Thoughts for the week:

December 19

We may consider the material world as the clay which the artist works with, to make of it something beautiful or ugly. We need not fear material things, which are neither good nor bad in the moral sesnse. There seems to be no active force for evil - outside of human beings themselves. Humans alone can have either evil intentions - resentments, malevolence, hate, and revenge - or good intentions - love and goodwill. They can make something ugly or something beautiful out of the clay of their lives. 

24 Hours a Day

December 20  Life Is Like That

You form certain beliefs, for one reason or another - and then you have to live with them. When you were growing up, well-meaning people told you many negative things by way of warning, thereby implanting fears and these fears are with you today, consciously or subconsciously. Other problems you brought here with you when you were born.

You meet your fears dramatized. The things that we fear in our hearts have a way of coming to us in the guise of other people's acts; of business conditions; of a breakdown in some parts of the body.

We learn that by beating the symptoms spiritually (not of course, covering up symptoms, but beating them) the fear or false suggestion that caused the symptom disappears too, and the patient id free.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox   (Excerpt)

December 23

Shed peace, not discord, wherever you go. Try to be part of the cure of every situation, not part of the problem. Try to ignore evil, rather than to actively combat it. Always try to build up, never to tear down. Show others by your example that happiness comes from living the right way. The power of your example is greater than the power of what you say.

24 Hours a Day

December 25  Blessing And Cursing

Life is a reflex of mental states. As far as you are concerned, the character that things will bear will be the character that you first impress upon them. Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...

Bless your boss. If there is anything wrong with a particular organ, bless that organ. Bless your home. Bless your business. Bless your associates. Turn any seeming enemies into friends by blessing them. Bless the climate. Bless the town, and the state, and the country.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox   (Excerpt)