Spiritual thoughts for the week:

December 18

This vast universe around us, including this wonderful earth on which we live, was once perhaps only a thought in the mind of God. The nearer the astronomers and physicists get to the ultimate composition of all things, the nearer the universe approaches a mathematical formula, which is thought. The universe may be the thought of the Great Thinker. We must try to think God's thoughts after Him. We must try to get guidance from the Divine Mind as to what His intention is for the world and what part we can have in carrying out that intention.

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December 19  The Devil's Last Ditch

It is not when things are going well that we make our progress. It is not even when thing sare going wrong and yet we feel sure that we can handle them with prayer, that we advance. It is when, smitten by the temptation to discouragement or even despair, we yet stand for what we know is the Truth, and say with Job, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox (Excerpt)

December 20

Avoid fear as you would a plague. Fear, even the smallest fear, is a hacking at the cords of faith that bind you to God. However small the fraying, in time those cords will wear thin, and then one disappointment or shock will make them snap. But for the little fears, the cords of faith would have held firm. Remember that all fear is disloyalty to God. It is denial of His care and protection.

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December 22 Your Own Valuation

The world will take you at your own valuation. Your body will take you at your own valuation.  Your business will take you at  your own valuation; for the value that you really put upon yourself is the one that manifests...

The man who really believes that his wares are excellent does not dream of lying about them. The man who is satisfied with what he is has no incentive to be something he is not. The man who is conscious of substantial achievement has no desire to boast.

Believe that you express Life,Truth, Love. Believe that Wisdom guides you. Believe that you are a special enterprise on the part of God - and what you really believe, that you will demonstrate.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox (Excerpt)