Your Growing Edge

How do you determine what your growing edge is? Your growing edge is where your anxiety is nudging you to stop, look and listen. Your growing edge is a signal coming to you from within your guidance system, a signal that today you can choose your Infinite Good. You may not even suspect yet that the Infinite Good exists, but that’s okay. It exists and it is revealing itself to you. Just allow yourself to imagine. Imagination is your growing edge, often clouded by anxiety. Imagination is where God touches your finite mind. Whatever you can imagine you can manifest. All things are possible. That’s a stretch, isn’t it? Your growing edge is a stretch beyond your comfort zone, beyond the habit box you live in. Imagination is required to become aware of your Infinite Good in your finite world. What would you like to experience today? Go for it. All things are possible. Just let yourself grow.

For example, your growing edge might be the power of blessing. Did you know that you have the power to curse or to bless? To burden down or to lift up? To deaden or to enliven? To criticize or to praise? Silently or verbally you can make a difference. You are already using this power one way or the other every day. Every thought, feeling and word is making an impression on the world around you. You can bless your self, your family, your pets, your car, your house, your food, a clerk, a waitress, a co-worker. You can send irritation or love, peace and joy, much like a radio wave is broadcast. To bless means that you become aware that God is in all persons, things and places. You can evoke or draw out the Infinite Good simply by your awareness and choice.

Praise and bless your partner, your children. Praise them most for the qualities at present them appear to lack, and it will stir up those very qualities, even love and loyalty.

A charming lady heard a lecture on blessing. She was very unhappy. Her husband had been neglecting her, leaving her home alone every night. She sat down that afternoon before the fire, put a chair in front of her, and mentally placed her husband in it. She then blessed and praised him for his goodness—his kindness—his honesty and integrity—his success in life and loyalty, releasing in him every good quality she knew. All afternoon she did this. At five she went upstairs and put on her prettiest gown. At six her husband came home with a box of gorgeous American Red Roses, also a large box of candy, and gave them to her. She thanked him, very graciously, but not a word about how she had spent the afternoon. After dinner, her husband said, “Do you know my dear, I hadn’t meant these gifts for you, but as I was leaving the office, something said to me ‘What a chump you are, wasting your time and life. Go home to your wife, who really and truly loves you.’ He had a complete awakening!

Frances Wilshire: You: Discover Your Real Self, the Spirit Within, Devorss Publications, 1935.