Short story: A sermon on love, and thinking lovingly

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The Reverend, Charles Townslender, had given his sermon that morning on thoughts, and thinking. He had said that the Bible tells us that God's thoughts are not our thoughts, and the Reverend had added that this was always true, unless we put love behind all of our thoughts, even as God does too, and only then, can we ever begin to think as God thinks, and so think some of his thoughts, in ourselves then, too. At the door, a parishioner took the Reverend aside, and he told him of some New Age guru, who was quoted as saying that we should not even think at all. “The mind is nothing but the sum-total of all thoughts. All thoughts are concepts of limitation." "If anyone of us could stop thinking right now, and remain that way, he would be an Unlimited Being, from this moment on." "It is really that simple, though not necessarily easy of accomplishment. The job is to first undo negative thinking in order to get positive enough, so that we may go in the right direction." "Then, to drop all thinking, drop all negative, and all positive, thinking. When that happens, we discover that we are in the realm of knowingness, of omniscience, we have no need to think as everything is known, and we are all joyous, and totally free." "Knowing everything, there's nothing to think about!” This guru was, Lester Levenson. The parishioner then said to the Reverend. "And yet, on top of thoughts in the mind sits consciousness, and so thinking has its purpose, and it is not as simple as knowing everything, by not thinking, as we need to develop the consciousness to be aware of any answers out there, first." "We know nothing until our consciousness becomes aware of it, and brings it to our mind, as the knowing of our heart is a subtle knowing, without any real knowing attached; it knows but not in any real way, that we can utilise in our life." "But, where does the truth lie here, then? The Reverend smiled deeply, and replied: "Only God is all knowing, and no part of his creation ever is; they can only know what God brings to their attention, through their soul, thoughts, or feelings." "Think on that". "Our aim here is to become more loving, by loving all with all that we are, our mind, our hearts, our spirits, and our souls, and only then will our thoughts also then be aligned to God, and to his thoughts, too." "We should never cut off any part of ourselves to try to achieve anything in another part, as that Guru is trying to do there. He cuts off his nose then, to spite his face." The Reverend then said Good morning to the next parishioner in line then too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Do not allow blanket like statements to blanket out your own thoughts too. Blanking our thoughts out, just buries them deeper.