Newsletter – August 2024

Dear Friends,

“Are We Awake to the Dynamics of the Kingdom Within?”

I begin this month with some passages from scripture.  We seem generally in Life today to be standing at a “crossroads” in many aspects.  I trust that as we proceed, the intention in the message will become clear.
Matthew 7:13,14 Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it.  For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Isaiah 30:21  Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “this is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.
Jeremiah 6:16  Thus says the Lord: stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.  But they said, ‘we will not walk in it.’
These passages are about choices. And we may wonder why the narrow way, when the other path looks so much easier. Life is difficult anyway.  The choices we have made to date, individually and collectively, have brought us to the point where we are today. We may feel that these passages of scripture are redundant, yet I believe they hold a wonderful message now.  Each refers to the need for choice and our world today, perhaps more than ever before, points (generally) to us having forgotten that there is another way to BE.

Let us look at the verses under consideration and perceive them from a mystical point of view:
Enter through the narrow gate…………..
 This is the way, walk in it..
 Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is ….

 What does this require of us? We would, I am sure, all like to experience a different way of life—a more peaceful way of being, yet are we prepared to give up the things of the world for the kingdom that is not of it?
The wider gate in Matthew refers to following the crowd and getting caught up in the daily dramas and human atrocities.  Are we buried in a mire of human behaviour? Where is the kingdom now? When do we make time for what is REAL, when all the time we are focusing on what appears to be so?  In our Teaching, it is first in mind, then in manifestation. What we believe about life we experience!
In Isaiah, we have the words: This is the way, walk in it…..We do have another option. These passages found in many other traditions as well, need to be revisited, because they do show the way.
In Jeremiah we have the words: ask for the ancient paths.

The wide gate and path sweeps humanity along the road to nowhere. Yet ultimately we cannot be what we are not; and when we turn our attention away from all of the stuff of the world, we do find the kingdom within. We find a way of Being, that the ancients, and many since have proved for themselves.

We are at a wonderful point in life!  At a point, I believe, when we are ready to understand this inner realm of the Presence of God. The gate may be narrow, yet from our intentional venturing through and along, our vision expands; the Presence always with us, is experienced… and we realize there can be no other way.  We enter into the dynamics of a kingdom promised to ALL.  A kingdom that cannot be conceived of, or perceived by the human mind!

In Closing…….
 Put your faith and belief in the Whole Spirit—the wholeness and the allness of the only One there is. This One knows your every need and supplies your every want.  So when man (male and female) takes the right position of at-one-ment with God, and justly and lawfully represents this oneness, he knows his own needs and supplies them.  He can understandingly say, “I do what I see the Father doing.”  Fatherhood is mine, source and cause I am.  “We are co-workers together with God.”   We can make no mistake when we conform to the Law of Unity.  Go hand in hand with the All in All.
 Malinda Cramer – Divine Science and Healing

Bountiful blessings,
Mallory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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