A Matter of Matter

Several years ago the American Bankers Association took one hundred healthy men at the age of twenty-five and traced their lives up to the age of sixty-five. These hundred men were all healthy to start with. They all had the same chance for success. The difference lay in the way they used their MINDS. It was discovered that Ninety-five out of one hundred just do the tasks that are set before them. They have no faith in themselves- no initiative- none of the courage that starts things. They are always directed or controlled by someone else. Where will you be at sixty-five? Will you be at the top of the heap or will you be struggling to make a living- accepting charity from others? I speak to family and to friends often. One constant between all is the desire to see a day when they are no longer slaves to financial limitations. Many have dreams of spreading their wealth in humanitarian ways, for others, the sudden acquisition of wealth could very well lead to their turning from God because they may reason that there is no more need to pray now that they have everything. But I am not one who subscribes to the belief that poverty keeps you humble and "closer to God". There are a plethora of men and women who have amassed great wealth and are devout and charitable people. Let us quote the scripture properly; "For the love of money is the root of all evil". -I Timothy 6:10. God never said that we could do nothing until given a financial stimulus. In fact, the ability to obtain our desires is already within us. We have two choices to make:

1. Bow down to matter, (the substance or substances of which any physical object is composed), as the only power and look upon your environment as something that has been wished upon you and for which you are in no way responsible. Or ;


2. Try to realize in your daily life that matter is merely a collection of protons and electrons subject entirely to the control of Mind, that your environment, success, your happiness, are all of your own making, and that if you are not satisfied with conditions as they are, you have but to visualize them as you would have them be and put your creative power to work in order to change them.

Many stutter at this sort of teaching because they say "How can I manage something that is invisible, such as Mind power?" But I ask you, is not Love invisible? Yet there is no greater power.

The short Victorian poem "Invictus" by the English poet William Earnest Henley best sums it up:

Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate:I am the captain of my soul.

I am pleased that my family of origin has chosen to believe along with me to accomplish things above what we can see. I am looking forward to creating miracles and awakening desires that have been slumbering for far too long.

There will be much more to follow.

Have a great day.

Dennis