Your Life. Bruce McArthur

presented with more than you can handle at any time as long as you put your trust in your Creator.

      3. Know that whatever seed you have sown is for a purpose, for your benefit, for your growth, and that you can get help from the Creative Forces in meeting the results. You, of course, need to ask for that help.

      4. There are higher laws—such as the law of grace, the law of forgiveness, and others—that enable us to meet the conditions we have created without going through all the chaos and trauma that we ordinarily would.¹⁶

      You are not alone. Every one of us faces difficulties which we created in this or previous lifetimes. Consider these as opportunities and as lessons to be learned. The earth plane is our school of law. Whatever the condition that you are reaping or whatever the seed that you have sown, there is always a way available to you to meet it.

      Suppose, for example, you have been resentful and bitter toward others over some situation, and you know that your attitude will only bring more of the same to you. What can you do to change? We often resent others because we have doubts and fears regarding ourselves and others. Turn over that doubt and fear to your Creator by simply saying, “Here are my doubts and fears about this situation. Help me to cast this resentment and bitterness out of my life. I don’t want it!” Toss it out of your life and put in something better. Let the love and peace of the Higher Power so fill your mind and your body that there is no place for resentment, doubt, or fear. Whenever you feel resentment, replace it with a constructive thought or affirmation, such as, “The love of God now fills my mind and my body.” Repeat it until you feel it or sense it in you. Then manifest it by being of help to others.

JESUS AND THE LAW

      The source of the readings points out that our purpose when we were created as souls “in the beginning” was to be companions with the Father-God. They further explain that we, of our own choice, took paths which separated us from our Creator. The reason we are here on this earth plane is to find our way back to the Father. Jesus found the way. The readings explain that when He entered the earth plane nearly 2,000 years ago, He came in as you and I did—with temptations, problems, and difficulties. But He discovered that the Father was within Him, that He and the Father were one: “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father in me …” (John 14:11, NEB)

      Jesus attuned Himself so completely to the Father within that He became perfectly spiritualized in body, mind, and spirit and thus eventually became the Christ. The readings express it as Jesus (the man) who became the Christ (christed).

      This reading gives us a clue as to His transformation: “… whatsoever a man soweth, that must he also reap. This was truly exemplified in the life of the man of Galilee.” (5749-12)

      The law is the key. Jesus sowed spiritual seeds which spiritualized His spirit, mind, and body, for the law works on all three levels! So, as Jesus sowed the seeds of the spirit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and others, He began to reap these as spiritual fruits.¹⁷ He thus became as the Father within, the spirit of love, of joy, of peace, of patience, and all the others. So, in this way, He became spiritualized. The wonderful part about this is that He said we could do it, too:

      In truth, in very truth I tell you, he who has faith in me will do what I am doing; and he will do greater things still …

      John 14:12, NEB

      Jesus was applying the law “as you sow so shall you reap.” We can do it in a similar way as He did by sowing the same seeds.

      Indeed, His life exemplifies this law. He stands as our guide on this path of Universal Law because He has passed this way before and has shown us the way—not the only way, but the highest way to use the Universal Laws.

WHAT SEEDS SHOULD I SOW?

      We need to ask this question of ourselves and we need to ask it from the consciousness of “What would I like to do for or give to others?” Possible answers to this can be found in the following list of “seeds of the Spirit” given in the readings plus other “joy” seeds from which you might wish to choose. These seeds are attitudes that express our spirit. We sow them by making that seed our attitude toward self and others. We “be” that attitude, so that then becomes our “Be” Attitude!

      Look at this list of wonderful attitudes that you can give first to others and eventually have in your own life:

“Be” Attitudes	The Fruits
Sow these seeds of the Spirit in the hearts, in the minds, in the lives of others*	And harvest this in your life
be loving	love
be gentle	gentleness
be kind	kindness
be patient	patience
be friendly	friends (fellowship)
be merciful	mercy
be truthful	truth
be hopeful	hope
be faithful	faith
be good	goodness
be joyful	joy
be peaceful	peace
be humble	humbleness
be harmonious	harmony
be understanding	understanding
be consistent in acts and speech	consistency
Other Constructive Attitudes
be content	contentment
be honest	honesty
be appreciative	appreciation
be generous	abundance
be cooperative	cooperation
be just	justice
be forgiving	forgiveness

HOW MAY I SOW THE SEEDS?

      Pick one or two of the “Be” Attitudes as a start. Work diligently to apply them by thinking, acting, and speaking in that manner in all your dealings with others. Use your ideas, imagination, and creativity. It takes conscious effort and patience. The key is to apply the law: Whatever you want in your life, sow that in your thoughts, words, and acts toward yourself and others. It will grow and return to you. Think what that means to each of us: we can be or have anything in our lives we want by applying this law, provided we are not doing it for a selfish purpose, but to share and to give the same to others.¹⁸

       To sow any one of these seeds, you need to make that attitude a part of your life, make it the spirit in which you act. Believe it, live it, do it, express it, be it—become that attitude—”be” that attitude.

      For example, you may choose to “be joyful” in order to bring more joy into the lives of