Reading & Meditation (Peace) by Rev. Christine Emmerling D.D. 10/12/2025

Today’s reading is from the Divine Science Daily Studies written by Dr. Karl Kopp, 1934-2005, Senior Minister First Church of Divine Science of Denver, CO.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

--Philippians 2:5.6

A truth known to all religions is that we become that which we contemplate, or what we strongly envision. You and I are God’s contemplation. For God contemplates Itself in and as Creation. And God sees what It contemplates, we read in Genesis, to be good, even “very good.”

Similarly, what we contemplate, we “become” or realize. If we consistently see the world as hostile, we attract danger. Or, if we have no firm belief in anything, the world presents to us a relative confusion of, at best, “mixed blessings.” In the Book of Proverbs this great law of attraction is stated: “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

We are made in the image and the likeness of God. We share with our Creator, then, a creative nature. May we not center our thoughts in God, and direct our attention to the good expressing in all circumstances, in others, in ourselves? Realize the goodness that you are. For as we think in our hearts, so do we become. Contemplate wholeness, beauty, and peace. Bear witness to the truth of God-the-Good in action.

Meditation - (Peace)

We will now go into meditation on Peace. I invite us to turn inward to our Holy Temple, that sacred place within us, and acknowledge God as our very breath; the life giving breath. “I breathe in the life of God. Every breath gives life to every cell of my body, renews my mind, and restores my entire being.”

Omnipresence, meaning God is everywhere, absolutely everywhere. All this visible stuff is God, Infinite Spirit as form. Even what is invisible to me is the presence of Infinite Spirit. Right where I am God is.

I bask in the Presence and Peace of God. (Repeat)

Imagine just quietly floating upon the ocean, calm waves bobbing, relaxing. Gently breathing with the motion of the waves. Feeling one with the waves. One with the entire ocean. A calmness, a stillness of mind and body. A deep peace emerges as the soul is free to just rest in this presence of God’s peace. I am peaceful, I am peace, I now listen... (Silence)

As we bring our attention back from these moments in silent communion, let our hearts be filled with gratitude. With a full heart we say, Thank you, God. So it is, Amen!