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Monthly Archive January 2020

The Power of Thought

by Rev. Elizabeth Rowley,
Spiritual Director
January 22, 2020

Welcome to KGOD, the world’s favorite station, broadcasting today’s highest consciousness to you live from Eternity, commercial-free – with everyone’s favorite DJ – GOD! YAY GOD: the Thing Itself that knows what you love and leads you to it. A special shout out to our sponsors: love, peace, joy, harmony, abundance, wisdom, compassion, and bliss.

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Today’s broadcast is brought to you by the Angels and the Cosmic Merry Maids of the Universe. Now don’t turn that dial, your celestial song is coming up next.

Warning – listening to this station for prolonged periods may lead to ecstatic joy, profound prosperity, sparkling light, overwhelming clarity, and the peace that passes human understanding. Listen at your own bliss!

What you’re thinking about right now is creating your future. We are each called to enter the nowness of the moment to harness the power of thought and use it for our personal and global transformation. What is the nowness of this moment? It’s beyond time, just back of past, present, and future.

You can practice entering the nowness of the moment today by making small changes. Take a different route to work, put your left shoe on first instead of your right, read something inspiring, say hi to five people you don’t know, tell a joke, meditate, pray, eat something new. These all trigger the brain to fire in an alternative way. Then observe. Observe how life is happening spontaneously, based on your awareness in the nowness of the moment.

You can practice using your thoughts to co-create in your life with a simple exercise, which I call Gucci parking. I call it Gucci parking because Gucci is a very high-end Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods. It’s the best of the best, the crème de la crème. Next time you head somewhere to find a parking space in which you previously had a difficult time finding one, repeat this mantra in your head or say it aloud: Gucci parking, Gucci parking, Gucci parking. Feel the joy bubble up at the sound of those words rolling off your tongue or reverberating through your mind. Release thoughts of doubt and disbelief immediately as they arise. As you pull into your Gucci parking space, thank the Universe for listening and responding. Revel in the victory of your use of the power of thought.  Practice to make your belief permanent and enjoy.

Thank you for tuning into KGOD – all Spirit, all the time – commercial free!

Keep tuning in to KGOD, and you will learn to accentuate the positive and let go of the negative, which leads to a successful, optimistic, happy, and fulfilled life.

Today’s broadcast was brought to you by the Angels and the Cosmic Merry Maids of the Universe. We hope you enjoyed hearing your celestial song of love, peace, joy, harmony, abundance, wisdom, compassion, and bliss.

And so it is.

The Stages of Spiritual Growth

by Rev. Elizabeth Rowley,
Spiritual Director
January 7, 2020

In the mid-1980s, author and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith introduced a simple model for understanding the Four Stages of Spiritual Growth and Development. While it is not the only guide, it is an enlightening perspective on the journey from victimhood to empowerment. The four stages are to me, by me, through me, and as me.

The process is ongoing, moving through each stage as you grow spiritually.

The first stage is the victim stage. In this stage, you move through the world believing that some external force or power is controlling your life. You may catch yourself saying something to the effect of, “Why does this always happen to me?” In this stage, you are unable to see that you have access to a power for good in the universe that is greater than you are, which you can use. It is a disempowering context through which to live your life. You move to the second stage upon the realization that you are not a victim, and that the world is not happening to you, but for you.

The second stage is all about manifestation. You recognize that you have access to the power within you to create. Maybe you watched the film, The Secret, spent some time in Science of Mind classes, or did some other reading that propelled you to understand the law of attraction, and you began successfully practicing it in your own life. With your new understanding, you’ve learned to manifest great parking spaces, mutually nourishing relationships, and the right and perfect job, for example.  You start to feel that there must be something more than this game of manifesting. There may be a sense of emptiness with a desire to deepen your connection with the Divine.

In the third stage, you let go of control and the illusion of power. Now that you have strong life structures in place, you’re no longer reactive and have surrendered the need to control every aspect of your life. You move into the flow of life, becoming an instrument of the Divine as you continuously surrender to the Indwelling Presence of God. You may receive nudges from the Divine to move in a specific direction, or you may get shoved if necessary. You have the consciousness of, “I surrender, I am an instrument, I am a vehicle through which Spirit speaks and acts.” Life is happening through me.

In your evolution into the fourth stage, ideas of separation lose their power. Through your consistent yielding to Source Energy, the Divine takes the driver’s seat in your life. The last vestiges of ego and separation dissolve. You realize that you are the presence of God, Spirit is expressing as you. The fourth stage is that of unity. At this point, you experience Spirit as you. In the flow, you are called to trust and be.

In which stage are you?

And so it is.