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Greetings!

The Most Precious Time of Our Life
 
This is a dear time for us whether we realize it or not.  When we awaken in the morning the first words that are important to us is: Thank you Father for caring me through the night into your wonderful day that I may express and love all who come in contact with me today.  Show me what is for my highest good today? Let it be so plain and simple that I will easily recognize it.
 
Words like these keep us youthful, happy, joyous, thankful and prosperous.  This is what Thanksgiving is all about-giving thanks to Our Creator.  The ONE day is set aside for each of us to show thanks all day long for all that have emerged in our life for one year.  It is unwise to let this be the only time that we give thanks to the One that has given us everything.  This truly is a most precious time in our life.
 
In our precious thinking it is wise to be careful what we say, think and do to any of God's Children and that includes His Servants. If we have become aware of how to be kind to ourselves, there will be no problem in being kind to those we meet in mind and in person.
 
Let love and thanksgiving be on your lips all day long.  You will see a difference in your life. 

Happy Thanksgiving to You
A Thanksgiving Article
 
LogoWhat of Thanksgiving Anyway?
By Rev. Pat Ogletree
 
I was surprised when I sought out a Newsletter layout and found that most of the layouts were about promoting something that one might want to sell.  In fact I was not just surprised, I was shocked!
 
I immediately went to the Bible to see if the word "thanksgiving" appeared in the Bible.  I have always considered this Holiday a Religious Holiday and not a National Holiday.  We all have the choice to choose how we feel.  God gave us that privilege.  However, it never ever dawned upon me that this time would ever be considered a time for promoting one's business.  Yet, that is what we see.
 
The word "thank" appears 27 times.
The word "thanked" appears 3 times.
The word "thankful" appears 3 times.
The word "thankfulness" appears 1 time.
The word "thanking" appears 1 time.
The word "thanks" appears 72 times.
The word "thanksgiving" appears 28 times.
The word "thanksgivings" appears 2 times.
The word "thankworthy" appears 1 time.
 
That means that references to the word "thank" and expanded versions of the word appear 138 times in the Bible.  I will let you decide what you think about Thanksgiving.  If you are interested in where these verses appear, please request them through our email address at [email protected].  AND there are over 1000 entries of making and offering and offerings to God!
 
Most of you that read our Newsletter are familiar with Science of Mind.  Ernest Holmes speaks of "thankful" 1 time; "thanks" 5 times; and "thanksgiving" 4 times.  In our Spiritual Mind  Treatment (Prayer), the fourth step is Thanksgiving.
 
It is wonderful that Our Father is so very patient, longsuffering and tolerant with His children.  All the wonderful things that appear in our life and we hardly give thanks is something I believe we need to look at.  It would be wonderful to give thanks all day long everyday 365 days a year and 366 on Leap Year.
 
Could the idea of forgetting when and why to give thanks is the reason we are in the economic situation that is upon us today?
 
Perhaps the best way to prove it is to give thanks all day long for everything that we encounter in our life, then take note if things are easier, better, fuller or more prosperous in life-yours in particular.
An Affirmative Artcile
 
KnowledgeTHE WISDOM OF SCIENCE OF MIND
 
My mind contains some part of the Mind of God; therefore I can expand it and express it with unlimited possibilities.
 
To understand my true relationship to God, I must have a greater understanding OF God.   I have volition; I have will; I have choice and I can accept the ideas that come to me or I can reject them. 
 
When I enter into peace of mind, which this Spirit is, I become peaceful.  There is no beginning of Spirit and there is no end to It.  Spirit is Eternal. 
 
Ernest Holmes states, "The Spirit is the only Conscious Intelligence in the Universe.  Therefore It is the only Directive Intelligence in the Universe."  I can accept these two statements or I can reject them.  The more I reject them the more stagnation it causes, but the more I accept and seek to understand these two statements, it is like opening the door to a mansion and finding a home that is so big that it will take months for me to enter each room and live my life there.
 
I will then come to realize that my mind and the Mind of God is the same Mind.  Therefore, the Thoughts of God and my thoughts are the same Thoughts.  Whatever I think, God thought it first through me according to my understanding.  This makes me an individual unit through which God, or Spirit can express Itself.
 
No one else can express God the way I express God and no one else can express God the way you express God.  That is what makes each of us an individual.  It is futile and useless to try to imitate another!  It is actually, suicide.  This is the same for a city, a town, a metropolis, a country or a nation.  Each has its own individual expression.
 
If you do not know who you are, try this statement for a few days, weeks or months:  Show me how to be the best individual I can be.  Listen to the answers and allow them to come forth, for surely they will not be like anything you are thinking they ought to be.
 
Have you ever seen a chair try to be a table?  We try to make chairs out of tables by sitting on them, but eventually we come to understand that it is a table and not a chair.  Some of us try to make footstools out of sofa arms, but soon we realize that too cannot be.  Each thing, each person, each city has its own individual expression.  It is only the conscious mind that we have to give great thought and understanding.  The rest is what it is.
 
We dwell upon things that are of little importance, such as, how old we are, or we look old, how to change our body, controlling another-none of these things are important.  I heard an old cowboy express my feelings so succinctly when they wanted to celebrate his birthday.  He thinks the way I think.  He gives no recognition to his age, so he does not tell anyone how old he is because he does not want them to give recognition to his age either.  How beautiful! 
 
There are those, however, who will try to make you realize the number of years you have accumulated.  Age is nothing!  But if you think so, that is tragic! 
 
I thought, perhaps, I was a little nutty, but I see that I am perfectly normal.  You see the world has ideas about what you are to do at a certain given accumulated year, how you are to wear your hair, what kind of clothes you should wear, what you are supposed to look like and a whole lot of other ideas.  The world gives no thought to what you may want to do, how you want to look and what God has in store for you.  How sad!
 
We come to this plane of existence for a certain "soul" experience, but none of us know exactly what that experience is supposed to be.  If we try and interfere and tell or control another, then we may cause the soul of that individual to miss out on what it wants to experience.  If an individual gives himself/herself to God, do you not understand that God will keep the intelligence He has given that individual and the individual poised?  Do you not understand that God will guide that individual?  This is power possessed.
 
Control says something is not right with me in the way I think or operate in the world or I do not have the courage and strength to make changes.  Therefore, I must get as many people as I can to look the way I think they should look, be what I think that should be and act the way I think they should act.  Know that we cannot be God to another individual.  We must leave that job to our Heavenly Father.  He is so wise, so intelligent and so knowledgeable.  There is no way to out think God.
 
Simply Be the Best You Can Be!
I asked God, "Can't I just SAY I am spiritual?"  His answer, "NO!  You must understand it."  So, unless we understand what we say, we cannot acquire it.  Any word can be replaced for the word "spiritual", such as healthy, happy, prosperous, joyful, kind, etc.
 
Rev.  Pat
 


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It is wonderful to give thanks and we believe the greatest words are thank you.  So we say to Our Father:  Thank you for all the beauty of the world.  Thank you for the sun that shines each day whether we see it or not.  Thank you for your children (God's Children) no matter their behavior for we know they are simply learning.  Thank you for the seasons, the snow, the rain, the clouds for all these have a purpose.  Thank you for everything too much to list here, but everyday we find something else for which we can thank you.  We love you Our Father and thank you for loving us.
Happy Thanksgiving
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On November 15, 2009 we continue with JOSHUA.  The last session was FANTASTIC!  We are learning how these Biblical characters impact our lives and what they really mean to us.  The Scriptures were written for guidance in every year of our lives and has great meaning.  Only you can find out.
 
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