Stepping Out on Faith: Do I Affirm or Do I Know?

A conversation we’re having at the moment

Marilyn Flower
Mystic Minds

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A seemingly naked person — I think a man — in silhoette steps off the edge of a parapet overlooking a vast body of water under the fading light of sunset.
Photo by Tim Wilson on Unsplash

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…

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Marilyn Flower
Mystic Minds

Writer, sacred fool, improviser, avid reader, novel forthcoming, soul collage facilitator, prayer warrior and did I say writer? https://linktr.ee/marilynflower