Heather's Views:
Remembering What Matters

Dear Ones,

Can you imagine what life would be like if every word you spoke was a word reflecting the Divine Presence? Can you imagine a life that was lived from your awareness of what is most important? How would your life look, if you really knew that you mattered? What would your relationships look like if you really knew they mattered?

Our theme for 2007 is "Remembering What Matters." It is a very exciting theme to me because behind every effect, every experience and all form is an expression of the immutable perfect causation or God. All is God, we proclaim. But sometimes we do not see the perfection in the present moment. Why not? The culprit is that we have been given free choice. Free choice is also the blessing and the power. We get to choose how to perceive our world.

We get to choose how to relate to other beings and things. We get to choose what to think and how to respond to life.

I have noticed that the cause of much unhappiness is often that we have not thought about what really matters. Our actions may be reactions to another person's choices. When that is the case, we have given our power away. Sometimes people fail to show up, sometimes breaking agreements, simply because they do not believe that they matter. Have you ever had a little thought tug at you because you knew that your words or actions were not understood by the person you were communicating with? Have you ever talked yourself out of having another clarifying conversation with the person because the misunderstanding was about a small thing and you told yourself that it just doesn't matter?

While it is true that often the things we talk about are not that important in the great scheme of things, the unexamined idea is that by not following up, you are telling yourself that you are not important enough to be understood. The truth is you matter. Your life matters.

On page 46 of the Science of Mind text, Dr. Ernest Holmes says, "How then, are we to know what is right and what is wrong? We are not GOING to know; we already know it."

It is true that we already know what really matters. Hence, our theme is entitled, "Remembering What Matters."

Please join me in remembering what matters is that God everywhere. What matters is God as you and God as me and God as our spiritual community. You matter.

Love,
Heather