Come On IN! - Practice of Praise Series

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DATE : Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:32:24 -0800
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Come On In November 8, 2009
Rev. David Alexander

Today, we’re starting a three-week series on gratitude and praise. The vibration of coming into wholeness, when we talk about gratitude, we’re talking about a state of being and praise is gratitude in action—it’s the activity of gratitude. When we’re in gratitude, we’re in the activity of praise. This is a spiritual tool that we can use to make the world a better place.
This tool has the possibility to completely transform and enhance your life. Tool reduces stress, biologically lower cholesterol level and release endorphins in your body. Can rewrite your entire history.
When we come into a home or a new relationship and experience a welcoming, it is something that we share in common. It is exciting and energizing. When we are walking through our life in the darkness and then come into a new job or community, etc, it is in many ways like turning on a light switch so that we can see where we are. There’s more to life, more to love, more to prosperity than I thought. In our spiritual community we believe in a law that says the universe is a whole and self-givingness of spirit for it’s own expression. It made everything so that it could know itself as life.
As we deepen our study, we learn that this energy, light and love and Presence of God that is everywhere present, responds by corresponding to our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs. It reflects back to us what we are perceiving. This is enlightening and exciting. We notice that we were stumbling over things that we put there or got put there by others and it still may be hard to get across the room.
What I know is that I create my reality, thoughts become thing. And now I see the things from my past and it’s hard to navigate therefore it must be my fault and why did I create this and how did I create it—we begin to very subtly – practice metaphysical malpractice. And it doesn’t do us any good to lament, worry, fear or fester about how things got to be the way they are ---about anything in our life.
While it is all well and good, there is something that you can do now to set a vibration for your life and dissolves all the negative vibrations that have gone before you. That’s what the attitude of gratitude and the practice of praise does for us.
Come on in to the vibration of love and gratitude that you are. The Divine Mother says to “pick up you room.” Today, we are practicing praise for our past and picking up the boxes. We don’t feel bad and lament, but rather we transform those past experience through the attitude of gratitude and the practice of praise. You might be saying, I don’t like where he’s going with this—is he saying that I should be thankful for everything in my life. He really doesn’t understand the pain that I’ve experienced. This is the way the universe works: if I was to give you a gift, you say “Thank you.” You therefore become the owner of the gift. When I give the gift, I am now free to do something else. You are free to move on, I can give the gift away or save it or throw it away—you own it. In the human dimension, we receive a gift and if we’re not grateful then the giver may be disappointed –therefore, I won’t give you gifts anymore. Then I look for places that will appreciate the gift that I have to give. If received a gift and didn’t really life it, therefore make sure that that person doesn’t give you gift anymore. We set up demand and expectations on both sides.
The universe operates kind of like a dog that likes to have you throw a ball so he can retrieve it—it’s relentless, never tires of retrieving the ball. The universe is like that, too,--it is relentless in the gifts that it is bringing to you. It is relentless in the pursuit of your happiness, it is relentless in presenting to you everything that you need for your greater growth and development so that you can be the best that you can be. You have to receive the gift—if you don’t, the gifts keep coming.
When we move into the attitude of gratitude, and say thank you for the gifts that we have received in the form of experiences and people, we get the learning, the insight and the awareness out of the gift. We now know something more about ourselves. We are therefore different people.
When we don’t receive the gifts, we end up having a stockpile of “stuff” waiting. We have to “clean up our room”—whatever the feeling or emotion are on the inside. We recognize that this is the insight that I gained—yes, there was fear, yes, there was darkness, and I say “thank you for the insight” in knowing more about myself today. Therefore we free the giver (the universe) to go on and do something else. Until it is free, you are shackled and chained to that past experience. Living from our “history” rather than from our “destiny”, we have stockpiled things, reasons and excuses. When we begin to give praise for the past, the praise unlocks and frees up the experience and energy so that we release the shackles and break the chains.
We’re here to understand that the first step is to receive every unredeemed gift in our life. As we receive and claim those unreceived gifts, we are free to celebrate and live the life of our dreams. This frees us to live in the moment. This is principle in action. It is about the revelation of heaven on earth now. We are released from the bondage from the past.
The fullness of life is unlocked. Gratitude makes sense of our past, makes peace with our present and creates a vision for our future. We are therefore authors of our own destiny.

Question to Ponder:
1. Where have you not opened a “gift” from the universe?

2. Are you willing to open it now?