"Silence, Prayer, Meditation and Contemplation blend into each other harmoniously." -Flower A. Newhouse

Finding Your True North

The Touch of God - Lesson 4

A Divine Experiment

Flower once wrote that our quest is the search for happiness. Even our work, relationships, and ideals center around this inward drive. Should we attain every outer happiness - love, success, and world trust - a season will come in which these outward achievements are seen to be as bubbles which the prick of misfortune can easily dissolve. To all shall come the realization that happiness, to be enduring, must be an inner attainment - an entering into the Kingdom of God within one's own Spirit.

Today, let us begin to view inner attainment in this way. The current world conditions and economy certainly underscore this realization. Where do we put our trust?

Our life rules are created in support of our inner attainment. They should be reviewed regularly. God will give us plenty of opportunities to demonstrate growth in each area. It is in this way we enter the Kingdom of God with our full spirit.

Read the highlighted section of this article entitled a Divine Experiment and then reflect and respond to the questions below.

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Where in your life can you see the ripple of your actions both good and bad affecting the world in this way?

How do our thoughts, doubts, fears, and faith impact our actions?

Impact others?

"Many of us act as though we felt our physical, mental, and spiritual, resources were bankrupted. That is because we depend upon ourselves rather then upon the creative Spirit of the Christ."

Growth Measured

In our journey spiritually, we often tend to focus on removing self that Christ may more fully infill us. I have recently discovered that maybe it is more about drawing so close to our Lord Christ that in His presence there is no room for self.

Read the second part of the highlighted section of the article entitled Growth Measured and His Mantling. Then reflect and respond to the questions below.

What does the word surrender mean to you?

How do you differ between self will and God's will?

How can we better move our beings toward this kind of surrender to the Universal Christ Spirit?

"True, we shall not be perfected instantaneously, but the hope and need we have for Christliness shall be ennobled and confirmed. The work before us shall be more joygiving than arduous, more adventuresome than routine."

Practice

M10 suggests variations to your practice of the planning meditation (M9). Use this time to reflect upon your Holy Gift to Christ. Remember that if we want happiness to be truly enduring, it must be an inner attainment - an entering into the Kingdom of God within one's own Spirit.

To new frontiers beyond our conscious knowledge - a vital day to you!

Questions and Answers

Questions and answers with Flower A. Newhouse (excerpted from Here Are Your Answers, Volumes I, II and III)

How does one find out what they are specifically meant to do in this lifetime; that is, what their life work might be?

Most persons have a general life work to accomplish and this is of greater importance than any of them realize. The work to which I refer is the building, purifying and strengthening of their character and the rounding out of their spiritual development.

Too many feel that they must have a mission in life. Those who have a mission are very few in number compared to every person's need to achieve their own life's work of self-conquest. We must get over the idea that each of us has something very special to do for humanity. Our best gift to humanity is our deepened development.

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Resource Kit - Table of Contents

Unit 1: Entering the Light
Preface . Lesson 1 . Lesson 2 . Lesson 3 . Lesson 4 . Lesson 5
Lesson 6 . Lesson 7 . Lesson 8 . Lesson 9 . Lesson 10 . Lesson 11

Unit 2: The Touch of God
Lesson 1 . Lesson 2 . Lesson 3 . Lesson 4 . Lesson 5 . Lesson 6
Lesson 7

Unit 3: The Armor of Spiritual Life
Lesson 1 . Lesson 2 . Lesson 3 . Lesson 4 . Lesson 5
Lesson 6 . Lesson 7 . Lesson 8

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Our Seven Bodies 		Gateways Into Light
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The Way to Within

About Flower A. Newhouse

The life and writings of Flower A. Newhouse are those of a Christian mystic, and her insights into the inner realms of life provide us with a path to wholeness that she called "Living the Life." These teachings are not doctrine, but a practical guide to the direct, immediate experience of God. Flower's mission was also to reawaken humanity to the reality of angels, a work she began with her first book in 1937, and added to in many published writings and in recorded lectures.