being part of a greater whole.
3. I am a creator of my life.
4. My purpose in this lifetime is to be an instrument of my Creator by spreading the message of self-empowered joy and wellness.
5. My voice is the language of love.
6. My spiritual practice is my second nature.

Dierks uses these concepts as a guideline for her conduct and style of living. Learn more about each one in our April 2019 magazine.

Lessons from Loss

Rev. Dr. Margaret Stortz wrote her first article for Science of Mind magazine in 1968, following the death of a dear friend. Today, 50 years later, she writes again about the death of a beloved, this time her husband Rev. Victor Postolaki.

“If we practice a spiritual system,” she writes, “be it Science of Mind or something else, this is the time to look for the love in it. The forward-moving energies of love cannot help but keep us more fluid in our feelings so that we can avoid feeling or being stuck.”

Stortz offers seven tips on the road to healing, quoted in abbreviated form here:

1. If you go to a church or house of worship, a talk with your minister or leader can help.
2. Release any senses of guilt you may have.
3. Slowly begin to resume your normal activities.
4. Let yourself be loved by others.
5. Along with accepting love, talk, talk, talk!
6. Can you help someone with something?
7. If prayer is your habit, pray, but also just talk with God.

Learn more about Stortz’s approach to healing from grief in the April 2019 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

We Love Your Pets

Readers love our June issue each year, with its special section of pet pictures. (We love it, too.) We are in production for this issue and would love to see pictures of your animal companions — those with four legs, with fins, with wings, with scales, with fur. You take our point: All pets welcome. If you’d like to see your pet featured in our June issue or highlighted on our website, please email your photo to LovePets@ScienceOfMind.com. You can look through last year’s pet gallery on our website at scienceofmind.com/beloved-pets-gallery.

God Is One

— by Ernest Holmes

There is a life we long to experience, as blind men long for light, because somehow or other without a fuller awareness of It, we are missing the wholeness of things. We ought to uncover this God-nature within us so that the subtle invisible force of Life would flow more fully between us and all whom we meet.

Let us consider then, that if God is one, then one God is wherever we are because God is not divided into a lot of fragments. All of God, like the principle of mathematics, is present wherever we are. Each can say, “There is only one God and that is my God; all that God is, is my God. Some of that God is in me or I would not exist. Since God is not divided, as much of God as I recognize I can experience.” …

Let us set on the altar of our highest hope the image of Love as Ella Wheeler Wilcox described it: “A love so limitless, deep and broad that men have renamed it and called it God.”

— Excerpted from “The Spiritual Universe and You” by Ernest Holmes.