Do You Provide the Consciousness?

This morning I was feeling low—apathetic even. I knew I needed something to lift me out of this funk I was in. And, something did.

I reached for my copy of The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes and found this:

“We do not create. We use the Power of the One Mind, which creates for us. Law of life is a law of thought—an activity of consciousness—the Power flows through us. The Spirit can do for us only what It can do through us. Unless we are able to provide the consciousness, It cannot make the gift.”

What a powerful truth that last line is! It’s also one I know and one I can so easily forget when I slip into identifying more with effects I don’t like than how I caused them…especially when I don’t manage my thoughts as I should.

Then I listened to a recorded program given by Ann Taylor. She’s known as a healer for some of the big names in the motivational and metaphysical genres. I borrowed from what she did—she does an unusual kind of prayer on these calls and for her clients—and created my own.

I’d like to share mine with you, and I invite you to repeat it out loud to yourself each morning—or write your own and repeat it out loud each morning.

“Thank you, Creator, for imprinting my DNA and my conscious and subconscious mind with the Truth of creative energy and laws, and the faith to live them every day.
Thank you, Creator, for imprinting my DNA and my conscious and subconscious mind, going back seven generations, with the Truth of creative energy and laws, and the faith to live them every day.
Thank you, Creator, for removing any lack of faith in the Truth of creative energy and laws from my DNA and my conscious and subconscious mind, going back seven generations of my lineage, so that I live the Truth, in faith, every day.
Thank you, Creator.”

Challenges happen. But when they do, we have to remember what Holmes wrote: “The Spirit can do for us only what It can do through us. Unless we are able to provide the consciousness, It cannot make the gift.”

Practice makes progress.