The button into this page was entitled "Praise God" for good reason. It seems that is the best prayer one can offer. Praise. I get the feeling that God wants us to acknowledge him, I believe that's why we have our intellect. Oh, I know we use our intellect to count our change at the grocery store, too, and all the other thinking things we do. But with the same tool we are able to consider the possibility of something greater and give it a name and even decide what its behavior is. Even though I philosophize about these things I realize I don't really know the answers, but I can't help but think that the order of the universe that science reveals to us is all kept together by something mighty intelligent, mighty creative. Our intellect, after some observation and experience, through reason, starts to come to some conclusions about how this force behaves. It's so big and all inclusive that I personally have concluded that its greatest nature is oneness which includes all things that ever did exist or does exist or will exist. So I call it Everything, capital E, nothing excluded. Everything in the most literal sense. In my humility I don't mind calling it God.
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In this panel called Adam in the Sistine Chapel, did you ever notice how God is reaching out as far as he can and the cherubs hold on to him in his precarious stretch and how Adam, who represents mankind, nonchalantly just barely lifts his finger to meet God halfway in the reach?

Psalms 51:6 says something that I just love. I noticed it put this way in the New English translation.

"…though thou hast hidden the truth in darkness, through this mystery thou dost teach me wisdom."

He makes us explore to find him, like it doesn’t necessarily come easy. We learn God’s way bit by bit by persistently searching. Through this it becomes engrained in our minds. By living through the steps it becomes a part of us.

Jesus told us that good seed dropped into a patch of weeds won’t have a very good chance to grow. Of course, this represents good thoughts trying to make growth/manifestation headway in a mind full of negativity won’t do very well in becoming a part of that person.

It occurred to me that, also, a bad seed dropped into a hearty patch of favorable plants won’t have a very good chance to develop either.

Boiled down further? A good thought won’t manifest too well in a negative mind. And a bad thought won’t manifest too well in a positive mind.
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