Week 12: We Are Children Of The Light

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Who are the Meek?

Reading and Affirmation for March

From the book The Beatitudes: Their Inner Meaning by Swami Kriyananda

(To view the reading see weeks 9 and 10)

Rays of One Light: Weekly Commentaries on the Bible and The Bhagavad Gita

It is common for people to perceive themselves according to their present realities. A person in ill health says, “I am ill.” Few say, “I am well; it is my body that is suffering.” People in a low income bracket say, “I am poor.” Only the unusual person will say, “Though outwardly I live in poverty, inwardly I am wealthy.” Thus, when it comes to moral and spiritual development, people commonly identify themselves with their weaknesses and their mistakes. They consider it almost a sign of humility to say, “I am a sinner,” though in effect what this means is that they identify themselves with their sinfulness, not with the soul’s power to transcend all limitations in God.

Excerpt from Week 12: We Are Children Of The Light

Whispers From Eternity

We Demand as Thy Children

Thou art our Father.
We are made in Thine image.
We are Thy children.
We neither ask nor pray as beggars, but demand of Thee, as Thy children, the gifts of wisdom, salvation, health, happiness, and eternal joy.
Whether naughty or good, we are still Thy children, all of us.
Help us to perceive and understand, inwardly, Thy will for us.
Teach us the independent use of our human will (since Thou gavest it to us to use freely), attuned to Thy wisdom-guided will.

Paramhansa Yogananda

Inspiration from the Rays of One Light

“If you want to know God,” Paramhansa Yogananda said, “live in the thought that you have Him already.”

We will take these meaningful words into our meditation together for deep reflection and contemplation. But firstly, we will listen to the beautiful Psalm of David, sung by Mary Kretzmann.