Someone recently asked me if I believe in God and the answer is yes. When I tell people my view that God is unconditional love, I don’t mean that the full definition of God is love in a human context. I mean that the highest, fullest manifestations of kindness and compassion are in alignment with the nature of God. That’s why there’s such a thing as a state of grace, as being able to step into the flow of creation and manifest wonderful things for oneself and others simply by having the belief that these good things are manifested. I’m spiritual, but not religious- however I draw comparison to the purported words of Jesus, ‘Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and greater things.’ I take those words as being true, not just because Jesus said them but because its our birthright as spiritual beings. Serendipidy is the most basic example of manifestation- thinking about something you desire and then it appears within moments, hours, or days- without your effort; it just comes. Setting one’s intention on something, in the right way, can have predictable, repeatable results in just this way. The key is to have love and peace in you because what your attention is on, is what you manifest. This is why healing your life is key and why this Louise Hay forum is so intriguing to me- once you’re at a place where you’re at peace within yourself and living in harmony with life, then stepping into the flow of manifesting all that you desire for yourself and others, is much more possible and isn’t a hit-and-miss proposition. 

I believe it was Wayne Dyer who said, 'it isn’t that saints and highly developed spiritual people have love in them and the rest of us don’t. Its that love is all they have. If you squeeze the average person, some love will come out, but so will fear, guilt, anger, etc. What you have in you is what you have to give others' - so if you’re full of love and peaceful contentment with your own being, that’s what will come out of you in your interactions with others- and in your interactions with God / “the flow” / divinity / natural law / the universe. I further believe that God is everywhere and in all things as pure, loving energy- even at the heart of atoms and subatomic particles, that this energy is the power and sustainance of our universe. I won’t say that ‘God’ is defined as an energy field that’s fused to the entire matrix of creation, but simply that there’s an interaction and interconnection with all things through a flow of energy that each of us can access if we have a pure and loving heart- we can feel and interconnect with all things. I realize this makes me something of a modern mystic, for mystics believe in direct communion with the divine. I believe it because I’ve experienced it. Again, (I’ll paraphrase here) it was Wayne Dyer who said, ‘There’s reading about bicycles, going to sermons and demonstrations about how to ride a bike, about the physics involved, you could go to study groups and watch movies about bike riding… and then there’s getting on a bike and riding it, which is entirely different' and takes it from the field of the theoretical and makes it practical and real, and thrilling, and useful to you. The same is true with God / the divine. You can have a personal connection with divinity.

I've never read Louise Hay. I've heard others talk about her in passing, but this will be my first experience of her writing and I'm looking forward to the discussions!