There is an answer

Have you ever felt stuck, hopeless, and unable to solve a problem?

Yesterday, I spent a few hours trying to solve a tech problem with the template in this blog. I kept getting error messages and was getting a bit frustrated with my lack of progress. But I didn’t lose hope. It’s sort of my motto for life—Never give up!

Tempted to feel all my efforts were wasted at the end of the day, I quit working on the project and did other things to give myself some mental distance from the issue.

I quit trying to solve the problem myself and prayed only. This helps, by the way!

In my prayers, I remembered that God had the perfect solution for the template confusion. The all-knowing, all-wise Mind has a solution for any problem we ever face. No matter how distant and removed that solution seems to be from us at the moment, it is as close as our thoughts. We need only to listen and hear what God is telling us.

I decided to spend the night listening for the solution. I put all fear aside, all efforts to solve the problem myself, and just wait for the right idea to land in my thinking and tell me what to do.

I got up this morning, early, as usual, and read my Bible Lesson. While reading, I was grateful to be reminded that Spirit blesses and multiplies all right ideas.

When I finished my study, a little voice within said, “You need to download and archive your blog template for safekeeping.” I obeyed.

As I opened up the blog settings page to download my template, I noticed a little empty box with an option listed next to it that I had never noticed before. The little voice within said, “Check it!” I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, but after listening a bit longer to insure I wasn’t acting on blind impulse, the voice still said, “Check it.” So I did. And presto, all my problems were solved!

It felt unbelievable. I was soooo happy! I had finally listened sufficiently to divine Mind to know what to do. Mind knew all along, and once I got human striving out of the way, and humbly listened, the solution became apparent.

I am so grateful. And now, because of my new discovery, you’ll start to see some new items appearing on the sidebar of this blog as I freshen it up and add some gadgets I’ve wanted to include for some time now.

Forward ho--

Focus on solution, not problem

A friend relayed to me the gist of a testimony she read recently about a woman who had struggled with a foot problem for over a year.

In an effort to rededicate her prayers and make some progress, she decided that she was focusing too much on the problem, and not enough on the spiritual truth that would heal the suffering.

The testifier evidently wrote something to the effect of, “If I got as much attention as I’m giving to this foot problem, I’d stick around too!”

In a moment of spiritual levity, she let go of worry about her foot, and finally accepted the truth that God created her okay and she was okay.

The problem vanished quickly, and the healing was complete.

God and telephone companies

I’m moving my office from Kennewick to Richland this week, and part of the move requires me to cancel phone and DSL services in one location while restarting them in another.

Oh boy, calling the phone company…one of my favorite tasks…

You would think that with one call I could make all the changes at once. But nope, it’s not that easy. Different departments perform different services and one operator sent me to another until I wore out the buttons on my telephone punching in all the different options I was supposed to navigate through to get to the department I needed to talk with.

I told one operator I wanted to cancel my old DSL service, and politely waited for her next question while she pulled up my records. Well, without asking me when I wanted to cancel, she went ahead and deleted my account that moment.

“Not yet,” I protested. “On April 2nd, not today!”

I couldn’t believe my ears. She didn’t know how to retrieve my account so had to find a higher-up in her office to help. Well, you can imagine…one person after the next takes part while hope is diminishing rapidly on my end of the phone. Eventually, she said it would be restored and assured me not to worry.

Well, the words sounded find, but in actual fact, my email service never was restored and I was told it would be 5-7 days before I could get it back. This was not encouraging news!

My heart sunk low. No email service for a week! What was I going to do….?

I prayed.

I decided that all communication is in Mind, not over telephone lines. That the communication of Mind never ceases, never stops, and is never interrupted. I understood that the activity of my practice was not at the mercy of the human mind and therefore it was not affected by incompetency, error, and mistakes. God ordered, organized and protected all relations with my patients, and I did not have to go through a 7 day waiting period for normalcy to be restored.

I truly found peace of mind about the whole fiasco and let my worry go that having no email for a week would be a problem.

No sooner did I lose my fear, but the idea came strongly to call a different number of the DSL company and ask for a tech person. I called, punched through my options for the umpteenth time, and ended up in a different place than ever before.

I found an intelligent young man who knew all the answers to my problems. Within 20 minutes, he restored my email, transferred my old account to my new one, and had me completely set up for my move. I thanked and praised God’s beneficent care during the whole conversation and thanked the tech guy profusely as well.

God is good!

I don’t know about you, but sometimes tech problems have appeared overwhelming and hopeless to solve to me. I’m not a tech oriented kind of guy. But I’ve learned through experience to not let my thinking fall to the level of despair and despondency when wondering what to do next. It’s a dark place down there. God always has a solution.

Rather than complaining and worrying, we can keep our thinking spiritually clear so God’s angel messages become apparent to us. God knows our need and supplies it before we ask. And there are no delays!

Listen! And you will hear. Answers will appear and solutions found.

Even phone companies are included in God’s plan of progress.

I can’t wait for the day when I don’t have to punch in all those menu options to get to where I need to be! Mind must have a better plan in the works…