Calendar Books by Allen James - Daily Reading - "The Journey: A Calendar Book"

Calendar Books by Allen James reading for October 16th, from The Journey: A Calendar Book,

"Spend some of that time you're thinking, talking to your Maker".

Refraining from sounding "religious", but hoping to reflect on my "spiritual" side, today's reading expresses the difference between fulfilling personal success and empty happiness.

The Good Book stresses the importance of what we might call “inner prayer.” It infers strongly God does not force Himself into man’s consciousness, any more than air forces itself into man’s lungs. The Infinite waits patiently for the recognition and acceptance of the finite.

In Matthew 6:6 of the same Book we're encouraged with, “When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (KJV).

Mankind may be amazingly creative, artistic, productive, inventive, vigorous, powerful and dynamic; all this is the outpicturing or “exhalation” of his true being. But there must also be a regular period of inhalation, or else he will “come to know want.”

Most people are good “achievers” but poor “receivers.” We set our minds on the achievement of things and positions in the world. But because we do not look within for support, we do not receive the wherewithal to keep on achieving. Living beyond our spiritual means, we are overdrawn and overextended. The answer is to get involved in the discipline of solitude and meditation. And to have much success with “inner prayer,” we must cultivate “the art of letting go,” and this takes much practice.

Every one of us must determine for ourselves whether we are going to go through life worrying and fretting over the challenges which come through change, or whether we are going to let the activity of the whole Spirit express in and through us. Letting go and letting God is a fine art, achieved only through the discipline of practice. Fear tends to hold on, but faith lets go. Practice faith. Human love holds on, but Divine Love lets go. Practice Divine Love. “Let God be God in you.”

Spend time thinking with Him.

Keep looking up. :  )   AJ

(rothbotham)