Midweek Message: June 25, 2025

Your Higher Self

I believe that inside everyone—man, woman, and child—is the Christ, Buddha, or Higher Self, in other words, the knowledge of a Supreme Being. Unfortunately, many of us have been taught that this Being or Creator is a punishing God. 

GOD is LOVE

As children, we learn about feelings of guilt and shame that occur when we do something wrong. We are told that God becomes angry and disappointed with us. Such a Being is often the reason why many people turn away from any God or spirituality due to these teachings. 

However, many spiritual teachers, including Jesus, have tried to show that the Creator is a loving and forgiving God. That God (Love) isn’t just there when we’re good, but also during our bad days. That’s because Love can only do one thing: Love.

A Closer Relationship

In his book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James explains how many people develop a close relationship with a God of their understanding during difficult times in their lives, rather than during the high points. My way to access this Love is through prayer and meditation. I also believe that I only need to ask in prayer, and my prayers will be answered because God cannot refuse to help God’s children. 

This doesn't mean I will always get what I ask for, because God is so loving that I will always be given what I need. Sometimes it may take me some time to realize that it is what I need, not what I want, that truly shapes not just my faith but the quality of my life itself.

Quote of the Week:

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” Augustine

How close do you feel to your Higher Self today? To your understanding of GOD as LOVE? Please share in comments, and I hope to meet you in-person at Unity Center of Pittsburgh when I speak on the last Sunday of July and the first Sunday of August!