Reading & Meditation (Oneness) by Rev. Christine Emmerling D.D. 8/3/2025

The reading for today from Divine Science Its Principle and Practice, the chapter God and Man are One.

There is only one Mind, one Substance, one Source, one Presence, one Power, one Life – All Good. Although Truth is omnipresent and changeless; although man lives, moves and has his being in God, the All Good; although he dwells in the kingdom of heaven, if he is not conscious of it, he may go on his way lacking many things and losing the blessedness that IS his.

“Heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ,” Romans 8:17, men may, through ignorance of the truth, be slaves of misery, doubt, and poverty. It is KNOWING the truth that makes man free. Man gives a sense of reality and power to evil when he fails to recognize that his source, his life, his very existence through time and eternity is God the Good. Truth must be recognized in order to be realized and to become a power in the lives of men.

Ignorance of the truth of his Being does not alter man’s true nature, for the REALITY of man never changes. Ignorance is the seeming great delusion of the world. It unknowingly takes things for what they are not; that is, takes the expression for the Expresser, the body for the source of Self, the brain for the source of Mind, the letter for the Spirit and, in general, causes a sense of disorder or disease...

The divine nature can never be lost for it is an eternal truth, and sooner or later everyone must awaken to its presence within him. Eventually each one will be able to say, “I am because God is, God is the reason or cause of my being, the source of my existence. All that I am must be found in God, and most truly I cannot be something that my source is not. My source decides my nature. The stream is like the fountain from which it flows.”

Meditation - Oneness

We will now go into meditation on Oneness. I invite us to turn inward to our Holy Temple, quieting our thoughts and breathe. God is in every breath I breathe; the breath of life. I breathe in the Divine Presence of God.

God, Omnipresent, Infinite Spirit is everywhere present, here now and always. There is only One all Presence and that is God. I then am at-one with God, I am in and of God.

All that I Am is of God, here, now and always.

The vastness of God’s Presence is beyond this universe, is every dimension, is all life, and all creation. Every shining star, the dark space between cosmic bodies are all Infinite Spirit, God expressing itself. I am one with all life, all creation. I now quietly rest in this Infinite Presence of God. (Silence)

As we bring our attention back let the joy of gratitude fill our hearts. With a full heart I say, Thank you, God. So it is, Amen!