Stepping Out on Faith: Do I Affirm or Do I Know?
A conversation we’re having at the moment
I’m praying out loud for a friend.
She’s asking for prayers for health and healing for her newly diagnosed spinal stenosis. As a Certified Prayer Chaplain at my current church and trained as a spiritual practitioner of religious science at my old church, I’m happy to oblige.
I love to pray.
Especially with the five-step spiritual mind treatment process I learned at East Bay Church of Religious Science (EBSRS).
I start by recognizing that God is all there is. There’s no spot where God is not. I don’t happen to believe in hell, and I don’t think Jesus, my favorite metaphysician did, either.
God is not a Someone up there.
For me, God is a Holy and Universal Life Force and Source of all Wisdom, Creativity, and Love. Or, as Moses discovered, I Am That I Am, which to be is Beingness or Life itself. Divine Sacred Isness. I know I live, move, and have my beingness in God, and that God lives, moves, and has its Beingness in me.
After recognition comes unification.
This is where I remind myself that I can’t be separated from Source unless I unplug myself. That’s because there…