Spiritual thoughts for the week:

February 12 Our Daily Bread

The most futile thing in the world is to seek to live upon a past realization. The thing that means spiritual life to you is your realization of God HERE and NOW.

Be thankful for yesterday's experience, knowing that it is with you forever in the change of consciousness that it brought about, but do not lean upon it for a single moment for the need of today.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox (Excerpt)


February 13

In a race, it is when the goal is in sight that heart and nerves and muscles and courage are strained almost to the breaking point. So with us. The goal of the spiritual life is in sight. All we need is the final effort. The saddest records are made by people who ran well, with brave, stout hearts, until the sight of the goal and then some weakness or self-indulgence held them back. They never knew how near the goal they were or how near they were to victory.

24 Hours a Day


February 15 Demonstrating Forgiveness

The forgiveness of others is the vestibule of Heaven. You have to get rid of all resentment and condemnation of others and, not least, of self-condemnation and remorse. You have to forgive yourself, but you cannot forgive yourself until you have forgiven others first...

Search and see if you are not really holding a grudge against some idividual, or some group. If so, you have an act of forgiveness to preform, and when this is done, you will probably make your demonstration.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox (Excerpt)


February 16

I will try to be unruffled, no matter what happens. I will keep my emotions in check, although others about me are letting theirs go. I will keep calm in the face of disturbance, keep that deep, inner calm through all the experiences of the day. In the rush of work and worry, the deep, inner silence is necessary to keep me on an even keel. I must learn to take the calm with me into the most hurried days.

24 Hours a Day