We Will Be Reborn In Spirit
Dec 30th, 2009 by admin
Dear friends,
This New Year’s Eve healing date is the second celebration of birth this season. On Christmas Eve we celebrate the spiritual birth of the Christ within. On New Year’s Eve we celebrate the birth of a new year. One birth is for our eternal being; the other is for our ephemeral environment.
The New Year is really neither birth nor rebirth, but a continuing. It is both an ending and a beginning. It is a time for remembering the aphorism of the American poet-philosopher George Santayana, those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.
George Santayana
At this time we review the year just past and retrospect on what we have experienced to recognize opportunities to learn. It is NOT a time to berate yourself for past mistakes. Psychologically this reinforces the behavior you want to eliminate so that you are MORE rather than less likely to repeat past errors. The key to dealing with past errors is always positive. When we forgive ourselves for our shortcomings and appeal to Christ for help, Christ’s inner teacher can bring lasting change to our minds. With gratitude for the opportunity to learn, we then ask Christ to help us release past errors in our thinking.
God’s reality knows no death, so a new birth is but an imagining. However, we need to experience a rebirth so that we can re-enter the kingdom of God that we voluntarily left. The only rebirth that really counts is the resurrection that we experience when we reawaken as one in Christ. Service is the path we have chosen to join ourselves in Christ’s service. Then we will really be reborn in spirit and can continue to serve from the inner worlds without going through the cycle of birth and death that we experience here.
Thank you for choosing healing prayer as your path to return to God.
Peace, John
[Santayana’s quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” is known as Santayana’s “Law of Repetitive Consequences.”]