365 April 29

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

The Lord is my light and my salvation. —PSALM 27:1

"Of course, we all wish for salvation. We all want to be happy; we should like to be well. We want people to like us. We desire to love and be loved. And above everything else, we want and need an inward sense of security and peace of mind. It is true that we all long for the Kingdom of God on Earth, and the great struggle of man is toward freedom, emancipation from want and fear and disease, and from everything that can hurt. We all long to return to our lost paradise. Man is put on Earth to enjoy life, and he is given the freedom to decide how he is to live; always there is placed before him the possibility of two things: to be or not to be.

Finally all real Power must rest on the side of Good, and finally evil will be vanquished by Good. This is the whole meaning of the story of the Savior, the lifting of the Life Principle on the Tree of Life—the coming to realize that we are One with God forever. The story of the Garden of Eden is completed through the triumph of the cross. Jesus discovered the meaning of Life at the center of his own being and showed humanity, for all time, what can happen when someone lives as though God were real to him, as though Love were the final Power, and Good the final arbiter of fate.

What are we going to do with this greatest of all Truths—the relationships that we as individuals have to the Divine Spirit that is already Perfect and that desires only our good? If we are weary of our troubles, there is something we can do about it. We can begin to exalt the Life Principle within us.”

Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes