Monday 19
Thoughts create. I am well aware of the paradox of knowing this basic metaphysical principle …. while having rampant thoughts. Yet virtually every other thought, involves ‘other people’. Take politics.
For example, have the plods in power learned nothing from the last recession? There, I said it. The endless media innuendoes have finally got me and last night, I felt a frisson of recalled fear at the amount of effort I expended just to keep returning to position zero.
Even back then, the politicos could have blocked incessant price rises which exacerbated the pain for millions. Sure, businesses need to be profitable, but not at the expense of the greater whole. Yet creative thinking for Brown and his bunch of pygmies is to figure out more ways of taxing us or creating yet more utterly useless quangos to micro manage our minds. See, that’s a thought or four, and none that make me feel lighter and brighter.
Or there are family thoughts. Thankfully, a little happier. One of the NandDs is checking out nursing homes as Ma is much better. And one that is not quite so far to drive to. Another plus, although her deteriorating health and increasing age still ‘add thoughts’.
Then there is free will. In virtually every metaphysical book I have ever read, we are told how we have free will. Checking the small print, however, we spot that blessings come from allowing divine will (to flow). Yet when evangelists like Bruce Wilkinson write: “I’ll admit: The cycle of blessings will give your faith a good testing. Will you let God work in your life regardless of what He chooses?” … where’s free will then?
Yes, I know, free will is choosing to not ‘allow’. But how do you know when you are ‘allowing’. It cannot just be a feelgood factor or when everything is going your way. Wilkinson (of Jabez’ fame) confirms as much.
Says Emmet Fox: “There is only one Fundamental Energy in the universe, but this energy may be applied by us constructively or destructively, because God has given us Free Will. When we use it constructively, we are acting in harmony with the Will of God, and we are improving ourselves and our lives in every possible respect, and we are helping the world in general too….”
Right. So what is the definition of constructive? Taking MPs (for example) to task can be seen - by them - as destructive. To us, it is a perfectly valid and positive action to make sure they work for us and not themselves. (More anon)
