Since I had the blessing to have been shot and thus experienced a small taste of the Spiritual Universe, I am very willingly using these two affirmations daily, sometimes more than once a day, and it is amazing how stress-free my life is becoming. Do I still have stress? Of course, I do. Living in the Human Condition is the reason that I do. All it takes to calm these stresses is using one or the other of the affirmations, or both – whatever the occasion calls for. be a great drinker and failing, being a brawler, I always thought that I was also a poet and wordsmith. I paraphrased some of what Mr. Fox wrote in this teaching. I made an affirmation from it that I use to this day. It starts my day off perfectly. It is: “God is working through me. I have dominion over my thoughts, emotions, and actions. I am inspired by divine guidance and wisdom. My own true nature is spiritual and perfect.”
This seems to cover it all and it does for me. Because my God is not a punishing, judging tyrant sitting on a Golden Throne “Up there” somewhere like I believed for the first 3+ decades of my life, he is a living, forgiving God who dwells inside my heart so He always knows just what I am thinking, doing, or thinking of doing. This scared me at one time. Now it inspires me. This led to an affirmation that I learned from my present Spiritual Advisor, Reverend Stephanie Sorensen of the Flint life Enrichment Center. It goes: “I am a Spiritual Being, living in a Spiritual Universe, that is covered by Spiritual Law. As a Divine being, I am an individualized expression of God and one with all that exists.”
Since I had the blessing to have been shot and thus experienced a small taste of the Spiritual Universe, I am very willingly using these two affirmations daily, sometimes more than once a day, and it is amazing how stress-free my life is becoming. Do I still have stress? Of course, I do. Living in the Human Condition is the reason that I do. All it takes to calm these stresses is using one or the other of the affirmations, or both – whatever the occasion calls for.
Yes, I call getting shot a blessing, and I wouldn’t advise going out and trying to receive this type of blessing, but, for me, it was. This has given me strong insight into the portion of Step 11 where it speaks of “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him.” I just KNOW that He has my back because he has always been there for me, I just was not ready, able, or willing to accept this.
If you, too, want to feel HJ&F, why don’t you just try it. If it doesn’t work, come back and tell me about it. When it DOES work, tell and show EVERYBODY about it. The choice is yours. Please choose wisely!