ISA QUARTERLY MEETING IN GRAND RAPIDS, MI

The greatest outcome happens from the smallest change in focus.  In this workshop Rev. Thomas will assist this slight change in focus to bring a deeper understanding to all that you think you know about reality - your dominant thoughts create your reality.  Reality is a projection from the past - our default mode is to project more of the same.  Until you put more energy into visualizing what you do want (health, peace, prosperity, etc.) than what you don't (a reality lacking what you want) nothing changes.  We simultaneously ask the Universe for more of the same and something better - only one will dominate.  The Universe (i.e.-Source) has always given us the reality we request.  Make your dominant thoughts different and you will see living proof that this works - we are truly made in Source's "likeness and image."  As The Course In Miracles proclaims, "miracles are normal."  Join us Saturday evening at 6:15.  All seekers, ISA members and non-members, are welcome!   [About Rev. Thomas]   [WORKSHOP LOCATION]  [NOTES]

Tickets at the door, advance tickets are not required (ask for Cathy).  Your free will offering will be gratefully accepted at the end of this 90 minute workshop.  Give according to what you received.  Location: 127 Meerse St., Grand Rapids, MI Driving Map

"Is there a primary Law that explains everything?  In the physical world Gravity is the primary force behind it all.  It forms and holds planets, moons and stars together and in orbits.  It is the force behind weather, that moves oceans and keeps our feet on the ground.  Is there one law that governs this physical experience?  I think, yes!"  Rev. Thomas

Recommended before or after this workshop:  Law of Attraction by Abraham-Hicks [Free YouTube 5 part workshop]  [Abraham-Hicks website]

"Source is Infinite Intelligence."  Abraham-Hicks [see ISA Principles 1 & 2]

"I find 'God' a polarizing term to use in a meaningful way.  Believers are often too set in their ways to allow for a new definition.  As a noun it is defined in too many ways blocking anything different even a bigger God that is actually far, far greater.  In The Lord's Prayer, the traditional translation, 'Father,' we are most familiar with has limited meaning as the result of repeated translations from language to language to language in a patriarchal time.   'God' has a larger definition bigger than any single word when translated directly from the Aramaic writings, such as ' Cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration.'  Nature shows us that new life (creation) requires both masculine and feminine."  Rev. Thomas  [Lord's Prayer comparisons]  [Owen Waters]

"Over 50 years ago I found no fairness in Catholic doctrine - it unfairly doomed too many.  Other flavors of Christianity that I explored also fell short and did not give everyone a fair chance at salvation.  I could not accept a god of fear and knew a God of Love must be bigger than those teachings.  I began then, and continue now, to find and know a loving and fair God (i.e.- Source of all that is).  To accept a bigger God I let go of lesser gods (god of magic, micromanager god, and narcissistic king god) as limited definitions of god in man's image.  In a world created by a loving God there is no Us and Them - there is only Us."  Rev. Thomas

"There's a lot of new age overuse of 'co-creator.'  Law of Attraction explains how this works.  Genesis, in the Christian Bible Old Testament, describes something coming from nothing and science finds something very similar with the Big Bang theory.  The primary difference involves time, something that does not exist where God is, yet there's a passionate debate about creation in six Earth days. This debate misses the major point of agreement - something coming from nothing.  Also revealing in Genesis is 'let us make man in our likeness and image.'  Why this is so easily ignored by traditional Christianity is a mystery to me.  Source is all that is, man is a projection of Source as is everything.  Physical creation (the observable) does not exist without Source, but Source exists independent of physical creation.  We each are of Source and as such participate in the Creation process - Will our contribution be something newly imagined or more of the same?  Our only choices are by default or by intention.  Once you see it you will realize that, like Dorothy in Wizard of Oz, you have had the power all along."  Rev. Thomas