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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Drawing On the Source
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[Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters]
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An individual who needs to realize and draw upon God's
light and life and power and substance for health and
sustenance cannot make the grade so long as he or she is so
situated that it is the way of least resistance to let
others do for him or her that which they feel impelled,
from love or any other motive, to do.
Each one of us is inseparably one with God, the source and
substance of life and wisdom and every good. Each one must
draw upon the source for his own sustenance, and for his
own light and willpower.
Parents too often claim the children who come to them as
their own, and feel that they must think for them and do
for them and take responsibility for them. This is done
until the child loses his God-given initiative and comes
from habit to depend on others. This thought grows up with
him, but all the time he resents this state of affairs, yet
he has not developed the ability to launch out for himself,
nor does he know that he possesses enough latent wisdom to
work out his difficulties.
Here is where God as universal law steps in. Where there
has been failure to know and to measure up to the divine
plan of life, circumstances arise, experiences come that
make it necessary for the individual to pull apart and to
rely more upon himself.
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If these individuals will make the most of such
opportunities, and seek to develop from within the latent
God-given resources and abilities, they will swing clear of
the old entanglements and dependencies, and learning to
draw on the Source, they will bring forth their own
God-given good. If an individual fails to see wherein he
has transgressed the law of life and omnipresent good, he
will continue to claim responsibilities that are not his
and burdens that he need not assume and that hinder his
progress. He may through special prayer and effort realize
a measure of harmony and health, but he will not know the
fullness of good until he recognizes God as the omnipresent
life and substance, ready to meet the needs of all His
children in the way of Spirit and without burden or worry
to any of them. Truth means little until it is applied to
individual cases and needs.
If a person would be healed and would keep getting younger
and more vigorous and alert and ready for what the times
demand of him, he must get out of the rut, change his
habits, appropriate the life elements in food, in the
sunshine, and especially in Truth statements.
Instead of thinking about his apparent condition, of the
race thought with which he may have been struggling, or his
age, he is to concentrate his attention upon God, that he
may become so aware of God's presence and God's perfect
pattern of life and God's
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qualities that he will forget old errors, and dissolve the
conditions that he has built up from dependence on
something or someone outside himself.
God is the one perfect life flowing through us. God is the
one pure substance out of which our organism is formed. God
is the power that gives us motive power; the strength that
holds us upright and allows us to exercise our members; the
wisdom that gives us intelligence in every cell of our
organism, every thought of our minds. God is the only
reality of us; all else is but a shadow that is cast by
some foolish belief or unwise combination of thoughts and
the elements of being. When we let light flood us with its
sunshine, all clouds vanish and we begin to see ourselves
in new ways of doing, which lead to wholeness and health
and satisfaction and growth.
The free flow of God's life through us becomes hindered in
its expression if our thoughts and acts imply a belief in a
limited number of years, in a hoarding of strength or
substance or supply. We must prove here and now, for
ourselves, our faith in God as omnipresent good and eternal
life.
God in the midst of us is a great steady stream of renewing
and cleansing and vitalizing life, and we can have the use
of this life if we will open up the channels of its flowing
and ourselves draw from this source.
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God has put in each of us the germ of immortality which
will bring forth its kind. "Every sound tree bears good
fruit" (Mt. 7:17).
So within us is this almightiness that we must cooperate
with. As we cooperate with the Spirit of God in fulfilling
His plan in us, all that is within us bursts into the
beauty of wholeness.
The moment a person yields his self to Godlikeness, he is
letting the Spirit of God burst the shell of doubt and
fear, and the light of faith reveals to him the light of
life. He becomes conscious of the joy of life, the joy of
life in himself and in everyone else.
Yielding self means giving up the old concepts of the past;
forgetting ourselves and our human desire to come forth,
and just rejoicing that all God's creation constantly
springs forth in newness of life and light and joy and
service. When we forget our own desires and devote
ourselves to doing what God would have done, this moment
and constantly, we shall find that there is no limit to the
strength we have and the things we can do. We have yielded
ourselves to the source and entered into a oneness that
makes us receptive to all that the source is and holds for
us.
All God's blessings are for every child of the Father, and
each individual should learn to receive direct from his
indwelling source. Every individual has to live his own
life and draw for himself upon the life, substance, health,
and strength that are waiting to be brought forth. No one
can eat another's food for him, or breathe for him; neither
can one person express the indwelling
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life and health for another. Each one of us must draw upon
the source of these things for himself. Blessed are we when
we recognize that this is the way of receiving, and do it.
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