The Good That’s All Around Us with Josh Reeves

**Josh Reeves** (0:01)
This is Josh Reeves, and you're listening to the Mile Hi Church Podcast. Hey, Saturday, June 20th, 10 a.m., John Pierre is coming to speak to us about the Pillars of Health. Learn how to take care of yourself, support other people as well. It's in our community center. It'll be a great workshop. It's $20. For more information, go to milehichurch.org. At the heart of our religious science teaching is a bold, divine idea. It at first may sound outrageous, but I have learned 30 years in this teaching, 20 years as a minister this month, that it's true.
The idea is that we are surrounded by an infinite good. We are surrounded by an infinite good. A good that's all around us.
A good that is unlimited in its ability to accomplish. That is inexhaustible in its capacity to heal. That is infinite in its ability to know somehow for each and every one of us just exactly what we need to become that much more who we are.
And before we dismiss this as just a sweet bakery shop idea, there's a catch.
Our founder tells us, how much can we see? How much can we accept? How much can we find in our own consciousness that is no longer repudiated by our own denials? Whatever that is, that much we can have. You see, it's up to you. There's a good that's all around us, but there's only one vehicle that it can manifest itself through, and it's your consciousness. It's your consciousness. As positive a spiritual idea, how challenging that it's up to each one of us in our own life, in our own affairs, to let go of our not good stories, to embrace this greater good.
Every year at the beginning of the year, I articulate some affirmations. And in my morning prayers, I say them every day. It's a wonderful creative process. And one of them this year is the following. My good is all around me. I engage with it profoundly. You want to say it with me? My good is all around me. I engage with it profoundly. Very good. Let's do one more time. My good is all around me. I engage with it profoundly. And it's a cool, prayerful process to let that affirmation simmer in my consciousness for a while. Because what happens first is I think of all the ways that I can imagine good showing up that day. Putting a smile on my kids' faces, being a part of something positive happening at Mile Hi, blessing a new relationship, being present with someone. But as that affirmation simmers a little bit, there comes that point where thinking ends and this good begins. There comes a point where thinking ends and this good begins. And this good that is all there is can begin to inform us that it knows better than we do. That it's intelligent. That it's wise. And as we open up our consciousness, we can begin to allow it to transmute us.
To take place within us before it happens around us. This great and glorious good. It's a question I've been asking myself, and I invite you to ask yourself it this morning. Am I willing to allow this kingdom of good within me to govern all that is around me?
Am I willing? Am I courageous enough? Am I open-hearted enough? Am I disciplined enough to allow this kingdom of good within me to govern all that is around me? Not a tyranny of worry, not a parliament of discontent and regret, not an executive branch of self-rejection and judgment, but this kingdom of good, this kingdom of love. Am I truly ready to let go of all of the not-self, all of the not-good story, to allow this kingdom of good to be the governing principle and power in every aspect of my life?
We had a great minister. We have so many great ministers, but Roger Teal blessed us last month with two wonderful talks. Always good for the church, always humbling for the minister. He's so good.
And he jokingly calls himself, we call him the king of acronyms. So I've actually prepared one today in honor of Dr. Roger. And it's, and it's RAP, R-A-P. Release, allow, prepare. Release, allow, prepare. If you can do these three things every day, you can learn day after day to greater embody this good that's all around you. That's very purpose is to make itself known and manifest itself in your life. And I'll put these three words in the form of three questions. What am I called to release in order to receive my good today?
What work am I called to do to allow this good into my life today? And what am I doing to prepare for my greater good today? Let's start with release.