Today's Thought Gem—November

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Vern wrote:  Today, 16 November is “Almost every human being has some one thing which is held on to as a pet evil, and which the entrance into the kingdom of heaven requires as a part of the price of admission” a suggested match would be:

The forces of the spiritual world

will not coerce man; they allow him

to go the way of his own choosing

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 17 November is “Riches have nothing directly to do with entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven, but the love of wealth does” a suggested match would be:

The spiritual loyalties

of the kingdom are incompatible with

servility to materialistic mammon

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 18 November is “Wealth in itself, is not a curse, but the love of riches many times leads to such devotion to the things of this world that the soul becomes blinded to the beautiful attractions of the spiritual realities of the kingdom of God on earth and to the joys of eternal life in heaven” a suggested match would be:

Happiness comes

not from the power of wealth,

and joy springs not from riches

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 19 November is “There is no sin in having honest possessions on earth provided our treasure is in heaven…” a suggested match would be:

…for where your treasure

is there will your heart be also

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  …Today, 20 November is “Seek the greater thing, and the lesser will be found therein; ask for the heavenly, and the earthly shall be included. The shadow is certain to follow the substance.” a suggested match would be:

You are only a small group,

but if you have faith,

if you will not stumble in fear,

I declare that it is my Father’s good pleasure

to give you this kingdom

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 21 November is “When you forgive your brother in the flesh, you thereby create the capacity in your own soul for the reception of the reality of God’s forgiveness of your own misdeeds” a suggested match would be:

God has forgiven;

we make such forgiveness

personally available

by the act of forgiving our fellows

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 22 November is “God’s forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced by man just in so far as he forgives his fellows” a suggested match would be:

Man will not truly forgive his fellows

unless he loves them as himself

 

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 23 November is “You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul” a suggested match would be:

Goodness is universally attractive

only when it is gracious

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 24 November is “Divine justice is so eternally fair that it unfailingly embodies understanding mercy” a suggested match would be:

With the earthly child and the heavenly Father,

the divine parent possesses infinity and divinity

of sympathy and capacity for loving understanding

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 25 November is “Your inability or unwillingness to forgive your fellows is the measure of your immaturity, your failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love” a suggested match would be:

The child, being immature and lacking in

the fuller understanding of the depth of

the child-father relationship, must

frequently feel a sense of guilty

separation from a father’s full approval,

but the true father is never conscious of any such separation

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 26 November is “You hold grudges and nurse vengefulness in direct proportion to your ignorance of the inner nature and true longings of your children and your fellow beings” a suggested match would be:

…capacity to understand man’s nature

and forgive his apparent wrongdoing is Godlike

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 27 November is “Love is the outworking of the divine and inner urge of life, it is founded on understanding, nurtured by unselfish service and perfected in wisdom” a suggested match would be:

Understanding relationships

associated with attitudes of love

effectively prevent all those estrangements

which later necessitate the readjustment

of repentance by the child with forgiveness by the parent

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 28 November is “…a tremendous responsibility rests upon all earthly fathers so to live and order their homes that the word father becomes worthily enshrined in the minds and hearts of all growing children” a suggested match would be:

It is our sincere belief that

the gospel of Jesus’ teaching,

founded as it is on the father-child relationship,

can hardly enjoy a world-wide acceptance

until such a time as the home life

of the modern civilized peoples embraces

more of love and more of wisdom

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 29 November is “You can know the truth, and you can live the truth; you can experience the growth of truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of enlightenment in the mind, but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes, creeds or intellectual patterns of human conduct” a suggested match would be:

When you undertake

the human formulation

of divine truth,

it speedily dies

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 30 November is “Static truth is dead truth, and only dead truth can be held as a theory. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind” a suggested match would be:

Truth is a spiritual reality value

experienced only by spirit-endowed

beings who function upon supermaterial levels

of universe consciousness, and who,

after the realization of truth, permit its

spirit of activation to live and reign within their souls

 

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