A Lesson from Children

Children are not only our future but are now. So innocence so full of joy and hope. In the book Walking for Pease, Mony wrote about some young children  that she and her walking partner met in Italy. One of the children, a girl, handed Mony a book. On the cover was drawn three cartoon fish in a row holding paint-brushes while walking across a rainbow bridge that extended to infinity. The fish in front wore a kaffiyeh (Palestinian black and white scarf), the fish at the end wore a yarmulke (the Jewish cap), and the fish in the middle wore a baseball cap. Above all their heads was the title "We Give a Boost to Peace with Six Hands" in four languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Italian and English.

The idea originated in Italy. The Italian children started a drawing which was delivered to a Palestinian school where those children added to it, and finally to Israeli children who completed it. The children's drawings showed togetherness where the children wore each other's religious scarfs, and caps. Some of the children's parents even added drawings to the books. When the books were finished many months later, they were displayed at a cultural center in Jerusalem, and the children were invited to see their handiwork. 

In Jerusalem there would be as many as five hundred excited children squealing with joy and delight at finding their book that they and their partners created.

Italian, Jewish and Palestinian children in their innocence without fear and hatred for each other united in peace, hope and the joy of just being children.  

Children have a great deal to teach us adults. We should listen to them and do as they do. 

In Canada, red, yellow, black and white children and some times speaking different languages all play together on school grounds, in parks and where ever they can gather to have some fun. Children don't see the color or bother about another kids language, they are able to communicate with each other just fine and have fun doing it.

The world would be a better place to live in if adults could set aside their differences for a time as children and find peace.

As Spiritualist, we strive to live together with other people no matter what the color of there skin may be or language they speak. We truly believe in our second principle "We believe in the brotherhood of man".

Life

Life for all of us starts with an awakening in a new body. Some with the rising sun, some in the fullness of day, some with the setting sun and others during the darkness of night. Who can say what will happen as that life grows and spreads its wings. Will that life contribute to civilization's many expectations and make its mark in the lives of others. Can that life make its contribution  through working with others or by his/her writings and teachings. 

Some of us will only be remembered by a few close family members and friends. While others, it seams in years to come, are only thought about when some one looks at their family genealogy or looking at a tomb stone and wonders about the person buried there. What have we done in our life that can be remembered a year or maybe ten or perhaps a hundred from now?

I wonder if the people we rubbed shoulders with through out our life will even remember us? I wonder about the people we've hurt emotionally even though we've never hurt anyone physically? Have we made any real contribution to life that is even worth remembering? 

All the wondering does us no good because it's only at the very end of life that the multitude of things we've done in life can be looked back on and contemplated. It is then that our life's story can be revealed and hopefully be remembered in years to come.

Holidays 2014

Happy Holidays to you. I especially wish all who read my blog a very happy and prosperous new year. May 2015 bring peace, love and understanding between all people here on planet earth.

Happy Holiday to one and all.

Rev. Ronald L. Koch

The Patient, the Healer and God

Healing comes to the sick in many ways. Some are healed through faith, some through the act of prayer, which is faith in action. Some are healed because the body has activated its own internal healing power. Can advanced cancers or other debilitating diseases be healed? Just what does it take for healing to take place?

In the healing classes of a certified healer, men and women are taught that the individual who is acting as the healer is just a channel between God and the patient. Is this all there is to healing, to have a person act as a channel for healing? No! The patient is just as much a part of the healing process as God and the healer (channel). It is a threesome that works together to effectively produce the needed healing.

And yet, Few people today believe that God heals as he did in the days of Jesus. They are all wrong. God still heals as He did then. One must remember the words of Jesus when He said, “The things I do you can do and greater things than these you can do.” So what does it take for healing to take place today? It requires that the person acting as the healer truly understands that they’re the channel for God’s healing energy. If the healer doesn’t believe that healing can take place through him, the healing energy is stopped from its flow. God can do little for the recipient when the healer himself doesn’t believe that he is the healing channel.

Remember that it takes so little faith- confidence – the amount of faith represented by a mustard seed – so little, and yet so much. It is not the person acting as the healer that heals; it is God the source of all healing who does the healing. The channel MUST be open to the flow of God’s healing energy. The patient MUST know that they WILL receive the healing they desire, and be ready to accept it without question. This is a real problem for far too many of us - accepting without question. We are born skeptics, we question everything.

I hear about so many people today who are afflicted with cancer, and other diseases that lead to death of the physical body – diseases that can be stopped in their tracts. If only the patient understood that God wants them to be strong and healthy. “But, you say,” this one little word (but) can make the difference between healing and the downward spiral to physical death.

The question is – Do you have faith ( confidence), the knowing that healing takes place even today as it did two thousand years ago?

At a church in Redding California, the pastor was faced with the question “Does God heal today as He did when Jesus was alive?” He studied his Bible and came to the conclusion that God did. So he started to tentatively do healings during services at his church. To his amazement, people started to be healed. He talks about people who could not walk, but were healed by faith and started walking.

People with cancers were healed and people with “withered limbs” had their limbs start to grow to a normal size and shape as the healer prayed over them. Can you believe what it must have been like to see such a miracle taking place before your own eyes? The minister goes on in his book to talk about other healings that took place and are continuing to take place at his church.

Healing takes place today as it did in the time of Jesus. There is absolutely no reason for you or me to believe that it doesn’t happen. It only takes a few seconds for healing to take place, and only a second of faith.

You may not believe that it can happen for you, but it can. You must be ready to let go of your skepticism completely. Believe in miracles, and accept the healing.

I know how our minds work. It is because, we as adults are so used to being skeptical about everything that happens in our life that we find it almost impossible to believe that we or a loved one can be healed.

I don’t know what it will take for you to put that “mustard seed” of faith into effect in your life so that you can be healed I just hope and pray that you will find it within yourself to have it. God is the source of all healing; the healer is the channel for the healing energy, and the recipient as the receiver are all working together as one to bring about a complete healing. 

Do you know how Jesus healed people?

"Your sins, sickness, or discord are no more a part of God, or your true self, than fungi are a part of the plants to which they attach themselves. They are the false growths which have gathered upon your bodies as the result of wrong thinking. The thought of the disease and the disease are merely the cause and the effect. Erase, forgive the cause and the effect disappears. Erase the false belief and sickness vanishes".

"This was the only method of cure that Jesus ever resorted to. He erased the false image in the consciousness of the one to whom he ministered. He first raised the vibrations of his body by connecting his own thoughts with those of Divine Mind and holding his own thoughts steadfastly in accord with those of the perfection of the Divine Mind for man. Then the vibrations of his body became equal to the vibrations in Divine Mind. Having thus raised the vibrations of his own body by his steadfast thought of the Divine Perfection, he was able to raise the vibrations of the body of the applicant with the withered arm to the point where he could erase the image of the withered arm from his own consciousness. Then Jesus could say to the applicant `Stretch forth your hand.' The person in faith stretched it forth and it became whole. Thus Jesus raised the vibrations of his own body by seeing the Divine Perfection for all and this enabled him to raise the vibrations of the one he healed until the image of imperfection was entirely erased; then perfection was instantaneous and the forgiveness and healing was complete".

"God works through all to carry out His perfect plan and the perfect, loving thoughts continually going forth from the hearts of all are God's own message to His children. It is these thoughts that keep the vibrations of our bodies in direct touch with the divine and perfect vibrations; and this seed is the Word of God that finds lodgment in every receptive heart, whether man be consciously aware of his divine nature or not. We are approaching more fully to our divine inheritance when we can keep our thoughts so fully upon our divine perfection and the divine perfection of all, as held in the Mind of God, that the vibrations of our body are in direct harmonious accord and one with the divine vibrations sent out from the Mind of God. But, in order to bring forth the abundant harvest of spiritual understanding, our thoughts must continuously vibrate with, and lay hold of, the perfect harmonious thoughts from Divine Mind, or Mind of God, to man, His beloved son. We soon find we have the power to enslave or to free ourselves, as well as to forgive every sin of the whole human family through our attitude of thought, word, or deed and, through the vibrations thus released, to the whole world. Once having chosen to shape our thoughts along definite lines, we soon find that we are sustained by Omnipotence itself and find, as we go through the discipline necessary to assure ourselves of mastery, that it is a glorious privilege—this power which we have to free ourselves and our fellow men from bondage through the process of divine thinking". We are healed.

* Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East  Vol. 2 Pg. 37

Winter Delights

The white snow fell covering the ground
It covered the dark earth and hid the decay of fallen leaves.
Snow, so beautiful yet so cool

It covers the ground so we can play
Sliding here and there with laughter and mirth
Making snow men and women just for the fun of it

Riding our sleighs, some pulled by a horse to the delight of lovers
Hidden beneath blankets of many colors
Singing Christmas carols and wanting the night to last forever

To dream of Christmas trees all covered with colored light and tinsel
Streams of garlands round about
And hanging in splendor colored balls of glass
Topped with a star shining so bright

Falling snow and a tree of great beautify that reminds us that there is more to life than our daily problems. We look forward to the first snow and then can't wait for spring to take it all away. Why? Each season last for its required length of time only to be replaced with something new. A newness that challenges us to be the best we can be at everything we do.

The Christmas tree reminds us to think of others and do something special that will bring a smile on a person's face for a time. The giving of gifts so special and means so much to be given and received.

New Year's Eve reminds us that another year has passed and we can look forward to new challenges and the joy of helping others. Our life should be filled with happiness and the joy of being part of life. Life is not for us to dive into the darkness of despair, depression and wrong thinking. But, to uplift others that will in turn uplift us and make us a better person.

We have so much to give, so much to celebrate, so much to receive from others with open hearts and minds. Today was made just for you, me and no one can make it otherwise.

Yes, the snow falls each winter whether in the northern latitudes or in the minds of those in hot year round climates. Snow can cover so much and when it goes, it leaves hope for new growth and beauty that only this great earth can provide.

We need to understand that we are just a small part of a greater whole that requires are contribution that is so needed whether for ourselves or others. When we think of others we are think with the mind of God not with the mind of men. Giving to others from our hearts not our heads. Yes, you are needed. You are a great part of all their is. Making our mark and knowing that even the falling snow cannot cover us for more than a season only to dissipate over time putting all that's past behind us.

Falling Leaves

Falling leaves of many colors
Reds, yellows, orange and rust
Their green is gone, but not forever.

The dark tree's bark
The grays of night
The whites of life all within the bark.

Who will contemplate the tree?
It's beauty and its darkness supreme?

Where has the reds, the yellows, oranges and rust gone?
To bed for another day only to awaken to a new life
Full of life and internal beauty awaiting a fall night
Changing from green to color waiting the fall day light.

Above

High above the white washed sand stands a lonely person.

Could that person be you?

No, it's an illusion of the most wonderful type 

This is no place for the lonely 

A world filled with light.

Lite drives out the negative and and washes away the loneliness.

To conquers all in its bid for the person of its charge.

Let the light shine where it will, for it brings love to the heart of the lonely one.