Reading & Meditation by Rev. Teresa Stuefloten, M.Div. 6/7/2026

Good morning! This is Rev. Teresa. I have a reading for you this morning from the book “A Parenthesis in Eternity” by Joel Goldsmith.

   “Every word of truth that God has ever uttered is locked up within you. Loose it and let it go, but never tell this secret except to those of your spiritual household. Do not expose your ‘pearl’ to those who are not connoisseurs of pearls. Do not give anyone an opportunity to ridicule your inner life. Do not let anyone try to destroy your faith, your understanding, or your wisdom. You have a ‘pearl’ for which the people of the world would sell their souls if they only knew what it could do for them.”

   This is the mystical life…

   “I and my Father are one,” and in God I find my Self-completeness, and then when I open my eyes and go out into the world, I share the glories of God, the grace of God, the peace of God that passes understanding.

   I of myself am nothing, but I can go within and there enjoy God’s grace…”

   “No one can take your peace from you after you have discovered the interior world. After you have discovered that within you is the substance of all form, the law of all effect, the divine Grace, never again can the world disturb you, never can it touch you.”

   “…It all has to do with leaving the world while you go within and eat of that inner meat, drink of that inner water, tabernacle with the saints and sages - the Christ - and then come out and enjoy every person and everything that God’s grace hangs on your Tree of Life.” (end of quote)

Meditation

Now I invite you to prepare to go within for a short time of meditation, letting go of worries or concerns for this time, getting comfortable, closing your eyes with your inner gaze raised to the center of the forehead, turning your attention to your breath, gently noticing the in-breath and the out-breath…feeling the coolness of the in-breath and the warmth of the out-breath… allowing the breath to sink down into the belly with each in-breath… expanding the belly with each in-breath and contracting the belly with each out-breath… coming into the present moment through the breath now, completely awake and aware…

I am a Divine expression, perfect, whole and complete…

I live and move and have my being in God…

As I go within in the silence of meditation, I feel the presence of God within me…

As I quiet my mind and listen in the stillness, God’s wisdom is revealed to me…

The Pearl of great price is revealed to me in the silence of my soul…

In God communion, in the inner silence of the soul, all that I ever need is revealed to me…

I hold the wisdom revealed in God communion close to my heart…

The saints and sages of all ages lift me up in the silence…

The Christ consciousness reveals itself to me in the silence…

I feel the Peace of God that passes all understanding in the silence, restoring my peace of mind…

I relax into the silence, letting it rejuvenate me now…

We move into one minute of silence now, allowing the peace that passes all understanding to fill our heart and mind…

Now that we have rested in the silence, I invite you to begin returning to awareness of the body and the room you are in, feeling refreshed and peaceful in body, mind, and soul. Going within in meditation daily, we touch that peace and bring it into our daily life.