Ride the WavesReflections by Steve L.

A Wave

March 22, 2025 · franciscan renewal center

“It was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Three readings. A song that says the rest. And inspiration for whatever this day is here to teach.

A lone surfer riding inside a great curling wave

Read — the readings that opened the day

1

365 Science of Mind

Ernest Holmes

There is not God and something else. There is only God, and God is in everything, constituting the only Reality to anything that is, proclaiming Itself as all things; therefore, God knows things only as Itself.

2

Immortal Diamond

Richard Rohr

Most souls are initially ‘unsaved’ in the sense that they cannot dare to imagine they could be one with God/Reality/the universe. This is the lie of the False Self that dies slowly, and only after much testing from our side. Many clergy fight me on the idea of actual oneness with God the most. It is as if they do not believe in their own product. No wonder so few are buying into their half-hearted message. Only your soul can know the soul of other things. Only a part can recognize the whole from which it came. But first The Something within you, your True Self, must be awakened.

3

A Deep Breath of Life

Alan Cohen

We Are One with God and With Everyone We Meet. In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the Light within; the Light that animates every soul in the dance we call life. Today, help me to not judge my brothers & sisters. Let me recognize my unity with them; to see the spark of the Divine in all eyes I look into.

4

Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Hazelden Foundation

Meditation for the Day ..Our fundamental need is a spiritual need. The best spiritual supply is received when we want it to pass on to others. We get it largely by giving it away. God gives us strength as we pass it on to another person. That strength means increased health; increased health means more good work, and more good work means more people helped. And so it goes on, a constant supply to meet all spiritual needs. Prayer for the Day I pray that my every spiritual need will be supplied by God. I pray that I may use the power I receive to help others.