Rev. Jenn's Blog

The Integrity of the Universe

One of Jesus’s most challenging lessons may be found in the Beatitude: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth” (in “The Sermon on the Mount,” Matthew 5:5).  Sometimes, people believe that this concept of nonresistance means giving in and giving up. ...

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The Integrity of the Universe

One of Jesus’s most challenging lessons may be found in the Beatitude: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth” (in “The Sermon on the Mount,” Matthew 5:5).  Sometimes, people believe that this concept of nonresistance means giving in and giving up. ...

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A Seat at the Exchange

Giving and receiving are part of life’s spiritual flow, a recognition that universal abundance is a form of grace, automatically granted to all.  Jesus, Master Mystic, Healer, and Wayshower often teaches about this practice and God’s beneficence.  Consider this...

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A Seat at the Exchange

Giving and receiving are part of life’s spiritual flow, a recognition that universal abundance is a form of grace, automatically granted to all.  Jesus, Master Mystic, Healer, and Wayshower often teaches about this practice and God’s beneficence.  Consider this...

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One Guiding Star

One Guiding Star

Each of us has a soul purpose and ideal direction.  As radiant souls living in sacred body temples, having human experiences, we each are here to learn something new and share something magnificent. With positive, affirmative intention, open yourself to new ways of...

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Our Guiding Star

In the Gospel by the Mark Writer (10:27), Jesus, Master Mystic, Healer, Teacher, and Wayshower says: “With humans, this is impossible. But with God, all things are possible.”  He means that when we are aligned with God (Higher Power, Supreme Divine Energy, Great...

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Go Ahead

Following is one of my favorite Emmet Fox essays, written sometime in the 1930s.  It reminds us to release old habits and beliefs, keeping our eyes, ears, hearts, and minds open to a new season’s abundant goodness and grace.   “Never look back.  Always go right...

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Go Ahead

Go Ahead

Following is one of my favorite Emmet Fox essays, written sometime in the 1930s.  It reminds us to release old habits and beliefs, keeping our eyes, ears, hearts, and minds open to a new season’s abundant goodness and grace.   “Never look back.  Always go right...

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The Next Best Step

The Next Best Step

An Affirmative Prayer for a New Season Today, in some quiet moments, as I notice one season flowing into the next, I fill my body, mind, and soul with the calm, flowing assurance of faith, the faith that believes, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the faith that passes all...

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Grounded in Faith

Jesus explained: “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.” Matthew 17:20   Some Ideas to Contemplate: Jesus, Master Mystic, Healer, Teacher, and Wayshower encourages his...

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Take Material Steps

Take Material Steps

“When you set out to solve a problem by means of prayer, you should take all the ordinary normal steps in addition.  Do not simply pray and then sit down and wait for something dramatic to happen. “For instance, if you are praying for a position . . . pray for it as...

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Grounded in Principle

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for your good, not for harm, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11   Some Ideas to Contemplate: Whenever prophets speak in sacred scripture, we are invited to shift our mindset and...

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Float on Faith

Float on Faith

In her 1940 spiritual essay collection, Winning Freedom, Florence T. Ritchie, Divine Science minister, teaches: No matter how often the Lord rescued the children of Israel from disaster, they would in time forget and again run after false gods.  We wonder how they...

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