The Great Uncover by Rev. Christine Emmerling D.D. 10/19/2025

My message for today is on The Great Uncover. Its time to uncover the coverup. For many, their first thought when they hear coverup is conspiracy. Meaning, those people keeping secrets from us with intent to do harm or for selfish purposes. I’m not saying that people aren’t keeping secrets, but the greatest coverup is the one we ourselves do regarding our true self.

Jesus the Christ spoke so much about heaven, and how our minds are like gardens; our thoughts being the seeds that take root and grow as our life experiences. The parable in Mark 4:26-29 is an example: “Such is the kingdom of God as a man who casts seed into the ground. And he sleeps and rises up night and day, and the seed springs up and grows while he is not aware of it. For the earth causes it to yield fruit; and yet first it becomes a blade of grass, then an ear, and at last a full grain in the ear. But when the fruit is ripe, then immediately comes the sickle, because the harvest is ready.”

Jesus is speaking about the power is within us to give life to our thoughts; from deep in our subconscious they grow and are given life, and the fruit becomes our outer expression, and then we reap our experiences.

I’m reminded how some plants grow over everything in its environment. If left unattended, we soon have a jungle. I used to think that an unattended garden meant dried up or barren ground. Not true!

It was 1980 when I first came to this Divine Science church of San Jose to begin my studies. The grounds were like a jungle. The backyard had ivy everywhere except for a small clearing where there was a patio. Just on the other side of the patio appeared to be a fence covered in ivy. To our surprise, when the ivy was torn away there was an old metal spring mattress standing on its side. While removing the ivy from the rest of the yard we found tennis balls, small toys, and snails. After a few days of removing all the ivy, we discovered the backyard was so much bigger.

As Christ Jesus was telling us, our mind is very similar to a garden. We can allow all kinds of thoughts to overrun our minds; beliefs and old experiences deeply buried under. These may eventually produce like effects of physical or mental illness. Underneath this mirage of physical pain. Underneath, all these thoughts and emotions. Underneath, all these stored memories and false beliefs is the truth of who we are. Who are we then? The beloved, the light of God - the Christ in you the hope and glory.

We would never know it, the way people sleep walk through life. Yes day dreaming. Living life through their thoughts of non stop mind chatter or gazing at screens. Seeing life through their beliefs, beliefs about themself and others, that has no true reality. People delude themselves day in and day out being miserable.

We read an email or text, and overlay it with a voice of that person in our head. It can be a loving or angry voice we hear. And, no matter what the email or text says that is how we respond to it; either with love or fear. That is our imagination at work.

The great coverup is the hiding of truth of who and what we are. Yet it says it right in the Bible. Jesus the Christ said in John 10:34, “Remember, the scripture says, you are gods.” And, in Luke 17:21, “Neither will they say, Behold, it is here! Or, behold it is there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”

What is this kingdom of God that is within us? It is our ability to create from within our very being; our mind, our thoughts, our feelings, our beliefs these are our creations. Eventually we use this body of ours to express our inner creations. We then project these creations onto our screen of life. We then call it reality.

I imagine a blank white canvas that is within me, and I draw and color on it with my thoughts and feelings making my personal masterpiece. Is it beautiful and peaceful, or is it dark and scary? But, underneath is still a canvas that is pure white, that has been layered upon.

Has the nature of the canvas changed? No! As we wipe off our canvas, we would begin to see the white shining through again. This canvas is our divine nature, the Christ, God individualized, our kingdom. As our thoughts become non judging, as pure expressions of love, kindness, compassion, of wisdom, harmony and peace our inner canvas radiates powerfully as our life.

Now it is time to uncover, dig deep within our soul, beyond the layers, pealing back like an onion to the heart of our being. That pure being, as an innocent child, yet more powerful than one can imagine. We are reminded of what Jesus said in John 14:12, “You too shall do these works, and even greater works than these shall you do.”

Jesus also told us to not hide our light under a bushel, but to set it high up for all to see. It is time, some 2,000 years later, to heed these teachings, and uncover our light for all to see. To uncover our true identity, our divinity, the Christ within.

Imagination is one of our God given gifts. We’ve been given free choice in how we use our imagination; as with all of our gifts or powers. No matter what we have imagined into our experience, we can make another choice to see it differently. Its amazing how just asking “How can I see this differently?” will spark a new idea, reveal a new perspective. Now we can make a new choice.

We can choose to bring love into each moment of the day. To let that light within shine. Beginning with our breath as love, love is everywhere, but to acknowledge it, is claiming it so. We then open our heart and let all this love and light radiate throughout every cell of our body, and extend it out to all our world. The world will respond in kind, every cell of our body will respond in love, bringing forth harmony to mind, body and soul.

Just practicing a few minutes everyday will spark a fire within, and stoke it to burn even brighter until it becomes the eternal flame that lights the world. It is time to use our imagination to bring forth a new world - a world of peace, beauty, joy, love, harmony, health and abundance for all.

Many people through their limited beliefs unknowing play victim to circumstance. We can live life feeling powerless, and blame others for our lack of happiness and suffering. Or as a co-creator we are empowered to choose again, make another choice. We may have the same experience, but now it doesn’t have to get us down, we can pick our self up, and try something else.

It does mean taking responsibility for ones state of mind; whether we’re happy, sad or somewhere in-between. We all have our gardens, our thoughts to tend too. Ignoring our gardens those weeds will come up, those undesirable thoughts and beliefs will sprout, and take over if not stopped and pulled out by their roots. Many times I have said, “That’s not the truth, erase that thought.”

Everyday we are faced with thousands of messages, that simply aren’t true. Just think, in Jesus’ time there were no TVs, computers, radios, smart phones, or even daily newspapers. They just had their community of family and friends, sprinkled with travelers, and some foes. They had their work, visited, shared stories, worshiped and studied scripture.

Today we have to be so much more discerning, being a gatekeeper of our minds, of what we are willing to allow in and take root. We must question, by who’s authority is it true. Is it based in principle, of Oneness, of Omnipresence of good? If not, cancel it out by replacing with Truth.

Anything outside of our self can never be cause for anything, it is the result always. There is but one cause, and it is God, Christ within us as the invisible substance of ideas, thoughts, love and energy. And we are the co-creators bringing forth the world we experience from our kingdom of heaven within us. How empowering it is to know we can make a difference.

Yes, we can choose to bring love into each moment of the day to let our light shine to uncover a beautiful world, a world of radiant life. We begin with our imagination to hold the vision of heaven on earth. Then we empower our vision with supportive like acts. We bring it forth by being discerning, and putting love into every action and thought. By intentionally being love.

Love is powerful medicine. It is energy as powerful as an atomic bomb, as a great laser beam when focused and allowed to extend and expand throughout all the world. We do this with spiritual practices, and exercising our imagination until it is real.

Nona Brooks shares a story in the book about her life, titled Powerful Is the Light. Its one of my favorite stories Nona shares, for the message is real, powerful, and simple. Its about how she had a problem with this one disagreeable lady in her congregation, (she calls) Mrs. Mac. This woman had always publicly disagreed with her Sunday teachings.

Nona began a spiritual practice for whenever Mrs. Mac came into her mind, she would say, “I love you, I love you” over and over. She could be walking, bicycling, or horseback riding. We know how those thoughts will just popup. Then Nona would repeat out load or silently say, “I Love you, I love you” even when she didn’t mean a word of it.

Then one day it came to Nona that her affirmation wasn’t complete, so she added “and you love me.” Now it was full circle. She now repeated “I love you, I love you, and you love me.” One day after having done this practice for some time Mrs. Mac joined her class, Nona was quite surprised and nervous about what the lady might say and do.

Then at the end of the class, Mrs. Mac stood up, saying “Ladies, you all know me. You have seen me here before, and you have heard me make a great number of disparaging remarks in regard to this work. I want to say this before you all. I want everyone here to know that this afternoon I am taking back every disparaging remark that I have ever made in this room. For the first time I am beginning to understand just what it is that these ladies are trying to accomplish. And I believe from the depths of my soul that they are doing splendid work. Truth will prevail.”

“Nona thought, can it be that even a mechanical practice of love, even if you don’t mean it, even if you don’t mean a word of it – can be - powerful?”

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We too can do this, even if at first we don’t mean a word of it. Just holding the idea of “I Love you, I love you, and you love me” works, because it is the real truth - the Principle of all life is love. We’re looking past their actions, to the truth of their being - which is God and God is love.

We can take this to another level by going throughout our day by saying “I love you, I love you and you love me” to everyone and everything. Then one day, where there were shadows, there will now be light. Beautiful radiant light and love fully revealed. The flowers glow with life. The trees dance in the air. The birds sound sweeter, and even the traffic moves swifter. Our entire world flows like a beautiful melody. It is a new world of heaven on earth, the New Jerusalem. That is how we uncover our true self, and we let our light powerfully shine as a beacon unto the world. The Christ in you the hope of Glory.