Seven ways for having the heart sing
(Four loves, two fills, and a release)

1. Love the truth.
2. Love life.
3. Fill consciousness with love.
4. Release and forgive the past.
5. Love today's unfoldment of good.
6. Fill consciousness with gratitude.
7. Love spiritual ideas.

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1. Love the truth, and rejoice in the truth regardless of what the physical senses or my feelings may say. Enjoy spiritual reality, God's creation, His universe of spiritual ideas and the lines of spiritual reasoning they inspire, seeing them as ever present, never absent.

2. Love life; love being God's image and likeness. Enjoy being what He is, and reflecting God's innumerable beautiful qualities, His nature, in our own individual, unique way -- being obedient to His guidance, His leading -- in whatever circumstances we find ourselves.

3. Fill consciousness with love. See all things and persons upon whom our thoughts rest as God sees them, as manifestations of His goodness, and, if they are not appearing to us as lovely, change our mental imagery accordingly.

4. Release and forgive the past. Refuse to grieve, or to hang onto past griefs or grievances. Allow our unfolding awareness of God's tender lovingkindess for us and for each member of our family and acquaintance help us to do this. Let spiritual reality (as we best understand it this very moment) banish from our consciousness any lingering sense of past grief or grievance.

5. Love and trust and enjoy today's unfoldment of good as sufficient for today. Recognize this unfoldment of good as coming from divine Love's unceasing outpouring of goodness and beauty (and nothing contrary) to all His children and all His creation. Recognize this as the basis of all true supply.

6. Fill thought with gratitude--by reversing every unhappy picture or suggestion in our consciousness with spiritual facts, and being grateful for these spiritual facts, these spiritual truths, this spiritual reality, because all these are true.

7. Love and enjoy spiritual ideas, spiritual concepts, and their unfoldment and activity in consciousness, recognizing divine Mind as the inexhaustible source of all our true thoughts and feelings and images. Develop and maintain a constant, ongoing openness and receptivity of thought, an active listening for divine guidance and divine inspiration moment by moment -- inspiration and guidance from the all-knowing, all-governing, all-supplying, all-relating all-comprehending and caring infinite divine Mind, God, our very own divine Father-Mother, who is present right where we are every moment of every day, loving us, and enfolding us in the allness of His, Her, tender, caring love.

Paul Kautz