Compassion and caring are the ties that bind us together in
mutual understanding and in the unified attempt to
uncover the divinity in each other.

— Ernest Holmes

LIFE: Love Is For Everyone

By Rev. Sunshine Daye

I believe in the eternal Spirit Divine and nothing else. I call Spirit by the names Divine Life and Love. Divine Life is whole, perfect, complete, omnipresence, omnipotent and omniscience. Love has created everything from within Itself. There is only Love, and everything lives, moves and exists in Love. Everything comes from Love and goes back to Love.

Divine Life expresses through me as love. That which is true of Spirit is true of me and true for all. There is nothing that can ever separate me from Spirit. Spirit in human form is what I am. Love is what I am. Love is what everything is.

I accept and speak this word to be so for myself and on behalf of humanity. I declare and affirm all thoughts, feelings and actions are aligned with the indwelling vibration of Love. I rejoice in the release of any doubts or fears and open up to the limitless Love that flows throughout the universe. …

Humanity awakens to its spiritual magnificence. I love out loud: bravely, boldly and authentically. In deep gratitude for this truth and its manifestation, I release this prayer into the Law. It is done in Spirit and on Earth. And so it is.

— Excerpted from "A Prayer” in the September 2023 Science of Mind magazine.

There Is No Other

By Christine Renée Monks, RScP

In CSL's Declaration of Principles, Ernest Holmes offers this tenet of Science of Mind: “We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute and self-existent Cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation but is not absorbed by Its creation. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.”

This belief that God manifests in and throughout creation speaks against the concept of othering. There is no other. Many spiritual leaders teach this belief; however, people easily stray from its application. My ministry reminds people of this truth, that there is no other because we are all manifestations of the Divine, equal but not identical. God is against none of Its creations; It is for everything and everyone.

I am inspired and compelled by my sense of justice to speak out on social issues, not with the intent to alienate anyone, but to educate and inform. I will humanize those impacted by injustice to foster more inclusion and respect. To do anything less would be inauthentic and cowardly. I am neither inauthentic nor cowardly. …

The key to connection and understanding is finding the common humanity among us, focusing on each other as fellow humans, rather than seeking out what divides us. I speak my truth and will continue to do so.

— Excerpted from the September 2023 Science of Mind magazine.